経る

へる · heru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to pass

⏳🧵 heru sounds like hours: hours go by. 経 as in 経験 keiken, experience

経 has the thread radical 糸. It first meant the warp threads that run straight through a loom. So 経る means passing through: time going by (経過 keika, elapse) or living through something (経験 keiken, experience).

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