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ray

On-Yomi: コウ — Kun-Yomi: ひか.る、ひかり

Elements:

ray, small, little, human legs

Heisig story:

There are really only 2 primitives here, little and human legs. The 4th stroke that separates them is added for reasons of aesthetics. (If that doesn't make sense, try writing the kanji without it and see how ugly the results look, even to your beginner's eye.) Now if you have wondered what those little particles of "dust" are that dance around in the light-rays that come through the window and fall on your desk, try imagining them as little and disembodied human legs, and you should have no trouble with this character.

Koohii stories:

1) [guidedog] 9-2-2007(132): A ray of light is not a wave but made of little photons with human legs.

2) [sethimayne] 27-9-2007(86): The ray from Honey I Shrunk the Kids made people little - ha! look at them run around on their tiny legs!

3) [cloudstrife543] 1-11-2008(47): Imagine a ray gun shooting someone and their body exploding (sparks) and just their legs left.

4) [Dualta] 25-2-2008(30): Little legs at play are a ray of light in my day.

5) [oRis1024] 20-7-2008(24): Ray is tiny legs of light…

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