銀本位

银

銀

yín

本

běn

位

wèi

Silver Standard (monetary standard)

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银

銀

yín = y + (e)n2

silver / silver-colored / relating to money or currency

Add a new mnemonic for 银 = 艮 + 钅

Add a new mnemonic for 銀 = 金 + 艮

银 = 艮 + 钅 : Maud Younger spotted a large silver sphere hanging above the entrance to the encampment. She wants to have it and repeatedly throws a golden harpoon at it; to retract the harpoon she uses a chewing gum which she attached to the harpoon, so that it expands to a long rope as she throws the golden harpoon at the silver sphere.

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本

běn = b + (e)n3

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

Add a new mnemonic for 本 = 一 + 木

本 = 一 + 木 : Beelzebub (b) finds a Christmas tree (木) in the encampment ((e)n3) and feels like eating its roots (本). He uses a flute (一) to chop the roots right off.

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本

běn

位

wèi

standard / one's own department or unit

位

wèi = w + ei4

position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

Add a new mnemonic for 位 = 亻 + 立

位 = 亻 + 立 : An armchair.

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位 = 亻 + 立 : Rosa Luxemburg visits Willy Walrus in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He sits in his place--an armchair--like a king, and Rosa presents him a vase.

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