Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Pottery

Mnemonic

From a building next to a prison, you trade cans to the inmates for pottery. You collect pottery and other prisoner artwork, and they need metal cans to make shanks and stuff, so it's a win-win arrangement.

Readings

On’yomi

とう

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Where do you display your prison pottery? In とうきょう, of course. とうきょう's full of fancy art museums that are more than happy to show off your quirky pottery collection.

Found In Vocabulary