Mnemonic comic for 串
Translation
chuàn
=
chu
+
an4:
to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
Mnemonic
Chantal Chicken (chu) opened a secret popup store in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She prepared lots of skewers (串) using mandarins (吕) and dinosaur bones (丨). After she finishes the last one, she lets everyone know by playing a pitch pipe (吕).
Comments
串 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system