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大人

おとな

adult

Mnemonic

A big person, which is the whole of what the character claims, and the one telling you to listen. Oh おと, na な, and nothing in it says wise: おとな.

Worth knowing

The reading is irregular and has to be learned whole, since neither 大 nor 人 is saying any part of おとな.

Built from

big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.
person
A pictograph, a figure walking, seen from the side.

Words sharing these kanji

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

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