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混乱

こんらん

disorder, chaos

Mnemonic

Everything stirred through everything else and every thread pulled a different way at once. The town after the earthquake, a con こん at a run らん through the middle of it: こんらん.

Built from

mix, confuse
氵 water on the left with everything stirred through it until no one part can be picked back out.
disorder, riot
A hand pulling at a tangle of threads on the left with a hook on the right. Everything at cross purposes at once.

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