王

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king

On-Yomi: オウ、ノウ

Elements:

king, jewel, ball

Heisig story:

See what you can do to come up with a pictograph of a king's scepter here that suits your own idea of what it should look like. You might even begin with the basic element for I beam and then try to fit the remaining third stroke in.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, this can mean either king or scepter, but it will usually be taken to mean ball, as an abbreviation of the character in the next frame.

Koohii stories:

1) [ceeeps] 13-9-2007(141): To be king you have to be a real crafty one !

2) [negreality] 27-5-2010(102): A King is one（ 一 ） who rules over the land （ 土 soil）.

3) [Zarxrax] 2-4-2008(33): The king unites heaven and earth. (imagine heaven being the top line over the soil).

4) [nwatkins] 29-9-2007(26): Everyone made fun the king because the end of his scepter had three pancakes on it.

5) [salokin] 13-3-2008(22): In a card game, king is 13 ( 十 and 三 ) together. i.e. queen is 12, jack is 11….

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