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適当

てきとう

suitable, appropriate

Mnemonic

The turning that suits where you are going, landed on square. Tacky てき, toe とう, and there was no answer to that question that fitted: てきとう.

Worth knowing

Careful in speech, where 適当 often means the opposite, done any old how and not properly. Context decides which.

Built from

suitable, fit
辶 the road radical, and the one turning off it that happens to be right for where you are going.
hit the mark, this
A simplified form, landing squarely on the right spot.

Words sharing these kanji

truth, reality natural, as a matter of course of course, obvious to hit, to strike really, truly to hit, to guess correspondence, suitability at that time, at the present time person in charge

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