Pinyin "tiao2"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "tiao2" is split up into two parts: "ti" and "ao2". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "ti"

Ti is for Mother Teresa.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ao2"

In the aorta's kitchen.

Characters pronounced tiao2

strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bungee cord.

= + : 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.
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).
reed grass / Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora) (old)
Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus) / chub
(literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle)
variant of 鞗[tiao2]
to jump / to climb over / to leap / to posture / a gangway