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Puzzling Jukugos - mentat_kgs - 2009-01-06
Hey can you give me a help to understand why this choice of kanji?
皆既食
Puzzling Jukugos - Transparent_Aluminium - 2009-01-06
Eclipse seems to be 日食 or 月食. I guess the image is that the sun or the moon is "eaten" by the eclipse. 皆既食 might mean that it has "already been eaten in whole".
Puzzling Jukugos - mentat_kgs - 2009-01-06
Uhm, nice way to put it.
Puzzling Jukugos - mystes - 2009-01-06
In the entry for 皆既, Koujien says "（「既」は尽きるの意）".