Hiragana Mnemonics Set 2

Sound: ka

Mnemonic: camel - A camel climbs up the side of a volcano, and - whoops! - falls into the crater.

Sound: ki

Mnemonic: key - This one's easy. It looks like a key!

Sound: ku

Mnemonic: coo - Imagine a bird making the noise "coo-coo". This is a picture of its beak, wide open.

Sound: ke

Mnemonic: chemistry - A chemist uses a dropping pipette (to transport sulphuric acid from his beaker to his conical flask). Here you see the very nib of that pipette. That horizontal line is part of a graduated scale marked on the side.

Sound: ko

Mnemonic: copy - The second line is a copy of the first line. They are not identical however; the lower one has been smudged.

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