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経つ

たつ

to pass, to elapse

Mnemonic

The thread runs out end to end while nobody is watching the clock. Fourteen years since then, and a good many tats たつ on that arm since: たつ.

Worth knowing

Same reading as 立つ たつ, to stand. This one is only ever about time going by, and it carries 経 the thread run through it.

Built from

pass through, sutra
糸 thread on the left, run the whole length of the thing. What you have been through from one end to the other.

Also read たつ

to stand, to rise

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