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思い出す

おもいだす

to recollect, to recall

Mnemonic

The important thing you had to do was in there the whole time, and out it comes covered in dust だす: おもいだす.

Worth knowing

Pulling a memory back up. 覚える おぼえる is getting it in there to start with.

Built from

think
田 field + 心 heart
exit, come out
Stacked peaks, something pushing up and out into view.

Words sharing these kanji

to think strange, wonderful unintentionally, involuntarily thought thinking, thought recollections, memory to be able to do, to be good at to go out, to leave to take out to meet (by chance), to come across to take out, to pull out to submit

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