Memory phrase for the Kanji: 偵


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Meaning spy, investigate, search

Pronunciation

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Explanation

Left: person 人, right: virtue 貞 (cf. chastity belt 貞操帯 [ていそうたい] - With a key 卜 for the lock 目 above the legs 八 for: the chastity/virtue)

Mnemonic


 
A person who appears with such virtuous is probably a spy.

Radicals

personThis radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart.
fortune tellingThis radical bukunoto is also used in the radical 占.
moneyShows a cowries-shell, which were used as money.
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 Vocabulary

探偵 たんてい  detective, investigator


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