Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Drawing

Alternatives

Picture, Painting

Mnemonic

There's a close-up of a leaf in a rice paddy inside of a box. Wait, it's not a box, this whole thing is just a drawing.

Readings

On’yomi

が, かく

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The drawing seems to have something else in the rice paddy, behind the leaf. You realize the drawing is actually of a gargoyle () and a cock (かく). You see the cock sitting on top of the gargoyle, crowing into the sky.

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