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As stated in the title - what is the correct reading of 血泡? I couldn't find a
definitive answer (Jisho does not know this word at all, Google Translate
thinks it should be kehhou, which seems unlikely). I ran across this in a book
and while the translation seems clear ('blood bubbles' or 'bubbles of blood'),
I'm not sure about the reading.
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kanji readings
What is the correct reading of 血泡?
This is not an answer per-se. I did research into the word and it appears to
be Chinese. So the reading in Japanese is a guessing game since it doesn't
appear to be an actual Japanese word.

The candidates (including unlikely candidates)

  * けっぽう
  * けっほう
  * けつほう (probably definitely not this)
  * ちあわ

Opinion: I would bet on ちあわ for reading it since it would be two separate
words in Japanese 血(ち) and 泡(あわ). In this particular case I don't think you'd
join the kanji's on-yomi reading rendaku'd or otherwise. Also, typing all 4
spellings into my Japanese keyboard and ちあわ was the only one that came up for
a match at all and it was the first match.

Edit: Chocolate said and linked to the fact that けっぽう gives several page hits.
けっほう also gives some too. ちあわ also gives a few. This doesn't suggest that any
of these answers are right though, just that a group of people were swayed
towards one spelling over another.
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