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RTK / HeisigFrame #1194

armor

Lv 39

Strokes: 5

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

armor RTKTurtle ShellA

Community Mnemonic

508 votes

Funny.. this appeared to me as a pictograph of a samurai's armor. Then I looked up images of the samurai armor and it is not even remotely similar. Then I realised it looks in fact like the belly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I somehow associated with the samurai armor because of the "turtle samurai" that appeared earlier. Fits me. The bit that pokes down is to protect the genitals, I guess.

Source: Kanji Koohii community

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