Mnemonic comic for

Translation

jiōng = ju + (e)ng1: Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

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: ⺆ looks like a staple, as used in a stapler.

Zeus (ju) wants to plant bananas (丿) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He uses a plow (㇆) to dig up the earth and puts the bananas inside. To prevent the bananas from falling down, he staples them down with a stapler (⺆).

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Shoutout to jimmiet for uploading this stapler to https://openclipart.org/detail/19080/blue-stapler. Thanks jimmiet!

Matthias, almost 3 years ago

How to pronounce ⺆

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.

= ju initial

Ju is for Zeus.

By Matthias • updated about 2 months ago
+ (e)ng1 final

In front of the engine.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

⺆ 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
丿
piě = pi + e3
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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Characters with ⺆ as component

yuè = yu + e4
moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
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= c + e4
book / booklet / classifier for books
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yāng = y + ang1
center / end / to beg / to plead
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Words with ⺆

⺆ is not used as a component in another word.
Sentences with ⺆
⺆ currently does not appear in any sentence.

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jiōng

Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

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