1804-2003 Flashcards
1805殿Mr.
Associative Compound. Hand holding a weapon 殳 and striking a buttĐIỆN, ĐIẾN
1806井well
I nearly died by falling in a #well#. Actually, on two separate occasions. I’m glad to see they’ve added these fence posts. Now the #well# will be much safer.
1807囲surround
The village #surround#ed the well with a wall so kids wouldn’t fall in.
1808耕till
If you just grow your christmas tree in a well, there will be no need to till the soil.
1809亜Asia
In Asian countries, people use II chopsticks to get things into their mouths. Just imagine someone shoving a piece of sushi into their mouths with chopsticks.
1810悪bad
Because Asian people started to eat Western food, their hearts became bad and they started having heart attacks.
1811円circle
The shape of a Yen coin.
1812角angle
A museum display of two walking sticks bound together under a glass canopy, showing the first device used to measure an angle.
1813触contact
For insects to get in contact with each other, they need to place their antennae at just the right angle.
1814解unravel
Unravel the mystery by determining at what ANGLE the SWORD went into the COW.
1815再again
The king has eaten too much and has to get a new belt #again#. See his fat rolls hanging over?
1816講lecture
I have a funnel attached to my laptop that takes my prof’s lecture and puts the words into a text file. The bigger the funnel, the more accurate the conversion, so picture a bunch of laptops with large, unwieldy funnels attached to the USB port.
1817購subscription
Subscription is like a money funnel, because the receiving end is small (just one company) and the other end is wide (the whole country).
1818構posture
Trees with good posture look like funnels. For example, http://static.flickr.com/53/118084202_8896e54a14_m.jpg
1819溝gutter
A gutter funnels water.
1820論argument
Right part: academic conference (a meeting, some of the attendees making notes in scrapbooks during presentation). #Argument# at academic conferences is naturally carried out using words.
1821倫ethics
Mr. T talks about ethics at the academic conference. “I pity the fool who gets caught plagarizing someone else’s stuff!”
1822輪wheel
During a talk at the academic conference, speaker shows an introductory slide depicting the structure of car, and then moves on to the more narrow topic of #wheels#.
1823偏partial
Mr. T is very partial to hentai comic books. I know because he dropped a pile of them when I accidentally bumped into him at the door to kinokuniya!
1824遍everywhere
Go down the road in Japan and you will find comics EVERYWHERE, newpaper stands, 7-11, Tsutaya, even the supermarket. Comics are everywhere here along the road.
1825編compilation
I took the compilation of covers of all my Spider-Man comics that I had saved in a scrapbook and glued them on my door.
1826冊tome
Pictograph. I think of that Harry Potter spell book that had to be bound shut coz it wanted to eat you.
1827典code
This kanji means a code of law, not a secret language or symbolic language (such as programming code) … Story: The code of law is a tool used to bend citizens to society’s will. You can use the image of a totalitarian state, but be careful not to confuse it with the pinnacle primitive {阪}
1828氏family name
Looks a bit like Ft => #F#amily #t#itle => Family name
1829紙paper
Spiderman doesn’t have a single paper with his family name on it (because he doesn’t want to reveal his identity)
1830婚marriage
Marriage is the day in this woman’s life where she gets a new family name.
1831低lower
Mr. T travels to Japan and knows he must bow #lower# when presenting his business card.
1832抵resist
Most japanese find it impossible to resist pushy businessmen in Japan when they push their damned business cards into your fingers.
1833底bottom
I put all those useless business cards at the bottom of a cave
1834民people
All the #people# of the world with all their family names shouting with their big mouths.
1835眠sleep
In an Orwellian sense, the eye watching the people never sleeps
1836捕catch
I was retreating from the battlefield. In the chaos, my friend threw his dogtags at me to give to his family. I managed to catch them with my fingers as the chopper was lifting off.
1837浦bay
The water of the #bay# washes all the dog tags up after the battle.
1838蒲bullrush
bulrush was the flower that you could see near almost all bays in japan before the japanese started putting concrete everywhere. Just check how many percent of Japan’s coastline that is concretised… you’ll be surprised.
