Mnemonic comic for 习
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 highlighter pen.
Xi Shi (xi) cozily lies in a huge beret (亠) in the space station’s kitchen (Ø2) and studies (习) all the mystical engravings on a plow (㇆) by highlighting them with a highlighter pen (习).
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Did you notice that the beret is actually life-sized (resting on a kitchen counter) and Xi Shi, the plow and the highlighter pen are miniature versions?
Matthias, 6 months ago
How to pronounce 习
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.
习 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
Characters with 习 as component
Words with 习
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(bound form) to practice / to study / habit / custom
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