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RTK / HeisigFrame #971

appellation

Lv 38

Strokes: 10

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

appellation RTKTitle

Community Mnemonic

672 votes

Taking appellation to mean the act of naming, we have the little baby superman reclining in the space craft that landed in a wheat field. Mr. and Mrs. Kent look down and decide to call him Clark. (I also thought of Jesus but he was born in a barn full of hay not wheat).

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

On'yomi

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