茎

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stalk

On-Yomi: ケイ、キョウ — Kun-Yomi: くき

Elements:

stalk, flowers, spool, clod, toilet paper, crotch, soil, dirt, ground

Primitive:

spool Here we see a simplified drawing of a spool (the element for earth at the bottom) with threads being wound about it tightly (the crotch at the top). You may remember it either pictographically or by way of the primitives. [5]

Heisig story:

Flower . . . spool.

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 18-2-2008(196): Suggestion: Replace "spool" with "toilet paper/roll". Reasons: (1) Toilet paper/roll usually comes on a spool. (2) Toilet paper is used to clean the soil off your crotch. Story: Just get a flower and carefully wrap some toilet paper around its stalk. Spool also appears in suspicious (#716 怪), lightly (#717 軽), diameter (#882 径), sutra (#1360 経).

2) [dingomick] 9-8-2007(130): PRIMITIVE: soiled crotch = soiled underwear. To precent anyone from picking the beautiful flower, the gardner hung soiled underwear on the stalk.

3) [nac_est] 24-7-2007(83): A flower's stalk can be seen as connecting the flower to the soil, or again the soil to the flower. It depends on how you look at it.

4) [uberclimber] 15-10-2010(62): Jack and the Beanstalk: dirt below, flowers above, and Jack's crotch visible as he climbs up and up. 茎 (くき) : stalk.

5) [ihatobu] 16-9-2007(30): Flowering vines growing up a post or column. The stalks wrap around the post– again and again– like a spool of thread, and flowers bloom at the very top. At the bottom, of course, is the soil.

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