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RTK / HeisigFrame #1214

vow

Lv 49

Strokes: 14

JLPT: N1

Jōyō: Not Jōyō

Meanings

vow RTK

Community Mnemonic

682 votes

This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- "the folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive "fold".

Source: Kanji Koohii community

Radical Components

?origami
?folded words
fold
finger

On'yomi

せい

Kun'yomi

ちか

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