Memory phrase for the Kanji: 駄

駄

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Meaning useless, low-grade, worthless, burdensome, pack-horse

Pronunciation

DA

Explanation

Left: horse 馬 (mane 三 in the wind, four legs 灬 and tail フ), right: fat 太 (When you are big 大, a little 丶 more makes you thick and fat.)

Mnemonic
 
A horse that fat is useless.

Radicals

馬 horsePicture of a running horse with the mane in the wind, four legs 灬 and the tail.
太 thick, fat
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 Vocabulary

無駄 むだ  futility, uselessness
下駄 げた  geta (Japanese footwear), wooden clogs
無駄遣い むだづかい  waste money on, squander money on, flog a dead horse
駄作 ださく  poor work, rubbish
駄目 だめ  useless, no good, hopeless

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