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On-Yomi: テイ

Koohii stories:

1) [ayoung24] 23-12-2006(200): In venice, the boat used by the courts to transport criminals is a rowboat.

2) [Weber] 28-2-2007(98): Courts in olden times would often punish convicts by sentencing them to a life of being the rower crew for large rowboat ships (there were no engines or boilers back then)… Yo ho, Yo ho….

3) [zazen666] 11-10-2007(35): "Row, row, row your boat…..". Imagine someone who goes to court, claiming they wrote this song first.

4) [foodcubes] 7-11-2010(14): Sometimes abstract imagery works very well. Imagine someone showing up to court in a rowboat. Really imagine them rowing it across the floor and you won't forget this Kanji.

5) [darg_sama] 9-10-2005(13): There's a phrase in English to "send you up the river," meaning to be sent to jail. If you think of this then all you have to do is picture the courts sending you up the river in a boat… a rowboat to be precise. If it helps, you can also think of your state then as being "up the creek without a paddle.".

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