leech in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 吸血鬼 with this easy mnemonic:

You're a leech, as long as you're alive you'll keep breathing (吸) my air and keep sucking my blood (血), and even after you die and become a ghost (鬼), you'd come back to steal my money too!

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

• 鬼
• 吸
• 血

• 见鬼
• 吸烟
• 流血
• 血液
• 血迹
• 胆小鬼
• 血压
• 吸引
• 鬼魂
• 吸血鬼
• 吸毒
• 魔鬼
• 呼吸

The reading of 吸血鬼 is xī xuè guǐ.

You can remember how to say 吸血鬼 with this useful mnemonic:

Think (xī) about it, should (xuè) you still be going (guǐ) around borrowing money from his family and friends?

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 leech 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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