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On-Yomi: ケイ、キョウ — Kun-Yomi: くき

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 18-2-2008(196): Suggestion: Replace "spool" with "toilet paper/roll". Reasons: (1) Toilet paper/roll usually comes on a spool. (2) Toilet paper is used to clean the soil off your crotch. Story: Just get a flower and carefully wrap some toilet paper around its stalk. Spool also appears in suspicious (#716 怪), lightly (#717 軽), diameter (#882 径), sutra (#1360 経).

2) [dingomick] 9-8-2007(130): PRIMITIVE: soiled crotch = soiled underwear. To precent anyone from picking the beautiful flower, the gardner hung soiled underwear on the stalk.

3) [nac_est] 24-7-2007(83): A flower's stalk can be seen as connecting the flower to the soil, or again the soil to the flower. It depends on how you look at it.

4) [uberclimber] 15-10-2010(62): Jack and the Beanstalk: dirt below, flowers above, and Jack's crotch visible as he climbs up and up. 茎 (くき) : stalk.

5) [ihatobu] 16-9-2007(30): Flowering vines growing up a post or column. The stalks wrap around the post– again and again– like a spool of thread, and flowers bloom at the very top. At the bottom, of course, is the soil.

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