Mnemonic comic for 丅
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 from the shape which looks like a T: a T-bone steak.
Xi Shi (xi) is secretly eating a steak (丅) in the ashram’s bathroom (a4). She uses two flutes (一) as chopsticks and even devours the steak’s bones (丨).
Comments
Okay to this is a character you'll never use on its own, so it's debatable if we really need a mnemonic for it. Why even bother? Here is my list of reasons:
- it's fun
That's it.
No really, "T" is used as a component in only two characters: 斤 and 鬲 (at the bottom), and never used on its own, so the use is marginal. I just find that the shape "T" is so easy to remember as a T-bone steak, making it easier (and more fun!) to remember both 斤 and 鬲 through using the T-bone steak in their respective mnemonics. That's also why I didn't bother to make sure that there is a flute and a dinosaur bone in the comic, because it's enough to remember "T" = "T-bone steak" by the shape of the character, and maybe the pinyin in case I want to type it (it will probably never happen - even in this comment I was too lazy and just typed a capital "t" when I wanted to write "T").
Matthias, about 2 years ago
How to pronounce 丅
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.
丅 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.
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Characters with 丅 as component
Words with 丅
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