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絶対

ぜったい

absolutely

Mnemonic

A thread cut clean through, and a hand held up flat facing you. Zett ぜっ, tie たい, and nothing whatsoever is getting past that one. Not once, not ever: ぜったい.

Worth knowing

Most often with a negative, for 'absolutely not'. 絶対に is the adverb form.

Built from

cut off, sever
糸 a thread with a blade taken to it, cut clean through, nothing after.
facing, opposite
寸 a hand held out toward whatever is across from it.

Words sharing these kanji

despair, hopelessness correspondence, equivalence, response target, object opposition, objection

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