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core

On-Yomi: オウ、オク — Kun-Yomi: おく.まる、くま

Elements:

core, drop, pent in, rice, large, St. Bernard

Heisig story:

A drop . . . pent in . . . rice . . . St. Bernard dog. Notice that the horizontal line of the bottom primitive doubles up as the final stroke for pent in.

Koohii stories:

1) [ergerg] 27-3-2006(279): In the core of a nuclear reactor, scientists have discovered a way to get power from rice, by penting it in under high pressure. It's very dangerous, so they've trained a st. bernard dog to run things, he's adding more drops of rice as necessary.

2) [Thora] 17-2-2008(126): 奥さん （おくさん) is a common way to say "wife". In the innermost core of the house, the bored pent up housewife drops her chores and consumes so much rice she becomes a very large housewife.

3) [xxinde] 8-10-2009(62): The Core CPU is just a small drop of silicone the size of a grain of rice that has more power pent in it than the very big machines of the past.

4) [fuaburisu] 10-10-2005(40): In the innermost core of the house the wife keeps the rice, well penned in and guarded by a st bernards dog.

5) [decamer0n] 9-5-2007(21): In the interior core of a single drop of rice, a large rice plant is pent in.

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