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HSK
7-9

pound

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

dao3 dǎo

Meaning


Primary

pound

Alternatives

pounding, pounds, pounded

Mnemonic


[d-] Dracula is in the [3] cellar of the [-ao] barn where he is making some weird vampire medicine. He has a dead 鳥 bird on the table that he 搗 pounds with a miniature 山 mountain that he holds in his hand. However, while 搗 pounding the 鳥 bird into bits, he accidentally hits his 扌 finger and lets out a yelp before sticking it in a jug of cold milk to make it stop throbbing.

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