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貴族

きぞく

noble

Mnemonic

One banner over the whole family, and what they carry in both hands under it has been theirs six hundred years. A key き and a silk sock ぞく, and not one of them has worked: きぞく.

Built from

precious, noble
Money 貝 carried up in both hands. What gets held that way is the precious thing.
clan, tribe
A banner with arrows beneath it, a family gathered under one flag.

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family

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