1839舗shop
A shop in an impoverished country is just a cottage with a dog tag identifying it.
1840補supplement
I usually hear supplement in “dietry supplement”. So you’re given a cloak for extra fibre and dogtags for extra iron. Keeps you regular and stops you feeling tired and run-down.
1841邸residence
So fed up am I, I’ve finally built city walls around my residence to keep these Japanese from soliciting me with their business cards.
1842郭enclosure
The city finally received the enclosure that it desperately needed, city walls to protect it against attacks from the tall kids.
1843郡county
County cricket. “I say old boy, you’ve hit that ball clear over the city walls. That’s six and out!”
1844郊outskirts
the country folk and and the city folk mingle at the outskirts of town, just past the city walls.
1845部section
Within the city walls, this section of town was so noisy that we had to muzzle them up.
1846都metropolis
A vision of a futuristic METROPOLIS: standing at the window of your 400th floor apartment, hand in hand with your LOVE DOLL, gazing out at the gigantic CITY WALLS that you can never escape.
1847郵mail
The drooping citywalls was generating a lot of angry #mail# for the city officials.
1848邦home country
He reminisced about his home country: “Ah, back in my home country, the bushes grew so high that they covered the city walls!”
1849郷hometown
Your hometown is where you broke out of your cocoon (born), and where you left when your hair was silver (died), your whole life was spent inside the city walls.
1850響echo
People’s voices are like echoes of sounds from their hometowns….you can always tell where they’re from by how they talk.
1851郎son
The daughter is a good girl that grows up to be a woman. The son is a good boy that grows up to defend the city walls.
1852廊corridor
Your son plays in the corridor pretending he’s exploring a cave.
1853盾shield
This is a magic shield with ten eyes which have the power to drag the victim towards it.
1854循sequential
This is mostly used in the word 循環, “circulation” (of buses through their routes, of blood, etc). So I think of a column of little Roman soldiers with their shields marching sequentially through the veins of a person, as an anthropomorphization of the immune system.
1855派faction
Drag + rag gave me trouble until I came up with zombie for it.The zombie population became more diverse, separating into different factions. One of them being the water Zombies.
1856脈vein
The vein is the part of the body most lusted after by the flesh hungry zombies (drag & rag - see revenantkioku frame 1855).
1857衆masses
Masses of zombies, splattered with blood. (any zombie movie)
1858逓parcel post
(I prefer 2 towels over cornstalk and belt) - Have you ever wondered why your parcels always end up in such bad condition when you get them? Or why you never get them at all? That’s because you’ve never looked at how they’re actually delivered - each postman is given a load of parcel post and 2 towels to drag them down the road on.
1859段grade
This is a military-#grade# staple gun! It can be loaded with real missiles.
1860鍛forge
As a discriminating metalsmith, I use the highest grade metals when forging such precision devices as staple guns and missiles.
1861后empress
The empress is cruel. Normally she’ll violently pull her servants by the ear when they’ve failed to follow orders. But one time she dragged this one guy around the palace by the mouth. She must have been really angry—ever since that moment, he’s never been seen again.
1862幻phantasm
After the play, The Phantasm of the Opera hangs up his cape on a clothes hanger and returns to his cocoon to sleep.
1863司director
The porn #director# has one big mouth. “Don’t bother putting your clothes on a hanger, just get started.”
1864伺pay respects
Mr. T is the director. You better #pay respects# to him!
1865詞parts of speech
The big mouthed diretor is even picky about the #parts of speech# you use, shouting, “More verbs! Less adjectives!” and such all the time.
1866飼domesticate
When you DOMESTICATE a animal, you are the DIRECTOR of it’s life and what it EATS.
1867嗣heir
The director’s mouth dropped open as he flipped through the scrapbook of properties he was about to become #heir# to.
1868舟boat
I see this kanji as a pictograph of a two story boat seen from the front. The glass canopy is the body of the boat. The drop on top is the chimney. The horizontal line is the ceiling/floor between the the 1st/2nd floor. Finally, the two drops in the middle are the lights on the decks.
