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tortoise

On-Yomi: キ、キュウ、キン — Kun-Yomi: かめ

Elements:

tortoise, bound up, eels, sun, day

Heisig story:

This is not a turtle (See frame 250) but a tortoise, however you wish to picture the difference. Let the "bound up" at the to prefer to the head, and the two suns, with a long tail running through it, to the shell.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this kanji is abbreviated to its bottom half, ⻲, and comes to mean eel. (If it is any help, this kanji in its full form can also be remembered through its abbreviation's primitive meaning.)

Koohii stories:

1) [dwhitman] 27-10-2007(219): It seems bizarre, but tortoises are a genetic cross with the head of a fish and the tail of an eel. Where the shell comes from, no one knows.

2) [skylarth] 15-6-2008(118): A tortoise is prosperity bound up with a tail. They are very lucky creatures.

3) [elanlan] 18-4-2009(30): Tortoises are known to live relatively long lives (it is not uncommon for them to exceed 100 years of age). Thus, a tortoise is a creature that is bound by its shell to see many days, with its little tail peeking out.

4) [Yuta73] 20-11-2010(26): Tortoise. DBZ. This is goku's symbol in his back. How can I forget it!

5) [torida] 26-5-2010(9): [addition to dwhitman's] It seems bizarre, but tortoises are a genetic cross with the head of a fish and the tail of an eel. They are the symbol of prosperity (stroke order).

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