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On-Yomi: ホン — Kun-Yomi: もと
Koohii stories:
1) [Christine_Tham] 31-7-2007(73): The origin of a book is paper made out of TREEs. ONE tree can make many books.
2) [ggwar] 7-8-2009(25): A book is one slice of a tree.
3) [burento5] 14-3-2008(24): An axe cutting a tree to make books.
4) [johanvg] 10-7-2006(11): Books are the root of all knowledge (in Chinese this character means root or basis).
5) [Raitasar] 6-5-2009(5): Sad 'Fact': You have to cut down ten oriental trees just to produce one book!