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thorn

On-Yomi: シ — Kun-Yomi: さ.す、さ.さる、さ.し、さし、とげ

Elements:

thorn, tree, wood, belt, sword, sabre, saber

Primitive:

belt(pas, pasek) This primitive, clearly derived from that for towel, is always hung on another vertical stroke, and takes the meaning of a belt. [2]

Heisig story:

Thorns grow on a bush here that has wrapped itself around a tree like a belt, cutting into the poor tree like little sabers.

Koohii stories:

1) [wazato] 30-9-2007(166): A TREE with a BELT wrapped around the middle. If you tighten the BELT, hundreds of tiny SABERS pop out of the tree in all directions, looking like THORNS.

2) [ruuku35] 7-9-2006(34): The BELT TREE has THORNS like SABERS.

3) [Sevenhelmets] 4-8-2008(24): The crown of thorns on Christ was a belt from a thorn bush tree, and cut him like sabers.

4) [SammyB] 10-6-2008(16): The tree was covered with a belt of thorns. They cut like a sabre!

5) [Yonosa] 14-5-2009(13): The thorns were wrapped around the tree like a belt of sabers.

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