Pinyin "yue4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "yue4" is split up into two parts: "yu" and "e4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "yu"

Yu is for Yu the Great who tamed the floods.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "e4"

In the elevator's bathroom.

Characters pronounced yue4

moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is modelling a moon (月) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She uses a stapler (⺆) to staple a lot of capacitors (二) together to form a moon shape, while the real moon is sitting for her.
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑[wu3 xing2])
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) / see also 五刑[wu3 xing2]

= + : The moon (月) was spying on the Yu the Great (yu) in the space station's bathroom (e4). As a punishment, Yu the Great is going to amputate his feet (刖) with a kitchen knife (刂).
music
surname Yue
variant of 鉞|钺[yue4]

= + : Yu the Great inspects her weapon collection in the elevator's bathroom. She has a metal box which contains a spear and a battle-axe.
generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南

= + : Yu the Great is extremely mad at all the nordic walkers in the elevator's bathroom. With a battle-axe, she chops nordic walking poles into small pieces. The more she chops, the smaller the pieces get.
to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more

= + : Yu the Great is extremely mad at all the nordic walkers in the elevator's bathroom. With a battle-axe, she chops nordic walking poles into small pieces. The more she chops, the smaller the pieces get.
to inspect / to review / to read / to peruse / to go through / to experience

= + : Yu the Great (yu) has to inspect (阅) a cash exchange booth (兑) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She finds lots of problems and just as she is reading (阅) the rights to the owner, the owner opens a trap door (门) just below her feet to make her disappear.
to jump / to leap

= + : Snow White (夭) and Yu the Great (yu) are sack racing in the elevator's bathroom (e4), just that they are not using sacks but huge cowboy boots (⻊). They are competing for who can leap (跃) farther.
surname Yue

= + : Yu the Great (yu) buried her wife's parents and paternal uncles (岳) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). For each of them she set up a small mound (丘), and her wife's parents got the highest peak of the mountain ridge (岳). It was very hard for her to pile up the mounds because she used a fork (山) to do so.
surname Yue

= + : Yu the Great (yu) buried her wife's parents and paternal uncles (岳) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). For each of them she set up a small mound (丘), and her wife's parents got the highest peak of the mountain ridge (岳). It was very hard for her to pile up the mounds because she used a fork (山) to do so.
high mountain / highest peak of a mountain ridge

= + : Yu the Great (yu) buried her wife's parents and paternal uncles (岳) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). For each of them she set up a small mound (丘), and her wife's parents got the highest peak of the mountain ridge (岳). It was very hard for her to pile up the mounds because she used a fork (山) to do so.
wife's parents and paternal uncles

= + : Yu the Great (yu) buried her wife's parents and paternal uncles (岳) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). For each of them she set up a small mound (丘), and her wife's parents got the highest peak of the mountain ridge (岳). It was very hard for her to pile up the mounds because she used a fork (山) to do so.
Cantonese / short name for Guangdong 廣東|广东[Guang3 dong1]
pleased

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is operating a cash exchange booth (兑) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She is very pleased (悦) that since she started displaying her enormous flail (忄) her business goes very smoothly.
key / also pr. [yao4]