Pinyin final: "ao4"

The Pinyin final "ao4" is used in the second half of Pinyin syllables. In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the second half of a Pinyin syllable is always represented by a location. You can visit the Pinyin index to see all Pinyin syllables from this mnemonic group, or to see all Pinyin syllables "ao4" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ao4

In the aorta's bathroom.

Characters with ao4

to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an automated robot arm like the ones used to manufacture cars.

= + : In the aortas bathroom, Zorro sets up a robot arm to manufacture gladiator sandals for him. He also programmed the robot arm to set up a LED display to count how many pairs of sandals it produced.
to announce / to inform / report / newspaper / recompense / revenge / CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]

= 𠬝 + : Before his ballet performance Beelzebub uses the aorta's bathroom, already wearing his tutu. He reads a newspaper holding it with toy claws so as to protect his hands from the ink.
material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess

= + : Li Qingzhao sees the matador fighting a sack of rice in the aorta's bathroom. At least she thinks she is fighting the sack of rice as he is repeatedly stabbing it. Truth is that he is working as inspector and taking samples of the rice to inspect the material.
elegant / polished

= + : Pocahontas (pi) visits the aorta's bathroom (ao4) to see the world's most beautiful (漂) water bottle (氵). With her ticket (票) still in her hand, she gazes at this one amazing polished (漂) elegant (漂) bottle.
bubble / foam / blister (i.e. skin bubble) / to soak / to steep / to infuse / to dawdle / to shilly-shally / to hang about / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions

= + : Pinocchio (p) is very thirsty from visiting the aorta. In the bathroom (ao4) he pulls a bottle of water (氵) out of his colorful bag (包). The water is sparkling (泡) water so it has a lot of bubbles (泡).
bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions
grand / vast (water)

= + : A grand (浩), vast (浩) puddle has formed from a leak in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). Hamlet (h) gets curious and wants to know exactly how vast the puddle is, so he scoops it up using a water bottle (氵). For each bottle he increments a LED counter (告) hanging on the wall above him.
flooded
to mourn / to lament

= + : Don Quixote (d) broke his flail (忄) and mourns (悼) it in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) by playing laments (悼) on his banjo (卓).
to urinate / urine / CL:泡[pao1]

尿 = + : Nefertiti (ni) is drinking from a water fountain (水) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), but she doesn't notice that at the same time a ghost (尸) is peeing (尿) into the water fountain.
used in 倒嚼[dao3 jiao4]
to continue / to carry on

= + : When Sherlock Holmes (sh) was in the middle of taking a shower in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), the water suddenly stopped an he was unable to continue (绍). Now he wants to call the janitor over the intercom (召), but the connection is very slow. It is because inside of the intercom sits a very small silk worm (纟) which listens to Sherlock Holmes and then carries on (绍) the message to the next relay point.
surname Shao
leaf of the iris / variant of 藥|药[yao4]

= + : Maud Younger is on a date in the aorta, but she has to pass gas all the time. In the bathroom she desperately eats a sheet of artificial lawn, thinking that it should be the right medicine for her.
medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4] / to poison

= + : Maud Younger is on a date in the aorta, but she has to pass gas all the time. In the bathroom she desperately eats a sheet of artificial lawn, thinking that it should be the right medicine for her.
small net
to fish with a hook and bait

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) has been fishing with a hook and bait (钓) in the aorta's toilet (ao4) for ours now, but at the end all she pulls out is a small silver spoon (勺). Enraged she shoots the water in the toilet multiple times using a golden harpoon (钅).
to laugh; to smile / to laugh at
old variant of 笑[xiao4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
laugh / smile / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.