廓

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licensed quarters

On-Yomi: カク

Koohii stories:

1) [cameron_en] 9-11-2008(21): The Fight Club had no licensed quarters, so they battled it out in the enclosure down inside a cave.

2) [ikmys] 27-4-2007(10): The very special tall child whom the city folks keep enclosed in their city walls has finally been granted the use of an abandoned cave for his licensed quarters. Hey, its better than sleeping in the open!

3) [astridtops] 3-1-2007(6): Meanings acc. to kanji dictionary: enclosure, quarter, large, empty, red-light district)//This city's red light district can be found in tall caves within the city walls. There the prostitutes have licensed quarters to sell their bodies.

4) [kapalama] 13-11-2010(5): 遊廓 =遊郭, licensed quarters (#2235 廓) カク( 郭 ), くるわ( 郭 ) … Parts: 广, 郭 (cf: 醇朴 , 淳朴 ) … Note: Now replaced by 郭 enclosure (#1842 郭) … Story: As the old form of 郭 , this is just Old Enclosure written as it was in the old days- on Cave walls. Licensed Quarters means whorehouse. Old days theses were all Enclosures in Caves.

5) [mantixen] 15-2-2007(5): Licensed quarters have a cave for an enclosure.

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