Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Pathetic

Mnemonic

With a lid, you hit yourself in the mouth and then kick it like a pathetic loser. You kick the lid, even though it is your fault that you hit yourself in the mouth with it. It’s not the lid’s fault. You don’t need to kick it. You’re being pathetic.

Readings

On’yomi

あい

Kun’yomi

あわ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You kick the lid one last time and it bounces off the wall and hits you in the eye (あい). How pathetic. You are a pathetic mess. You should have never kicked the lid. Now both your eye and your mouth are in pain, you pathetic fool, you.

Visually Similar Kanji

Found In Vocabulary