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forehead

On-Yomi: ガク — Kun-Yomi: ひたい

Elements:

forehead, guest, house, each, walking legs, mouth, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight

Heisig story:

As Miss Manners will be the first to tell you, out of respect, one does not look straight into the eyes of one's guests, but focus on the top button of their collar. Here, however, you are told to look above the eyes to the forehead of your guest.

Koohii stories:

1) [Kurisu] 15-3-2008(231): Sign the guestbook page with your forehead. (Picture a guestbook full of forehead prints like thumbprints).

2) [daredawg3583] 7-12-2007(70): In New Zealand, people welcome guests by touching their foreheads together.

3) [akrodha] 3-10-2006(47): Thankful guests bow so much, you never see their entire heads, just their foreheads.

4) [misha] 11-7-2007(40): The guest lowers his forehead as he turns the page in a guestbook.

5) [Green_Airplane] 26-6-2008(33): As a guest in Japan, being too tall for their standards, I have to bow my head every time I enter someone's house, or else I'll smack my forehead.

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