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kudzu

On-Yomi: カツ、カチ — Kun-Yomi: つづら、くず

Koohii stories:

1) [abaddon] 17-5-2008(78): Flower, siesta: The muchacho was not careful. He passed the warning signs and decided to hold a siesta in the kudzu field. The kudzu grew so fast, he was completely covered by it in a few hours and not able to escape. Now, the kudzu flowers mark his grave.

2) [mantixen] 15-2-2007(15): The muchacho takes a siesta under the flowers of the kudzu.

3) [to_nihon] 11-1-2009(10): Kudzu is a flowering plant that never takes a siesta…it grows constantly and has already overtaken most of the southeastern United States. Beware the kudzu!

4) [aaroncp] 21-2-2011(6): Ok so I don't know about anyone else, but the bottom part of this kanji does not look like siesta on this site. In the supplement pdf it does, but not here so I came up with this: Kudzu vines and flowers grow so fast by day that by night they have bound up all the animal legs in the forest like fish hooks bind fish. It is long and convoluted, but it contains everything similar to the elements here.

5) [amillerchip] 8-1-2012(3): My Windows font is displaying the traditional form of this character, however the bottom primitive is siesta as listed. A couple of links to confirm: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/845b/browsertest.htm http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%91%9B Also I'd never heard of kudzu before, so thought I might as well rename this to くず and learn the reading too.

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