幸 Happiness

Radical Combination

• 亠

  Lid
• 辛

  Spicy

Meaning

Primary

Happiness

Mnemonic

Put a lid on something spicy and you'll cook up pure happiness.

Hints

Spicy foods literally do trigger happy chemicals in your brain. It wouldn't be too far off to say that putting a lid on a pot filled with something spicy could produce happiness.

Readings

On’yomi

こう

Kun’yomi

しあわ, さいわ, さち

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Out of spicy foods you made pure happiness. You give it to your sad friend こういち, who waits at the table.

Hints

こういち looks sad. But when you serve him happiness, he starts to perk up a bit. A couple more bites of happiness, and there's a smile on his face. Although when you found こういち he was depressed, down on his luck, and hiding from the government, cooking him some spicy foods seems to have brought him some happiness.