胆

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gall bladder

On-Yomi: タン — Kun-Yomi: きも

Elements:

gallbladder, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, nightbreak, sun, day, one, floor

Heisig story:

The pieces in this character should be easily recognizable: on the left, the element for part of the body, and on the right, the character for nightbreak, which we have just met. What all of this has to do with the gall bladder is not immediately clear. But all we need to do is give a slight twist to the traditional biblical advice about not letting the sun set on your anger (which ancient medicine associated with the choler or bile that the gall bladder is supposed to filter out), and change it to "not letting the night break on your anger" (or your gall) - and the work of remembering the kanji is done. And the improvement is not a bad piece of advice in its own right, since anger, like so many other things, can often be calmed by letting the sun set on it and then "sleeping it off."

Koohii stories:

1) [smiro] 11-11-2007(279): The moon has a lot of gall sticking around after sunrise.

2) [arturo] 20-7-2007(124): All the month long I have to start working at nightbreak. This really activates my gall bladder (=I get angry).

3) [randomassortmentofletters] 31-5-2009(88): For a month（ 月 ）, I was up until nightbreak（ 旦 ） because of my gall bladder（ 胆 ）.

4) [yaban] 15-1-2007(49): The gall bladder digests the flesh (meat) before nightbreak so you are ready to start your new day.

5) [LeoOra] 14-1-2008(26): If you drink all night long (moon), until the night break your gall bladder will have problems…

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