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戸惑う

とまどう

to be perplexed, to be bewildered

Mnemonic

You are stood at the door and cannot work out which way to go through it. Tom とま, a dough どう in either hand, and no idea at all. He asked and she had none either: とまどう.

Built from

door
One leaf of a door, which is to say half of 門 the gate.
confusion, be misled
心 a heart at the bottom under a halberd guarding a border. Torn about which way it ought to go.

Words sharing these kanji

trouble, annoyance

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