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言い訳

いいわけ

apology, excuse

Mnemonic

You say a reason, and the saying of it is the entire problem. Ee いい, well わけ, and you have rather a lot of them: いいわけ.

Built from

say, speech
A mouth with the sound drawn coming out of it.
reason, translation
言 speech + 尺 measure

Words sharing these kanji

to say word, language single word, a few words way of speaking, expression silence, muteness speech declaration to begin to say, to be the first to say, to propose sorry, inexcusable

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