Pinyin "wei3"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "wei3" is split up into two parts: "w" and "ei3". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "w"

Wu is for Willy Walrus.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ei3"

In the Eiffel Tower's living room.

Characters pronounced wei3

big / large / great

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) found a pair of soft leather gloves (韦) which not only give her giant strength, but also make her grow two times larger (伟). With her new strength she is able to lift fatty Willy Walrus (w) above her head in the Eiffel Tower (ei3), and Willy thinks that she is really great and mighty (伟).
surname Wei

= + : Bessie Coleman and Willy Walrus are members of a committee which has to test artificial legs in the Eiffel Tower. They have the legs kick bowls of cereal from the tower and see how far they get.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 委中 is an acupuncture point of the knee. I'll represent 委 with an artificial leg including the knee.
to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly

= + : Bessie Coleman and Willy Walrus are members of a committee which has to test artificial legs in the Eiffel Tower. They have the legs kick bowls of cereal from the tower and see how far they get.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 委中 is an acupuncture point of the knee. I'll represent 委 with an artificial leg including the knee.
tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish

= + : Willy Walrus (w) knows that there is a ghost (尸) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3), but he cannot see it, so he set up a trap: he put a lot of sticky hair (毛) everywhere, and eventually the hair stuck to the ghost's tail (尾). Now that Willy Walrus can see where the ghost is he is able to drive it out.
yes
latitude / woof (horizontal thread in weaving) / weft

= + : Willy Walrus (w) and the silk worm (纟) are surprised how cold it is in the Eiffel Tower (ei3). Not only Willy Walrus, but also the silk worm has to wear leather gloves (韦) to keep warm. It must be because of the high latitude (纬).
variant of 偽|伪[wei3]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) went to visit Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to buy a bird with crazy hair (为), but she finds out very soon that Willy Walrus just wanted to sell her a fake (伪) one: a regular penguin with a wig.
false / fake / forged / bogus / (prefix) pseudo- / Taiwan pr. [wei4]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) went to visit Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to buy a bird with crazy hair (为), but she finds out very soon that Willy Walrus just wanted to sell her a fake (伪) one: a regular penguin with a wig.
to wither / to drop / to decline / spiritless / Taiwan pr. [wei1]
(reddish jade) / precious / rare
reed / rush / Phragmites communis
glowing / bright / brilliant
the bright shining of the sun
little tuna / Euthynnus alletteratus