Memory phrase for the character: 謡

謡

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Meaning

noh-chant, recitation

Pronunciation

YŌ
utai, utau

Explanation

Left: word 言, right: var. of shake/swing/rock 揺 (Two hand 扌,爫 reach out for a swinging/shaking can 缶.)

Mnemonic

Words are swinging in Noh chant.

Radicals

言	word, speech	Sound waves above the opened mouth 口 symbolize the spoken word.
爫	grap downwards	The radical notsu* shows a hand which is reaching downwards.*
缶	container, can	The character “noon” 午 is seen as a mortar 午 that stands upright under the vertical sun in the container 凵 at noon. So this combination means: container 缶.

Vocabulary

民謡	みんよう	folk song, popular song
歌謡	かよう	song, ballad
童謡	どうよう	children's song, nursery rhyme

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