史 history

口 (mouth/small box radical) +

(skipping legs)

★★☆☆☆

5 strokes

Onyomi

SHI

Mnemonic

With her mouth, SHE tells the history of skipping - from the stumbling of drunken cavemen, to the modern ballet.

Jukugo

歴史(れきし)

history ★★★★☆
歴 (chronicle) + 史 (history) = 歴史 (history)

Lookalikes

	Meaning	Hint	Radical
史	history	MOUTH	口
更	all over again	RICEFIELD	田

You tell oral history with your MOUTH,

and every year we have to plant the RICEFIELD all over again.

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