Level IV of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 427 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 衛 (Defense), less common than 単 (Simple).
A shellfish (shellfish) sits at the bottom while a prison (prison) presses from above — the shellfish trapped in a prison of debt loses everything, a total loss in the gamble of life.
負 is rank 427 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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