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flutter

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

pian1 piān

Meaning


Primary

flutter

Alternatives

fluttering, fluttered, flutters

Mnemonic


[pi-] Pinocchio is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he has just bought a special 冊 booklet. He opens it up and it grows a pair of 羽 feathers and begins to 翩 flutter around the pawn shop lawn. Pinocchio chases after it. It 翩 flutters to and fro until it finally collides with the pawn shop 戶 door and falls to the ground.

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