Anytime a reading uses ほ, the various garden hoe mnemonics never work for me. I have to use ho instead. 他? I’ve got my regular car, but my other car is my ho car. I use it to pick up all my hoes. On’yomi for 歩? Sometimes you just gotta strut it out and do your ho walk.
I’m an incredibly nerdy woman who never uses the word ho irl but it’s the only thing that works for me on ほ readings 
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While there’s a number of bright and well-working mnemonics (“someone butchered the clown” … “Of course, feel terrified by this. Clown blood everywhere. Kind of funny, but not. Stop that.” 
for on’yomi of 部 (part), for instance), there’s still a lot of other that are outright weak. Take, for instance, this: “This small lion’s name is Ken (けん). He’s really excited to rule his prefecture. His name is Ken.” (県 – prefecture). Who’s Ken? There’s nothing in this mnemonics that’s bright enough to be well remembered or to connect with something already remembered.
I don’t blame WK, it’s impossible for one team to make equally good stories about every kanji or word, but we have the WK community. I’m sure that hundreds of people already created better mnemonics, so maybe we can feature-request community mnemonics right in the kanji/vocab cards?
I read in the posts of people who reached lvl60 that very often they had to come up with their own little stories because the default ones didn’t work for them. They say names of celebrities work well. I can confirm that. For instance, in 県 I see a person sitting on the throne. I think this is the Grand Master Obi 1 Kenobi, the prefect of a time-space prefecture. I mean, this is decent enough to share with the community. But no one will find it in this thread 
I wish there was a button “Share your mnemonics with the community” or smth like that.
For 米 (bei) that could be rice or America I always remember that BEYoncé is American and eats rice … it’s so stupid but works!
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