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Elementary I
Elementary II
“免 can mean “exempt”, so a lack of sun would make it dark or late at night”
晚
“I remember this character as an enclosed space where you can have fun, 口 symbolizes the enclosed space/park, while 元 is a part of 玩, which means to play or have fun.”
园
“The character looks like someone trying to run back to their house because the sun is going down.”
晚
“Gardens and parks are often gated, which can be represented by the enclosure radical. Furthermore, people often go to parks to read or feed birds on a bench. 元 looks a lot like a bench.”
园
“The character looks like a present on a table that is under a roof. In English people tend to say the presence is a present. That is why this year or this day can be remembered as the current state of time.”
今
“It has the knife radical so it’s like when you say “Let’s CUT to the point” because you want it NOW.”
刚
“The bottom looks like a “J”, the middle is a slanted “I “and the top looks like a “n” hence jin.”
今
“A fisherman cut his NET（网）with a KNIFE（刂）’just a moment ago’.”
刚
“I remember the men of women.”
们
“A way for me to remember is that the radical for sun, 日, is covered by the top part of the character. To me, this feels like shade over the full extent of the sun’s heat, denoting spring rather than summer.”
春