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思い出

おもいで

recollections, memory

Mnemonic

A thought that comes back out on its own years afterwards. The same おもい as 思い, heavy and unasked for, and out で it comes. The trip left you a few: おもいで.

Worth knowing

記憶 きおく is memory as the faculty. 思い出 is one particular memory that you keep.

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 to recollect, to recall strange, wonderful unintentionally, involuntarily thought thinking, thought 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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