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admonish

On-Yomi: ケイ — Kun-Yomi: いまし.める

Elements:

admonish, awe, flowers, phrase, bound up, mouth, taskmaster, say, words, keitai, mouth, mouth2

Heisig story:

Here you have a perfect example of how an apparently impossible snarl of strokes becomes a snap to learn once you know its elements. The idea of being admonished for something already sets up a superior-inferior relationship between you and the person you are supposed to stand in awe of. While you are restricted to answering in honorifics, the superior can use straightforward and ordinary words.

Koohii stories:

1) [nilfisq] 13-8-2007(232): To admonish is to enforce awe by means of words.

2) [cheechuan] 22-11-2007(105): Watch in awe as mom admonishes the rude clerk with words that you've never heard her use before.

3) [caeliean] 10-7-2008(82): Japanese police officers prefer to admonish perpetrators by aweing them with their words. You've never had a talking down to, until you've been a Japanese high school student caught littering in a small Japanese town. Just imagine the talking to that kid would get! Incidentally, this kanji is the first kanji in the word for police.

4) [DavidZ] 12-10-2009(27): I will now admonish every person here who used WORD as a keyword in this story. There is no WORD ( 語 ) in this kanji! I know Heisig himself teaches it that way. Doesn't make it right, does it? This is about SAYing something that inspires AWE. You will regret it when you get to word (#347 語)! ;)… 警察 [けいさつ] 、警告 [けいこく] warning.

5) [dihutenosa] 29-8-2007(16): To ADMONISH is to simply say& a lot of awe*ful words (excuse the liberties taken with spelling).

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