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RTK / HeisigFrame #1477

straw rope

Lv 36

Strokes: 15

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Grade 4

Meanings

straw rope RTKRope

Community Mnemonic

538 votes

The tortoise has escaped! We tied it up with a straw rope, but all that's left of the rope are some torn threads, and the unbound tortoise is nowhere to be found. (Note that the right half here is not "eels". This is (in my opinion) a mistake in the RTK book, as we already decided in (#537) to refer to the simplified form of dragon as "eels". It is much better to call the right half of this character an "unbound tortoise".)

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

On'yomi

じょう

Kun'yomi

なわ