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裏切る

うらぎる

to betray

Mnemonic

You get shown the back of somebody and there is a knife in it. His own friends, at that. You are a ghoul うらぎる: うらぎる.

Built from

back, reverse
里 a village tucked away inside 衣 a garment. The side of the cloth that nobody is meant to see.
cut
刀 a blade on the right. Everything to the left of it is what the blade goes through.

Words sharing these kanji

rear, reverse to cut important, valuable not at all, absolutely nothing end, place to stop to be able to cut, to run out, to expire

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