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rise up

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: のぼ.る

Elements:

rise up, sun, day, measuring box, thousand, drop, ten, needle

Heisig story:

Our image here is made up of two primitive elements: a sun and a measuring box. Just as the sun can be seen rising up in the morning from - where else - the Land of the Rising Sun, this kanji has the sun rising up out of a Japanese measuring box - the "measuring box of the rising-up sun."

Koohii stories:

1) [romanrozhok] 23-2-2008(387): This kanji does not mean "get up" or "awake." It means rising, like the rising of a salary, or a promotion. STORY: You know that your salary has RISEN UP when your MEASURING BOX has enough dollar bills in it to reach the SUN.

2) [vipigz] 3-12-2007(119): We Measure the Sun to decide when we should Rise Up out of bed.

3) [pikako] 2-2-2007(77): If the sun sat on the measuring box made of a thousand needles he would rise up very quickly.

4) [Pangolin] 24-7-2006(63): In old Japan the villagers used to put their measuring box on an east facing window ledge so that the sun would rise up above it and hence would be the first thing they saw in the morning. This was to remind them to use the box to measure out their kome for asagohan and ensure their store of rice would last the whole week.

5) [wraxus] 30-10-2008(50): "When sun RISE UP, get sake cup.".

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