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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

old variant of 躬[gong1]
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xiāo = xi + ao1
clamor
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jiào = ji + ao4
old variant of 叫[jiao4] / ancient musical instrument similar to ocarina
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Words with 吕

lit. “Mr. Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1], compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lü3 Bu4 wei2]
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]
see 呂洞賓|吕洞宾[Lü3 Dong4 bin1]
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pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

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