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服

ふく

clothes

Mnemonic

Cloth laid over a kneeling figure and fitted to the person inside it. She took a few cool ふく ones into the booth and not one of them fit: ふく.

Worth knowing

服を着る is to put them on. 履く はく is the verb for anything below the waist.

Built from

clothes
The left half is not 月, it was 舟 a boat once. The right is a hand laid on a kneeling figure, something fitted onto a person.

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