Memory phrase for the character: 偵

偵

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spy, investigate, search

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Left: person 人, right: virtue 貞 (cf. chastity belt 貞操帯 [ていそうたい] - With a key 卜 for the lock 目 above the legs 八 for: the chastity/virtue)

A person who appears such virtuous is probably a spy.

亻	person	This radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart.
卜	fortune telling	This radical bukunoto* is also used in the radical 占.*
貝	money	Shows a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八, which were used as money.

探偵

たんてい

detective, investigator

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