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a (hiragana)
(ame)
あめ
(hard) candy
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モレワ
Level: 5
When the fish got stabbed by the sword, it went a!
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ジョアス
Level: 329
It looks like an 「あpple 🍎」
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Teeny tiny A in it
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Kayt W
Level: 17
Some one emerging from a hole. "Aaaaa! I'm free!"
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ミキ−再
Level: 5
Gura Gawr's famous words, "あ!" ("A!")
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Kawaii12
Level: 12
Someone's grave with their ghost flying around it
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wt4xx
Level: 57
あ its like a chubby face child saying Aaaa
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ケイルック
Level: 8
The line is going "a"round the cross.
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wisterias16
Level: 2
someone with bad posture checking their phone
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ポールおじちゃん
Level: 1769
Like め, except starts with a horizontal line, (because あ derives from the man’yogana 安 = 宀 + 女 = 乛 + め).
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グランデエ
Level: 82
The most famous picture of Muhammad "A"li
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Eri-XOXO
Level: 5
Standing in wind with dress and open arms, exclaiming ’aaaaaa’
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DJapanica
Level: 4
if you're into Italians it can be mistakenly taken as a tattoo for;
"Ti Amo" The "t", the "a" encircle each other with an open "o" at the end. imo,
"a" is the same pronunciation as in, amo (phonetically as ah-mo).
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Kay_02
Level: 28
あ looks similar to the English "&" sign.
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goatsong
Level: 7
"A" is for "Antenna" - it looks like the tv antenna on top of a house.
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jaxtin
Level: 8
after a long working day you finally take your dress off, "aaaah"
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レガコレ
Level: 16
A is め with "a" T in it (T T)
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レイAngelo
Level: 2
Looks like an Apple あ , letter (A) is upside down.
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i (hiragana)
(inu)
いぬ
dog
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アレックス833
Level: 187
Two eels swimming around each other. Eek!
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
い (i), oh no the dot of the 'i' has fallen next to it's pal.
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fauserbu
Level: 754
If you add a dot to them you'll have two letter i
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Chloetang33
Level: 2
A tiny worm escaped from the fish hook and went “i” (ee) I’m free!
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アイザック Isaac
Level: 14
Looks like "ii", which is the sound it makes.
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gingerkirsch
Level: 22
‘Inu’ dog - dog ears
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Di_tea
Level: 5
It's "i" with a severed head
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レガコレ
Level: 16
Two worms are meeting each other, one said "h"e"y how are you doing?"
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Camarin
Level: 8
an 「い」ぬ (dog) has two floppy ears.
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Onyxu
Level: 3
Ooh. It looks like the dot has deformed and left. Well... Now we have an "i" but in Japanese!
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Kurea009
Level: 13
A fishing hook and an escaping worm!! "EEEEKK!"
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Iaccol
Level: 6
Looks like Dog Ears, Inu, I
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eekrotkaye owo
Level: 29
eels
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u (hiragana)
(usagi)
うさぎ
rabbit
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MuMe
Level: 917
If う is written after an O sound, it will extend the O sound instead. Happens with:
おう　のう　こう　ごう　ほう　ぼう　ぽう　そう　ぞう　ろう　よう　しょう　じょう　とう　どう
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Hexador
Level: 116
Just latin U tilting to the left with a line on top.
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OfficerCat
Level: 48
looks like a guy pointing at someone
“U look like a fish!”
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
it’s a “u” on its side
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daily
Level: 142
う(U) for Under (the line)
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Celestea
Level: 199
It is the half of the face of a clown.
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セヴィ
Level: 44
Its a small U sideways and the little stroke that's always on the side of the u is just floating!
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(ᗜˬᗜ)
Level: 22
I think of the head of a rooster
Rうster
Mnemonic
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Nina 00
Level: 31
A guy gets punched in the stomach and says U
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ソフィイ
Level: 3
Wrestler getting tackled and making "Ugh!" (U) sound
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schoolnae
Level: 20
its one of sailor moons buns
Mnemonic
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KaiTheGuy
Level: 36
The top line is a head and bottom is a body. The body looks like it's being hit or pushed by something. Making the sound "Oof".
Mnemonic
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クレアです
Level: 4
U looks like an old person with a sore back, bending over and going "oo! my back"
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Looks like a creepy little man going ooooh (uuuu) as a woman walks by.
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LordMoni
Level: 4
*turn your phone sideways* it looks like a 🐇 Usagi!
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KerryBlueberry
Level: 57
There is something Up on a hill
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Deadmanwallking
Level: 3
Imagine getting punched in the stomach and going ugh
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Imlearninglanguages!
Level: 3
Its like a normal "u" but tilted on the left with a tiny stroke on the top!
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Lyham
Level: 3
When the " U " fall his shoe flew =う
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Ipeh
Level: 3
Looks like a carrot which Usagi eat
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JJlearning
Level: 12
Looks like a rabbit (“U”sagi) nose!
Mnemonic
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e (hiragana)
(enpitsu)
えんぴつ
pencil
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OfficerCat
Level: 48
Looks like a guy proposing, but he got interrupted half way and only could say “e”
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Hemisha
Level: 13
When we pronounce 'z' we say 'zee' and e looks like z
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A shocked Snake "EEEH?!"
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Nocifer
Level: 248
A runnEr.
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Rufusisgoodatnihongo
Level: 5
Someone naruto running
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ハチロウ
Level: 60
I always think of Elegant Ninja!! シ
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MaskeyDude
Level: 39
A gentleman and a cursive Z with a hat
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(≡・x・≡)さや
Level: 22
Looks like the letter z but more fanciEr
Mnemonic
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RedSez
Level: 9
The left side of the character with the three strokes looks like a backwards capital "E", and the right lower side looks like a lower case "h" making the sound "Eh"
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Felix_Lupin
Level: 7
Looks like the lowercase letter "h"
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
A snake Pokémon rearing up; (E)kans!
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
A cool guy with the collar of his leather jacket turned up, going "Eeeeeyyyy!" like The Fonz 😎 from Happy Days.
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比昂比昂 面条
Level: 41
I was on a boat and accidentally dropped a paper of mine. I found it by the ship's edge (え) and saw a wave in front of me.
Mnemonic
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えヤバ (Ava)
Level: 22
Looks like someone is running or doing (e) xercise
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amythest
Level: 13
Bride in her gown running from alter... EH I change my mind
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LordMoni
Level: 4
An Elegant Emperor bowing his head
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DJapanica
Level: 4
Zee, are you in a hurry?
Where are you going to, eh ?
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Laina_S
Level: 9
Looks like a 3 (E in leetspeak) fused with an h at the bottom, and makes the "eh" sound. You can even coincidentally use え like the English sound, "eh?"
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レイAngelo
Level: 2
Mirrored (E) え
Mnemonic
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Adski80
Level: 7
How we test a pen before writing...start, runs out of ink, so we scribble to continue in a z stroke...e like enpitsu or a pencil instead of the pen.
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Nene baguettes
Level: 21
E likes to run
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
Naruto running and they go "EEEEEEEE" as they run
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Ash the wolf 🖤
Level: 3
Looks like a guy chasing while shouting 'EHHH'
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ToP4iK
Level: 23
Energetic ninja, wush!
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mangoheck
Level: 4
Looks like a disfigured backwards E
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Evil potato
Level: 4
A person running away saying Èeeeeee
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ルルワッシャー
Level: 25
it's like me in my eveyday life, but when i look to the side and see my friend i go "e?!"
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o (hiragana)
(onigiri)
おにぎり
onigiri
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
An ocean god. His lower body is one with the ocean.
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Shiin
Level: 4
The upper right is the hand holding a sword and writing an unfinished "O" at the sand
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PhoenixFire
Level: 145
Looks like a small island in the *O*cean that has a tree on it and the sun above.
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ラスムス
Level: 34
A Buddhist monk meditates as the sun sets. "Ooommm"
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Kamiiriin
Level: 30
The bottom part is shaped like the japanese food Onigiri without the Nori
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じなです
Level: 112
It resembles a scoop, and you need a scoop of rice to make an onigiri.
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Dana_Zane
Level: 80
Oh, there is a grave on the hill
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katheりん
Level: 13
for お vs. あ, お(o)nigiri has a piece of rice falling off of it (the dot)!
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DJapanica
Level: 4
"gO tell it on the mountain...."

It looks like a cross by the mountain with a sun setting in the background.
Mnemonic
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
If you look closely, it looks like a UF(O). お
Mnemonic
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Chloetang33
Level: 2
A cowboy resting his arms on his waist is looking at the round sunset (o), and it’s so beautiful he goes “O!”
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EmRayeTay
Level: 3
A pen in the middle of drawing an “O”, it spilled some ink trying
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Kickpuns
Level: 2
A cross is circling an unfinished “o” in the sand
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クレアです
Level: 4
お for On the green, as it looks like a flag in the hole at a golf course with a ball about to land on the green ⛳
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keesha030
Level: 2
looks like an (o)range with stem and leaf!!
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Kay_02
Level: 28
お looks like a crOss on a bOat.
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JonnyN
Level: 4
Looks like a gravestone site with a cross for a grave. We might say *O* Lord for a prayer.
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Tnettenba
Level: 5
"On the green" - looks like a golfing green with a flag and the golf ball flying in
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アリーズム
Level: 44
It is the shape of a UFO
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Ukashu
Level: 3
Looks like spitting cObra
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goatsong
Level: 7
"O" is for "Hole in one" - it looks like the hole on a golf course, with the extra stroke towards the top being the flag.
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ka (hiragana)
(kaban)
かばん
bag
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
か(ka) the arm of the K is falling down.
Also looks like a chair.
Mnemonic
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Karate kick
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Space~
Level: 7
It looks like a mosquito.
"Ka" means "mosquito" in Japanese.
"CUt it out, mosquito!"
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Akari 22
Level: 417
"Ka" looks like a crow from the side facing to the right. You can see his beak and his folded wing. Crows say "Ka! Ka!"
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クレアです
Level: 4
I remember it か for car driving off a cliff
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Mystery No.0
Level: 3
A "k" with an apostrophe.
Mnemonic
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Toasty_Cravensworth
Level: 6
It looks like someone dancing the Can Can (in this case Kan Kan)
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スタル
Level: 33
Think of someone carrying a bag, and they shift their arm. Remember the "ca" sound in "carry."
"I'm KA-rrying this bag. Its a little heavy!"
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Pea1261
Level: 68
It's someone driving a ka (car)
Mnemonic
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Levinia
Level: 22
Is the left line is connected to the center of the curved line it kinda looks like a 'k', is said line is connected to the topmost point its resembles an 'A'
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Archana123
Level: 7
It can be drawn as Kamera (Japanese for camera), small camera with a button on top
Mnemonic
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Laina_S
Level: 9
Looks lile a stick figure who is leaning towards someone asking them question, who raised their arm.. か is often added to the end of sentences to ask a question.
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
Knife CUtting a bean in upside down fashion.
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Redd_Clover
Level: 11
A woman doing the KAn KAn dance
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Test check 1
Level: 3
Looks someone doing a KArate chop on a wood, with the left half piece of wood flying to his left
Mnemonic
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vuzereus
Level: 6
か=(KA)p, cup handle and finger
カ=(KA), in katakana, the finger gone
Mnemonic
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Matthew77ask
Level: 4
Similar to Chinese character "jia" 加 - meaning "add". I think it comes from it.
Other
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ki (hiragana)
(ki)
き
tree
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ミヌイールー
Level: 131
Looks like a house Ki (key)
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Crowind
Level: 3
It looks like a face with the eyes close and a scar in the nose
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
Ki is the key to your house
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
き(ki), A bent tree (木=ki) with two branches.
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Little lender
Level: 18
Cooler guy (Sa) being the cool guy with a smirk
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Jeeb
Level: 10
Looks like a person putting their hand up to their mouth to stop from laughing after “Ki-Ki-ing” with their friends.
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Idiotic
Level: 4
Shady guy saying "kiki"
Mnemonic
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Asyrr
Level: 44
If the mnemonic for 'sa' is SAru 🐒, then the mnemonic for 'ki' is for monKEY 🐒

