404-603 Flashcards
509染dye
Many Japanese people have black hair, but many DYE their hair like a WOOD-like color. All you have to do is add WATER and wait NINE hours!
553羨envious
This SHEEP lives in the second floor of the sheep house, and has obviously been forgotten by the farmer. In LACK of WATER, it is now facing a slow death, while being ENVIOUS of the other SHEEP downstairs who drinks as much as they want.
513県prefecture
In the universe, a prefecture is as important as a LITTLE EYE OF A NEEDLE.
528改reformation
St. Patrick, who brought Christianity to and reformed Ireland, was known for driving the SNAKES out of the island, thus being the most famous SNAKE TASKMASTER in that time.
594磨grind
The CAVEMEN GRINDS the HEMP with a STONE before giving the final delicate product to the dealers.
552達accomplished
Image you hit a SHEEP to death while driving at the road. You want to avoid trouble, and starts to dig down the SHEEP in a hole next to the road. You’re happy when the last SOIL and DIRT is on top of the SHEEP; your task is ACCOMPLISHED and you can hit the ROAD.
501曽formerly
This primitive (named for it’s associations with the kanji of the following frame) is composed of a pair of HORNS growing out of a BRAIN with a TONGUE WAGGING in the MOUTH beneath. Think of “former” in connection with administrators or heads of state who have just left office but continue to make a nuisance of themselves by advertising their opinions in public policy,
423雲cloud
Here is the full character for CLOUD from which the primitive for a RSING CLOUD derives. CLOUDS begin with vapors RISING UP in small CLOUDS from the surface of the earth, and then gathering to make CLOUDS that eventually dump their RAIN back on the earth.
439商make a deal
See the peddler (person who sells door to door) STANDING atop his MOTORCYCLE HELMET as if it were a soapbox, hawking his ware to passers by. The LEGS and MOUTH represent the tools of the trade of MAKING A DEAL any way you can.
496放set free
The TASKMASTER sets an unruly servant FREE, giving him no more than a quick glance at the COMPASS and a boot from behind.
532砲cannon
This is an old CANNON, this cannon used SARON WRAP and uses ROCKS to fling them to the opposing side.
427冬winter
WALKING LEGS slipping in the ICE are a sure sign of WINTER.
517虫insect
Beetle with a broken horn
568午noon
With a but if stretching, you might see a horse’s head pointing leftward in this character. That gives the primary meaning of the Chinese zodiacal sign of the HORSE, which corresponds to the hour of NOON.
512歳year-end
When the year stops, or ends, our endless MARCH also STOP up a LITTLE but I look back at our achievements – before it starts again trying I make next year even better.
539逐pursue
While driving on the ROAD, you suddenly see a whole bunch of SOWS(fucking pigs) blocking the road. You step out if the car, trying to PERSUADE them to move.
502増increase
This kanji depicts an increase if SOUL, multiplying so fast that it literally buries everything in it’s path.
546湯hot water
Imagine your PIGGY BANK was left in the sun for too long, and is now glowingly hot. You pour some cold WATER into the slot on the back to cool it down, but for a very short time, the WATER became hot – hot water.
488荒laid waste
The FLOWERS that PERISH in the FLOOD are taken here as symbols of an area that has been LAID WASTE. Laid Waste: something that was destroyed
406帆sail
A shitty SAIL made of a TWOWEL makes a MEDIOCRE vessel, which anyone can make.
424曇cloudy weather
We refer to days when the SUN is covered by the CLOUDS as CLOUDY WEATHER.
586回-times
Pictograph of a circle revolving inside another many TIMES faster.
547羊sheep
This pictograph shows the animal HORNS at the top attached to the head (3rd stroke), the front and back legs (strokes 4 and 5) and body (final stroke)
415帯sash
The part of the APRON where one finds the BUCKLE (represented pictorially by the first 5 strokes) is in the SASH.
548美beauty
Among Australia SHEEP-farmers, nothing is more BEAUTIFUL than a LARGE SHEEP.
410幌canopy
A large TOWEL stretched overhead with only a few of the SUN’s RAY breaking through represents a CANOPY over one’s bed.
