Pinyin "ruo4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "ruo4" is split up into two parts: "ru" and "o4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "ru"

Ru is for Rachel Rhinoceros.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "o4"

In the observatory's bathroom.

Characters pronounced ruo4

weak / feeble / young / inferior / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros (ru) created a piece of art in the observatory's bathroom (o4). She joined many composite bows (弓) by sticking their ends into popsicles (冫) which weren frozen again afterwards. Her whole construction is a huge armchair, but it is very fragile and weak (弱), so Rachel puts on it many of these "handle with care" stickers.
weak; feeble / young / inferior; not as good as / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
to seem / like / as / if

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a wooden chicken as in 呆若木鸡, "dumb as a wooden chicken".

A nazi wants to beat up a wooden chicken in the observatory's bathroom for being different, but just as he charges across a sheet of artificial lawn Rachel Rhinoceros pulls she sheet from under his feet and lets him topple head-first to the ground. She thinks that the nazi is truly as dumb as a wooden chicken.
old variant of 若[ruo4] / obedient / ancient mythical tree
(bamboo) / skin of bamboo
young rush (Typha japonica), a kind of cattail
so / such / to such a degree
place name
burn / heat
cuticle of bamboo plant
siskin