槙

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Chinese black pine

On-Yomi: テン

Koohii stories:

1) [blannk] 5-9-2009(23): The tree of white lies is the Chinese white pine. The tree of truth is the Chinese black pine.

2) [ikmys] 13-6-2007(20): Truth is that all Chinese secretly pine for black "trees" if you get what I mean!

3) [Crowfoot] 19-4-2008(6): This is the tree of truth (because you get true-to-life sculptures using it for bonsais). The Chinese black pines to look like the rest of the Chinese, to be Chinese, and suspects he really is, so he goes to this tree of truth to find out. "Am I really Chinese?" he asks.

4) [adrianbarritt] 19-2-2008(6): The Chinese make truth serum from the Chinese black pine tree.

5) [thecite] 14-6-2010(5): The old form, 槇 Unicode-0x69c7 (#27079 槇) is more common, and we should all use it.

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