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Carp


Radical Combination


Meaning

Carp, Koi

Mnemonic

If you're in Japan, the fish in your village are carp. You may know them as koi, too.

Picture your village in Japan. There's a big, still pond full of bright and beautiful giant carp. You hear the village kids giggle as they feed them and their big round mouths pop out of the water.


Reading

On'yomi

Kun'yomi

こい

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

A carp is called a koi (こい) in Japanese. We've used that word before so I hope you know it by now. A koi is a koi, you know?

Carp are koi and koi are carp. Blub blub.


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