減る

へる · heru · JLPT N3 · verb-godan

to decrease

💧 減 = 氵 water + 咸: water draining away, so the amount decreases

The water radical 氵 on the left hints at water level dropping. For the sound, heru is close to hair-u: hair that thins out over the years is hair that 減る, getting less and less.

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