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likeness

On-Yomi: ジョ、ニョ — Kun-Yomi: ごと.し

Elements:

likeness, woman, mouth

Heisig story:

Pardon me if I revert to the venerable old Dr. Freud again, but his eye for symbolism is often helpful to appreciate things that more earthy imaginations once accepted more freely but that we have learned to cover over with a veneer of etiquette. For instance, the fact that things like the mouth of a cave served as natural ritual substitutes for the opening through which a woman gives birth. Hence, in order to be reborn as an adult, one may have to pass through the psychological equivalent of the womb, that is, something that bears a likeness to the opening of the woman from whom you were born.

Koohii stories:

1) [smujohnson] 17-7-2008(363): Women share a common likeness. Their mouths are always open, whining about this and that.

2) [At0m5k] 21-8-2008(133): A woman's mouth has the likeness of a vaccum cleaner, it's noisy and all it's good for is sucking. Do not confuse with resemblance (#114 肖). Likeness is purely conceptual, whereas resemblance refers to actual physical similarities.

3) [atomiton] 25-9-2006(105): From a woman's other 口 comes a baby with a perfect likeness.

4) [PrettyKitty] 2-7-2007(53): As a woman with a big mouth, Angelina Jolie was a perfect likeness for Lara Croft.

5) [SammyB] 30-6-2009(51): Women share one likeness: They have a big mouth! (I don't actually hold this view at all, but it does make it easy to remember).

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