慢
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ridicule
On-Yomi: マン
Koohii stories:
1) [Codexus] 16-12-2007(233): I'll focus on the mandala primitive here. I guess Heisig chose this keyword for phonetic reasons and as a character it's the "man" in mandara/mandala ( 曼荼羅 ). A mandala is a graphic representation of the universe, here split in 3 planes of existance, the sun representing the cosmos, the eye represents the human observer, the crotch represents the animal instincts.
2) [ruisu] 8-11-2007(119): He' s often ridiculed for having his eye on crotches all day.
3) [smithsonian] 5-4-2007(81): Heisig really dropped the ball on this one, introducing the obscure primitive mandala without a word of explanation. I choose to read it as Nelson Mandela instead. Picture him under the hot sun, being tormented by cyclopes who constantly kick him in the crotch in his South African prison. Therefore, this kanji: The state of mind of Nelson Mandela was to constantly ridicule the Apartheid system.
4) [dingomick] 17-12-2007(68): The whole crew ridicules Data as he's on a big hippy phase wearing mandalas and such trying to explore human behavior. (It depicts the order of sacred cosmic symbols: sun, eye, crotch).
5) [esaulgd] 15-4-2007(35): In my diccionary this kanji appears to have nothing to do with "ridicule" and a lot more with "pride" and "conceit": You may ridicule others because you are so conceited that in your state of mind you are at the center of the mandala.