Pinyin final: "(e)ng1"

The Pinyin final "(e)ng1" 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 "(e)ng1" can appear in.

Mnemonics for (e)ng1

In front of the engine.

Characters with (e)ng1

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).
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.
light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage

= + + : The Queen of Hearts has been training a lot recently and poses before her next boxing battle. She's driving around in her cabriolet bending steel beams wearing her boxing gloves easily, swinging the beams as if they were as light as feathers.
explosion / bang / boom / rumble / to attack / to shoo away / to expel

= + : Helga horse is dual wielding boxing gloves in front of the engine. She's shooing away all the cars that want to enter engine.
"ice" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 15), occurring in 冰[bing1], 次[ci4] etc, known as 兩點水|两点水[liang3 dian3 shui3]

Brunhilde (bi) is eating a popsicle (冫) while sitting in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
variant of 冰[bing1]
ice / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / to chill sth / (of an object or substance) to feel cold / (of a person) cold / unfriendly / (slang) methamphetamine

= + : Brunhilde (bi) is making some ice (冰) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). She puts lots of orange juice in a water fountain (水), throws some wooden sticks inside and adds lots of ice cubes (冰). She expects to have lots of popsicles (冫) ready soon.
thoroughfare / to go straight ahead / to rush / to clash

= + : Chantal Chicken vigorously throws popsicles at a dart board in front of the engine. The popsicles are very sticky; Chantal will have to rinse the dart board in the engine's bathroom later.
(of water) to dash against / to mix with water / to infuse / to rinse / to flush / to develop (a film) / to rise in the air / to clash / to collide with

= + : Chantal Chicken vigorously throws popsicles at a dart board in front of the engine. The popsicles are very sticky; Chantal will have to rinse the dart board in the engine's bathroom later.
variant of 傾|倾[qing1]
to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) wants to overturn (倾) the Queen of Heart's (qi) reign, so Rosa starts with tearing down the whole hectare (顷) of wallpaper set up by the queen in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
archaic variant of 坰[jiong1]

= + : Zeus is working at a border control checkpoint in front of the engine, but there is no-one to be checked. He is so bored that he's driving staples into mandarins without end.

= + : A border control checkpoint.
to attack / to accuse / to study

= + : In front of the engine, Gitta Giraffe attacks a steel beam using a sledge hammer. Who will win???
infant / baby

= + : Maud Younger (y) and Bessie Coleman (女) are taking care of their two baby (婴) crabs (贝) by watching them playing in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise

= + : Charlie Chaplin practices eating cereals blindfolded in front of the engine. As he is eating he wonders why the bowl is suddenly so heavy. The reason is that a peace dove sat down on the bowl and eats the cereals as well. The peace dove names Charlie Chaplin a real idiot because he doesn't notice.
sound of drums
wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster has to wait in front of the engine. Because the wind is blowing, he uses pliers to disassemble a small table and builds a shelter with the parts.
hero / outstanding / excellent / (literary) flower / blossom

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hero. An evil villain has been terrorizing the UK (英), so Maud Younger (y) and the hero (英) want to stop him. They know that he will visit engine later that day, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) they prepare artificial lawn (艹) by adding a CPU (央) to each sheet. This way, each sheet acts as intelligent automated trap which will grab the villain once he steps on the sheet.
United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a hero. An evil villain has been terrorizing the UK (英), so Maud Younger (y) and the hero (英) want to stop him. They know that he will visit engine later that day, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) they prepare artificial lawn (艹) by adding a CPU (央) to each sheet. This way, each sheet acts as intelligent automated trap which will grab the villain once he steps on the sheet.
stalk / stem / CL:條|条[tiao2]

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) wrote to Father Christmas (圣) that she wants a condom (茎) for her penis (茎), but instead Father Christmas only understood she wants a lot of stems (茎) so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he hands her a sheet of artificial lawn (艹).