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大丈夫

だいじょうぶ

alright, OK

Mnemonic

Big, a full measure, and a grown man: three characters stacked up to say the thing is solid. Die だい, Joe じょう, boo ぶ, and he gets up again anyway. Nothing to worry about: だいじょうぶ.

Built from

big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.
length, height
A measure of a person's full height.
husband, grown man
大 a person with a pin through the hair, an adult man.

Words sharing these kanji

love big, large big, large terrible, serious, grave important, precious important, valuable huge, gigantic adult large quantity, great volume mostly biggest, largest very, greatly

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