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sit

On-Yomi: ザ — Kun-Yomi: すわ.る

Elements:

squat, sit, cave, shire, assembly line, person, soil, dirt, ground, person2

Primitive:

assembly line The duplication of the kanji for person gives us this primitive for assembly line. Perhaps you can imagine clones of your chosen person rolling off an assembly line in a factory. [4]

Heisig story:

Cave . . . assembly line . . . soil.

Koohii stories:

1) [gorgon] 16-2-2006(268): Coal mine (cave); tea break time; the assembly line stops and everyone sit or squat on the dirt floor, in a long line, to rest.

2) [wasurenaide] 28-8-2009(267): CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE HALFWAY THERE!!!! =).

3) [wrightak] 2-6-2006(72): Nice one Gorgon. I thought I would mention that the stroke order is non-standard here. With soil the vertical stroke comes first.

4) [calittle] 15-10-2007(37): While working on an assembly line in a cave, there no benches on which to sit, so everyone just sits on the ground.

5) [torida] 26-5-2010(12): Tea break on the coal assembly line — Time to all sit in the dirt. (Coal mine is a cave of course :) You sit DOWN so the vertical downstroke of soil comes first! [—Thanks gorgon & wrightak!].

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