= y + Ø4
city / village
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How to pronounce 邑

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.

= y initial

Y is for Maud Younger.

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+ Ø4 final

In the space station’s bathroom.

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邑 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
kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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= b + a1
Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan
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= b + a1
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
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Characters with 邑 as component

= hu + Ø4
surname Hu
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= hu + Ø4
retinue
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yōng = yu + (e)ng1
Yong River (Guangxi) / short name for Nanning (Guangxi)
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Words with 邑

Xunyi County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Xunyi County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Changyi, county-level city in Weifang 濰坊|潍坊[Wei2 fang1], Shandong

Sentences with 邑

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city / village

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