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prize

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: ほ.める

Koohii stories:

1) [Danieru] 22-6-2008(153): You won first PRIZE in a shell-fish eating contest. Unfortunately you spent the whole night in the outhouse after.

2) [Megaqwerty] 19-5-2007(123): As a prize for being the 1,000,000th person to use the restaurant's outhouse, I got all the clams I could eat.

3) [raulir] 1-5-2006(114): This is a bit silly.. or maybe not only a bit, but.. You know some foodstuffs (cereals come to mind) sometimes have prizes mixed in them? Well, in this case, the prize was a shell (money, remember) and you only notice in the outhouse… (see also secret (#904 秘)).

4) [dingomick] 21-2-2007(46): You win! Your prize is an outhouse filled with shellfish! (Just imagine the disbelief of the contestant…).

5) [dinmamma] 14-8-2009(20): Winning the Nobel prize gives you ESTEEM ON TOP OF MONEY. (this helps you remember the layout of the kanji too.).

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