宿

やど · yado · JLPT N3 · noun

hostel

🏨🛏️ 宿 = roof 宀 + person 亻 + hundred 百: a roof over a hundred guests

The roof radical 宀 sits over a person 亻 next to 百 (hundred), so a roof that shelters many travellers gives you an inn. Yado sounds like yard-o: travellers stop in the inn's yard for the night.

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