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[[对]]
==== 对 (dui4, correct)
Mnemonic: to progress slowly, adding **inch** (<<寸>>) by inch, **again** (<<又>>) and again, is the **correct** way to progress
Characters:
* <<树>>
[[儿]]
==== 儿 (er2, son)
Characters:
* <<元>>
[[尔]]
==== 尔 (er3, you)
Mnemonic: I'll stab **you** with a **small** (<<小>>) knife (<<刀>>)
Characters:
* <<你>>
[[二]]
==== 二 (er4, two)
Characters:
* 元
Mnemonic: he didn't have two **lungs**, but rather one **moon** (<<月>>) and one **lung** (<<巿>>)
Words:
* <<肺炎>>
[[巿]]
==== 巿 (fu2, lung)
Mnemonic: due to an infection, doctors had to dry up **one** (<<一>>) of his **lung** with a **towel** (<<巾>>)
Characters:
* <<肺>>
[[干]]
==== 干 (gan1, dry)
Characters:
* <<幸>>
[[根]]
==== 根 (gen1, roots)
Mnemonic: **roots** one **root** (<<艮>>) plus one root and lots of **wood** (<<木>>)
Notes: this is a Kangxi radical, but its English name "stopping" is just too close to the more important "stop" <<止>> and would cause confusion. So we just use the common phonetic compound **roots** (<<根>>) as the mnemonic. It was tempting to leave "root" for <<本>>, which looks perfectly like a root, but we did character first, and "potato" makes for even better mnemonics.
[[冠]]
==== 冠 (guan1, corona)
Mnemonic: when Queen Elizabeth was crowned, the **first** (<<元>>) thing they put a one **inch** (<<寸>>) **hajib** <<冖>> on her head, and then the **corona** of a Christian saint saint appeared on her head
Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona
Mnemonic: imagine **one** <<一>> **grain** of rice coming out of **wood** (<<木>>)
Characters:
* <<私>>
* <<和>>
[[和]]
==== 和 (he2, harmonious)
Mnemonic: nothing is more **harmonious** than putting some **grains** <<禾>> in your **mouth** <<口>>
Characters:
* <<私>>
* <<和>>
Mnemonic: **stepping** (<<彳>>) on a tree **root** (<<艮>>) is a **very** bad idea, it might be a tree spirit that gets angry and eats you!
[[火]]
==== 火 (huo3, fire)
Short forms: 灬
Characters:
* <<炎>>
[[巾]]
==== 巾 (jin1, towel)
Mnemonic: person carrying bath towel over shoulders.
Characters:
* <<巿>>
[[几]]
==== 几 (ji3, side table)
Characters:
* <<殳>>
[[口]]
==== 口 (kou3, mouth)
Chars:
* <<台>>
* <<和>>
[[里]]
==== 里 (li3, mile)
Mnemonic: his **field** (<<田>>) streched over one **mile** (<<里>>), but it consisted of barren **soil** (<<土>>) without any plants
Characters:
* <<重>>
* <<理>>
[[理]]
==== 理 (li3, science)
Mnemonic: the **king** (<<王>>) Louis XIV was a big patron of the mectric system, which intends to improve **science** by removing useless units like the **mile** (<<里>>)
Words:
* <<物理>>
* <<理论>>
[[力]]
==== 力 (li4, superpower)
Characters:
* <<动>>
Mnemonic: there must exist a **list** of **supervillains** (<<歹>>) with **knives** (<<刀>>) on the web? A knife-yielding supervillain **list**! https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/
[[临]]
==== 临 (lin2, temporary)
Mnemonic: the simplified character was completely mutilated into a bunch of senseless traces unmemorizable traces. The traditional 臨 can be broken into: the **Prime minister** (<<臣>>) temporarily decided to increase production of an important **product** (<<品>>): **pistols** (<<top-part-of-每>>), until the zombie apocalypse would be over.
