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On-Yomi: ケツ — Kun-Yomi: ぺえじ、おおがい、かしら
Elements:
page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
Heisig story:
What we have to do here is turn a shellfish into a page of a book. The one at the top tells us that we only get a rather short book, in fact only one page. Imagine a title printed on the shell of an oyster, let us say "Pearl of Wisdom," and then open the quaint book to its one and only page, on which you find a single, radiant drop of wisdom, one of the masterpiece poems of nature.
Heisig comment:
* As a primitive, this kanji takes the unrelated meaning of a head (preferably one detached from its body), derived from the character for head (Frame 1549).
Koohii stories:
1) [dwhitman] 8-10-2007(237): A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head.
2) [narazumono] 27-8-2008(103): One drop of ink from a shellfish can fill a whole page.
3) [thatkidpercy] 16-11-2007(58): A shellfish dangles from the ceiling Mission-Impossible style, desperate to recover the page of revealing images that were taken from him.
4) [kapalama] 9-10-2011(29): 頁岩 , 頁 , page (#60 頁) ケツ, ページ … Parts: 一 , 丶, 自 , ハor 一 , 丶, 貝 (cf: 順番 , お願い , 頭 , 頂く , etc.) … Tip: This is a never used Kanji, but you are going to see it a few hundred more times in RTK as a primitive. Here's something that I figured out way too late. This is ALWAYS ALWAYS on the right hand side (RHS) of the characters it is a part of. Always.. Learn this primitive cold, and remember, always on the RHS.
5) [Tsuki11] 29-10-2007(29): One page may not seem like much, but if it contains drop of wisdom, it is worth the clams you shelled out for it.