年 Year

Radical Combination

• 𠂉

  Gun
• 牛

  Cow

Meaning

Primary

Year

Mnemonic

You have a gun and a cow, which must mean it's that time of the year! Every year on New Year's Eve, you get asked to shoot a cow, as per tradition. You really don't want to though, so you deliberately miss every time.

Hints

Last year was a close call and you ended up shooting the cow's horn, which is why the cow radical looks a little strange here. Can you see how the cow radical fits underneath the gun?

Readings

On’yomi

ねん

Kun’yomi

とし

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

It seems everyone has caught on to the fact that you deliberately miss every year, so this year you make a nendoroid (ねん) decoy in the shape of a cow.

Hints

Nendoroids are Japanese plastic figurines. (Look them up if you need to! And yes, there are cow nendoroids.) It probably won’t be easy to make a cow-sized nendoroid this year, but better than having to shoot a real one.