Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Rope

Mnemonic

Someone threaded a turtle into long skinny pieces, making a rope.

Readings

On’yomi

じょう

Kun’yomi

なわ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The person making these threaded turtle ropes is none other than the local farmhand Joe (じょう). You watch him stretch and peel pieces of turtle off of turtles, then thread them together into a rope.

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