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pungent

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

xin1 xīn

Meaning


Primary

pungent

Alternatives

hot in taste, hot, peppery, pepper

Mnemonic


[xi-] Xena is in [1] front of the [-(e)n] infirmary, where she finds a 辛 pepper on the ground in the grass next to the sidewalk. She picks it up and eats it, being the strong warrior that she is, only to find that it is so 辛 pungent in peppery flavor that she passes out and feints. Doctors and nurses run out of the infirmary and begin trying to save her life, as she has entered a 辛 pungent 辛 pepper coma.

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