Fun Kanji, New Kanji, Non WK kanji

I recently learned this can also be read たきぎ. I don’t know which is more common, but it’s interesting because it’s one of those cases where they take a word that looks like it’s going to be written with kanji X and Y and write it with another completely different kanji. In this case, seeing the hiragana one could guess it would be written 焚き木.

I really like words like this. Other examples include うまや (stable) and てのひら (palm of one’s hand, this one is even here on WK). Granted, these two can also be written, respectively, 馬屋 and 手の平, though.

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