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deafness

On-Yomi: ロウ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 2-8-2009(24): A Chinese dragon flying overhead can cause deafness to your ears.

2) [cameron_en] 3-12-2008(4): When the old dragon roared into my ears I suffered from a little deafness.

3) [Katsuo] 9-2-2007(3): Beethoven, due to his deafness, had a large collection of hearing aids. His favourite was one made from an old dragon's ear.

4) [juandixonformvp] 17-9-2012(1): Imagine a Komodo Dragon flicking his tongue in your ear and his saliva and bacteria causing you to go deaf.

5) [kapalama] 10-3-2011(1): 聾する , 聾唖 , 金聾 , 聾桟敷 , deafness (#2983 聾)ロウ, つんぼ, みみしい … Parts: 龍 , 耳 (cf: 寵愛 patronage (#2982 寵), 襲名 attack (#2025 襲), 龍神 , … Story: Watching TV reporters, even with earphones in their ears, unable to report because of modern dragons (planes) flying overhead, makes one imagine a time long ago when old dragons flying overhead brought Deafness to one's ears. Because of course they did not have earplugs long ago. All the guys who worked at the dragon airports back then went deaf.

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