Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Lumber

Alternatives

Material, Timber

Mnemonic

A tree to a genius immediately becomes lumber. They can look at the tree and see more: the ability to turn it into lumber into material and use it for a million different things.

Readings

On’yomi

ざい

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

This genius doesn't want to use the lumber to build a house or a chair, no no, they're going to use these materials to build a xylophone (ざい)! The most difficult instrument to create!!

Visually Similar Kanji

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