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並ぶ

ならぶ

to line up

Mnemonic

Forty people down the pavement outside a ramen shop, shoulder to shoulder, and the last one has an hour of it ahead. The same Nara なら order as 並べる, except that nobody arranged this: ならぶ.

Built from

line up, stand in a row
Two people standing 立 side by side in the older form. The modern shape has levelled them into one flat row.

Words sharing these kanji

to line up, to display, to set up

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