Mnemonic comic for 阝
Translation
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: the pope when 阝 stands on the left, the emperor when it stands on the right. Left 阝 comes from 阜, a hill: the pope lives on Vatican Hill. Right 阝 comes from 邑, a city: the emperor rules from his capital.
Comments
阝 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 阝 as component
Words with 阝
Want to remember 阝 for good?
Make it your learning target and MandarinBanana works out the shortest route to it: the two sounds its syllable is built from, then the components of the character itself, one short step at a time. No account needed to start.
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Prompt snippets
The pope is a frail elderly man with neat, thick white hair, heavy dark eyebrows, deep-set shadowed eyes, a pale, deeply lined face and a faint, thin-lipped smile. He wears a white cassock, a short red velvet cape trimmed with white ermine, a red velvet cap trimmed with ermine, and red leather shoes.
The emperor is a frail, slightly stooped old man in a heavy dark-grey hooded robe, the hood resting loosely on his head and framing a pale, deeply lined face with pale grey eyes and a thin, knowing smile. His bony hands rest on a plain wooden walking stick.
