蛤

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clam

On-Yomi: コウ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 28-7-2009(26): An insect fits right into the clam's mouth before it clamps shut.

2) [cameron_en] 28-11-2008(7): Certain species of insect live in clams, they just have to find one that fits.

3) [Megaqwerty] 29-6-2007(7): For contraband purposes, I tried to fit insects into a clam, but that didn’t work out too well.

4) [kapalama] 8-9-2011(2): 蛤 =蚌, 蛤御門の変 , clam (#2695 蛤) ?, はまぐり … Parts: 虫 , 合 ( 蚌Unicode-0x868c (#34444 蚌), 給料 salary (#1349 給),) … similars: (cf 蝦 shrimp (#2689 蝦), 蛎 oyster (#2697 蛎), 蛤 clam (#2695 蛤)) … Story: The Clam gets his Salary/給 in Cockroaches. Oysters/蛎 only need encouragement/励.

5) [gavmck] 10-3-2010(2): Insect primitive is a poor fit for this kanji. A clam lives in the sea and isn't even an insect.

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