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cavity

On-Yomi: コウ — Kun-Yomi: あな

Elements:

cavity, child, fishhook

Heisig story:

Probably the one thing most children fear more than anything else is the dentist's chair. Once a child has seen a dentist holding the x-rays up to the light and heard that ominous word cavity, even though it is not likely to know that the word means "hole" until it is much older, it will not be long before those two syllables get associated with the drill and that row of shiny hooks the dentist uses to torture people who are too small to fight back.

Koohii stories:

1) [ssmoler] 21-6-2007(157): The child's arms flailed around at the sight of the hooked tool the dentist was going to use to fill his cavity.

2) [thequietfox] 20-1-2008(93): I warned him about cavities, but the child is still hooked on sweets.

3) [ederu] 26-11-2008(36): When a child falls into a cavity we need a hook to get them out.

4) [RobMow] 8-7-2009(19): A child hooked on candy canes (sweets) is bound to get a cavity.

5) [PeterJD] 29-3-2008(10): コウ　//　HOLE　// "Confucius pulled the child out of the hole using a big hook." 鼻孔 （びこう）nostril. 孔子 （こうし）Confucius.

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