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歴史

れきし

history

Mnemonic

One footstep after another and somebody sat writing them down. A wreck れき she し dug up last summer, and I am rather taken with it: れきし.

Built from

successive, history
止 a footprint at the bottom under a row of trees. One step after another, and then the record of them.
history, chronicle
A hand holding a writing tablet, which is the record keeper. Whatever got written down and then kept.

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