遡 Go Upstream

Radical Combination

• ⻌

  Scooter
• 丷

  Horns
• 屯

  Barracks
• 月

  Moon

Meaning

Primary

Go Upstream

Alternative

Trace Back

Mnemonic

You hop on your scooter while wearing horns and zoom off toward a barracks on the moon — a journey which requires you to go upstream on a raging lunar river. Are you up to the challenge?

Hints

Actually, yes. The lunar military's given you a tricked-out aquatic space scooter that can go upstream even through the toughest rapids. The horns are just part of your uniform — all soldiers on the moon wear them.

Readings

On’yomi

そ

Kun’yomi

さかのぼ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

As you go upstream on your scooter, you notice that this lunar river is full of soap (そ)! You're basically riding your scooter upstream in a giant, frothing, soapy bubble bath. Are all rivers on the moon like this?

Hints

Feel your eyes begin to sting as the soapy water splashes into them. Going upstream to the moon barracks is shaping up to be quite an ordeal, but look on the bright side: all this soap is going to get you and your scooter really clean!