What is the best way to memorize Chinese characters along with their sounds in Mandarin?

Not the best person to answer this question but since you requested to me, here’s how I memorize Mandarin pronunciation (spelling) of Chinese Characters.

For Chinese Characters and their meaning,

Visual images effectively help a lot…


For Mandarin, Cantonese, and any Chinese dialect pronunciation,

If you know the topic of “Syllable Structures”, then here it is…

I studied Japanese Kanji (漢字) first and then self-studied Korean Hanja (漢字) and Vietnamese Hán tự (漢字)/ chữ Hán.

So, comparing them through syllable structures pattern is how I would study the Chinese language.

  • onset: initial letter sounds
  • nucleus: median letter(s) sounds
  • coda(s): final letter(s) sounds

I will share images and answer…

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For Mandarin, it has to do with both pronunciation and how it is spelled/ romanized when comparing the two. As for Cantonese, here’s how I can explain the similarities between the two in a more meticulous answer. Similar pronunciation between Cantonese words and Sino-Korean characters (or “Hanja” [漢字…

I hope that this helps?

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