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型

かた

type, model

Mnemonic

One mould and a thousand identical shells off the back of it, not one told apart from the next, every one the same carton かた. The camera is the newest of those: かた.

Worth knowing

Same reading as 方 かた, the polite word for a person, and 肩 かた, shoulder. This one is the mould, and the model number on the box.

Built from

type, mould
土 earth along the bottom, pressed into a mould. Everything that comes out of it afterwards is the same shape.

Also read かた

person (polite form) shoulder

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