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circumference

On-Yomi: シュウ — Kun-Yomi: まわ.り

Elements:

circumference, glass hood, earthenware jar, lidded crock, soil, dirt, ground, mouth

Heisig story:

Look more closely at your lidded crock and you will see little ruler marks along its bottom edge. This is so you can use it to calculate the circumference of your motorcycle helmet: just begin at a fixed point and turn the lidded crock around and around, keeping it flush against the side of the helmet, until you come back to your starting point. If you kept track of how many turns and part-turns your lidded crock made, you now know the circumference.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this character can take the added significance of a lap.

Koohii stories:

1) [hanako1975] 8-1-2008(188): If my LIDDED CROCK has the same CIRCUMFERENCE as my head, I like to use it as a HELMET.

2) [mdspencer] 3-4-2009(47): When the ground has an opening (a hole), you need to cover the entire circumference or you will fall in.

3) [DrWarrior12] 20-8-2007(36): You're at a motorcycle store looking to buy a helmet. The only way to check the circumference of your head is to put increasingly larger lidded crocks on your head until one slips on just right. Now you know what size helmet to buy.

4) [taikura] 10-11-2008(16): The CIRCUMFERENCE of the Earth's soil surface ( 土 ) has been the same ( 同 ) for a long time.

5) [DrJones] 29-12-2007(15): There's a hole (mouth) in the ground, so the men at work have put a barrier tape (hood) forming a circunference, to prevent people from falling into it.

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