Mnemonic comic for 有
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: confetti.
In an act of revolution, with a pair of scissors (𠂇) Maud Younger (y) is cutting a paper moon (月) into tiny pieces in the outhouse’s living room (ou3). There is (有) only confetti (有) left over.
Comments
有 is one of the characters where it is extremely hard to find a good mnemonic symbol: "to have" is an abstract concept without any object associated with it. But fortunately, "to have" is such an abstract concept that a mnemonic is not needed to associate the character's pronunciation "you3" with the meaning "to have".
有 is serving as a component for many important characters. In order to make learning these other characters easier, we assign an arbitrary mnemonic symbol to 有, derived solely from its components. 有 looks like a pair of scissors cutting into the moon, so we imagine the moon being cut into thousands of tiny pieces of confetti. This way, whenever 有 is used as a component of another character, we can use the mnemonic symbol "confetti" to remind us that we need to include 有 when writing any of these characters.
Matthias, almost 3 years ago
How to pronounce 有
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.
有 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 有 as component
Words with 有
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to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
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