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@liztai@hachyderm.ioStudying Chinese characters in McDonalds right now.
Apologies for my crappy writing 
Isnt it exasperating that Chinese characters can have the same exact tone but mean different things, and isn't it annoying that it just takes one or two dots or strokes to differentiate one character from another sometimes?
PS: If you are wondering, I am coming up with mnemonics to better help me remember the characters. I find that if I skip this step I forget the characters quite quickly.
@liztai nice :-) I like the mnemonics approach, and also find it helpful to decompose characters into their radicals - I'm not advanced enough to encounter characters with the same pinyin and tone...
Though, I've taken to just learning on Duolingo recently -- it doesn't require me to be so organised! ;-)
@liztai What about when two characters are pronounced exactly the same and have similar meanings (the kind you would store in adjacent brain-drawers 
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@themushroomsound they don't exactly mean the same haha. But it would take too long to explain - I think CharGPT explains it pretty well
@liztai yeah, just similar enough for my brain to picture one for the other when I hear xiang4tong2 for instance 
@liztai …aaaand it’s actually xiang1tong2 because of course 相 can be 1st or 4th tone with different meanings
@themushroomsound just to make things interesting 
@liztai it might help to understand how some of them evolved to the traditional Chinese forms. Simplified Chinese loses some of that.
@jenxi yea I have a Pleco add on that actually tells me how the character evolved, but I always seem to prefer weird stories to memorise the character lol