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On-Yomi: リュウ — Kun-Yomi: つぶ

Koohii stories:

1) [smithsonian] 30-1-2007(244): A sage is using rice to fill up a vase, but as an exercise in patience, he's doing it grain by grain.

2) [taijuando] 28-4-2006(153): There's a contest…whoever guesses the number of grains of rice in a vase wins.

3) [tcjeff] 18-6-2008(24): I know of two methods for storing grains. There's the American method or keeping it in silos, or the classier vase method used in Japan, where grains are stored in enormous vases.

4) [captal] 25-4-2008(17): To get this one ingrained in your head, just think of grains of rice standing up by themselves. Like a little US army.

5) [jameserb] 3-5-2008(13): We store the grains of rice in a vase.

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