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言い出す

いいだす

to begin to say, to be the first to say, to propose

Mnemonic

The thing gets said out loud, and whoever gets there first owns it. Ee いい, and out it comes covered in dust だす. Where on earth did that come from: いいだす.

Built from

say, speech
A mouth with the sound drawn coming out of it.
exit, come out
Stacked peaks, something pushing up and out into view.

Words sharing these kanji

to say word, language single word, a few words way of speaking, expression silence, muteness speech apology, excuse declaration to be able to do, to be good at to go out, to leave to take out to recollect, to recall

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