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友達

ともだち

friend, companion

Mnemonic

Two hands reaching the same way, and enough of them to make a group of it. Toes ともだ so attached that you keep tripping over one another: ともだち.

Built from

friend
Two hand shapes reaching the same way.
reach, plural marker
辶 the road radical, getting there; on people it makes a group.

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