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fortune-telling

On-Yomi: セン — Kun-Yomi: し.める、うらな.う

Elements:

fortune-telling, magic wand, augury, divining rod, mouth

Heisig story:

This is one of those kanji that is a real joy of simplicity: a divining rod with a mouth - which translate directly into fortune-telling. Note how the movement from top to bottom (the movement in which the kanji are written) is also the order of the elements which make up our story and of the key word itself: first divining rod, then mouth. This will not always be possible, but where it is, memory has almost no work at all to do.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 24-7-2007(147): Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod.

2) [Hikari] 27-8-2007(95): A great number of people who do fortune-telling are "almost old".

3) [sprutnik] 28-9-2008(37): To do fortune-telling put a magic wand in your mouth.

4) [pandaji] 10-10-2007(17): The mouth of a fortune-teller is a superior (above) mouth.

5) [nihonnicko] 1-5-2008(13): The old fortune teller was missing an arm.

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