Pinyin final: "ou4"

The Pinyin final "ou4" 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 "ou4" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ou4

In the outhouse's bathroom.

Characters with ou4

to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to measure the crystal structure (构) of the Christmas tree (木) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), so he first draws a comic (勾) to find which would be the optimal crystallization superstructure.
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

= + 𠮛 : Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
to beat up / to break to pieces

= + : Zorro (z) has been playing the drums (奏) with his two toy claws (扌) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) so long that one day he breaks them to pieces (揍). He literally beat them to death (揍).
to hit; to beat (sb) / (coll.) to smash (sth)
to walk

= + : When I read "to walk" I had to think of walking a dog. Thus in 随 I'll represent 迶 with a leash.

= + : Maud Younger is being walked in the outhouse's bathroom. She holds a leash and, wearing two huge gladiator sandals, she surfs through and over a heap of confetti.
to wrinkle / wrinkled / to crease

= + : James II of England (zh) found he has lots of wrinkles (皱). In the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) he takes the quite drastic measure to cut out his wrinkles using a lawn mower (刍) shaving over his skin (皮).
sleeve / to tuck inside one's sleeve

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is on a party in the outhouse. In the bathroom (ou4) she prepares to continue to party by tucking a cuba libre (由) into the sleeve (袖) of her royal ermine coat (衤).
to knock / to kowtow

= + : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.
old variant of 叩[kou4] / to knock

= + : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.
sudden / unexpected / abrupt / suddenly / Taiwan pr. [zou4]

= + : James II of England (zh) and the unicorn (马) are high-fiving unsuspectingly in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) when through a special conformation in space-time they suddenly (骤) fuse (聚) into a new super-entity.
constellation
mortar

Joan of Arc (ji) uses a mortar (臼) to process some holy herbs in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
maternal uncle

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to go swimming with her maternal uncle (舅), but first she has to wash his mankini (男) in a large mortar (臼) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
thin / to lose weight / (of clothing) tight / (of meat) lean / (of land) unproductive

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) and the old gentleman (叟) have been locked into the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) to be in quarantine for the very colorful rash (疒) they developed. Because of their sickness they already lost a lot of body weight and are very thin (瘦).
to leak / to divulge / to leave out by mistake / waterclock or hourglass (old)

= + + : Sir Lancelot (l) accidentally leaked (漏) a ghost (尸) from a water bottle (氵) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). Promptly the ghosts starts to have it rain (雨) all over the place to annoy the people.
the sound of the wind / to soar

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Icarus' wings.

Li Qingzhao (li) has always been dreaming of soaring (翏) through the air and finally she is making her dream come true. In the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) she finishes her Icarus' wings (翏) which she made out of the many feathers (羽) she collected. To not be annoyed by the sound of the wind (翏) too much she puts on a big afro (㐱) which acts as muffler.
to deceive / to confuse / to cheat / absurd / erroneous

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) ordered the Icarus' wings (翏) she saw on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). As she puts the wings on and jumps from the advertising column she falls straight on the ground, only then realizing that she has been deceived (谬).
(bound form) to cough

= + : Socrates (s) made a mandarin (口) drink in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and filled it in a drinking bottle (欶), but he did it very sloppy: there are still big pieces of and even whole mandarins in the drink. As he sucks and sucks at the bottle finally he sucks in a whole mandarin and coughs (嗽) without end.
inner rooms of palace / ten billions