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本人

ほんにん

the person in question

Mnemonic

The whole table has a theory about why she left. Hone ほん, and the same ninja にん, sitting right there in plain sight, and nobody has asked her: ほんにん.

Built from

origin, book
木 tree + 一 one line, at the root
person
A pictograph, a figure walking, seen from the side.

Words sharing these kanji

Japanese language book Japan truth, reality seriousness really, truly real thing, genuine article originally, essentially today person person from (nationality) human being, people

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