Memory phrase for the character: 齢

齢

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REI

Left: tooth 歯 (Stop 止 and get rice 米 from container 凵 for the teeth.), right: order/command 令 (To put a lid

on the bent person 卩, has been ordered!)

(You can tell the age of a horse by its teeth:) The teeth got the "order" to show the: age.

歯	tooth	Stop 止 at the rice-米-container 凵: There is sth. for the teeth. Alternatively seen as image of a mouth 一,凵 with teeth 米
令	order	Based on "bell 鈴 suzu, REI, RIN", this radical 令 can also be understood as an image of a bell: (The sound of) the bell with the bell mallet 卩 gives now 今 the command (e.g. to come).
止	to stop	At top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."

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年齢

ねんれい

age, years

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