Ok so i was doing some random study

I come across this character, and i couldn't help but think of the kunyomi when i first saw the character and its meaning. I know this is pretty absurd but perhaps 心良い？
Kinda reminded me of the time when i learnt the useless character 匁　ウィch輪sれあｌｌｙ　文目

Well, i did some snooping around, it turns out that the old form for 欠 was 缺 so the right part of 決 (heisigs guillotine) had connotations of scoop away, so state of mine + scoop (according to kanjinetworks)

It still doesn't actually explain the kunyomi of the character

こころよい　can be written as both 快い and 心良い.
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?stype=1&d...2%F7%A4%A4

Kunyomi readings for kanji are basically words that existed in Japanese before kanji and they had a kanji with a similar meaning stuck on the word. So many times you may wonder "are those two words related, because they sound the same?" that actually is the case. For example, 目 and 芽 (eye and flower bud - both pronounced め) were originally the same Japanese word. So it would be like saying the "eye of the flower"

Let's not forget 茸. Mushroom or... 木の子?

There are actually a lot of words like this, where you can see the probably pre-kanji roots of a word in it's pronunciation. 湖 (みずうみ) is a common example.
There are a few more with こころ, like　志す (こころざす) and 試みる (こころみる).

It makes the words really easy to remember, conveniently

The funny thing is, some Japanese people hasn't realized this. This one guy I know who is like... 26, when I asked him if "kinoko" was written 木の子, he was completely surprised. "WTF, you just blew my mind" kind of a reaction.

Well, you know how it is. I didn't fully realize what the term 'next-door' was composed of for years.

I just had a discussion with a number of Japanese people about 四六時中. They knew that it meant ”いつも," but they were shocked when we told them that 4x6 = 24 hours in a day.

They argued that no English speaker would think about what "24/7" literally means, but we all knew right away.

To be fair, people (and companies) do actually often say the full thing. "24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

To be fair...
It did take me a while to realize it was "rear-view" mirror and not "review" mirror. I thought that if you wanted to "review" what you just saw, you could look in the "review" mirror.

Tobberoth Wrote:Let's not forget 茸. Mushroom or... 木の子?

Now I will never forget that word

There's also
鶏＝庭鳥
and
卵＝玉子 (although I've seen that one written both ways)

掌
手の平
てのひら

遡る/坂上る/さかのぼる
旭/朝日/あさひ

Actually most of the kanji used here have more alternatives than I care to list. Nor do I claim that さかのぼる (to go back, to go upstream) and 坂を上る have exactly the same meaning, but the likeness is too big to be a complete coincidence. It's like in any language you pack more than one meaning in the same word/word combinations to keep the vocabulary to a manageable level. Kun-yomi predates the introduction of kanji in Japan, so the above-stated fully applies.

Then again, 逆らう/さからう (to go against) comes closer in meaning to さかのぼる and has the similarity in kanji as a bonus. Luckily I'm not too concerned with etymology to spit this out any further.

woelpad Wrote:Kun-yomi predates the introduction of kanji in Japan, so the above-stated fully applies.

..sounds weird. I'd just say 和語.

There's tons of them.
顧みる/返り見る/かえりみる、
志す/心・指す/こころざす、
蘇る/黄泉・帰る/よみがえる and
覆す/靴・返す/くつがえす
come to mind. Actually, these could be helpful for the RTK stories of the respective kanji.

EDIT:oh, 培う/土・飼う/つちかう is a great example, too!