604-803 Flashcards
737愛love
Someone LOVES birds so much, that he puts a BIRDHOUSE over his head when out walking. What do you see: a BIRDHOUSE; a loving, beating heart, and a pair of WALKING LEGS strolling around.
620恒constancy
Constancy is holding the same *state of mind* over a long *span* of time.-steadfastness, as in purpose of affection; faithfulness-
688及reach out
This additional of a final stroke transforms this character from the primitive for a clenched FIST into the kanji for REACHING OUT, as a stroke if kindness can often turn anger into acceptance.
639摩chafe
The CAVEman has used the while day harvesting and putting HEMP into boxes, resulting his HAND being CHAFED by the rough HEMP.
643犠sacrifice
This RIGHTEOUS COW SACRIFICES some of its hay to the play of Jesus Christ.
666損damage
An EMPLOYEE shows the FINGER to a customer, and this DAMAGES the company’s reputation.
763硫sulfur
Sulphur is like a *rock*, but it can stink like a *stream* of *infant* doodie.
651拓clear the land
Imagine a gigantic FINGER comes down from the sky to CLEAR THE LAND: it easily knocks away ROCKS and other elements.
730浮floating
Due to a WATER leakage in the nest, the FLEDGLINGS are now FLOATING around, and might even fall outside if no one stops the WATER soon (imagine dramatic situation)
769拙bungling
•carrying out a task clumsily or incompetently•Someone who is talking to a tourist, points at the EXIT with the FINGER without looking around, and BUNGLES into another person “stop bungling around!”
792欲longing
Guess what? Japanese has dirty words too! (In fact, a lot of them) A sexual story is NOT inappropriate here, as this kanji is very sexual, such as in 性欲; lust. As for a story: the *lack* of contact with a woman’s *valley* will leave a man LONGING for love.
719督coach
When your UNCLE was COACHING you in chess (or any other game), you always felt as if he had an EYE everywhere, making a perfect strategy to win.
780込crowded
The road is so crowded you don’t even want to ENTER the road. It is foolish entering the crowded road.
796賞prize
You won first PRIZE in a *shell-fish* eating contest. Unfortunately you spent the whole night in the *outhouse* after.
735受accept
As we all know, showing your CROTCH is maybe ACCEPTed in a normal houses but not in a BIRDHOUSE! Imagine the pain!
747始commence
A woman is posing in a PEDESTAL, and the artist with the blank canvas in front of him is thinking “where shall I commence?”
681才genius
Whatever one is particular adept at- one’s special “GENIUS” - one can do very easily, “with one finger” as th phrase goes. This kanji is a pictograph of that one finger. Note how it’s distinctive form is created by writing the final stroke of the element for FINGERS backwards.
700護safeguard
•a measure taken to protect someone it something or to prevent something undesirable• Letting the right part of this kanji represent a Greenpeace VESSEL (non-gov environmental organization) with a FLOWER (peace) logo, this is the SPEECH made by the Greenpeace leader to SAFEGUARD the VESSEL in all kind of weather.
687携portable
This CONJECTURE assumes that if TURKEYS had FINGERS, they would also be able to form a FIST and carry things - making things PORTABLE also from a TURKEY’S point of view.
616憂melancholy
•sadness it depression of the spirits; gloom•Image yourself in a dark, MELANCHOLIC gallery, where you see something that makes you even more MELANCHOLIC: a statue of a sad man; his HEAD hanging, his CROWN covering for his sad HEART and a pair of thin, wearied WALKING LEGS. You think it’s someone important who had to beg for his life. How melancholic!
659指finger
Fingers are delicious, especially chicken fingers…
691丈length
The first horizontal stroke if this kanji measures the LENGTH between the tips of ARMS.
794鉛lead (metal)
Molten METAL is led in a GULLY to its destination, where it becomes LEAD.•this narrow kind if valley, is a gully, us so narrow that the valley folk cannot even use their umbrella.
656拐kidnap
A kidnapper is sticking his FINGER into the victim’s MOUTH, placing a DAGGER under it to make sure she’s quiet.
741鉱mineral
Metal might seem useless sometimes, but in a more WIDER sense, it contains MINERALS needed for us to live.
772岐branch off
On the left, there are three mountains. The road #branches off# to each of them. (Note: This kanji is mostly used for branches in the road)
653打strike
Imagine you try to STRIKE the NAIL you hold in your FINGERS with a hammer: unfortunately you STRIKE your FINGERS instead - ouch!
801掌manipulate
If you’re going to manipulate your body with your *hand*, then go do it in an *outhouse*, at least!
660持hold
This TEMPLE claims to HOLD one of BUDDHA’s FINGERS, there’s even a speaker in front saying “Be-HOLD - BUDDHA’S FINGER rests here.
684存suppose
A BOTTLE WITH A CHILD INSIDE is found on a remote island, and the finders thinks the CHILD is some kind if GENIE IN A BOTTLE. They suppose it is a genie in a bottle.
686乃from
This pictograph of a clenched fist is another of the “hand-primitives.” Take bite if it’s rather peculiar drawing. Try to think of drawing a FIST (the primitive meaning) “FROM” this character to give yourself a connotation for the otherwise abstract keyword.
736授impart
•make (information) known; communicate• This is the wise man who snaps his FINGERS, marking his ACCEPTANCE of IMPARTING you in his wisdom.