Since KEY is 1 letter longer than SA, there is an extra stroke. Ki also looks like a KEY.
Mnemonic
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Realkenma_5
Level: 13
Looks like さ (Person wearing a blindfold = 𝐒𝐀toru Gojo) who is the 𝐊𝐈 (key) to my heart
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Maki-槇
Level: 420
A kite flying in the wind
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アラン普通のx0o0x_ファン
Level: 42
i like to think of sa as a monkey, and ki as the "ki"ng monkey! because the king monkey has cooler glasses :)
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Atari Harikiri
Level: 3
The whas (sa) up guy with a ki stroke or key stroke wound across his nose. He has been keyed.
Mnemonic
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dj2004
Level: 42
ki looks like a man wearing a Bōgu is smiling
Mnemonic
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ANG_13
Level: 18
It looks like a Kitesurfing board
Mnemonic
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ごろれんく
Level: 129
It looks like a guy kicking in the air "kiiii"
Mnemonic
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Warenya
Level: 41
A cool KId with thick eyebrows
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TheRealRJJ
Level: 22
Yamcha smiles as he charges his ki
Mnemonic
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Kawai-San
Level: 13
Looks like an axe ( bottom ) that swung and cut the tree on top making the noise KI
Mnemonic
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アンナ クララ✨️
Level: 25
a KInd smile
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
The KId's got a plater on it's nose.
Mnemonic
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Aneandes
Level: 33
It's a saru (monkey) holding the branch of a KI (tree). KI is the sa character but with a new stroke, the branch.
Mnemonic
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onyx (rins #1 fan)
Level: 8
looks like a person getting "ki"lled by being sliced through the stomach, falling onto the ground dramatically with their arms out
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
It's the nose and the mouth of a face, but the nose has got a plaster taken from a medical KIt
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ku (hiragana)
(kuruma)
くるま
car
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wadawater2
Level: 101
Coo coo bird mouth making a ku sound
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セヴィ
Level: 44
Looks like a K but without the first stroke
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
く (ku) for くち (mouth), looks like an open mouth!
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ミヌイールー
Level: 131
The sharp point of a KUnai (a ninja weapon)
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Pa”ku”mon
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じなです
Level: 112
A car's (kuruma) headlights.
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Akamiza
Level: 165
'Ku' funny shaped as a car mask (car because = kuruma) I did a drawing and posted it below contest post :)
Mnemonic
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Swadhuu
Level: 9
The GREATER THAN sign in math
Mnemonic
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織姫
Level: 60
It looks like a K without the vertical line, so cool (Ku).
Mnemonic
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クレアです
Level: 4
in Australia we have a bird called a kookaburra that sounds like it's laughing, so we were taught KU for kookaburra because it looks like a kookaburras open mouth laughing
Mnemonic
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Ankit_
Level: 39
It looks like the second half of a K and also a U rotated to the right.
Mnemonic
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Julie-san
Level: 11
Sign to the left
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whiterabb1t
Level: 42
A Kuma (bear) opening its mouth!
Mnemonic
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Li Hung
Level: 4
"Ku!" the sound you make when you get punched in the stomach, looks like it too
Mnemonic
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
The hands of a KU KU clock
Mnemonic
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syrian
Level: 10
A KUrocidile dosent want to eat the less than(く)
Mnemonic
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マッケンージ
Level: 10
く for the beak of a KUkaburra (kookaburra)
Mnemonic
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Gabriela|ガブリエラ
Level: 7
A Ku ku bird at twelve o'clock. (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧
Mnemonic
2
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魚の王子様
Level: 6
The pigeon (○>○) opens it's beak and makes a ku ku sound (○く○)　く♪ く♪
Mnemonic
2
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Alosha
Level: 86
Looks like a croKUdile sign
Mnemonic
1
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syrian
Level: 10
The ku(く)rocidile likes to eat something thats not less than the other!
Mnemonic
1
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ke (hiragana)
(kemushi)
けむし
hairy caterpillar
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Immetal
Level: 14
Similar to how a KEg looks
Mnemonic
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
け/ke, a sword and it's hilt.
Mnemonic
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Moonlightkitty
Level: 5
KEn (the Barbie doll) with a sword 🚶‍♂️🗡️
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セヴィ
Level: 44
First stroke (leg) hitting the second stroke (small person/child) resulting in it falling over : "Keyaaa!" (battlecry)
Mnemonic
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Puffly Muffin
Level: 8
First one looks like to the letter "e" but in squeezed form, and the other one looks at the letter "e" and says "are u oKay?"
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Teagen
Level: 5
Kendo is a Japanese sword fighting Sport - the left bit looks like a Dough hook and the right part looks like a sword pointing down
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Levinia
Level: 22
A hook ready to taKE a t away
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MarshmelloRok -
Level: 12
Kemushi means hairy caterpillar, so i always remember that its a caterpillar on a leaf and then remember (ke)tarpillar
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oldybker
Level: 26
Looks like a flask and a syringe used in Chemistry "KEmistry" 🧪💉
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Looks like It, so think Pennywise from It in Spanish saying "Que?" (ke)
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pojjm
Level: 28
Looks like KElp standing upright
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Alexalotl
Level: 38
looks like two people circling each other before a fight saying "Ke ke Ke, Im gonna win!
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東京に青い空
Level: 52
I remember Rurouni KEnshin and it looks like his sword and its sheath
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DelFlumen
Level: 16
Jack (left stroke) and Rose (right stroke) are standing on the Titanic, and Jack sais to Rose: "You CAn fly"
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Nap22
Level: 11
It looks like a sword and it's sheath
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mochi mochi?
Level: 7
anya holding yur's tools cuz they want to k!ll somebody yur:miss anya follow me .anya: oKE doKE
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vuzereus
Level: 6
old man carrying a (KE)ne
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M.Victory
Level: 2
First stroke looks like an "L" with the hook upward and the second stroke looks like an inverted "t"
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ねっしうす
Level: 6
け as in Kerbal. Left is rocket, right is elevator.
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Jabbro
Level: 53
It (け) is going to be OK (KE).
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pet-friendly
Level: 4
The Left line has put his leg up to kick the right one. The right one has arms wide open and Falling over
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jaxtin
Level: 8
a spanish man reading the newspaper going "QUE?" (ke)
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aprilcalled
Level: 33
it looks like an "i" and "t" KitE. "i" and "t" are between K and E.
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Jurimar700
Level: 51
Looks like "it" a kite without "it" says "ké"
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Adski80
Level: 7
Looks like "it". "What" is Que (Spanish) OR ke (Japanese). Think it, then what, then KE!
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LoveDove
Level: 19
It looks like a sword and a sheath. When you sheath a sword it makes a "Ke" sound.
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Cardinalflag
Level: 27
Looks like a sword, so... "Ke ke ke!! Look at my KEwl sword!"
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ニック改
Level: 60
It looks like you can insert the t shaped part into the others hooked end and they’d fit together like a lock and KEy
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ch0c0-latt3
Level: 20
Looks like a knights helmet. He (ke)pt his town safe.
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ko (hiragana)
(koma)
こま
spinning top
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アレックス833
Level: 187
Two koi fish swimming in a pond, viewed from above.
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Moonlightkitty
Level: 5
It looks like a cup of coffee. The first line is the cup and the second line is a little plate.
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Hexador
Level: 116
Two lines "KOoperating" on top of each other
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메리
Level: 4
KOi fish Tui and La (ying and yang ocean spirits) from The last airbender
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Coin. It looks a little like a coin
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pep1294
Level: 5
it looks like an open mouth, an upper lip and a lower lip mouthing "o"
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
こ (ko) for こども (children), two lines for two children
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Akagi Chan:3
Level: 4
Korra's water bending.
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Mio22
Level: 4
They look like tails of cats(neKO).
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멜리싸
Level: 15
if you try and connect them in a circle you'll get a COIN
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Velvette
Level: 3
It looks like one man standing and one man sitting but sideways
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Dex ~
Level: 21
Two KOi fish swimming in a circle
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Martina luna
Level: 11
Looks like two KOmmas
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syrian
Level: 10
Think of it as punching hands!like when u get a K.O(こ)♡
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Sabrinabrrdzz
Level: 22
Looks like a KObra snake
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darcktax
Level: 20
its like two horizontal coma, to remember it, in japanese こま (koma) start with こ
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プルトーゼ
Level: 31
こ"ko" looks like the kamehameha signature pose.
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Lightsenju
Level: 14
It looks like a coat. Co in coat sound similar to ko
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sa (hiragana)
(saru)
さる
monkey
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t888
Level: 532
smiling monkey (saru)
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みしゅ
Level: 40
It looks like a cool guy with glasses 😎 going "Sa, dude!" (Californian slang for What's up)
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Sat. It looks like a sitting person
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
さ/sa for SAmurai, thrusting left with his sword.
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dazai waifu
Level: 3
Looks like a cool guy with line glasses
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noahcap！
Level: 5
the top of さ looks like a t, t is next to s in the alphabet!
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like two hands stirring a bowl of SAlsa
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vuzereus
Level: 6
さ=(SA)rfing, use arms to balance
き=(KI)ds, kids learn surfing, need extra arms
せ=(SE)lling, sailing need sails attached to ship
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Yumiiyurri
Level: 3
A ship with a Sail.
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pet-friendly
Level: 4
Ki is elder sis. Sa is younger bro. So Sa has one stroke less than Ki
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dogshaman
Level: 11
Face someone makes for sarcastic apology. "Saaaarry"
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Ekanata
Level: 3
Reminds me of this emoji 🗿
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mangalegend
Level: 6
ScAr faced man
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ikeaa
Level: 3
Smirking SAmurai with a scar on top of his nose
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Fungo
Level: 23
The tree ki is (sa)d that it lost a branch!
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Onnemonne
Level: 4
The curve is on west part. Make sense, since sun also SAt (set) at west.
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Felix_Lupin
Level: 7
Looks like a guy with a skateboard in the middle of a kickflip
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けむしintheすいか
Level: 5
Sorta looks like something is being 'SA'wed through.
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HakoPaco
Level: 13
A person kicking their leg while playing soccer (Sa-ccer)
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Fin123
Level: 12
It looks like a smile, with a nose thats blushing.
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RikuMal
Level: 6
It looks like a person SArfing (surfing)
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Ksaver
Level: 12
Looks like Cyclops from the X-Men
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tripletrashh
Level: 8
looks like a man with blindfold. SAtoru gojo
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Realkenma_5
Level: 13
Person wearing a blindfold = 𝐒𝐀toru Gojo (From an anime)
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Minotha
Level: 8
It's SAd that it has one less line than KI.
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deii♪
Level: 4
a person with (sa)ggy belly
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Marlin333
Level: 34
Cross SAt on a stool
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alena5
Level: 5
SAd guy trying to look cool
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shi (hiragana)
(shinbun)
しんぶん
newspaper
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Nocifer
Level: 248
A fiSHIng hook.
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Puppixx
Level: 29
SHe has long SHIny hair
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
し/shi for SHIppo/tail, it's a cat's tail 🐱 猫のしっぽですよ~
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ミキ−再
Level: 5
Either a fishing hook, or a tail.
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wt4xx
Level: 57
That is SLIDE!!!
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Mati90
Level: 21
For the italians: è uno SCI visto di profilo!
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坊
Level: 16
Upside-down scythe, like the grim reaper (SHInigami) carries.
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Wolffe
Level: 4
It looks like a SHrImp
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inchworm
Level: 5
Looks like the hook you use for SHEEp.
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Felix_Lupin
Level: 7
Kind of reminds me of when in video games you attack and a slash shows up on the screen over the enemy
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tinetinetine
Level: 4
It looks like the gesture you do with your arms when you say 'sheeeeesh' lol
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
It looks like a silver hook without fish, but you actually caught a SHIny eel!
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Violeteal
Level: 35
Same initial sound and look of CHIcote (whip in portuguese)
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su (hiragana)
(suika)
すいか
watermelon
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アレックス833
Level: 187
"suuuuu" is the sound of you slurping up a big loopy noodle
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Aegil
Level: 11
It looks like a SUnail on a SUtick
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じなです
Level: 112
It looks like a stick person carrying a watermelon (suika) under their arm.
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Jet AmunRa
Level: 5
Su .. sword ... Su look like a sword
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Jeeb
Level: 10
SUe is carrying a little purse
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daily
Level: 142
It's a SUlide (slide)
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Ladademe
Level: 646
The *su*n will set soon, but for now, it still peaks out behind the cross.
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like falling from a plane.
That SUcks!
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Kqoze33
Level: 148
SUe... lawyers... scales of justice
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amythest
Level: 13
Sue is pregnant.
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KimiH
Level: 6
SUUUUi from the Cristiano Ronaldo celebration
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
A SUUUnail with arms. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
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Teirdalin
Level: 6
SUperman flying with his cape behind him. Or perhaps the right side of a bowl of SoUp.
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kudastop
Level: 653
Looks like a sword hitting a watermelon (SUika) at the beach
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織姫
Level: 60
The SUn peaking out behind the curtain and window.
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むめい ねこ
Level: 27
Reminds me of SUika in Dr Stone. She spins and rolls with the watermelon on her head when she's going to help investigate.
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織姫
Level: 60
A person with a protruding belly after having a nice large SUpper.
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Isopod143
Level: 14
A cat running up a tree (su)per fast!
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Foxycleo2
Level: 6
Looks like a SU-piral (spiral) 🥰
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lofia
Level: 44
it looks like a little pig tail and farmers say "sooey" to call pigs
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vuzereus
Level: 6
SUimming, looks like a person diving
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acceldidact
Level: 27
SUn behind a cross.
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JamesUhl123
Level: 9
Loops like a roll of SUshi
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Maki-槇
Level: 420
Looks like a SUture
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えヤバ (Ava)
Level: 22
(su) soon the plant with grow looks like a seed growing from underground
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Pup_Hyperion
Level: 4
the character looks like someone is diving in a SU-wimming pool.
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DezV
Level: 6
I just think of SUpermans butt tbh
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みまえ
Level: 7
su-nail (snail)
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Japanecho
Level: 12
SUper man fliying upward holding a stick
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floqui
Level: 29
It's a SUperhero doing a cool double kick in a handstand
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Siiz
Level: 14
The sword when adding an O in the middle speak like swoord (su)
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justdeborah
Level: 35
It‘s the shape my sword does when I play fruitninja and cut a melon (suika)
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Axi123
Level: 19
Spoon 🥄 of sugar
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
A monkey SUinging on a vine hanging from a branch, or a child on a SUing
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Sabrinabrrdzz
Level: 22
Looks like a SUine tail. Little piggy tail
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Kirsten16
Level: 14
There's one loop like curly hair and I think of Curly (Su)e -> a movie from the 90s
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se (hiragana)
(senbei)
せんべい
(Japanese) rice cracker
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Setting a baby on a lap
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Anonymous123
Level: 1594
"Two people on a see-saw"
katakana sa サ looks like the mirror image of the hiragana for se せ.
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Chikasama11
Level: 56
Worm and snake holding stick
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Okary
Level: 13
looks like a noSE
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
Looks like a bento SEt
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
same as katakana: can you “S”ee the little “e”? (together is “se”)
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
せ makes me think of せなか/senaka (back) for some reason, maybe a farmer's back using a carrying pole to get buckets of water? (is my farmer's daughter background showing - why, yes. Yes it is 🤐
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Hyokun
Level: 3
a SEt of sharp teeth
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ミキ−再
Level: 5
Looks like long and short hockey sticks next to the sidewalk.
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フェゆ
Level: 128
SEt of letter t
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Rika_Ren
Level: 4
Looks like a SEnior with hat
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Craftsy-Auri
Level: 221
A SEt of hockey sticks
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クレアです
Level: 4
in school I was taught to remember this by thinking about a sunSEt. the horizontal line represents the horizon and the lines going through it are the beams of light from the sunset. Se in sunSEt
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かわいい🍓🎀いちご
Level: 22
A big t and a small t SEcured together
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GY6
Level: 7
The lines of the character has made divided SEctions to play a game of tic tac toe
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Papaua
Level: 6
It Remembers me of a caveman that can Say only "se"
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
Looks like someone with a large front teeth is about to 'SA'y ('se'i) something. せ
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Magii0
Level: 8
Men committing seppuku with a sword
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バー二ー
Level: 6
(Se)nsei raising up the baby to the air!
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チルーストルム
Level: 115
A sign depicting the wrong way to sit on a car SEat. (The line crosses through it to tell you, "No, don't do that!")
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LawyerLion
Level: 10
The smug face of a dude trying to SEll you something 😏
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dz1yl
Level: 29
sitting man aiming with a bow. (in spanish: SEntado)
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チージ | Cheesy713
Level: 13
It looks like quotes for when you have something to SE.
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ひではや
Level: 87
It looks like a dapper guy. Reminds me of a 'se'ñor
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Whaccus
Level: 14
Looks like 世 (if you are more familiar with kanji)
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Marlin333
Level: 34
SEtting up a violin
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Violeteal
Level: 35
A horse SAddle (SEla)
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ManicAndIndecisive
Level: 39
the bottom part kinda looks like a mouth. they’re (SE)ing something
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私はキアラです
Level: 23
Looks like a grandma saying "se"
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AnnieThu
Level: 27
There are a SEt of two T together.
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
Two ghosts holding hands at the cemetery (SEmetery)
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Matthew77ask
Level: 4
From the Chinese character 世
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so (hiragana)
(souji)
そうじ
cleaning
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
そ(so) for SOap, just the motion you'd wash your belly with. Or we make a Z and then we add a little curve under it.
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Puppixx
Level: 29
Zorro
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Learning Japanese for Anime
Level: 7
I look at this symbol and think of the rest symbol in music: 𝄽
They look very similar! Just think whenever you see this japanese symbol, "I'm SO (そ) tired, I should get some rest."
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(ᗜˬᗜ)
Level: 22
THINK OF て AND THE LETTER Z DOING THE FUSION DANCE TO MAKE そ.
or think of alそ lol idk ᗜˬᗜ
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ImKingNoob
Level: 38
So sounds a bit like Z and theres a Z on top...
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キエテサンタカル
Level: 36
Kinda reminds me of someone twiddling their thumbs and saying "so..."
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Space~
Level: 7
A guy slurping a SOda
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oldybker
Level: 26
Sew 🪡 ... You sew in a zig zag to repair torn clothing.
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RyanJCollins
Level: 25
You don't care "SO what?" And just scribble on the page
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Urafifi
Level: 5
it looks like a Z (that sounds like S), and under it, half of an O.
tho u better dont confuse with ぞ(zo) which is the same but with those lines next to it..
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Pup_Hyperion
Level: 4
there are SO many zigzags in the character そ
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thebug
Level: 18
It looks a bit like a dragon SOaring through the air, the rounded part at the bottom is its tail
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Saangyaaa
Level: 6
For me it's SO long river
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TaysaMare
Level: 8
The motion you'd make wiping a dirty window with SOap
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
"SO" looks like this: If you angulate the S, it will look like a mirrored Z. Just add a half O below it and it will look like そ.
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Colette12
Level: 20
it's a SOba noodle!
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Felix_Lupin
Level: 7
It looks like a Z and makes the sound "so", so for some reason it makes me think of Sozin from avatar lol
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korachlor
Level: 6
Looks like a quarter rest in music. Think so (G note on a C scale) and think of music
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Naoth
Level: 5
looks like someone SO tired so he just scribble instead of writing something meaningful.
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Melani may
Level: 3
It's like the 'Z' climbing over an half 'O' ... ZO (SO)
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あふぃく
Level: 38
The Z looks alike S and add some line at bottom to make it O it's become 'so'
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Wheeli
Level: 4
SOap for cleaning (The motion)
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Mrjiggle
Level: 9
When you sweep the floor you do that motion SOuji->cleaning
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Bennas
Level: 6
it looks like a SAW (so)
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ta (hiragana)
(tamago)
たまご
eggs
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ケイリー💜(結莉)
Level: 489
See how it looks like it has a little こ (ko) character in it, what also has a ko sound...a TAco.
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
Looks like a t and it’s alphabetically the first T character
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
the part on the left looks like a “t” and if you add some lines to the part next to it you can make it into an “a” so together it is “ta”
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
Looks like a train arriving in a train station. In Japanese you would pronounce it ta-re-i-n
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ヘズル
Level: 37
Ive always seen the こ inside of it as an egg, and egg in japanese is "たまご" (tamago)
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
た/ta for TAll/takai , think of the first two strokes as a measuring stick they use for kids during health checkups - the small two lines look like the hiragana こ/ko which also means a child. So a measuring stick is measuring a kid! He's tall!
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Little lender
Level: 18
Looks like a rooster, and the other characters in tamago look like a rooster>something making its way through>end product = Eggs (Tamago).
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
The man cracks the egg in the pan.
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29
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
It literally looks like "ta". with 'a' losing its signal.
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Wolffe
Level: 4
it's a T and a mouth opening up saying "AAA"
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ブりﾀ二一
Level: 5
There's a samurai sword and someone is reaching out to TAke it.
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
a T running away: "ta ta!"
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Gudetama.Lazy.Egg
Level: 8
It looks like something TAlking.
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ikeaa
Level: 3
た here the first half looks like t and if we connect the curves in second have we can make the letter a therefore ta
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MurasakiZG
Level: 3
Looks like gun that has two handles and gun often goes like "ta ta ta ta ta"
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Spearmph
Level: 12
Eggs in Japanese is TAmago