1869舶liner
The most famous LINER is the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sunk. Just imagine that huge LINER strucking an even huger mass of #white# ice.
1870航navigate
To navigate a “boat” through a “whirlwind” takes a skilled #navigator#.
1871般carrier
Carrier?! This means “general” (as in the general public or generally). OK.. Carriers, i.e. boats with missiles, are not available to the general public.
1872盤tray
What do you call a “CARRIER” of DISHes? A TRAY.
1873搬conveyor
When workers neglect workplace safety, their fingers get cut off and carried away by the conveyor belt, which looks like a ‘finger carrier’ in that case.
1874船ship
A boy floats his toy boat in a gully and imagines it as an immense #ship#.
1875艦warship
The warship towers over the smaller benign boats, overseeing their safe path from port to port.
1876艇rowboat
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….
1877瓜melon
M for melon. 瓜elon
1878弧arc
When you use a bow to shoot a melon, the arc varies depending on how far away you are.
1879孤orphan
An orphan will never know the joys on sucking on his mother’s melons……..
1880繭cocoon
This is a simple two-column manga showing the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a cocoon. First, the caterpillar gets under a large flower (bees tend to hang around flowers, which scare away other predators). Then, in the first frame, we see the caterpillar (insect). Then, a bar separating this frame from the next frame (remember that Japanese manga run the other way!), in which we see the insect covered with thread, making a beautiful cocoon.
1881益benefit
The benefit of having sharp horns and fast legs is that an animal can get to the food dish first.
1882暇spare time
Some jackass-like people have way too much spare time. You can find video’s of them all over the internet, if you like such things, you can watch it all day. You see them stapling their mouths shut, or throwing eachother upside down in boxes or kicking each other in the crotch.
1883敷spread
Instead of being glued to one {専} 専, I decided to spread my attention in many directions 方, and be a taskmaster at none.
1884来come
You horny bastard, don’t come, at least not yet!
1885気spirit
Captain Hook, his #spirit# crushed, is lying on the ground cursing Wolverine who has defeated him with his far superior claws.
1886汽vapor
Water vapor almost looks like a spirit but has no soul.
1887飛fly
Hooks with small wings attached look like hummingbirds with a long beak. Two hummingbirds are trying to fly away with our little measuring box. What do they want it for?
1888沈sink
(thx geezer) The maimed waitress (no head and arms just her legs and trunk) is dropped into the water with a cement crown to make sure she sinks. She shouldn’t have been so nosy about her yakuza-boyfriend’s schemes.
1889妻wife
ten rakes woman. your wife digs her fingernails into you and it feels like 10 rakes when she finds you ontop of another woman
1890衰decline
If you thought that the dude in 哀 was pathetic, you haven’t seen him after his decline. Here he is carrying a stick around in his mouth like a dog, begging people to throw it for him. Note that the mouth is closed only after the stick goes in, as is only logical.
1891衷inmost
The guy from {哀} shared his inmost feelings with a girl and she rammed a walking stick down his throat. It ruptured his inmost organs.
1892面mask
When Jim Carrey puts on #The Mask#, he can make it seem like he has 100 eyes popping out of his head.
1893革leather
You can feed twenty mouths for a year for the price of ten leather coats.
1894靴shoes
Leather shoes are nice because they change shape to fit your foot.
1895覇hegemony
In the Old West, cowboys had #hegemony# OVER the Indians despite their leathercraft and ability to navigate by the moon.
1896声voice
When an enemy’s flag is raised, a true samurai can split it in half with just his voice.
1897呉give
As a present, I #gave# my dentist a hand-crank tool for spreading mouths. He was so happy since it makes his job easier.
1898娯recreation
A man from a less enlightened society comes for a visit, and asks the host to give him a woman for some recreation.
1899誤mistake
It is a rookie #mistake# to believe the words when your sweetie says “You don’t have to give me anything for my birthday.” Trust me, your sweetie wants something, something shiny, and if you disappoint, you will suffer.
