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普通

ふつう

normal, regular, average

Mnemonic

Everything lined up under one sun with a road running straight through the middle. Foot ふ, and the same つう as 通り: food fine, service fine, nothing you would tell anybody about: ふつう.

Worth knowing

On a train timetable it means the slow one that stops everywhere.

Built from

ordinary, widespread
並 line up + 日 sun
pass through, commute
辶 the road radical. A way that goes all the way through.

Words sharing these kanji

usual, ordinary street to pass, to take, to go through to go to and from, to frequent a place to pass, to communicate with to let pass, to run through

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