Ta looks like a guy dropping an egg
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キウイ- ヒーロー
Level: 20
Kind of looks like a hen going "bawk". Hens lay eggs (tamago) たまご
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11
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Cokoreeto
Level: 19
A smiling samurai with a chonmage hairstyle
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Axi123
Level: 19
(Tambor 🥁) - drum Spanish
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3
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
It's "TA" if you add two lines and make an "a".
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deshreya97
Level: 11
Looks like a 't' and lowercase 'a' (ta)
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Kekiidee
Level: 10
Like a magician throwing confetti "ta" dahh
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aprilcalled
Level: 33
taking the "top (TA) off of a jar
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ChessScholar
Level: 4
"Ta ta!" (good-bye waving)
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SılaNazlı
Level: 30
The lines on the left look like a stickman, and the lines next to it look like a broken TAmago (egg). The stickman has thrown a TAmago on the ground. 🥚
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chi (hiragana)
(chizu)
ちず
map
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Nocifer
Level: 248
Looks like the number 5.
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ミヌイールー
Level: 131
It looks like a CHIld sitting down, the loop is the legs and the arms are the top stroke.
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SimoneTruglia
Level: 8
"Cinque" is the Italian word for number 5. The sound of cinque is something like (CHI)nque and it looks like a 5
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Puppixx
Level: 29
5 chirping chickens
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
(to differentiate from さ because sometimes it is written like a backwards ち) the bottom part of the kana looks like a backwards “c” so i remember that the one that doesn’t look like a “c” is the chi
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Space~
Level: 7
A person forced to smile and saying "cheeese!" In front of the camera.
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474
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astro_tomato19
Level: 10
"chi" rhymes with the number it looks like, 3. I use this to differentiate from "sa".
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222
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Little lender
Level: 18
Looks like a cartoon character with a hat and a big nose.
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139
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Archyes
Level: 4
A face that's missing a (chi)n
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26
0
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HartySarah
Level: 29
It looks like someone doing tai chi
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Eva...
Level: 3
Say (Chi)se! Cheese
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ninxoxo
Level: 4
It looks like a wheelchair sign, a wheel-CHI-air
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グランデエ
Level: 82
A "ch"eerleader performing
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15
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Pea1261
Level: 68
Looks like someone doing tai "chi"
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MTDL
Level: 2
looks like a tai CHI master in a crouching or squating position with his arms out
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Mio22
Level: 4
It looks like a chibi(small) anime character's hand, with a t-shirt line.
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13
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
An ugly bird CHIrping in a tree.
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12
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Ofrius
Level: 4
It looks like the number 5, and 5 dollars is pretty CHI-p
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4
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nuvolachka
Level: 14
looks like someone is sneezing "-chi!"
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2
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レモン(lemon)
Level: 18
Looks like chiikawa's little hand (from the manga series chiikawa)
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2
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
A fan sitting in the crowd CHI-ring
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1
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Dex ~
Level: 21
It looks like the number 5 so I remember it as 5 ちず (maps)
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1
0
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スニッカーズ
Level: 34
X marks the spot: (Chi)ll, the treasure waits for you
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1
0
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Senashi
Level: 23
A mouth saying tch
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1
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I shall speak Japanese
Level: 103
The top part looks like a t which stands for Tai and the bottom looks like a backwards c for chi
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1
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Ilaisa
Level: 6
A yelling guy that needs to CHIll
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1
0
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tsu (hiragana)
(tsukue)
つくえ
desk
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RuaU_U
Level: 553
Looks like a tsunami wave
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Bobanecz
Level: 344
°つ° - mouth of a tsundere
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(ᗜˬᗜ)
Level: 22
A boomerang going つううう
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Li~
Level: 114
I think that it looks like a tsunami wave too ^ - ^
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562
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fauserbu
Level: 754
つり (tsuri) means fishing
You can imagine the つ either as a fishing hook, or a bait attached to one!
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0reo
Level: 33
Tsu sounds like a Snake
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shw00by
Level: 31
つ looks kinda like a horseshoe
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
つ for tsume(toe nail)
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ミーラちゃん
Level: 22
It looks like how you'd draw a sneeze (ahh-tsu!)
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Eva...
Level: 3
"That was really good (TSU)p!" ((Soup))
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10
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Cokoreeto
Level: 19
A sword slash that goes "Tsu"ing
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Dex ~
Level: 21
It's a TSUnami!
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todokanaikoi
Level: 11
It looks like a Tsu-rimp
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Realkenma_5
Level: 13
Looks like the tongue of 𝐓𝐒𝐔yu Asui (From an anime)
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IamNOBODY026
Level: 117
(a) Turned Sideways U
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Yuki 유키
Level: 8
Tsu-nake like snake
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1
0
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te (hiragana)
(tenpura)
てんぷら
tempura
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
T. It looks like a T
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じなです
Level: 112
It is shaped like a shrimp tempura!
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1018
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ヘズル
Level: 37
it looks like one half of a table
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532
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McHavel
Level: 4
When you look on your right palm of your hand, your hand lines look exactly like the hiragana character
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508
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minbin
Level: 19
From the side it looks like a TEnt
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506
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
て(te), also means hand(て/te) so you could think that you're making a swan with your hand's shadow.
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Bjornen99
Level: 102
Looks like small t but more curve. Another way to think is that it's a mix between a t and e
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Space~
Level: 7
Someone holding a TElescope
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Ladademe
Level: 646
It looks like a *te*nder wave shown from the side. Compared to Katsushika Hokusai's 'Great Wave off Kanagawa', it is less arched and therefore looks more tender.
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Adski80
Level: 7
Seven is sieTE in Spanish. Looks like a 7.
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28
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スカツ
Level: 44
Like a dog's tail.
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15
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Karma_.
Level: 5
It looks like a shrimp TEmpura
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11
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oldybker
Level: 26
Té is tea in spanish. It looks like a modern tea table for my té 🍵
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11
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ステファノ９１
Level: 14
For Italian speaking: it looks like the number setTE
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11
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Eva...
Level: 3
The (TE)lephone's ringing!
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9
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2023Wallow
Level: 13
Broken TEnnis racquet
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9
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Shriley
Level: 50
It looks like a TEa table!
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9
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TeachMeJapanese
Level: 54
Looks like a "h" that has a very bad day, a very TErrible day.
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7
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Faeotic-One
Level: 24
Like a table top ( the first two letters of ta-ble sounding like TE / て )
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2
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to (hiragana)
(tomodachi)
ともだち
friend
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
Your Tooth Touching your Tongue.
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Kayt W
Level: 17
A splinter going into a TOe.
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Nidhi_D
Level: 14
Looks like a toe nail
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Elaxy
Level: 5
looks like a tomato 🍅
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589
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キエテサンタカル
Level: 36
It looks like an upside-down T above a cut-off O
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439
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A mouth going "TOmato"
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Snowyゆき
Level: 4
It looks like a spinning TOrnado
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356
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like a TOe with a splinter on it.
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299
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シンソー
Level: 241
It looks like your big Toe
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dj256
Level: 8
Looks like a Y so think of a TOy
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chas蝙蝠
Level: 5
Holding hands TO-gether
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ヨアン リジス
Level: 27
Looks like a road splitting in two directions. Will you go TO the left or TO the right ?
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gavonius
Level: 6
the letter "y" but its leaning backwards
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18
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Marymsr
Level: 9
Peace sign to my tomodachi
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15
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Cerebulon
Level: 105
Lean back and point TO the sky
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Louve34
Level: 4
Like t and u combined
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sardiabunai
Level: 44
Like a leg with two TOes pointing up
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Chia1003
Level: 9
Tp pray to the heavens
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5
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Calico_Cat
Level: 10
Y "Why", a To-e. (Looks like a y attached to a rounded toe)
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タイラ— Tyler
Level: 15
The letter T slipping and saying “ohh!!!” = To!
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wuvqrsrdngcpwgvlez
Level: 7
Looks like the foot of a TOri (Bird)
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Dex ~
Level: 21
Looks a bit like a TOe
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
The head of a frog (straight line is eye, rest is mouth) who's TOsted by the sun (not literally) with its mouth opened because of being too tired.
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na (hiragana)
(nabe)
なべ
pan
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シンソー
Level: 241
Left person throwing something away saying "Na, I don't need this anymore"
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A person swiping off the hat of the other persons head. "NA this doesn't suit you"
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ザ・リン
Level: 11
I was thinking "Naah (Na) how am I going to remember this one?" That's how I remembered it 👌
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1165
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みしゅ
Level: 40
The t-looking shape is knocking ("na"-king) the top off of the よ-looking shape. I imagine it playfully going "Naaa!" as it does this
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like a NUn praying in front of the cross, asking for NAchos... because shes craving a delicious sNAck.
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
Looks like a NUN ('na'n) sitting in front of the cross +
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kaaf
Level: 107
someone throwing a NAcho to protect his fish
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Little part looks like a Batman mask nose. NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN!
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jimmybud88
Level: 2
TJ is Not Available (na)
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Inkaddled
Level: 4
"NAh bea the pans rusty we have to throw it away" "no" "yes" "throws the pan into the garbage bin*
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Yukioka
Level: 5
It looks like a sad face saying "naaaa"
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Louve34
Level: 4
Looke kunda like basball stand and ball
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5
0
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acceldidact
Level: 27
A boxer who's fared poorly in his fight. You can see his swollen eyes and nose.
"Do you want more?" "NA."
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バー二ー
Level: 6
NatGeo = Natj’eo = Naなeo
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Tradwife_Weeb
Level: 16
な looks like a (na)n praying to a cross.
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Nanihshsh
Level: 6
Looks like face of do-NA-ld duck (especially the beak)
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bellsprout
Level: 5
NAH this looks so hard to draw (na)
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0
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Mattti
Level: 12
A person playing fetch with a snake
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3
0
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jakobg
Level: 25
A person cutting a snake’s head off while he says “NA get away snake!”
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3
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SumwunWah
Level: 8
It looks like someone is t-posing while falling on a sNAke (with extra air effect on the side)
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3
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ニック改
Level: 60
Someone thowing a duck a NAcho or someone chopping the head off a snake like NAh, you ain’t biting me.
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AnimeAlien
Level: 6
It looks like a tired face, the poor guy didn't have time to take a NAp!
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2
0
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ni (hiragana)
(niji)
にじ
rainbow
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
に (ni) means two, so there's two little brothers next to their older brother. Or possibly NImotsu/luggage.
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Jane Lane
Level: 2
A hook and two fish
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L99minaty
Level: 9
"ni" means two ! there's two horizontal strokes
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
The pointy bit looks like a bent knee
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Chikasama11
Level: 56
A pigeon opening it’s mouth
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356
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
move the stroke on the left closer to the two on the right so they touch and flip it over. now it looks like an “n”
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Space~
Level: 7
There's 2 lines on the side, and 2 means "ni" in Japanese.
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
These three guys are the Knights Who Say NI!
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UsernamesAreDead
Level: 98
Two koi fish (ni)bbling on a worm.

