禄

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salarium

On-Yomi: ロク

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 24-1-2007(25): Ancient Japanese officials collected their salarium in the shrines. A priest would collect their rice grains with a broom, and sweep it unto the altar, where the officials could collect their rice.

2) [Aerin] 20-2-2008(11): Rather than cold hard cash, the rice that the altar boys could sweep up became their salarium.

3) [Meconium] 21-2-2010(5): Since rice was a form of currency back then, altar boys in the Catholic Church used to sweep up and collect the rice grains after a wedding, and considered it their salarium in exchange for their underage sex services.

4) [Peppi] 22-5-2009(4): The salarium for the Japanes army is not money. They are paid with videotapes (录, see record record (#1144 録). The higher the rank, the longer and dirtier the film :-).

5) [Shonb6570] 12-5-2011(2): This word is obsolete - It comes from the Roman era when soldiers were paid with salt, or rather, "salarium argentum", which means something like "salt money". Incoincidentally, it is where the term, "Worth your salt" comes from. Heisig's word choice for some of these is asinine. The Kanji means "salary" or "stipend".

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