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tide

On-Yomi: チョウ — Kun-Yomi: しお、うしお

Elements:

tide, water, water droplets, water pistol, morning , mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, ten2, needle2

Heisig story:

Before we get to explaining this character, take a look at it and see if you can figure out the primitive elements on your own.... On the left is the water - that much is easy. On the right we have only one primitive, the kanji for morning learned back in Frame 53. See how an apparently complex kanji falls apart neatly into manageable pieces? To get the meaning of the key word tide, just think of it in connection with the character for eventide that we learned back in Frame 115. Here we have the morning-tide, its complement. By the way, if you missed the question about the number of primitives, it is probably because you forgot what we said earlier about kanji becoming primitives, independently of the pieces that make them up. As a rule, look for the largest kanji you can write and proceed from there to primitives stranded on their own.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 27-7-2007(205): The morning tide is basically, well, WATER in the MORNING.

2) [Mesqueeb] 19-4-2009(46): If it's not Eventide ( 汐 ) it must be morning tide!

3) [shimouma] 12-6-2008(46): This is not the eventide, but the water of the morning tide.

4) [dogen2] 17-3-2007(20): The water rises with the morning tide.

5) [kyotokanji] 28-3-2007(13): Imagine falling asleep drunk on the beach, you wake up quickly in the morning as the water from the tide hits you and makes you wet.

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