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system

On-Yomi: セイ

Elements:

system, cow, belt, sword, sabre, saber

Heisig story:

This kanji show a unique system for leading cows to the slaughterer's saber: one ties a belt about their waist and fixes that belt to an overhead cable, pulling the cow up into the air where it hangs suspended, helpless against the fate that awaits it.

Koohii stories:

1) [Kelly] 25-6-2007(168): The system for making leather belts involves slicing up a cow with a sword.

2) [ihatobu] 7-2-2009(61): Why all the gore and violence? How about a samurai cow? He doesn't have to be a violent samurai, either. He only wears the sword because he's part of the bushi SYSTEM. Actually, he studies ikebana, shodo, and zen. Imagine him sitting cross-legged in a Zen temple (a very Special Zen temple). The master asks him if a dog has buddha nature and, shifting the swords in his belt, he calmly replies, "Moo!".

3) [potempkin] 11-9-2008(45): Gary Larson cartoon of the feudal Japanese system: cows walking around with belts, complete with katana sabers. The Sa-MOO-rai class system.

4) [tenricefieldsglue] 21-5-2009(32): Jurassic Park has a system for feeding velociraptors. First a cow gets belted. Second the cow is lowered down into the raptors' cage. Third the raptor ruptures the cow with his saber like talons.

5) [fredde79] 4-9-2007(26): I used Heisig story here but i tweaked it a little. It works better for me if i imagine the belt is around the tail of the cow, cause that it what it looks like in the kanji.

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