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rhyme

On-Yomi: イン

Elements:

rhyme, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, employee, mouth, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight

Heisig story:

Poetry restricted to verses that rhyme often finds it has to abandon clarity of thought in order to make the rhyme of the words work. In this kanji's picture, one becomes a kind of "sound-employee."

Koohii stories:

1) [Nukemarine] 6-8-2007(106): What is a RHYME but some SOUND that EMPLOYEES say to get them through work.

2) [matt_jenkins] 24-3-2008(87): Dr Seuss's employee finally rebels against him: "I'm tired of odd sounds all the time, I will not, cannot, speak in RHYME!".

3) [Alunalun] 4-7-2009(56): A rhyme is the sound of an employee going off to work. Everyone knows that ever since 'Snow White' in 1937 all employees sing 'hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go' (because it's so catchy! And it's so catchy because 'ho' rhymes with 'go'!).

4) [synewave] 2-7-2006(40): "Sound as a pound" is a rhyme that fits the kanji. Sound + pound. Pounds being what you make when you're an employee (living in the UK that is).

5) [Immacolata] 12-1-2006(34): Employees of The Ministry of Sound are paid to rhyme every day.

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