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歌う

うたう

to sing

Mnemonic

Somebody with their mouth wide open making the same sound come out over and over again. Ooh う, ta たう, and they clap anyway. All of us, in Japanese: うたう.

Built from

song, sing
欠 an open mouth on the right, and on the left the sound coming out of it twice over.

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