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suckling infant

On-Yomi: エイ

Koohii stories:

1) [aircawn] 31-10-2007(80): The woman removes the two shells covering her breasts (for modesty) and then attaches the suckling infant. How very Little Mermaid…

2) [lankydan] 13-9-2007(9): I see this as two suckling infants clamped onto their mother (woman) like shellfish when breastfeeding.

3) [Meconium] 24-7-2009(7): The old form of cherry tree (#1932 桜) uses this as the right hand side (i.e. two shellfish instead of owl). Compare 桜 to 櫻. It's not in RtK3 but it's still very common - I saw it on a building yesterday. Story: two clams latched onto the woman's breasts like two suckling infants.

4) [kapalama] 31-10-2010(2): 嬰児 , 退嬰 , 退嬰的 , suckling infant (#2193 嬰)エイ, みどりご … Parts: 貝 , 貝 , 女 (cf 櫻Unicode-0x6afb (#27387 櫻), 鸚 parakeet (#2830 鸚) … Story: Old 桜 is 櫻. In old Japan, the 櫻 was valued for the blossoms and the 鸚哥 singing. In fact the parakeets singing was so loud you could even abandon a Suckling Infant in those trees. In fact what with the Cherry blossoms falling, the Parakeets singing and the abandoned Suckling Infants, it was not much a tree anyway.

5) [Boy.pockets] 15-1-2011(1): The poor woman had two suckling infants. Both her breasts felt like they had two spiky shells attacking them.

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