Pinyin "sou4"
In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "sou4" is split up into two parts: "s" and "ou4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.
Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "s"
Socrates.
Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ou4"
In the outhouse's bathroom.
Characters pronounced sou4
(bound form) to cough
嗽
=
口
+
欶
:
Socrates (s) made a mandarin (口) drink in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and filled it in a drinking bottle (欶), but he did it very sloppy: there are still big pieces of and even whole mandarins in the drink. As he sucks and sucks at the bottle finally he sucks in a whole mandarin and coughs (嗽) without end.