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overflow

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

fan4 fàn

Meaning


Primary

overflow

Alternatives

overflowing, overflows, overflowed

Mnemonic


[f-] Frodo is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where he has found a strange paperclip that is sticking out of a pipe near the sink. He bends down and pulls it out, and next thing a bunch of water 氵 sprays everywhere! It quickly 氾 overflows the entire bathroom and the short hobbit begins to drown because of the 氾 overflow of water which 氾 overflows above his head, submerging him.

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