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Brushwood


Radical Combination


Meaning

Brushwood, Firewood

Mnemonic

If you could stop spooning water onto that tree we could use it for brushwood. But if you don't stop, then it will be too wet to burn at all! Stop already!

We need to use that brushwood to make a fire! So stop spooning water on it!


Reading

On'yomi

さい, し

Kun'yomi

しば

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You finally set the brushwood on fire and suddenly a Shiba (しば) Inu jumps out of the flames. So that's why they named this wood after them or... or vice versa?

Shiba inu's come from setting brushwood on fire! That must have been how they got their name!


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