Mnemonic comic for

Translation

= + Ø3: pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

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.

Loki (lü) conducts an experiment in the space station’s living room (Ø3). Using a pitch pipe (吕) he creates two standing waves, in which he keeps one mandarin (口) respectively.

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How to pronounce 吕

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.

= initial

Lü is for Loki.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ Ø3 final

In the space station’s living room.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago

吕 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
kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 吕 as component

Character component without intrinsic meaning
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= qi + Ø4
device / tool / utensil / CL:臺|台[tai2]
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= + Ø2
gate of a village / village
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Words with 吕

see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2]
Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
Sentences with 吕
吕 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

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