It helps that the two lines already look like ko こ which my mnemonic for that is koi.
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
It looks like a KNEE (ni).
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35
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Cheesec4ke_Enthusi4st
Level: 49
Nico Nico Ni!!! *smiles side ways に*
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29
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Jaize
Level: 29
It looks like a leg with a KNEE cap.
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Akagi Chan:3
Level: 4
Nike logo turned sideways. (It slightly looks like the Nike sign)
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oldybker
Level: 26
Left stroke looks like a sword held by a NInja on his knees
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Faeotic-One
Level: 24
Long stroke is the knight who says "Ni!" and the two smaller strokes are the shrubbery.
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Gudetamamamamamah
Level: 31
Two arms poking someone to NI-el down (kneel down).
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4
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Aneandes
Level: 33
There is "ichi" stroke to the left and "NI" strokes to the right.
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せいす
Level: 16
Looks like a knee (ni)
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Pnut24k
Level: 59
Two guys going to kNEe a wall
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0
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nu (hiragana)
(nurie)
ぬりえ
picture for coloring in
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Anonymous123
Level: 1594
"The stuff at the end of the menu costs extra."
To remind you that me め and nu ぬ look the same except that nu ぬ has extra loop.
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Noodles with chopsticks
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Kaitsu
Level: 11
Last part looks like *nu*mber two
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
ぬ(nu), a dog/いぬ(inu) is sleeping, don't wake him up! Also ぬ(nu) and め(me) are quite like siblings, except that nu has a loop at the end!
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632
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Tilde
Level: 7
いぬ means dog, and Shiba Inu dogs have a curly tail just like the curl in ぬ!
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503
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fauserbu
Level: 754
This one's so curly, it looks like NUudles!
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Dogtopius
Level: 496
ぬ is curly just like ぬdles (noodles)
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A child curling together, throwing a fit "NUUU I DON'T WANNA GO TO BED YET"
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Space~
Level: 7
This very loopy kana resembles NOOdles.
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Fukuru
Level: 8
it's looks a bit like a gNU for me
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_Jules_
Level: 15
ぬ looks like a dog (いぬ/Inu) curled up sleeping.
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Karmakei
Level: 4
It's you ぬ(nu) and me! め(me)
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14
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ポールおじちゃん
Level: 1769
Like め, but with a little NOODLE on the end, (because ぬ is from 奴, which is like 女/め with another 又 twist at the end).
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11
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Like chopsticks and noodles and a 2. So delicious I could eat 2 servings!
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9
0
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アリア—ナ
Level: 1258
Nu kind of looks like a person holding the numeral 2. I see it and think I'm, "nu 2 this."
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IDCAA
Level: 49
I always thought it looked like a angry face saying NU!
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イスカンだル
Level: 59
Looks like a fish making a NU fish with its tail
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vuzereus
Level: 6
ぬ=NUdles, have fish
め=raMEn, low class noodles, no fish
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0
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amythest
Level: 13
Here's 2 a NU ME. NU looks like ME with a little 2 tagging along.
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3
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バッファロー
Level: 61
ぬ(nu) is like め(me) with a little noose, and you can't say noose without saying "nu"
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0
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Tradwife_Weeb
Level: 16
A bowl of ramen (nu)oodles with a tasty egg!
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3
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Matthew77ask
Level: 4
From 奴 "slave"
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ne (hiragana)
(neko)
ねこ
cat
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ヘズル
Level: 37
it looks like a cat stretching; the rounded part on the right is its back, the loop in the bot right is its tail, and the part extending in the bottom left is the cats head

ねこ(neko) is also japanese for cat
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シンソー
Level: 241
A fisherman throwing out his Net.
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Maples
Level: 19
It looks like the hind-leg of a hissing cat, hence ねこ！
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386
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Hexador
Level: 116
If れ(re) is a reporter writing with a pen, then ね is "N"ot that.
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367
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Jane Lane
Level: 2
As for me, it looks like a ferret behind a tree
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saturn:)
Level: 5
looks like a fist that you catch with a NEt
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242
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Vitan
Level: 103
It looks like a ball of wool that cats like to play with and it bounced off of a wall. Cat is NEKO in japanese ;)
Mnemonic
225
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Jeeb
Level: 10
Looks like a horse which neighs making the Ne sound
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87
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Kekiidee
Level: 10
Like a (ne)edle in thread
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49
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I_am_a_delicious_egg
Level: 26
It looks like a cat (NEko) with a tail! (The tail part is here so i don't confuse it with れ wa)
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32
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Merliv
Level: 4
When thinnking of ね(ne) just remember 1, z , and 2..^^
Mnemonic
30
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フランチエスコ
Level: 3
For Italians: れね (re-ne) is an italian word, and remembering it will remind the difference
Mnemonic
19
0
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ケンスケ
Level: 27
Looks like a s'NA'il behind a 'NA'il.
Mnemonic
18
0
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Violeteal
Level: 35
NEko stretching, curling tail
Mnemonic
4
0
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みにくいアヒルの子
Level: 24
It looks like a lower case n with a swirl that makes an e
Mnemonic
3
0
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Pnut24k
Level: 59
Looks like a N and a little backwards e
Mnemonic
3
0
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mariaayanyan
Level: 5
Looks like a cat (ねこ) near a scratching pole
Mnemonic
2
0
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ムーディブルー
Level: 14
ぬ looks like a mouse (ねず) with a curly tail!
Mnemonic
1
0
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☆ ミルナ ☆
Level: 2
the first line looks like a scratch post, the rest of the character looks like a cat
Mnemonic
1
0
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ывап22
Level: 13
Cat(Neko) running lightning fast to catch a fish
Mnemonic
1
0
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Tradwife_Weeb
Level: 16
A bird sitting on its (ne)st.
Mnemonic
1
0
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rosehn
Level: 17
cat scratching its NEck with the scratching post
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1
0
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no (hiragana)
(nori)
のり
nori
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ぱんl
Level: 27
If you think about it, it kinda looks like no but witht the o inside the n
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5052
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アレックス833
Level: 187
A big nori roll!
Mnemonic
993
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
の(no), No entry sign look-alike.
Mnemonic
654
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のやさん
Level: 3
An anime eye
Mnemonic
440
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RuaU_U
Level: 553
It looks like a crossed sign, one that says that further there's actually no road
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397
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
Looks like a left over NOodle.
Mnemonic
156
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Space~
Level: 7
A crossed stop sign that says "NO!"
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145
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Honhon
Level: 262
It resembles a NO-ose (a rOpe with a loOp in it).

