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迷う

まよう

to be perplexed, to get lost

Mnemonic

Rice spilled the length of the road and every grain the same as the next. The same Mei まよ as 迷惑, and twenty minutes of walking with none of it familiar: まよう.

Built from

lost, astray
辶 road + 米 rice

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