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渡す

わたす

to carry across, to hand over

Mnemonic

This began as getting a thing over a river. She has been talking for a solid hour, so you put the glass into her hand: water わた, Sue す: わたす.

Worth knowing

に marks who gets it: 彼に渡す. 渡る わたる is you crossing over yourself.

Built from

cross over, hand across
氵 water on the left, with the same 度 as 一度 beside it. Getting a thing over the river and into a hand.

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