RemloriStart free

Remlori › Japanese › Words › ここ koko

ここ

koko = here

Beside one ice-cream Cone and a second Cone on the festival counter, a woman points down at the footprints by her feet: right Here.

Set within a traditional wooden festival booth with a prominent You Are Here map board at a lively Japanese street matsuri, the scene centers on exactly TWO separate ice cream cones standing side by side on the wooden counter, each upright in its own wooden cone holder, with a clear gap of empty counter between them so both are plainly countable. Each cone is a complete, identical copy of the reference: a golden-brown waffle cone with a bright teal paper sleeve around its middle, a tall vanilla soft-serve swirl on top, and one oversized red cherry crowning the swirl. Both stand the same height, and neither is stacked into, tipped into, leaning on, or overlapping the other. Beside the pair, a large glowing red digital waypoint pin hovers over the map board. A wooden signpost arrow points straight down at the ground, where fresh muddy footprints mark the spot, and a festival visitor nearby points excitedly straight down to the floorboards.

How to remember ここ

Each sound in koko has a picture. Put them together and you get the scene above.

こ
ko → Cone

こ
ko → Cone

Also in lesson 1

ねこ neko · cat

たこ tako · octopus

たね tane · seed

Learn koko in lesson 1, free.

Start Chapter 1 free