Memory phrase for the Kanji: 際


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Meaning

edge, brink, occasion, verge

Pronunciation

SAI
kiwa

Explanation

Left: hill , right: festival (Meat / is put by hand on the altar 示 for the feastival of sacrifice.)

Mnemonic

(The party is too loud, so you don't do it in the center?) The hill for the party gives us the opportunity at the edge.

Radicals

hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
festivalA body part (simplified from flesh/meat ) is put by hand on an altar 示 at festival (of sacrifice).
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Vocabulary

 際  きわ  Edge
 際  さい  on the occasion of, circumstances
 国際  こくさい  international
 交際  こうさい  company, friendship, association, acquaintance
 実際  じっさい  practical, actual condition, status quo
 手際  てぎわ  performance, skill, tact


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