What's the missing character in this sentence?

EmmaLouise1
January 21, 2010, 08:47 PM posted in General Discussion

I was translating a book (still on the back blurb :P) but came across a character I didn't know but I can't look it up since I don't know it's pinyin (or even radicals - they're still pretty confusing for me :S). I even tried a hand-writing recognisation dictionary but even that couldn't find it >.< Could someone help me figure out what it is? :) The sentence is below, with the mysterious character replaced with a '*':

, 出*天性渴望喝我的

Anyone got any ideas as to what it might be? Here's a drawing I did of it. Please excuse my terrible drawing skills :P

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46844617@N08/?saved=1

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bababardwan
January 21, 2010, 09:17 PM

I presume it's not something as simple as 出现?

Are you able to scan it,zoom in and load it up to flickr and then post it for us ,or doodle it and load to flickr and post?

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EmmaLouise1
January 21, 2010, 09:27 PM

'fraid it's not出现 >.< I'll scan it and see if I can load it up... be right back...

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EmmaLouise1
January 21, 2010, 09:38 PM

Here it is. One of the two links/photos should hopefully work :S 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46844617@N08/4293290889/

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bababardwan

I'm not sure whether it's meant to be 於。。wu1...alas

Sorry,I've just noticed from your original post that you had done a drawing of it...I missed that.

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bababardwan

Sorry I was in a hurry this morning but checked out your doodled drawing,which contrary to your contention this am that it's terrible, looks perfectly fine and clear to me.Keep doodlin' :)

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EmmaLouise1

haha, thank you ;) who knows, I may be doodling a lot more of those pesky characters if I ever make it past the first page of the book! :P haha They don't call me the doodlemonster for nothing! ;)

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bababardwan
January 21, 2010, 10:09 PM

I'm not sure whether it's meant to be 於。。wu1...alas

Sorry,I've just noticed from your original post that you had done a drawing of it...I missed that.

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EmmaLouise1
January 21, 2010, 10:23 PM

Yaaaaay! That's it, it's 於! 谢谢!:D Gah, I've spent god-knows how long trying to find it o.O I started reading but I just gave up after I couldn't find that character haha but now I can continue :P