Pinyin final: "ao1"

The Pinyin final "ao1" 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 "ao1" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ao1

In front of the aorta.

Characters with ao1

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: 刀 looks like a cleaver (while 刂 looks like a kitchen knife).

Don Quixote (d) serves his good deed of the day in front of the aorta (ao1). In order to feed the people, he uses a plow (㇆) to dig up bananas (丿), and cuts them into slices with a broad cleaver (刀).
archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
garrulous

= + : Don Quixote (d) is chopping up a mandarin (口) with a cleaver (刀) in front of the aorta (ao1), but because he is chatting (叨) so much he doesn't pay attention and chops off his fingers.
to receive the benefit of
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units

= + : 标 is a part of 标志, the word for "logo", like the one with the famous puma.
morning
used in 嘲哳[zhao1 zha1]
to cook slowly over a low flame / pot / saucepan

= + : Beelzebub (b) likes to slowly cook (煲) his victims in a safe (保) over an open fire (火) in front of the aorta (ao1).
to exceed / to overtake / to surpass / to transcend / to pass / to cross / ultra- / super-

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) invited an internet friend to come over for a walk (走), but as his friend arrives at the aorta's and is standing in front of it (ao1) Charlie is shocked. He finds that his friend is a red super giant (超; 红超巨星) and brought nordic walking sticks (走). The red super giant keeps calling Charlie over the intercom (召), but Charlie is unable to answer.
to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]

= + : Linus Pauling, a famous scientist with a beret. Father Time commands Linus Pauling to hand over his beret to him in front of the aorta, but Joan of Arc comes to his rescue.
to glue / glue / gum / rubber

= + : The moon (月) fell down from the heavens and lies shattered in front of the aorta (ao1). Joan of Arc (ji) and Linus Pauling (交) join forces to fix it with a lot of glue (胶).
a tumble / a fall

= + : Linus Pauling (交) tries to catch a football (足) thrown to him by Joan of Arc (ji) in front of the aorta (ao1), but the throw was so hard that he tumbles and falls (跤).
depressed / sunken / indented / concave / female (connector etc)

= : Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to observe the universe, so he installs a convex (凹) lens in front of the aorta (ao1).
Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
surname Yao
youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout

= : Mnemonic symbol from 幺点, ace: an ace card.

= : Maud Younger is going to a poker tournament in the aorta. Before she enters, she hides an ace in her fake nose in front of the aorta.
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)

= + + : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.

= + + : A skyscraper.
surname Gao

= + + : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.

= + + : A skyscraper.
ointment / paste / CL:帖[tie3]

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) built a skyscraper (高) in front of the aorta (ao1) which reaches up to the moon (月). Every month when the moon is full Guy Fawkes climbs the skyscraper to apply pain relieving paste (膏) to the moon's back to help him with his back pain.
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