Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Wound

Mnemonic

If a leader has a gun it's easy to wound people. When you have a gun and a lot of responsibility it's easy to get carried away and mess up, wounding the people you were supposed to be protecting. You can even wound yourself.

Readings

On’yomi

しょう

Kun’yomi

きず, いた

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Which leader wounded the Japanese people? The Shougun (しょう). The Shougun is a military leader. The Shougun even has gun in the name. And they wounded hundreds of thousands of samurai and soldiers.

Found In Vocabulary