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crow
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crow RTK
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The book's story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting: As crows are all black, it's hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be.
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Radical Components
On'yomi
うお
Kun'yomi
からす