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seven

On-Yomi: シチ — Kun-Yomi: なな、なな.つ、なの

Elements:

seven, diced

Heisig story:

Note that the first stroke "cuts" through the second. This distinguishes seven from the character for spoon (Frame 476), in which the horizontal stroke stops short.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this form takes on the meaning of diced, i.e., "cut" into little pieces, consistent both with the way the character is written and with its association with the kanji for cut to be learned in a later lesson (Frame 89).

Koohii stories:

1) [munia] 15-11-2005(243): This kanji is our good old seven, turned upside down.

2) [Angrybeez] 10-6-2008(68): I wrote it upside down so I crossed it out.

3) [fesgo] 2-2-2008(23): Almost katakana SE = SEVEN.

4) [keller97] 15-12-2011(13): I crossed it out because I wrote this SEVEN upside down.

5) [michael] 27-8-2007(13): If you take the line in the middle out, it's an upside down seven, Ta-da!

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