Memory phrase for the character: 奏

奏

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Meaning

play music, perform, report

Pronunciation

SŌ
kanaderu

Explanation

 From top: three 三, person 人, sky/heaven 天

Mnemonic
 
Three persons over the sky play music.

Radicals

three persons
大 bigA person 人 with outstretched arms 一 and the legs apart appears big.
天 heaven, skyNote the direction of the stroke in this variant 夭, which goes at the upper stroke from right to left and then has the meaning “early death.”




 Vocabulary

奏でる かなでる  to play an instrument
吹奏 すいそう  playing wind instruments
演奏 えんそう  musical performance
奏楽 そうがく  musical performance

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