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Explanation Looks like a folding table, at which you can write your text.

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT 4Joyo 1
text, writing
fumi, BUN, MON
Looks like a folding table
At the folding table you can write your text.

Vocabulary
JLPT 3Joyo 3
opposite, versus, pair
TAI, TSUI
Left: text/writing (A folding table for writing a text.), right: skillful hand .
A writing of a skillful hand against this pair.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
mosquito
ka, BUN
Left: insect , right: text (A folding table for writing a text.)
The insect on the text is a mosquito. (It makes the sound: BUN)

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
purification, abstain, exorcise
SAI
Top: text (A folding table for writing a text.), below center: to show, altar , outside: limitation
A text on the altar explains the limits of (inner) purification.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
medicine, chemical, drug, dose
ZAI
Left: equal/similar (For writing a text you need a sheet with lines to make it uniform/similar., right: knife
Similar to a knife is the effect of this medicine.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
uniform, adjusted, equal, similar, assemble, alike
hitoshii, SEI
Top: text (A folding table for writing a text.), bottom: two vertical strokes as sheet/scroll and two horizontal strokes as lines
For writing a text you need a sheet with lines to make it uniform.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
family's emblem, escutcheon, pattern
MON
Left: thread , right: text, sentence - Similar to 'picture ' (= Threads meet in the embroidered picture.) also the family's emblem is stitched.
Threads form the 'text' in a family's emblem or a textile pattern.

Vocabulary
JLPT -Joyo 7
stain, spot, speckle, blemish
HAN
From left: king , text/letter (A folding table for writing your text.), king
(Here everything must be free of any flaw:) If a king (writes) a letter to a king, it counts every: stain or blemish.

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