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  • 倒
  • 率

20 経 Passage of Time

Alternative Meanings

Pass Through, Manage

Radical Combination

  • 糸 Thread
  • 圣 Tombstone

Readings

On’yomi

けい

Kun’yomi

た, へ

Nanori

None

Meaning Mnemonic

Tying a thread to a tombstone each year will help you manage the passage of time. That way you’ll know how many years it has been, since you’ll have one thread for each year to count.

Hints

Picture yourself coming back to the same tombstone each passing year and tying a new thread to it. You're trying to manage these feelings by keeping track of how much time passes.

Reading Mnemonic

Dealing with the passage of time can be tough, so after you tie the thread to the tombstone, each year you eat a piece of cake (けい). You already eat cake to mark the passage of time on your birthday, so why not here as well?

Hints

Maybe this is your future tombstone, and eating cake each year is a preemptive celebration of your death day! Ooh, what a spooky theory.

Visually Similar Kanji

  • 軽
    • かる
    • Lightweight
  • 怪
    • かい
    • Suspicious
  • 径
    • けい
    • Diameter

Found In Vocabulary

  • 経験
    • けいけん
    • Experience
  • 経つ
    • たつ
    • To Pass
  • 経済
    • けいざい
    • Economy
  • 経験者
    • けいけんしゃ
    • Experience...
  • 経済的
    • けいざいてき
    • Economic
  • 経済学
    • けいざいがく
    • Economics
  • 経路
    • けいろ
    • Route
  • 経緯
    • けいい
    • Details
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