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足

あし

leg, foot

Mnemonic

Ashley あし's go on for ever and trousers have never once fitted him off the peg: あし.

Worth knowing

Covers the whole thing, leg and foot together. Japanese doesn't split them the way English does.

Built from

leg, foot
A pictograph, 口 a knee drawn over the foot beneath it.

Words sharing these kanji

to be enough, to be sufficient satisfaction sound of footsteps step, under foot

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