# What techniques do you use to memorize Chinese and Japanese characters?

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**Category:** Language Learning\
**Created:** [March 3, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/what-techniques-do-you-use-to-memorize-chinese-and-japanese-characters/31446 "2016-03-03T23:04:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/what-techniques-do-you-use-to-memorize-chinese-and-japanese-characters/31446/13 "2020-03-27T01:10:22Z")

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> [@How to use memory palace for Chinese characters](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-use-memory-palace-for-chinese-characters/33021/3):
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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 …

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