You might remember the meaning of the character 糖 with this easy mnemonic:
Put some sugar in your rice (米) and let's go up to the dotted cliff (广). There are pigs there with cute little snouts (彐) who will line (丨) up and you can put the sugared rice in their mouths (口).
Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.