404初first time
CLOAK AND DAGGER. What I leave to you is to decide on an appropriate con nation for FIRST TIME to take advantage of them. First time I played kill zone, I used the CLOAK class for the FIRST TIME, it’s main weapon, a DAGGER.
467吹blow
To BLOW is really no more than a deliberate effort to make one’s MOUTH LACK all the air that is in it.
579困quandary
Someone is planning to build a new opera, but there is a TREE standing in the middle of the suitable property. You are in QUANDARY(perplexity) about if you will PENT the TREE inside the opera to make it a major tourist attraction or cut down the tree to avoid complicated architectural problems.
599忌mourning
You’re MOURNING over a friend who was killed by a special incident: a SNAKE hogged onto his HEART and ripped it out.
578曰sayeth
“Sayeth”?! Who the hell says “sayeth”? Doesn’t seem quite right…just like this kanji, which is just like “day” but doesn’t seem “quite right.”
600志intention
In all the history of Japan, there is someone’s INTENTION that was never questioned: the ones coming from a SAMURAI’S HEART.
425雷thunder
The full rumble and roar and terror of THUNDER us bear felt not with your head tucked under your pillow safe in bed, but out in an open RICE FIELD where you can get the real feel of the WEATHER.
571権authority
In this special forest, a TREE and a PEGASUS are the most powerful creatures, currently fighting for AUTHORITY, to be head of the forest.
485亡deceased
A TOP HAT hanging in a HOOK in the front hall, right where the deceased left it the day he died, reminds us of him and his kanji.
472茨briar
Earlier we made mention of the story of Briar Rose (or “sleeping beauty” as we called her in FRAME 165) and drew attention the Briar Hedge that few about her castle. But in the SECOND part of the story, these briars blossomed into FLOWERS. Hence her name, Briar Rose.
524風wind
Imagine you live nearby some swamp, and whenever it had a chance, the WIND picks up a swarm of INSECTS and DROPS it over your place.
414肺lungs
One is surprised, strolling through the MARKET, to find among the MEATS hung out for a sale a slab marked: LUNGS.
450混mix
People have to mix their fluids (have sex), in order to create descendants.
572観outlook
You SEE a PEGASUS flying, and wonder what your OUTLOOK on life would be, if you could see what the PEGASUS can see.
434競vie
Two TEENAGERS at seen here STANDING UP to one another, VYING for the attention of their peers.
541家house
My messy HOUSE is often referred as a SOW sty (pig).
577濯laundry
At the laundry you stuff your large *futon* (made from *turkey feathers*) in the machine, thereby causing it to break – as shown by the *water* spurting out the side.
536竜dragon
The DRAGON here is just painted on the VASE, but you try fooling people to pay to see it. Actually it’s just an EEL inside, not looking like a DRAGON at all,
516池pond
This is a SCORPION letting go all it’s venom DROP BY DROP, making a whole POND of the stuff.
542嫁marry into
The kanji in his frame demonstrates the traditional Japanese approach to marriage: it is the WOMAN who leaves her family for another HOUSEhold, this MARRYING INTO a man’s family.
490方direction
Spinning a DAGGER about on its hilt on the top of a TOP HAT– waiting to see in which DIRECTION it points when it comes to rest– one leaves to fate where one is going next. Take care in writing this character.
569許permit
If HORSES could SPEAK, it is likely that you would have to be more polite, asking the HORSE for PERMISSION before you get up on its back.
585園park
There is one PARK in the world that has a LIDDED CROCK wearing a SCARF. Because it is one of the most modern contemporary art works, it is PENT IN behind a fence. The lesson of this park and its SCARF-wearing LIDDED CROCK is: LIDDED CROCKS also need warmth and to be taken care of. Just like humans. Imagine yourself visiting this famous PARK.
482識discriminating
•able to recognize or draw fine distinctions. A person of DISCRIMINATING intellect can tell the difference between mere KAZOO-buzzing and WORDS spoken wisely.
561進advance
While driving on the road, you suddenly see a TURKEY in a motorbike advancing in the mirror. Looks like he’s trying to surpass you, to further ADVANCE ahead on his journeyZ
456脂fat
This kanji tells us that if you feed the FLESH with too many DELICIOUS things, it soon picks up a thick layer of fat.
