Character mnemonics

davidhallgren
June 23, 2007, 09:06 AM posted in General Discussion

Hi everyone, I've been thinking about putting together a website but would first like to see if anyone here would have any interest in it. It would be a rather simple site where you could look any Chinese (or Japanese) character and (if anyone has added one yet) read mnemonics to help you remember how the character. My plan was to let anyone add their own mnemonics for a character and then let users vote on whether they find a specific suggestion helpful or not and then simply sort the suggested mnemonics based on this rating.

So, my main questions would be:

  • Do you think mnemonics explaining characters are helpful for retention?
  • Would such a website be helpful?
  • Would you even consider contributing your own mnemonics?

 

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wei1xiao4
June 23, 2007, 10:03 AM

Anything that would help me remember characters is worth a shot!

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aeflow
June 24, 2007, 12:18 AM

zhongwen.com may be something similar, but it's only for traditional characters. Personally, I don't find mnemonics helpful though.

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Sue
January 16, 2010, 08:08 PM

Did that get off the ground David ? Sorry, only just saw that now .....