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state

On-Yomi: シュウ、ス — Kun-Yomi: す

Elements:

state, stream, flood, drops

Heisig story:

Here we see drops of land (little islets) rising up out of a stream, creating a kind of sandbar or breakwater. Ever wonder how the state-line is drawn between states separated by a river? If there were little drops of land as in the kanji, there'd be nothing to it.

Koohii stories:

1) [ceeeps] 3-9-2007(202): There were 3 little islands in the stream who all decided to set themselves up as independent states.

2) [PeterJD] 29-3-2008(28): シュウ　The original meaning of this character was "sandbar", and for me this conjures up images of the Mississippi River, which is very wide with many sandbars and which was used to define the borders in ten American states. Picture Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer floating by state after state as they adventure down the mighty Mississippi, occasionally beaching their raft on sandbars.

3) [alatown] 21-2-2009(15): All powerful STATES grew from a few small settlements along RIVER.

4) [panikbuton] 20-1-2008(12): Three votes in a state election are as meaningless as as many drops in a stream.

5) [cyberclops] 17-1-2010(7): The state of a stream is not changed by adding three drops.

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