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Radical Combination

• ｲ

  Leader
• 象

  Elephant

Meaning

Primary

Image

Alternative

Statue

Mnemonic

The leader of the elephants is so great, they put up an image or statue of him everywhere. Every house, every street corner — his image looks down on all the other elephants at all times.

Hints

For now, just imagine the leader of the elephants being told images and statues of him are being put up everywhere. Don't think about what the statue looks like, because that's next.

Readings

On’yomi

ぞう

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

When they unveil the images and statues of the leader elephant, everyone gasps. They look like him, but he's a zombie (ぞう). Gasp!

Hints

But this is exactly what the leader of the elephants asked for. You see, the leader of the elephants was a big fan of zombies. Imagine how excited he'd get to have this zombie version of himself appearing as images and statues, all across the land.