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risk

On-Yomi: ボウ — Kun-Yomi: おか.す

Elements:

risk, sun, day, eye

Heisig story:

Remember when you were young and your mother told you never to look directly into the sun for fear you might burn out your eyes? Probably you were foolish enough to risk a quick glance once or twice; but just as probably, you passed that bit of folk wisdom on to someone else as you grew older. Here, too, the kanji that has a sun above and an eye right below looking up at it has the meaning of risk (see frame 12).

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 21-7-2007(283): Don't look at the sun directly with your eyes, it's risky!

2) [godcomplex] 2-11-2007(55): You'll risk your eyesight if you look up at the sun.

3) [laner36] 19-5-2008(31): Looking up at the big sun is a risk to your eye. To remember that the sun primitive is bigger than the eye primitive, imagine making your eyes little (squinting) when you go out in the bright sun to reduce the risk of getting sun blindness. READING: imagine a kid saying "oh that's ぼう (bull as in B.S.), looking at the sun is no risk!" [he's blind now].

4) [cerulean] 19-5-2008(14): Staring into the big sun can risk your eyesight! HINT: It looks like a pipe from Super Mario Bros. It might be risky to go down it. :p.

5) [sethimayne] 25-9-2007(10): If you look at the sun high in the sky directly with your eyes below, you're taking a big risk.

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