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Rope


Radical Combination


Meaning

Rope

Mnemonic

Someone threaded a turtle into long skinny pieces, making a rope.

A rope made of threaded turtles. Go ahead and grab onto it and see how it feels. A little rough, but strong.


Reading

On'yomi

じょう

Kun'yomi

なわ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The person making these threaded turtle ropes is none other than the local farmhand Joe (じょう). You watch him stretch and peel pieces of turtle off of turtles, then thread them together into a rope.

Besides being awful, where did Joe learn to thread turtles into ropes? Why does he have so many turtles despite living on such an inland farm? These are nice ropes that Joe is making though, and you kind of want to buy some.


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