戒 Commandment

Radical Combination

• 戈

  Drunkard
• 廾

  Twenty

Meaning

Primary

Commandment

Mnemonic

The drunkard issued twenty commandments to his people.

Hints

He basically just made up a bunch of commandments to order all the other drunkards around and decided having twenty (twice the amount of that other religion he heard about) would be a good number.

Readings

On’yomi

かい

Kun’yomi

いまし

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The drunkard is yelling out his twenty commandments to the others at the bar, but they're all about kayaks (かい).

Hints

Commandment 1: Thou shalt not touch my kayak
Commandment 2: Thou shalt not look at my kayak
Commandment 3: Thou shalt give me beer to put in my kayak

It goes on like that for a while...