Memory phrase for the Kanji: 訓

訓

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Meaning KUN-Reading, pronounce, lesson, teach

Pronunciation

KUN

Explanation

Left: word 言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: river 川

Mnemonic
 
Words like a river: the KUN reading.

Radicals

言 word, speechSound waves above the opened mouth 口 symbolize the spoken word.
川 riverThe water 水 is simplified here as three lines and symbolizes the flow of the river.
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 Vocabulary

訓令 くんれい  directive, instructions
訓読み くんよみ  kun-yomi (Japanese reading of character)
教訓 きょうくん  lesson, precept, moral instruction
訓 くん  native Japanese reading of a Chin. character
訓練 くんれん  practice, training

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