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sound

On-Yomi: オン、イン、ノン — Kun-Yomi: おと、ね

Elements:

sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, tongue wagging

Heisig story:

The kanji for sound depicts something standing in the air over a tongue wagging in a mouth, much the same as a sound does for the briefest of moments before disappearing.

Heisig comment:

* The primitive from this kanji also means simply a sound.

Koohii stories:

1) [Aploosh] 23-8-2007(201): If you were standing on the sun, believe me, you'd be making sound.

2) [HMiettinen] 21-10-2007(75): The tongue wagging in a mouth produces a very high-pitched sound, breaking a nearby vase.

3) [wazato] 1-10-2007(62): Imagine the SOUNDs a woman makes as she is STANDing above a WAGGING TOUNGE.

4) [astgtciv] 23-12-2006(27): Note that sound is very close to the muzzle primitive (it has the sun instead of the mouth at the bottom) - but in meaning they are precisely opposite!

5) [romanrozhok] 16-6-2008(21): I STAND UP every DAY to the SOUND of [insert sound here].

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