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Calculate


Radical Combination


Meaning

Calculate, Calculation

Mnemonic

If you get stabbed in the eye twenty times with bamboo, you’re going to have a hard time beginning to calculate where anything is. Taking a bamboo shoot to the eye is no pleasant experience, especially if done twenty times. You’d be blinded for sure. And a newly blinded person is going to have one heck of a time calculating where everything is without the power of sight.

Imagine getting jabbed with a bamboo shoot. Now imagine getting jabbed in the eye with a bamboo shoot. It’s going to hurt. Try and calculate exactly how painful this would be and imagine it happening to you.


Reading

On'yomi

さん

Kun'yomi

そろ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Do you know how Santa-san (さん) punishes naughty boys and girls in Asia? He doesn’t give them coal, Santa-san tortures them with twenty bamboo jabs to the eye. Yikes. Do you know how Santa-san calculates who is naughty and who is nice? By their school grades, of course.

Picture this evil Asian Santa-san, clad in blood red garments and brandishing pointed bamboo shoots in each hand. He’s a cold and calculating madman! You’d better start studying! Santa-san is watching!


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