Pinyin initial: "fu"

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

Mnemonics for fu

Fu is for Frieda Fox.

Characters with fu

clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes

= 𠬝 + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Frieda Fox and the moon are playing a little game. They are ordering each other what to wear and the other person has to obey. Frieda orders the moon to wear a neat little tutu, and the moon orders Frieda to wear a princess' dress. After they've changed they can't stop laughing at each other.
classifier for medicine: dose / Taiwan pr. [fu2]
father

= + : Father Time. Father Time is trying to cut an eight ball with pliers. Besides, he looks like he has just bitten in a lemon.
to go and return / to return / to resume / to return to a normal or original state / to repeat / again / to recover / to restore / to turn over / to reply / to answer / to reply to a letter / to retaliate / to carry out

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a shrine of rejuvenation.

Frieda Fox (fu) only has an old photocopy (复) of her favorite black sneaker (彳). She restores (復) her sneakers to the original state by putting the old photocopy into the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
variant of 復|复[fu4] / to reply to a letter

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.
to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker

= + : In front of the space station, Neanderthal Man and a construction worker are busy exchanging a broken capacitor. When Frieda Fox floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
good fortune / happiness / luck

= + : Frieda Fox is preparing for the new year's festival. She put a big red sticker with a golden 福 character on the space station's door, and to prepare for the stress that her visiting parents bring she meditates wearing a monk's cowl and quietly popping bubble wrap. She looks at the golder character and prays for a good fortune.
surname Fu / abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 sheng3]

= + : Frieda Fox is preparing for the new year's festival. She put a big red sticker with a golden 福 character on the space station's door, and to prepare for the stress that her visiting parents bring she meditates wearing a monk's cowl and quietly popping bubble wrap. She looks at the golder character and prays for a good fortune.
surname Fu

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) is very rich (富), so she ordered a golden graduation cap (宀) for her graduation. When the cap arrives though she doesn't pay any attention to it: in reality she just wanted to pop the bubble wrap (畐) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
rich / abundant / wealthy

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) is very rich (富), so she ordered a golden graduation cap (宀) for her graduation. When the cap arrives though she doesn't pay any attention to it: in reality she just wanted to pop the bubble wrap (畐) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
not (literary) / used in transliteration

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a woven basket, because the interweaving strokes of 弗 remind me of a woven pattern.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance Frieda Fox wants to shoot kitchen knifes at a woven basket with a composite bow, but since the knifes are too short, she's not really able to.
(literary) not / used in transliteration
to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an opossum (负鼠) who carries her babies on her back.

A few pals practice their cosplay on the space station's bathroom. They want to reenact the town musicians of Bremen, and so Frieda Fuchs stands at the bottom, the crab is on top of Frieda, the crane is on top of the crab, the opossum is on top of the crane, and the opossum carries her babies on her back.
to pay / to hand over to / classifier for pairs or sets of things

= + : Rosa Luxemburg hands over Frieda Fox's paycheck in the bathroom of the space station, who of course "thumbs up".

= + : A paycheck.
surname Fu
old variant of 婦|妇[fu4]

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) and Bessie Coleman (女), both being women (妇), do women's stuff in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), such as throwing fake pig noses (彐) at each other.
woman

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) and Bessie Coleman (女), both being women (妇), do women's stuff in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), such as throwing fake pig noses (彐) at each other.
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)

= + 广 : The White House still owes Frieda Fox a lot of pay-checks. Even though it hid in the space station, Frieda Fox surprises it by landing on it from above with a parachute. The White House has no option but to finally hand Frieda her pay-checks.