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On-Yomi: ジ、シ — Kun-Yomi: つ.ぐ、つぎ

Elements:

next, ice, lack, yawn

Heisig story:

This key word connotes the "next in line" of a succession of people or things. Let there be a lack of ice on the hottest day of summer, and you stand impatiently in line waiting for the distributor to call out "Next!"

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this character can either retain its key word meaning of next or the related meaning of second.

Koohii stories:

1) [g33kette] 4-3-2008(121): Is this store lacking ice? Let's try the next one, then.

2) [Lozza] 18-7-2008(89): A rapper called "Ice" went for auditions but was told he lacked talent. Next…

3) [panjin79] 31-5-2009(42): A lack of ice is the next phase of global warming.

4) [dwhitman] 18-10-2007(26): Global warming has gotten extreme. You're sweltering in line at the ice rationing board. Every few minutes the sullen clerk yawns and says "next", and someone shuffles forward to get their ice cube.

5) [sethimayne] 31-7-2009(18): The next time you yawn, I'm going to put ice down your shirt to wake you up!

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