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abandon

On-Yomi: キ — Kun-Yomi: す.てる

Elements:

abandon, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, buckle, tree, wood

Primitive:

infant This primitive can be seen as an abbreviation of the full primitive for child, the second stroke dividing the head from the body much as it does in { and the other strokes condensing the long form so that it can be used atop its relative primitive. We change the meaning to infant to facilitate keeping the full form and its abbreviation distinct. [4]

Heisig story:

Infant . . . buckle (See frame 444) . . . tree.

Koohii stories:

1) [zazen666] 4-9-2007(274): Think of a really loud and annoying baby, you want to abandon it but it keeps coming back…so you take of your belt by the buckle, and buckle the baby to a tree!

2) [mspertus] 11-4-2007(74): As in sash (#415 帯), I treat the one mountain in the middle to mean Mt. Fuji (Japan's ichiban mountain). Now we see an infant being abandoned on top of Mt. Fuji well above the tree line to die of exposure.

3) [mikedough2] 8-11-2007(58): A terrible image of an abandoned infant. Here he is in his little car seat buckled to a tree.

4) [lifeflaw] 14-12-2008(27): Note: This Kanji does not contain 山 (mountain) as part of its radicals, it can rather be broken down to 木 厶 凵 亠 一 . Hence, it would be best to avoid using mountain in your story. Story: An inhumane way to abandon an infant is to buckle him to a tree…

5) [jabberwockychortles] 7-6-2009(14): The abandonned infant was buckled to a tree.

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