Pinyin final: "ai3"

The Pinyin final "ai3" 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 "ai3" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ai3

In the airplane's living room.

Characters with ai3

hundred / numerous / all kinds of

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a one hundred 元 bill.

Beelzebub (b) enjoys preparing to allure mortals. In the airplane's living room (ai3) he's waving a flute (一) as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags (白) to look like one hundred (百) one hundred 元 bills (百).
cedar / cypress / Taiwan pr. [bo2]

= + : Beelzebub (b) is approaching a cedar (柏) in the airplane (ai3) to use it as a Christmas tree (木) in hell, so the cedar is waving with a white flag (白) in terror.
variant of 柏[bai3]
one hundred (old)
to throw / to fling / to swing / to leave behind / to throw off / to dump (sb)

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) quits the moon (月) in the airplane (ai3). He puts the moon on a shovel (乚) and flicks (甩) him away.
bad / wicked / evil / Kangxi radical 78

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a wicked witch.

Don Quixote (d) is hypnotized by a wicked witch (歹) playing her flute (一) in the airplane (ai3). She's playing her magic flute in order to sedate Don Quixote, so that her bats (夕) can drink his blood.
to sprain (one's ankle) (Tw)
narrow / narrow-minded / badly off

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a narrow slit of some kind. James II of England (zh) is painting cave paintings (穴) on the walls of the airplane's living room (ai3). He is using a special technique: he pushes the hair of his Mohawk haircut (乍) through a narrow slit (窄) so that when he applies the paint to his hair (to use it as a brush) he doesn't accidentally paint his face.
variant of 崽[zai3]

= + : Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are taking turns breeding an egg (子) inside of the airplane (ai3). After a couple of days it is ready and cracks open. A young boy (仔) jumps out; he is wearing nothing but jeans (仔).
to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)

= + : Zorro (z) is preparing a terrible kind of kimchi (辛) in the airplane (ai3). He is slaughtering livestock (宰) and collecting it together with the kimchi in a huge, turned-over graduation cap (宀).
model / pattern / regular script (calligraphic style)
low / short (in length)

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) takes part in a darts (矢) tournament in the airplane (ai3), but the airplane's throne is just in the way of his darts, and he is too short (矮) to effectively throw the darts over the throne. Luckily he brought an artificial leg (委) which he can use to shoot the darts.
see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
to change / to alter / to transform / to correct

= + : Guy Fawkes rose to power in the airplane and the first thing he wants to do is to change the throne. He used a butcher's hook to scratch the jewels out of the golden throne. Now he uses a sledgehammer to change the throne into a new form, that is, a pile of garbage.
old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3]
triumphant / victorious / chi (Greek letter Χχ)

= + : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?
surname Kai

= + : After capitalism has been triumphant (凯) over communism Karl Marx (k) hides under a table (几) in the airplane (ai3) and asks: how can this be (岂)?
(coll.) color / used in 色子[shai3 zi5]

= + : In the airplane, Sherlock Holmes watches the crane licking a very tasty lollipop. He wants to have it, so he challenges the crane for it. The crane agrees to give him the lollipop if he can beat him in a dice game.
to arrange / to exhibit / to move to and fro / a pendulum

= + : Beelzebub (b) is on a strike (罢) again, this time in the airplane (ai3). The central action of his strike is to stop the royal pendulum (摆) using a toy claw (扌) and laughing devilishly.
to turn (a corner etc) / to kidnap / to swindle / to misappropriate / seven (used as a substitute for 七[qi1]) / variant of 枴|拐[guai3]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is turning round and round (拐) her distiller (另) in the airplane (ai3) while using a toy claw (扌) as a cane (拐). She wants to distill chloroform to sedate and kidnap (拐) children.