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On-Yomi: ガ、カク、エ、カイ — Kun-Yomi: えが.く、かく.する、かぎ.る、はかりごと、はか.る

Koohii stories:

1) [johnskb] 20-6-2006(180): You decide one day to paint a kanji on your ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a brush, so, being innovative, you use a sprout. Knowing it could be messy, you search for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a shovel down on the floor to catch any drips resulting from the BRUSH-STROKEs.

2) [esaulgd] 17-9-2007(77): To paint a kanji in your ceiling with only natural materials, you use a sprout as a brush and shovel some dirt to use as paint for your strokes. [modified from johnskb's].

3) [chully] 7-4-2009(46): Start with just one stroke. Soon more will sprout, and then you end up with a whole shovelfull!

4) [cingold] 9-10-2009(37): The first kanji I learnt was just one brush stroke, but then my knowledge sprouted and I knew a shovelful.

5) [rtkrtk] 12-1-2008(28): New age artist. The canvas is on the ceiling. The floor is covered with bean sprouts. The artist takes a shovel and makes a sweeping motion on the ground, sending a stream of sprouts flying up to the ceiling and sticking to the canvas in strange patterns. "This is radical calligraphy," he says, panting for breath, "and the act of shoveling is my new-age equivalent of the classical brush stroke.".

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