earnings

On-Yomi: — Kun-Yomi: かせ.ぐ

Koohii stories:

1) [Kieron] 3-7-2007(295): Your earnings allow you to bring home your daily bread (made of wheat, naturally).

2) [Nukemarine] 25-4-2008(85): Hmm, EARNINGS. Think of the popular saying "Bringing HOME the bacon". Here, EARNINGS is the picture "Bringing HOME the bread(WHEAT) and the bacon (PIG).

3) [PacifistGod] 10-4-2007(37): A farmer's earnings can be viewed as the amount of wheat he has in his grain silo (house).

4) [decamer0n] 31-3-2007(30): Earnings? Where I'm from, it's called bringing home the dough

5) [jinkouchinou] 3-8-2009(14): The breadwinner (wheat bread winner) brings home the earnings.