Keyword
who?
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 2
Heisig598
Readings
だれ
(73%)
Composed of
say
old bird
Mnemonic

You know how sometimes animal voices can imitate human speech? Here we have an old bird — a pidgeon — that is constantly saying who? Who? Whoooo? If you listen closely to the sounds that pidgeons make don't they actually sound a little like "who"?

Used in vocabulary (53 in total)
someone; somebody
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
Examples (200 in total)
No matter what anyone says, I'm going.
As if I'd ever go!
Who are you going with?