Pinyin "chu1"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "chu1" is split up into two parts: "chu" and "Ø1". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "chu"

Chu is for Chantal Chicken.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø1"

In front of the space station.

Characters pronounced chu1

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.
variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic

= + : Back in the days when Chantal Chicken first arrived at the space station as the first junior scientist, she tried really hard to make a good first impression and put on a royal ermine coat. Just to be save she hid a cleaver behind her back just in case she wouldn't be received well.
simaroubaceae
old variant of 出[chu1]
(archaic) animal resembling a tiger
(used in place names)