段 Steps

Radical Combination

• Comb
• 殳

  Weapon

Meaning

Primary

Steps

Alternative

Stairs

Mnemonic

Cut this comb up with your weapon and turn it into the steps for some stairs.

Hints

When you think about it, a comb is like a ladder. So if you cut all the rungs off with your weapon and put them on the ground, they turn into stairs!

Readings

On’yomi

だん

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You slowly work to create these stairs, you have to slice up a lot of combs, and at dawn (だん) they are done!

Hints

Imagine standing at the top of the stairs you made yourself, looking down at the entire town below you, as the light of dawn breaks and fills everything before you with light. And now more people can see this beautiful sight if they climb your steps.