# 永 forever

氷 (ice) + 丶 (dot)
★★★☆☆
5 strokes
BETA PN

## Onyomi

EI | "Fonzie" is the keyword for the EI onyomi, because that was his catchphrase on the show. "EYYYY!" Back in '78, that was the most coveted t-shirt: a half-sleeve jersey with The Fonz giving a thumbs-up and reciting EYYYY!! That's right, I'm old. Didn't ever get that shirt, neither! Anyway, mnemonic-wise, we can now say that. . .. Fonzie has been icy cool since forever.

## Mnemonic

| 永 consists of ice (氷） plus a dot, which we will, in a blaze of inspiration, call a second snowflake. So now we can say, "It's been icy forever, so we have more than one snowflake. They're piled on top of each other! It's been snowing forever!"

## Jukugo

永遠(えいえん) に | poetic forever ★★★☆☆ 永 (forever) + 遠 (far) = 永遠 (poetic forever) the poetic 'forever'： I'll hate you forever! We shall rule the world forever!
永久(えいきゅう) に | forever ★★☆☆☆ 永 (forever) + 久 (been a long time) = 永久 (forever ) forever - the science word. (BOOBOO : the poetic word is 'eien'.(永遠))

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
氷 | ice | ONE SNOWFLAKE-DOT |
水 | water | NO FLAKES AT ALL |
永 | forever | TWO SNOWFLAKE-DOTS |

Ice has the SNOWFLAKE on top, water doesn't. So you can say, "Water doesn't have a SNOWFLAKE because water is warm."
If it has been icy for ever, there are TWO SNOWFLAKES piled up on top of each other!

## Used In

- 泳

## Synonyms

forever 永久に 永遠に