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HSK
7-9

surprised

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

cha4 chà

Meaning


Primary

surprised

Alternatives

surprise, astonished, astonish

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is in the [4] bathroom of the [-a] auditorium where he comes across a bunch of 言 words emerging from one of the stalls. He goes and opens it and is 詫 surprised to find a strange 宀 dollhouse that is emitting the 言 words! He goes up to one of the bathroom attendants to borrow a 乇 furball that he uses to jam into the 宀 dollhouse to make it stop emitting 言 words. Charlie is sort of 詫 surprised that the bathroom attendants even have a 乇 furball to lend him.

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