Words:
* <<临时>>
[[仑]]
==== 仑 (lun2, logic)
Mnemonic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory[spoon theory] is very logical and explains how using **spoons** (<<匕>>) is a good metaphor for a **person**'s (<<人>>) energy consumption
Characters:
* <<论>>
Mnemonic: "**rationale**" the fancy way that engineers **say** (<<言>>) "**logic**" (<<仑>>)
Mnemonic: it is pretty **logical** (<<仑>>) that a **car** (<<车>>) needs **wheels**
[[没]]
==== 没 (mei2, not have)
Mnemonic: if you **do not have** any **water** (<<水>>) for your **coffee** (<<殳>>), it won't be very good
[[冖]]
==== 冖 (mi4, hajib [Muslim female head scarf])
Notes: the Wikipedia Kangxi is "cloth cover". Ciro guesses this was originally something to do with food covering. But let's just go with hajib which will allow for easy politically incorrect mnemonics. "Crown" from <<冠>> would also be another good one, but we had already used crown for <<龶>>.
Characters:
* <<冠>>
[[宀]]
==== 宀 (mian2, roof)
Characters:
* <<审>>
Characters:
* <<根>>
Words:
* <<木头>>
[[疒]]
==== 疒 (ne4, sick)
Mnemonic: Kangxi 104.
Characters:
* <<疫>>
[[你]]
==== 你 (ni3, thou)
Mnemonic: **person** (<<人>>) **you** (<<尔>>)
[[牛]]
==== 牛 (niu2, cow)
Short forms: 牜,⺧
Characters:
* <<理>>
Mnemonic: you need **claws** (<<爪>>) to **climb** (爬) **Brazil**'s (<<巴>>) tallest mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_da_Neblina[Pico da Neblina]
[[品]]
==== 品 (pin3, product)
Mnemonic: you need a lot of food **products** to feed the three **mouths** (<<口>>) of three children!
Words:
* 食品 TODO
Characters:
* <<临>>
[[攴]]
==== 攴 (pu1, to tap)
Short forms: 攵
Mnemonic: to transform a frog into a princess, you have to **tap** your **magic wand** (<<卜>>) **again and again** (<<又>>) on it
Characters:
* <<政>>
[[千]]
==== 千 (qian2, thousand)
Mnemonic: a super powerful <<十>> with an extra trace
[[丬]]
==== 丬 (qiang2, split wood)
Characters: <<状>>
Mnemonic: the **crown** (<<龶>>) of the king was **blue** and **moon-shaped** (<<月>>)
Notes: it is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan[green-blue/Cyan], see also https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色 but let's call it blue because it will be used in many constructs.
Mnemonic: imagine a Caribbean sea **water** (<<水>>) was is **blue** (<<青>>) and **clear**
Notes: clear in the sense of "not dirty" and "a clear explanation". "Clear colors" use TODO 浅 as in 浅蓝.
[[情]]
==== 情 (qing2, lust)
Mnemonic: in his **heart** (<<心>>), the greatest **lust** was that of **blue** (<<青>>) underwear
Words:
* <<疫情>>
Mnemonic: imagine one **big** (<<大>>) **dog** wagging its tail, the extra dot is the tail
[[日]]
==== 日 (ri4, sun)
Characters:
* <<旦>>
[[勺]]
==== 勺 (shao2, wrap sandwitch)
Mnemonic: it is something that you would put inside **plastic wrap** (<<勹>>)
Notes: this is one of the main words for spoon, but that mnemonic is already taken by the Kangxi <<匕>>, so we had to go for something else.
