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On-Yomi: ケン — Kun-Yomi: か.ける

Koohii stories:

1) [AndamanIslander] 6-4-2008(206): In Japanese this is KEN, as in Barbie's boyfriend. He has lovely blue eyes, a girlfriend who is as thin as a straightened out fish hook. But, down where it counts, he has very little to show…

2) [smithsonian] 9-1-2007(177): After sticking a fishhook in your eye, the yakuza boss probably has little more to do to convince you to move to a different prefecture.

3) [kresobilan] 5-3-2008(81): Smaller administrative units, hooked together by a (Sauron's) central eye.

4) [raulir] 25-4-2006(53): Contradictory to what Heisig says, there is no eye of a needle in this picture, because that would be the top part of 直 . Instead, there is the eye of a fishhook. I will not hazard a guess as to what lives in such a place, but in fact the eye of a fishhook - as it has well-defined borders - makes a small prefecture of its own.

5) [cameron_en] 22-6-2008(48): Eye (I) live in a small prefecture full of hookers.

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