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RTK / HeisigFrame #590

fresh

Lv 25

Strokes: 17

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

fresh RTK

Community Mnemonic

845 votes

This one's easy to remember. The kanji gives 2 examples of foods that should be purchased fresh. To remember which foods, take the first letter of fresh, "F", to stand for fish and the final sound of fresh, "sh", to stand for sheep: FreSH. It even puts the primitives in the right order.

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

On'yomi

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Kun'yomi

あざ

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