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哭

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What filled you up spilling out of the eyes: 哭

The picture Something has filled you to the brim and now runs over the eyelids and down the cheek. 哭 spills what filled you out through the eyes; 笑 spreads it out through the mouth.

Core verbs

Where the picture shows up in 哭

  1. the line does not stop

    孩子哭了一晚上。

    hái zi kū le yì wǎn shang

    The child cried all night.

    Water keeping a track down the child's cheek until the window turns light

  2. the bank gives way

    她听完就哭起来了。

    tā tīng wán jiù kū qǐ lái le

    She burst into tears as soon as she heard.

    The held-back rim of the eyes collapsing all at once as the sentence ends

    起来 adds the sense of bursting out

  3. asking the water to stop

    别哭了,我们一起想办法。

    bié kū le, wǒ men yì qǐ xiǎng bàn fǎ

    Do not cry, we will figure it out together.

    Handing over a tissue, an arm around the shoulder, sitting down face to face

    别哭了 is said to someone already crying

  4. doing it while crying

    他哭着打电话给妈妈。

    tā kū zhe dǎ diàn huà gěi mā ma

    He called his mother in tears.

    Wet cheeks while a finger taps the screen and a voice goes into the phone

    哭着 rides along with another action

  5. what the water left

    她哭得眼睛都红了。

    tā kū de yǎn jing dōu hóng le

    She cried until her eyes were red.

    A face where the water has passed many times, the rims now swollen and red

    After 哭得 comes the result it reached

All of it in one picture

哭 is one line of water running downward. Let that line not stop and the child cried all night; let the bank give way the moment words land and it has burst out. 别哭了 is the hand that asks the water to stop, and dialing a phone while it still runs means doing that crying. After the water has passed many times, what is left behind is a pair of red, swollen eyes.

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