"Faggot" is an interesting concept. To an ancient Frankish barbarian, it meant "bundle of sticks," in English it means a gay man, in German it means bassoon, in Italian it's the symbol of homophobic Fascism, and in Japanese it's just 束.
Imagine the tree is just a bunch of lumber and the loop around it is kind of a rope tied in a knot, holding the lumber together. It is a bundle!!
Onyomi
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SOKU
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I always wear SOCKS when I walk on bundles of sticks. I don't want to get SPLINTERS.
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Mnemonic
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According to my system, it's tree (木) plus mouth (口) but fuck it- it's easier to just think of it as what it looks like:
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Kunyomi
Jukugo
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約束
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promise
★★★★★
約 (promise/ roughly speaking) + 束 (bundle of sticks)
= 約束 (promise)
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束縛
する
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restrain
★☆☆☆☆
束 (bundle of sticks) + 縛 (tie up)
= 束縛 (restrain)
to restrain, to restrict, tie up in red tape.
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Used In
KANJIDAMAGE
Number
1338