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HSK
7-9

tremble

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

dou3 dǒu

Meaning


Primary

tremble

Alternatives

trembles, trembling, trembled, shake

Mnemonic


[d-] Dracula is in the [3] basement of the [-(o)u] bakery where he is making a special vampire cake. He scoops up a bunch of bloody 扌 fingers in a 斗 measuring cup that he will put into the cake mixture. He 抖 trembles as he does so, because the bloody 扌 fingers look so tasty that he wants to eat them right now. In fact, he does! He uses his 抖 trembling 扌 finger to pick out a bloody 扌 finger from the measuring cup and eats it along with a croissant.

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