colonel in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 上校 with this easy mnemonic:

Show some more respect to the higher ups (上), or the colonel will expel you from this military school (校).

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 校
• 上

• 上周
• 实际上
• 马上
• 上尉
• 基本上
• 身上
• 上次
• 上升
• 台上
• 爱上
• 早上
• 上车
• 以上
• 上司
• 天上
• 上面

The reading of 上校 is shàng xiào.

You can remember how to say 上校 with this useful mnemonic:

"Go stand (sh) under (àng) those targets and see (xi) if you can control what comes out (ào) of these guns." It didn't sound like a joke.

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

Learning vocabulary like colonel and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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