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On-Yomi: トウ — Kun-Yomi: ひ、ほ-、ともしび、とも.す、あかり

Koohii stories:

1) [ceeeps] 3-9-2007(202): Imagine old gas lamps which had a flame to light up the street signs.

2) [dwhitman] 5-10-2007(85): A lamp is fire you can hang from a nail.

3) [mdspencer] 21-4-2008(21): When this symbol was created, a lamp was simply a fire at the side of the street.

4) [Evangelo] 20-8-2008(19): Warning: This story is graphic. In Rome, after the Third Servile War, the losing rebels were crucified (on T shaped crosses) and set on fire along the road back to Rome. These human lamps lit up the massive road with burning corpses as a reminder not to lose against the Romans. Thanks Latin 3!

5) [ACGalaga] 5-2-2010(9): A long time ago they used fire for street lamps.

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