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together

On-Yomi: キョウ — Kun-Yomi: とも、とも.に、-ども

Elements:

together, salad, animal legs, eight

Heisig story:

Salad . . . animal legs.

Heisig comment:

* The primitive retains the meaning of together. Imagine things strung together like fish on a line, beads on a thread, or whatever. The main thing is to avoid putting them in a straight row, which would confound this element with the previous one. As we saw with bushel basket, this primitive can join its legs to the final horizontal stroke and stretch them to form an enclosure.

Koohii stories:

1) [Django] 1-10-2007(256): The character for deluge (#1799 洪) gave me the idea to use together as a primitive for Noah's Ark. Noah kept plenty of salad on board to entice the animals with their animal legs to scurry on board together, two by two.

2) [Zactacular] 18-9-2007(64): The conjoined twins, who are always together, have trouble eating together because one is a vegetarian, eating salad and the other is a avid meat eater, eating chicken legs.[Thanks fuaburisu!].

3) [rgravina] 13-10-2006(28): Imagine yakitori with animal legs and salad skewered on together.

4) [mantixen] 30-9-2008(22): Salad and animal legs just go together. This primitive means chicken caesar salad. http://www.kfc.com/menu/salads.asp.

5) [kusterdu] 15-4-2008(18): After I put animal legs in my vegetarian girlfriend's salad as a joke, she said, "We can't be together anymore.".

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