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殺す

ころす

to kill

Mnemonic

A hand with a weapon raised in it. You cannot bring yourself to use it even on the spider in the bath — glass, envelope, out the window — and the chorus ころす behind you is disappointed: ころす.

Built from

kill
The 殳 on the right is a hand with a weapon raised in it.

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