脱 means “take off, escape, remove”

ぬぐ · nugu

Also: undress, removing, escape from, get rid of

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): ぬぐ, ぬげる
On'yomi (Chinese reading): ダツ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 11 strokes

The story

Flesh (月) beside 兑, the right half of 説 and 税: picture a body shedding its layers. 脱ぐ is to take off clothes, as at every genkan where shoes come off, 脱衣所 is the changing room at a bath, and 脱出 is escape.

Used in 脱ぐ (nugu, to take off), 脱衣所 (datsuijo, changing room), and 脱出 (dasshutsu, escape)

脱 means “take off, escape, remove”

The story

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