sweep

(handleft) + (snout) + (swordswallower)
★★★☆☆
11 strokes

Onyomi

SOU

This room is SO dirty. Sweep it!

Mnemonic

Take your hand, and sweep the snouts off the floor of the sword-swallower's room (he's been practicing on pigs again)

Kunyomi

は*く sweep KANA
★★☆☆☆

Jukugo

掃除(そうじ) する

house-cleaning ★★★☆☆ FP1/2 KANA
(sweep) + (exclude) = 掃除 (house-cleaning)

house-cleaning. Not just sweeping, but vacuuming, straightening up, smacking the futon, etc.

Lookalikes

Meaning Hint Radical
sweep HAND
go back home SWORD
perpetrate PERSON
immerse WATER

You use your HANDS to clean,

but use your SWORD to go home

(since there are zombies in your driveway, duh).

A PERSON perpetrates a crime by immersing a wicked witch in WATER. That might have been cool in the '40s but now it's a hate-crime.

Synonyms

housekeeping, housework
掃除    家事