篤

---

← →

fervent

On-Yomi: トク — Kun-Yomi: あつ.い

Koohii stories:

1) [DurablePants] 2-8-2006(159): A fervent horse doesnt need to be whipped with a bamboo stick during a race, it will go fast by itself.

2) [astridtops] 1-12-2006(132): A fervent history otaku rebuild the the Trojan Horse. But since he was Japanese, he used bamboo instead of normal wood.

3) [ziggr] 8-12-2006(62): The fervent soldiers used bamboo for vents to breathe while crammed inside the Trojan horse. —— Using punnery to avoid confusing with ardent (#814 烈).

4) [rtkrtk] 17-3-2008(34): Careful: ardent (#814 烈). According to WWWJDIC ardent (#814 烈) seems to emphasize a fanatical or violent aspect, while fervent is more deep, serious, or kind. Story: the fervent believer in healthy vegetarian food would only feed his horses the finest bamboo shoots.

5) [SammyB] 29-10-2008(16): Imagine a guy in a horse race, the gates go down and all the horses start galloping… except for this one guy, who is sitting on a trojan horse, hitting it fervently with a bamboo stick but it just wont move.

---