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Distressed


Radical Combination


Meaning

Distressed, Troubled

Mnemonic

If you put your mouth on a tree and try to eat it, you’re probably a distressed and troubled individual (unless you’re a woodchuck). You don’t need to eat this tree, you have plenty of food at home. Get your mouth off that tree you distressed child.

Imagine yourself as this distressed and troubled person. Taste the taste of sap and bark in your mouth as you nom on the tree with all your might.


Reading

On'yomi

こん

Kun'yomi

こま

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You thought you were the most distressed and troubled person in this situation, but then you look up and see a very equally distressed and troubled condor (こん). The tree you've been mouthing is its home. And now you've slobbered all over it, ruining this condor's day.

Picture a very distressed condor watching you munch your mouth all over its tree house. You've made a condor enemy this day.


Visually Similar Kanji


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