Pinyin "ye4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "ye4" is split up into two parts: "y" and "e4". 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 "e4"

In the elevator's bathroom.

Characters pronounced ye4

page / leaf

= + : It's just too hot in Greece for the crab, so it wants to return to the ocean. Inside of the elevator's bathroom, Maud Younger helps it to do so. The plan is to just flush it down the toilet. The toilet is operated with the help of wind power, but there's no wind today. Maud Younger makes short work, grabs to sheets of paper and waves them towards the wind wheel until it turns really quickly. Finally the crab can return home.

= + : mnemonic symbol: a sheet of paper.
line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already

I can't help but see a bullfrog in 业. Maud Younger finds that the climate in the elevator's bathroom are perfect for her new business: growing bullfrogs.
surname Ye
night

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: 夜壶, chamber pot.

In the middle of the night, Maud Younger and Rosa Luxemburg bump into each other as they are emptying their chamber pot in the elevator's bathroom. They covered their chamber pots with a petal leaf and a beret respectively, and as they carry them they take care to walk very slowly in their high heels.
variant of 夜[ye4]

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: 夜壶, chamber pot.

In the middle of the night, Maud Younger and Rosa Luxemburg bump into each other as they are emptying their chamber pot in the elevator's bathroom. They covered their chamber pots with a petal leaf and a beret respectively, and as they carry them they take care to walk very slowly in their high heels.
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats

= + : Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.
surname Ye

= + : Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.
liquid / fluid / Taiwan pr. [yi4]

= + : Maud Younger (y) wanted to empty her chamber pot (夜) in the elevator's bathroom (e4), but she finds the toilet clogged. She'll have to store the liquid (液) in an empty water bottle (氵) instead.
to choke (in crying)
to drag / to pull / Taiwan pr. [yi4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tractor (拖曳机).

Maud Younger (y) wants the plants in the elevator's bathroom (e4) to grow more, so she grabs the sun (日) with a pair of pliers (乂) and drags (曳) her with her tractor (曳) into the bathroom.
to drag / to haul
to visit (a superior)

= + : Maud Younger (y) plans to visit her superior (谒) to ask for a raise. On an advertising column (讠) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) she reads that she should dress for success, but she doesn't know what to dress, so she turns a quiz wheel (曷) to decide for her.
to support by the arm / to help / to promote / at the side / also pr. [yi4]
blaze of fire / glorious
variant of 燁|烨[ye4]