Memory phrase for the character: 匂

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smell, odor, scent

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Top: wrap 勹 (here: seen as a jacket or coat, thus something that is “wrapping”), below: sitting person 匕

Inside the jacket of a sitting person it may develop a certain smell.

勹	wrap	The function of this radical 勹 for “to wrap” is easily recognizable with "package 包" or "chest/breast 胸".
匕	sitting person	The Radical sajinohi* means "spoon". But due to its appearance is typically used as a "sitting person". In few cases however, it is understood as claws (i.e. of a bear).*

匂い	におい	odour, scent, smell, stench, fragrance, aroma, perfume
匂う	におう	to be fragrant, to smell, to stink, to glow, to be bright

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