听信

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

Add a new mnemonic for 听 = 口 + 斤

听 = 口 + 斤 : Mother Teresa (ti) is listening to the sound that is made when a barbell (斤) squashes a mandarin (口) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

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信

xìn = xi + (e)n4

letter / mail / CL:封[feng1] / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random

Add a new mnemonic for 信 = 亻 + 言

信 = 亻 + 言 : Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg are reading a letter of Karl Marx to the public in the encampment's bathroom. To make the message really come across to the people they use a megaphone.

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