より

より · yori · JLPT N3 · particle

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🧶🪢 より comes from the verb 撚る yoru, to twist fibres into thread

Yori sounds a bit like yarn, and yarn is made of twisted plies. The noun is written 撚り. A common idiom is 撚りを戻す, literally to restore the twist, which means a couple getting back together.

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