防 Prevent

Radical Combination

• 阝

  Building
• 方

  Direction

Meaning

Primary

Prevent

Alternative

Prevention

Mnemonic

If there is a building in the direction you want to go it will prevent you from going any further. Like, come on kid, you think you can just walk right through a building? Don't make me laugh!

Hints

There's a building right there. Try to go that direction. Oh, did the building prevent you? Told you so.

Readings

On’yomi

ぼう

Kun’yomi

ふせ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The building is preventing you from going the right direction, so you pull a bowling (ぼう) ball out of your bag, aim, and bowl the building over. The building, and all the ones around it, go tumbling down. But now the rubble is preventing you from going further.

Hints

Your bowling antics are now preventing a bunch of people from going the directions they want to go. Nice job.