Mnemonic
A hole appears in your lab floor, spiraling down nine levels. Your research demands you explore every one. You descend through nine dark chambers, each hole leading deeper, until the final level reveals the answer you've been searching for.
Additional thoughts
Hole sits on top, nine on the bottom — just like the kanji. Picture research as drilling down through nine layers of a hole until you hit bedrock truth.Quick recall
Dig through a hole nine levels deep to complete your research.Details
The keyword for 究 is research. This kanji conveys the idea of thoroughly investigating or probing deeply into a matter to uncover its fundamental truth. It carries the sense of pursuing knowledge to its very end, exhaustively examining something until nothing remains unknown. It is closely associated with scholarly inquiry, academic study, and the meticulous process of getting to the bottom of things.
- On'yomi
- きゅう、く
- Kun'yomi
- きわ.める