always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant
常
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小
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冖
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吊
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Mnemonic symbol: the centennial light, a light bulb which will shine forever and ever.
常
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小
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冖
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吊
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Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.
(bound form) / appearance / shape / form / state / attitude / (grammar) voice
态
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太
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心
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The empress dowager (太) asks Tecumseh (t) about his attitude (态) towards her in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Tecumseh isn't sure himself and samples his hearts (心) on a scale from 1 to 10 with one bin per integer. After N is large enough, he sees that his attitude forms a Gaussian distribution (态) with a mean of 6.