繕 means “mend, repair”

つくろう · tsukurou

Also: darning, trim

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つくろう

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゼン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 18 strokes

The story

Thread (糸) beside 善, good: stitching something back to good. 繕う is to mend clothes, or to patch up appearances, as in 体裁を繕う, and 修繕 is repair work, like fixing a leaking temple roof.

Used in 繕う (tsukurou, to mend), 修繕 (shuuzen, repair), and 取り繕う (toritsukurou, to smooth over)

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