算 Calculate

Radical Combination

• 竹

  Bamboo
• 目

  Eye
• 廾

  Twenty

Meaning

Primary

Calculate

Alternative

Calculation

Mnemonic

If someone sticks bamboo in your eye twenty times, the first thing your brain does is calculate how painful it is. Your brain's pain calculation will determine how you calculate your next move.

Hints

Your next move is to go to the doctor, because your brain has calculated that the pain is extreme. Imagine the doctor asking how much it hurts. Well, on a scale of one to ten, doctor, I'd calculate this is about a twenty.

Readings

On’yomi

さん

Kun’yomi

そろ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Next you want to calculate how much punishment your bamboo attacker deserves, so you call on Santa-san (さん). Santa-san is always calculating how many pieces of coal the naughty children deserve, so he's perfect for this calculation job.

Hints

Imagine trekking through the frozen wastes of the North Pole (with your eye patch on) to obtain Santa-san's calculation advice. After much discussion, his concludes that your bamboo attacker deserves twenty. No, not twenty years in prison — just twenty pieces of coal. Oh, how disappointing…