beer – pee-joe

Written as píjiŭ or pijiu

To remember that beer is pronounced pee-joe (pijiu) in Mandarin Chinese, use the following mnemonic:

The beer had floating peas put in it as a joke (pee-joe).

Tones

1. Pee (peas) is a 2nd tone with ⁄ as an accent.

Associate peas, a 2nd tone, with a balloon filled with helium or anything that goes up. See Tones and Mnemonics.

The was lifted up out of the beer by a helium balloon. 

2. Jo (joke) is a 3rd tone with ∪ as an accent.

Associate joke, a 3rd tone, with a horse shoe or horse or smile. See Tones and Mnemonics.

The joke made him smile.

Remember

Pee = 2nd tone = /

Jo = 3rd tone = ∪