Pinyin "lüe4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "lüe4" is split up into two parts: "lü" and "e4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "lü"

Lü is for Loki.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "e4"

In the elevator's bathroom.

Characters pronounced lüe4

brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)

= + : Loki (lü) wants to play a prank on the elevator's visitors. In the bathroom (e4) he plants a field (田) of stars (各) around the toilet. His plan (略) is that the visitors will then have to step on many spiky stars if they want to reach the toilet.
variant of 略[lüe4]
to take over by force / to rob / to plunder / to brush over / to skim / to sweep
used in 圐圙[ku1 lüe4]
(old) to beat / to pound
(ancient unit of weight)