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fish guts

On-Yomi: オツ、イツ — Kun-Yomi: おと-、きのと

Koohii stories:

1) [Jeremy] 11-7-2006(113): This is a fish hook, that pulls out the fishguts.

2) [bakamono] 20-8-2007(41): You cut a fish in a z shape on the belly to make it easier to open the fish and rip out its fish guts silly!

3) [Danieru] 3-11-2007(35): "Knife goes in, guts come out" (-Bart Simpson's mantra as he guts fish in "30 Minutes Over Tokyo"). To be more specific: first, cut a 乙 -shape in the belly of the fish, second, pull the fishguts out. (Note that the most common meaning of this kanji is not 'fishguts' as Heisig connotates, but 'second').

4) [Cruger] 26-7-2008(25): Fishgutz.

5) [GrimPanda] 21-9-2010(18): Really this will rarely be seen as fishguts as a Kanji, usually it's 2nd party, or latter, generally always meaning 2nd in some way. It's easy to remember this as "2nd" since it looks like a 2. Then just remember it's a fishhook primitive like any other kanji that changes it's meaning as a primitive.

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