Keyword
beast
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig2083
Old form
Readings
Composed of
tiny hairs
rice field
one
mouth
dog
Mnemonic

A dog is sniffing a bunch of tiny hairs left by something in a nearby rice field. The smell alerts him that something's up and he runs to investigate. He finds a creature with one enormous mouth big enough to eat a person whole. What a beast!

Used in vocabulary (103 in total)
beast; brute; animal
legendary beast; magical beast
(fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast
Examples (22 in total)
As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds.
I howled like a beast.
The wild beasts all gather.