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Astray


Radical Combination


Meaning

Astray, Lost

Mnemonic

If you're riding your scooter through some rice, it's likely you've gone astray. Also you might be lost.

Usually there aren't paved areas inside areas of rice. You must be really lost if you ended up here with your scooter.


Reading

On'yomi

めい

Kun'yomi

まよ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You got so lost and went so astray you ended up on the Mayflower (めい), a ship that eventually took you across the Atlantic Ocean. Now you've really, really gone astray.

How you got so lost that you ended up on an old ship from 1620 is beyond my understanding. But you did it.


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