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支配

しはい

control, management

Mnemonic

You hold it up and you hand it out, and doing both of those is what ruling amounts to. Fifty years of it, and she し was high はい above the lot of them: しはい.

Built from

support, branch
十 ten + 又 hand
distribute
酉 wine jar + 己 self

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