Pinyin "ao4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "ao4" is split up into two parts: "Ø" and "ao4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "Ø"

"Ø" (nothing or null) is for Albert Einstein.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ao4"

In the aorta's bathroom.

Characters pronounced ao4

proud / arrogant / to despise / unyielding / to defy

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻), Albert Einstein (Ø) and the wanderer (敖) want to use the aorta's bathroom (ao4) all at the same time. Each of them is very arrogant (傲) and thinks that they is so awesome that they deserves to use the bathroom first. The wanderer exclaims that he has roamed the whole world. Albert Einstein proudly tells of his discovery of relativity. And Rosa exclaims how she led the masses to protest against capitalism. After all they are equally arrogant (傲) and thus can still not decide who gets to use the bathroom first.
obscure / mysterious

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) is taking part in the Olympics (奥) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He and the other athletes are using a huge graduation cap (宩) as trampoline to jump over as many bags of rice (宩) as possible. One athlete jumps especially far, and Albert thinks that there is something strange (奥) and mysterious (奥) about her. He doesn't realize that in fact she is a robot (大).
Austria / Austrian / abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Ao4 di4 li4] / Olympic / Olympics / abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4]

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) is taking part in the Olympics (奥) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He and the other athletes are using a huge graduation cap (宩) as trampoline to jump over as many bags of rice (宩) as possible. One athlete jumps especially far, and Albert thinks that there is something strange (奥) and mysterious (奥) about her. He doesn't realize that in fact she is a robot (大).
deep bay / cove / harbor

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) is taking part in the Olympics (奥) in the discipline of emptying water bottles (氵). He empties so many water bottles that later he'll change the aorta's bathroom (ao4) into a deep bay (澳) in no time.
abbr. for Macao 澳門|澳门 / abbr. for Australia 澳大利亞|澳大利亚

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) is taking part in the Olympics (奥) in the discipline of emptying water bottles (氵). He empties so many water bottles that later he'll change the aorta's bathroom (ao4) into a deep bay (澳) in no time.
variant of 坳[ao4]
depression; cavity; hollow / Taiwan pr. [ao1]
plain in the middle of the mountains / used in place names, esp. in 浙江[Zhe4 jiang1] and 福建[Fu2 jian4]
variant of 拗[ao4]
to bend in two so as to break / to defy / to disobey / also pr. [ao3]
to regret
griddle / tava
a noble steed (literary) / (of a horse) untamed / (fig.) (of a person) headstrong / Taiwan pr. [ao2]
variant of 墺[ao4]
(used in place names) / variant of 坳[ao4]
building-plot