Pinyin "shi4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "shi4" is split up into two parts: "sh" 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 "sh"

Sh is for Sherlock Holmes.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø4"

In the space station's bathroom.

Characters pronounced shi4

surname Shi

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) got some new gladiator sandals (辶), but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) he finds that they don't fit (适) his feet. He does notice however that they fit (适) quite nicely his tongue (舌) if he sticks it into one of the sandals.
to fit / suitable / proper / just (now) / comfortable / well / to go / to follow or pursue

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) got some new gladiator sandals (辶), but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) he finds that they don't fit (适) his feet. He does notice however that they fit (适) quite nicely his tongue (舌) if he sticks it into one of the sandals.
to test / to try / experiment / examination / test

= + : Sherlock Holmes is doing an eye examination with the goth in the space station's bathroom. Sherlock set up a table with differently sized letters on an advertising column and has the goth read out the letters.
to look at / to regard / to inspect

= + : Sherlock Holmes prepared a trap in the space station's bathroom. He knows that the murderer will pass by there and set up a lot of surveillance cameras to film him. Additionally he lingers around disguised as a monk in a monk's cowl to look at and observe him personally.
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals

= + : The space station's scientists want to conduct an experiment in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to find the momentum (势) and potential energy (势) of a pendulum in zero gravity. Everything is already set up, they just have to push the power button (力)—but Sherlock Holmes (sh) insists on seeing their license (执) first before he allows it.
(of time) to pass / to die

= + : One day when Sherlock Holmes (sh) was using the space station's bathroom (Ø4) he was only wearing gladiator sandals (辶), accidentally dropped his folding knife (折) onto his foot and died (逝).
(of flowing water or time) to pass by / to pass away; to die
oath / vow / to swear / to pledge

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) announces a pledge (誓) using a megaphone (言) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) that he'll never use his folding knife (折) to hurt anyone.
decoration / ornament / to decorate / to adorn / to hide / to conceal (a fault) / excuse (to hide a fault) / to play a role (in opera) / to impersonate

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) has been hiding in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to find out who has been smearing ornaments (饰) to the walls. One night he finally observes an intruder masked with an eye mask (布) smearing greasy lines on the wall using a Chinese cruller (饣).
clan name / maiden name

Mnemonic symbol: Christopher MacLeod, leader of the MacLeod clan.

Sherlock Holmes and Christopher MacLeod are fighting for the leadership of the MacLeod clan in the space station's bathroom.
surname Shi
life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble

= 廿 + L : Mnemonic symbol: the WTO or WHO.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is cleaning a flower pot (廿) under the shower of the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a loofah (L) because he didn't quite understand a poster next to the shower from the WHO (世) explaining dangers arising from different germs.

In this case, L is for loofah.
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]) / Buddhism

= + + + : Every time Sherlock Holmes (sh) draws a sample from a boxing glove (又) with a sampling tool (釆) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), he pulls out a small dinosaur bone (丨) and is shocked electrically immediately, since an attached capacitor (二) releases (释) its charge. Yet Sherlock continues to do so since he is determined to explain (释) the nature of the boxing glove.
addicted to / fond of / stem corresponding to -phil or -phile
to serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4]
posthumous name or title / to confer a posthumous title
variant of 諡|谥[shi4]