💡
Choosing Mnemonics

Pick the mnemonic story that sticks best for you by clicking its ☆ — there's no wrong choice, and you'll be able to write your own soon. Then press Continue.

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)
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…

How to pronounce 興

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

興 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
ér = Ø + Ø2
child / son
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
tóng = tu + (e)ng2
like / same / similar / together / alike / with
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…

Characters with 興 as component

xìng = xi + (e)ng4
old variant of 興|兴[xing4]
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
xìng = xi + (e)ng4
to swell / swelling
Loading...
Loading mnemonics…
Loading...

Words with 興

show 135 more
out of fashion / outmoded / impermissible / can't
resurgence / recovery / restoration
Zhongxing New Village, model town in Nantou County, west-central Taiwan

Sentences with 興

興 currently does not appear in any sentence.

Want to remember 興 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

2 translations

Comments
There aren't any comments yet.

Prompt snippets

No snippets yet.