Well, Chinese is my mother tongue, as far as I know, generally we just memorize it by writing it over and over again. Surely there is some creative way to do it, but it requires you have some foundation of Chinese words.

I am chinese.when i was a little child ,wo copy 汉字 for several times ,then use this 汉字 to make 词组，and last wo use the 词组to make sentences.it is always the homework when i was a child

learn and try to type simple sentents is a good idea to studing chinese/

for example, we seperate 汉 into two parts, left part and right part. the left means water, and the right one means again. then, don't ask why water with again is chinese. it's just the way to help yo to remember chinese. then 这 is seperated into inside one and the outside one. see, 汉and 这have exactly the same part 又 and 文. well, it's a little bit too complicated. do you have a chinese teacher? you can learn this from him.

maybe after you know how those words comes then you can remember them. then the parts of words can help you to remember them too.