咳 Cough

Radical Combination

• 口

  Mouth
• 亥

  Slice

Meaning

Primary

Cough

Mnemonic

Your mouth was sliced open by a terrible cough.

Hints

You've heard of a hacking cough, right? Well, this is worse. It's a slicing cough, and it's sliced right through your mouth, too. Imagine it flapping around while you cough.

Readings

On’yomi

がい

Kun’yomi

せき

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Oddly enough, some people find your cough sexy (せき).

Hints

That slicing cough opened up a nice gravelly, sexy voice. Between coughs, you start noticing all the looks you're getting. You realize your cough is making you really sexy to all the people around you. Cough cough cough.