Mnemonic comic for 白

Translation

bái = b + ai2: white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane’s kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).

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Now that we learned both 勺 and 白, we're ready to learn the most common Chinese character of all, 的, as the next character.

Matthias, almost 3 years ago

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白 character breakdown

白
- 丶
- 日
  - 囗
  - 一

Component Translations

丶

zhǔ = zhu + Ø3

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

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日

rì = r + Ø4

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan

Add a new mnemonic for 日 = 囗 + 一

日

rì = r + Ø4

sun / day / date, day of the month

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Characters with 白 as component

伯

bǎi = b + ai3

one hundred (old)

Add a new mnemonic for 伯 = 亻 + 白

伯

bó = b + o2

father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]

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皂