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summer

Composition


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Sounds

Pinyin

xia4 xià

Meaning


Primary

summer

Mnemonic


[xi-] Xena is in the [4] bathroom of the [-a] auditorium, during the intermission of A Mid夏 summer Night's Dream. The A/C is broken, and because it is 夏 summer it is extremely hot in the bathroom. The 攵 foreman comes in and starts yelling at Xena to fix the A/C, thinking she works there. She takes her sword and takes a swipe at the foreman, slicing off his 自 nose which then lands on the 一 ground. He screams and picks up his 自 nose and puts it in his yellow construction hat as he runs to find a doctor on this hot 夏 summer day.

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