Mnemonic
Compare the teeth of everyone smiling at you — they're all white! Blindingly white. Every single person has perfect, gleaming white teeth. All of them, without a single exception. You compare row after row and find nothing but dazzling, uniform white.
Additional thoughts
Visualize a huge crowd grinning at you. You compare every smile and each set of teeth is impossibly, uniformly white. That totality — every last person — locks in the meaning of all.Quick recall
Compare everyone's teeth — they're all white without exception!Details
The keyword for 皆 is all. This kanji conveys the meaning of everyone, everything, or all without exception. It expresses the idea of totality or universality, indicating that every member of a group is included. It is commonly used to refer to "all people" or "everybody" in a collective sense.
- On'yomi
- かい
- Kun'yomi
- みな、みんな