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tolerant

On-Yomi: カン — Kun-Yomi: くつろ.ぐ、ひろ.い、ゆる.やか

Elements:

tolerant, house, flowers, look, see, telescope, eye, human legs

Heisig story:

The house of flowers or "hothouse" has become a metaphor for a narrow-minded, biased, and intolerant attitude distrustful of change. Tolerance, in contrast, is open-minded and welcomes novelty. The way to encourage tolerance in those who lack it is first to have them see through their own hothouse attitudes, which is the very counsel we are given in this kanji.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 31-7-2007(343): A tolerant person will ignore SEEing GRASS (marijuana) in the HOUSE of a friend.

2) [saruwatari] 30-12-2007(178): To be tolerant is to see flowers (meaning "beautiful things") in every house, instead of looking for drawbacks.

3) [Ningen] 3-9-2008(82): Kanji Zen: See the flowers in the house. See the good in people. Be TOLERANT.

4) [Foddy] 12-11-2007(82): My wife grows flowers in the house and I see them every day. I don't really like them, but I have to be tolerant.

5) [axelb] 21-7-2008(23): Into my house someone brought a monstrous flower with a big, walking eye, seeing everything, like a spy. But I am trying to be tolerant, although it is getting on my nerves. Remember: The flower is IN the house (that is, underneath its roof-sign).

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