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plug

On-Yomi: セン

Elements:

plug, tree, wood, whole, umbrella, king, jewel, ball

Heisig story:

Here we think of plug in the sense of a cork or stopper used to seal the mouth of a bottle, water faucet, or something with liquid running out of it. Forgetting the abstract picture of the former frame, let us work with all the primitive units: tree . . . umbrella . . . ball. Imagine a tree with a faucet in the side out of which tennis balls are flowing, bouncing all over the ground by the hundreds. You fight your way up to it and shove your giant beach umbrella into the tree to plug it up.

Koohii stories:

1) [dwhitman] 12-10-2007(155): The fat king under his umbrella offers useless advice to the workers. "You'll need the whole tree to plug that gap". Imagine a grossly fat, incompetent king under a parasol giving annoying advice to sweating workers who know what they're doing. (I always have trouble bringing up the "whole" primitive. This story reminds me how to build that part. ).

2) [sethimayne] 12-11-2007(92): To plug the hole, you need to use a whole piece of wood - like a cork or something.

3) [wreckz] 22-2-2008(75): Best example of a plug is a cork. A piece of wood that covers the whole opening (else it would leak).

4) [Jared] 11-2-2008(34): Trees and umbrellas are some king sized butt plugs. Ouch.

5) [Harrow] 24-4-2010(28): To plug the hole in the dam, use the whole damn tree.

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