明

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bright

On-Yomi: メイ、ミョウ、ミン — Kun-Yomi: あ.かり、あか.るい、あか.るむ、あか.らむ、あき.らか、あ.ける、-あ.け、あ.く、あ.くる、あ.かす

Elements:

bright, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body

Heisig story:

Among nature's bright lights, there are two that the biblical myth has God set in the sky: the sun to rule over the day and the moon to rule the night. Each of them has come to represent one of the common connotations of this key word: the sun, the bright insight of the clear thinker, and the moon, the bright intuition of the poet and the seer (see frame 13).

Koohii stories:

1) [ablindmouse] 28-8-2007(330): The sun makes the moon bright.

2) [Christine_Tham] 21-7-2007(58): The sun and the moon are brightest objects in the day and night, respectively.

3) [snispilbor] 15-4-2008(39): In the long run, the REAL trouble here is distinguishing it from "shining"/"sparkle". Choose a story to learn how to write 明 . To distinguish it, remember the Japanese word 明日 (ashita, "tomorrow") and think of Orphan Annie singing "Tomorrow is a brighter day".

4) [henroski] 24-8-2008(19): The SUN is BRIGHTER than the MOON.

5) [geekdiva] 30-11-2005(8): About the order of the primitives: The phrase that I usually hear is "the sun and moon," so to help me remember the order, I'll remember that phrase. Oh! Better yet, I'll put them in order of brightness.

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