to take kanji symbol 投稿日時: 2016年4月26日 投稿者: kanji — コメントする People are killed in wars. In old China, when a person was killed, they would cut off his right ear and take it back. Look at the kanji 取. 耳 is an ear and 又 is a hand. The verb toru means to gather ears with hands. That is what war was all about.