Mnemonic comic for

Translation

chuǎn = chu + an3: mistaken / erroneous / contradictory

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.

Just when Chantal Chicken (chu) was watching the last five minutes of the world championship inside of the anthill (an3), a bat (夕) landed on the TV’s antenna (㐄), leading to an erroneous (舛) signal on the screen. Chantal’s life really is full of trouble and misfortune (舛).

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How to pronounce 舛

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.

= chu initial

Chu is for Chantal Chicken.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ an3 final

In the anthill’s living room.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago

舛 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
kuà = ku + a4
component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂[zhi3]
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= xi + Ø1
dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
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Characters with 舛 as component

= w + Ø3
to dance / to wield / to brandish
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shùn = shu + (e)n4
Shun (c. 23rd century BC), mythical sage and leader
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jié = ji + e2
(emperor of Xia dynasty) / cruel
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Words with 舛

to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to sb's life)
Sentences with 舛
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chuǎn

mistaken / erroneous / contradictory

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