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Point

On-Yomi: ガク — Kun-Yomi: たけ

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 5-2-2007(176): A point is a extra little hill at the top of a mountain. We'll call it 'Fireman's Point'.

2) [raulir] 4-12-2006(103): This actually means a high mountain. So, to cater to the keyword, it's surely obvious (ahem) that if something gets such a fine title as Point, it must be more magnificent than the average mountain. It's as if there was a hill on top of an average mountain, adding to its height.

3) [Pauline] 3-7-2006(29): There's a movie called "The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain". The story is that English cartographer says that the mountain near a Welsh village is actually a hill (too low for a mountain), but the locals decide to make it a mountain (by making it higher). Let's say that in the end the hill got the title Point to mark it as a mountain.

4) [Viking101] 8-1-2010(19): I chopped off the point of the mountain with my axe. Now it is just a hill.

5) [Odieone] 30-12-2008(12): At some point, a hill becomes a mountain.

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