Mnemonic comic for

Translation

shēn = sh + (e)n1: to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°

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: a textbook.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) uses a microphone (曰) and a dinosaur bone (丨) as pointer to explain (申) the history of the encampment to the audience standing in front of it ((e)n1). He likes to present himself as an expert, but he’s a faker: All his explanations come from his textbook (申).

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All translations for 申

shēn = sh + (e)n1
old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3] / surname Shen
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shēn = sh + (e)n1
to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
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Comments

This is what you get when you ask the AI to have the character handle too many items at once. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Matthias, over 1 year ago

How to pronounce 申

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.

= sh initial

Sh is for Sherlock Holmes.

By Matthias • updated 2 months ago
+ (e)n1 final

In front of the encampment.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago

申 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
gǔn = gu + (e)n3
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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shù = shu + Ø4
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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yuē = yu + e1
to speak / to say
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Characters with 申 as component

kūn = ku + (e)n1
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
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kūn = ku + (e)n1
variant of 坤[kun1]
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shēn = sh + (e)n1
arsenic (chemistry)
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Words with 申

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to order again and again (idiom)
thirty-third year C9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1956 or 2016
Sentences with 申
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