User:Brettz9/chinesemnemonics

These are just sound mnemonics....Graphical ones to be added later...

As in order at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_Pinyin_index_a#a :

a
Possible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "a": a dirty pickle (in the mouth) can make one hoarse of voice (and need to exclaim ah!)


 * a1: Used in translation; pickle/dirty; actinium; ac; prefix for people's names/used in transliteration;
 * a2: hoarse of voice
 * a3: ?
 * a4: ?
 * a5: exclamatory particle; ?

ai1
Possible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "ai1": "I (ai) exclaimed in agreement (and in order) that I (ai) pitied him who longed for the dust."

1  sorrow, grief, pity, to grieve for, to pity, to lament

2  an interjection, hey, lookout, why etc

3  an interjection, to express realization or agreement (yes, oh, right, etc)

4  (Cantonese) that

5  ?

6  dirt, dust, angstrom

7  ?

8  lean to, in order, in sequence

9  desire, want, long for; intend

10  an exclamation of confirmation

11  an exclamation of confirmation

12  ?

13  iridium einsteinium

14  es