蟹

---

crab

On-Yomi: カイ

Koohii stories:

1) [Megaqwerty] 29-6-2007(37): The crab isn’t truly an insect, but certainly looks like one. They’re real tasty, too, but you have to unravel it if you want to eat it.

2) [mantixen] 28-7-2009(12): You unravel a crab leg, but insects fall out of it. It's probably too old to be edible.

3) [Evangelo] 12-12-2009(6): Fun fact about this kanji: In Ancient China, they used the parts 解 and 虫 because a Crab's legs were easy to take apart ( 分解しやすい ).

4) [koohiikun] 28-10-2010(3): A crab must be unraveled to partake of it but some people don't like them because they look like insects.

5) [Boy.pockets] 7-3-2011(2): It took them a while to unravel the genus of the crab, but eventually everyone agreed that it was not an insect.

---