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起きる

おきる

to occur

Mnemonic

Three break-ins on your own street and none of them were there last week. Oh, okay おき, so that is happening now: おきる.

Worth knowing

Same word as 起きる "to get up". Events use it too: a thing rises up and happens.

Built from

rise, get up
走 run + 己 self

Also read おきる

to get up, to get out of bed

Words sharing these kanji

to bring about, to cause to wake up to occur, to happen

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