# How to use memory palace for Chinese characters

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I gave a long explanation about this sometime ago, but I cannot find it.  
I assign a person to various parts of the characters (not necessarily radicals)  
For instance:  
止 zhi3 [Aragorn]  
幸 xing4 [Elrond]  
氏shi4 [Ent]  
隹 zhui1 [Frodo]  
殳 shu1 [Galadriel]  
干 gan14 [Gandalf] (幹)  
廣 guang3 [Gimli]  
肖 xiao4 [Goldberry]  
余yu2 [Gollum]  
兆 zhao4 [Legolas]  
攵（攴）[M&P]  
臣chen2 [nazgul]  
丂 kao3 [Orc]  
欠 qian4 [Sam]  
召 [Saruman]  
辛 [shelob]  
寺si4 [Tom Bombadil]  
亶 dan4 [troll]  
Then, I create small stories for each character. This has been very useful for me, I don’t know if it works the same for others. I don’t use loci here.  
I discovered that 隹 is used a lot, and that I had difficulty remembering the characters that had that part. So I assigned Frodo.  
Example of character using this method.

## 觀
This is Frodo with a pair of binoculars, hidden under a bush (because obviously the dark riders are coming), and he is watching. Frodo 隹 (just because) with a pair of binoculars 吅 (because of the graphical representation) under a bush 艹 ( because of the meaning) watching 見 (because of the meaning)。 Perhaps it seems complex, but it has been useful for me.

Below is my “study” about this character. Sorry for adding a long list, but just to show how useful it has been for me. I use a bit of Spanish here and there too.  
I don’t use this system to learn the pronunciation. For that I use something else.

1  
隹 zhui1 (short-tailed bird) [Frodo]  
2  
隻 zhi1 (class. For birds and some animals, one of a pair) [OK]  
雙 shuang1 (two, double, pair) [OK]  
售 shou1 (to sell, to make or carry out a plan: 售貨，售票口)   
進 jin4 (to advance, to enter, to admit, into, in) [OK]  
集 ji2 (to gather, to collect, class. for episodes: 集團，籌集，合集) [Frodo on a tree collecting berries]  
磼\<集?  
椎 zhui1(spine) 脊椎，椎骨（vertebra, backbone）[Frodo felt from the tree and broke vertebra]無脊椎動物/ chui2 (a hammer) ???  
雚\>\>  
雚guan4 (archaic, stork, heron)… Decir que es, tonto.  
(Frodo bajo un arbusto con binoculares)  
歡 huan1  
觀 guan1 [under a plant (艹), with his binoculars (吅) Frodo (隹) watches (見)] 觀念  
灌 guan4 (to irrigate) [frodo irrigating the same bush under which he is watching with the binoculars]  
（奞）\>\>  
奞 [Frodo con sombrero chino]  
奪(夺) duo4 (to seize, to take away forcibly, to strive for) [Frodo with a hat striving to advance an inch in the mountain]  
奮(奋) fen4 (exert oneself) [Frodo with hat working in the field of Hobbiton, exerting himself]興奮  
淮\>\>  
淮 huai2 (name of a river) [Frodo junto al río]  
準凖 (准) zhun3 (accurate, standard, quasi-) [Frodo measuring the level of the river by introducing a stick in the water]

匯 (汇) hui4 (to remit, to converge (of rivers), to exchange，匯出) [Frodo build a tent besides the river to exchange money]  
Principal Frodo 維 No es sub  
維 wei2 (to preserve, to maintain, to hold together, abbr for Uighur) [Frodo vestido de seda] guarda la… compostura  
維護 思維 維持  
Sub 羅\<維 4 hobbits vestidos de seda  
羅(罗) luo2 (to collect, to gather, to catch) [4 hobbits vestidos de seda… in Rome… tied to the obelisk] {all derivations pronounced luo2}  
蘿 luo2 (radish 蘿蔔) [4H eat radish in St. P. S.]  
鑼 luo2 (gong一面鑼，鑼聲，敲鑼，鑼鼓) [4H build a giant gong with the gold they found in Rome and hang it in the obelisk at St. P. S.]  
邏 (逻) luo2 (logic, patrol: 邏輯，巡邏，模糊邏輯) [4 hobbits vestidos de seda caminando… Estudian lógica???]  
玀 luo2 name of a tribe  
曪 ?  
Sub 崔 Frodo mirando la montaña  
崔 cui1 (high mountains) [Well, just Frodo watching THAT high mountain]  
催\<崔 cui1 (to urge, to press, to rush sb) [while Frodo is watching the mountain, a person by his side is rushing him to start walking] 催逼，催促，催谷，催淚，催眠術  
隼 sun3 (Falcon) esay to mix with 準。[The falcon saved frodo… ???] 鶽?  
雇 Frodo dentro de una casa  
雇（僱）gu4 (to employ, to hire, to rent) 解雇，雇員，雇主，牢固關係 [A man, Gandalf, arrives to the house of Frodo, to hire him for a trip]  
顧gu4 (to look after, to take into consideration) [OK]  
雍 Algo descriptivo… Frodo…  
雍 (邕) yong1 (harmony, surname Yong,) [Frodo finds harmony under his roof in Hobbiton] No, muy complicado.  
擁 (拥) yong1,tw3 (to hold, to embrace) 擁抱，擁有 [Frodo embraces Bilbo at the door of Hobitton]  
壅 yong1 (to obstruct, to stop up, to heap soil around the roots of a plant) ??  
臃 yong1 (in 臃腫13 obese, of an organization: oversizes or overstaffed) [Frodo became obese living in Hobitton]  
噰  
甕 (瓮，罋) weng3 (surname, earthen jar, urn) [Frodo keeps his tobacco in earthen 瓦jar]  
焦  
焦 jiao1 (surname, burnt, worried, anxious) [Frodo is worried because he is getting burnt in the fire of the fire mountain] 焦急，焦爐，焦慮，焦點  
礁 jiao1 (reef) [while getting burnt in the fire, Frodo sees a reef under the lava…???] 暗礁，礁島，大堡礁，礁石

> > 穛劁顦

翟 di2 (surname, long-tail pheasant) zhai2 (surname Zhai)  
翟\>\>糴藋  
蒦  
Nuevo sub 蒦(\<隻)  
獲huo3 (to catch, to obtain, to capture)  
擭 huo3 (trap)  
護 hu2 (to protect)  
誰潍讎  
攜xie2

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