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slumped person 巴
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This is a variation of the sitting person 匕
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Used in these characters:
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色
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JLPT 4Joyo 2 |
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| color, sensuality, love affair
iro, SHOKU, SHIKI
色
巴
⺈
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Top: a bent/kneeing person ⺈, bottom: 巴 a variation of a collapsed person 㔾
The bent and the collapsed person are in a colorful love affair.
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絶
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JLPT 2Joyo 5 |
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| discontinue, exterminate, cease, end
taeru, ZETSU
糸
色
巴
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Left: thread 糸, right: color 色 (top: bent person ⺈, below: 巴 var. of slumped Person 㔾 [In knitting often a colored thread is used do indicate the last row/border.]
The thread is in color to discontinue or end (the fabric).
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肥
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JLPT 1Joyo 5 |
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| fertilizer, fatten, enrich
koeru/yasu, HI
肉
巴
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Left: body 月/肉, right: var.of slumped person 㔾
The body of that slumped person becomes: fertilizer.
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把
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| take, grasp, hold, bundle
toru, -wa, HA
扌
巴
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Left: hand 扌, right: 巴 var. of slump down 㔾 (image of a crouching person)
The hand of the crouched person grasps for a bundle. (Or at the right the image of a doorknob 巴: The hand at the knob grasps it.)
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