我 – Kanji details

Keyword

me (old fashioned)

Info

Frequency	Top 200-300
Type	Kyōiku (6th grade) ?
Kanken	Level 5
Heisig	690
Readings	われ (26%) わ (21%) が (17%) あ (8%) あれ (8%) わぬ (8%) わろ (8%) わが (1%)
	わぎ

Composed of

手

hand

戈

dagger-axe

Mnemonic

Me, well, I'm a little old fashioned, I always have a dagger-axe in my hand, ready to defend myself in case I'm attacked.

Used in kanji (10 in total)

justice

starved

abrupt

type of thistle

moth

high mountain

goose

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???

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Used in vocabulary (185 in total)

我が慢まん

endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint

我われ々われ

我わが

my; our; one's own

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Examples (200 in total)

なぜ我われ々われがここにいるか、お分わかりですね。

You know why we're here.

なぜ我われ々われはまだここにいるのでしょう？

Why are we still here?

もし水みずがなければ、我われ々われは生いきられないだろう。

If it were not for water, we could not live.

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