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Hot Water


Radical Combination


Meaning

Hot Water

Mnemonic

If there's a tsunami it's easy to get hot water. Just stick your hand out the window as the tsunami goes by and poof! That water's HOT.

Picture the boiling hot tsunami water as it comes for you. Psh, this will be easy.


Reading

On'yomi

とう

Kun'yomi

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

As the hot water comes, you just lift up the bottom of the yurt (ゆ) you live in, and it comes flowing in. All of the cups, pots, and barrels you laid on your floor are now full of hot water.

You decided to live in a yurt because of the easy access it provides to hot water. They're so mobile!


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