Pictorial Mnemonics for Chinese Characters© are graphics which mimic the shape and structure of the Chinese characters and thereby act as memory pegs to remembering them.
One of the most (many would say 'The most') daunting aspects of learning Chinese/Mandarin is its writing system - which at first appearance seems incongruous and the prospect of having to learn those thousands of characters gives many a shudder; and sadly it puts many people off attempting to learn Chinese.
Pictorial Mnemonics for Chinese Characters© take Chinese characters (whether pictograph, ideograph, phono-semantic, compound, borrowed/lent, and so on) and imaginatively represents or replicates them with imitative, animate pictures; these pictorial mnemonics as much as possible also reflect or allude to the meaning or idea or usage of the characters.
While the idea itself (certainly retrospectively) seems simple, the innovation lies in imaginatively relating the characters to pictures. Pictorial Mnemonics for Chinese Characters© are pictures/graphics which imaginatively mimic the structures and shapes of Chinese characters and so make them impressionably memorable (not just a picture of a cat next to the character for a cat, and not just those relatively few characters which are categorised as pictographic).
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