Memory phrase for the Kanji: 妖

妖

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Meaning bewitching, attractive

Pronunciation

YŌ
ayashii

Explanation

Left: woman 女, right: early-death 夭 (here understood as heaven 天)

Mnemonic
 
Women are like heaven: attractive and bewitching.

Radicals

女 womanThe stroke order is: "Ku-no-ichi" = くノ一 , which also stands for a female ninja.
天 heaven, sky
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 Vocabulary

妖怪 ようかい  ghost, apparition, phantom

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