Pinyin "jing1"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "jing1" is split up into two parts: "ji" and "(e)ng1". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "ji"

Ji is for Jeanne of Arc.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "(e)ng1"

In front of the engine.

Characters pronounced jing1

capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: Beijing is China's capital, and a characteristic landmark of Beijing is the building called the underpants. Joan of Arc (ji) is trying out Beijing's large underpants (京) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). The underpants have a nice pattern consisting of paintings of berets (亠), mandarins (口) and daisies (小).
abbr. for Beijing / surname Jing / Jing ethnic minority
surname Jing

= + + : Jeanne of Arc is boiling with indignation when she sees a silk worm (or rather a book worm?) looking out of a hole in her sacred tome in front of Stonehenge. To drive the worm out, Jeanne attached a boxing glove to a steel beam and gains momentum for her sucker punch.
classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]

= + + : Jeanne of Arc is boiling with indignation when she sees a silk worm (or rather a book worm?) looking out of a hole in her sacred tome in front of Stonehenge. To drive the worm out, Jeanne attached a boxing glove to a steel beam and gains momentum for her sucker punch.
eye / eyeball

= + : After drinking from the fountain of youth (青) in front of Stonehenge ((e)ng1), Jeanne of Arc (ji) feels how she is reverberating with new energy. She feels her eyeballs (睛) as energetic as two eyes of providence (目).
eye; eyeball
essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)

= + : Jeanne of Arc scoops a bit of water from the fountain of youth in front of Stonehenge and pours it into a bowl of rice. The water refines the rice into rice wine, and as Jeanne drinks it, she finds her spirit renewed.
to startle / to be frightened / to be scared / alarm

= + : Somebody set off Stonehenge's alarm in the middle of the night and Jeanne of Arc arrives in a rush to scare away any intruder with a flail. She was in such a rush and so tired though that she forgot to put on her pants and arrives in front of Stonehenge just wearing ridiculous underpants which feature a pattern of berets, mandarins and daisies.
crystal

= : Jeanne of Arc (ji) wants to solve the atomic structure of the sun, and so she uses a lot of suns (日) to create a crystal (晶) for X-ray crystallography in front of Stonehenge ((e)ng1).
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus) / alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]
stalk / stem / CL:條|条[tiao2]

= + : Jeanne of Arc (ji) wrote to Father Christmas (圣) that she wants a condom (茎) for her penis (茎), but instead Father Christmas only understood she wants a lot of stems (茎) so in front of Stonehenge ((e)ng1) he hands her a sheet of artificial lawn (艹).
to be fearful / apprehensive

= : As Jeanne of Arc (ji) is captured and disabled with two straitjackets (克) in front of Stonehenge ((e)ng1) she is very fearful (兢) and apprehensive (兢) of the things to come.
underground watercourse / archaic variant of 經|经[jing1]
leek flower / lush / luxuriant
Jing River