Pinyin final: "ei4"

The Pinyin final "ei4" 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 "ei4" can appear in.

Mnemonics for ei4

In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom.

Characters with ei4

surname Wei / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC), located in present day Henan and Hebei Provinces

= + : A steel beam came loose in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. Willy Walrus guards the scene with a crowbar against gazers until the construction team to repair it arrives.
to guard / to protect / to defend / abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene / health / abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet

= + : A steel beam came loose in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. Willy Walrus guards the scene with a crowbar against gazers until the construction team to repair it arrives.
not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°

= + : Shortly after finishing a new installation in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, Ai Weiwei is imprisoned by Willy Walrus, because—out of all places—Ai Weiwei put his new installation right into Willy Walrus's toilet. Ai Weiwei's installation is a Christmas tree with a tiny, slightly tilted flute on top. Ai Weiwei would really, really like to correct the tilted flute, but so far, Willy Walrus has not yet let him out.
taste / smell / (fig.) (noun suffix) feel / quality / sense / (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription

= + : Willy Walrus is wondering about that strange smell in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower. He can't quite place it. The smell is from Ai Weiwei's new installation: A tower of mandarins.
to conceal / dark

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to give the kids of an orphanage the sun (日) as a Christmas present, but he wants to keep it secret, so he asks Ai Weiwei (未) to conceal (昧) the sun for him in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Naturally, with the sun hidden, it gets quite dark (昧).
stomach / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Willy Walrus (w) set up a mooncake (月) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). This led to him eating way too much cake, and now his stomach (胃) hurts. To relief the pain he uses a hot water bottle (mnemonic symbol for 胃).
bluish-green / green jade

= + : Kitty Cat (cu) caught a bluish-green (翠) kingfisher (翠) and brings one of its bluish-green (翠) feathers (卒) to the soldier (卒) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4).
lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people

= + : Beelzebub (b) successfully affected the lives of whole generations (辈) by alluring them with expensive cabriolets (车). In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) he is sitting in one of his cabriolets and looking through a lifetime of negatives (非), each taken when he spoiled another victim.
to break down / to break into pieces / fragmentary

= + : In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) Susan Saint Bernard (su) got some stones (石) into her web which she cannot get rid of. Fortunately a soldier (卒) helps her to get rid of the rocks by smashing them into small pieces (碎) using his martial arts skills.
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) meets a bat (夕) in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower (ei4). They make a bet: The one who is older (岁) will be allowed to eat the other using a fork (山).
dirt / filth

= + : In the end, after many years of age (岁) everything ends up as dust (秽). This is what Helga Horse (hu) realizes in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) after she left a bowl of cereals (禾) for several years (岁) and the cereals turned to dirt (秽).
to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp / ☱

= + : Doggy Dog opened a cash exchange booth in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. His first customers are Apollo and a mean crocodile.
surname Dui
kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble

= + : Lancelot (l) wants to save mankind (类), so he plans to breed the perfect rice plant. To find the perfect seed he programmed a robot (大) to classify (类) every corn of a sack of rice (米) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) so he can choose the best one.
pure / unmixed / essence

= + : The rubber chicken soldier (卒) stored a sack of extra-pure (粹) rice (米) essence (粹) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), but Kitty Cat (cu) mistook it for her litter box and messed it up.
taxes / duties

= + : Sheldon Shrimp opened an exchange booth in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, and shortly thereafter a tax collector visits to collect the tax. Sheldon's business was rather mediocre though, so he can only offer a bowl of cereals as payment.
variant of 為|为[wei4]
because of / for / to

= + : This one looks like a bird with crazy hair, and when I googled "bird with crazy hair", wow was I amazed how many birds with crazy hair there are! Penguins are birds with crazy hair! So let's use a penguin for this character.

= + : The crazy hair penguin wants to use the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, but because Willy Walrus just finished it stinks like hell. The first thing crazy hair penguin does is to press the button to release a heap of blossoms to make the air breathable again.
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

= + : Rosa Luxemburg visits Willy Walrus in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He sits in his place--an armchair--like a king, and Rosa presents him a vase.

= + : An armchair.
can (i.e. have the skill, know how to) / likely to / sure to / to meet / to get together / meeting / gathering / union / group / association / a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [hui3])

= + : Helga horse is almost fainting when she enters the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. Neanderthal man is giving off an extraordinarily smelly cloud. She didn't even think that this was possible at all.