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制服

せいふく

uniform

Mnemonic

Clothes cut to a set of rules rather than to anybody’s taste. The same ふく you took into the booth, except somebody else picked it. We do not have to wear one: せいふく.

Built from

control, system
刂 a blade on the right, cutting a thing down to a set shape. The rules, and whatever they hold in line.
clothes
The left half is not 月, it was 舟 a boat once. The right is a hand laid on a kneeling figure, something fitted onto a person.

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