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Elementary I
Elementary II
“Imagine a student named Xiao who loved books. He studied day and night, eager to learn. The character looks like an open book with a person beside it. Think of Xiao and remember that it means “to learn” or ‘study’.”
学
“正 means positive and the second part of the character is a hand action. In politics, you would wish that politicians use their power, which is the hand action, to do positive actions.”
政
“If you turn your device it looks like a person wearing glasses.”
哥
“This character has two components separated down the middle. The components are divided between left and right, just like American POLITICS.”
政
“The left part is the mouth radical, while the right part looks like a fishing hook. The person’s mouth throws the hook out to fish for food to ‘eat’.“
吃
“How I memorize this character: the left hand side of this character is the person radical. people can use their voices to enact change / transform society for the better.”
化
“A person is carrying something on their back, but has dropped one because they are carrying TOO many.”
太
“It looks like someone’s PROTECTING their household with their bare hands. Kind of reminds me people who fought for their country and family in war.”
护
“From top to bottom is spell jin, the “J” is rotated 90 degree to the left, then “i” on top of the j and the “n” as a roof.”
今
“Radical on left is hand radicle and radicle on right kind of reminds me F letter, so I memorize this character as I FOLD things with my hand.”
折