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rice field

On-Yomi: デン — Kun-Yomi: た

Elements:

rice field, brains

Heisig story:

Another pictograph, this kanji looks like a bird's-eye view of a rice field divided into four plots. Be careful when writing this character to get the order of the strokes correct. You will find that it follows perfectly the principle stated in frame 4.

Heisig comment:

* When used as a primitive element, the meaning of rice field is most common, but now and again it will take the meaning of brains from the fact that it looks a bit like that tangle of gray matter nestled under our skulls.

Koohii stories:

1) [Chisaku] 30-6-2007(114): A rice field divided into four parts.

2) [Kosmo] 17-5-2008(41): Ten people use their mouths to eat the yield of the rice fields.

3) [ruschein] 4-1-2009(30): Ten rice fields can feed many mouths.

4) [chrisgaunt] 3-1-2011(16): A farmer must use his brain to measure out a 4-plot rice field.

5) [mikan] 16-12-2007(11): One day the farmer is neatly digging his rice field chopping down with his spade in two directions at 90 degrees, when suddenly there is a crunching sound as he has chopped twice into the skull of a dead body exposing the brains sliced into four pieces. Ughhh !

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