Pinyin initial: "li"

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

Mnemonics for li

Li is for Li Qingzhao, writer and poet of the Song Dynasty.

Characters with li

variant of 璃[li2]

= + : Martin Luther King (王) and Li Qingzhao (li) want to color some glass just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). They attach their glass plate to the space station's centrifuge (离) and spin-coat the glass surface so that it gets a very nice glaze (璃).
variant of 麟[lin2]
hole, pit
eel
see 槤枷|梿枷[lian2 jia1], flail / to thresh (using a flail)
to trample down / to oppress / to overrun / see 蹂躪|蹂躏[rou2 lin4]
bay horse with black mane
(literary) (of a woman) intelligent / (used mostly in female names)
ranges of hills
tassel
cross-beam / ridge-pole
variant of 斂|敛[lian3]
ulcer / plague
livermorium (chemistry) / (old) (Italian) lira (loanword) / (archaic) type of food vessel used in Funan 扶南[Fu2 nan2]
fetters / leg-irons / shackles
distant / to seek / old variant of 亮[liang4] / bright
used in 囹圄[ling2 yu3]
mound / tomb
used in 妯娌[zhou2 li5]
bright / clear