Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 悪


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Meaning

bad, evil, coarse

Pronunciation

AKU, O
warui

Explanation

Top: inferior, Asia 亜 (Where you work together with the center (= China = land of the middle) is: Asia), bottom: heart

Mnemonic

An inferior heart is something bad.

Radicals

heart(Image of a heart with coronary arteries.)
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Vocabulary

悪い わるい bad, inferior
悪夢 あくむ nightmare
悪寒 おかん chill, shakes, ague
悪臭 あくしゅう bad smell, a stink
悪口 わるくち abuse, insult, slander, evil speaking
悪口 あっこう abuse, insult, slander, evil speaking
善し悪し よしあし good or bad, merits or demerits, quality
あく bad thing, bad person
悪化 あっか (suffer) deterioration, growing worse, degeneration, corruption


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