รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง
“รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง” (ратхат пайсани кхонг мыанг) — postal code in Thai. Noun, level A1. Ratthat paisanii, the postal code, you know; the city's postal code is the add-on "of the city". Five digits, written before the city name. In a live sentence: “เขียน รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง ด้วย” — Write the city's postal code too. Written with the characters ร, ห, ส, ไ, ป, ร, ษ, ณ, ี, ย, ข, อ… A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง |
| Read in Latin letters | ратхат пайсани кхонг мыанг |
| Translation | postal code |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Ratthat paisanii, the postal code, you know; the city's postal code is the add-on "of the city". Five digits, written before the city name
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- เขียน รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง ด้วยкхиан ратхат пайсани кхонг мыанг дыайWrite the city's postal code too
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “postal code” in Thai?
«รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง», read “ратхат пайсани кхонг мыанг”. In a live sentence: “เขียน รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง ด้วย” — Write the city's postal code too. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ร, ห, ส, ไ, ป, ร, ษ, ณ, ี, ย, ข, อ…
How is “รหัส ไปรษณีย์ ของ เมือง” written in Latin letters?
ратхат пайсани кхонг мыанг. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Ratthat paisanii, the postal code, you know; the city's postal code is the add-on "of the city". Five digits, written before the city name. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.