to pull / to draw (a cart or a bow) / to roll up / to coil / to carry on the arm / to lament the dead / (fig.) to pull against / to recover
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Willy Walrus (w) is drunkenly lamenting the dead (挽) in the anthill (an3) who died of alcohol poisoning, while the bar keeper is waving with a toy claw (扌) holding the bar's disclaimer (免). Finally Willy Walrus recovers (挽), the bar keeper rolls up (挽) the disclaimer and both return to their usual business.
variant of 挽[wan3] / to draw (a cart) / to lament the dead
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免
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扌
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Willy Walrus (w) is drunkenly lamenting the dead (挽) in the anthill (an3) who died of alcohol poisoning, while the bar keeper is waving with a toy claw (扌) holding the bar's disclaimer (免). Finally Willy Walrus recovers (挽), the bar keeper rolls up (挽) the disclaimer and both return to their usual business.
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Joan of Arc is using the bathroom in the outhouse just when construction workers are starting to tear the whole place down using sledgehammers without noticing her. Joan of Arc starts to panic and hits a service request bell again and again, hoping that someone will hear it and save her. Unfortunately the sledgehammers are far louder than the bell.
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求
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Joan of Arc is using the bathroom in the outhouse just when construction workers are starting to tear the whole place down using sledgehammers without noticing her. Joan of Arc starts to panic and hits a service request bell again and again, hoping that someone will hear it and save her. Unfortunately the sledgehammers are far louder than the bell.