I just got this new and I’m thinking about a cool story but I can’t think of anything good.
Please help!! 
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Continuation is a bit weird as the main meaning, the KKLC gives the main meaning personal history.
I would advice that you use the main vocab to remember this, 歴史 (history, れきし) and 履歴書 (CV, りれきしょ).
The mnemonic in KKDC is “In Japan one fills out a standard PERSONAL HISTORY form (履歴書) when applying for a job. If 歴 was any indication of the form’s content, we would expect it to ask the applicant, “When did you stop (止) smoking hemp (麻)?””
There is a small trick there however because there are two very similar kanji, 麻 and 厤 (notice the small dot on top) and this kanji uses the non-hemp one. Both also indicate the reading.
厤 → れき → 歴暦
麻 → ま → 摩磨魔
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It’s a shame that when the trees are shrunk they look the same. It basically means you have to memorize when it’s れき or ま. 
It’s not just the trees, there is also a very small dot on top, as in 厂 and 广.
Ah, I didn’t get what you meant when you said that originally. Thank you, I will definitely pay more attention to that going forward.
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Yes, it’s not that obvious. I just recently found out that 恋 doesn’t actually have 赤 in it, so trying to write stuff definitely helps 
I actually don’t have any issues with those kanji simply because I know words that use them well. But I was concerned about not noticing the difference for kanji I didn’t already know, so it’s really good to know how to distinguish them. Though I’m not sure any other kanji using those phonetic components are actually used. 
Apart from those here it doesn’t seem like other kanji with that component are used, but on the plus side these kanji are perfectly regular and have a interesting composition, they are very easy to remember and distinguish. There are not so many other “hanging” components as in 腐 or 慮.
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