• 食たべ物もの — food
• 買かい物もの — shopping
• 生せい物ぶつ — living creature
• 物ぶっ体たい — object, body
• 物もの語がたり — story

物 combines the radical 牛 (うし, cow) with 勿, indicating a phonetic element. The character originally referred to something tangible, such as livestock, and later came to mean "thing" more broadly. It's an essential kanji in daily life and appears in many common compounds like 食べ物 and 買い物.

買かい物ものに行いきます。
I’m going shopping.

大たい切せつな物ものをなくしました。
I lost something important.

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