[[申]]
==== 申 (shen1, God)
Mnemonic: TODO
Characters:
* <<神>>
[[神]]
Mnemonic: **God** <<申>> **spirit** (<<示>>)
[[审]]
==== 审 (shen3, inspect)
Mnemonic: if you are going to **inspect** what's making those noises on the **roof** (<<宀>>), you will certainly find that it was **God** (<<申>>)
[[十]]
==== 十 (shi2, ten)
Characters:
* <<单>>
[[示]]
==== 示 (shi4, spirit)
Short forms: 礻
Mnemonic: imagine **two** <<二>> **small** <<小>> child **spirits** playing with one another, maybe they died during a nuclear explosion and never noticed what happened
[[水]]
==== 水 (shui3, water)
Short forms: 氵,氺
Chars:
* <<治>>
[[厶]]
==== 厶 (si1, private)
Chars:
* <<台>>
* <<私>>
[[私]]
==== 私 (si1, privacy)
Mnemonic: **privacy** is all about storing your precious **grain** (<<禾>>) in a **private** (<<厶>>) location
Mnemonic: his **coffee** keeps falling from the **side table** (<<几>>) on the floor **again** (<<又>>) and again
* <<疫>>
Note: this shows what a 殳 weapon actually was: http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-2023-1.html
Mnemonic: it is **correct** (<<对>>) to say that **trees** (树) are made out of of **wood** (<<木>>)
Mnemonic: in their **discussions** (<<讨论>>), they always **talked** (<<言>>) about how his penis was only one **inch** <<寸>> long
[[台]]
==== 台 (tai2, platform)
Mnemonic: he was doing something **private** (<<厶>>) to her with his **mouth** (<<口>>) on the train **platform**
Characters:
* <<治>>
Words:
* <<台湾>>
[[田]]
==== 田 (tian1, field)
Characters:
* <<单>>
[[体]]
==== 体 (ti3, body)
Mnemonic: the Irish **people** <<人>> eat so much **potato** (<<本>>) that 90% of their **bodies** are made out of potato molecules
Words:
* <<体重>>
[[土]]
==== 土 (tu3, soil)
Notes: the normal Kangxi translation is "earth", but we are afraid that this could be ambiguous with the "Planet Earth", so choosing soil instead
Characters:
* <<幸>>
[[王]]
==== 王 (wang2, king)
Characters:
* <<龶>>
[[勿]]
==== 勿 (wu4, atom)
Mnemonic: atoms are part of **matter** <<物>>
[[物]]
==== 物 (wu4, matter [Physics])
Mnemonic: **cows** (<<牛>>) are made of **atoms** (<<勿>>), both of which are made of **matter**
Words:
* <<物理>>
[[心]]
==== 心 (xin1, heart)
Short forms: 忄,⺗
Mnemonic: Kangxi 42.
Characters:
* <<情>>
[[幸]]
==== 幸 (xing4, luck)
Mnemonic: you will have much better **luck** cycling when the **soil** (<<土>>) is **dry** (<<干>>)
Words:
* <<不幸>>
[[言]]
==== 言 (yan2, speak, say)
Short forms: 讠
Mnemonic: imagine **two** (<<二>>) flying **mouths** (<<口>>) trying to speak, but they can't because a plastic **lid** (<<亠>>) has been placed on them
[[炎]]
==== 炎 (yan2, inflammation)
Mnemonic: getting burnt by two **fires** (<<火>>) tends to cause skin inflammation
Words:
* <<肺炎>>
[[疫]]
==== 疫 (yi4, epidemic)
Mnemonic: the world's greatest **epidemic** which is making people **sick** (<<疫>>) is **coffee** (<<殳>>) drinking
Words:
* <<疫情>>
[[又]]
==== 又 (you4, again)
Characters:
* <<对>>
[[元]]
==== 元 (yuan2, first)
Mnemonic: my **first** **son** (<<儿>>) had **two** (<<二>>) legs, but the second one had three!
[[月]]
==== 月 (yue4, moon)
Characters:
* <<青>>
[[云]]
==== 云 (yun2, cloud)
Mnemonic: she made **two** (<<二>>) **private** (<<厶>>) farts in her home, but that produced a fart **cloud** that surrounded her for the rest of the week
Characters:
* <<动>>
* <<运>>
[[运]]
==== 运 (yun4, sports)
Notes: the most watched **sport** in heaven is that **cloud** (<<云>>) speed **walking** (<<辵>>)
[[爪]]
==== 爪 (zhao3, claws)
Short forms: 爫
Characters:
* <<爬>>
[[政]]
==== 政 (zheng4, politics)
Mnemonic: to do **politics** in China, you have to **tap** (<<攴>>) those <<xinjiang,Uyghurs>> on the shoulder and tell them to **straighten** (<<正>>) their backs
Words:
* <<政治>>
[[正]]
==== 正 (zheng4, straighten)
Mnemonic: **one** (<<一>>) **stop** (<<止>>) at the bone doctor is all it takes to **straighten** up your hurting back
Characters:
* <<政>>
[[之]]
==== 之 (zhi1)
Sentences:
