Mnemonic comic for 就

Translation

jiù = ji + ou4: at once / right away / only / just (emphasis) / as early as / already / as soon as / then / in that case / as many as / even if / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / to suffer / subjected to / to accomplish / to take advantage of / to go with (of foods) / with regard to / concerning

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.

Joan of Arc (ji) stands in the outhouse’s bathroom (ou4) in a pair of big underpants (京) pulled over her armour, a gold medal (尤) for the most awesome underpants hanging from her neck. Mortified, she fires her jet pack (就) and blasts out through the roof right away (就).

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就

jiù = ji + ou4

at once / right away / only / just (emphasis) / as early as / already / as soon as / then / in that case / as many as / even if / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / to suffer / subjected to / to accomplish / to take advantage of / to go with (of foods) / with regard to / concerning

就

jiù = ji + ou4

(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ...

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How to pronounce 就

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.

jiù

= ji initial

Ji is for Joan of Arc.

By Matthias • updated 19 days ago

+ ou4 final

In the outhouse’s bathroom.

By Matthias • updated 19 days ago

就 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.

就
- 京
  - 亠
    - 丶
    - 一
  - 口
  - 小
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - 亅
- 尤
  - 丶
  - 尢
    - 一
    - 儿
      - 丿
      - 乚

Component Translations

京

jīng = ji + (e)ng1

abbr. for Beijing / surname Jing / Jing ethnic minority

京

jīng = ji + (e)ng1

capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)

尤

yóu = y + ou2

outstanding / particularly, especially / a fault / to express discontentment against

Characters with 就 as component

鷲鹫蹴僦蹵

鹫

鷲

jiù = ji + ou4

vulture

蹴

cù = cu + Ø4

carefully / to kick / to tread on / to stamp

蹴

蹵

cù = cu + Ø4

variant of 蹴[cu4]

Words with 就

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就

jiù

是

shì

(emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated) / precisely / exactly / even / if / just like / in the same way as

就

jiù

是

shì

exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if

就

jiù

要

yào

will / shall / to be going to

Sentences with 就

那

nà

就

jiù

好

hǎo

办

bàn

了

Then it will be easy.

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Prompt snippets

The jet pack is a backpack-style harness with two polished silver cylindrical thrusters side by side, red-painted nozzles at the bottom, black padded shoulder straps and a small control lever on a cable, slightly scuffed, without any text or logos.