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exist 居
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居
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JLPT 2Joyo 5 |
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| residence, inhabit, exist, stay
iru, oru, KYO
居
尸
古
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Top: buttocks in side view 尸, below: old 古 (= originally a skull, but more helpful: the image of a tomb stone)
When the buttocks gets old, he stays at his residence.
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据
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| lay a foundation, set, place, fix, install, equip
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Left: hand 扌, right: reside, residence 居 (Where your buttocks 尸 gets old 古, is your residence.)
My hand lays for my residence: the foundation.
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裾
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JLPT -Joyo 7 |
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| hem, cuff (of trousers), foot of a mountain
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Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: exist, residence 居 (Where your buttocks 尸 gets old 古, is your residence.)
Clothes have/exist-only with hems and cuffs.
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