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I took this picture for Kouryu.

choknater

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choknater
i saw "for..." in the thread title and i thought it would say "for great justice"

and then i saw that it was kouryu

what a disappointment!!!!

i lost to kouryuu at genesis cuz he made a comeback using 3 dsmashes and a stage spike :( one bad tech and one non-tech. get ***** cocknater
 

Lovage

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the more jkun posts the more i think that it's all an elaborate joke and he's having the laugh of his life
 

Kouryuu

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I just found out today that Kouryuu means "radiant dragon" lol.
 

HyugaRicdeau

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There "kou" and "ryuu" readings of the kanji come from the Chinese readings of them, but Japanese doesn't have the tonality that Chinese does so the distinction between many of them in sound is lost in translation, and Chinese already has several dozen characters that are read as "kou" or similar.

I guess technically you could make a "word" out of every combination of kou (over 300 different kanji) and ryuu (20 or so kanji) but only a very small percent of these are actually realized in the language.
 
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