Ulrike's Mnemonics

If you hold ONE finger horizontally for too long it will start to ITCH (イチ).

In shock over the illegal U-turn (ユウ), he covered his mouth (口) with his RIGHT hand ().

If you take the U(ウ)-Boot (U-Boot: German for "submarine") to AMErika (あめ), then you won’t notice the RAIN. They just know it’s RAINING when the one (一) piece of cloth (巾) they hang out is dripping wet.

"Get YEN coins from a teller's window and put the special ones in the blue ENvelope (エン)."

The KING rules the three (三) entities: heaven, Earth, and humans. He is the vertical force ( | ) binding them together. The crowd cheers for him, and when he faints, everyone screams "OH (オウ), no!"

The SOUND that my blue ONkel (オン: German for "uncle") from INdia (イン) makes when he stands (立) on the sun (日) must be truly horrible.

The T-bar with the droopy LOWER handle is of such INFERIOR quality that it broke off and fell on the blue CAr (カ) BELOW.

Flames of FIRE shot out of the blue CAr (カ). "HI (ひ: German sound for "sniggering"), hi, hi," chuckled the arsonist.

HANA (はな) called to her friend, "Look at that beautiful blue CAlla (カ) lily! FLOWERS appear when the plant (艹) undergoes a change (化)."

Under an ornate roof (), each child (子) LEARNS about GArlic COOking (ガク) and practices with a blue pot.

If you put the big blue KEY (キ) in the keyhole marked with X, a SPIRIT-like steam (气) will be released into the ATMOSPHERE.

The NINE desperately wanted to be a ten (十) but it was about to fall over. So it used a blue hook-shaped Q(キュウ)-tip to lean on.

This very CUte (キュウ) person (亻) all dressed in blue RESTs against a tree (木) on her DAY OFF.

He presented two GOLD nuggets ( \ / ) covered () with earth (土) to the blue KINg (キン).

I am working (工) to create a hole (穴) in the roof to enjoy the EMPTY SKY, but instead I see a blue KUH (クウ: German for "cow") balloon.

A pitted crescent MOON shone down on them. She whispered to him, "Do you have the GUTS (ガツ) to go to the graveyard? The nugGETS (ゲツ) on Grandpa’s grave will look blue in the moonlight."

The big (大) spotted (丶) DOG named KEN (ケン) is standing on his hind legs.

I bend down (儿) to LOOK AT KEN (ケン), who is lying on the floor all blue. I want to SEE with my own eyes (目) that he is alive.

On this strange chair with a cover, you can only sit until you are FIVE. The cover is blue and doubles as a GO (ゴ) board.

Saying "KUCHI KUCHI (くち) coo" to a baby makes it OPEN its MOUTH with delight. But then its lips turn blue because COld (コウ) air gets in.

It's easy to recognize the SCHOOL. Its roof features six (六) wooden (木) crosses (乂) COAted (コウ) with blue paint.

She grabbed the I-beam (工) with her LEFT hand () to divert attention while she HID A RIbbon (ひだり) in her blue SAri (サ).

When her SON (サン) is feeling blue, she writes beautiful THREE-line poems.

This is the triple-peaked MOUNTAIN that my SON (サン) climbs when he is feeling blue.

A long-armed CHILD named SUE (ス) is lying on a blue COtton (こ) SHEet (シ).

FOUR corners of the square were supposed to be marked, but SHE (シ) ran out of steam after two.

Skeins of THREAD are laid out on a blue SHEet (シ).

A child (子) at her home (宀) in a remote SECTION OF THE VILLAGE studies the Chinese CHARACTERS embroidered on her mother’s blue JEAns (ジ).

This EAR looks just like the one on my blue robot MIMI (みみ).

SHE CHEAted (シチ) and turned the SEVEN upside down. "NA-NA (なな: German "scolding" sound)," scolded her partner.

He saw a blue two-wheeled rickSHAW (シャ) and decided to make it into a CAR.

A HAND with fingers spread out will never fit in the tiny blue SHOE (シュ).

A roman numeral TEN (X) is balancing on its TOEs (とお) until they turn blue.

When I DARE (でる) to COME OUT from behind the bamboo SHOOTS (シュツ), I see mountain (山) upon mountain (山).

