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bake

On-Yomi: ショウ — Kun-Yomi: や.く、や.き、や.き-、-や.き、や.ける

Elements:

bake, hearth fire, lofty, strawman, wickerman, haystack, ten, needle, one, human legs, needle3, ten3

Primitive:

straw man The two human legs added to the haystack (with the horizontal stroke to keep the two parts distinct from one another and avoid an ugly tangle) give us a straw man. [8]

Heisig story:

Hearth . . . straw man. Take care to distinguish this kanji from cook (Frame 507) and burn (Frame 549) when you compose your story.

Koohii stories:

1) [akrodha] 17-4-2007(125): Ah, there's no better way to bake a pizza than an oven fueled by a burning strawman. And if you listen carefully, there are stifled strawman screams coming from the kitchen. Think of this image: http://users.mtrx.net/funnypics/content/-rdm1-ABCD1234-rdm1-/2005/2005-08-23-0002/Doughboy.jpg.

2) [esaulgd] 4-10-2007(39): To the fire goes the straw man, thinking to bake a cake on it, but…

3) [cangy] 2-3-2008(25): The best yakisoba / yakiimo / yakizakana / yakitori / yakiniku / takoyaki / taiyaki / shogayaki / sukiyaki / okonomiyaki / dorayaki / teriyaki / teppanyaki is made by burning a strawman.

4) [synewave] 30-8-2006(20): I see the strawman as The Wicker Man (which incidentally I would recommend to all!). Without wanting to spoil the film for those who haven't seen it, let's just say that if you have seen the movie, this one is easy!

5) [partyrash] 28-1-2008(18): The straw man burning festival. Burning man music festival. I suppose a lot of people have lighters and matches there so they can get baked, eh?

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