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study

On-Yomi: ガク — Kun-Yomi: まな.ぶ

Elements:

study, schoolhouse, owl, crown, child

Primitive:

schoolhouse Here we see a little red schoolhouse with the 3 dots on the roof. As you write it in the following FRAMEs, you should acquire a "feel" for the way the first two short strokes move left to right, and the the third one right to left. Write it twice now, saying to yourself the first time as you write the first 3 strokes, "In the schoolhouse we learn our A-B-Cs," and the second time, "In the schoolhouse we learn our 1-2-fis." [5]

Heisig story:

The child in the little red schoolhouse is there for one reason only: to study. Anyone who has gone through the schooling system knows well enough that study is one thing and learning quite another again. In the kanji, too, the character for learning (Frame 616) has nothing to do with the schoolhouse.

Koohii stories:

1) [esaulgd] 12-1-2007(78): In the school house there are kids always studying. (BTW, atomiton, this is NOT 字 ).

2) [gwadonna] 9-8-2008(51): Children in schoolhouses are there to study, nothing else!!!

3) [thegeezer3] 5-5-2007(10): Imagine a schoolhouse full of thousands of children in a deadly trance studying japanese style…repetition.

4) [munkiipoo] 1-10-2010(7): A child in a schoolhouse studying. His brain is sparkling with knowledge!

5) [kanjidummy] 16-8-2010(4): A school house is a place for a child to study.

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