鞄 Bag

Radical Combination

• 革

  Leather
• 包

  Wrap

Meaning

Primary

Bag

Mnemonic

Take some leather and wrap your possessions in it. Now you have a bag to carry them around in. Neat!

Hints

Picture yourself carefully wrapping leather around a bundle of your things to make this bag. Look at you, being all DIY and stuff.

Readings

On’yomi

None

Kun’yomi

かばん

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You actually learned this reading with the vocabulary word カバン. It's been a while though, so here's a mnemonic to help you connect it to this kanji:

The reason you made your own bag is that there's been a car ban (かばん). With this car ban, you can't just throw all your stuff in your car anymore (come on — we all know you were using it like a second closet) so now you need a bag to carry it around in.

Hints

Thanks to this car ban, you were able to establish yourself as a successful maker of bespoke leather bags. Funny how the universe works out like that sometimes.