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cinnabar

On-Yomi: タン — Kun-Yomi: に

Koohii stories:

1) [ergerg] 11-12-2006(215): How about a rusty cinnabar colored dilapidated boat, found abandoned somewhere. The smoke-stack and the keel have fallen off…

2) [CountPacula] 9-9-2008(95): Rusty old boat with the bottom and top missing.

3) [harusame] 25-6-2009(23): I always remember Cinnabar Island from Pokemon. Ash finds himself stranded on Cinnabar Island. He comes across an abandoned, rust-colored boat (#1868 舟) on the beach which is clearly falling apart: the smoke-stacka nd the keel have fallen off! (thanks ergerg).

4) [aircawn] 17-2-2007(23): Under a glass canopy, one drop of cinnabar is shown to the young chemists. Cinnabar is a source of mercury and should not be exposed to the same air that we breathe.

5) [synewave] 10-8-2007(10): Inspired by Philip K Dick (and Immacolata) - Stay inside the Glass canopy (Total Recall) and don't risk breathing one drop of Mars (the cinnabar planet) "air". Also there is a milk factory near me called 丹那 （たんな）and we all know that they put various たんins (tanin makes me think of a rust colour) and other various chemicals into the milk we drink!

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