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radiance

On-Yomi: キ — Kun-Yomi: かがや.く

Elements:

radiance, ray, small, little, human legs, army, chariot, crown, vehicle, car

Heisig story:

Take advantage of the first syllable of the key word to think of the ray of light to the left. Now add the glittering chariot that is emitting those rays and you have radiance.

Koohii stories:

1) [dwhitman] 29-10-2007(197): Rays of light emitted from Apollo's chariot = radiance. Don't put the sun into this kanji. The rays are coming from the chariot directly!

2) [erlog] 18-7-2008(134): Radiance is an army of rays.

3) [anroo] 25-7-2009(59): Radiance isn't just a few rays, but a whole army of them.

4) [sethimayne] 25-10-2007(30): When I think of radiance I think of the greek god Zeus - picture him throwing rays of lightning (hence the extra jaggedness of the character) from atop his chariot riding through the heavens.

5) [brendanmacdonald] 21-4-2008(13): Ray's little legs joined the army - so Ray-did-a-dance (radiance).

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