Pinyin "yang2"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "yang2" is split up into two parts: "y" and "ang2". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "y"

Y is for Maud Younger.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ang2"

In the anglepod's kitchen.

Characters pronounced yang2

sheep / goat / CL:頭|头[tou2],隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Maud Younger is looking for gender equality just inside the anglepod's kitchen—and a dowsing rod is her tool of choice. A sheep sees this and imitates her, using a Cartesian coordinate system as a dowsing rod substitute.
surname Yang
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]

= + : Maud Younger and the pope want to help the good people of the anglepod and install some solar power (太阳能) panels just inside the anglepod's kitchen. The sun helps them to generate positive electric charges by shining its rays (阳光) on the panel.
variant of 揚|扬[yang2]
to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate

= 𠃓 + : At the end of the day, Maud Younger (y) hoists (扬) a red lantern to show the visitors of the anglepod that the kitchen (ang2) is closed. Half the way up though the lantern gets stuck, so Maud Younger has to put on her Icarus' wings (𠃓), fly to the lantern and free it using a toy claw (扌).
abbr. for 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] / surname Yang
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin

= + : Maud Younger found a magical sheep just inside the anglepod's kitchen. The sheep has a water bottle out of which endlessly silver coins pour out. With the bottle the sheep already created a real ocean of foreign silver coins.
poplar

= 𠃓 + : Maud Younger (y) put a Christmas tree (木) on the top of a poplar (杨) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The poplar is so high that in order to decorate the Christmas tree Maud has to fly up using Icarus' wings (𠃓).
surname Yang
old variant of 陽[yang2]
to open out, to expand / bright, glorious
clay sheep buried with the dead
molten / smelt
to feign / to pretend