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記録

きろく

record, documentation

Mnemonic

Written down and scratched into metal so that it outlasts everybody. A key き cut into rock ろく. A world one, in the marathon: きろく.

Built from

record, write down
言 speech + 己 self
record
金 metal on the left, which is what a record was scratched into long before anybody had paper for it.

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