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馬鹿

ばか

fool, nonsense

Mnemonic

A horse and a deer in the one word, out of an old story about a man insisting the one was the other. Bah ば, ka か, and I was that man: ばか.

Built from

horse
A pictograph. The mane runs along the top and the four strokes underneath are the legs.
deer
A pictograph, antlers up top and the legs beneath. The same animal stands inside 麗 lovely.

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