牛

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cow

On-Yomi: ギュウ — Kun-Yomi: うし

Elements:

cow

Heisig story:

Can you the "doodle" of a cow that has just been run over by a steamroller? The small dot in the first stroke shows its head turned to one side, and the next two strokes, the four legs.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, the same sense of cow is kept. Note only that when it is placed OVER another element, its tail is cut off. In this case, and when the element appears on the left, the stroke order is changed.

Koohii stories:

1) [Georgi87] 1-4-2008(210): A cow tried to climb up a vermilion tree, but in doing so, it broke its two bottom branches off.

2) [dannyfartmaxwell] 6-5-2009(44): Mooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

3) [LoneDeranger] 4-3-2009(25): A cow bleeds vermilion when you cut off two of it's legs.

4) [vosmiura] 29-8-2006(9): No matter how many times you roll over the cow with a steam-roller, it will still be two strokes short of looking as vivid red as vermillion pigment.

5) [Silwing] 15-12-2009(6): This is a cow… Cow - How you say? Imagine a cow which has just been run over by a steamroller. Now you see, the head to one side, four legs and the tail backwards. Yes that is indeed a cow.

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