秒 Second

Radical Combination

• 禾

  Grain
• 少

  Few

Meaning

Primary

Second

Mnemonic

You only got a few grains on your plate. It only takes you a second to eat them. It can't take any longer because there were so few.

Hints

Count how many seconds it takes for you to eat the few grains you have. One... oh, they're gone.

Readings

On’yomi

びょう

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

And also, a second is how long it takes for your awful B.O. (びょう) to appear.

Hints

Whenever you eat a few grains, even if only for a second, you get a terrible reaction seconds later that causes some pretty terrible B.O.