 She occasionally mispronounces new words and creates neologisms, such as as a portmanteau of "Yotsuba's Box", and often repeats, in incongruous ways, phrases spoken by adult characters around her.Yotsuba is able to slowly sound out writing in hiragana, and is praised for this by her father's friend Jumbo, but cannot correctly read a clock.She is frequently shown drawing, though she is not as good an artist as she thinks she is, and she is an excellent swimmer.