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self

On-Yomi: コ、キ — Kun-Yomi: おのれ、つちのと、な

Elements:

self, snake, self

Heisig story:

The kanji carries the abstract sense of the self, the deep-down inner structure of the human person that mythology has often depicted as a snake - which is what the kanji shows pictographically. Be sure to keep it distinct from the similar keywords, oneself (frame 36) and I (frame 17).

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive element, this kanji can be used for the snake - of which it is a pictograph - or any of the various concrete symbolic meanings the snake has in myth and fable.

Koohii stories:

1) [fuaburisu] 25-10-2005(255): This kanji looks like the "s" of "self", looking at its own reflection in a mirror (reversed sideways), as if pondering about his "self".

2) [ihatobu] 18-8-2007(90): When Superman looks at himself in the mirror, this is what he sees on his chest.

3) [Shibo] 2-4-2008(46): I is self educated! I drawed this "S" all by myself!

4) [liosama] 3-10-2009(40): I can't believe I didn't think of this as a primitive before. What word starts with the letter 's' and ends up producing someone like your 'self' later on? Sperm. Sperm are wiggly, like a snake, Contain 記 written dna records of yourself into them like words on a page, 起 rise up and run out of the penis once they ejaculate. require wrapping to prevent having babies, 包 . The task master of the sperm, 改 , make up ya own story. 紀 an era is like a thread line of different sperm that conquered the days.

5) [zazen666] 20-11-2007(25): SSSSSSSSelf!.

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