犬
いぬ · inu · JLPT N5 · noun
dog
🐕 inu sounds like in-you: the dog is the loyalty in you
Say inu as in-you. The kanji 犬 is 大 (big) plus one extra dot: a big creature with a small mark at its shoulder. It began as a drawing of a dog and is the same character used in Chinese quǎn.