壁

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wall

On-Yomi: ヘキ — Kun-Yomi: かべ

Elements:

wall, ketchup, flag, mouth, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle, soil, dirt, ground

Primitive:

ketchup One way American children learn to cope with food they are forced to eat against their will is to smother it with ketchup. We can see this depicted in the mouth with the flag over it (in this case, the Stars and Stripes), set alongside the element for spicy (all of which is not far removed from the original meaning it had as a character on its own: "false"). [13]

Heisig story:

Ketchup . . . ground.

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 2-3-2007(302): Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall?

2) [saizen] 4-1-2009(117): Primitive for Ketchup: When the taste is too spicy your mouth has basically given up trying to handle it ..or in other words raised the white flag of surrender. But unlike war , putting Ketchup on it will usually solve the problem. Wall(dingomick); Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall?

3) [kokage] 21-12-2010(23): Excited about kanji 1500?

4) [cangy] 26-6-2008(21): The ketchup primitive has an even more saucy true meaning: Flag means buttocks, mouth means hole and spicy means penetrate…

5) [nest0r] 21-4-2008(14): Heisig mentions ketchup, which I remember by imagining that someone is wiping the ketchup from their mouth with a flag, keeping everyone standing on pins and needles, means false as a kanji. So: the false wall led to a secret lair underground.

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