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windpipe

On-Yomi: イン、エン、エツ — Kun-Yomi: むせ.ぶ、むせ.る、のど、の.む

Koohii stories:

1) [to_nihon] 14-12-2008(90): You can't breathe very well, so the doc looks inside your mouth to find the cause. "Oh, I see the cause of your windpipe blockage. There's a St Bernard penned up in there!".

2) [Katsuo] 13-2-2007(30): Imagine a group of windpipes chatting: “That mouth is the cause of all my problems, you know, always breathing in germs, etc.”.

3) [koohiikun] 14-6-2010(15): The windpipe in your mouth is what causes you to breath.

4) [DrWarrior12] 30-1-2009(10): Let's break this kanji down further into a mouth and a mouth with a dog in it. Picture a T-Rex sitting in the waiting room of an Ear, Eye, and Throat Hospital. The TV on the wall has some educational content running: "Here's a picture of a healthy windpipe," the T-Rex doctor says while pointing to an X-ray of a clear windpipe, which looks just like a mouth. "And here's an X-ray of a windpipe with a dog stuck in it. Don't let this happen to you!".

5) [fvenegas] 14-1-2012(4): The sounds which come out of your mouth, are caused by your windpipe.

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