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発言

はつげん

speech

Mnemonic

Speech that actually gets let go of instead of being thought and then swallowed. Hats はつ off again げん, every one of them said something: はつげん.

Built from

depart, emit
Two feet at the top and a bow being loosed underneath. Something setting off, and whatever gets let go.
say, speech
A mouth with the sound drawn coming out of it.

Words sharing these kanji

discovery, revelation blast, explosion occurrence, happening to emit, to radiate to say word, language single word, a few words way of speaking, expression silence, muteness apology, excuse declaration to begin to say, to be the first to say, to propose

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