Pinyin initial: "li"

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

Mnemonics for li

Li is for Li Qingzhao, writer and poet of the Song Dynasty.

Characters with li

to feel attached to / to long for / to love

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) waited for the also-run (亦) to arrive in the anthill's bathroom (an4) to give her her heart (心). Qingzhao is deeply in love (恋) with the also-run.
quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin

= + : engine's entrance is on fire! Li Qingzhao is trapped and has to escape, but there's lots of flames and smoke everywhere. Luckily she has a pig's snout which she can use as gas mask. The pig's snout is very effective, and quickly Li Qingzhao jumps over the flames and escapes through engine's entrance.
to face / to overlook / to arrive / to be (just) about to / just before

= + + + : In the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2), the robot (大) oversees (临) his army by standing on a huge wooden box (囗). The box is only able to carry his weight because it has been reinforced using a dinosaur bone (丨) acting as a pillar. Just as the robot is about to (临) wave his kitchen knife (刂) into the direction his troops should charge, Li Qingzhao (li) shows up and kicks away the dinosaur bone, causing the robot to fall off his box.
classifier for vehicles

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) found a treasure consisting of golden taels (两) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). She puts all the taels in two cabriolets (辆)(车) and drives the treasure home.
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.
neighbor / adjacent / close to

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) just entered the encampment ((e)n2) and sees that her new neighbour (邻) is the Imperator (阝). The Imperator tells her that since he is the imperator, she will have to listen to him how to tend her garden. After listening for a while Li Qingzhao pulls out her name tag (令) and shows the imperator that she is a representative of the emperor, so that the imperator has no power over her.
to treat / to cure / therapy

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) has been having a colorful rash (疒) for a long time now, and she heard that there is a magic cup to cure her sickness in the aorta. In the kitchen (ao2) she sees a golden price cup (了) and starts drinking out of it immediately, and her colorful rash starts to disappear slowly. She still cannot believe that this price cup actually cured (疗) her rash.
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk

= + + : Li Qingzhao (li) and the silk worm (纟) are working out (练) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They set up an Oriental Pearl Tower (东) to which they attached a huge flute (一) as horizontal beam, so that they can practice (练) pull-ups.
(small) bell / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is living next to engine, and her neighbors installed some very annoying little bells (铃) next to their entrance ((e)ng2). As a consequence she got an official decree by the emperor and a Ling Pai (令) that allows her to have them remove the bells, but as she visits the engine home no-one is there. Short-tempered she just uses her golden harpoon (钅) to take off the little annoying bells (铃).
calendar

= + : In the space station's bathroom, Li Qingzhao is just about to hit the power button of her new chocolate factory. To commemorate this day, she marked this day in her big wall calendar.
carp
variant of 磷[lin2]
(onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑) / tinkling of gem-pendants

= + : As Li Qingzhao (li) is exiting engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) she is stopped by Martin Luther King (王) who noticed a strange ting-a-ling sound (玲) from Qingzhao's backpack. Qingzhao denies him to have a look in her backpack, but as Martin shows her his Ling Pai (令) she will have no choice but to comply.
old variant of 鬣[lie4]
female unicorn / see 麒麟
variant of 麟[lin2]
precious stone
old variant of 琉[liu2]
old variant of 琉[liu2]