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thread

On-Yomi: シ — Kun-Yomi: いと

Elements:

thread, spiderman

Heisig story:

Remember when your granny used to ask you to bend your arms at the elbows and hold them out so that she could use them like a rack to hold a skein of string or yarn (here thread) while she rolled it up into a little ball? Now can you see the two elbows (with the second stroke doubling up) at the top, and the character for little below?

Koohii stories:

1) [lerris] 3-7-2007(195): I also went with Spiderman. However, in the cases where this primitive appears under other primitives, as opposed to on the left (I think there are ~5 times in this chapter) I've opted to use a similar character: Venom. This helps keep the positioning clear, especially on such characters as dainty (#1363 細) and accumulate (#1364 累).

2) [Piitaa] 17-7-2006(81): You'll be seeing this one a lot. Seriously.

3) [johnzep] 28-7-2007(56): On left with nothing on top of it –> SPIDERMAN. everywhere else….SPIDERPIG.

4) [akrodha] 14-6-2007(20): I'll stick with Spiderman. He's a very memorable character, and don't forget that he can shoot strings from both arms. What happens to the relative primitive when Spiderman comes along? If you can clearly picture his threads winding, pulling, yanking, sticking to, filling, tying, and strangling objects, then you'll never confuse this primitive with another one.

5) [aphasiac] 13-10-2009(16): Hate to be pedantic, but it's spelt Spider-man, not Spiderman. Stan Lee added the hyphen to differentiate him from Superman..

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