Also, looking up and subsequently visualizing the Henohenomoheji face helps with he, no, mo and ji in general.
Mnemonic
95
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Issy B
Level: 9
Look, it's a pig's NOse!
Mnemonic
12
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Ace エス
Level: 42
Looks similar to a circle with a cross through it, a sign that means "stop" or "no" which is the sound this symbol makes.
Mnemonic
8
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スーパーオタクかがみね!!
Level: 69
I always think of Ai HoshiNO's eye from Oshi NO Ko!
Mnemonic
8
0
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Levinia
Level: 22
NOpe rope.
Danger NOodle.
Mnemonic
7
0
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Faeotic-One
Level: 24
め is an eye with glasses, while の has "No" glasses.
Mnemonic
7
0
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Inkaddled
Level: 4
A a head with hair swooped over the eye
Mnemonic
5
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Swadhuu
Level: 9
When a person lost their key and their mouth will go NO-
Mnemonic
5
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えヤバ (Ava)
Level: 22
Look like if someone is looking up your nose at your NOstrils
Mnemonic
5
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Nina 00
Level: 31
Looks like a NO smoking sign
Mnemonic
5
0
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BarbieGirl
Level: 5
looks like a little dog, the more circular part is his ear. He's saying "NO!" because he has to go to the vet:)
Mnemonic
4
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ポールおじちゃん
Level: 1769
Like the empty set ∅ sign, for a set with no elements, (from the man’yogana 乃, connecting the second stroke ノ with the first using a left-looping upstroke).
Mnemonic
4
0
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小ジャム
Level: 9
It looks like a backwards no
Mnemonic
2
0
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Kaltfeuer
Level: 27
NOt a full pretzel
Mnemonic
1
0
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ha (hiragana)
(hana)
はな
flower
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TheMysticPanda
Level: 631
Note: pronounced as wa when used as a topic marker

"わあたしは…" = "Watashiwa..."
How to use
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Andrewz
Level: 61
The top part looks like an H, the bottom right part looks like a squished a
Mnemonic
6038
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
Has an H shape and it’s alphabetically the first H character
Mnemonic
924
0
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ァせん
Level: 27
"HA! You almost thought this one was 'ho' (ほ)!"
Mnemonic
188
0
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thebug
Level: 18
A person on the right is sitting and another walking to them is saying "HAi"
Mnemonic
56
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Pea1261
Level: 68
The person on the right punches the punching bag on the left and says "ha"
Mnemonic
37
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
Two hana side by side (hana = flower)
Mnemonic
23
0
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Sombra_333
Level: 19
A snake HAunting a stick :V
Mnemonic
20
0
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beesandjasmine
Level: 16
It looks like two people in a dance battle. The one on the right doing a b-boy pose and saying "HA! Beat that!".
Mnemonic
18
0
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Wonfii
Level: 56
Two people talking, the one on the right is sitting with their legs crossed and is (は) Ha-nding the other something.
Mnemonic
18
0
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にちか
Level: 63
guy putting flowers on a grave (hana)
Mnemonic
6
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Faeotic-One
Level: 24
A person sitting and picking a tall flower (Hana)
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3
0
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hi (hiragana)
(hi)
ひ
fire
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
Looks like a smile and you smile when you say “hi” to someone
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5754
0
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(ᗜˬᗜ)
Level: 22
ᗜˬᗜ MICHAEL JACKSON WITH HIS FAT FOOT GOING ひいい ひいい!!!!
YAAAA BABYYYYY LEMME ひR YOU SAY ひいい ひいい!!
MMM-MMMMMM ᗜˬᗜ
Mnemonic
766
0
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のやさん
Level: 3
A horse hoove
Mnemonic
570
0
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
Two hills
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508
0
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セヴィ
Level: 44
It's your friend smiling at you upon seeing you on the streets. Saying "Hi"
Mnemonic
426
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AnahidaNeko
Level: 18
"looks like a bee *Hi*ve"
Mnemonic
186
0
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Zytron
Level: 18
Looks just like fire 🔥 from the bonfire / campfire
Mnemonic
181
0
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Celestea
Level: 199
A happy penguin saying hi.
Mnemonic
151
0
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ak4nesan
Level: 5
U with wings
Mnemonic
106
0
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Puppixx
Level: 29
The face of a HIppo 🦛
Mnemonic
102
0
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
ひ for HIge(beard) looks like santa's beard!
Mnemonic
67
0
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Li~
Level: 114
It looks like the sun ☀︎ ひ: the circle is the sun and the lines are the rays of sun.
From 日 ( sun ).
Mnemonic
33
0
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dennis09
Level: 13
hihi (hehe) I'm sticking out my tongue
Mnemonic
17
0
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inchworm
Level: 5
He (hi) has a large nose.
Looks like a man with sad eyes and a big nose
Mnemonic
12
0
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Brooke - ブロオケ
Level: 18
hi means fire, and fire is heating up the pot! (HI in HEAt)
Mnemonic
12
0
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Swadhuu
Level: 9
It looks like a BIG smile 😊
Mnemonic
9
0
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LadySerpentes
Level: 14
The (HI)heat of the flames because it looks a little like the inner dip between two flames.
Mnemonic
9
0
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KerryBlueberry
Level: 57
Jumping HIgh on a skipping rope
Mnemonic
7
0
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ももうさぎ
Level: 6
It looks like the shape of a HIppo's head 🦛
Mnemonic
6
0
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mrcy
Level: 15
It looks like two hands *HI*gh fiving each other
Mnemonic
6
0
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darcktax
Level: 20
it looks like a lyre (L(hi)re)
Mnemonic
2
0
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Penguinette
Level: 46
looks like a smile laughing "hi hi hi"
Mnemonic
2
0
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Demoneko
Level: 6
ひ looks like a horse shoe, and horses sound like Hiiiiiihiiiiiihiiiiiii
Mnemonic
2
0
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indoninja13
Level: 17
Like the logo of the jeans brand True Religion (rel'hi'gion)
Mnemonic
1
0
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Penguinette
Level: 46
Like an happy smile that laugh hi hi hi😂
Mnemonic
1
0
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Penguinette
Level: 46
looks like a smile laughing HI HI HI🤣😸
Mnemonic
1
0
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
Hi for Hippo since it looks like a hippo's nose
Mnemonic
1
0
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fu (hiragana)
(fune)
ふね
ship
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TheMysticPanda
Level: 631
Not like english "F" sounds. Start with the intention of the "F" sound, but blow slightly and don't let your teeth touch your bottom lip.
How to use
129
0
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Anto_is-me
Level: 4
Mouth blowing wind: Fuuu
Mnemonic
4184
0
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aledim
Level: 3
Mount fuji
Mnemonic
1152
0
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RuaU_U
Level: 553
This is a face actually , a nose, a mouth, and two mustaches: he says fufufu
Mnemonic
662
0
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Kayt W
Level: 17
Food fight! This looks like food flying through the air. Fu for food.
Mnemonic
478
0
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Brebert
Level: 6
Fu... Fume! It's a fire 🔥
Mnemonic
362
0
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GgbroTG
Level: 72
A gust of wind from the Dragonborn - FUs Ro Dah!
Mnemonic
247
0
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minaaruu
Level: 5
Looks like a face that is melting, I imagine fuuuu would be a comic sound effect of it melting
Mnemonic
188
0
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アレテム
Level: 34
It looks like a spitting guy *pfu*, you can see two eyes on right, mouth on middle and spit on left.
Mnemonic
156
0
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BaernBalderk
Level: 17
Looks like some FUmes
Mnemonic
103
0
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Azza Azza
Level: 9
It looks like a pregnant belly (top is the breast, bottom is the belly, and the two side parts are arms. And when pregnant people go into labor they breathe like "fuuuu...fuuu..."
Mnemonic
11
0
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Ellie Wood!
Level: 16
It's a dude doing kung FU
Mnemonic
10
0
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Shay_1218
Level: 6
The lines looks like FUmes
Mnemonic
10
0
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Wingmore
Level: 42
It looks like a mountain - FUji mountain. (On fire)
Mnemonic
9
0
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KazBarVT
Level: 20
Fujin is the god of wind. Who else controls wind? AIRBENDERS. It looks like the air nation symbol.
Mnemonic
9
0
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ATShinkansen
Level: 13
I see it as a FUlaming comet.
Mnemonic
8
0
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Jayfox
Level: 17
It's a nose, and a sneeze can sound like "fu".
Mnemonic
8
0
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Asyrr
Level: 44
Looks like the FUrikake you sprinkle on your food!
Mnemonic
8
0
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Papaua
Level: 6
For italians: sembra fuoco 🔥
Mnemonic
7
0
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Wajimo
Level: 11
a man who is having FUn flying into a wall
Mnemonic
6
0
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Penguinette
Level: 46
Looks like a guy doing kung-FU
Mnemonic
2
0
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Tradwife_Weeb
Level: 16
Mount (fu)ji is erupting.
Mnemonic
2
0
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mariaayanyan
Level: 5
Looks like a man skiing in winter (ふゆ)
Mnemonic
1
0
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izzbee
Level: 9
Fu looks like someone playing Futbol (soccer). (Pronunciation falls somewhere between Fu and Hu ... See Quick Note comment and TheMysticPanda's comment ↑)
Mnemonic
1
0
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dziubekxjezyk
Level: 15
it looks like nose and bullfinches around it, and in Polish when something is gross we say fu
Mnemonic
1
0
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ハナ❀
Level: 68
Quick note: There is no distinguishing "f" and "h" sounds together. For anyone wondering why there's "ha", "hi", "ho", "he" but then "fu", that's just because non-native people hear "f" more often with this kana. Really, though, all of them are pronounced with a f/h sound.
Other
45
0
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Karooso
Level: 6
Looks like a fu birds.
Other
1
0
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he (hiragana)
(hebi)
へび
snake
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aledim
Level: 3
Heel
Mnemonic
3207
0
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アレックス833
Level: 187
A big arrow pointing up. You are HEre!
Mnemonic
1424
0
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Bobanecz
Level: 344
The mouth you make when you look confused and do "heee?"
Mnemonic
611
0
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セヴィ
Level: 44
Micheal Jackson doing the lean but falling over backwards. "HeHe"
Mnemonic
531
0
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じなです
Level: 112
It is a little snake (hebi).
Mnemonic
494
0
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
へ(he), looks like the roof of a house, there are many rooms (へや/heya) in here.

Could also be a snake (へび/hebi) looking down.
Mnemonic
434
0
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zainabc
Level: 28
Looks like an arrow pointing up to HEaven
Mnemonic
372
0
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
kinda looks like someones arm holding on the edge of a cliff yelling “HE”LP!!! :)
Mnemonic
233
0
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Haiguysudesu
Level: 78
Upside-down checklist ✓
Mnemonic
108
0
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Honhon
Level: 262
It's the top of a HE-ap (which points towards the HE-avens).

