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必要

ひつよう

necessary, needed

Mnemonic

A heart with a stroke driven clean through it, and the waist everything else hangs off. It hits ひつ Yo よう where it matters: turn up without the book and the whole lesson falls apart: ひつよう.

Built from

certain, necessary
A heart with a stroke driven clean through it.
need, essential
Originally hands on a waist. The part everything else hangs off.

Words sharing these kanji

without exception, always, certainly frantic, desperate to need, to require important, essential

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