Memory phrase for the character: 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, skyNote the direction of the stroke in this variant 夭, which goes at the upper stroke from right to left and then has the meaning “early death.”




 Vocabulary

妖怪 ようかい  ghost, apparition, phantom

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