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神

かみ

god, spirit

Mnemonic

A man saying things to a wooden box in an empty field, at an altar nobody else attends. Calm かみ me, he keeps saying: かみ.

Worth knowing

Three かみ in the deck and the kanji is what separates them: 神 god with 礻 an altar, 髪 hair with 髟 long hair, 紙 paper with 糸 thread.

Built from

god, spirit
礻 altar + 申 speak

Also read かみ

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