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思わず

おもわず

unintentionally, involuntarily

Mnemonic

The same Moe おも as 思う, except that this time the heart got there first. The news landed and you were crying before a word of it had reached your head: おもわず.

Worth knowing

A thing happening before you decided to do it. 思う おもう with the thinking taken out of it.

Built from

think
田 field + 心 heart

Words sharing these kanji

to think to recollect, to recall strange, wonderful thought thinking, thought recollections, memory

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