壁

かべ

wall, partition

Mnemonic

You built this out of the same field it stands in. The cabbie かべ misjudged the bay by six inches and the garage has a new window: かべ.

Worth knowing

Also the wall you hit: 壁にぶつかる is to come up against a problem.

Built from

壁

wall

土 earth at the foot of it. A wall is the ground stood up on end.

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