縦 Vertical

Radical Combination

• 糸

  Thread
• 彳

  Loiter
• 丷

  Horns
• 疋

  Coat Rack

Meaning

Primary

Vertical

Mnemonic

When a thread loiters on the horns of a coat rack, it's always vertical. By loitering I mean hanging around, and by horns I mean the little bits sticking off a coat rack that you hang your vertical threads on. Obviously.

Hints

Picture this thread hanging (loitering) on the horn of your coat rack. Imagine yourself putting it there, then observing how it hangs. Naturally it's going to be vertical, right? That's just physics, baby.

Readings

On’yomi

じゅう

Kun’yomi

たて

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Whether or not a thread will hang vertical depends on how you 立てる (たて) your coat rack. If you 立てる the coat rack properly, the threads will hang off it in a perfectly vertical way. On the other hand, if you 立てる it carelessly, things might end up kind of kind of diagonal and weird.

Hints

Think about how careful you're going to be when you 立てる your coat rack to make sure the stuff hanging from it is as vertical as can be. If things aren't perfectly vertical, you'll dismantle it and 立てる it again till they are.