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選ぶ

えらぶ

to choose, to elect

Mnemonic

You walk the length of the row and pick one out, and the rest of them stay exactly where they are. Era えら, boo ぶ, and you cannot change your mind afterwards: えらぶ.

Built from

choose
辶 the road radical, walking the row and picking one out.

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