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生き物

いきもの

living creature

Mnemonic

A thing that happens to be alive, which covers a good deal more than the ones with faces. The same 生きる as living, with mono もの on the end. Look after them: いきもの.

Built from

life, raw
A pictograph, a shoot pushing up out of the ground.
thing, object
牛 cow + 勿 must not

Words sharing these kanji

teacher to live, to exist to have children to be born life, lifestyle (human) life pupil, student occurrence, happening a lifetime student thing, object character, person

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