Pinyin final: "(e)ng4"

The Pinyin final "(e)ng4" is used in the second half of Pinyin syllables. In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the second half of a Pinyin syllable is always represented by a location. You can visit the Pinyin index to see all Pinyin syllables from this mnemonic group, or to see all Pinyin syllables "(e)ng4" can appear in.

Mnemonics for (e)ng4

In the engine's bathroom.

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Characters with (e)ng4

heavy / serious / to attach importance to

= + : Mnemonic symbol (from the shape of the character): this one looks like a space elevator. The two top strokes are the heavens, the two bottom strokes are the earth, and the part in between is the cabin (or climber) of the space elevator.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) installed a space elevator (重) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). For the maiden trip, and as a stress test, he loads one thousand (千) one kilogram weights (千) and decorates them with sun flowers (里) to celebrate the occasion.
to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)
other / another / separate / separately

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to separate two liquids, one can use a distiller.

In engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) Li Qingzhao (li) wants to distill a liquor (另) out of mandarins (口). She puts the mandarins in the distiller and hits the power button (力).

= + : Neanderthal Man (人) and Julian Giant Squid (zhu) are helplessly watching the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) being flooded by a crowd (众) of rubber chicken (从).
to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore

= + : Yu the Great hurt her leg when she slipped in the engine's bathroom. The moon helps her to splint her leg using the bathroom's first aid kit and a dinosaur bone.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a first aid kit. Can you see the cross on the container?
victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)

= + : Sherlock Holmes and the moon both participate in a competition in the engine's bathroom. They have to rock a cradle each and whoever rocks most is the winner.
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is playing darts in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The play goes very slowly because each of her darts is transferred to the dart board (中) manually by Julian Giant Squid (zhu) who acts as a middleman (仲).

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is playing darts in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The play goes very slowly because each of her darts is transferred to the dart board (中) manually by Julian Giant Squid (zhu) who acts as a middleman (仲).
commission (for middleman) / brokerage fee
more / even more / further / still / still more

= + : 人心不足,蛇吞象: A person who always wants more is like a snake which wants to eat an elephant.

= + : Guy Fawkes found a snake who ate an elephant in the engine's bathroom, and now it can't move anymore. Together with his friends Bigfoot and the sun, he carries it out of the bathroom.

= + 广 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and the robot (大) are celebrating (庆) parachute day by parachuting (广) off the stones in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4).
to answer / to respond / to comply with / to deal or cope with

= 广 + + : Maud Younger and the responsive dragon want to peacefully take over engine: They skydive into engine's bathroom using two parachutes. On top of it, Maud Younger plays a flute, and the responsive dragon is waving with a daisy responding to the rhythm of the music.

= 广 + + : Mnemonic symbol: from 应龙, responsive dragon. The responsive dragon knows every answer to every quiz question ever asked.
classifier for houses or buildings / ridgepole (old)

= + : Doggy Dog sets up his tent in the engine's bathroom. He already set up a Christmas tree and an Oriental Pearl Tower model as tent poles, and he is busy fixing the ridgepole atop of them.
dream / CL:場|场[chang2],個|个[ge4] / (bound form) to dream

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) once had a very strange dream (梦). He was occupying the engine's toilet ((e)ng4) and saw bats (夕) sitting in the forest trees (林) surrounding him. Suddenly he came to the realization that just like the bats occupying the trees, people could reclaim the streets through sit-ins. Gandhi was so impressed by this dream that he dedicated his life to this mission.
hard / stiff / strong / firm / resolutely / doggedly / good (quality) / able (person) / (of food) filling / substantial

= + : Maud Younger (y) finds the snake which ate too much (更) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), and it feels miserable. To make the snake feel better Maud massages the snake using two warm stones (石). As Maud massages the snakebshe finds that the snake's belly is really hard (硬).
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a stick-figure with straight lines. James II of England (zh) really has to use the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), but there's a stick-figure (正) blocking the stalls with a barrier (止). The stick-figure measures with a flute (一) whether James is tall enough to go. James stands very straight (正) to make himself as tall as possible.