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衝撃

しょうげき

impact, shock

Mnemonic

Two things arrive at the one point and something is struck hard enough to be felt across the room. The same gecko げき as 攻撃 and 刺激, and the news landed like that: しょうげき.

Built from

collide, impact
重 heavy set inside a crossroads. Two things arriving at the same point at the same moment.
strike, attack
A hand at the bottom driving down the whole weight of what sits above it.

Words sharing these kanji

attack, assault, criticism to fire, to shoot

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