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large

On-Yomi: ダイ、タイ — Kun-Yomi: おお-、おお.きい、-おお.いに

Elements:

large, St. Bernard

Heisig story:

Here we have a simple pictograph of a person, taking up the space of an entire character and giving it the sense of large. It should not be too hard to locate the two legs and outstretched arms.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, we need a different meaning, since the element representing the human person will come up later. Therefore, this shape will become a large dog or, if you prefer, a St. Bernard dog. In frame 253 we will explain why this choice was made.

Koohii stories:

1) [pageturner1988] 13-9-2007(79): A person stretching their arms and legs to look large and scare a bear away.

2) [Teango] 8-3-2010(23): How large? This large!

3) [Christine_Tham] 23-7-2007(21): Think of a large St. Bernard dog with his paws all stretched out.

4) [LeoOra] 27-1-2008(13): A person ( 人 -fr.951) showing itself larger widening its arms.

5) [xiteru] 9-10-2007(6): That volcano is so big, or large, it goes over the clouds (the clouds being the horizontal line).

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