史 History

Radical Combination

• 史

  History

Meaning

Primary

History

Mnemonic

The history radical and the history kanji are the same.

Hints

Radicals have a history of sometimes reappearing as kanji later on, don't they?

Readings

On’yomi

し

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

History was full of famous sheep (し). Sure, there were important people in history too, but historical sheep are where it's at.

Hints

Imagine reading about sheep in a history book. There's Dolly, the first sheep clone in history, for example. And then there's… well, I'm sure there are tons.