Memory phrase for the Kanji: 被


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Meaning cover, put on, sustain, suffer, veil, wear, be exposed (film)

Pronunciation

HI
kōmuru, ōu

Explanation

Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)

Mnemonic


 
The clothes are like a skin, because they are covering.

Radicals

clothingThe radical koromo 衣 is also used in a simplified form as 巾.
leather, skin
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 Vocabulary

被せる かぶせる  to cover (with something)
被る かぶる  to suffer, bear, carry
被害 ひがい  damage

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