Pinyin initial: "lü"

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

Mnemonics for lü

Lü is for Loki.

Characters with lü

trip / travel / to travel / brigade (army)

= + 𠂉 + : Loki (lü) and Christopher MacLeod (氏) have been exiled to the space station for their crimes. In the space station's living room (Ø3) they plan to travel back to earth (旅). They found that there is a secret square (方) to which they found the key (𠂉). Certain that this is the way to travel back to earth they open the frame with the key only to find that this is the emergency escape hatch to be used after splashdowns.
green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lü4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)

绿 = + : Loki (lü) wants to preserve the green (绿) chlorophyll of leaves he collected in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) by putting them into his diary (录). As he opens his diary a few days later he is very upset to see that the silk worm (纟) ate all of them by eating through the pages of his diary.
surname Lü
pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

= : Loki (lü) conducts an experiment in the space station's living room (Ø3). Using a pitch pipe (吕) he creates two standing waves, in which he keeps one mandarin (口) respectively.
to think over / to consider / anxiety

= + : As Loki (lü) is a hypochondriac (虑) he always filters (滤) bottled water (氵) multiple time in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) before he drinks it.
rate / frequency
law

= + : Loki (lü) wants to prove the inverse square law (律) of electrostatics in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He repeatedly rubs a decorator's brush (聿) against the soles of his black sneakers (彳) and thereby transfers electrons from the shoe soles to the brush. Now that both are charged, they will attract each other according to the inverse square law (律). To measure the amplitude, Loki uses Hook's law (律): when the black sneaker is attracted to the brush it will bend the bristles of the brush until the two forces cancel each out.
surname Lü
brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)

= + : Loki (lü) wants to play a prank on the elevator's visitors. In the bathroom (e4) he plants a field (田) of stars (各) around the toilet. His plan (略) is that the visitors will then have to step on many spiky stars if they want to reach the toilet.
variant of 略[lüe4]
shoe / to tread on
to take over by force / to rob / to plunder / to brush over / to skim / to sweep
to strain / to filter
aluminum (chemistry)
companion
time and again / repeatedly / frequently
strand / thread / detailed / in detail / classifier for wisps (of smoke, mist or vapor), strands, locks (of hair)