絆
ties
On-Yomi: ハン
Koohii stories:
1) [abaddon] 29-5-2008(33): Spiderman, half: Since only half of his family was left (aunt May, uncle died), Spiderman kept strong ties with her.
2) [Katsuo] 21-4-2008(10): I must buy some more ties – half of mine are in threads. (Edit: All the kanji dictionaries I have checked classify this character as thread + half. Depending on the font, though, the right side often appears as a variant of 半 with the top two strokes sloping outwards).
3) [icamonkey] 2-1-2010(6): Spiderman's family ties are half man, half spider.
4) [gavmck] 7-3-2010(5): Spiderman is remarkable in that half his family ties are not human. This other half is a somewhat "small half" indicated by the 小 -like element on top of 半 .
5) [Peppi] 20-5-2009(4): What about wrong half as primitive meaning for the strange "half" we have here? So who is Spiderman's wrong half? I think his his former "best friend": He turned out to be the son of his worst enemy! What once was friendship almost as close as family ties turned to fierce hostility…