# 存 — Exist

Frequency rank 296 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 示 (Indicate), less common than 歳 (Years Old).

- On’yomi: そん、ぞん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 子 Child (Kangxi 39)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A Narwhal tusk comes up through the ice with the screaming Child spitted on it like a Stick through a marshmallow, and the village that laughed at the hole finally admits the thing under it Exists.

In words:

- ご存じ ごぞんじ — knowing,acquaintance
- 存じる ぞんじる — (hum) to know
- 存在 そんざい — existence,being

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