菫

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violet

On-Yomi: キン

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 21-4-2007(52): This is a violet cabbage, hanging from a nail on the kitchen wall.

2) [woelpad] 3-3-2008(20): Violets are blue, cabbages are green. Flowers on a spike are a sight rarely seen.

3) [mantixen] 14-2-2007(13): If you put cabbage underneath the floor, violets are the flowers that will grow up through the cracks.

4) [kapalama] 4-12-2010(5): 菫色 , 三色菫 , violet (#2099 菫) (キン), すみれ … Parts: Cabbage (RTK 1575.9) with an extra line. (cf. 謹む discreet (#1576 謹), 勤める diligence (#1577 勤), 僅か trifle (#2116 僅), 飢饉 Unicode-0x9949 (#39241 饉)) … Story: This kanji refers to the Flower Violet, not to the color Violet, even thought the clever way to remember it is as Violet Cabbage with a little extra.

5) [Machine_Gun_Cat] 6-7-2009(3): I HATE violet cabbages so much that when I was served a dish containing them at a friends house I hurled my dish up into the ceiling in disgust, I tried to make up for the incident by giving them flowers but they still haven't invited me back.

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