tiáo = ti + ao2
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
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How to pronounce 條

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.

= ti initial

Ti is for Mother Teresa.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ ao2 final

In the aorta’s kitchen.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

條 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
yōu = y + ou1
distant, far / adverbial prefix
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= mu + Ø4
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
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Characters with 條 as component

= di + Ø2
to wash / to cleanse
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xiǎo = xi + ao3
dwarf bamboo
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tiáo = ti + ao2
Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus) / chub
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Words with 條

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to be of one mind / to think or act alike
lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together
lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom) / fig. to stick to one's ways / to cling to one's course

Sentences with 條

條 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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tiáo

strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

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