Pinyin final: "ai2"

The Pinyin final "ai2" 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 "ai2" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ai2

In the airplane's kitchen.

Characters with ai2

to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Sir Lancelot (l) is visiting the mailwoman (來) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). As a gift, he brought a Christmas tree (木) decorated with rubber chicken (从).

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Lancelot (l) is super happy that his inflatable crocodile (丷) and live size Ai Weiwei (未) puppet finally arrived (来). The mailwoman (来) delivered them straight to the kitchen of the airplane (ai2).
platform / stage / terrace / stand / support / station / broadcasting station / classifier for vehicles or machines

= + : Tecumseh assumed is new post behind a counter in the airplane's kitchen. His task is to give a mandarin as a present to every visitor. Because he's allergic to mandarins he wears a fake nose so he doesn't have to smell them.
Taiwan (abbr.)

= + : Tecumseh assumed is new post behind a counter in the airplane's kitchen. His task is to give a mandarin as a present to every visitor. Because he's allergic to mandarins he wears a fake nose so he doesn't have to smell them.
money / wealth / riches / property / valuables

= + : The King of Chu found a big money bag in the airplane's kitchen, but he knows that there is no free lunch. Carefully, he scans the content of the bag with his X-ray power vision, and inside the bag, he finds a crab waiting to strike on its prey.
still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else

= + : Hamlet sees an early exhibit of king Leonidas' gladiator sandals in the airplane's kitchen. However, the exhibition is still not set up but in the progress of being set up, so there's a big sign showing that it's forbidden to touch the sandals.
to suffer; to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) reached the finals of a TV show (矣). In order to win, he will have to endure (挨) being beaten with a toy claw (扌) just inside the airplane's kitchen (ai2).
surname Huai

怀 = + : Just inside the airplane's kitchen Helga Horse found out that she's pregnant. Nevertheless she already plans to continue to larp; she just puts a bid "forbidden" sign on her stomach showing that it's forbidden to hit her stomach with a flail.
bosom / heart / mind / to think of / to harbor in one's mind / to conceive (a child)

怀 = + : Just inside the airplane's kitchen Helga Horse found out that she's pregnant. Nevertheless she already plans to continue to larp; she just puts a bid "forbidden" sign on her stomach showing that it's forbidden to hit her stomach with a flail.
name of a river
(bound form) child

= + : Just inside the airplane's kitchen Hamlet is quite annoyed by the love child of the boar and the mosquito.
mahjong tile / playing card / game pieces / signboard / plate / tablet / medal / CL:片[pian4],個|个[ge4],塊|块[kuai4]

= + : Pinocchio (p) is playing with Mahjong tiles (牌) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). There is a price to win: a DVD (片) about the Alpes (卑). Pinocchio definitely wants to win the DVD, so he keeps playing again and again.
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment

= 𢦏 + : Things are going bad for the King of Chu (c). He opened a kitchen in the airplane (ai2), but his income in the first year was not enough so he had to donate a kidney from which the scar is widely visible (𢦏), also due to the fact that he had to sell all his clothing except for a kilt (衣) which he wears. It was not enough. One day, he actually gets fired (裁) from the airplane's king because he was costing the airplane so much money.
residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home

= + : Mnemonic symbol: hanging around at home playing video games. After graduating, James II of England (zh) stays at home all day (宅) playing video games in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while wearing his graduation cap (宀). He plays a game where he has to yield a blade of grass (乇) to control the sword master in his video game.
surname Zhai

= + : In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) James II of England (zh) gives a present to Herbert Allen Giles (翟) for his contributions to the Wade-Giles system, a long-tail pheasant. As Herbert receives the bird he finds that it is just a sparrow (隹) with long feathers (羽) attached.
cancer / carcinoma / also pr. [yan2]

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) got a colorful rash (疒) and he thinks it is cancer (癌). In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) he found a food pyramid (嵒) which he devours using a fork (嵒).
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album

= + : The mailwoman (来) delivered a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) to Lancelot (l) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2), but now a fat hen (莱) is sleeping on it. Lancelot will have to fight the fat hen if he wants to claim the sheet of artificial lawn.
to carry in the bosom or the sleeve / to wrap, to conceal