# 咳 cough

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

## 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.