Pinyin final: "e2"

The Pinyin final "e2" 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 "e2" can appear in.

Mnemonics for e2

In the elevator's kitchen.

Characters with e2

"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]

Mnemonic symbol: 亅 looks like a crowbar. Zeus (ju) is bored and presses all the buttons next to the elevator kitchen's (e2) door with his crowbar (亅).
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : A bowl of cereals. Hamlet made himself a bowl of cereals with bananas and a Christmas tree just inside the elevator's kitchen. He thinks the elevator's kitchen is a stage, and holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.
old variant of 和[he2] / harmonious

= + : Hamlet found a way for world peace: He wants to distribute cereals and mandarins all over the world, starting just inside the elevator's kitchen.
and / together with / with / sum / union / peace / harmony / Taiwan pr. [han4] when it means "and" or "with"

= + : Hamlet found a way for world peace: He wants to distribute cereals and mandarins all over the world, starting just inside the elevator's kitchen.
surname He / Japanese (food, clothes etc)

= + : Hamlet found a way for world peace: He wants to distribute cereals and mandarins all over the world, starting just inside the elevator's kitchen.
old variant of 和[he2]

= + : Hamlet found a way for world peace: He wants to distribute cereals and mandarins all over the world, starting just inside the elevator's kitchen.
(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese
surname He
variant of 乙[zhe2]

Mnemonic symbol: a sickle.

James II of England of England (zh) inspects his new sickle (乛) in the elevator's kitchen (e2).
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology

= + + : Xu Xian wants to study scienceology and learn more about daisies. Just inside the elevator's kitchen, he put some daisies into a prize cup and covered them with a cooking top. He wants to study the growth rate of the daisies depending on the pH of the water in the prize cup.
to obtain / old variant of 得[de2]

= + : Symbol for "obtain": A genie from a magic lamp who lets you get everything you want to obtain.

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Don Quixote asks a genie from a magic lamp to fulfil his only wish: a big mug of coffee to start the day. The genie gives him the thumbs up and hands him a big coffee mug.
to obtain (old variant of 得[de2])
to obtain / to get / to gain / to catch (a disease) / proper / suitable / proud / contented / to allow / to permit / ready / finished

= + : Don Quixote found a magic lamp and rubs it inside the elevator's kitchen. A genie appears and grants Don Quixote his wish for black sneakers. Unfortunately they are second hand and so smelly that Don Quixote instantly catches a disease.
"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

= + : The meaning is seal as in insignia, but instead I'm going to represent it as baby seal (the animal) in other characters. Joan of Arc (ji) is using a plow (㇆) to dig up baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). As soon as they jump out of the ground she clubs them with a dinosaur bone (丨).
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.
variant of 合[he2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Hamlet is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin and glued a pointed cap to its top using a tube of glue.
surname Bie
to leave / to depart / to separate / to distinguish / to classify / other / another / don't ...! / to pin / to stick (sth) in / (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2])

= + : Brunhilde is preparing to leave the elevator to defend her home. In the kitchen, to prepare for the fight, she tries to create the ultimate weapon by distilling kitchen knives, although it says on the distiller that the user must not put metal inside.
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
all alone

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen Joan of Arc hands a prize cup to a very proud mosquito. The mosquito won a flute-playing contest.