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discriminating

On-Yomi: シキ — Kun-Yomi: し.る、しる.す

Elements:

discriminating, say, words, keitai, mouth, kazoo, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, fiesta

Primitive:

kazoo(toy instrument making sound) This primitive’s special usefulness lies not in its frequency but in its simplification of a few otherwise difficult kanjis. It piclesson tures the sound of a fiesta, namely a kazoo. Note how the element for sound is written first, the fifth stroke extended so that it can be used in the element for fiesta. [12]

Heisig story:

A person of discriminating intellect can tell the difference between mere kazoo-buzzing and words spoken wisely.

Koohii stories:

1) [amthomas] 15-3-2007(261): Words are difficult to discriminate/discern from sounds in the middle of a fiesta.

2) [dwhitman] 14-2-2008(72): I have discriminating taste. I'd rather listen to the words of a lecture than attend a kazoo concert. (Picture some snobby guy in a tweed jacket turning up his nose at entering a loud raucous kazoo recital).

3) [esaulgd] 28-1-2007(59): I wonder why Heisig didn't use discernment for this kanji. It fits the meaning equally and it is not as loaded as discrimination. // It is quite hard to discern words in the middle of a noisy fiesta.

4) [jabberwockychortles] 10-5-2009(14): Discriminating someone's words from other sounds is hard to do in the middle of a noisy fiesta. (Thanks esaulgd).

5) [dihutenosa] 31-8-2007(12): Socrates has apparently joined the KKK, and is actively discriminating against Black people. But to add a bit of artistic flair, as the ancient Greeks were wont to do, he says his racist words through a kazoo. Socrates humming the n-word through a kazoo - who would have thought?

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