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scaffold

On-Yomi: サン、セン — Kun-Yomi: かけはし

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 7-8-2007(158): Japanese festival floats are often so tall they need wood scaffolds to be completed. (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5909.html).

2) [sannomiya] 23-4-2007(34): You need a SCAFFOLD made of WOOD to build a FLOAT if it will be several stories high.

3) [RachelleUdell] 18-7-2008(30): HINT: Near as I can tell from the Zhongwen site, the figure that Heisig designates as a "float", actually means "lances broken into pieces" (though there's a third stroke in the Japanese version of the kanji rather than two in the Chinese), thus I'm using broken into pieces to identify that particular pictograph. STORY: A scaffold is made of WOOD BROKEN INTO PIECES.

4) [liosama] 7-7-2008(15): Not using Heisigs float. im extending the meaning of my Spear (see previous kanji).Think a VERY LONG SPEAR/TRIDENT (Trident as this is like an ARROW with 3 spikes) or, a LONG SPEAR because its just a SPEAR with TWO extra arrow lengths. STORY: SCAFFOLDs' are made of VERY LONG SPEARS's as tall as TREES that allow us to build huge structures.Tridents allow TRIPLE interlocking between each other, making their use in SCAFFOLDS good enough to be able to build structures as strong and naturally perfect as TREES.

5) [dtstutz] 5-9-2008(10): A scaffold is where you hang witches. In order to know whether they're witches or not, you put them on a scale to see whether they whether they weigh more than wood, a duck, or other things that float, like very small rocks. (Monty Python: Search for the Holy Grail).

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