* the preceding sentence modifies the following sentence
** <<青铜兵器之殳简介>>
*** here for example "青铜兵器" describes "殳" as in "'Shu', the bronze weapon".
[[止]]
==== 止 (zhi3, stop)
Characters:
* <<正>>
Words:
* <<禁止>>
[[治]]
==== 治 (zhi4, cure)
Mnemonic: she **cured** him from his heat stroke with water **water** (<<水>>) right on the train **platform** (<<台>>)
Words:
* <<治愈>>
[[重]]
==== 重 (zhong4, dumbbell)
Mnemonic: the best exercise to get fit is to carry **one thousand** (<<千>>) **dumbells** over one thousand **miles** (<<里>>)
Words:
* <<体重>>
Mnemonic: imagine a **dog** (<<犬>>) model **shaped** from **split wood** pieces (<<丬>>)
[[子]]
==== 子 (zi, child)
Mnemonic: Kangxi 39.
Characters:
* <<存>>
Format:
....
[[<<english-word>>]]
==== <<english-word>> (<<chinese-translation>>, <<chinese-translation>>)
* <<chinese-translation>>
** <<sentence containing in that sense>>
* <<chinese-translation>>
** <<sentence containing in that sense>>
....
[[close]]
==== Close (关,合)
* 关 TODO
* 合 TODO close a book
[[<word>]]
=== <word> (<pinyin>, <main-translation>)
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
* <character-contained>
* <character-contained>
Words:
* <word-containing>
* <word-containing>
Subwords:
* <word-contained>
* <word-contained>
* <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
** <<note-on-this-sentence>>
Sentences:
* <<sense>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
*** <<note-on-this-sentence>>
* translations is useful if there are multiple possible English translations, and examples if it is more one-to-one with the `main-translation`
* mnemonics are mostly useful for proper nouns, for common nouns, it is usually obvious from the composing characters. This is why Chinese is amazing.
[[巴西]]
==== 巴西 (ba1 xi1, Brazil)
Characters:
* <<巴>>
* 西
[[不幸]]
==== 不幸 (bu4 xing4, unlucky)
Characters:
* <<不>>
* <<幸>>
[[歹人]]
==== 歹人 (dai3 ren2, villain)
Characters:
* <<歹>>
* <<人>>
[[肺炎]]
==== 肺炎 (fei4 yan2, pneumonia)
Characters:
* <<肺>>
* <<炎>>
* <<肺炎疫情下的武汉幸存者我是不幸之中幸运的人>>
** This was one of the most common ways to refer to <<corona>>
[[冠状病毒]]
==== 冠状病毒 (guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2, Corona virus)
Characters:
* <<冠>>
[[购物清单]]
==== 购物清单 (gou4 wu4 qing1 dan1, shopping list)
Subwords:
* 购物 TODO
* <<清单>>
Sentences:
* <<购物清单APP即使你是购物狂也不用再担心了>>
[[理论]]
==== 理论 (li3 lun4, logic)
Characters:
[[时]]
==== 时 (shi2, time)
Mnemonic: if the **sun** (<<日>>) moves an **inch** (<<寸>>) in the sky, then that means that 1 minute of **time** has passed
Words:
* <<临时>>
[[临时]]
==== 临时 (lin2 shi2, temporary)
Characters:
* <<临>>
* <<时>>
[[审查]]
==== 审查 (shen3 cha2, censor)
Characters:
* <<审>>
* <<查>>
[[木头]]
==== 木头 (mu4 tou, wood, timber or log)
Characters:
* <<木>>
* 头
[[爬行]]
==== 爬行 (pa2 xing2, crawl)
Translations:
* crawl
** <<大多数宝宝在6-10个月之间学会爬行>>
Characters:
* <<爬>>
* 行
[[清单]]
==== 清单 (qing1 dan1, list)
Characters:
* <<清>>
* <<单>>
Translations:
* <<list>>
Words:
* <<购物清单>>
[[青铜]]
==== 青铜 (qing1 tong2, bronze)
Characters:
* <<青>>
* 铜 TODO copper
Sentences:
* <<青铜兵器之殳简介>>
[[台湾]]
==== 台湾 (tai2 wan1, Taiwan)