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大切

たいせつ

important, valuable

Mnemonic

Big and a blade, which reads wrong until you think of cutting a thing out in order to keep it. Tie たい it, set せつ it aside, let nobody else near it: たいせつ.

Worth knowing

大事 だいじ is the near twin and either does most of the time. 大切にする is to treasure something.

Built from

big
A person stood with both arms flung wide.
cut
刀 a blade on the right. Everything to the left of it is what the blade goes through.

Words sharing these kanji

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

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