根

---

← →

root

On-Yomi: コン — Kun-Yomi: ね、-ね

Koohii stories:

1) [ayoung24] 28-10-2007(227): Since trees eat through their roots, one could imagine roots as tree silverware.

2) [dingomick] 1-3-2007(109): The roots of the magical tree are silver.

3) [fuaburisu] 18-6-2006(42): In the kanji for root (not the primitive), I imagine a tree whose roots end up in silverware, which the tree uses somehow to eat whatever is underground.

4) [Weber] 21-2-2007(22): Think of how if you look at the roots of many trees, they are not brown like the rest of the trunk, they sometimes are a whitish, silver color, because they are full of water and nutrients, rather than course cellulose like what is needed up top to protect from the elements.

5) [Peppi] 22-7-2009(18): The tree with silver on it (the Christmas tree) has NO roots.

---