Radical Combination

Meaning

Primary

Lamp

Mnemonic

Fire you use to light up the street needs to go in a lamp. Campfires, matches? No, none of those work. You need bright, safe lamps to keep the street nice at night.

Readings

On’yomi

とう

Kun’yomi

あかり, とも

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

These street lamps were first used in とうきょう. It was the most advanced city after all. And more people were out at night in とうきょう than anywhere else in Japan. So they needed lamps to light things up!

Visually Similar Kanji

Found In Vocabulary