経験
けいけんする · keikensuru · JLPT N4 · noun
experience
🧳 経験 = pass through (経) + test (験): what you have gone through and tested
経 means to pass through or elapse (as in 経由, via). 験 means to test or verify (as in 試験, exam). Experience is literally what you have passed through and put to the test. Sound hook: kei-ken, two near-rhyming beats, like going through something twice.