Memory phrase for the Kanji: 怪

怪

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Meaning suspicious, weird, doubtful, dubious, mystery

Pronunciation

KAI, KE
ayashii/shimu

Explanation

Left: feeling 忄, right: upright, vertical 圣 (A hand 又 is vertically above the ground 土.)

Mnemonic
 
Feelings so upright are suspicious.

Radicals

忄 feelingsRadical name: risshin
圣 verticalThis radical comprises the ground/earth 土 and above a hand 又, to show "vertical". (For vertical itself this kanji 縦 [たて] is used.)
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 Vocabulary

妖怪 ようかい  ghost, apparition, phantom
怪しい あやしい  suspicious, dubious, doubtful
怪獣 かいじゅう  monster
怪我 けが  injury (to animate object), hurt

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