Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Slice

Mnemonic

You use your car and an axe to slice down a pedestrian. This innocent guy is just walking along the road when you drive up to him in your car and axe him to death with your axe. You're all like, VROOM! AXE! Now this guy is dead because you sliced him down in cold blood.

Readings

On’yomi

ざん

Kun’yomi

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

After you slice down this poor man, you flee to Zanzibar (ざん). Zanzibar is really far from the scene of your murderous vehicular slicing attack, so you feel confident the cops won't find you here.

Visually Similar Kanji

Found In Vocabulary