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On-Yomi: キュウ、キョウ — Kun-Yomi: きわ.める、きわ.まる、きわ.まり、きわ.み

Koohii stories:

1) [Raichu] 21-9-2006(165): Hard up = nothing but your body, living in a hole, with just a bow to hunt for your food.

2) [dingomick] 28-8-2007(114): Somebody so hard up for cash, the volunteered to explore a black hole with nothing but a bow.

3) [Nukemarine] 16-3-2008(54): Ok, picture a HOLE (well, more a pit trap) that SOMEBODY (well, a hunter with a BOW) just fell in. He's dangling over the HOLE holding onto his BOW across it. SOMEBODY finds it's HARD to get UP out of the HOLE. That great visual image should grant mastery of this kanji.

4) [rgravina] 4-6-2006(25): With the research to plug up a black hole going nowhere and funding slashed, (see research (#1320 究)), the team can not afford to launch any more probes due to the high cost of the fuel. Somebody, probably one of the hard up scientists desperately in need of more funding, tries using a bow to shoot a probe into the centre of the block hole – and funnily enough it succeeds!

5) [aaronvanvalen] 19-5-2009(22): A girl is so hard up for cash she lets somebody use her hole with a bow, it's a fetish-thing I guess; makes the guy hard and up.

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