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綺麗

きれい

beautiful, clean

Mnemonic

Finely woven thread, and a deer with its antlers drawn out matching. Neat is the point, which is why it does clean as readily as lovely. A ray れい of light on it, and Ki き keeping it so: きれい.

Worth knowing

Almost always written in kana. 美しい うつくしい is beauty only; きれい covers tidy as well.

Built from

finely woven
糸 thread on the left with 奇 strange beside it. Woven better than it needed to be.
lovely
A deer with its antlers drawn out evenly on both sides. Fine, and matched.

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