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経験

けいけん

experience

Mnemonic

The thread run end to end, and the horse gone over hoof by hoof. Kay けい and Ken けん both did the lot of it while they were young, and now they know: けいけん.

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.
test, verify
馬 a horse on the left, and the going over you give one before you agree to buy it.

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to pass, to elapse

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