I poked around the forum some, but I couldn't find any posts about this (maybe I'm not looking hard enough) I'm still on 1042-ish (喚), and any thoughts from people who've finished would be welcome. Actually any thoughts at all.
There are three characters/primitives that include a 冂 with the 儿 inside. All of the kanji I could find in the JDIC contained one of these three characters:
冏 奐 鬲
鬲 means tripod apparently, but it looks like there's another tripod up ahead. On the page for tripod (鼎) gfb345 suggests substituting three legged kettle freeing up tripod for 鬲.
冏 奐 both mean bright or clear. On top of that we have 明. All three can be read あかるい (明 is the one that is used). I'm still trying to come up with keywords for these two... I'll post them if I think of some good ones.
Let me know what you think, especially if I'm making more problems for myself than I'm solving.
Asriel
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I didn't do RtK3, and even though it's included, I really don't think I've ever come across 鼎 in real life. Leave 鬲 as it is, and by the time you need to use 鼎, you'll be long past these keyword worries.
As for 冏 奐. I dont' know why you'd bother coming up with keywords for them. I've never seen them "mean" anything in real life. I didn't use any keyword for 冏, and 奐 was just "four bound up dogs" for me like other people's suggestions.
Unless it's an actual kanji that you'll see in real life, don't worry about the keyword or meaning, think about a memorable image. Otherwise you're overcomplicating it up for yourself way too much.
Asriel wrote:
奐 was just "four bound up dogs" for me like other people's suggestions.
I find this complicated too! I guess I'm looking for a way to solidify 3, in my opinion, unrelated concepts: four, bound, and dog, into one primitive. Otherwise 喚 will have 4 elements.
Asriel wrote:
Unless it's an actual kanji that you'll see in real life, don't worry about the keyword or meaning, think about a memorable image. Otherwise you're overcomplicating it up for yourself way too much.
That's a good point. I think I might still benefit from a key word for 奐, but trying to keep the meaning, now that you mention it, is definitely over complicating things.
On an unrelated note, Zorlee, I love your avatar
SomeCallMeChris
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I don't actually close my eyes and conjure up a perfectly visualized tableau, but I do run through an imagining of my story as I would do if I was reading a book - or perhaps a little more like recalling events as I tell a story, or somewhere in-between, if that makes sense. Heisig said it was about 'imaginative' memory and not visual, and I took that to heart... so I don't really stress whether my imagination conjures up images, sounds, smells, or what have you. Some stories remained pretty much mere wordplay, and as warned, those do have a tendency to fade awfully quickly, but sometimes it doesn't matter - if they held long enough to imprint the character I could care less if I lost the story.
