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On-Yomi: ウ、オ — Kun-Yomi: からす、いずくんぞ、なんぞ

Koohii stories:

1) [raulir] 5-1-2007(184): The book's story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting: As crows are all black, it's hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be.

2) [squeaky_lill_mk] 30-6-2009(59): A crow is a bird, but not a white one. MEANING: write bird, but skip writing one in white.

3) [dusmar84] 11-2-2010(23): When God made crows he took away their whiteness and gave them big mouths instead.

4) [to_nihon] 21-11-2008(6): The crow is a bird with a big mouth (caw! caw!) and no white feathers to be seen.

5) [Nick65765] 16-6-2012(4): Crows are not white birds. brilliant.

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