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ことば

word, language

Mnemonic

Words come off a person the way leaves come off a tree, one at a time and with no end to them. The same coat こと as 事 with a ば on it, and the pockets are full of them: ことば.

Built from

say, speech
A mouth with the sound drawn coming out of it.
leaf
艹 grass + 木 tree

Words sharing these kanji

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

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