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tongue

On-Yomi: ゼツ — Kun-Yomi: した

Elements:

tongue, thousand, drop, ten, needle, mouth

Heisig story:

The primitive for mouth and the character for thousand naturally form the idea of tongue if one thinks of a thousand mouths able to speak the same language, or as we say, "sharing a common tongue." It is easy to see the connection between the idiom and the kanji if you take its image literally: a single tongue being passed around from mouth to mouth.

Koohii stories:

1) [wzafran] 16-5-2007(199): What is in a mouth that permits it to speak a thousand things? Yes, a tongue.

2) [TerryS] 16-11-2008(82): A thousand mouths speak the same TONGUE.

3) [rakutenka] 1-7-2007(48): Kissing a thousand mouths eventually gets you some tongue.

4) [PeterNowak] 6-1-2008(39): Thousand mouths, a thousand tongues.

5) [jonnay] 13-2-2007(16): When you drop because you are old (#16 古), you stick your tongue out.

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