Pinyin initial: "y"

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

Mnemonics for y

Y is for Maud Younger.

Characters with y

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.
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.
camp / barracks / battalion / to build / to operate / to manage / to strive for

= + + : Maud Younger (y) built a camp (营) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). She is sitting on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) with a cooking top (冖) serving as her roof, and playing idly on her pitch pipe (吕).
to mow / to cut / to reap / to redress
variant of 蔭|荫[yin4], shade
shade
luster of gems
a glimmer / glimmering / twinkling / fluorescence / phosphorescence / perplexed / dazzled and confused / planet Mars (arch.)

= + + : Maud Younger (y) has been cooking a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) on a cooking top (冖) over a fire (火) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and after she ate her dinner she started to fluoresce (荧).
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.
different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

= + : Maud Younger sees a wyvern in the space station's bathroom and thinks it's soo strange that there's a wyvern in the space station. But after all, it's just the lab snake which ate a double axe.

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been sent off to help the communist (共) tending the field (田) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She proves very helpful as her secret strange super power (mnemonic symbol for 異), xray vision, helps her see whether the potatoes are ready or not.
ancient name for go (Chinese board game)
surname Yang
poplar

= 𠃓 + : Maud Younger (y) put a Christmas tree (木) on the top of a poplar (杨) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The poplar is so high that in order to decorate the Christmas tree Maud has to fly up using Icarus' wings (𠃓).
to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate

= 𠃓 + : At the end of the day, Maud Younger (y) hoists (扬) a red lantern to show the visitors of the anglepod that the kitchen (ang2) is closed. Half the way up though the lantern gets stuck, so Maud Younger has to put on her Icarus' wings (𠃓), fly to the lantern and free it using a toy claw (扌).
abbr. for 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] / surname Yang
variant of 揚|扬[yang2]
to mortgage / to pawn / to detain in custody / to escort and protect / (literary) to sign

= + : Maud Younger (y) was marching back and forth with a protest placard (甲) in front of the ashram (a1), but soon someone grabbed her with a toy claw (扌) to detain (押) her in custody (押).
grandpa / old gentleman

= + : Maud Younger (y) hands her new baby seal (卩) over to her grandpa (爷) and his boyfriend, Father Time (父). She gives them the baby seal to look over it for the weekend in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and then quickly runs away to party all night long.
eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

= + : Inside of the anthill, Maud Younger played a prank on the Eye of Providence. She told it that she would apply a mask to alleviate the wrinkles around its eyes, but instead she just covered its whole eye with chewing gum.
oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning

= + : Maud Younger (y) is creating art in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is painting a picture using oil (油) paint and occasionally using water color stored in a water bottle (氵). She is nipping a cuba libre (由) and from time to time even using her drink as color for her picture.