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leather

On-Yomi: カク — Kun-Yomi: かわ

Elements:

leather, flowers, car, mouth, ten, needle

Heisig story:

After the flowers at the top (painted on the leather for decoration), we see the element for car with the middle stroke left out. Think of the seats having been taken out so that they can be reupholstered with this decorated leather.

Koohii stories:

1) [ayoung24] 12-10-2006(218): You can feed twenty mouths for a year for the price of ten leather coats.

2) [jesslawnz] 14-11-2008(145): I asked the street vendor the price of the LEATHER jacket. He said TWENTY, but with my MOUTH, I talked him down to TEN. (correct stroke order).

3) [Elphalpo] 2-9-2008(28): This kanji depicts a leather jacket wearing gang of 20 people. To make themselves look even tougher, they all have needles in their mouths (i.e. piercings, but here of a specific kind).

4) [mantixen] 2-10-2008(15): My leather belt has twenty openings for the needle of my buckle to go through.

5) [gavmck] 13-1-2010(10): In this leather belt there are 20 ( 廿 ) small holes or openings ( 口 ) made with a needle ( 十 ) to compensate for increases in girth.

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