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RTK / HeisigFrame #2090

game hunting

Lv 52

Strokes: 11

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Radical Components

Meanings

game hunting RTKHunting

Community Mnemonic

404 votes

[game-hunting; shooting; game; bag] According to unicode.org and wwwjdic, 鼡 and 鼠 ( (#2856)) are variants. So, for 鼡 (which I'll call rat) I have: an owl, flying in the wind, can easily spot a rat even if it's hiding in the cornstalks. Now 猟 is easy: wild dogs are having fun by game-hunting rats.

Source: Kanji Koohii community

On'yomi

りょう

Kun'yomi

かり