あふれる

あふれる · afureru · JLPT N2 · verb-ichidan

to overflow

🌊 afureru sounds like a FULL river: so full it overflows

Hear the a-FU in afureru as 'a full'. A river that is too full floods its banks. The kanji form is 溢れる, and its water radical 氵 marks it as a word about water.

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