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flavor

On-Yomi: ミ — Kun-Yomi: あじ、あじ.わう

Elements:

flavor, mouth, not yet, one, tree, wood

Heisig story:

When a tree has not yet finished growing, it produces fruit with a full flavor. When the official taster (the professional mouth to the left) determines that full flavor has been reached, the tree is pruned back so that it remains permanently not yet grown. A neat little agricultural trick and an easy to way see the sense of flavor hidden in this character.

Koohii stories:

1) [lilpea] 17-8-2007(251): My mouth has not yet swallowed the food because the flavor is so delicious that I keep chewing it.

2) [PeterJD] 6-4-2008(134): To enjoy a food's FLAVOR, it must be in one's MOUTH but NOT YET swallowed.

3) [NyahK] 2-8-2010(51): "Not in my mouth!" she cried. "Not yet! You know how much I hate the flavor!" (I know, the story is silly… but it works!).

4) [gaijinda] 17-10-2007(14): My mouth is not yet ready to taste the flavor of a tree.

5) [raijne] 24-8-2011(8): My mouth has not yet experienced such FLAVOR.

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