Pinyin "su4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "su4" is split up into two parts: "su" and "Ø4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "su"

Su is for Susan Saint Bernard.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø4"

In the space station's bathroom.

Characters pronounced su4

variant of 訴|诉[su4]

= + : Susan Saint Bernard lives in a very remote place, the saline marshes in the space station's bathroom. Nevertheless, the market has reached her home too and set up a big advertising column. Susan Saint Bernard is really angry, complains a lot and immediately starts preparing to sue the company. She waves angrily with the folder she prepared at the advertising column.
to complain / to sue / to tell

= + : Susan Saint Bernard lives in a very remote place, the saline marshes in the space station's bathroom. Nevertheless, the market has reached her home too and set up a big advertising column. Susan Saint Bernard is really angry, complains a lot and immediately starts preparing to sue the company. She waves angrily with the folder she prepared at the advertising column.
fast / rapid / quick / velocity

= + : Susan Saint Bernard tries out a new way of moving much faster in the space station's bathroom. She attached a bundle of firewood to each of her legs, and attached gladiator sandals to the ends of the bundles. This way she extends her legs and increases her speed dramatically.
lodge for the night / old / former

宿 = + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) runs a hostel (宿) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but tonight it is reserved for all of her kids. Her one hundred kids (佰) graduated from college and are back for a big celebration, each of them wearing their graduation cap (宀).
old variant of 宿[su4]

宿 = + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) runs a hostel (宿) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but tonight it is reserved for all of her kids. Her one hundred kids (佰) graduated from college and are back for a big celebration, each of them wearing their graduation cap (宀).
surname Su

宿 = + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) runs a hostel (宿) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but tonight it is reserved for all of her kids. Her one hundred kids (佰) graduated from college and are back for a big celebration, each of them wearing their graduation cap (宀).
to model (a figure) in clay

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) is afraid of a spring tide in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) since it's the first day of the lunar month (朔), so she models (塑) a Hauke Haien out of clay (土) to help her build a dike.
surname Su

= + + 丿 + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) wants to purge (肃) the space station from counter-revolutionary elements (肃). In the bathroom (Ø4) she uses a crayon (肀) to cross out everything that will be forbidden in the future: eight balls (八) (because she sucks at billiards) as well as bananas (丿) and dinosaur bones (丨) (because they both are inedible, at least for her).
respectful / solemn / to eliminate / to clean up

= + + 丿 + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) wants to purge (肃) the space station from counter-revolutionary elements (肃). In the bathroom (Ø4) she uses a crayon (肀) to cross out everything that will be forbidden in the future: eight balls (八) (because she sucks at billiards) as well as bananas (丿) and dinosaur bones (丨) (because they both are inedible, at least for her).
raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) has decided to become a vegan (素) and to let everyone know. In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she manufactures a fancy headdress (龶) in the form of a vegan flower (素) out of her own spider silk (糸) so that everyone who sees her instantly knows that she's vegan (素).
to go upstream / to trace the source
variant of 溯[su4]
name of a river
grain / millet / goose bumps
surname Su
Lisu ethnic group of Yunnan
morning / early / long-held / long-cherished