Mnemonic comic for

Translation

jiàng = ji + ang4: general / commander-in-chief (military) / king (chess piece) / to command / to lead

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.

The chess king (将) is commanding (将) his bats (夕) to attack Joan of Arc (ji) with sawdust (丬) in the anglepod’s bathroom (ang4) to punish her for her sins. He gives the command by showing the thumbs up (寸) sign.

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All translations for 将

will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
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general / commander-in-chief (military) / king (chess piece) / to command / to lead
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to desire / to invite / to request
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(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
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How to pronounce 将

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.

= ji initial

Ji is for Joan of Arc.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago
+ ang1 final

In front of the anglepod.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
= ji initial

Ji is for Joan of Arc.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago
+ ang4 final

In the anglepod’s bathroom.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
= qi initial

Qi is for the Queen of Hearts.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago
+ ang1 final

In front of the anglepod.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

将 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.

Component Translations
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]
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= xi + Ø1
dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
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cùn = cu + (e)n4
a unit of length / inch / thumb
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Characters with 将 as component

surname Jiang / refers to Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
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tinkling of small bells
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jiǎng = ji + ang3
Japanese variant of 獎|奖[jiang3]
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Words with 将

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general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
(common place name)
on the eve of / to be about to / to be on the verge of
Sentences with 将
yuán
lái
shì
guī
 
 
xiā
èr
jiàng

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jiāng / jiàng / qiāng

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