暇

ひま · hima · JLPT N5 · noun

spare time

🛋️ 暇 = 日 (day) + 叚 (borrow): a borrowed day is free time

The left part 日 means day or sun. The right part 叚 carries the sense of borrowing, as in 仮 (temporary). A day on loan from your duties is leisure. Sound hook: hima is what a HE-MAn has between battles — nothing to do.

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