Pinyin initial: "ti"

The Pinyin initial "ti" is used in the first half of Pinyin syllables. In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, "ti" belongs to the group of Pinyin initials which are represented in mnemonics by women. You can visit the Pinyin index to see all Pinyin syllables from this mnemonic group, or to see all Pinyin syllables "ti" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ti

Ti is for Mother Teresa.

Characters with ti

drawer / tier / tray

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) finds a ghost (尸) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and thinks what a poor being it is! It stuffs the ghost into a drawer (屉) and sends it off to the WHO (世) so that they can take care of it.
drawer; tier; tray
(dialect) money / coin
big arrow / walk fast
to cultivate (land) / to hunt
make strong (as liquors) / virtuous
frivolous / unsteady / delay
(literary) smoothly flowing, placid (water)
silk braided cord
stalk of grass
to exterminate
gluttonous / see 饕餮[tao1 tie4], zoomorphic mask motif
(literary) the appearance of the moon in the west at the end of a lunar month
a club (weapon)
jade ear-plug
ancestral hall
variant of 鐵|铁[tie3], iron
Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus) / chub
used in 鷿鷈|䴙䴘[pi4 ti1]