Pinyin "hua4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "hua4" is split up into two parts: "hu" and "a4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "hu"

Hu is for Helga Horse.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "a4"

In the ashram's bathroom.

Characters pronounced hua4

to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]

= + : Helga Horse and Rosa Luxemburg conduct an experiment in the ashram's bathroom. Using a transformer, they melt a ladle.
old variant of 話|话[hua4]

= + : Helga Horse can't talk at all right now, because her tongue is stuck on an advertisement column in the ashram's bathroom. In an ad on the advertising column, two people were discussing a depicted beautiful carrot; Helga thought it looked so tasty she had to lick it, and now her tongue is stuck.
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

= + : Helga Horse can't talk at all right now, because her tongue is stuck on an advertisement column in the ashram's bathroom. In an ad on the advertising column, two people were discussing a depicted beautiful carrot; Helga thought it looked so tasty she had to lick it, and now her tongue is stuck.
to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character
to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.
Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi / surname Hua
birch tree / Betula japonica
(botany) birch (genus Betula)
variant of 畫|画[hua4]
tranquil
wide / broad
obstinate / perverse