Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 287 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 校 (School), less common than 命 (Fate).
The buyer drives his Axe through the crate lid and the shellfish inside clamp shut hard enough to turn the blade, and only those get stamped Quality; the ones that gape open go back over the side with the ice.
質 is rank 287 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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