噴 Erupt

Radical Combination

• 口

  Mouth
• 十

  Cross
• 艹

  Flowers
• 貝

  Shellfish

Meaning

Primary

Erupt

Mnemonic

From your mouth comes a cross, some flowers, and shellfish. It all erupts from your mouth!

Hints

Imagine these three things coming out of your mouth not one at a time, but all together like an eruption. Perhaps you're laying on your back, and they burst out of your mouth.

Readings

On’yomi

ふん

Kun’yomi

ふ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

When do inanimate objects erupt from your mouth? Mostly when you're having fun (ふん).

Hints

It's really inconvenient that things erupt from your mouth whenever you're having fun. Makes it hard to have fun.

Fun fact: when you see 賁 in a kanji, the reading is probably going to be ふん.