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land
On-Yomi: リク、ロク — Kun-Yomi: おか
Elements:
land, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, mini-tractor, rice seedlings, soil, dirt, ground, human legs, soil2, dirt2, ground2
Primitive:
rice seedling As we mentioned back in FRAME 234 苗, rice seedlings get an element all their own: soil and man legs becomes an ideograph of the spikelets of rice bunched together for implanting in the muddy soil of the paddy. [5]
Heisig story:
The sense of land carried by this kanji is distinct from soil (Frame 161) and ground (Frame 554) in that it is meant to represent land seen from a distance, that is, land as opposed to "water." Its elements: pinnacle . . . rice seedlings . . . ground.
Koohii stories:
1) [fiminor] 11-4-2006(162): My rice-seedlings have become sentient and will go on a mission. I can only apologise for the next 6 frames. In the distance, there is a pinnacle, which the newly-awakened rice-seedlings who are still stuck in the ground can see. Could it be the Promised Land?
2) [astridtops] 23-7-2006(90): When sailors see land in the distance, they first see the pinnacles of the new land, but when they come close enough they'll be able to make out the rice seedlings, and finally the ground!
3) [tharvey] 23-7-2009(70): (圥 is the rare kanji for a mushroom. Sticking out of the ground like little knubby legs, it's pretty easy to remember.) Story ~ The land around The Pinnacle has mushrooms covering the ground.
4) [Nuriko] 19-3-2008(46): Primitive: Soil covered human legs is the result of planting rice seedlings into rice paddies all day. Poor rice farmers!
5) [nagisa] 4-2-2008(32): The Pinnacle's land is so valuable that they cannot afford to let a single rice seedling be planted in the soil.