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暮らす

くらす

to live, to make a living

Mnemonic

The sun goes down under the heap of the day, then comes up and does it again, and that is what a life is actually made of. A whole class くらす of days, one after another: くらす.

Built from

nightfall, live
日 the sun sitting at the bottom with the day's growth heaped over the top of it. The light going, and the days going with it.

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