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7-9

filling

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

xian4 xiàn

Meaning


Primary

filling

Alternatives

stuffing

Mnemonic


[xi-] Xena is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where she is making 食 food. Specifically dumplings, which she begins by making the 餡 filling. She grinds up the 食 food in a 臼 mortar using a ⺈ dagger as a pestle - both of which are second-hand tools she is borrowing from the pawn shop. Then she realizes that in the pawn shop bathroom there is neither a stove nor noodle for making dumplings. All of this 餡 filling for nothing...

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