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past, old days 旧
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One 一 day 日 has passed.
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JLPT 2Joyo 5 |
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| past, old times, former old ...
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Left: var. of one 丨, right: day 日
One day has passed, which means 'old times'.
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JLPT 3Joyo 4 |
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| child, kid, newbown baby
ko, JI, NI
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儿
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Top: old/past 旧 (One 一 day 日 has passed.), bottom: legs 儿
Old legs and still a child.
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陥
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| fall into, entrap, pitfall, subsidence
ochiiru, KAN
阝
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旧
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Left: hill 阝, right: crooked person, past times 旧 (One 丨 day 日 has passed) - developed from 陷, which comprises a pitfall 臼
By the hill is a tumbling ⺈ person falling into the mortar-臼-like pitfall.
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| rice plant
ine, ina, TŌ
禾
爫
旧
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Left: rice plant 禾, right: hand reaching down/harvesting 爫, past, old times 旧 (one 一 day 日 has passed.)
Rice plants plucked by hand, these were in old days: the rice plants!
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