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    3. 身土不二

    身土不二

    身しん土ど不ふ二じ

    you are what you eat

    NTNounFood & DiningCulture & TraditionsKanji Vocab16 strokes

    しんどふじ

    Noun

    1.
    you are what you eat, slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health, indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land)

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    Kanji that make up this word

    身
    み…(1)
    somebody・person・one's station in life
    土
    つち…(5)
    soil・earth・ground・Turkey
    不
    negative・non-・bad・ugly・clumsy
    二
    ふた・ふた.つ・ふたたび…(11)
    two・two radical (no. 7)
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