寂
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loneliness
On-Yomi: ジャク、セキ — Kun-Yomi: さび、さび.しい、さび.れる、さみ.しい
Koohii stories:
1) [gorgon] 5-6-2006(244): The unmarried uncle's house is the picture of lonlieness.
2) [Danieru] 28-6-2008(93): Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let's make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720 寂) ( 寂 ), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721 淑) ( 淑 ) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719 督) ( 督 ). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718 叔) often touched you just a little above the crotch ( 叔 ) when coaching…
3) [Beneus] 10-3-2008(28): This obviously refers to uncle Scrooge. Remember before he started to hang out with his nephews, he lived all alone in a huge house, old and broken because of the loneliness.
4) [dihutenosa] 3-9-2007(19): Aww. I mean, you kinda gotta feel sorry for creepy Uncle Herbert the Pervert. When he goes to his house, which is nothing more than a floating roof, nobody else is there. It's so small there's only room for him and his crotch. What an image of LONELINESS.
5) [decamer0n] 7-2-2007(14): This is the famous Japanese emotive word SABI. For a good image of SABI, here is a quote from the Haiku poet Basho (translated by Robert Haas): "If a man goes to war wearing stout armor or to a party dressed up in gay clothes, and if this man happens to be an old man, there is something lonely about him. Sabi is something like that." Now just put your old uncle in the picture and imagine the loneliness he feels in the house..