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extinguish

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: き.える、け.す

Elements:

extinguish, water, water droplets, water pistol, resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body

Heisig story:

Among the many things water is useful for is extinguishing fires, and that is just what we have here. First of all, take the water at the left as the drops of water that are used to depict water in general. In the best of all possible worlds, the most efficient way to extinguish a fire would be to see that each drop of water hits one spark of the conflagration. An unthinkable bit of utopian fire fighting, you say to yourself, but helpful for assigning this key word its primitives.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 30-7-2007(127): To extinguish a SPARK, you need WATER.

2) [zdnks] 31-10-2007(55): You need a few drops of water to extinguish the candle.

3) [Sevenhelmets] 3-6-2008(44): To extinguish fire, use water or something resembling it.

4) [Thunderball] 5-8-2007(14): Each drop of water extinguishes a spark from the fire, causing the campfire to eventually dissapear, with the moon remaining the only thing sure ( しょう) to(き) keep it light.

5) [hotsw4p] 12-12-2009(12): Use water to extinguish that spark before it gets out of hand.

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