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7-9

shovel

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

chan3 chǎn

Meaning


Primary

shovel

Alternatives

spade

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is in the [3] basement of the [-an] pawn shop where he is on top of a 厂 cliff watching a 文 giant and an 生 alien battle over a vintage 金 metal 鏟 shovel that apparently is extremely valuable. They wrestle over the 鏟 shovel that lies on the cement floor with such ferocity that Charlie can barely even look.

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