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げんよう
幻妖
みお
水脈
title of book, album etc.
A Magical Underground Stream
Note that we would expect to see the reading すいみゃく here for , since that carries the meaning 'underground stream'. The author's choice みお (which is used in the furigana on the book cover) can mean waterway, but does not typically include the connotation of underground.
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Words
1. confusing people
2. magic
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Most common form: 水尾
noun
1. waterway; channel
2. wake (of a ship)
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Kanji
ゲン   まぼろし illusion, phantasm   
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partly wrapped
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wrap
short, tiny   
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シ   いと thread   
ヨウ    bewitching   あやしい suspicious-looking, dubious   
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ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
calamity   
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
スイ   みず water   
ミャク    vein, pulse   
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tributary
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セン   かわ river   
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stick   
ニク body part   
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