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On-Yomi: コク — Kun-Yomi: くに

Koohii stories:

1) [Howdoken] 12-1-2008(127): In my country (England) the crown jewels are kept pent-in in the Tower of London. Which happens to be where enemies of the state were once also pent-in (probably for trying to steal those jewels).

2) [genbaku] 11-1-2008(95): Just think of Japan, a country which is like a jewel but historically very enclosed.

3) [fuaburisu] 21-10-2005(30): Think of a country that has “pent in” all of its jewels so they wouldn't go away. Maybe it was China and its great wall.

4) [ajikanji] 17-4-2008(24): Japan was once a COUNTRY that went through a period of isolationism; it's JEWELS were PENT-IN and could not be traded.

5) [skellyfish] 13-2-2009(12): Picture a map of the world showing all the different countries PENT IN with thick borders, each one with an image of a pile of JEWELS proportional to its wealth (like those cute little geography maps from elementary school).

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