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tooth 歯
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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
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歯
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JLPT 3Joyo 3 |
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Top: to stop 止 (a foot with a lower line 一 to stop at), below: rice 米, container 凵
Stop at the rice container: There is sth. for the teeth! (Or: image of nose 止, mouth 凵 and teeth 米)
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齢
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JLPT 2Joyo 7 |
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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.
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