Pinyin "yun4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "yun4" is split up into two parts: "yu" and "(e)n4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "yu"

Yu is for Yu the Great who tamed the floods.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "(e)n4"

In the encampment's bathroom.

Characters pronounced yun4

运
運
yùn = yu + (e)n4
to move / to transport / to use / to apply / fortune / luck / fate
运 = 云 + 辶 : Yu the Great (yu) is practicing step dancing in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). She is wearing gladiator sandals (辶) and is moving (运) so fast that she's evaporating the floor. There are even clouds (云) of smoke coming from her gladiator sandals and the evaporated floor.
晕
暈
yùn = yu + (e)n4
dizzy / halo / ring around moon or sun
孕
yùn = yu + (e)n4
pregnant
孕 = 乃 + 子 : Yu the Great (yu) has been dating a poltergeist (乃) recently in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4) and now she has to tell him that she is pregnant (孕) with his egg (子).
韵
韻
yùn = yu + (e)n4
the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound
缊
縕
yùn = yu + (e)n4
hemp / vague / mysterious
缊 = 昷 + 纟 : Yu the Great (yu) keeps the silk worm (纟) as a prisoner in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). From time to time she feeds her prisoner (昷) a little bit of hemp (缊).
蕴
蘊
yùn = yu + (e)n4
to accumulate / to hold in store / to contain / to gather together / to collect / depth / inner strength / profundity
蕴 = 艹 + 缊 : Yu the Great (yu) is accumulating (蕴) sheets of artificial lawn (艹) in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). She bundles the sheets using stripes of hemp (缊).
酝
醞
yùn = yu + (e)n4
to brew
酝 = 云 + 酉 : Yu the Great (yu) is secretly brewing (酝) the rooster (酉) in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4) to make it ferment (酝) in order to distill alcohol. A lot of clouds (云) are coming out of her fermenter.
恽
惲
yùn = yu + (e)n4
surname Yun
郓
鄆
yùn = yu + (e)n4
place name
熨
yùn = yu + (e)n4
an iron / to iron
熨 = 尉 + 火 : Luckily for the military officer (尉) every day Yu the Great (yu) irons (熨) his clothes for him in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). To heat up her iron she uses an open fire (火).
韫
韞
yùn = yu + (e)n4
contain