551鮮fresh
This Australian SHEEP-farmer, who lives on a farm in the outback, hundred of miles from any civilization, faces an undeniable truth: the only FRESH meat he has is the FISH from the river nearby and his precious SHEEPS.
511賓V.I.P.
This V.I.P., so important that his visit makes you have to even renovate the CEILING in your HOUSE, leaving you with just a FEW SHELL left.
437瞳pupil
Begin with the double meaning of the keyword pupil: “student” and the “Apple of one’s eye.” Now all to have to do is dwell on the phrase “juvenile of one’s eye” (meaning here) until it provides you with an image.
458毎every
Behind EVERY successful person LIES a woman… Who usually turns out to be one’s MAMA!
503贈presents
The PRESENTS offered here are MONEY that INCREASES each time you give it away.
538豚pork
Sow means “FEMALE PIG”Pork is a culinary term, it means the FLESH of a SOW.
409幕curtain
A dirty TOWEL draped over the entrance to the old GRAVEYARD is painted to look like the CURTAIN of death that leads to the other world.
448昆descendants
grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS
507妊pregnancy
•porter: person employed to carry burdens. A WOMAN who is in her PREGNANCY is a bit like a PORTER, bearing her new companion wherever she goes.
573羽feathers
Pictograph of two bird-wings, we get FEATHERS.
419製made in…
A label indicating that GARMENT was MADE IN U.S.A or Taiwan or Japan is itself a symbol for the SYSTEMATIZATION of the GARMENT industry.
581国country
This COUNTRY likes to PENT IN its JEWELS, and this does not only refer to the stones; JEWELS like Nobel Prize-winners and other important persons that the world are interested in are also being PENT IN inside this COUNTRY.
405布linen
A matador holding his red linen by his side.
583因cause
This St. Bernard is PENT inside a very secure fence. When your neighbours asks why, you simply answer that it is “with good CAUSE”. The truth is too horrible would have led to demonstrations outside your door.
588店store
In ancient times, the CAVE of the FORTUNETELLING was usually the only STORE around, where you could pick up important herbs and other ingredients while the FORTUNETELLER gave you some hints about your future. ZELDA
429橋bridge
The BRIDGE shown here is made of TREES in their natural form, except that the trucks have been carved into the forms of ANGELS, a sort of “Ponte degli angeli”
540遂consummate
The HORNS atop the SOW suggest a boar at work in the background. This BOAR, living besides the ROAD, has consummated your car bumper, and its mouth now takes the very horizontal form of the bumper.
574習learn
This a WHITE BIRD LEARNING to fly, which looses a couple of FEATHERS in the process. This learns you, no gain without painX
417刺thorn
Thorns grow on a bush here that has wrapped itself around a TREE like a BELT, cutting into the poor TREE like little SABERS.
556唯solely
This sophisticated uses ONE MOUTH SOLELY for eating and one mouth SOLELY for singing. Imagine the replaceable beaks.
521蝶butterfly
Butterflies are originally small INSECTS spending a GENERATION in top of a TREE before developing wings and fly away.
515地ground
This particular GROUND is inhabited by scorpions and you can see a sign: SCORPION MINES! No trespassing!
527妃queen
This is a queen with a forky SNAKE tongue, making it impossible to hear what this WOMAN is sssssszzzaying.
469歌song
The SONG in this kanji is being sung by a chorus line of CAN-CAN girls. They suck so the audience YAWNS.
466欠lack
The pictograph hidden in this character is of someone yawning. The first stroke shows the head thrown back; the second, the arm bent at the elbow as the hand reaches up to cover the mouth. The next two is the legs, since YAWNING shows a lack of something (psychologically, interest; physiologically, sleep), the connection is plain to see.
545場location
As a small kid, you burried your PIGGY BANK under some SOIL in the garden, only with a little bit of the tail showing so that you could later locate its LOCATION.
489望ambition
The story of AMBITION talks if a KING walking under the PERESHING (or “waning”) MOON dreaming great dreams about his kingdom. (The roots of AMBITION are from the same word as “ambulate,” meaning to walk about.)
491妨disturb
Imagine a COMPASS that is DISTURBED every time a WOMAN passes by, sending the needle spinning madly round and round. Just like my cock! Oooooooooooh
