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去る

さる

to go away, to pass

Mnemonic

The typhoon takes itself off somewhere else and the wind drops behind it. The same さる as a monkey, and it goes the same way. Gone, and the going is the whole point: さる.

Built from

leave, past
土 earth + 厶 private

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