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RTK / HeisigFrame #1251

edge

Lv 27

Strokes: 14

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

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Community Mnemonic

703 votes

Have you ever seen those shots in movies where the hero is standing at the edge of a sheer mountain face, hair blowing in the wind? It probably wouldn't seem so heroic if you saw him ten minutes earlier, when a crew of stylists was carefully combing his hair so it would fall perfectly.

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

On'yomi

たん

Kun'yomi

はしはたはしたはな

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