train – hoar-chur

Written as huŏchē or huoche

To remember that train is pronounced hoar-chur (huoche) in Mandarin Chinese, use the following mnemonic:

The train's passengers were all horses dressed in their Sunday best for church (hoar-chur).

Tones

1. Hoar (horse) is a 3rd tone with ∪ as an accent.

Associate horse, a 3rd tone, with a horse shoe or horse or smile. See Tones and Mnemonics.

The horse smiled as he opened his new shoes.

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

Hoar = 3rd tone = ∪

Chur = 1st tone = —