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alienate

On-Yomi: ソ、ショ — Kun-Yomi: うと.い、うと.む、まば.ら

Koohii stories:

1) [Johnnyltn] 24-9-2006(183): [True story] In Osaka the homeless (the alienated) live in large numbers around the city zoo. Picture them in winter all bundled up in rags trying to keep warm, alienated from the society, living literally worst than the animals in the zoo who at least are bundled in their natural furs and have pens to live in sheltered from the elements.

2) [radical_tyro] 10-7-2007(85): This kanji is so strange that it was alienated at the kanji zoo. The bundle of joy stork bundles this kanji up and takes it to a kanji foster home.

3) [rgravina] 10-9-2006(49): Think of a Kanji Zoo, where we bundle up all the bizarre and hard to remember kanji, to be ridiculed and alienated from the other more sensible kanji. This kanji definately belongs there!

4) [Nukemarine] 16-5-2008(23): The cleaner at the ZOO felt ALIENATED by everyone. Granted, he was carrying around the BUNDLE of manure he cleaned from the ZOO cages. (Just picture a zoo cleaner carrying a bundle of dung with the crowd avoiding him).

5) [noname] 20-2-2008(15): Very rarely does this kanji appear in a word meaning "alienate." The better meaning is "sparse," such as not dense, very few, scattered, or spread irregularly. It also appears in words that have to do with "neglect." 疎ら 【まばら】 (adj-na,n) sparse; (P) STORY: at the ZOO BUNDLES of happy animals are SPARSE.

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