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stream

On-Yomi: セン — Kun-Yomi: かわ

Elements:

stream, flood

Heisig story:

We have taken the image of a river stream over into English to describe things that fall down in straight lines, or ripple along in lines. All of this is more than evident in the kanji given here, a pictograph of a stream.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this character adds to the meaning of stream the more vivid image of a flood. Note, however, that there are certain small changes in the writing of the element, depending on where it appears relative to other elements: on the left, it is written the same. on the top, it is written with the three strokes more like less-then signs on the bottom, it is written with the third stroke similar to a fishhook

Koohii stories:

1) [ceeeps] 2-9-2007(86): So as not to confuse this with river (#146 河) think of streamers falling down.

2) [dogen2] 17-3-2007(63): There are three default I/O Streams in UNIX, stdin, stdout, and stderr.

3) [aquanoodle] 25-3-2008(18): Three streams grouped together might cause a flood!

4) [stereovibe] 27-2-2008(14): Streamers, streaming down.

5) [a_d_g] 8-10-2008(8): In Ghostbusters, Egon warned that crossing the streams would result in total proton reversal, that's why the lines should not intersect.

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