This mfer: 朝(あさ)
#Why do I hate it?
The kanji is made out of two radicals
T̶h̶e̶ ̶k̶a̶n̶j̶i̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶ ̶ 車(くるま)
And the AMOGU- I mean… the kanji for moon 月(つき)
#So what?
Welp, whenever I look at 朝, *the first thing I think of are cars*
Edit: ok, so, TIL that the first radical in 朝 isn’t the same as 車…
2 comments
Careful! That’s a common mistake, but that is NOT the car radical.
The vertical line does not go all the way through, so you actually have the sun 日 in there! You’ll need a different mnemonic for this kanji.
It might be easier to consider that 朝 is not composed of 車 & 月
(1) The only radical that 朝 is constructed from is 月
(2) 𠦝 , which is sometimes considered to be a form of 卓, is not 車. Look more closely at the 𠦝component
The history of 朝 is murky, but one proposal is that it is composed of
(3) 倝 meaning Dawn for its Semantic component, abbreviated as 𠦝
(4) 舟 meaning Boat for its Phonetic component, later corrupted into 月
Amongst other possibilities.
So yeah, no cars are associated with the construction of 朝