to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
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How to pronounce 鸣

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.

= mi initial

Mi is for Marilyn Monroe.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ (e)ng2 final

In the engine’s kitchen.

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鸣 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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diǎo = di + ao3
variant of 屌[diao3] / penis
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niǎo = ni + ao3
bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn
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Characters with 鸣 as component

鸣 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 鸣

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resonance (physics) / sympathetic response to sth
(physics) to resonate; resonance / sympathetic response
thunder rolls

Sentences with 鸣

鸣 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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míng

to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)

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