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ふる・い · こ
An open mouth, ready to speak. Three strokes form the three walls of lips — left, right, and bottom.
Look at the shape: three lines forming an open square, open at the top. That is a mouth, wide open. Every word you speak, every sound you make, every name you call — all of it passes through 口. It is the most fundamental communication radical in Japanese.
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