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HSK
6

weigh

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

heng2 héng

Meaning


Primary

weigh

Alternatives

weighs, weighing, weighed

Mnemonic


[h-] Harry Potter is [2] inside the [-(e)ng] English manor where there is a small 田 rice field that he is harvesting. He 衡 weighs the harvest by using a 大 big ⺈ dagger to move the rice onto a scale, and seeing how many 行 sandals (which are on the other side of the scale) the harvest 衡 weighs.

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