Pinyin final: "an2"

The Pinyin final "an2" 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 "an2" can appear in.

Mnemonics for an2

In the anthill's kitchen.

Characters with an2

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

= + : The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a front panel.
avaricious

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) is setting up Christmas trees (林) inside the anthill's kitchen (an2). Sir Lancelot (l) comes over and scolds her for being so avaricious (婪), because Bessie hasn't used any decoration for the two Christmas trees.
old variant of 婪[lan2]
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)

= + : Rosa Luxemburg volunteered to take part in an experiment conducted by the scientist just inside of the anthill. The scientist wants to find out how fast a chickenpox infection will be transmitted from Chantal Chicken to Rosa Luxemburg.
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 凡高, van Gogh.

Van Gogh (凡) is just about to turn an ordinary (凡) Frankenstein's Monster (f) into a superior being in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Frankenstein's Monster is lying on a normal (凡) table (几), while Van Gogh is body painting him using a petal leaf (丶) as brush.
variant of 凡[fan2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 凡高, van Gogh.

Van Gogh (凡) is just about to turn an ordinary (凡) Frankenstein's Monster (f) into a superior being in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Frankenstein's Monster is lying on a normal (凡) table (几), while Van Gogh is body painting him using a petal leaf (丶) as brush.
black / mysterious

= + : Xu Xian (xu) noticed that there is more and more black and mysterious (玄) lava (玄) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). To find out where the lava is coming from he draws tarot cards out of a beret (亠). He draws only aces (幺) though, and he doesn't really know how to interpret those.
bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:根[gen1]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is getting trapped by black lava (玄) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) and all she has is a composite bow (弓). She plucks the string (弦) of her bow so that the chord (弦) resonates with the lava, causing it to stop its flow.
fist / boxing

= + : Cupid (qu) trains his fist (拳) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). He just started though, so he wants to start easy and just hits a baseball glove (手) he hung on the wall. Unfortunately he hung it right over the anthill's off-button (关) so that upon his first hit the lights go out.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
to speak / to talk / to converse / to chat / to discuss

= + : Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.
surname Tan

= + : Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.
lotus

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to add lotus (莲) to the anthill's menu, so she sets up a big water tank in the kitchen (an2). In the tank she fixes sheets of artificial lawn (艹) to the bottom of the tank using chains (连) to act as scaffold for the new lotus (莲) plants.
to conceal from / to keep (sb) in the dark

= + + : The Eye of Providence (目) just arrived in the anthill (an2) to inspect Mahatma Gandhi's (m) income, but Mahatma Gandhi concealed (瞒) his many taels of gold (两) under a layer of artificial lawn (艹) which he distributed just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2).
to grind / study / research

= + : Maud Younger is lacking salt for her ... . Luckily, there's a salt stone just inside the anthill's kitchen, so she uses a bottle opener to grind off some salt.
idle / unoccupied / leisure

= + : In her free time (闲) Marie Curie (xi) likes to sit in the anthill's kitchen (an2) to watch her trap door (门). She installed it right under a Christmas tree (木) so whenever someone puts a present under the Christmas tree, shortly afterwards it will fall through the trap door in Marie's secret chamber.
enclosure / (variant of 閒|闲[xian2]) idle / unoccupied / leisure

= + : In her free time (闲) Marie Curie (xi) likes to sit in the anthill's kitchen (an2) to watch her trap door (门). She installed it right under a Christmas tree (木) so whenever someone puts a present under the Christmas tree, shortly afterwards it will fall through the trap door in Marie's secret chamber.
to block sb's path / to obstruct / to flag down (a taxi)

= + : Sir Lancelot is rushing through the anthill's kitchen. He tries to flag down a taxi using a toy claw and an orchid.
to fill or stuff / (of a form etc) to fill in

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) is fed up with the lack of earth (土) on this planet. In the anthill's kitchen (an2) she is filling (填) earth (土) into a replicator (真) to accumulate earth until there is enough for everyone.
to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)

= + : Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).