confusing,
Asia or Helicopter?
I mean, Iâm very happy to criticize the mnemonics but in this instance this does look like the âhelicopterâ radical but with an additional line at the bottom. Why not have the mnemonic build on the previously learned radical?
Theyâre referencing the other, similar-looking radical èŠ thatâs introduced earlier:
ahh nvm i get it now
If it helps with your understanding, the reason theyâve called it âAsiaâ is because as a kanji, itâs used to represent Asia, since itâs the first kanji of äș现äș. Actually, it quite frequently shows up in ateji words to represent the ă sound.
I have my own mnemonic. It looks like a Tie Fighter toy from Star Wars, straight out of a factory from Temu in Asia
Also as a phonetic component in kanji, like çČć.
It used to be called Tie fighter, long ago before massive overhaul. tbh, I didnât know that thing is call âtieâ; I learned it from WaniKani.
äșäșș isnât a person from Asia and isnât a helicopter driver. Though æ±äș is indeed East Asia.
I think the image here could be the cause of confusion⊠a helicopter with a bar in the bottom? The bar is written Asia, yes, but the written text shouldnât be counted as an image.
Interestingly enough, iirc, originally, it was indeed called âTie Fighterâ radical.
But then, somewhere in early 2020s, WK decided to do The Big Renaming â and lots of radicals were renamed⊠
P. S. Got ninjaâd by @polv
TIE Fighter. Stands for âTwin Ion Engineâ. But yeah, the phrase âTIE fighterâ only gets used once in the original trilogy, by Lando in Return of the Jedi.
I must never have even looked at the picture because I donât remember a helicopter coming into it at all. I saw that radical, I saw âasia,â and I immediately went âYep, thatâs a Chinese lantern.â
Iâm very glad whatever Star Wars nonsense that was has been removed.
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