Pinyin initial: "xi"

The Pinyin initial "xi" is used in the first half of Pinyin syllables. In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, "xi" 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 "xi" can appear in.

Mnemonics for xi

Xi is for Marie Curie.

Alternative mnemonic for xi: Xi Shi (西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.

Characters with xi

行

xíng = xi + (e)ng2

to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense

行 = 亍 + 彳 : Mnemonic symbol from "to travel": seven-league boots.

Xi Shi (xi) is tired of walking with a black sneaker on her left foot (彳) and a full armor boot on her right foot (亍). Fortunately she finds seven-league boots (行) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).

校

xiào = xi + ao4

school / military officer / CL:所[suo3]

校 = 交 + 木 : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie and Linus Pauling find their Christmas presents of a lifetime under a Christmas tree. They are given the gift of being able to go to school so that they can become accomplished scientists.

信

xìn = xi + (e)n4

letter / mail / CL:封[feng1] / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random

信 = 亻 + 言 : Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg are reading a letter of Karl Marx to the public in the encampment's bathroom. To make the message really come across to the people they use a megaphone.

习

習

xí = xi + Ø2

(bound form) to practice / to study / habit / custom

习 = ㇆ + 亠 : Marie Curie is practising to take off her beret using a plough in the space station's entrance.

习

習

xí = xi + Ø2

surname Xi

习 = ㇆ + 亠 : Marie Curie is practising to take off her beret using a plough in the space station's entrance.

心

xi̅n = xi + (e)n1

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

心 = 乚 + 丶 : Marie Curie (xi) uses a shovel (乚) to dig a hole in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She wants to bury her heart (心). To the side are three petal leaves (丶), with which she wants to cover it afterwards.

想

xiǎng = xi + ang3

to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

想

xiǎng = xi + ang3

to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)

想 = 心 + 相 : Inside the anglepod, Marie Curie misses the ent. She thinks of him and wants to give him her heart.

息

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]

息 = 心 + 自 : Marie Curie practices breathing fire in front of the space station while watching herself in a hand mirror. Because she is so exited her heart is pounding very hard.

息 = 心 + 自 : Mnemonic symbol: to breathe fire.

熄

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2]

熄 = 息 + 火 : Marie Curie (xi) was breathing too much fire (息) in front of the space station (Ø1) because she accidentally put the space station on fire (火). Fortunately she has a fire extinguisher at hand to put out (熄) the fire.

夕

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.

Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.

页

頁

xié = xi + e2

head

项

項

xiàng = xi + ang4

surname Xiang

项 = 工 + 页 : Mnemonic symbol: a necklace (项). Marie Curie (xi) lost her necklace in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) and tries to get it out of the toilet again. Marie jotted down some calculations (项) on a sheet of paper (页) and uses a steel beam (工) as a lever to get his necklace out by putting the lever at the exact right position and the sheet of paper on top of the other side of the lever.

项

項

xiàng = xi + ang4

back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc

辖

轄

xiá = xi + a2

to govern / to control / having jurisdiction over / linchpin of a wheel (archaic) / noise of a barrow

辖 = 害 + 车 : Marie Curie (xi) and Calamity Jane (害) are ruling the country (辖) from their cabriolet (车) as they drive out of the ashram's kitchen (a2).

辖

轄

xiá = xi + a2

linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle) / (bound form) to govern; to have jurisdiction over

瞎

xia̅ = xi + a1

blind / groundlessly / foolishly / to no purpose

瞎 = 害 + 目 : Calamity Jane (害) surprises the Eye of Providence (目) for no specific reason (瞎) in front of the ashram (a1) by blinding (瞎) it from behind with her hands. The Eye of Providence takes a wild guess (瞎) and exclaims that it must be Marie Curie (xi) blinding him, which makes Calamity Jane very jealous.

仙

xia̅n = xi + an1

immortal

仙 = 亻 + 山 : Rosa Luxemburg and Marie Curie are merging their entities into a new superentity in front of the anthill. They are using forks to form the connection.

仙

僊

xia̅n = xi + an1

variant of 仙[xian1]

仙 = 亻 + 山 : Rosa Luxemburg and Marie Curie are merging their entities into a new superentity in front of the anthill. They are using forks to form the connection.

西

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish

西 = 兀 + 囗 : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.

西 = 兀 + 囗 : Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.