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Lesson 9 of 11

Make a Movie #2749 - 沏

KEYWORD:

To Steep (e.g., Steep Tea)

Pinyin:

Actor:

qi- Female

Set:

Room within Set:

Outside the Entrance

Prop(s):

氵 - Water Bottle, Shower head, Fountain

七 - Dice, Snow White

刀 - Knife, Famous Murderer


 

 
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Comments   2

Soren Korsbaek

Somewhat repetitive comment from me here as the amount of keywords that require a reasonable amount of scrutiny seems to be increasing at this stage of the course. I've asked a couple of native speakers about a few of the more obscure ones which they didn't know either (obviously I'm not oblivious to the fact that there will be significantly more I'm unfamiliar with).

When characters have similar meanings to previous ones I imagine this is when the super obscure keywords are used to avoid duplicate/similar keywords and I wonder if there's an argument it's actually preferable to re-use the same keyword or have a better explanation of each character instead? The mnemonic-method for remembering compound works hasn't really clicked for me which I think is the reason I have this view as the exact word therefore doesn't matter for me. Just a loose thought I thought I'd share. I think I've found out what this one means!

"to soak in a liquid at a temperature under the boiling point (as for softening, bleaching, or extracting an essence)"

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Mandarin Blueprint

Sure, thanks for holding us accountable for making things clearer for non-native English speakers. I added in "(e.g., "To Steep Tea"), which I think makes it clearer.

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