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勘違い

かんちがい

misunderstanding

Mnemonic

You went on feel instead of checking, and the feel was wrong. The same kanji かん feeling as 感じ, and the same guy がい as 間違い. You turned up at two and it had been at one: かんちがい.

Built from

intuition, perception
力 power on the right with a heavy weight on the left. Working a thing out by feel instead of by looking.
differ, be wrong
辶 the road with 韋 above it, two sets of feet going opposite ways round the same enclosure.

Words sharing these kanji

to differ, to be wrong to be mistaken, to be incorrect mistake, error difference, mistake to mistake, to confuse

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