Mnemonic comic for 米

Translation

mǐ = mi + Ø3: rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

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.

Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.

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Comments

Haha I love that it gave the crocodile a Santa hat!

Matthias, 3 months ago

How to pronounce 米

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.

mǐ

= mi initial

Mi is for Marilyn Monroe.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago

+ Ø3 final

In the space station’s living room.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

米 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.

米
- 丷
- 木
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨

Component Translations

丷

bā = b + a1

"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

丷

one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system

木

mù = mu + Ø4

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Characters with 米 as component

来

來

lái = l + ai2

to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

类

類

lèi = l + ei4

kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble

粗

cū = cu + Ø1

coarse / rough / thick (for cylindrical objects) / unfinished / vulgar / rude / crude

Words with 米

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玉

yù

米

mǐ

corn / maize / CL:粒[li4]

米

mǐ

奇

qí

Mickey or Mitch (name)

吉

jí

米

mǐ

Jimmy, Jimmie or Jimi (name)

Sentences with 米

原

yuán

来

lái

是

shì

乌

wū

龟

guī

虾

xiā

米

mǐ

二

èr

将

jiàng

So it's General Turtle and General Shrimp.

Want to remember 米 for good?

Make it your learning target and MandarinBanana works out the shortest route to it: the two sounds its syllable is built from, then the components of the character itself, one short step at a time. No account needed to start.

米

mǐ

rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

Prompt snippets

The sack of rice is a coarse, burlap weave, frayed at the jagged seams. It bulges with plump, chalk-white grains that shift like sand under pressure. A single, coarse twine knot cinches the top, while a dusty, faded indigo stamp marks its side with a mysterious, weathered character.