宛 Address

Radical Combination

• 宀

  Roof
• 夕

  Evening
• 巳

  Snake

Meaning

Primary

Address

Mnemonic

On your roof every evening you meet with snakes. All snakes know your address.

Hints

You're snake famous. Snakes go on a pilgrimage to your address every evening. Your address is passed down from snake generation to snake generation.

Readings

On’yomi

えん

Kun’yomi

あて

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The snakes come to your address every night to receive the greatest gift you can give a snake: a 手 (あて).

Hints

"You only give a 手 a night. Newcomers might have a 手 or two, but some snakes who have been coming to your address for years have hundreds of 手s.

They are human hands."