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寂しい

さびしい

lonely, sad

Mnemonic

One chair under a roof and nothing else in the room, and the sound of it when nobody comes. A sob さび, she しい said, and the song is about exactly that: さびしい.

Built from

lonely, quiet
A roof 宀 with almost nothing left underneath it. The right half only lends the sound.

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