Title: 01 NihongoShark.com: Kanji (part 2)

frameNoV6: 1979
keyword: suckle
kanji: 哺
strokeCount: 10
lessonNo: 49
heisigStory: Mouth . . . dog tag.
koohiiStory1: The scaredy-cat soldier puts his dog tags in his mouth and suckles them nervously. It sounds like he's a suckling infant.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ホ
kunYomi: はぐく.む、 ふく.む
Other fields (not shown on cards):
frameNoV4: 3027
koohiiStory2: suckle: this mother had heptuplets. Wow! But she had to put dog tags on the mouths of her babies to keep track of which ones had been suckled.

frameNoV6: 2120
keyword: gloom
kanji: 鬱
strokeCount: 29
lessonNo: 53
heisigStory: Learning this character will take a little doing. Before we start, it is a good idea to keep the key word distinct from melancholy (Frame 663), with which it combines to create the psychological condition of depression (a metaphor based on the hollow or sinking of the material depression we met in Frame 1421).
The picture of gloom begins with a small grove of trees, under which we see a crown made out of used tin cans. Next (the lower half of the kanji) we find a combination that appears only a few times in modern characters and only once in those treated in the volumes of Remembering the Kanji. It is composed of a shovel with a sheaf dotted with small drops on all sides. Think of it as a large scoop shovel attached to the front of a bulldozer, whose driver is singing: ♪ "Bulldozing in the sheaves, bulldozing in the sheaves..." ♪ The drops represent the chaff flying about as the sheaves are tossed about by the heavy machinery.
There is someone sitting on the ground alongside, watching as the machinery makes its way around the neighboring farmland - and it's you, wearing your tin-can crown. You feel overwhelmed by the impending doom as the invasion of agro-business draws closer and closer to the grove, the only patch of woods that remains of what once was a vast forest. The whole scene represents a re-shaping of the natural environment that brings the heavy weight of gloom down upon you.
A bit much, perhaps, but there are enough elements to allow for any number of other combinations.
koohiiStory1: The pixie, wearing a tin can crown, watches from the middle of the grove, the sparkling villain approach. She sits down in gloom wondering if she belongs amongst the trees, for she has never seen such a beautiful shape.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ウツ
kunYomi: うっ.する、 しげ.る、 ふさ.ぐ
Other fields (not shown on cards):
frameNoV4: 3030
koohiiStory2: The context of gloom here refers to an environmental disaster that humans make. The story begins at a GROVE with TIN CANS shaped like CROWNS which are really soda cans. They belonged to workers who bulldozes (or SHOVELS) lots and lots of SHEAVES with DROPS of its pieces. Afar, a boy is SITTING while watching the workers reSHAPING the environment. His face now has a very gloomy expression.

frameNoV6: 2198
keyword: humiliate
kanji: 羞
strokeCount: 11
lessonNo: 56
heisigStory: Wool . . sign of the cow.
koohiiStory1: The sheep had his coat shaven in the winter and a sign of th cow branded on him. How humiliating.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: すすめ.る、 はじ.る、 は.ずかしい
Other fields (not shown on cards):
frameNoV4: 3029
koohiiStory2: [+melchan] The sheep was humiliated by being branded with the sign of the cow (which is a major insult to anyone, even sheep) and tries to cover it up with it's wool.