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Use Up


Radical Combination


Meaning

Use Up, Exhaust

Mnemonic

You see shrimp on ice at the market in the morning. "I'll get some on the way home" you think to yourself. Later that evening, you see no shrimp, just ice. The supply of shrimp has been exhausted. It's all gone! You never thought they'd use up their shrimp supply so quickly.

Imagine the lack of shrimp on the ice. All you wanted was some delicious shrimp for dinner, but now it's all gone.


Reading

On'yomi

じん

Kun'yomi

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

How could the store use up its shrimp supply so quickly? Suddenly you notice the worker behind the fish counter has shrimp stuffed into their jeans (じん) . Aha! The culprit!

Imagine the worker's jeans and how gross they are with all those shrimp stuffed into them. Yuck!


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