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delight

On-Yomi: カン — Kun-Yomi: よろこ.ぶ

Elements:

delight, pegasus, horse, pantomime horse, noon, sign of the horse, turkey, lack, yawn

Primitive:

Pegasus(pegaz) By combining the horse (giving a twist to its final stroke a bit to the left to keep the strokes from overlapping) with the turkey, we get a flying horse or Pegasus. Be sure not to confuse with the turkey house from FRAME 567 確. [11]

Heisig story:

Again I cannot resist sharing my own associations. If you've ever seen Disney's animated interpretation of classical music, "Fantasia," you will recall what was done there with Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" (the 6th), and the flying horses that figured in it. The mares are bathing in the stream and the stallions begin to gather. As dusk sets in, the flying horses all start yawning and pair off for the night: a perfectly delightful portrait of delight.

Koohii stories:

1) [mattoc_g] 20-4-2006(234): Imagine a spoiled little girl. Her delight when she gets a Pegasus for her birthday… and then like all spoilt little girls she gets bored of it quickly… hence the yawn.

2) [ruisu] 2-11-2007(175): I would be delighted if Japanese lacked the Pegasus kanji.

3) [rich_f] 16-7-2007(67): A lack of flying horses is a delight to those on the ground who get hit with the flying horse poop.

4) [uberclimber] 27-3-2011(31): I would be delighted to see an actual pegasus. The world lacks their kind, and is the poorer for it. 歓声 (かんせい) : cheer, shout of joy; 歓迎 (かんげい) : welcome, reception..

5) [narafan] 4-8-2007(19): Malfoy delights in the lack of hippogriffs (pegasus).

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