Also, looking up and subsequently visualizing the Henohenomoheji face helps with he, no, mo and ji in general.
Mnemonic
106
0
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deleted
Level: 2
it’s a hat on or a roof above your HEad. the latter would even be part of a へや!
Mnemonic
89
0
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Space~
Level: 7
An arrow pointing to HEll
Mnemonic
50
0
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MarshmelloRok -
Level: 12
An arrow pointing to HEven
Mnemonic
9
0
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gustavoaca1997
Level: 23
Looks like a HElmet
Mnemonic
8
0
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oldybker
Level: 26
Looks like a HEx key / allen key. (mechanics will understand)
Mnemonic
7
0
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DelFlumen
Level: 16
This is a children's slide. You slide on it and say "heeee"
Mnemonic
7
0
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Zoro2998
Level: 13
Guy on floor and laughing hehe
Mnemonic
6
0
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JayFrostiii
Level: 40
To stay HEalthy you should walk up and down the mountain.
Mnemonic
6
0
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Falling down because it's HEavy.
Mnemonic
5
0
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Alexalotl
Level: 38
like a wiggly snake (hebi = snake)
Mnemonic
5
0
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グランデエ
Level: 82
Huge slide and you scream for HElp!
Mnemonic
5
0
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トカマク
Level: 35
Sounds like "heh" - top of a HExagon
Mnemonic
5
0
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StellaYamano
Level: 83
Looks like HErry from obey me
Mnemonic
4
0
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syrian
Level: 10
You pranked someone and u go ;hehe! (へ)But now their smile is a frown;(
Mnemonic
1
0
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madbabyg
Level: 4
Anya from spyxfam says “HEh” all the time and has horns shaped like this.
Mnemonic
1
0
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「亜嵐」レッドフラグダイバー
Level: 49
It's someone going "heeeey guuurl!"
Mnemonic
1
0
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バー二ー
Level: 6
He•aven sent Fujisan!
Mnemonic
1
0
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
It looks like a hill that you climb for your HEalth :)
Mnemonic
1
0
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ho (hiragana)
(hon)
ほん
book
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あいなえ
Level: 21
pretend the first stroke isn't there and flip the rest to the side and it says ho
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7348
0
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daily
Level: 142
ほ is は wearing a hat, because it is HOt
Mnemonic
1378
0
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doneo
Level: 55
I'm fishing for seaHOrses!
1st stroke: hook at the end of a fishing line
2nd: head of seahorse
3rd: fin
4th: curly tail
Mnemonic
434
0
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シンソー
Level: 241
A ships sail is being raised. The fishermen shout "Ho" with each pull.
Mnemonic
273
0
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セヴィ
Level: 44
Santa kneeling in front of a Christmas tree to put down presents : "HoHoHo, merry Christmas"
Mnemonic
155
0
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Chikasama11
Level: 56
A cobra and a open mouthed snake
Mnemonic
145
0
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
ほ for ほんだな/bookshelf.
Mnemonic
75
0
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Pollomonteros
Level: 13
An Ojou-Sama covering her mouth and going "hohohoho"
Mnemonic
54
0
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Dabisu
Level: 9
"Ha" but with extra stroke because O comes after A
Mnemonic
22
0
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DragonQuest
Level: 35
Is that "Ha"? HO-ld up, it's "Ho".
Mnemonic
21
0
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UsagiLain
Level: 29
Shaped like a person sitting criss cross legs "ho"lding 2 books looking out a full glass wall.
Mnemonic
8
0
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safaa17
Level: 4
it looks like a sad face, facing the right side and sighing " hoo".
Mnemonic
5
0
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「亜嵐」レッドフラグダイバー
Level: 49
I see a chimney on a roof, and Santa would say "hohoho!" while going down it.
Mnemonic
3
0
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ジョジョ🎑🎑
Level: 15
Turn it sideways, you can distinguish "Ho" in cursive; this "Ho" is UNDERLINED.
If it isn't underlined, then you're not looking at "Ho", but at "Ma"!
Mnemonic
3
0
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TenarOfAtuan
Level: 21
Like ma (manga) but has a book (hon) spine
Mnemonic
2
0
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Shadeza
Level: 17
A female seaHOrse watching a male seaHOrse pregnant
Mnemonic
2
0
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ma (hiragana)
(manga)
まんが
cartoon
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シンソー
Level: 241
It looks like a ships mast.
Mnemonic
4528
0
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エド17
Level: 366
Just like a kid calles the "Ma"ma, and it looks like a sitting mom holding their kid. ^^
Mnemonic
875
0
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Ifa_
Level: 9
You can see the small circle below like a small "a" And if it's rotated 90° you can see a shape like the letter "m"
Mnemonic
620
0
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Nidhi_D
Level: 14
Looks like the smallcase m rotated
Mnemonic
396
0
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o0.Yue.0o
Level: 9
It looks like a lizard and a kid saw this and shouts "MAma, there is a lizard on the wall!"
Mnemonic
17
0
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gingerkirsch
Level: 22
Cobra ‘ma’ (bad in Portuguese) - bad cobra
Mnemonic
15
0
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
It looks like my MA kneeling in an old picture.
Mnemonic
13
0
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Lipid-Chan
Level: 35
Looks like 末 from chinese/kanji, but instead of Mei, it's ma.
Mnemonic
12
0
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ei0580
Level: 20
a MAst with a squashed a underneath!
Mnemonic
12
0
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Papaua
Level: 6
It looks like a cobra
Mnemonic
12
0
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Brooke - ブロオケ
Level: 18
A cobra mocking you! (MA in MOCking)
Mnemonic
6
0
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suishoku
Level: 21
bookshelves for your MAnga
Mnemonic
5
0
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-オキイ-
Level: 96
Looks like a (ma)sk if you imagine in between lines to be eyes and bottom o to be nose
Mnemonic
4
0
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Ed42
Level: 4
A centipede has MAny legs
Mnemonic
4
0
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Aneandes
Level: 33
A MAngo sprouting from the ground
Mnemonic
3
0
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JJlearning
Level: 12
Someone sitting cross-cross reading “ma”nga
Mnemonic
3
0
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パトリック。
Level: 53
Looks like a MAple tree with it's root on the bottom
Mnemonic
2
0
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チージ | Cheesy713
Level: 13
Looks like an upset face going "MA..."
Mnemonic
2
0
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mi (hiragana)
(mikan)
みかん
mandarin
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シンソー
Level: 241
Hunting meat (mi) with a bow and arrow
Mnemonic
3291
0
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voidchr0mx
Level: 6
Looks like « 21 »
Mnemonic
959
0
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
The top left side kinda looks like an arrow, pointing at “me”
Mnemonic
655
0
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Li~
Level: 114
It looks like an ear み 👂, sounds like 耳 (mimi) what means ear.
Mnemonic
345
0
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アレックス833
Level: 187
A fish with a big head, round body and tail fin. Would taste great as sashiMI!
Mnemonic
293
0
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あいなえ
Level: 21
み kinda looks like a winking face "the hiragana winked at み!"
Mnemonic
229
0
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Korogus
Level: 8
Looks like a music note "do re MI fa..."
Mnemonic
50
0
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Doompig
Level: 16
"Mi"ner because the person has a pickaxe slung over their shoulder
Mnemonic
40
0
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arudesk
Level: 10
It's toy horse! My dearest toy horse, MIster Horse!!
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Jouka
Level: 15
Drakes verse: "21 can you do sumth for MI"
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Kathy1908
Level: 61
A fancy H for “MI” :D
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oldybker
Level: 26
Looks like a Mini giraffe made out of a long balloon
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Japadessa
Level: 9
it looks like an elf ear, and ear in japanese is "mimi".
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Ne045ter [アステル]
Level: 56
Looks like a m from sideways and there's a bubble looking i
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スカヌ
Level: 10
looks like a mii character, but sideways
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Kuro4
Level: 19
Looks like mi... The M intertwined with the I. And tilted.
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LawyerLion
Level: 10
Looks like a musical note on sheet music!
Do, re, *mi*...
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Cybeige
Level: 33
Left side looks like a music note, do-re-MI-fa-so
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
If your name has an H- It looks like an H so you can say "Mi name has an H" like a pirate
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soph1312
Level: 14
A seagull from Finding Nemo crying out "mine, mine, mine, …"
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『!!☆˙⋆✮「 ジョースター」˙⋆✮☆!!』
Level: 118
When turned to the left you can see a stick figure sitting on a bench leaning back saying , "Why MI!" After a long day of bad luck (-_-;)
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Shadeza
Level: 17
It looks like an anchor when you sail to the SEA(uMI)
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MouseKnitting
Level: 9
It looks like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (MI)
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mu (hiragana)
(mushi)
むし
insect
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lawlieter
Level: 85
Moo (looks like a cow’s nose)
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セヴィ
Level: 44
The little circle on the bottom left looks like a mouth saying "Moo" (mu)
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daily
Level: 142
It is a cow and cows say MU (moo)
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ももうさぎ
Level: 6
It looks like the shape of a 'MU'g
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arudesk
Level: 10
MUtilated anchor⚓
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ドロキツネ
Level: 120
It looks like a guy in a wheelchair throwing something at the people blocking his path and telling them to MUve (move)
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
A little caterpillar/insect (mushi)
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oldybker
Level: 26
Looks like a utility dolly to moove your refrigerator.
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sardiabunai
Level: 44
Looks like a pouting mouth, and while pouting you go muu~
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UsagiLain
Level: 29
Shaped like A worm (just like the pic) in "mu"d.
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Gudetamamamamamah
Level: 31
Can you see the sloth hanging from the tree? MU-ving slowly
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YandereAeri
Level: 10
It looks like a snail! Mushi snail
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Siiz
Level: 14
MUtated Shi
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
Like MUichiro from KnY with a backpack :)
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ロブロブ
Level: 60
It's a MUg of moo moo milk (mu mu)
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sebalav
Level: 95
It's a MUtant
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me (hiragana)
(megane)
めがね
glasses
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Anonymous123
Level: 1594
"The stuff at the end of the menu costs extra."
To remind you that me め and nu ぬ look the same except that nu ぬ has an extra loop.
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Puppixx
Level: 29
Noodles (Nu) minus the noodles is just "meh"
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daily
Level: 142
Two chopsticks picking up raMEn
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Li~
Level: 114
It looks like an eye め 👁 from the kanji 目 (me) eye
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セヴィ
Level: 44
When I look at it it reminds me of a child swiping it's dinner off the table because "Meh! Vegetables!"
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Fellow_Moron
Level: 7
Think of ame (rain), where あ has their umbrella and め broke theirs.
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Ladademe
Level: 646
*Me*lting pot. The first stroke is the elements/parts/etc going in. The second stroke is the mixing movement.
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YasuTenshi
Level: 10
Looks like it is wrapping itself. "Just ME".
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Zumbeelet
Level: 31
ME(Ma)king pretzels
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Halebent
Level: 59
Looks like a "me"dal you can win
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Ladademe
Level: 646
*Me*lting pot. You add the ingredients into the pot (first stroke) and then mix them well clockwise (second stroke).
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Faeotic-One
Level: 24
A fancy eye with a glass (Megane)
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Doompig
Level: 16
protein embedded in a "me"mbrane
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ポールおじちゃん
Level: 1769
Like の, except starts with a left parenthesis (め is from 女 and の is from unrelated 乃, so probably just orthographic convergence, although 奶 may have exerted some influence).
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Sayane07
Level: 8
Noodles without the nu (ぬ) is just dles (dull) meh! (め)
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Sabrinabrrdzz
Level: 22
The sheep says MEEH
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Camarin
Level: 8
looks like a sheep or goat with horns. Meeehh!
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Tradwife_Weeb
Level: 16
“Look at how (me)ssy you are! You dropped your egg from your noodles!”
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lil_cookie
Level: 62
It's like a baby bird in the nest stretching it's open beak to mama bird with food, peeping: "Me! Me! Me!"
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mo (hiragana)
(momo)
もも
peach
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ケイリー💜(結莉)
Level: 489
Looks like a MOp sweeping across the floor.
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
も looks like a proper fishing hook! You'll get MOre fish with this one.
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Honhon
Level: 262
It's a し with MO-re strokes.

