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crow

On-Yomi: ウ、オ — Kun-Yomi: からす、いずくんぞ、なんぞ

Elements:

crow, drop, mouth, one, tail feathers

Heisig story:

The only thing that distinguishes this character from that for bird is the omission of the one stroke that makes it white. Which is logical enough, when you consider that there are no crows of that color.

Koohii stories:

1) [raulir] 5-1-2007(184): The book's story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting: As crows are all black, it's hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be.

2) [squeaky_lill_mk] 30-6-2009(59): A crow is a bird, but not a white one. MEANING: write bird, but skip writing one in white.

3) [dusmar84] 11-2-2010(23): When God made crows he took away their whiteness and gave them big mouths instead.

4) [to_nihon] 21-11-2008(6): The crow is a bird with a big mouth (caw! caw!) and no white feathers to be seen.

5) [Nick65765] 16-6-2012(4): Crows are not white birds. brilliant.

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