驚 Surprised

Radical Combination

• 苟

  Poem
• 夂

  Winter
• 馬

  Horse

Meaning

Primary

Surprised

Mnemonic

If you can write an interesting poem about winter while riding on a horse, I’ll be pretty surprised. It’s hard enough to write a poem as it is, let alone an interesting one. And then you’re riding on a horse and the poem has to be about winter? Heck, I’d be surprised if you didn’t fall off the horse and injure yourself.

Hints

Imagine trying to write a poem while riding a horse. It’d be really hard to do. I bet you’d be surprised if you managed to do it as well.

Readings

On’yomi

きょう

Kun’yomi

おどろ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You might also be surprised to learn that you are to ride this horse all across きょうと. That gives you a time limit. You have until you traverse きょうと to write this poem about winter.

Hints

Imagine riding through きょうと on a horse. As if that wasn’t difficult enough for poem writing, now you have all the sights and sounds of きょうと to distract you as well.