厄
Unlucky
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| やく | n/a | 厂 + 巳 |
Meaning: Unlucky
You’re on a cliff, and nearly falling off the edge. Then, a horde of snakes come along, ready to push you off. This is a terrible day… In fact, it’s utterly unlucky.
Feel free to add some other things that would be associated with bad luck just for you. Make sure you connect them with the radicals though… either having them have to do with snake or cliff in some way, otherwise they’ll be hard to remember, and you won’t get to unlucky very easily in your brain.
Reading: やく
On this most unlucky day, the snake comes up to you and bites you in the face, then immediately lets go. “Yuck” (やく), it says. “You taste really bad. Yuck yuck yuck.”
The snake should come up to you because it already was before. And, naturally snakes bite things, so it should do that too. Feel the pain and fear of the snakes as well. You’re being backed off a cliff, too. Then, all of that is unimportant, because the snake is able to talk. What’s going on? The main thing it says is “Yuck” though, so you’re not sure if you should be happy the snake doesn’t like your taste or offended.
Vocabulary
You just saw this word recently when you learned 介! Learn this one word before moving on.
a 厄介（やっかい）＝ trouble, burden, bother, etc
- Combo: 厄 (bad luck) + 介 (jammed in)
- Meaning: When your life is jammed up with bad luck, that’s a pretty big bother / burden / trouble.
- Reading: Just know your on’yomi and you’ll be A-Okay.