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sparkle

On-Yomi: ショウ

Elements:

sparkle, day, sun, day3, sun3

Heisig story:

What else can the word sparkle suggest if not a diamond? And if you've ever held a diamond up to the light, you will have noticed how every facet of it becomes like a miniature sun. This kanji is a picture of a tiny sun in three places (that is, "everywhere"), to give the sense of something that sparkles on all sides. Just like a diamond. In writing the primitive elements three times, note again how the rule for writing given in frame 4 holds true not only for the strokes in each individual element but also for the disposition of the elements in the character as a whole.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 21-7-2007(205): A diamond sparkles as brightly as three suns.

2) [astgtciv] 14-4-2007(45): Sparkle is a forest (#197 森) of suns!

3) [skrapmail] 10-9-2006(27): Sparkle, three suns sparkling like zelda pyramids ;-).

4) [ruschein] 4-1-2009(20): Nothing sparkles like 3 suns!

5) [liosama] 13-1-2010(12): Wow - Has been ages since I got this character up in a review, I failed it because I thought of a different kanji. Anyway this Kanji has a lot to do with crystals and crystal structure 液晶 liquid crystal, 結晶 crystal, crystallization, crystallisation, 結晶学 crystallography. So the connotation of 'diamond' is really good - maintain that and it will easily let you fall back to its main usage of crystals.

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