Mnemonic
A storm floods your vault. You grab your money and a knife, carving notch marks on stacked coins to measure the rising water level. Each knife scratch on a coin tells you exactly how deep the flood has reached.
Additional thoughts
Visualize a hurricane flooding a bank vault. Coins are stacked like a ruler against the wall, and knife notches mark the waterline on each coin — storm delivers the water, money becomes the gauge, knife records the reading.Quick recall
A storm floods your vault — stack money coins and score them with a knife to measure the rising water.Details
The keyword for 測 is measure. This kanji refers to the act of measuring, surveying, or gauging quantities such as depth, distance, temperature, or other physical properties. It carries the sense of carefully determining a value through observation or the use of instruments. By extension, it can also mean to estimate, conjecture, or fathom something that is not immediately apparent.
- On'yomi
- そく
- Kun'yomi
- はか.る