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flea

On-Yomi: ソウ

Koohii stories:

1) [Megaqwerty] 29-6-2007(50): Fleas jump onto your crotch, take two drops of blood, and then go on their merry way: what vile insects!

2) [blannk] 20-12-2009(3): Flea! One bite in the middle of my crotch another just to the left & I can still feel the insect itself crawling around down there.

3) [raulir] 7-1-2007(3): Right side of boisterous (#1985 騒) (but without the drops there). A flea is an insect that is depicted here as jumping from (or to) a crotch (the two drops). Note: this is indeed flea, not louse, which has its own character (虱). I'm not sure of the stroke order, but by the rule of drawing from top to bottom, the crotch drop should come first. The louse (虱) then is of course a drop-like insect that attaches itself to body hairs by little hooks.

4) [Boy.pockets] 19-3-2011(): Those two little marks you saw after scratching your crotch might be because of that dreaded insect, the flea.

5) [decals] 13-1-2011(): A mama flea(insect) teaching her two kids(the drops) how to suck blood from the crotch region.

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