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新しい

あたらしい

new

Mnemonic

Timber cut this morning with the axe still in it. He got the car at a rally あたらしい, she says, and he has told every single person he has met since: あたらしい.

Worth knowing

新しい is the adjective. 新 reads しん in compounds, as in 新聞 しんぶん.

Built from

new
立 stand + 木 tree + 斤 axe

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