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On-Yomi: リ — Kun-Yomi: はな.れる、はな.す

Koohii stories:

1) [akrodha] 9-5-2007(295): I've finally met my arch-rival, the evilest of all villains. Finally, I'm about to fight him. But what's this? He's suspiciously quiet. I move to attack him, and his right arm falls off at the elbow. Strange. I walk up to him and detach his left arm. Very strange. I undo his belt, and take off his top hat… BLAST! It was just a decoy turkey!

2) [desmidus] 16-6-2008(135): The most ridiculous character ever dreamt up for a film. DETACHO, a top-hat wearing villian who is able to detach his body parts for use as weapons. His most powerful weapons are his elbows, which he can detach, tie together with his belt and use as nunchucks. DETACHO has a sidekick turkey which he uses as an advanced scout as well.

3) [pmbeddall] 17-1-2008(73): I'm surprised no one has worked Oddjob, the villain from the James Bond movie, Goldfinger into their stories. He's the big oriental guy that killed people by throwing his top hat at them. He practises his technique on turkeys, detaching their heads in the process. Being an assassin, he can also kill people by garroting them with his belt or smashing them with his elbows.

4) [LazyNomad] 29-5-2009(32): As for the left element - 离 - i think it'd be interesting to read the following wiki-article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(mythology). This is chi (in this case ri) - mythological hornless dragon or wyvern. Best to remember it as a primitive, because it appears in a number of rare kanji: 禽 (2049); 璃 (2048); 檎 (2050);擒. Though Heisig defined this element as sheik in RTK3, this is completely arbitrary.

5) [nest0r] 1-2-2008(18): This turkey is a top hat-wearing villain, and he keeps his own elbows in his belt, gunslinger style, ready to detach them and throw them one after another like boomerangs when necessary.

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