Pinyin final: "ao3"

The Pinyin final "ao3" 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 "ao3" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ao3

In the aorta's living room.

Characters with ao3

early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely

= + : Mnemonic symbol: your very own annoying alarm clock going off in the morning.
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face.

There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.
to quarrel / to make a noise / noisy / to disturb by making a noise

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) and Smiley (少) are making a big noise (吵) about a mandarin (口) they both found at the same time inside of the aorta (ao3).
second (unit of time) / arc second (angular measurement unit) / (coll.) instantly

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) played a prank on the smiley (少) in the aorta (ao3). She prepared a bowl of cereals (禾) for him but she glued the spoon with superglue (三秒教) to the table so that thon cannot pick it up.
to sauté / to stir-fry / to speculate / to hype / to fire (sb)

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is stir-frying (炒) smileys (少) cut from potatoes over a fire (火) in the aorta (ao3).
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a safe.

In the aorta (ao3), the fool (呆) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) unite their forces to protect (保) the world and try to lock Beelzebub (b) in a safe (保).
Bulgaria / Bulgarian / abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4]
an earthwork / castle / position of defense / stronghold / used in place names, often as phonetic bao for "burg" or "bad"

= + : Beelzebub (b) created a new olace for his valuables. Inside of the aorta (ao3) he built a sand castle (堡). In the center of the castle (堡) there is a heap of clay (土) on which a safe (保) is resting.
to bite / to nip

= + : Linus Pauling (交) asks Maud Younger (y) for something to eat in the aorta (ao3). Maud gives him a mandarin (口) and Linus thankfully bites (咬) it.
variant of 咬[yao3]

= + : Linus Pauling (交) asks Maud Younger (y) for something to eat in the aorta (ao3). Maud gives him a mandarin (口) and Linus thankfully bites (咬) it.
jewel / gem / treasure / precious

= + : Beelzebub is busy drawing fake jewels and jade bracelets from a graduation cap in the aorta. He uses his magic graduation cap to change coal into precious treasure like jewels and jade bracelets to deceive and seduce humanity.
variant of 寶|宝[bao3]

= + : Beelzebub is busy drawing fake jewels and jade bracelets from a graduation cap in the aorta. He uses his magic graduation cap to change coal into precious treasure like jewels and jade bracelets to deceive and seduce humanity.
to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to finish" and the shape of the character: a prize cup.

Li Qingzhao (li) is responsible for manufacturing a prize cup (了). She only needs to add a poetic engraving. Unfortunately, she suffers from a writer's block. In the aorta's living room (ao3), someone left a cryptic message engraved on the walls using a sickle (乛), which is still lying on the floor. Being an accomplished poet Li Qingzhao is able to understand the message clearly (了), realizes its poetic potential and starts to engrave it on the prize cup using a crowbar (亅).
(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) arrived (到) in the aorta (ao3) and is greeted by Don Quixote (d), who, clumsily, topples and falls on to the ground (倒) right before Rosa when he actually wants to hug her.
manuscript / draft / stalk of grain

稿 = + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to blow up the skyscraper (高) inside of the aorta (ao3). He derives the blueprints of the skyscraper, and to encrypt his manuscript (稿) he draws his notes in a bowl of cereals (禾) using a stalk (稿).
variant of 稿[gao3]

稿 = + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to blow up the skyscraper (高) inside of the aorta (ao3). He derives the blueprints of the skyscraper, and to encrypt his manuscript (稿) he draws his notes in a bowl of cereals (禾) using a stalk (稿).
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

= + : Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).
good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

= + : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.