Pinyin "luo2"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "luo2" is split up into two parts: "lu" and "o2". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "lu"

Lu is for Lenny Lemur.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "o2"

In the observatory's kitchen.

Characters pronounced luo2

gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift

= + : Lenny Lemur wanted to catch a few bats with a net hang high across the observatory's kitchen. Instead, two bats catch him in a roll of gauze in a fly-by manoeuvre.
patrol

= + : Lenny Lemur (lu) is patrolling the observatory's kitchen (o2) in his patrol boat (逻). He is patrolling three gates: behind two of the gates there is one pile of gauze (罗) respectively, but behind the last door there is a pair of beautiful gladiator sandals (辶). He will ask any visitor to choose one of the gates, then open another one and show the gauze behind it. Any visitor who doesn't get the logic (逻) why it is better to choose the remaining gate then is not allowed to enter the castle.
spiral shell / snail / conch

= + : Lenny Lemur (lu) is trying to catch a mosquito (虫) in the observatory's kitchen (o2). To this end he attached a conch (螺) to the end of a rope (累) and throws the conch at the mosquito, hoping to catch it inside. After a miss he can just retract the conch with the rope.
radish
gong / CL:面[mian4]
smart / clever
mule / CL:匹[pi3],頭|头[tou2]
variant of 騾|骡[luo2]
see 桫欏|桫椤[suo1 luo2]
basket
name of a tribe