違う
ちがう · chigau · JLPT N5 · verb-godan
wrong
🍎🍊 chigau: chi-GOW, that's wrong! Apples vs oranges differ
違 combines 辶 (movement, walking) with 韋 (going in opposite directions): two paths heading apart, so they differ. In speech, a flat chigau is the everyday way to say no, that's wrong, literally it differs.