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petition

On-Yomi: ガン — Kun-Yomi: ねが.う、-ねがい

Elements:

petition, meadow, cliff, white, dove, small, little, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight

Heisig story:

A meadow and a head are all we are given to work with in the kanji for petition. Since the key word already suggests something like a formal request made of some higher power, let us imagine a gigantic Wizard-of-Oz head located in the middle of the flowery meadow we used in the last frame. Then just picture people kneeling hopefully before it, petitioning for whatever it is they want. (The scarecrow wanted brains, the lion, courage, and the tin man a heart. What about you?)

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 27-7-2007(310): Let's petition to save that beautiful MEADOW from overdevelopment by signing on this PAGE.

2) [Danieru] 9-11-2007(107): Japanese hippies PETITION to save a meadow by getting people on the street to sign their page - as you pass by they call out: " お願いします、おねがいします。” .

3) [ketsensei] 10-2-2013(32): Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion cross the meadow to get to the large head that is Oz and make their PETITIONs for brains, heart, courage and a way home.

4) [shorinsakka] 20-6-2007(24): In the meadow a giant head has appeared. Everyone signs a petition so that it won't eat everyone.

5) [stereovibe] 3-3-2008(19): To save the meadow from development, a page of signatures was submitted as a petition.

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