How to Memorize Confusable Chinese Words?

When you memorize a Chinese word, it occurs that we reverse the order of two characters which is caused because we do not master the meaning of each character. Then it came to two cases: the new word with other meaning or meaningless.

There are four interesting cases where new word represents other meaning: 


1. Same tone and character

   " fngm" & " mfng"

    " hsh" & " shh"


2. Same tone with different character

   " yjin" & " jiny"

   " bnji" & " jibn"


3. Different tones with same character

    " liodun" & " dunle"
    " zhoj" & " jzhe" 


4. Different tones with different character

    " xngq" & " qxng"

    " kngtio" & " tiokng"



Phonography & Ideographic


Alphabet & Morpheme


Method to Memorize


(yjin)  &  (jiny)

  • To form a word to understand the meaning of the word and part of speech.

    1) The part of speech of "(y)" which means "(knf), (xingf)" is a noun. "" which means "(knf)(gundin)" is a noun as well. When "(y)" and "(jin)" put together, it is still a noun.

    2) The original meaning of "(yjin)" is "(knf)(gundin)" which is 'view, suggestion, opinion, idea' in English. The extended meaning is "(ynwi bc jinji btng r chnshngde bmn xingf)" which is 'objection, differing opinion' in English. 


    Original meaning: "(Qng tngyxi wde yjin.)" which is 'Listen to my opinion please.'

    Extended meaning: "(Yu yjin n ji zhshu.)" which is 'If you have any objection, be straight up about it.'


  • To memorize the structure and pronunciation of each character by making stories.

    "(y)" is consist of "(yn)" and "(xn)" which is to convey the original meaning. The simplified writing of "(jin)" is hard to tell the meaning behind while it can be shown by "(jin)" which is "(m)" combined with "(rn)", and it shows the meaning that one person open one's eyes to see. When we memorize the word "(yjin)"we can tell them this way that "" which is 'People express themselves by words, while see whether they are understood.'


  • To make an interesting sentence with two confusing words.

    (W jiny n tngtng tmen de yjin h jiny.)

    I suggest that you can listen to their advise and suggestion. 


  • Regarding " jiny" we suggest you try this method by yourself and follow step 1, 2 and 3.

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