胸

むね · mune · JLPT N3 · noun

breast

胸 — breast

🫁 胸 = 月 flesh + 匈 chest; mune sounds like moon-eh, and 月 is the moon glyph

The left part 月 is the flesh radical, which looks like the moon character, and it marks body parts. 匈 is the old character for chest, with 凶 wrapped inside 勹. So 胸 is flesh plus chest. Moon, mune.

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