Keyword
same
Info
FrequencyTop 100
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig192
Readings
どう
(38%)
おな
(34%)
(2%)
Composed of
upside-down box
one
mouth
Mnemonic

When it's under an upside-down box one mouth is going to feel the same as any other.

There is a certain traditional wedding game in Eastern Europe where a blindfolded groom gropes the legs of women in search for his wife; he wins if he can find his wife by touch alone. Imagine a similar game, but instead of blindfolding the groom we put all of the women in cardboard boxes, and then he just reaches with his hands underneath the box and gropes their mouths instlead of legs. Would you be able to tell one person from another just by touching their mouth?

Used in kanji (8 in total)
vitalize
cave
cylinder
torso
copper
paulownia tree
painful
unpolished rice
Used in vocabulary (717 in total)
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
coincident with; while; simultaneously
at the same time as; while; as well as (multiple roles)
Examples (200 in total)
I'm thinking the same thing.
He and I share a room.
I thought the same thing.