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ExtraPenguin ([personal profile] extrapenguin) wrote 2025-06-29 07:30 pm (UTC)

Yeah it's 姝 which has the female radical and is "pretty woman". No idea why Nieminen chose "nuorukainen". Mayyyybe it's a 50s/60s thing (the volume is an omnibus where the originals were published in 1960, 1963, 1966, and 1970), maybe he thought "sorea" would be enough to gender the person, idk.

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