Pinyin "li3"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "li3" is split up into two parts: "li" 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 "li"

Li is for Li Qingzhao, writer and poet of the Song Dynasty.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø3"

In the space station's living room.

Characters pronounced li3

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
Li (surname)
variant of 裡|里[li3]
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up

= + : Li Qingzhao and Martin Luther King have the mission to find out the intrinsic order and inner essence of sunflowers in the space station. They grow a few sunflowers and care for them very meticulously, talking to them and everything.
gift / rite / ceremony / CL:份[fen4] / propriety / etiquette / courtesy

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
surname Li / abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
plum

= + : In the space station, Li Qingzhao shakes a Christmas tree which is decorated with eggs. The eggs fly off and as they break open, plums fly out of them.
surname Li

= + : In the space station, Li Qingzhao shakes a Christmas tree which is decorated with eggs. The eggs fly off and as they break open, plums fly out of them.
sparse and clear

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sparse (which means most elements are zero) matrix. The character 㸚 itself looks like a matrix. Li Qingzhao (li) is developing a new notation in the space station's living room (Ø3) where she notes down a sparse matrix (㸚) using the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams (爻).
ceremonial vessel / variant of 禮|礼[li3]
carp
mile

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is doing research on a huge mandarin (口) in the space station (Ø3). She is planting sunflowers (里) in a complicated trajectory on the mandarin so that the length of the trajectory is exactly one mile (哩).
lithium (chemistry)
snakefish / snakehead mullet