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怪我

けが

injury

Mnemonic

Something strange has happened to your own body, which is a very Japanese way of putting it. Her arm, this time, and a keg けが went over on it: けが.

Worth knowing

The characters are borrowed for sound. There is nothing to read out of 怪 strange and 我 self.

Built from

strange, suspicious
忄 a heart on the left that has caught hold of something it cannot account for.
I, self
A hand holding a halberd. The self drawn as the thing that defends itself.

Words sharing these kanji

suspicious, dubious patience, bearing with we (formal)

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