Mnemonic comic for 丑
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Mnemonic
Charlie Chaplin (ch) finds a very ugly (丑) ox (丑) in the outhouse (ou3) and decides to destroy it with a cleaver (刀) because it is so ugly. He'll soon notice that the ox has been hooked up to a charged capacitor (二) so that anyone trying to damage it will be shocked.
All translations for 丑
clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°
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shameful / ugly / disgraceful
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丑 character breakdown
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
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knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs
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Characters with 丑 as component
to turn / to twist / to wring / to sprain / to swing one's hips
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shy / ashamed / shame / bashful / variant of 饈|馐[xiu1] / delicacies
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to turn / to wrench / button / nu (Greek letter Νν)
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to decline / to wane / to become weak or feeble
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mourning garments
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handcuffs
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handcuffs / red apricot
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to bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc) / fig. to be defeated
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Words with 丑
shameful / scandalous / to be humiliated / to make a fool of sb or oneself / to make sb lose face
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2]
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
Don't spread abroad the shame of the family, don't believe rumors lightly. (idiom) / Don't wash your dirty linen in public, don't listen to others' gossip.
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
Sentences with 丑
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