例
れい · rei · JLPT N3 · noun
case
👥 例 = person 亻 + row 列: people lined up as examples to follow
列 (retsu, row) also gives the sound. 例 adds the person radical 亻, so it means people who set the pattern for others: a precedent, an example. It appears in 例えば (tatoeba, for example) and 例外 (reigai, an exception).