User:Brettz9/chinesemnemonics

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These are just sound mnemonics....Graphical ones to be added later...

As in order at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Chinese_Pinyin_index_a#a :

a[edit]

Possible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "a": a dirty pickle (in the mouth) can make one hoarse of voice (and need to exclaim ah!)

  • a1: Used in translation; pickle/dirty; actinium; ac; prefix for people's names/used in transliteration;
  • a2: hoarse of voice
  • a3: ?
  • a4: ?
  • a5: exclamatory particle; ?

ai1[edit]

Possible mnemonic of tieing together meanings of Chinese "ai1": "I (ai) exclaimed in agreement (and in order) that I (ai) pitied him who longed for the dust."

1 sorrow, grief, pity, to grieve for, to pity, to lament

2 an interjection, hey, lookout, why etc

3 an interjection, to express realization or agreement (yes, oh, right, etc)

4 (Cantonese) that

5  ?

6 dirt, dust, angstrom

7  ?

8 lean to, in order, in sequence

9 desire, want, long for; intend

10 an exclamation of confirmation

11 an exclamation of confirmation

12  ?

13 iridium einsteinium

14 es