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parch

On-Yomi: ソウ — Kun-Yomi: はしゃ.ぐ

Elements:

parch, fire, furniture, wooden goods, mouth, tree, wood, mouth3

Heisig story:

Parchment, made from animal skins, was the most common form of writing material used until the beginning of the nineteenth century. When paper took over, a method was devised to make artificial parchment from wood pulp. The fire at the left and in the "strong" position serves to remind us of the root word, "parch," since nothing dries, puckers, wrinkles, and scorches quite like fire. And here is how we put it all together. Take a sheet of paper (a "wood-good,"), wet it, and hold it over a hearth in your mind's eye. Now watch as it parches the paper, leaving it with a strange and bumpy surface resembling parchment.

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 14-2-2008(273): Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig, so it's worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest "furniture" (a common type of wooden goods). REF: parch (FRAME 215) , maneuver (#671 操), winding (#1369 繰), seaweed (#2035 藻). Story: It's been so parched recently that your furniture suddenly catches fire.

2) [Christine_Tham] 18-8-2007(76): The parchment says you need fire to make goods from trees.

3) [crayonmaster] 24-1-2009(42): When a FIRE is parched, it isn't thirsty for water, it wants to gobble up some WOODEN GOODIES!

4) [PeterJD] 5-4-2008(33): ソウ "A fire's heat will parch/dry out any goods made from wood." E.G. 乾燥する （かんそう・する）to dry up.

5) [LazyNomad] 12-1-2010(29): Hint: Actually the element - 喿 - is itself a rare kanji, that has the meaning of "chirping of birds" (see these little mouthes on the tree). On - ソウ/ ショウ Kun さわ.ぐ/ かしま.しい/すき.

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