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Choosing Mnemonics

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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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