粍

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millimeter

On-Yomi: 0

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 16-2-2007(20): The portion of a meter the width of fur is a millimeter.

2) [brendanmacdonald] 24-10-2008(12): RICE and cheap FUR are about 1 MILLIMETER thick.

3) [taikura] 10-12-2008(4): Rice and hair are both a millimeter thick.

4) [Elphalpo] 23-7-2012(2): This is the last of the meter kanji in RTK, but if anyone's curious I went to ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メートル and found a few more: 粆 micrometer (one millionth of a meter); 粉 decimeter (1/10 meter, already learned as flour); 籵 dekameter (10 meters); and 粨 hectometer (100 meters).

5) [decals] 23-3-2011(1): In kilometer (#2946 粁), we put down a thousand grains of rice, one every metre, to make a kilometre. Here we put down a thousand hairs to make a metre (1 mm each). Basically, 1000 hairs per rice.

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