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Fiber


Radical Combination


Meaning

Fiber, Slender

Mnemonic

A drunkard crosses thread across special spikes to separate the fibers. The best way to separate the fibers of thread is to get a drunkard to do it. If you're too precise it will just snap. You gotta be loose with it! Just flop them onto the spikes and the fibers will come apart by themselves!

Imagine a drunkard crossing threads onto spikes and pulling the tiny fibers free. You don't think you could do that. Maybe if you got drunk too...


Reading

On'yomi

せん

Kun'yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You stare at the fibers easily coming apart when you realize that this drunkard seems to have a few extra legs... and hair and a tail? This isn't just a drunk guy, it's a centaur (せん). Maybe separating fibers is really a centaur trick, and that's why normal people can't do it...

Watch the centaur cross the fibers and separate them with his spikes. How strange.


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