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HSK
7-9

cause

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zhao4 zhào

Meaning


Primary

cause

Alternatives

causes, causing, caused, start, begin, commence

Mnemonic


[zh-] James Bond is in the [4] bathroom of the [-ao] barn where he is painting the 戶 door with a 聿 brush of white paint. This is 肇 cause the 攵 foreman came in earlier and accidentally smeared some manure on the door. The 肇 cause of James Bond being here is because he is under cover as a farm hand to investigate the cows and their smelly bathroom.

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