The kneeling WOMAN with the outstretched arms was the one who dated short, blue-haired JOE (ジョ).

In his magic SHOW (ショウ) he uses a blue COat (こ) to turn a hook (亅) into two SMALL needles (ハ)—and says he is not CHEAting (ちい(さい)).

That bar has a handle that sticks UP ABOVE the baseline. Whenever JOE (ジョウ) is blue he tries to balance on the handle on one foot.

Blue-haired MORRIs (もり) said that a FOREST has at least one tree (木) more than a grove (林).

This headless, armless PERSON works as a blue NINja (ニン).

The WATER of incredibly blue SWIss (スイ) rivers squeezes through narrow banks.

Whenever he reaches a blue stop sign, SEIji (セイ) tells himself, "To stop (止) at the line (一) is the CORRECT thing to do."

A GROWING plant serves as a symbol for LIFE in the SHOW (ショウ) on the stage on the blue SEE (セイ: German for "lake").

The PALE plants that grow () on the SHOre (ショウ) of the blue SEE (セイ: German for "lake") appear BLUE when the moon (月) shines.

A clear moon indicates that EVENING has arrived. And YOU (ゆう) want to celebrate by hitting the slopes at night on our blue SKIs (セキ).

A square STONE at the base of the cliff fell on my blue SKI (セキ) and caused my ISCHIas (いし: German for "sciatica") to flare up.

The fire () glowed RED. It melted all the snow, exposing the earth (土) below and making him feel silly for wearing blue SKIs (セキ).

"A picture is worth a THOUSAND words," said the SENator (セン) in the blue suit, studying an image of Jesus with a cross (十) in one hand and a whip (丿) in the other.

A big rod ( | ) is floating down the RIVER, right in the CENter (セン) between the banks ().

The blue-haired SENator's (セン) legs (儿) carried him AHEAD toward his DESTINATION, but his mind was on LAST week and the birth () of his son.

Judging from the sun (日), it must be 10 (十) already. Time goes by QUICKLY when you are SEWing (ソウ) a blue quilt.

A FOOT with a heel () and a kneecap (口) constitute half a LEG. It SUFFICES that the blue SOCKs (ソク) go up only to the marker on the shin ().

It is blue-haired SONia's (ソン) job to measure (寸) all trees (木) in the VILLAGE.

This boy who is trying to look as BIG as possible wears DEIne (ダイ: German for "your") blue TIE (タイ), which hangs to his knees.

When strength (力) is needed in the rice field (田), the MAN in blue DUNgarees (ダン) comes to help.

The CHINESE arrow (丨) with blue CHEWing (チュウ) gum on the tip hits the target (口) right in the MIDDLE.

I pinned the INSECT () to the bottom of the showcase with a little sign (中) but someone obscured the writing with blue CHEWing gum (チュウ).

The TOWN where the blue-haired CHOsen (チョウ) one lived was built around a rice field (田) with a statue of a giant nail (丁) in the middle.

The blue-haired AMErican (あめ) TENor (テン) looked up in awe while singing this aria: "Above us all there is one (一) big (大) SKY."

When the DENtist (デン) feels blue, he strolls along the paths that cross the RICE FIELD.

This sturdy plant grows in the EARTH even if DOgs (ド) keep peeing on it.

"Hold TWO fingers horizontally and lift your blue FOOT Up (ふた) to touch the opposite KNEE (ニ), also blue."

The HEAt (ひ) of the SUN powers NIETZSCHE’s (ニチ: German philosopher) blue CAr (か) by DAY.

The blue-eyed NEW (ニュウ) Yorker ENTERED the teepee (入) only after the Native American called out in an EErie (い(る)) voice, telling him to COME IN.

Every YEAR, blue-haired NENa (ネン) brings the person () guarding the well () a blue TOSHIba (とし) laptop.

A WHITE ray ( ' ) of sunshine (日) falls on the bowl of blue HUCKleberries (ハク).

The teacher had a special nose. It would always sneeze EIGHT times—four on the left side and four on the right—always with a tremendous HATSCHI (はち: German sound of a sneeze).

"What? HE's YAKUza (ヒャク)? No way! Only about one (一) in a HUNDRED of the white (白) males in this town has ties to those gangsters."

Blue-haired MONica (モン) tells her students to dot their i's and cross their t's (亠) in all SENTENCES. Otherwise she is going to cross out (乂) everything they've written.

