KANJIDAMAGE

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札 card / label / bill

木 (tree) + (hook)
★★☆☆☆
5 strokes
JERKCOUNTER
This usually means a small card or label, but as a suffix, it means "bill", as in "ten-dollar bill."

Onyomi

SATSU

I SAW TWO dollar bills laying in the sidewalk yesterday. Weird.

Mnemonic

Hang the label from a hook driven into the tree-trunk.

Kunyomi

ふだ a label, nametag, small sign, etc.
★★☆☆☆

Jukugo

千円札(せんえんさつ)

1,000 yen bill ★★★☆☆ COUNTER
千 (thousand) + 円 (yen/circle) + 札 (card / label / bill) = 千円札 (1,000 yen bill)

any money in paper form is a 'satsu' - a ten dollar bill is a $10 satsu, etc.

Lookalikes

Meaning Hint Radical
机 desk DIAPER
乱 disorder TONGUE 舌
札 card / label / bill TREE 木
礼 polite NECROPHILIAC ネ

There's a DIAPER on my desk,

so use your TONGUE to clean up that disorder.
The card was printed on TREE bark.
NECROPHILIACS are very polite because they never get a lady pregnant or give her an STD.