Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 駄


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Meaning

useless, low-grade, worthless, burdensome, pack-horse

Pronunciation

DA

Explanation

Left: horse (mane in the wind, four legs and tail フ), right: fat (When you are big , a little more makes you thick and fat.)

Mnemonic

A horse that fat is useless.

Radicals

horse(Picture of a running horse with the mane in the wind, four legs and the tail.)
thick, fat
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Vocabulary

無駄 むだ futility, uselessness
下駄 げた geta (Japanese footwear), wooden clogs
無駄遣い むだづかい waste money on, squander money on, flog a dead horse
駄作 ださく poor work/rubbish
駄目 だめ useless/no good/hopeless


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