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On-Yomi: ガン — Kun-Yomi: もちあそ.ぶ、もてあそ.ぶ

Koohii stories:

1) [smithsonian] 14-11-2006(53): The ball was the only thing that people at the beginning of time had to use as a toy. Poor cavemen.

2) [koohiikun] 18-9-2010(37): Even the king played with toys in the beginning.

3) [sgrant] 23-8-2009(25): And so it was, the ball marked the beginning of all the toys that were to come.

4) [gfb345] 7-5-2010(9): 玩 depicts one of the most ancient TOYs known to mankind: MARBLES. The use of such small BALLs for play goes back to the BEGINNING of recorded history. (TOY MARBLES were found in Egyptian pyramids, for example.).

5) [synewave] 20-3-2007(4): Mnemonic "toy boy" - From the days of the garden of eden boys have used their balls as toys.

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