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young

On-Yomi: ジャク、ニャク、ニャ — Kun-Yomi: わか.い、わか-、も.しくわ、も.し、も.しくは

Elements:

young, flowers, right, by one’s side, mouth

Primitive:

flower We are not yet equipped with all the pieces necessary to learn the character for flower, so shall have to content ourselves here with the first three strokes, which represent the primitive of the same meaning. Concentrate on the actual "bloom" of the flower, and keep a particular flower in mind. Try a rose, a tulip, or a daisy, since none of them will have their own kanji. [3]

Heisig story:

Here we see a flower held in the right hand. You can imagine yourself in a magic garden where flowers picked with the right hand grant eternal youth; and those picked with the left, premature senility. Go ahead, pick one with each hand and watch what happens.

Koohii stories:

1) [Ramchip] 30-10-2006(165): The young little girl held a cute flower in her right hand.

2) [kat1420] 19-3-2008(71): Young love puts a flower in her right hand (true love puts a ring on her left!!).

3) [Kurisu] 10-4-2008(24): Imagine Alice reading a note in Wonderland: 'The flowers on the right will make you younger. Those on the left will make you older.'.

4) [gaboblar] 28-6-2008(15): Young people are always right.

5) [Christine_Tham] 31-7-2007(11): Ah, young love! A man holding FLOWERs (well, better than GRASS) in his RIGHT hand.

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