You might remember the meaning of the character 喉 with this easy mnemonic:
If your throat hurts, just open your mouth (口) and put a staff (亻) with a magnet (⺈) attached on it down your throat. If that doesn't work, we can go to the cliff (厂) with an arrow (矢).
Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.