Pinyin final: "ao3"

The Pinyin final "ao3" 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 "ao3" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ao3

In the aorta's living room.

Characters with ao3

old variant of 卯[mao3]
variant of 卯[mao3]
crafty / cunning / sly

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is amazed by Linus Pauling's (交) skills. In the aorta (ao3) he demonstrate how crafty (狡) he is by folding little paper dachshunds (犭).
foot of a bird or animal / paw / claws / talons
bath

= + : Zorro (z) wants to take a bath (澡) in the aorta (ao3). He set up a big bathtub and fills it with water from water bottles (氵). He also set up a modified cuckoo's clock (喿) in the bathtub which measures the temperature and volume of the water. As the water is just right a cuckoo jumps out of the clock and tells Zorro that it's bath time (澡).
aquatic grasses / elegant
to release

= + : Guy Fawkes (g), the robot (大) and Sun Wukong (儿) are having a hackathon in the aorta's living room (ao3) to release (夰) the first version of their software startup. They are spending the most time on writing the release notes (mnemonic symbol for 夰).
surname Jiao
to correct / to rectify / to redress / strong / brave / to pretend / to feign / affectation
dawn / daybreak / to know / to let sb know / to make explicit

= + : At dawn (晓), Marie Curie (xi) and the sun (日) meet Tang Yao (尧) in the aorta (ao3). They let him know (晓) that they have been a couple for a long time and plan to marry, but Tang Yao explains that he already knows (晓).
jujube / dates
bright / glittery / Taiwan pr. [jiao4]

= + + : Joan of Arc has been playing her new ancient musical instrument day and night in the aorta, until her neighbors couldn't stand it anymore. They captured her in a square and threaten to destroy her ancient musical instrument with a sledgehammer shouldn't she cease to play it. Joan of Arc has no choice but to wave a white flag in defeat.
surname Jiao

= + + : Joan of Arc has been playing her new ancient musical instrument day and night in the aorta, until her neighbors couldn't stand it anymore. They captured her in a square and threaten to destroy her ancient musical instrument with a sledgehammer shouldn't she cease to play it. Joan of Arc has no choice but to wave a white flag in defeat.
to hand in / to hand over / to seize

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is happily playing her ancient musical instrument (敫) in the aorta (ao3) as the silk worm (纟) comes by to collect the taxes. Because Joan of Arc has no money on her she has no other choice but to hand over (缴) the instrument to pay her taxes (缴).
older brother's wife / sister-in-law

= + : Because Bessie Coleman (s) is married to the old gentleman (叟) she is Socrate's (s) sister-in-law (嫂). They're all meeting in the aorta (ao3) for a family gathering.
to ladle out / to scoop up

= + : In the aorta (ao3), Maud Younger (y) dropped her electric razor (爫) into her mortar (臼) and now she has to scoop it out (舀).
to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4]

= + : Don Quixote (d) is trampling (蹈) through the aorta (ao3) practicing a folk dance (蹈) in his cowboy boots (⻊), but he finds there is a small stone in one of his boots and he has to scoop it out (舀) before he can continue.
flea

= + + : Zorro (z) is eating a bowl of petal leaves (丶) in the aorta (ao3) when he discovers that there are a lot of fleas (叉) and mosquitoes (虫) in his dish. Even as he lifts his fork (叉) to inspect a petal leaf he finds the fleas dancing on the fork's cusps.
blind in one eye / blind / tiny / humble / to stare

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi), Smiley (少) and the Eye of Providence (目) are meeting in the aorta (ao3) for their meeting of the anonymous blind (眇) because they're all blind in one eye (眇). While Marilyn and Smiley are still able to gaze off into the distance (眇) with their other eye the Eye of Providence is completely blind (眇).
(of an expanse of water) vast / distant and indistinct / tiny or insignificant

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) wants to know if there is water left in the water bottle (氵) she found in the aorta (ao3), so she looks inside by holding the water bottle over her eye. An tiny or insignificant (渺) amount of liquid drops right into her eye, and it is enough to make her blind in one eye (眇).