I used to think it was phleBOTANY, which would be a very different thing 
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Just as long as you don’t confuse it with the similar-sounding word “lobotomy” - those are two procedures you wouldn’t want to mix up!
Amusingly, 瀉血 doesn’t appear to distinguish between modern phlebotomy and traditional bloodletting, as performed in older folk-medicine.
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It’s a new week which means it’s a new word!
This week’s prompt is:
Bone
(骨)
Ready, Set, Associate!
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牛乳 （ぎゅうにゅう） Milk! For strong bones!
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Got Milk?
A couple years ago I saw the first opening minutes of the bleach movie but I couldn’t get past the scene with this song in it and never went back to finish it.
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Spooky scary 骨格 sends shivers down your spine
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髑髏(どくろ) skull 
. You can’t have bones without skulls
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骨折(こうせつ) (fracture) bones are brittle…
Aside talk, how do you do when the IME doesn’t propose the jukugo to you 
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I had to use the kun and the verb to get to the result…
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豚骨ラーメン, because food
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Do duplicates matter?
My association is also 骨折
Reason: it’s engrained into my head after recently learning it on Wanikani!
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I just ordered some (instant).
(Note to self: use the onyomi - that is not pronounced “buta hone”)
(Note #2 to self: do not confuse with とんかつ)
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One of the only Halloween songs, even Thanksgiving has jingle bells if you want to be technical but Halloween has a real drought of music compared to another holiday.
What kind of pirate would you be without a skull over your crossbones? A skeleton crew perhaps? Hehehe.
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That song and monster mash is my jam
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That’s why you gotta drink lots of milk for the calcium. Unless you like having a cast.
I’d prefer unique ones and first come first served seemed like the easiest way to judge that.
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Mmhm, food. I haven’t actually had much ramen. I think I had one of the maruchan boxes in college but I didn’t like it that much. Probably not the best prepared so it’s sort of my fault.
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恐竜 きょうりゅう dinosaur
Because bones are *all we have left
*almost
Too many strokes 
Commiserate with your fellow Japanese learners
For a new word I guess it’s what you do, use easier words to get the same kanji to show up.
For words I repeat commonly, though, that is a pain.
I have found sometimes entering something more common for each kanji singly trains it to come up together later, but not reliably. And once somewhere I found some settings and manually entered my friend’s name because it’s unusual. But for the life of me I can’t find that menu again
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That and the little birds who are (mostly) not as scary as their ancestors.
I do like the Japanese for dinosaur, fearsome dragons.
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correct
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Ok maybe this isn’t really an association because I didn’t think of it on my own, but I looked at this then came across 露骨に in a book and I was like, look, bone!! 
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It’s a little “barebones” (get it? Because that’s the closest to that literal meaning you could get in English) but we’ll take it. I’m not going to be too harsh about the rules of how you come up with an association.
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