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Character #318: 诉 sù

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Make a Movie 诉

KEYWORD:

To Accuse

Pinyin:

Actor:

su- Fictional Character

Set:

-Ø childhood home

Room within Set:

 Bathroom or Backyard

Prop(s):

讠 Megaphone

斤 Food Scale

 丶 Drop



Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Della Fuller

Snow White is in the bathroom of my childhood home. She has been ACCUSED of gaining weight and no longer fitting the unrealistic Disney body size expectations for a princess. The Disney executives hover, impatiently waiting for her to step onto the scale. Drops of sweat drip from her forehead. What will she do? Where will she go if the ACCUSATION is true?


Tyson

Because 诉 means "to accuse, to complain, to tell", I designed a scene that combines these three.

There's a court proceeding in my old backyard (-Ø).
Superman (su-) is being charged with damaging a lot of property.
He's being restrained by a small, half-kilo. weight (斤) made of kryptonite and a threatening water-dropper filled with kryptonite (丶).
Because there are so many people gathered, I have to use a megaphone (讠) to TELL all the COMPLAINts that he's ACCUSEd of.



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Nick

Spongebob in the bathroom.
He goes to weight himself in the SCALE, but sees a dirty DROP in it.
He is shocked and horrified and immediately picks up the GIANT PHONE and gives me a call, ACCUSING me of getting a DROP in the SCALE!

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Brennan Pimpinella

对不起!

My question is unrelated to the make a movie for 诉.

I am currently shadowing a virtual audit in China with work. The audit is being performed entirely in Mandarin and I am picking up on something that I have a question about.

When someone is reading a string of numbers out loud, for example, 20200005193, the 1 is not pronounced yi first tone. They are saying "yao" but I can't grasp if it is yao first tone or second (confident it is the first tone, however). Would that be how you say 1 if it is in a string of numbers, say a serial number (like how two of something is 两 and not 二) or could this be a case of it is just another way to say 1.
谢谢你!

布倫南· 皮姆平內拉

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Mandarin Blueprint

That's right. The reason that Chinese people pronounce 1 as "yāo" when saying a string of numbers is to avoid there being a chance of yī being misheard as qī 七 or vice-versa.

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MB Team

This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaebh_qgjTQ&t=3542s

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