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 ===[[Konoko]]===
-:''More notes on the meaning of "Konoko" and where it occurs in the real world can be found on the [[Talk:Trivia]] page.
+:''More notes on the meaning of "Konoko" and where it occurs in the real world can be found on the [[Talk:Trivia]] page.''
-Konoko's name is never written in Oni, and so one can't really be sure what kanji/hiragana it would be composed of.
+Konoko's name is never written in Oni, and so one can't really be sure what kanji/hiragana it would be composed of. Given the many meanings of "ko", tentative decompositions and interpretations can get rather wild. Thus, the meaning depends a lot on the context. But if you watch subtitled animé, you'll enter this phrase fairly often, with the meaning "this child" ("kono ko").
-:Given the many meanings of "ko", tentative decompositions and interpretations can get rather wild.
-"Konoko" is actually a recurrent "word" in Japanese, but the meaning depends a lot on the context.
-:Thus, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228493/ Konoko no nanatsu no oiwai ni] (a 1982 movie) can be translated
-:*as "[[seven]] cheers for this child" if you don't know what the movie is about
-:*as "for my daughter's [[seven]]th birthday" if you ''do'' know what it's about ^_^
-So it can mean anything from "this child" to "my child" to "my daughter".
-:In Konoko's case, the latter 2 sound better. "''The'' child" is also good.
-("konoko" is also an expensive delicacy: [http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199912/000019991299A0412427.php sun-dried sea cucumber gonads])
 ===[[Shinatama]]===