滑 Slide

Radical Combination

• 氵

  Tsunami
• 骨

  Bone

Meaning

Primary

Slide

Alternatives

Slip, Glide

Mnemonic

A tsunami breaks your bones, not from hitting you, but from making you slide and slip into stuff. Hard to keep your footing in a tsunami, you know? You're slipping and sliding all over the place.

Hints

Imagine being knocked off your feet by a tsunami, then sliding into a wall or something and breaking a bone or two. You try to get up, but you slip again, breaking a few more bones in the process.

Readings

On’yomi

かつ

Kun’yomi

すべ, なめ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

As you continue to slide around you see a bunch of stray cats (かつ) slipping and sliding too. They're yowling and sliding right toward you. Uh oh…

Hints

Picture these stray cats trying to right themselves on the wet ground and slipping again each time. They're doing that thing cats do when they touch water, twisting their bodies around and trying to cling to you. Great, now you've got a bunch of slippery cats perched atop your broken body.