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On-Yomi: キ — Kun-Yomi: こぼ.つ、こわ.す、こぼ.れる、こわ.れる、そし.る、やぶ.る

Koohii stories:

1) [Nukemarine] 26-5-2008(79): Wow, that baker must really be mad! He's trying to BREAK his MORTAR by throwing it to the SOIL. Whoa! Now he's aiming a MISSILE at it!

2) [aircawn] 17-9-2007(40): To "break the soil" is to make a symbolic gesture that indicates the beginning of construction. Like when a politician in a hardhat gets a shovel and lifts a piece of dirt. This particular project is behind schedule, so to speed things up, they blow it up with mortar and an air-to-ground missile.

3) [gavmck] 7-2-2010(23): Drawing inspiration from beat (#709 撃) by kinkypete, this kanji shows the rules for a bizarre form of janken (paper, stone, scissors). A mortar can break soil (grinding it to dust). Soil can break a missile (burying it - causing it to eventually rust away). And a missile can break a mortar.

4) [eatyoda] 9-12-2008(6): You'll break everything down to dirt if you use both mortars and missiles.

5) [mantixen] 11-10-2008(6): Someone tried to break into Staples using a missile, but it ended up breaking the whole store, turning it to dirt.

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