Mnemonic comic for 多
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic is a short, deliberately ridiculous scene, built to be hard to forget. Who appears in it and where it takes place are how the pronunciation is stored; the objects in it stand for the parts the character is written with. That is the Marilyn Method, and the comic below is the same scene, drawn.
Mnemonic symbol: Immanuel “Many” Kant (多).
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How to pronounce 多
MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.
多 character breakdown
Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.
Characters with 多 as component
Words with 多
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many; much / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly-
Prompt snippets
Immanuel Kant is a slight, elderly 18th-century Prussian philosopher with a high forehead, sharp blue eyes, a long thin nose and powdered white hair tied back in a short queue. He wears a dark brown frock coat, cream waistcoat, white cravat, black knee breeches, white stockings and buckled shoes, and carries a slim walking cane.
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