Pinyin "fu4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "fu4" is split up into two parts: "fu" and "Ø4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "fu"

Fu is for Frieda Fox.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø4"

In the space station's bathroom.

Characters pronounced fu4

to go and return / to return / to resume / to return to a normal or original state / to repeat / again / to recover / to restore / to turn over / to reply / to answer / to reply to a letter / to retaliate / to carry out

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a shrine of rejuvenation.

Frieda Fox (fu) only has an old photocopy (复) of her favorite black sneaker (彳). She restores (復) her sneakers to the original state by putting the old photocopy into the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
variant of 復|复[fu4] / to reply to a letter

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.
to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate
woman

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) and Bessie Coleman (女), both being women (妇), do women's stuff in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), such as throwing fake pig noses (彐) at each other.
to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an opossum (负鼠) who carries her babies on her back.

A few pals practice their cosplay on the space station's bathroom. They want to reenact the town musicians of Bremen, and so Frieda Fuchs stands at the bottom, the crab is on top of Frieda, the crane is on top of the crab, the opossum is on top of the crane, and the opossum carries her babies on her back.
poetic essay / taxation / to bestow on / to endow with

= + : The crab (贝) feels very sorry for Frieda Fox (fu) because she has no shelter to protect her, so one day he bestows (赋) her with a tank (武) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
(bound form) instructor / (literary) to instruct / to attach / to apply (makeup etc)

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and Frieda Fox (fu) did not behave during the tutor's (傅) class in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), so the tutor nails them to the blackboard (尃) to serve as bad example for others.
to bind / to tie / Taiwan pr. [fu2]

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) is binding (缚) a silk worm (纟) around the black board (尃) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) multiple times.
to cover / to overflow / to overturn / to capsize

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.
abundant / mound
fragrance / scent / aroma
insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
prince consort
to report a bereavement / obituary
full up / classifier for items of clothing (old)
worship ancestors
silver carp