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HSK 2 · word 813 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

他只是哭。

tā zhǐ shì kū

He did nothing but cry.

The character 哭

is two , mouths, above , a dog — a picture of howling. To cry, where is to laugh, and the two are worth learning as a pair. 哭了 says the tears have started.

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