salad (loanword) in Mandarin

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

Salads make my voice raspy (沙) for some reason, so I would prefer pulled (拉) pork for lunch.

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

• 沙
• 拉

• 莎拉
• 沙滩
• 卡拉
• 伊拉克
• 拉拉
• 拉斯维加斯
• 沙发
• 沙漠
• 沙拉

The reading of 沙拉 is shā lā.

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

I think it's the salad (shā lā) dressing that makes my voice raspy and throat itchy.

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Learning vocabulary like salad (loanword) 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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