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voiced

On-Yomi: ダク、ジョク — Kun-Yomi: にご.る、にご.す

Elements:

voiced, water, water droplets, water pistol, spider, eye, cross-eyed, net, bound up, insect

Heisig story:

The key word for this kanji connotes the "muddying" effect on a soft consonant brought about by vibrating the vocal chords. For example, in English a "j" is voiced while a "sh" is unvoiced. In Japanese, the し is changed to じ when it is voiced. The primitives are: water . . . eye . . . bound up . . . insect.

Koohii stories:

1) [Istvan] 28-6-2007(228): The fly is wrapped in a spiderweb voicing "Help me, Help Me" under the watchful eye of the spider who's venom is dripping like water from her fangs.

2) [rhclaghorn] 29-12-2007(153): Pour water over the eyes of a bound up insect if you want to hear a pitiful buzz that is very similar to a VOICED consanant.

3) [nilfisq] 6-9-2007(52): This is how to produce voiced consonants, like Z: [1] use lots of saliva (water); [2] you can see the vibrating of the vocal chords in a mirror; [3] the sound is that of a zzzzooming insect, as if bound up in your throat.

4) [Matthew] 17-6-2006(41): Voiced here refers to the "muddying" effect on a soft consonant brought about by vibrating the vocal chords. For the image of muddy, we have an insect that is bound up and lowered into the water as bait. As it struggles for its life, it stirs up the sediment at the bottom, muddying the water such that your eyes cannot see through it.

5) [Perry] 11-4-2010(28): My EYES WATERED when I got an INSECT BOUND UP in my throat, and all my consanants became VOICED.　ブッキング　インシェクト。。。.

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