This TREE with the sweeping branches has a blue KEY (き) on top so that the blue BOCK (ボク: German for "buck") cannot reach it.

Under the blue sky of HONolulu (ホン) he wonders how much of a tree (木) it takes to make one (一) BOOK.

Blue-haired MEI (メイ) stands at the window (口) each evening (夕), calling her lover's NAME.

An upright EYE painted on the blue MElon (め) seemed to MOCK (モク) people.

He is STANDING there, staring at the huge blue RITZ (リツ) Hotel in front of him.

RICKY (リキ) turned blue from all the effort of showing off the STRENGTH of his biceps.

Blue-haired RINgo (リン) was the only person who called the two trees (木) in his front yard a FOREST.

Whoever wins this game of rock (丶), paper (一), scissors (八), using a blue ROCK (ロク), will get the SIX-pack.

Blue-haired INgrid (イン) CONSULTS the archery manual before PULLING the string (丨) of her bow (弓).

The dark CLOUDS over the blue lagOON (ウン) that look like two (二) noses (ム) promise rain (雨).

In her travels (辶) to a DISTANT land (土), she made sure to have enough food to put in her mouth (口), comfortable clothes (), and of course her blue TOY (とおい).

"WHAT can (可) a person (亻) say to the president?" asked the blue-haired NANNY (なに). "WHATEVER you say," he replied, "don't mention blue CAlla (カ) lilies!"

Using dippers (斗), they filled the director's blue CAr (カ) with grain (禾). Half the DEPARTMENT was in on the "CRIME."

You see a lot of lanterns () and crossed legs (夂) in a SUMMER dance around a blue CAr (カ) filled with NUTS (なつ).

Blue-haired KEvin's (ケ) FAMILY has a fancy roof (宀) on their HOUSE, but the inside looks like pigs (豕) live there.

In this picture, blue-haired UTA (うた) has her mouth wide open. It is possible (可) that she is yawning (欠). But it is also possible (可) that she is singing a SONG or reciting a POEM.

To preserve his PICTURES, blue-haired GArfield (ガ) attaches each one to a wooden lattice (田) that hangs (丨) from a rod (一) in an open box (凵).

"To build this blue KIte (カイ), make this square nut GO AROUND the bolt at least 10 TIMES," said blue-haired Emile (エ).

"OW (あ(う))!" said the two (二) people who bumped elbows (ム) at a MEETING under the awning ().

"Every (毎) drop of water (氵) flows to the OCEAN," muses blue-haired KYle (カイ).

At the party (会) the blue-haired twins KYle (カイ) and Emile (エ) gave out colorful threads (糸). The guests had to arrange them to make a PICTURE of the hosts.

A SHELLFISH with protruding legs becomes tangled up with a sunken blue KIte (かい).

Because it was already evening (夕) and quite dark OUTSIDE, our blue-haired GUIde (ガイ) MISSED the sharp right turn (ト). We should have gone with the OTHER guy.

When MA (ま) has the blues, she appreciates the SPACE in the gate (門) that lets sun (日) into the room.

You should have seen the EXPRESSION on the lad's (彦) FACE when I showed him the blue GUN (ガン) made of big shells (頁).

"Water (氵) turns into STEAM (气) when heated," blue-haired KEIth (キ) explained.

Blue-eyed KEIth (キ) says (言) he himself (己) WROTE DOWN the sequence of events from MEMORY.

Blue-haired KEIth (キ) RETURNED triumphantly with sword (刂) in hand (彐), FOLLOWED by blue-eyed KAEla (かえ(る)), who covered (冖) her head with a delicate cloth (巾).

"The COW with a broken horn? I call her USCHI (うし)."

In the middle of the rice field (田) he made a fire (灬) and roasted the FISH that was still on the hook (⺈). Then he said, "Now hand me the spices from the blue SACK, ANNA (さかな)."

In the back of the blue KIOsk (キョウ), in a small (小) opening (口) covered by a lid (亠), they hide the map of the CAPITAL's secret passages.

"At the blue KIOsk (キョウ) they're displaying an insect (虫) that can use its incredibly STRONG nose (ム) to pull the string of a bow (弓)," says blue-haired HuGO (ゴウ).