雨

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rain

On-Yomi: ウ — Kun-Yomi: あめ、あま-、-さめ

Elements:

rain, rain, weather

Heisig story:

This kanji, also a primitive, is one of the clearest instances we have of a complex pictograph. The top line is the sky, the next 3 strokes a pair of clouds, and the final 4 dots the rain collected there and waiting to fall.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive it can mean either rain or weather in general. Because it takes so much space, it usually has to be contracted into a crown by shortening the second and third strokes into a crown.

Koohii stories:

1) [notgoing2argue] 4-4-2007(132): From the ceiling hangs a towel dripping four drops like RAIN.

2) [shadolite] 19-3-2008(22): The rain falls from the sky, landing like teardrops on my windows.

3) [tomusan] 20-2-2008(18): It rained so hard that we had to put a towel under the ceiling to contain the drops that came through.

4) [j0k0m0] 1-3-2009(13): Towel hung out on a line to ….oops, it's rain.

5) [ellasevia] 13-1-2010(10): A pictograph of a window with rain falling outside.

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