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summer

On-Yomi: カ、ガ、ゲ — Kun-Yomi: なつ

Elements:

summer, one, ceiling, drop, eye, walking legs

Heisig story:

In the summer, fatigued by the heat, your head hangs down nearly as far as your walking legs, or rather, your "dragging legs." Note how the walking legs (instead of "animal legs") are the only thing that distinguishes this character from that for page (Frame 64).

Koohii stories:

1) [Birdsong] 8-5-2007(172): In SUMMER you are hot from the top of your head down to your walking legs.

2) [rachels] 28-7-2008(114): One drop of sweat runs into my eye, when I go walking on a hot summer day.

3) [ouroborosatx] 27-5-2008(94): I personally think it was too confusing to try and use head as the primitive. (How am I supposed to remember that the animal legs are replaced with walking legs instead of human legs?) Rather, I think have the image of a hot summer and you want to keep oneself under a ceiling not out jogging around.

4) [kapalama] 15-8-2011(33): Tip:Don't use Head/Page( 頁 ) as a primitive, or it will just screw up. 頁 is used hundreds of times as primitive, and always needs the animal legs. Repetition makes RTK work. Little changes make life hard … The smell of sweat in Summer rises to the ceiling, leading you to take your 自 nose out on 夂walking legs for fresh cool air. Remember a set with 冬 winter (#427 冬) where the sweat (two drops in fact), has fallen down and frozen below those same walking legs.

5) [whistler11] 22-4-2006(14): The heat of summer is so powerful, it swells your head so big, you need a bigger set of walking legs to hold it up.

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