Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Head

Mnemonic

If you feed a lot of beans to a geoduck, its head will grow larger. To a geoduck, beans are a brain food, so by eating beans, it can grow an incredibly large head. Geoducks already look strange enough as it is, let alone with engorged heads.

Readings

On’yomi

ず, とう

Kun’yomi

あたま, かしら

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

As the geoduck eats more and more beans its head gets bigger and bigger, until finally the head explodes like an atomic (あたま) bomb. BOOM! Geoduck parts go flying everywhere and pieces of its massive head float to the ground as atomic fallout.

Visually Similar Kanji

Found In Vocabulary