Question

誓 ちか.う 誓う(ちかう): to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge S 折: fold; break; fracture; bend; yield; submit言: say 言 7 (none) vow A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with origami cranes with their vows written on the BOTTOM.

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セイ vow, swear, pledge 1 1567 14 149 こと・げん・ごんべん・ことば 形声 Phonetic This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- "the folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive "fold".

Kanji	誓
Onyomi	セイ
Kunyomi	ちか.う
English	vow, swear, pledge
Examples	誓う(ちかう): to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
JLPT Level	1
Jouyou Grade	S
Frequency	1567
Components	折: fold; break; fracture; bend; yield; submit 言: say
Number of Strokes	14
Kanji Radical	言
Radical Number	149
Radical Strokes	7
Radical Reading	こと・げん・ごんべん・ことば
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	vow
Koohii Story 1	This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- "the folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive "fold".
Koohii Story 2	A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with origami cranes with their vows written on the BOTTOM.

Pledge Japanese Vows Folded Origami 誓 セイ ちか.う

Pledge Japanese Vows Folded Origami 誓セイちか.う