靴 Shoes

Radical Combination

• 革

  Leather
• 化

  Change

Meaning

Primary

Shoes

Mnemonic

Take your leather and change it into a pair of shoes. (Most shoes were made out of leather in the old days, you know.)

Hints

You start with a sheet of leather. Now imagine yourself going through the process of changing it into shoes. Smell the leather, and feel it too. Maybe rub your shoes right now, pretending they're made of leather. Mmm, that's nice.

Readings

On’yomi

None

Kun’yomi

くつ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Most shoes aren’t made from leather anymore, but you know who still wears leather shoes? Old coots (くつ). The coots are so old that all the shoes they had growing up were made of leather, so they refuse to wear anything else now. Crazy old coots.

Hints

Imagine these old coots busting into a modern shoe store and kicking over all the display stands and setting everything on fire because they hate non-leather shoes so, so much. Hear the old coots screaming and babbling nonsense as they destroy the shoe store.