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着替える

きがえる

to change clothes

Mnemonic

What you have on gets swapped for something else. The same 着 as 着る putting clothes on, except that these have to come off first, and the clean shirt wins: きがえる.

Built from

arrive, wear
目 an eye at the bottom under a woolly top, something landing on you and staying there.
replace, exchange
Two of the same thing side by side over 日 the sun, one of them stepping into the other's place.

Words sharing these kanji

to calm down, to settle in to wear, to put on to arrive arrival

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