foul-smelling kanji symbol 投稿日時: 2016年4月26日 投稿者: kanji — コメントする We sense smells with our noses. Look at the kanji 臭. The 自 in the upper part is a nose. The 大 in the lower part means big. When a smell is an offensive one, our noses tend to get bigger. That is why the kanji 臭 is a combination of 自 and 大.