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.
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.
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Not to be confused with ⺌, which is symmetric.
Matthias, over 3 years ago
Catnip details: vibrant green catnip plant leaves (Nepeta cataria) featuring a soft, velvety texture with fine, downy white hairs covering their serrated edges and prominent veins. The heart-shaped, scalloped leaves are arranged in opposite pairs along a square, dusty-green stem, interspersed with small, dense terminal spikes of tiny, tubular white flowers speckled with faint purple dots.
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