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proclaim

On-Yomi: セン — Kun-Yomi: のたま.う、のたま.わく

Elements:

proclaim, house, span, one, ceiling, sun, day, one, floor, one

Heisig story:

Under the primitive for house we meet the kanji for span. Think of the key word in its religious sense of missionary preaching: "proclaiming the good news to all nations" and "shouting it from the housetops." That should be enough to help you remember this simple kanji, used in fact both for traditional missionary work as well as for one of its contemporary replacements: advertising.

Koohii stories:

1) [frychiko] 14-2-2008(304): You can proclaim your opinions from the comfort of your HOUSE and have it SPAN the entire globe these days via The Internet.

2) [mameha1977] 27-8-2007(59): I heard young Muslims have to memorise the Koran and proclaim it aloud as a kind of rite of passage. Imagine the SPAN of hours spent under a ROOF practising that! It must surely be worse than trying to get through Heisigs RTK - count yourself lucky.

3) [dwhitman] 25-10-2007(42): A local official proclaims a curfew spanning sunset to sunrise - you must stay under your own roof during that time span. I keep wanting to add in the "words" 言 primitive. Don't think about someone reading it aloud - focus on the CURFEW that was proclaimed. I also tend to confuse this one with imperial edict (#342 詔). Remember this proclamation comes from a petty local official.

4) [tstuhldreher] 16-6-2008(36): I keep thinking about the Irish one-hit band the Proclaimers, who promised to walk 500 miles – quite a long SPAN – to reach your HOUSE.

5) [Ameyama] 26-2-2008(23): Proclaim something loud enough that spans the roof tops.

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