Also, looking up and subsquently visualizing the Henohenomoheji face helps with he, no, mo and ji in general.
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791
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
It’s momo the little lizard.
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アレテム
Level: 34
MOdified し
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gildir
Level: 122
も (and モ) look like a 'mo'nkey (arms and legs are the cross-strokes and a curly tail at the bottom)
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Vitan
Level: 103
It looks like an anchor (or a fishing hook) in the sea, and who lives in the sea? ne-MO!
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Rafi1421
Level: 18
まhas the bottom looking like an 'a' for ma, where the bottom ofもlooks more like a 'o' for mo
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kaakkooii
Level: 13
It looks like the money symbol of Türkiye, which is "₺".
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Doompig
Level: 16
If you turn it clockwise 90 degrees it looks like a "mo"uth and the lines are teeth.
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Swadhuu
Level: 9
It looks like someone's nose and it has two CUTS on it
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Kit-N・キテーン
Level: 63
It looks like Momo's tail from Avatar
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「亜嵐」レッドフラグダイバー
Level: 49
A MOnitor lizard (species of lizard)
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Nmorlan23
Level: 14
There's "mo"re も lines on this "shi" し
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Onpu-kun
Level: 12
It's a fishhook, with only seaweed. Maybe add MOre bait?
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バー二ー
Level: 6
An injured nose with not just one but MOre stitches.
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lottack
Level: 20
Peach coloured Dragon, - Momo, from One Piece.

Just imagine that hook as a tail and that strokes being his limbs.
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ya (hiragana)
(yama)
やま
mountain
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シンソー
Level: 241
It looks like a person punching and shouting "ya"
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Kayt W
Level: 17
The small spot looks like a heart. So, just think, I love Ya!
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Kaisel
Level: 49
Looks like a punch so a man saying I'll punch ya!!
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381
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りお！
Level: 129
It looks like the latin letter "y" but mirrored vertically. And it looks like a happy kana to me somehow, so it's not ゆ which is droopy or よ which isn't even looking at you.
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Elaxy
Level: 5
looks like a giraffe 🦒
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セヴィ
Level: 44
Someone pulled a prank and the person they pulled a prank on asks "Did you do this?!". This hiragana answers playfully saying "Ya" while winking and smiling
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Remember that song "Hey Ya?" Think of the chorus as the three strokes: heeeeey ey yaaa!
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Asyrr
Level: 44
Looks like a magical wand held by a magical girl (one of which can be Illya!)
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tzkbb
Level: 9
An old man shaking his cane, saying "YA get off my lawn!"
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oldybker
Level: 26
Looks like a jockey holding a stick. He whips the horse and says "Ya! Ya!" 🏇🏇🏇
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Rafi1421
Level: 18
Scaling a mountain (YAma)
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Alexalotl
Level: 38
the bit in the top right kind of looks like a pancake, the y-shaped part is like a person flipping it, saying "yatta! i did it!"
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mochi mochi?
Level: 7
from the side it looks like someone with a tear falling down from one eye cause he won the lottery...he says"YAasssss"
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Hunicomb
Level: 25
The send arm looks like an extended cat arm.
And there is a meme,

YA know, like nYAh?
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I shall speak Japanese
Level: 103
A whip for a horse. Since it needs to go faster you say 'Ya'
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leptir
Level: 57
reminds me of the :P emoji "ya"
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yu (hiragana)
(yuki)
ゆき
snow
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Kayt W
Level: 17
One person is wrapping their arm around another saying, "I want to hug yu!"
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ニオ nio
Level: 24
It looks like a fish from the side. And “you” (yu) smell like fish.
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ジルベール(Gilbert)
Level: 30
Looks a lot like the russian letter "ю" which is pronounced the same way.
Also looks like the letters "i" and "o" together which together resembles the sound of yu
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Little lender
Level: 18
Left person stretching their arm across the right person like "come over here yu"
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
kinda looks like a fish… quite “u”nique (the u is pronounced like yu) :)
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250
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ポールおじちゃん
Level: 1769
First three strokes of 由, drawn in grass-style cursive.
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martinjramirez
Level: 124
yú means fish in Chinese (鱼) and as others have said this hiragana looks like a fish so that helps me
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thebug
Level: 18
An eye looking at YU
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arisaur
Level: 21
it looks like chi-yu, a fish shaped pokemon, so this is the fish shaped kana!
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acceldidact
Level: 27
A whale with a stick through him. Don't YU hurt him!
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グランデエ
Level: 82
A signage for car to YUturn.
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hakanhakana
Level: 5
it starts from the left line, crosses the second line, makes a u turn and comes back
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kaaf
Level: 107
It looks like a finger pointing at "YU"
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HungryArtBean
Level: 71
Yu (You) take a bow (hand Infront, hand behind)
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Marymsr
Level: 9
Fishyyyyuueeew smelly fish
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I shall speak Japanese
Level: 103
A fish with a spear in it. "Yu caught a fish"
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Dex ~
Level: 21
A little fish named Yu!
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バー二ー
Level: 6
You are the best! • Yu r D best! •

Yu ゆ best!
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2
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たこてんし
Level: 68
Looks like a little goldfish, which is cYUte!
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Illusion_397
Level: 9
Yu have been impaled! Looks like its been stabbed. Or maybe its a buckle!
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アンナ クララ✨️
Level: 25
The round part looks like a whale. A whale is looking at YU!
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ThatRabidBear
Level: 25
Looks like an eye

'Yu' have eyes!
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ディーゼル
Level: 76
ゆ looks and sounds like the russian ю (:
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yo (hiragana)
(yoru)
よる
evening
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Anto_is-me
Level: 4
A snake saying hi: Yo!
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
The top looks like a Y and the bottom has an O shape
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Tilde
Level: 7
Someone holding a yo-yo. The vertical line is the string, the loop is the yo-yo, and the dash on the side is the person's hand.
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
looks like someone doing a handstand and calling out “yo” to his friends to show them how cool he is :)
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260
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Nocifer
Level: 248
I'm a cool guy jus' chilling against the wall yo!
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Puppixx
Level: 29
A break dancer spinning on his head saying "Yo!"
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潔
Level: 17
if you want to remember "yo" just think of "tiktok" logo
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Jayfox
Level: 17
It looks like a yo-yo in motion
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UsagiLain
Level: 29
A sailor up in the mast saying "Yo ho"
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Magnumpb
Level: 103
Looks like the boxer Rocky who says “Yo, Adrian”
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Joejoekun
Level: 17
One Piece enthusiasts: its brook standing on a little whale (naboo) while playing the violin, shouting YOohoho
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ra (hiragana)
(rakuda)
らくだ
camel
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Borkel
Level: 15
A RAbbit's head ら
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アレックス833
Level: 187
A bowl of RAmen with a spoon sticking out from it.
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like a RAbbit.
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538
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Kayt W
Level: 17
Jumping cheerleader throwing a pom pom. "Ra ra ra!"
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291
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Little lender
Level: 18
Cartoon character with that nose and a hairstyle of a RAscal
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289
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FizzyElf
Level: 23
A RAptor Flying over a lake
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A camel for god Ra
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Ladademe
Level: 646
Looks like the stylized image of a wheelchair user from the side. The first stroke is the head and the second one the upper body and one of the wheels. They are participating in a *ra*ce and therefore the wheel looks quite dynamic.
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Terrysan
Level: 63
The egyptian god Ra sitting down.
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32
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Teirdalin
Level: 6
It's Gordon Ramsay sitting at a table. "It's RAw!"
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Urafifi
Level: 5
it looks like an R upside down, without one leg.
and that one stroke may be a tiny A, without the line in the middle.
RA. ら。
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Sooshe
Level: 24
It simply looks like the number 5
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14
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vivib
Level: 94
Looks like RAyman, big nose, stick is his face and the "comma" is maybe his eyes or hair?
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14
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Cokoreeto
Level: 19
A person throwing a kick shouting (Ra)!
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13
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みます
Level: 8
Person sitting down, head bent in RAge.
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Asyrr
Level: 44
A RAkugo performer as he kneels on stage.
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9
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oOcallasOo
Level: 122
It looks like a RAven in flight. The beak at the top and the rounded wings below.
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9
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Yui_Hanako
Level: 6
Looks like a lion pouncing
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GrimmThoughts
Level: 54
Person sitting because their feet feel (RA)w
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Chucksr86
Level: 13
Looks like a man shouting "ra" his eye is at the top, nose to the left and open shouting mouth below.
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6
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ざむえる
Level: 24
Looks like a guy doing a Russian dance to the song Rasputin. らららsputin lover of the Russian Queen!
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FLAVATOWN
Level: 10
It looks like a person in rapid motion with the top mark being their head with hair flowing and the bottom curve the leg swing for a kick yelling "RA"
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Gabbyがび
Level: 14
Somebody sitting and playing videogames, but they lose so they go "RAAAA"
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MojosRin
Level: 24
Part of a backwards upside down R.
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MojosRin
Level: 24
RA ... The R is mad because it got knocked backwards and lost it's backside.
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Kit-N・キテーン
Level: 63
Ra sitting on an invisible throne
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マットlearns
Level: 52
It has a camels hump and RAkuda means camel
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shangchiii
Level: 9
like a rabbit pxxping
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ri (hiragana)
(ringo)
りんご
apple
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JTS-Games ツ
Level: 466
It looks like a RI ver!
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アレックス833
Level: 187
Like い, but "r"ounder.
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880
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シンソー
Level: 241
It looks like a Ribcage
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アリアン*
Level: 1495
I convinced myself this looked like a grain of RIce, but it’s a stretch for sure
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377
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⇚ゆめはら⇛
Level: 35
The apple (ringo) is cut in half, the stem is still on.
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236
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Miyuki09
Level: 12
Looks like an ear
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146
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セヴィ
Level: 44
A cursive R with the i under it, combine it and it makes Ri!
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oldybker
Level: 26
It's い but it's reeeaching down further.
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キルト
Level: 272
Both RI symbols, り(Hiragana) and リ(Katakana), look very similar. Hiragana is more curved like the rest of the alphabet.
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みます
Level: 8
Two arms of a person. The right hand is touching their RI-b
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
I think of Rihanna's nickname, RiRi -- one stroke for each ri.
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ソウボウブ
Level: 25
I think of it as り, the left stroke is RI(り)nging(wRInging) the right stroke up and out of a soapy tub. It is not the correct usage of wRInging, but you would eventually wRIng the item out.
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UsagiLain
Level: 29
Two curved cuts short and long to cut the apple .... With a sword that has a "ri"nging bell on the pommel.
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6
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Dosakaru
Level: 11
Looks like RIpping paper. Start a little rip and and then tear the piece off.
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TheRealRJJ
Level: 22
RIngo Starr's two drumsticks.
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ManicAndIndecisive
Level: 39
the one stroke version looks like half an apple. ringo is apple. wowzers
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Tyler.Giles
Level: 16
Riolu, use metal claw!
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Esther♡
Level: 6
One stroke version looks like a RIng
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Brooke - ブロオケ
Level: 18
The one-stroke looks like it's reaching its toes! (RI in REAching)
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shuushuu
Level: 15
looks like the Katakana Ri リ but it’s more cursive り Ri!
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Yoruba
Level: 18
Looks like an ear, "ri"lsten
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ru (hiragana)
(rusu)
るす
absence
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Kayt W
Level: 17
If you turnbit sideways it says no. So no RUles!
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Puffly Muffin
Level: 8
Ar the top, it's reversed "r" and at the bottom, it's half-turned "u"
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924
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lawlieter
Level: 85
Ruby (closed circle)
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369
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Kaisel
Level: 49
Half of a ruby ring ⊙﹏⊙
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ImKingNoob
Level: 38
The u makes it sounds like 2 i bet u can see a 2 in it
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Alexalotl
Level: 38
if ろ is a ROad, る has someone Running up it!
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Quackson_holland
Level: 16
Absolute best one I saw was that るlooka like a hand holing a RUby. If you get RObbed then your hand is empty ろ
Never forget ru and ro with this one.
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WildAtelier
Level: 1236
A kangaROO has a tail る a RObot does not ろ
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Lovelylynds
Level: 34
a kangaRU holds a Joey in its pouch.
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AndroDaPooh
Level: 79
Extra o means extra lands RUssia ('ru') bigger than ROmania ('ro' looks same but without o)
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zainabc
Level: 28
A (ru)de person sticking their tongue out at you.
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ares08
Level: 107
it looks like the number 3 but with a little twist on its tail
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Blue Jay
Level: 10
It's ろ (ro) but with a loop (る - p)!
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Rio_ndj
Level: 26
Rugby player holding their ball
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ハルヒ12
Level: 19
A person who is RUminating.. Imagine the vertical line & curve line as a person's arms on a table. One arm & hand holds the (not seen chin) while other is just on the table.
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Itemei
Level: 10
Kind of looks like a genies lamp. You RUb a genie lamp.
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Maki-槇
Level: 420
It has a loopdy-loop, said like roopdy roop
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みます
Level: 8
The bottom looks like someone making a fist and pulling back, ready to hit you which is RUde
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マットlearns
Level: 52
Ro but it's RUined by the extra loop
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Inuman
Level: 22
It looks like a Kanga"roo" sitting in its curled tail
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Alreadydead
Level: 191
Ru's tail goes th-ru the hole
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ざむえる
Level: 24
Ro and ru look similar. This is because you roll (ろる) the bottom to get ru.
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Ladademe
Level: 646
Unlike ろ, the end is *ru*nd (German for round).
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Aigline
Level: 96
I am a Russian Capricorn (reminds of an astrological glyph)
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はなちゃん！
Level: 77
I get it mixed from time to time, but how to remember is to switch them. RU has a small 'o' at the end of the snake (る), while RO doesn't (ろ), even though you think it would be the opposite.
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re (hiragana)
(hare)
はれ
clear weather
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Bushfoxy
Level: 22
A RAY of sunshine across some mountains
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Nocifer
Level: 248
On my knees REtching after a wild night out.
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アビガイル★彡
Level: 53
looks like a letter “r” with a few “e”xtra details (together is “re”)
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588
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Hexador
Level: 116
A person writing with a pen as a REporter
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へくす
Level: 4
if ね is sNEil, then れ is just a stREight snail.
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
A ray of sunshine….or lightning
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セヴィ
Level: 44
The r is trapped in a stroke and tries to wiggle it's way out! "REEEE"
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amolap
Level: 9
れ looks like a REindeer
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Exivac
Level: 5
It looks like ne(ね) without the twirl at the end. If you take half "n" you get an "r". Thus: n -> r | ne(ね) -> re(れ)
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Space~
Level: 7
Looks like a person REsting.
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elyriria
Level: 30
ね(ne) neko goes REow れ(re)
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雪村です
Level: 5
Something went wrong and your teacher says "You need to REwrite this!"
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Marjanwoolfe
Level: 9
RRRRReally RRRResembles the latin letter "n", but don't fall for its tricks, it's "re", not "ne"!
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james998c
Level: 18
I see a ray of sunshine going through a window
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グランデエ
Level: 82
Person trying to invite you fish. "REt's fish!"
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つかさちゃん
Level: 9
It's curl looks like an e're'phant's trunk
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Danniz
Level: 14
relzh, re is made with a l, z, and and h
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BoomShnizel
Level: 15
A thief stREtching to REach something
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Alreadydead
Level: 191
Tree (RE) in front of mountain
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Killzone
Level: 27
A person REclining inside wall, or the letter "n", REclining inside a wall.
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ニック改
Level: 60
The ねこ RElaxed her coiled tail
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ro (hiragana)
(rousoku)
ろうそく
candle
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Maidmerien
Level: 98
A road
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Nidhi_D
Level: 14
る dropped it's circle somewhere along the road
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ImKingNoob
Level: 38
"RO"LLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND GOT PLACES TO GO BY AND oh... sorry the hiragana of it reminds me of sonic adventure 2 escape from the city
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Kaisel
Level: 49
Half of the Ruby robbed from the ring
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Impala67
Level: 171
Shaped like a 3, and you say "row" three times in "Row row row your boat"
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Connie Mac
Level: 19
3 in a "ro"w!
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48
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TwistedFox
Level: 140
Not to be confused with "ら", this "ra"bbit has its ears "ro"lled
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WildAtelier
Level: 1236
A RObot doesn’t have a tail ろ, but a kangaROO does る
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Alfriendo
Level: 17
る is pronounced 'roo' and ろ 'ro' . The pronunciation of ろ has one less 'o', and the kana has one less loop at the bottom.
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ミーラちゃん
Level: 22
For French speakers: un, deux, tROis, because it looks like a 3.
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Wingmore
Level: 42
Looks like a fancy Z for zeRO
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Pinelopi
Level: 10
Roku is 4 the letter looks like 3
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Eljcat
Level: 64
I had 3 RObux (it looks like a 3 and sounds like ro)
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Alexalotl
Level: 38
a wiggly jiggly ROad
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Lyla-san 🍄🧋🍡
Level: 27
The flame of a candle (ROusoku)
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LoopScoot
Level: 32
ROwing a boat... top stroke is the arm, the diagonal stroke is the oar, and the curl is the front of the boat
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Rand42
Level: 145
looks like the greek "rho" if you mirrored the top half to the bottom (kinda like a p)
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Wyntor
Level: 27
"row row row your boat" (3 rows, or "ro," and it looks like a 3)
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YandereAeri
Level: 10
It looks like a 3 and the song row row row your boat has 3 ROws!
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3
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davy36
Level: 2
Remember Zorro. If ZO is ぞ、then RO is ろ
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RoboticRookie
Level: 11
ROck and ROll - looks like a music note 🎶
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かわいい🍓🎀いちご
Level: 22
Looks like "so" そ but the circular curve at the bottom is ROtated
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「亜嵐」レッドフラグダイバー
Level: 49
The edge of a ROck
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wa (hiragana)
(wasabi)
わさび
wasabi
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ヘズル
Level: 37
Wario's big fat dumpy
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Puppixx
Level: 29
A big Whale shooting Water from its back 🐳
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
わ(wa) has a big, round belly.
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Chikasama11
Level: 56
A boot with broken zipper
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じなです
Level: 112
Z shape on one side, round shape on the other; a scoop of wasabi has zippy flavor!
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Andrewz
Level: 61
Ina saying "wah", the shape looks like her name all scrambled
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もち-Mei
Level: 21
How I remember to write, draw a line and then a slanted z then a half circle
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Maki-槇
Level: 420
"Wahhh, the cat (ね looks like a neko) lost its tail!"
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Marjanwoolfe
Level: 9
WHAt?? There's another one that looks like ne & re - WHAt is this?? (Ah yeah, wa.)
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Bari12
Level: 15
It looks like a pregnant belly, so what sound does a baby make :"Wahh, wahh"
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Looks like a z on the line. Remember that old commercial, "WAzzzzzaaaap?"
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pojjm
Level: 28
A WAsp flying up
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acceldidact
Level: 27
A WAve passing by the support of a pier.
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vivib
Level: 94
The other two forms of this have a extra stroke. This one has none so I am like WAA?
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三巴
Level: 246
If rotated to the left it looks like a clothes hanger being put on a 'wa'shing line.
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Cokoreeto
Level: 19
"Wa"h! a duck got sliced in half!
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Ladynorris
Level: 548
Wrong written w.
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CoastalMystic
Level: 48
Imagine a WAsp
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リンボ♡
Level: 90
a baby holding onto one of the bars of its crib and crying "WAAAA!!"
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Hato Hime
Level: 45
WArio NEver RElaxes - these three look very similar but NE has a curly tail and WArio has a belly.

