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riot

On-Yomi: ラン、ロン — Kun-Yomi: みだ.れる、みだ.る、みだ.す、みだ、おさ.める、わた.る

Elements:

riot, tongue, thousand, drop, ten, needle, mouth, fishhook

Heisig story:

In a riot, manners are laid aside and tempers get short, even in so courtesy-conscious a land as Japan. This kanji shows what happens to a rioting tongue: it gets "barbed" like a fishhook, and sets to attacking the opposition, to hook them as it were.

Koohii stories:

1) [rotifera] 11-11-2007(216): The riot police broke up the riot by dragging the rioters away by their tongues with fishooks.

2) [Christine_Tham] 18-8-2007(87): A tongue with a hook can cause a riot.

3) [lostdog] 20-12-2007(56): If my daughter took her tongue and pierced it with a fishhook, that would cause her mother and I to riot!

4) [Xtophe] 7-9-2006(31): During a riot in a totalitarian country, the leftist's tongues are fishhooked by the police ( a way for me to remember that tongue is on the left of the kanji).

5) [pollodepalo] 11-11-2008(16): Rioters are punks with fish hooks in their tongues.

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