稼ぐ

かせぐ · kasegu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan

to earn income

🌾🏠 稼 = grain 禾 + house 家: to earn is to bring the harvest home

The kanji puts the grain radical 禾 beside 家, house. Earning was once the work of hauling crops home to feed the household. For the sound, kasegu starts like cash: to kasegu is to bring in cash.

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