永 forever

5 strokes

PN, BETA

氷 (ice) + 丶 (dot)

ONYOMI: EI

"Fonzie" is the keyword for the EI onyomi, because that was his catchphrase on the show. "EYYYY!" Back in '78, that was the most coveted t-shirt: a half-sleeve jersey with The Fonz giving a thumbs-up and reciting EYYYY!! That's right, I'm old. Didn't ever get that shirt, neither!

Anyway, mnemonic-wise, we can now say that. . .. Fonzie has been icy cool since forever.

永 consists of ice (氷） plus a dot, which we will, in a blaze of inspiration, call a second snowflake. So now we can say, "It's been icy forever, so we have more than one snowflake. They're piled on top of each other! It's been snowing forever!"

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JUKUGO:

永遠に ( えいえんに): the poetic 'forever'： I'll hate you forever! We shall rule the world forever!
永 (forever) + 遠 (far) = 永遠 (poetic forever)
永久に ( えいきゅうに): forever - the science word. (BOOBOO : the poetic word is 'eien'.(永遠))
永 (forever) + 久 (been a long time) = 永久 (forever )

LOOKALIKES:

	Meaning	Hint
氷	ice	ONE SNOWFLAKE-DOT
水	water	NO FLAKES AT ALL
永	forever	TWO SNOWFLAKE-DOTS

Ice has the SNOWFLAKE on top, water doesn't. So you can say, "Water doesn't have a SNOWFLAKE because water is warm."
If it has been icy for ever, there are TWO SNOWFLAKES piled up on top of each other!

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