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write

On-Yomi: ショ — Kun-Yomi: か.く、-が.き、-がき

Elements:

write, brush, tongue wagging, sun, day

Primitive:

brush(pedzel) This primitive element, not itself a kanji, is a pictograph of a writing brush. Let the first 3 strokes represent the hairs at the tip of the brush, and the following two strokes the thumb and forefinger that guide it when you write. Note how the long vertical stroke, cutting through everything, is drawn last. This is standard procedure when you have such a stroke running the length of a character. However, as we saw in the case of cow, when this primitive appears on top of another primitive, its "tail" is cut off, giving us D. [6]

Heisig story:

The sage talks rapidly with his tongue wagging in his mouth, while the brush of the scribe runs apace to write down the master 'swords.

Koohii stories:

1) [jinka] 27-4-2006(213): Make sure you practice writing kanji with a brush every day before the sun goes down.

2) [gaijinda] 28-10-2007(36): The calligrapher had a peculiar habit: when using her brush to write, she would stick out her tongue, just slightly.

3) [zer0range] 22-3-2009(30): With a brush, it takes all day to write anything.

4) [yawfosu88] 30-6-2007(25): Imagine dipping a brush into an inkwell full of the sun, so that what you write can be seen at any time of day.

5) [synewave] 10-7-2006(11): Rita Skeeter, from Harry Potter, has a magic brush that writes anything that comes from the tongue wagging in her mouth.

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