消し炭

けしずみ

Also written 消炭

Meanings

1. Noun partly burned charcoal
2. cinders; charred remains; burnt-out wreckage (usu. as ～にする/になる)
3. servant boy at a brothel or teahouse

Kanji

• 消 vanish. Read as けす.
• 炭 carbon. Read as すみ.

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