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別

べつ

another, different

Mnemonic

A blade cuts one card out of the deck and drops it face up, a different suit from everything else on the table. I would bet Sue べつ swapped it: べつ.

Worth knowing

別に べつに is this word plus に, and nearly always sits in a negative sentence. 別 on its own is just separate, or another one.

Built from

separate, different
刂 a standing blade cutting one thing away from the rest.

Words sharing these kanji

(not) particularly special, extraordinary to separate, to part from

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