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在 - Exist
On packed Soil, I press a stick, add a bend, then a single One stroke to shape 才 beneath 土, the classic phono-semantic recipe that makes 在 sound like 'zai' and mean Exist at a place. Think of 在 in Chinese xiànzài now and Japanese 在宅 home-working after 2020, where being somewhere defines existing there.
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在 - Exist
Index #845
Grade 5
6 strokes
JLPT Level: N3
Readings: ザイ, あ・る
Kanji Primes
Compound Kanji

Common Vocab

げんざい 現在
the present, present time
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そんざい 存在
existence, being
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ざいがく 在学
attendance at school
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