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鋭い

するどい

acute, sharp

Mnemonic

Metal taken down to an edge that is through your finger before the pain has caught up. Sue する, ruddy どい hell, and you look down and there is blood: するどい.

Built from

sharp, keen
金 metal on the left, worked down to an edge fine enough to cut you before you have noticed.

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