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構う

かまう

to mind, to care for

Mnemonic

Timber put together into a frame, which is effort somebody chose to spend. Calm かま yourself う and spend it on a person, or say 構わない and decline to: かまう.

Worth knowing

構わない is the form you meet first: I do not mind, do not trouble yourself. Same 構 as 結構 けっこう.

Built from

construct, frame
木 a tree on the left. Timber put together into a frame, so the way a thing is built up.

Words sharing these kanji

all right, no thank you quite

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