Sarutobi

猿飛

literallymonkey + rook

The Third Hokage's clan.

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The same characters show up in everyday Japanese. This is where one anime word turns into ten real ones.

猿
  • 猿さるmonkey
飛
  • 飛行ひこうflight
  • 飛行機ひこうきairplane
  • 飛躍ひやくleap
  • 犠飛ぎひsacrifice fly
  • 飛ばしとばしselling or divesting in unwanted stocks

猿・飛 — every one of these is a square on the grid of 2,136 jōyō kanji. Three a day, quizzed through real words.

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