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lumber

On-Yomi: ザイ

Koohii stories:

1) [noname] 3-8-2008(205): A TREE GENIUS is a LUMBER jack. Duh.

2) [jaresty] 3-10-2007(63): Just when the were about to turn the last tree into lumber, the Lorax (the tree-genie) jumps out and puts a stop to the whole affair.

3) [radical_tyro] 21-1-2007(47): The genie turns the lumber back into a tree.

4) [fuaburisu] 13-10-2005(38): Here we have a wood-genie or tree-genie, dancing and singing the popular song from the Monthy Pythons : “I'm a lumberjack and I'm O - K, I sleep all night and I work all - day” … “I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, …”, etc. – "the tree-genie is a lumberkack (and he's O K)".

5) [rachels] 1-2-2010(27): This can be remembered as a pictograph = 2 trees, one of which, has had a branch cut off to make lumber.

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