Pinyin "huan4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "huan4" is split up into two parts: "hu" and "an4". 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 "an4"

In the anthill's bathroom.

Characters pronounced huan4

excellent

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and the crane (⺈) ordered a new CPU (央) for their gaming system and inspect it in the anthill's bathroom (an4). It was very expensive and is therefore very excellent (奂); Helga and the crane both touch the fingertips of each hand and silently think "excellent" (奂).
surname Huan

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and the crane (⺈) ordered a new CPU (央) for their gaming system and inspect it in the anthill's bathroom (an4). It was very expensive and is therefore very excellent (奂); Helga and the crane both touch the fingertips of each hand and silently think "excellent" (奂).
to exchange / to change (clothes etc) / to substitute / to switch / to convert (currency)

= + : Helga Horse (hu) received two new toy claws (扌) and tests them in the anthill's bathroom (an4). To test whether they are the same, she repeatedly exchanges (换) them and weighs them in her hands. She then makes both tips of the claws touch and quietly whispers "excellent" (奂).
fantasy

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is working hard pulling a plough (㇆) through the anthill's bathroom (an4), but in her fantasy (幻) she is a dealer at a casino dealing aces (幺) to the players.
to suffer (from illness) / to contract (a disease) / misfortune / trouble / danger / worry

= + : Helga Horse eats a skewer in the anthill's bathroom, with a terrible outcome: after taking the first bite, she suffers from a heart attack.
brilliant / lustrous
to call

= + : Helga Horse (hu) bred a genetically modified mandarin (口) and calls (唤) it for the first time in the anthill's bathroom (an4). As the mandarin promptly hops towards Helga she joins the tips of her hooves and exclaims "excellent!" (奂)
illness / numbness of the limbs

= + : Helga Horse (hu) took a medicine against her paralysis (痪) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Although the medicine gave her a colorful rash (疒) at least she can move again, so she claps her hooves together and says "excellent" (奂).
imperial official / court eunuch
surname Huan
to wash / to rinse / any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty) / Taiwan pr. [huan3] / also pr. [wan3]
variant of 浣[huan4]
to dissipate / to dissolve