Arawa
Friday, December 12th, 2008
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I love the yomi arawa. It rolls off the tongue. And yet the sequence of sounds is also tough to remember—so much so that when I first learned arawa(seru) as the kun-yomi of 表, I had to associate it with a mnemonic: Ottawa. Strangely, those words sound similar—or they do when I pronounce them!
Last week we found that 露 can have the yomi of arawa, in which case it means “exposed, scanty, bare, unconcealed, naked.”
In a tucked-away corner of an August blog, we looked at three other kanji with the kun-yomi of arawa and with similar meanings. So here’s what we now have altogether:
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