金

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gold

On-Yomi: キン、コン、ゴン — Kun-Yomi: かね、かな-、-がね

Elements:

gold, metal, gold, umbrella, drop, king, jewel, ball, drop2

Heisig story:

If this were not one of the most common characters you will ever have to write, I would apologize for having to give the explanation that follows. Anyway, we want to depict bars of gold bullion with an umbrella overhead to shade them from the heat (and perhaps to hide them as well). The bullion is made by melting down all the scepters of the kingdom, drop by drop, and shaping them into bars.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, it means not only gold but any metal at all.

Koohii stories:

1) [sethimayne] 22-10-2007(173): The fat king taking up the whole space under the umbrella actually isn't fat - he just has two big gold bars hidden under his clothes.

2) [Ninjasha] 31-1-2008(39): Under the umbrella's shade, the king sang, " Drop it to the left, drop it to the right, give me all the GOLD in sight!".

3) [stefanot] 11-11-2006(25): The king (#255 王) walks under the umbrella with a bag of gold on both side.

4) [namakemono] 13-10-2009(21): King Midas shelters from the rain under his umbrella. Every now and again he reaches out with his hands to turn a couple of raindrops into gold, and puts them in his pockets.

5) [hugh2323] 22-5-2010(5): Give me two DROPS of gold and I will give you my WHOLE body.

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