decorate

(eat) Same-ON + (rifle) + (small city/dagger radical)
★★★☆☆
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SOLO

Onyomi

SHOKU

Mnemonic

He decorates the food he eats with rifles and daggers. it is quite SHOCking if you eat one on accident.

Kunyomi

かざ*る to decorate your room/ lunchbox / fingernails
★★★☆☆
かざ*り a display (good, bad, or excessive!)
★☆☆☆☆

Lookalikes

Meaning Hint Radical
get sick of WRAP
decorate DAGGER

I'm sick of WRAPPING Christmas presents ,
I want to decorate my DAGGER with the blood of whoever invented this dumb holiday.