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edwinyzh on Aug 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japanese writing system basics

But 口 also means "loophole", so 入口 means "entrance" is perfectly logical - "The loophole that allows you to enter another building/strucutre".

a_bonobo on Aug 22, 2016 [–]

Fun coincidence:

A vomitorium (any modern person associates that with vomiting, i.e., stuff coming out of your mouth) was the name for entrances in Roman amphitheatres.

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