User:Brettz9/chinesemnemonics
These are just sound mnemonics....Graphical ones to be added later...
As in order at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_Pinyin_index_a#a :
a
editPossible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "a": a dirty pickle (in the mouth) can make one hoarse of voice (and need to exclaim ah!)
- a1: Used in translation; pickle/dirty; actinium; ac; prefix for people's names/used in transliteration;
- a2: hoarse of voice
- a3: ?
- a4: ?
- a5: exclamatory particle; ?
ai1
editPossible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "ai1": "I (ai) exclaimed in agreement (and in order) that I (ai) pitied him who longed for the dust."
1 sorrow, grief, pity, to grieve for, to pity, to lament
2 an interjection, hey, lookout, why etc
3 an interjection, to express realization or agreement (yes, oh, right, etc)
4 (Cantonese) that
5 ?
6 dirt, dust, angstrom
7 ?
8 lean to, in order, in sequence
9 desire, want, long for; intend
10 an exclamation of confirmation
11 an exclamation of confirmation
12 ?
13 iridium einsteinium
14 es