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pan-

On-Yomi: ハン、ブ、フウ、ホウ、ホン — Kun-Yomi: ただよ.う、ひろ.い

Elements:

pan-, water, water droplets, water pistol, mediocre, wind, drop

Heisig story:

The sense of the key word here is the "all-inclusive" we find in terms like "Pan-American Games." (It is also the character used in mathematics for "partial" as in partial differentials, in case you are a math major and want to take your story in that direction.) Instead of a water sports event that brings together the best talent, think of a meet of the region's most mediocre athletes, many of whom cannot even tread water. Now try to find a sponsor for the "Pan-Mediocre Water Sports Competition."

Koohii stories:

1) [herman] 23-1-2009(54): This is pan- as in the prefix meaning "all". I think of Pangea as being a mediocre continent with water covering the rest of the planet. This was before it broke up into the first-class, well-distributed continents we got now.

2) [Megaqwerty] 17-6-2007(22): Yeah, all our water is fairly mediocre, but if we work together in some pan-continental union, we can make some better water! As if.

3) [sgrant] 9-6-2009(20): After Pan-Am crashed yet another plane into the water, their reputation dropped to mediocre.

4) [dancingblade] 14-7-2010(6): A person sneezes. The water drops in the wind are about to start a pandemic and put the whole world in pandemonium.

5) [FoxintheStars] 30-7-2010(5): Pan-Am was such a lousy airline, even the water in their in-flight meals was mediocre.

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