Mnemonic comic for

Translation

dāo = d + ao1: garrulous

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.

Don Quixote (d) is chopping up a mandarin (口) with a cleaver (刀) in front of the aorta (ao1), but because he is chatting (叨) so much he doesn’t pay attention and chops off his fingers.

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All translations for 叨

dāo = d + ao1
garrulous
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tāo = t + ao1
to receive the benefit of
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Comments

Note to self: to get bloody body parts, ask the AI to add ketchup.

Matthias, over 1 year ago

How to pronounce 叨

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.

= d initial

D is for Don Quixote.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ ao1 final

In front of the aorta.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
= t initial

T is for Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago
+ ao1 final

In front of the aorta.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

叨 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
dāo = d + ao1
knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs
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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 叨 as component

叨 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 叨

to prattle / to chatter away / to nag / garrulous / nagging
to talk about often / to reminisce about / to keep repeating / to keep harping on / to discuss
long-winded / garrulous / to talk endlessly without getting to the point
Sentences with 叨
叨 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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dāo / tāo

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