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Totally irrelevant, but a related fact in this vein: I recently learned "尻" via WaniKani (a popular SRS system to help learn kanji), and the mnemonic they used
by brandur 5y ago
Totally irrelevant, but a related fact in this vein: I recently learned "尻" via WaniKani (a popular SRS system to help learn kanji), and the mnemonic they used to help you remember the reading of this kanji/vocabulary (お尻) is now inspired on Apple's Siri:
https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/%E5%B0%BB https://www.wanikani.com/kanji/%E5%B0%BB
> Now that you have nine flags inside your butt, you have to get them out. But, you don't know how to. So you ask Siri (しり — shi-ri), "how do I get nine flags out of my butt?"
(Note: The kanji is composed of the radicals "nine" and "flag", which is how they get to "nine flags".)
(Note: WaniKani's mnemonics are very often somewhat non-sensical slightly entertaining stories in the same style as this one. Very normal.)
- gfaure 5y agoNo: 尸, the radical of 尻 doesn't mean "flag" -- it means "corpse". Notice that many of the characters with the 尸 radical refer to defilement, excrement or death.
- EE84M3i 5y agoWanikani's "radical" names often don't map directly to the actual meaning. They are just used for mnemonics. This happens most when the "radical" isn't a common/official character in Japanese on it's own right, like 尸. I don't entirely agree with that system, so I often look up the individual radical meanings anyway and add a synonym, but that's Wanikani's method.