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Elementary I
Elementary II
“This is going to sound weird but the character reminds me of Pinocchio, or a person with a long nose because they’re making excuses for why they were late!”
才
“It means a group of students taking a class together. So think of this character as two Wangs -Wang Peng and Wang Ming and a third person taking a class together or Two and a Half Men (since the middle part looks incomplete) taking a class together.”
班
“This Chinese measure word uses the ’tile radical’ 瓦, so you if you want to remember 瓶。Go buy a few coke BOTTLES and drop it on your floor tiles瓦, do this until you can’t forget their relationship.”
瓶
“The middle of this character is the left hand side of the character 师. this character 师 is part of the word 老师, which means teacher and teachers are usually in class teaching students.”
班
“The character to rise appears to has a “S”, which is the word with the strongest sound on rise.“
起
“This characters has parts branching off like a family tree and if you were the bottom part then one line up is your parent then connected to your parent is their sibling and then connected to your aunt/uncle is your cousin.”
表
“Looks like a really short person is trying to reach the microphone to give a “speech” and the reason why the stand is so tall is because the “hua” we phone is underneath the microphone (Imagine the rectangle as a huawei phone).”
话
“It looks like an eye is looking at a lightbulb and a heart. That represents the struggle smart people have in making decisions based on heart or logic.”
聪
“Chai Laoshi in a dress teaching us in CLASS.”
课
“To remember it, I first remember that in order to be smart, you need to learn first. To do this, you need to listen with your ears (the left-most part of the character is an 耳), be able to communicate what you know (there is a 口 in the upper right part), and truly understand the material with your heart (the lower right hand part is 心).”
聪