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On-Yomi: スイ — Kun-Yomi: た.く、-だ.き

Koohii stories:

1) [Raichu] 8-1-2006(271): Japanese cooking sometimes lacks fire, e.g., sashimi.

2) [Deonnn] 29-11-2007(63): This character shows the difference between a cook and a chef: a chef prepares food with passion and love; a cook only stands there with a pan over a fire, with no passion and just yawning.

3) [Lizzie] 21-6-2008(26): How can you cook something when you lack fire?

4) [raulir] 9-12-2006(26): This is the first kanji for rice cooker ( 炊飯器 ). The reason they came up with that device is the sheer amount of incidents of people's morning rice going up in flames while they were yawning, trying to keep awake.

5) [fuaburisu] 18-10-2005(17): Tip : if you have seen Hayao Miyazaki 's animated movie "Howl's moving castle" (Le Château Ambulant), you may use the image of the flame demon Calcifer for the fire primitive. Somewhere in the first part of the movie, after Sophie arrives at the castle, she tries to cook some ham with the help of Calcifer (the flame demon) but he just complains and yawns!

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