Pinyin initial: "w"

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

Mnemonics for w

Wu is for Willy Walrus.

Characters with w

to finish / to be over / whole / complete / entire

= + : In other characters: A checkered flag.

= + : Willy Walrus celebrates finishing his degree just inside the anthill's kitchen. He wears a graduation cap, gets lots of coins and somebody waves with a checkered flag.
variant of 窪|洼[wa1] / (used in names)
cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

= + : Sun Wukong is playing his 胡兀尔 in the space station's bathroom, but he's deliberatly playing very badly in order to annoy Willy Walrus. Willy Walrus is so annoyed that he threatens to cut off Sun Wukong's feet with a flute if he doesn't stop.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A 胡兀尔, a kind of Chinese fiddle with four strings, more commonly known as 四胡.
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

= + : Rosa Luxemburg visits Willy Walrus in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He sits in his place--an armchair--like a king, and Rosa presents him a vase.

= + : An armchair.
mosquito

= + : Willy Walrus (w) is killing two mosquitoes (蚊)(虫) in one strike with a thick book (文) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2).
old variant of 蚊[wen2]
old variant of 蚊[wen2]
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)

= + : Willy Walrus (w) is driving his old man (翁) in a bus (公) full of feathers (羽) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
net / network

= + : Willy Walrus (w) followed a secret treasure map (冂) he found inside of the anglepod (ang3). Finally he arrived at his destination and sees a net (网) of vines. He brought two pairs of pliers (乂) with which he forces the net open to obtain the treasure.
affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means

= + : Willy Walrus practices a performance in the space station's bathroom. To honor the CCP, he dances wearing high heels. The grande finale is a banner that is unrolled upon hitting a power button, which reads "为人民服务".
fog / mist / CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]

= + : Willy Walrus (wu) has a special task (务) to fulfill in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). With a vaporizer he is creating a lot of fog (雾) which will slowly form a cloud and result in rain (雨). Willy will collect the rain and vaporize it again. With this experiment he is doing an important contribution in understanding the world's climate system.
surname Wei

= + : Bessie Coleman and Willy Walrus are members of a committee which has to test artificial legs in the Eiffel Tower. They have the legs kick bowls of cereal from the tower and see how far they get.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 委中 is an acupuncture point of the knee. I'll represent 委 with an artificial leg including the knee.
to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 委中 is an acupuncture point of the knee. I'll represent 委 with an artificial leg including the knee.

= + : Bessie Coleman and Willy Walrus are members of a committee which has to test artificial legs in the Eiffel Tower. They have the legs kick bowls of cereal from the tower and see how far they get.
same as 逶 in 逶迤 winding, curved
surname Wei / name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods

= + : A demon (鬼) is attacking Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Instead of going straight at the demon, Willy surrounds Wei and saves Zhao (围魏救赵): he goes for the demon's artificial leg (委) in order to disable the demon.
tower over a palace gateway (old)

= + : A demon (鬼) is attacking Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Instead of going straight at the demon, Willy surrounds Wei and saves Zhao (围魏救赵): he goes for the demon's artificial leg (委) in order to disable the demon.
absurd / fantastic / presumptuous / rash

= + : Willy Walrus (w) wants to resurrect Bessie Coleman (女) who is buried in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) so he lifts her tombstone (亡), but his dream is just absurd (妄).
net (Kangxi radical 122)

This one just looks like a fishing net. Willy walrus (w) is trying to fish frozen fish from the freezer with a net (罒) inside the anglepod's living room (ang3).
old variant of 絻[wen4]
evening / night / late

= + : It is a very late evening in the Anchor in. The sun and Willy Walrus are the last guests at the bar. Willy Walrus got very emotional and tells the sun that he wants to sue her for heating up the planet, but the sun just shows him her disclaimer that she is exempt from any harm that is caused by humanity messing with the atmosphere.