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pond

On-Yomi: チ — Kun-Yomi: いけ

Elements:

pond, water, water droplets, water pistol, scorpion

Heisig story:

Water . . . scorpion. It would be easy to slip into a "lazy image" in cases like this one, picturing, let us say, a scorpion near the water. But if you picture rather a scorpion letting its venom out drop by drop until it has made a whole pond of the stuff, the image is more likely to remain fixed.

Koohii stories:

1) [khooks] 13-7-2008(110): Remember the story of the scorpion that begged the turtle for a ride across the pond? Halfway across the water, the scorpion stung the turtle on the neck and they both sank to the bottom.

2) [yvanc] 14-6-2007(62): Water scorpions loves to live in the pond.

3) [ruuku35] 13-7-2008(40): The POND was infested with WATER SCORPIONS.

4) [stshores24] 11-6-2008(13): You thought water snakes were bad…this pond has WATER SCORPIONS. One sting and you're dead.

5) [lena1849] 28-6-2010(10): Take out the 1st layer of soil in "ground" 地 , and add water. You've got a pond.

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