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esteem

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: なお

Elements:

esteem, small, little, alien, glass canopy, hood, mouth

Heisig story:

Above we see the primitive for little attached to one of those glass canopies you might use to display a family heirloom. The littleness is important, because what is in fact on display is the shrunken, stuffed, and mounted mouth of an esteemed ancestor. We may be used to esteeming the words our forebears leave behind, but here we also esteem the very mouth that spoke them. I leave it to you to imagine a suitable place in your room for displaying such an unusual conversation piece.

Koohii stories:

1) [gaijinda] 14-10-2007(242): An especially esteemed alien has three antennae on his helmet.

2) [aircawn] 17-1-2007(114): Remember that scene from Star Wars, where Luke is wearing that helmet that only his mouth could see, and was swinging at that little thing buzzing around the room? That was Obi-Wan's trick to get Luke to build his self-esteem, or his confidence in the Force.

3) [martinirwin] 4-12-2007(102): Little self-esteem is the signature of mouthy teenagers wearing hoodies.

4) [SammyB] 25-9-2008(89): I have little self-esteem.. so I keep my face under a hood and my mouth shut.

5) [mameha1977] 27-9-2007(24): I have a small glass box with a mouth inside. I hold this in great esteem, for it is the mouth of my ex and I did the world a great favor by stripping her of it.

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