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RTK / HeisigFrame #890

listen

Lv 30

Strokes: 17

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

listen RTK

Community Mnemonic

770 votes

I promise to use my ear to do nothing but listen ... stick a needle in my eye, cross my heart and hope to die! (Intentionally said backwards to get the order of the primitives correct).

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

On'yomi

ちょう

Kun'yomi

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