荒 Wild

Radical Combination

• 艹

  Flowers
• 亡

  Death
• 川

  River

Meaning

Primary

Wild

Mnemonic

Flowers find their death in a river out in the wild. Flowers live on water, but this river drowns the flowers to death. The wild is a dangerous place.

Hints

Imagine yourself out in the wild wilderness as you hear the flowers screaming until death takes them. The river is raging, there’s nothing you can do to help the flowers. The wild has claimed them.

Readings

On’yomi

こう

Kun’yomi

あ, あら

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Ah (あ), the flowers in the wild have been claimed à la (あら) the great flood. Ah, you don’t think so? Well I do.

Hints

Imagine this scene again, only imagine it like the wild flowers are experiencing their own great flood. Ah, those flowers are drowning to death à la everything that died in the Biblical flood.