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Elementary I
Elementary II
“I think of Benjamin Franklin’s kite and key experiment = electricity.”
电
“You should only say *right* things when you open your *mouth*”
右
“The character looks like a person wearing a crown. When you do something often you usually get good at it. I associate it with winning a tournament at a sport because you do it often, thus you get a crown.”
常
“火 radical means fire which signifies that this lights up. It is used in 红绿灯 which means stop light, and the second radical looks like a stoplight itself hanging from the pole. I remember how to say the character, as in 红绿灯, by remembering that it sounds like 等 like 等一下 and you also, similarly, have to wait at a light.”
灯
“It is the first part of 外国 so it’s like you’re out of a country.“
外
“The character looks like an eye with Egyptian make-up, I associate it with 很 because it portrays the really complex make-up of the eye.”
眼
“The top looks like a check mark on its side indicating completion.”
了
“It has the moon radical, the “go” character in the middle, and a hook on the right. I think of this character as ‘the first human to go and step FOOT on the moon’.”
脚
“It looks like a Christmas tree. Christmas is at the end of the year.”
末
“The 正 is used to keep score during 中文课的比赛。In politics, the politicians want to keep a *score* of their *actions*.”
政