Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 268 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 島 (Island), less common than 郎 (Guy).
A stick is rammed straight down through the middle dike of the flooded field, and when the bent farmer wrenches it back out the whole paddy drains away after it, leeches strung along the wet end.
由 is rank 268 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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