RE has a loose end because it’s RElaxing.
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リナシタ
Level: 103
the curve looks like it could be used to scoop wasabi
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Killzone
Level: 27
WArio (He has a big belly) Reclining inside a wall. (It looks like れ (Re) but WArio has a big belly わ)
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ekusa
Level: 9
Like writing "!?" for "waaat!?" slang of what!?
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1
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Jappy:)
Level: 51
At the end, someone is falling and they're screaming WAAAA!
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Cl0wnsplat
Level: 16
A WAterfall off a cliff into a pond
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🍪Teatime🫖☕️
Level: 7
It’s just a big, cursive-like W (Wa) that’s been crossed out because he was supposed to have stayed in the Modern Latin Alphabet. :(
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suishoku
Level: 21
Looks like a sWAn
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nadita
Level: 11
looks like a pacifier, which babies use, and babies go “waaa”
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wo (hiragana)
(denwawosuru)
でんわをする
to make a phone call
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TheMysticPanda
Level: 631
When used as a particle to show a direct object (the most you will use this), it is basically pronounced "o"
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アルバルト
Level: 12
Now, を does not exists on any word expect for the article を and the sound of お and を is completely same.
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Chikasama11
Level: 56
Stickman sitting on a worm
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にゃ-ちゃん
Level: 274
を WOah, somebody jumping over hurdles.
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ImKingNoob
Level: 38
See the W near the center of it? Yeah that
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337
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Jeeb
Level: 10
Person riding a horse and saying “whoaaaa(Wo)”
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シドニー！
Level: 19
A little person sitting on a shoe saying "*wo*ah" as they see how small they are in comparison to the shoe.
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⇚ゆめはら⇛
Level: 35
Somebody is running up a very steep hill. Those who pass by often whisper "wo" as they run by
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もち-Mei
Level: 21
Think of a person riding a bike up a steep hill, all his friends say ''Wo"ah :)
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mangomaster
Level: 14
a surf bro riding a surfboard going "wooooah, dude!"
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capn britain
Level: 10
Written like lowercase THC - which makes you go "whoa"
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三巴
Level: 246
Stepping into a cold pool 'Woah, that's cold!'
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アリア—ナ
Level: 1258
Looks like a little person riding a horse saying, "woah (wo)."
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11
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クリヅ
Level: 10
Looks like someone accidentally set his foot in a hole, so he goes surpised and saying "WOah!"
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10
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lCie
Level: 19
Someone stepping on ice and going "WO"!
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10
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acceldidact
Level: 27
Guy jumping on another guy for a surprise piggyback ride. The guy underneath says, "WO!"
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10
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Jen GP
Level: 1036
Whoa, that spells out TLC!
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Pandiita
Level: 201
A person sitting in another one and saying "WOah, you're not going anywhere!"
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Saber-X
Level: 14
(Wo)man trying to cross a street full of puddles without touching the water
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ホルフリスキー
Level: 126
A WOrm flying a kite
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Arif30
Level: 11
Saying "wo"(woah) while jumping in a trampoline
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Donquixote77
Level: 15
There's a W on the left, and a slide in the middle... Woooooooo
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Nick 🌸
Level: 14
To me it looks like a kid tipping his one leg in a lake. But because the lake was too hot he says "(wo)ah". Hope that helps somehow 😊
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ドクターマリオ606
Level: 22
Man losing balance on a cliff and saying WOah
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Siiz
Level: 14
Chi riding WOrm
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Gudetamamamamamah
Level: 31
A person sitting on a toe, he’s so small in comparison to the toe he says WOah!
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Yowon
Level: 13
WOah he’s surfing
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Han’na
Level: 4
Looks like a person sitting down to put their foot in the pool and its cold and they say “WOah that's cold!”
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2
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n (hiragana)
(kanban)
かんばん
signboard
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MuMe
Level: 917
Words can't start with ん.
To write ん on a Japanese keyboard based on the English layout you have to type 'NN'. Otherwise the keyboard software thinks you might want to write one of these kana なのぬにね
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TheMysticPanda
Level: 631
Pronouncing this can be a bit odd (assumed Tokyo standard), but a general guide:

"ん changes pronunciation based on what FOLLOWS it:

k or g - ŋ (English 'ng')

p, b, or m - m e.g. Senpai-->Sempai

d, t, n, or r - n

Vowels, s, z, h, y, or w - a nasalized vowel (the exact pronunciation can vary)

Nothing - ɴ (the uvular nasal, roughly like the English 'ng' sound), or as a nasalized vowel (I think the former is more common)"


Source:

[www.reddit.com]
This was a pretty good lesson with videos:

[www.wasabi-jpn.com]
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アレックス833
Level: 187
Looks a lot like a lowercase "n".
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のやさん
Level: 3
An h
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Kawaii12
Level: 12
A lowercase H
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ゔぃゔぃ
Level: 14
Looks like a nose, with the line part of ん being the face, and the curvy wave part resembling the nose
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sarcasam
Level: 10
When I was little, I would often write an "n" with too long of a stalk on accident, turning it into an "h." That's how I remember
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HaillieRussell
Level: 24
Fancy lowercase 'n'. Looks like fancy lowercase 'h'. Which is just n with some (h)eight.
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Jeffmacree
Level: 13
It looks like the end of a worm, **‘n’ is for the end
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1
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