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skeleton

On-Yomi: コツ — Kun-Yomi: ほね

Elements:

skeleton, joint, moon, month, flesh, part of the body

Heisig story:

This kanji and primitive refers to the part of the body composed of the bones and their joints. The top part of the kanji, terminating in the element for crown, is a pictograph of a bone joint. I leave it to you to put the pieces together, so to speak.

Koohii stories:

1) [rgravina] 1-6-2006(145): Your body meat is attached to the bone joints of your skeleton.

2) [gavmck] 27-11-2009(105): The top box 口 is the skull and the brain 田 has shriveled to the size of marble (but following kanji convention it is depicted as a square) and rolled into the bottom right hand corner. With all the hair and flesh gone the crown has slipped down to the shoulders like a necklace. 月 represents the rest of the body of the skeleton. [Idea for position of crown thanks to n1williams].

3) [Medialis] 23-3-2010(44): The most awesome pictograph ever: It's a guy going through an x-ray examination. The crown primitive depicts a glowing power field that goes from the top of this head down to the floor, progressively revealing his skeleton. Now, it's at the position of his shoulders, so everything below it is still flesh.

4) [n1williams] 5-3-2009(25): Imagine a king who died on his throne and was never removed. Since his SKELETON has no hair, ears, etc, the CROWN has slipped down past several bone JOINTS and rests amid other PARTS OF his BODY.

5) [radical_tyro] 26-6-2007(22): Imagine a skeleton wearing a crown and with flesh on just its bone joints. What a strange skeleton…

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