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性格

せいかく

character, personality

Mnemonic

What you were born with, held up against what everybody else was born with. The same せいかく as 正確 accurate, except that nothing about a personality is. Mine and my sister’s came out opposite ways: せいかく.

Worth knowing

人物 じんぶつ is a person who counts for something. 性格 is what somebody is actually like.

Built from

nature, gender
忄 heart + 生 life
status, standard
木 a tree on the left, worked to a standard. The frame a thing is built to, and how it comes across.

Also read せいかく

accurate, precise

Words sharing these kanji

woman, female male, man shape, appearance

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