As someone who studied Mandarin for four years in high school and is now independently studying it on my own the best way to memorize characters at first is just to use flashcards. I recommend you try out the AnkiDroid app if you have an Android phone which has several large decks for Chinese. Even Duolingo is very helpful for beginners to help you understand the basic characters. Once you learn a good base of some basic characters then you can try watching Chinese language content with subtitles on so that you can see how 汉字 are used in their native context
The Official Domino Chinese Level 1-20 Complete Vocabulary and Timo's All-In-One Chinese Anki Deck are the two decks I use. Both are extremely large and good enough by themselves with tens of thousands of cards. The first deck has a lot more slang phrases while the second one mostly sticks to the official HSK word list.
As someone who studied Mandarin for four years in high school and is now independently studying it on my own the best way to memorize characters at first is just to use flashcards. I recommend you try out the AnkiDroid app if you have an Android phone which has several large decks for Chinese. Even Duolingo is very helpful for beginners to help you understand the basic characters. Once you learn a good base of some basic characters then you can try watching Chinese language content with subtitles on so that you can see how 汉字 are used in their native context
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The Official Domino Chinese Level 1-20 Complete Vocabulary and Timo's All-In-One Chinese Anki Deck are the two decks I use. Both are extremely large and good enough by themselves with tens of thousands of cards. The first deck has a lot more slang phrases while the second one mostly sticks to the official HSK word list.