Mnemonic comic for

Translation

tián = ti + an2: field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

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.

Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field (田) of crosses (十) in the anthill’s kitchen (an2). She ordered an enclosure (囗) full of crosses (十) and puts them up one by one.

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How to pronounce 田

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.

= ti initial

Ti is for Mother Teresa.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ an2 final

In the anthill’s kitchen.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

田 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
wéi = w + ei2
enclosure
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shí = sh + Ø2
ten / 10
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Characters with 田 as component

= li + Ø3
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
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= li + Ø3
variant of 裡|里[li3]
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= li + Ø3
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
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Words with 田

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field / farmland / cropland / plight / extent
oil field
field / open land / CL:片[pian4]
Sentences with 田
田 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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tián

field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

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