Number: 1754

fusion

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16 strokes
BETA
(one/line radical) + (mouth/small box radical) + ??? (???) + (insizzect)

ONYOMI: YUU

YOU dissolve one bug in your mouth.

DESCRIPTION: Most of the words you can make using this kanji involve LITERAL fusion: atomic physics or chemistry. But unless you are a scientist as well as a genius at Japanese, most of the time you encounter this kanji, it'll be in a word about FIGURATIVE fusion: the co-mingling of money in the stock market.

JUKUGO:
金融 ( きんゆう )
financing, financial.
(gold) + (fusion) = 金融 (financing, financial.)
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融通が利く ( ゆうずうがきく )
someone who is accommodating of your needs. (FP)
(fusion) + (pass) + (handy) = 融通が利く (accomodating)
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融資 ( ゆうし )
getting financing or funding or a business loan (usually in return for taking the banker and his friends from the Ministry of Finance out for some hostess action and $3,000 sake). (and possibly 'accidentally' losing a golf game or two) (NP)
(fusion) + (capital (as in $$$)) = 融資 (getting financing)
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LOOKALIKES:
Meaning Hint Radical
segregate TOWN Town
fusion INSECT

The racist government segregates all the foreigners to a different TOWN.

I fuse all the INSECTS in my delicious 'bug-shake.'