Pinyin initial: "k"

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

Mnemonics for k

K is for Karl Marx.

Characters with k

颗

顆

ke̅ = k + e1

classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc

颗 = 果 + 页 : Karl Marx (k) is eating grapes (果) in front of the elevator (e1). He doesn't care that there are kernels (颗) inside: He just spits them on a sheet of paper (页) to throw them away later.

课

課

kè = k + e4

subject / course / CL:門|门[men2] / class / lesson / CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2] / to levy / tax / form of divination

课 = 果 + 讠 : Karl Marx (k) notices an advertising column (讠) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). He decides to teach these capitalists a lesson (课) and throws grapes (果) at the ads, messing them all up. That'll teach them!

岂

豈

kǎi = k + ai3

old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3]

凯

凱

kǎi = k + ai3

surname Kai

凯 = 几 + 岂 : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?

凯

凱

kǎi = k + ai3

triumphant / victorious / chi (Greek letter Χχ)

凯 = 几 + 岂 : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?

开

開

ka̅i = k + ai1

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

开 = 一 + 廾 : A bottle opener. Karl Marx is sitting in front of the airplane, begging for money. He's playing a flute and has his bottle opener ready for the next beer, but unfortunately, he'll be carried away, his hands cuffed, soon.

抗

kàng = k + ang4

to resist / to fight / to defy / anti-

抗 = 亢 + 扌 : After hours of creative thinking in Angwor Wat's bathroom and not coming up with anything, Karl Marx decides to fight his image of successful authorship and rips his turtleneck to pieces using two toy claws.

坑

阬

ke̅ng = k + (e)ng1

variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole

坑 = 亢 + 土 : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).

坑

ke̅ng = k + (e)ng1

hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud

吭

ke̅ng = k + (e)ng1

to utter

磕

ke̅ = k + e1

to tap / to knock (against sth hard) / to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)

磕 = 盍 + 石 : Karl Marx (k) knows he has to put out his cigarette before he can enter the elevator (e1) and his first instinct is to put his cigarette out by tapping (磕) it on the ancient stones (石) in front of the elevator (e1). He thinks "why not" (盍), but first makes a list with pros and cons (盍) to find the right solution to his problem.

磕

kè = k + e4

variant of 嗑[ke4]

柯

ke̅ = k + e1

(literary) branch; stem; stalk / (literary) ax handle

柯

ke̅ = k + e1

surname Ke

柯

ke̅ = k + e1

tree branch / stem / ax handle

柯 = 可 + 木 : Karl Marx (k) is recycling a Christmas tree (木) in front of the elevator (e1). He uses the stem (柯) to make boards for his bed of nails (可), the needles of the tree as the nails for his bed of nails and the branches of the tree to make handles for his axes (柯).

坎

kǎn = k + an3

pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water / ☵

坎

埳

kǎn = k + an3

old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole

氪

kè = k + e4

krypton (chemistry)

喀

ka̅ = k + a1