幼
Infancy
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| よう | おさな.い | 幺 + 力 |
Meaning: Infancy
What has more poop power than anything else? Something in its infancy. Infants poop SOOO much.
Perhaps you can even take this poop and create a power plant that powers the poop of infants. Be sure to smell the poop and touch the poop as well. Look at the babies in disgust and disappointment. Stop pooping yourselves, you infants.
Reading: よう
To start your poop power plant based off of infant poop, you need to feed them something that will help give your poop some extra kick. You decide to feed them yogurt (よう), because it’s full of things that are good for people’s digestive tracks… and good digestive tracks means good poop for your power plant.
Imagine yourself feeding the babies yogurt, too. They don’t like it… they’re crying. Now you made them cry. Seriously?
Vocabulary
Learn the meanings of these words before you move on (and the readings too, if you can). On’yomi words will pop up a bit later, but for now it’s kun’yomi words that you get, even with the combo kanji word.
a 幼い（おさない）＝ Childish, Very Young
- Meaning: Same as the kanji, but the adjective version of it. You can tell by the い on the end.
- Reading: The reading is the kun’yomi reading. You have to remember the おさな part. Do you know the “Hosanna in the Highest” phrase from Catholicism. Imagine a baby up there, or someone really young. That’s the Hosanna (おさな).
a 幼子（おさなご）＝ Infant
- Combo: 幼 (childhood) + 子 (child)
- Meaning: An infant child is an infant.
- Reading: The kun’yomi readings of both kanji, actually. Kind of strange, but 子 likes to be kun’yomi, when it can.