靴 Shoes

Radical Combination

• 革

  Leather
• 化

  Change

Meaning

Primary

Shoes

Mnemonic

Take your leather and change it into shoes.

Hints

You start with a sheet of leather. Now imagine yourself going through the process of changing them to shoes. Smell the leather and feel it, too.

Readings

On’yomi

か

Kun’yomi

くつ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Some shoes aren’t made from leather anymore these days, but you know who always wears shoes made of leather? Old coots (くつ). Old coots are so old that the only shoes they wore growing up were made from leather so they refuse to wear any shoes that aren’t made from leather. Crazy old coots.

Hints

Imagine some of 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 much. Hear the old coots screaming and babbling nonsense as they destroy the store.