Pinyin initial: "sh"

The Pinyin initial "sh" is used in the first half of Pinyin syllables. In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, "sh" belongs to the group of Pinyin initials which are represented in mnemonics by men. You can visit the Pinyin index to see all Pinyin syllables from this mnemonic group, or to see all Pinyin syllables "sh" can appear in.

Mnemonics for sh

Sh is for Sherlock Holmes.

Characters with sh

residence
to give up; to abandon / to give alms
to ascend in light steps
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to pick up (拾) a tube of glue (合) in the space station's entrance (Ø2), but last time he put it there he forgot to close the lid properly and now it is glued to the floor. He even cannot pick it up using a toy claw (扌).
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of instant noodles.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) went camping in the space station's bathroom (Ø2). As foodstuffs he brought chewing gum (艮) and instant noodles (食), but he forgot to bring his gas stove, so in front of his tipi (亽) He is eating chewing gums all day.
real / true / honest / really / solid / fruit / seed / definitely

= + : Sherlock Holmes welcomes professor Skull just inside the entrance of the space station. Professor Skull has not a complete head but only a skull, and a solid understanding of solid state physics. She really is an honest person and still wears her graduation cap.
rushing current
granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).
(literary) to wade across a body of water / (bound form) to experience / to undergo / to be involved / to concern

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) suspects the five paced viper (步) to have killed an innocent person, so he is looking for it in the elevator's bathroom (e4). The snakes hides in one of the many water bottles (氵), so Sherlock has to wade (涉) through the bottles and the water in order to find the viper (步).
shark
deep (lit. and fig.)
old variant of 深[shen1]
deep / depth / deeply / (of a color) dark / deep / rich

= + + + : In front of the encampment ((e)n1) an eight ball (八) has been fixed to the top of a Christmas tree (木), and on top of the eight ball a cooking top is balanced carefully so that it doesn't topple over. On the cooking top a lot of water bottles (氵) are standing so that everything is perfectly balanced. As Sherlock Holmes (sh) comes along he finds that this construction is very interesting, and he makes a profound (深) mistake with a deep (深) impact: as he takes down only one of the bottles the whole thing collapses and all the other bottles break as they fall on the ground. Soon, Sherlock Holmes is in deep (深) trouble as the water from the water bottles gets deeper and deeper (深).

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) finds a grease fire in front of the encampment ((e)n1). He wants to put it out, but he knows that you shouldn't directly pour water in a grease fire. Instead, to keep a distance from the fire, he pours bottled water (氵) through the top of the chimney above the kitchen range (罙). Soon, the kitchen range is submerged in deep (深) water.
old variant of 慎[shen4]

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) ordered a replicator (真) to make a flail (忄) for him in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4), but Sherlock is quite skeptical (慎). Indeed, the flail is quite fragile and it bursts on the first cautious (慎) test hit.
careful / cautious

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) ordered a replicator (真) to make a flail (忄) for him in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4), but Sherlock is quite skeptical (慎). Indeed, the flail is quite fragile and it bursts on the first cautious (慎) test hit.
surname Shi
teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops

= + : Sherlock Holmes' teacher shows Sherlock one final trick in front of the space station before his training is complete. The teacher shows Sherlock how to electrify a kitchen knife using a defibrillator.
to filter / to sift / to sieve

= + : One time in front of the airplane (ai1) Sherlock Holme's (sh) teacher (师) showed him how to filter (筛) urine into drinkable water using just a bamboo stick (⺮). That one was actually a prank to make Sherlock Holmes drink his own urine.
to set up / to arrange / to establish / to found / to display

= + : Recently Sherlock Holmes had less and less customers, so he wants to set up an advertising campaign. He starts in the elevator's bathroom setting up an advertising column. It is lying on the floor, and Sherlock tries to lever it up using a halberd.
person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies) / to put a corpse on display (after execution) / variant of 屍|尸[shi1] / corpse

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating a crime scene with a corpse (尸) in front of the space station (Ø1). The victim's ghost (尸) is trying to give him hints from the afterlife about their killer.