car – chee-chur

Written as qìchē or qiche

To remember that car is pronounced chee-chur (qiche) in Mandarin Chinese, use the following mnemonic:

The car was being driven by a cheetah and a church (chee-chur) priest. 

Tones

1. Chee (cheetah) is a 4th tone with \ as an accent.

Associate cheetahs, a 4th tone, with lowering things like trip or slide down. See Tones and Mnemonics.

She pushed the cheetah down the slide.

2. Chur (church) is a 1st tone with — as an accent.

Associate church, a 1st tone, with a string or tie or tying or knot. See Tones and Mnemonics.

The church was tied up with string.

Remember

Chee =  4th tone = \

Chur  = 1st  tone =  —