Mnemonic comic for

Translation

xìng = xi + (e)ng4: feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement

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 from the shape of the character: a sea star.

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All translations for 兴

to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect)
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feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement
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How to pronounce 兴

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.

= xi initial

Xi is for Xi Shi (西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
+ (e)ng1 final

In front of the engine.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
= xi initial

Xi is for Xi Shi (西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
+ (e)ng4 final

In the engine’s bathroom.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

兴 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
Character component without intrinsic meaning
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= y + Ø1
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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= b + a1
eight; 8
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Characters with 兴 as component

= yu + Ø4
to praise / to acclaim / reputation
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= ju + Ø3
variant of 舉|举[ju3]
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= ju + Ø3
to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed
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Words with 兴

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happy / glad / willing (to do sth) / in a cheerful mood
interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested) / hobby / CL:個|个[ge4]
excited / excitement / (physiology) excitation
Sentences with 兴
zhēn
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na

Want to remember 兴 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.

xīng / xìng

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Prompt snippets

The sea star is a five-armed echinoderm covered in a rough, calcified skin texture featuring a pattern of small, raised white bumps and deep orange pigmentation. Its surface is marked by a central circular disc and a distinct, porous madreporite plate near the junction of two arms.

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