Mnemonic comic for

Translation

bīng = bi + (e)ng1: soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

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.

Brunhilde (bi) and the soldier (兵) visit a burial mound (丘) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). It is round like a ball like the deceased inside. To commemorate the round fallen soldier they put down eight-balls (八).

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How to pronounce 兵

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.

= bi initial

Bi is for Shield maiden and Valkyrie Brunhilde.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago
+ (e)ng1 final

In front of the engine.

By Matthias • updated 6 months ago

兵 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
qiū = qi + ou1
mound / hillock / grave / classifier for fields / surname Qiu
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qiū = qi + ou1
variant of 丘[qiu1] / hillock
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= b + a1
eight; 8
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Characters with 兵 as component

bīn = bi + (e)n1
visitor / guest / object (in grammar)
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bāng = b + ang1
stream / creek
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bīn = bi + (e)n1
Japanese variant of 濱|滨[bin1] / used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 橫浜|横浜[Heng2 bin1] with phonetic value hama
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Words with 兵

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soldier / CL:個|个[ge4]
Sentences with 兵
ǎn
lǎo
sūn
méi
yǒu
jiàn
chèn
shǒu
de
bīng

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bīng

soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

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