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acquiesce

On-Yomi: ショウ、ジョウ — Kun-Yomi: うけたまわ.る、う.ける、ささ.げる、とど.める、たす.ける、こ.らす、つい.で、すく.う

Elements:

acquiesce, water, complete, three

Heisig story:

The sense of passive acceptance or reception of information is contained in this key word. The form is based on the middle portion of the preceding character, with three additional strokes, best thought of as the kanji for three.

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 14-3-2007(222): To get someone to completely acquiesce it takes 3 dunks in the water before they give.

2) [Katsuo] 25-10-2007(87): To get someone to acquiesce, duck them completely in aqua (=water) three times. (variation on dingomick's).

3) [Shibo] 8-7-2008(42): Warning, Obscene!! I finally got my girl to acquiesce to a lewd act.. But it took 3 times to get it in completely and lots of water to clean up afterwards.

4) [nest0r] 28-4-2008(17): You must ask the trapped water sprite not once, not twice, but thrice (a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" comes to mind) before it will acquiesce to your requests. It's not for any mystical reasons, it's just that it hates being asked the same thing three times, like that character from Austin Powers.

5) [koohiikun] 30-11-2009(16): Waterboarding: To completely acquiesce it usually takes just three sessions with water. (Thanks to dingomick for the idea.).

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