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iron

On-Yomi: テツ — Kun-Yomi: くろがね

Koohii stories:

1) [Matthew] 17-6-2006(282): Iron is a metal that gradually becomes lost due to oxidation and rust.

2) [ihatobu] 20-10-2008(105): Compare with pig-iron (#270 銑). In moving from pig-iron to iron, some of the metal's maleability is LOST. (The only difference between the two kanji is that IRON has knee-less, unbending legs, while PIG-IRON (270) has very supple, bendable legs.).

3) [thermal] 10-6-2008(52): Iron man will never lose.

4) [tcjeff] 13-6-2008(37): I accidentally dropped a bucket of molten iron on my husband one day at the factory. He died instantly, but I didn't know what to do with his remains. Somehow an art collector heard about my plight and offered me three million in gold for my "masterpiece". He called it Iron Man. So all because of a bucket of molten iron, I gained some gold and lost a husband.

5) [kanjisensei] 25-10-2009(15): Iron weights a lot. It's a metal that's easy to drop.

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