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Arms E.G Hold Fingers Carrying One's Embrace Wrap

Kanji
Onyomi ホウ
Kunyomi だ.く、いだ.く、かか.える
Nanori たば
English embrace, hug, hold in arms
Examples 抱える(かかえる): (1) to hold or carry under or in the arms (2) to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.) (3) to employ; to engage; to hire
辛抱(しんぼう): patience; endurance
抱く(いだく): (1) to embrace; to hold in the arms (e.g. a baby); to hug (2) to harbour (e.g. grudge) (harbor); to bear (e.g. a grudge); to entertain (e.g. suspicion) (3) to have sex with; to make love to; to sleep with (4) to sit on eggs
抱っこ(だっこ): (child's) hug; carrying a baby in one's arms; carrying a pet in one's arms
介抱(かいほう): nursing; looking after
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 871
Components 手: hand
包: wrap; pack up; cover; conceal
Number of Strokes 8
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 64
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading て・てへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword embrace
Koohii Story 1 When embracing someone, wrap your fingers around her butt for added effect. You may think of "bound with snakes" as a description of the fingers slithering around the buttocks, if you want a particularly graphic image.
Koohii Story 2 Here, I´m picturing that scene from ET (the extra terrestrial), where ET hugs Elliot before leaving. You see that EMBRACE is ET´s long FINGERS that WRAP around Elliot.
RTK Index (new) 697

Tags: jlpt.n3, grades, kanjifreq751-1000

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