Mnemonic comic for 讠
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: an advertising column, from the character’s shape - a big “i” as in “information” - and the posters on it that speak to everyone passing by.
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How to pronounce 讠
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.
讠 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 讠 as component
Words with 讠
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"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
Prompt snippets
The advertising column is a classic European Litfaß column: a thick round cylinder about three metres tall with a dark green fluted base and a green domed cap with a small finial on top, its body wrapped in overlapping colourful posters showing only pictures and abstract shapes, without any text.
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