質

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substance

On-Yomi: シツ、シチ、チ — Kun-Yomi: たち、ただ.す、もと、わりふ

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 26-2-2007(243): What is this substance on this clam? I've already broken 2 axes on it! (Good question… 質問 ).

2) [noname] 5-1-2008(85): Another keyword that I do not like by Heisig. 質 【しつ】 (n,n-suf) quality. Story: Your at a local ax dealer and you have TWO AXES which you are testing for QUALITY by trying to split CLAMS right down the opening. Picture yourself succeeding with one AX and then some weird SUBSTANCE comes out of the shell…eww (I don't like clams).

3) [snallygaster] 1-10-2007(48): [seems to mean "substance" in the sense of essential nature or core quality, most common usage might be 質問 , shitsumon (inquiry)] a pair of scientists are smashing away at a mysterious shell with axes, pounding it into powder so they can feed it into their analysis machine and discover exactly what substance it's made up of.

4) [fuaburisu] 20-3-2008(26): This guy dealing in illegal substances makes a lot of shells (money), but he's always equipped with his dual-axe … it's a dangerous job.

5) [dihutenosa] 11-9-2007(14): The newest illegal substance on the streets is Shellinium. It's made of shells hacked to bits with axes. Imagine going to your local dealer to get it - you've got to get past a huge shell mafia goon who is holding two axes…

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