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買い物

かいもの

shopping

Mnemonic

Buying things, which is precisely what the word says and not a syllable more. The cow かい out of 買う and the mono もの out of 物: かいもの.

Built from

buy
罒 net + 貝 shell, money
thing, object
牛 cow + 勿 must not

Words sharing these kanji

to buy thing, object character, person real thing, genuine article baggage, load building, structure story, tale living creature

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