Pinyin "hu3"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "hu3" is split up into two parts: "hu" and "Ø3". 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 "Ø3"

In the space station's living room.

Characters pronounced hu3

tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is trying once more to get some nice stripes (虍). This time she is lying on the tiger's (虎) small table (几) to have him tattoo the stripes on her body in the space station (Ø3).
a tiger's roar / to scare / to intimidate / (coll.) to fool / to bluff
amber
bank of a river
archaic variant of 虎[hu3]