煎 Roast

Radical Combination

• 前

  Front
• 灬

  Boil

Meaning

Primary

Roast

Mnemonic

If only the front of something gets boiled, you're going to have to roast it next. Roasting is the best way to cook something all the way through — especially when you've only managed to boil the front of it.

Hints

You must really be a lousy cook to fail so badly at boiling something. Thankfully, roasting it will be an excellent backup plan.

Readings

On’yomi

せん

Kun’yomi

い

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

What is it that you're going to roast? A centaur (せん). Hopefully you've got a pretty big oven to roast this thing in, because centaurs are not small.

Hints

Imagine trying to jam this centaur into your oven so you can roast it. It was too large to fit in your pot — hence why you only boiled the front of it — but you're confident that you'll get it into your oven somehow.