Question

堰 せき, せ.く 0 1913 (none) "Soil, box, sun, woman: In Peru, they were constructing a dam and to this end, soil was gathered from the surrounds. During the excavations, they found a box, containing little statue of the sun woman (godess). A nice archeological find, but detrimental for the dam building efforts, since the work was to be halted."

Accepted Answer

エン dam, prevent, stop up S+ 土: soil; earth; ground; Turkey匚: box-on-side enclosure radical (no. 22)日: day; sun; Japan; counter for days女: woman; female dam "All the dams were built by the Army Corps of Engineers' Ladies' Auxiliary. So the WOMEN worked under the SUN all day, with a BOX full of DIRT on their shoulders, to & fro, building up the dirt wall that would become this mighty dam."

Kanji	堰
Onyomi	エン
Kunyomi	せき, せ.く
English	dam, prevent, stop up
JLPT Level	0
Jouyou Grade	S+
Frequency	1913
Components	土: soil; earth; ground; Turkey 匚: box-on-side enclosure radical (no. 22) 日: day; sun; Japan; counter for days 女: woman; female
Traditional Form	(none)
Keyword	dam
Koohii Story 1	"Soil, box, sun, woman: In Peru, they were constructing a dam and to this end, soil was gathered from the surrounds. During the excavations, they found a box, containing little statue of the sun woman (godess). A nice archeological find, but detrimental for the dam building efforts, since the work was to be halted."
Koohii Story 2	"All the dams were built by the Army Corps of Engineers' Ladies' Auxiliary. So the WOMEN worked under the SUN all day, with a BOX full of DIRT on their shoulders, to & fro, building up the dirt wall that would become this mighty dam."

Dam Box Sun Building Dirt 堰 エン せき

Dam Box Sun Building Dirt 堰エンせき