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景色

けしき

scenery

Mnemonic

The scene and the colour in it, taken together as the one thing. Cash け, she しき said, would not buy a view like that. From up here it is worth the walk: けしき.

Worth knowing

The reading is irregular, 景 read け and 色 read しき, so learn it whole.

Built from

scene, view
日 the sun up over a tall building. Not the buildings, the thing you see when you look out at them.
colour
Two figures, one bent over the other, and nobody agrees why that came to mean colour. Take the meaning and leave the shape.

Words sharing these kanji

sight, spectacle color various, in various ways

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