Pinyin final: "ao2"

The Pinyin final "ao2" 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 "ao2" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ao2

In the aorta's kitchen.

Characters with ao2

short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province / Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125)

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) just came back from a trip to Liaoning province (辽) and arrived just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). She brought two price cups (了) which are shaped like gladiator sandals (辶) at the base.
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

= + : Mother Teresa helps to clear a sewage pipe just inside the aorta's kitchen. With a bungee cord, she fishes a heap of high heels out of the sewage pipe.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bungee cord.
roar / cry / CL:個|个[ge4]
to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to calm down and reconcile (调) all the people in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). To this end she climbs on an advertising column (讠) and dances with a hula hoop (周).
to toil / labor / laborer / to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / meritorious deed / to console (Taiwan pr. [lao4] for this sense)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a very hardworking laborer from the 劳动人民.

A laborer worked very hard to outfit the aorta's kitchen with artificial lawn and an electrically movable sunshade made from a cooking top. As he finishes he is overjoyed to play with the sunshade, having it move up and down, to and fro in crazy ways. As Lancelot enters, Lancelot pushes the off button and gives the laborer an upset look, asking without using words what nonsense he's doing.
to treat / to cure / therapy

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) has been having a colorful rash (疒) for a long time now, and she heard that there is a magic cup to cure her sickness in the aorta. In the kitchen (ao2) she sees a golden price cup (了) and starts drinking out of it immediately, and her colorful rash starts to disappear slowly. She still cannot believe that this price cup actually cured (疗) her rash.
tall

= + 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol from 乔装打扮: to dress, to put on a costume. In the aorta's kitchen (ao2) the Queen of Hearts (qi) and Snow White (夭) put on banana (丿) costumes (乔). Both of them claim to have the largest (乔) banana costume. Because the Queen cannot stand having someone else wear the same dress as her, she beats Snow White to a premature death (夭) with a dinosaur bone (丨).

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol from 乔装打扮: to dress, to put on a costume. In the aorta's kitchen (ao2) the Queen of Hearts (qi) is reading the latest release notes (夰) to her costume (乔). Unfortunately someone smeared a banana (丿) all over the release notes.
surname Qiao
bridge / CL:座[zuo4]

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) put up a Christmas Tree (木) in the aorta's kitchen (ao2), but the star at the top is missing. She decides to replace it herself, puts on a bright yellow banana costume (乔) and uses a bridge (桥) to go straight to the top of the tree.
emigrant / to reside abroad

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is checking every morning who enters the aorta (ao2). Because Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is living abroad (侨) is living abroad but is not supposed to, every morning she puts on a costume (乔) so that she is not recognized.
surname Yao

= + + : The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
to shake / to rock / to row / to crank

= + + : The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]

= + : Maud Younger (y) is dancing with Tang Yao (尧) in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). They are dancing to the music produced by Bigfoot (丈) playing a Sihu (兀).
distant / remote / far / far away

= + + : Maud Younger (y) got a new razor (爫) which came with a remote (遥) control. In the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she wants to try it out but accidentally activates her gladiator sandals (辶) remotely which then promptly walk over all her pottery (缶).
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to stay en vogue (髦), so he decides to get some dreadlocks (髟) in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). He is using his last hair (毛) to create a meager single dreadlock, but unfortunately it becomes a bang (髦) which is very annoying because it is always dangling between his eyes.
handsome / good-looking
surname Yao
variant of 堯|尧, legendary emperor Yao, c. 2200 BC / embankment
hut / shack / small window / variant of 僚[liao2]
Laos