Keyword
corpse with a flag
Info
FrequencyUncommon
KankenLevel 1
Readings
(39%)
Mnemonic

Imagine a battlefield. A pile of corpses. Everyone's dead. And there is a single flag stuck into the ground among all of those corpses, fluttering in the wind, with one of the corpses still tightly holding onto the flag's pole, even after their death. Yes, a corpse with a flag.

Used in kanji (40 in total)
voice
roof
palace
to be (animate object)
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
corpse; kanji "corpse" radical
the three worms (in Taoism); worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings
neglecting the duties of an office while taking pay