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preserve

Composition


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Sounds

Pinyin

yan1 yān

Meaning


Primary

preserve

Alternatives

preserved, preserving, pickle, salt

Mnemonic


[y-] Yoshi is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he has a 大 big 酉 bottle that he just bought from the shop. It's raining heavily, so Yoshi opens up the bottle to find a 电 lightning bolt to 醃 preserve. Sure enough a 电 lightning goes right into the 酉 bottle and Yoshi bottles it up. Now he has a 醃 preserved 电 lightning bolt for whenever he wants to use it.

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