咳 cough

口 (mouth/small box radical) + (pine cone) Same-ON

Onyomi

Mnemonic

He's coughing because he's got a pine cone lodged in his mouth. Someone do a Heimlich!

Kunyomi

せき	cough KANA ★☆☆☆☆

Lookalikes

	Meaning	Hint	Radical
咳	cough	MOUTH	口
核	nucleus	TREE	木
刻	engrave	SWORD	刀
該	correspond to	SAY	言
削	whittle down	CARROT	肖

You cough with your MOUTH.

The seed is the nucleus of a TREE,

but you carve with a SWORD.

My words correspond to what I SAY.

You whittle a what?? a CARROT,dummy.