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On-Yomi: シ — Kun-Yomi: ただ

Elements:

only, mouth, animal legs, eight

Heisig story:

When we run across abstract key words like this one, the best way to get an image it to recall some common but suggestive phrase in which the word appears. For instance, we can think of the expression "it's the only one of its kind." Then we imagine a barker at a side-show advertising some strange pac-manlike creature he has inside his tent, with only a gigantic mouth and two wee animal legs.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 21-8-2007(231): Imagine an animal with only a mouth and legs.

2) [Shibo] 3-5-2008(118): My girlfriend insists that the only thing I want from her is what's between her legs.. She's drawn me this pictograph to demonstrate. It's a head and two legs spread apart.. I explain that I also love her breasts, and then she smacks me in the face. I'll never understand women.. (I keep failing this kanji, hopefully this silly story will help me!).

3) [hazyjazy] 2-9-2008(49): Only your mouth runs faster than your legs.

4) [Neobeo] 27-11-2008(28): Men only want that mouth between the legs.

5) [CarlKenner] 5-7-2007(28): Tada!… SHE is the only animal with only a mouth on legs and no body! (Kun reading tada, ON reading SHI).

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