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Intestines Piglets Piggy Real Coins 腸 チョウ はらわた、わた

Kanji
Onyomi チョウ
Kunyomi はらわた、わた
English intestines, guts, bowels, viscera
Examples 腸(ちょう): guts; bowels; intestines
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade 4
Frequency 1807
Components 肉: meat
昜: open; sun
Number of Strokes 13
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 130
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading にく・にくづき
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword intestines
Koohii Story 1 Intestines are the part of the body that is taken out of piglets to make piggy banks. Just imagine factory workers scraping out the intestines of real piglets and packaging them up for little children.
Koohii Story 2 Taking things too literally, you used a real piglet as a piggy bank. Now when you smash it open to get your coins out, you have to dig out your coins from its intestines. ew.

Tags: jlpt.n1, grade4, kanjifreq1501-2000, kanji_body_organ.torso

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