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seedling

On-Yomi: ビョウ、ミョウ — Kun-Yomi: なえ、なわ-

Elements:

seedling, flowers, rice field, brains

Heisig story:

To avoid confusion with the image of rice seedlings to appear later, we shall take these seedlings out of their agricultural setting in the rice fields and into the frame of Brave New World surgery, where "ideas" or "values" are being implanted into brains like seedlings to insure a harmonious society. Then you need only imagine them taking root and breaking out into flower right through the tops of the skulls of people walking around on the streets.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 31-7-2007(184): If you plant seedlings in a FIELD eventually they will FLOWER.

2) [SammyB] 5-6-2008(61): Crap! There are flowers in the rice field… Who let those seedlings get in there?!

3) [tanaquil] 15-4-2007(43): This is obviously a flower sprouting from a rice field, and means "rice seedling" in Japanese. My problem is keeping this kanji distinct from 圥, which Heisig dubs the "rice seedling" primitive (see land (#1513 陸) ff.). It might help to keep in mind that 圥 is a rare kanji (not used in Japanese) meaning "mushroom," so I will call 圥 the "mushroom seedling".

4) [cmayernik] 25-5-2009(24): All the flowers in the field started as seedlings.

5) [Chocobonstrife] 26-4-2012(16): Pikmin have FLOWERS growing out of their seedling BRAINS.

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