助 Help

Radical Combination

• 且

  Top Hat
• 力

  Power

Meaning

Primary

Help

Mnemonic

With top hat power, you're able to help anyone.

Hints

Imagine putting on your top hat and getting power from it. Then, you use that power to help someone. It's important to make the association that it's the top hat giving you the power to help that person. You're basically Frosty the Snow Man.

Readings

On’yomi

じょ

Kun’yomi

たす, すけ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The person you help with your top hat power? It's Jo-Anne (じょ).

Hints

You can imagine saving her however you like. Perhaps she was under a car, and you used your top hat powers to help her out of that situation by lifting it above your head.

Note: Jo-Anne is the character we're using with じょ reading mnemonics. She is short compared to Joe (じょう), the giant farmhand, which is how you'll differentiate the two similar readings.