網 Net

Radical Combination

• 糸

  Thread
• 岡

  Hill

Meaning

Primary

Net

Mnemonic

You see a thread-covered hill, but it's all lumpy and weird. You approach it to take a closer look, and you see it's actually a huge net with a bunch of stuff caught in it: fish, cats, tree branches. All this random stuff is what's making the net look so lumpy!

Hints

You'll need to differentiate this from 綱, which uses the same radicals (though 綱 has a real hill radical). Just remember that the "hill" in this one is all weird and lumpy because it's a net with a bunch of stuff caught in it.

Readings

On’yomi

もう

Kun’yomi

あみ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

This net is creating a serious obstacle to you mowing (もう) your lawn. The net has way too much stuff in it for you to be able to drag it away, so for now you're just going to have to mow around it.

Hints

Imagine the awkwardness of trying to mow the grass around this big, lumpy, writhing net full of loudly meowing cats, flopping fish, and goodness knows what else.