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Epidemic


Radical Combination


Meaning

Epidemic

Mnemonic

Turn a sickness into a weapon and it becomes an epidemic. This sickness spreads to everyone and it's all your fault because you put it in the water supply.

Imagine if countries decided to make sick weapons that would spread epidemics like this all over part of the world. Let's hope they don't...


Reading

On'yomi

えき

Kun'yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

These epidemics spread by 駅 (えき). Each train takes the sickness and shoots off in a different direction, spreading it further.

Picture a single 駅 on a map, bright red. Now watch the red spread to all of the other 駅 on the map, dyeing them red and spreading the epidemic all over your country.


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