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出会う

であう

to meet (by chance), to come across

Mnemonic

Coming out and meeting, welded together. The same あう as 会う, except that nobody set this one up: you came round the corner and there they were, eight years later: であう.

Worth knowing

会う あう is meeting, arranged or not. 出会う is specifically running into somebody.

Built from

exit, come out
Stacked peaks, something pushing up and out into view.
meet
A roof with people gathering in underneath it.

Words sharing these kanji

to be able to do, to be good at to go out, to leave to take out to recollect, to recall to take out, to pull out to submit to fly out, to dash out to call someone to to make a break for, to run off occurrence, incident recollections, memory to go out

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