727爪claw
Pictograph if a bird’s claw, and from there comes to mean animal CLAWS in general (including human fingernails).
670描sketch
An ogre presents in a business meeting a SKETCH of human FINGER seeds, an invention that will decrease the human casualties.
683材lumber
This LUMBERJACK GENIE handles TREES in a GENIUS WAY, making it all look so easy.
695硬stiff
As it GROWS LATE, you discover that your ARMS become as STIFF as STONES, making it hard TUCKING THAT PILLOW UNDER YOUR ARMS.
720寂loneliness
But when you left his place, you can probably imagine an UNCLE alone in the HOUSE and feel the LONELINESS he must have felt,
668担shouldering
An ogre is SHOULDERING away a sack of FINGERS at NIGHTBREAK.
716怪suspicious
Suggestion: Replace “spool” with “toilet paper/roll”. Reason: See my note at {715}. Story: *Sigmund Freud* (= state of mind) has a mystery patient who has wrapped himself entirely in *toilet paper*. Freud is very suspicious that it’s someone he knows (who wants to remain anonymous). Spool also appears in {715}, {717}, {882}, {1360}
738払pay
When the landlord asked his tenant to PAY the rent, all he got was the FINGER and an ELBOW to the stomach.
654拘arrest
A police recruit coming from Japan is doing an ARREST, and pulls out an English phrase book. While the ARRESTEE is waiting impatiently, he points his FINGER to the book and slowly finds the right PHRASES: “You are under ARREST… You have the right to…”
788谷valley
If you flip this kanji backwards, you can see the MOUTH of the ricer whose water flows down at the intersection of the TWO MOUNTAINS, with the final two strokes adding the element if perspective
729乳milk
Some FLEDGLINGS are being fed MILK through a tube formed as a HOOK – and they also soon become HOOKED at the MILK being served.
702奴guy
This GUY is only thinking about a WOMAN’s crotch…
728妥gentle
A VULTURE GENTLY captures the most GENTLE WOMAN around, bringing her to the aerie to take good care of the nest.
797党party
Every major political party, if personified, would look like a giant *outhouse* walking around with * human legs* spewing out a constant stream of bullshit.
617寡widow
This WIDOW is a quite special one: in her HOUSE, she keeps the HEAD of her husband and beneath it; the DAGGER she killed him with.
734菜vegetable
This VULTURE, sitting in the top OF the TREE, has FLOWERS and leaves growing on its head,, making it look like a misplaced VEGETABLE. When eating VEGETABLES, you should GRAB off the FLOWER (roots).
609想concept
You have been asked to support a be CONcept, and are briefly being explained that the concept of INTER-connecting all HEARTS in the world for conning them to buy your products, you can’t help thinking that this concept is just a con itself.
715茎stalk
Suggestion: Replace “spool” with “toilet paper/roll”. Reasons: (1) *Toilet paper/roll* usually comes on a *spool*. (2) *Toilet paper* is used to clean the *soil* off your *crotch*. Story: Just get a *flower* and carefully wrap some *toilet paper* around its stalk. Spool also appears in {716}, {717}, {882}, {1360}
746治reign
•holding power in sovereign•This is the WATER PEDESTAL from which Moses REIGNED into his people (the Red Sea)
637手hand
Any way you can count them, there are either too many or too few fingers to see a good pictograph of a HAND in this character.
755到arrival
In kill bill vol 2, the movie ARRIVES at a CLIMAX where the bride ARRIVES with her SABER to start the massacre at the Japanese restaurants.
614惑beguile
•to deceive, cheat• Oh, looks at the cowboy, kissing the GROUND as usual, but then going straight to the FIESTA where he BEGUILES some girls by playing with their HEARTS.
764流current
An INFANT fell in the WATER and was lost down the CURRENT of the STREAM
757互mutually
When you draw this character think of linking two WALLS together, one right side up and the other upside down.
673掲put up a notice
An ogre passes by a NOTICE PUT UP BY the local government: “no eating of HUMAN FINGERS during the SIESTA.” Another one of those stupid government regulations discriminating ogres.
766唆tempt
I named the right part *legal prostitute* has it represents a walker [*walking legs*] with the *license*.It’s easy to imagine a *legal prostitute* tempting a man with her *mouth*.
795沿run alongside
*Water* in a *gully* #runs alongside# the path.
768山mountain
The clear outline of a mountain is here.
803波waves
waves are the ocean’s pelt (skin)
655捨discard
Jesus is going up to his COTTAGE only to find that someone has dumped tons of rubbish around his COTTAGE. He calls the index FINGER coming down from the sky and ask it to DISCARD all the rubbish.
753至climax
Imagine you are watching an extremely slow motion film about LANDslide. You have seen the soil sliding down from a hill forever; just waiting for the so-called CLIMAX: the SOIL hitting the WALL.
630慎humility
This tells us that your MIND cannot feel HUMILITY before it discovers the TRUTH; to are nothing in this big world and you are no as genius as you thought.
675研polish
You have to lift a STONE up in the POLISHING machine, but this one seems heavy. You take a good grip around the STONE with BOTH hands, and this one gets polished as well.
708設establishment
When something important is ESTABLISHED, SPEECHES are used as MISSILES to direct attention towards the ESTABLISHMENT and how much good it will do.
739広wide
This CAVE is so WIDE (by cavemen standard), that you can stretch out your ELBOWS.
800裳skirt
Compared to pants, a SKIRT is the GARMENT to be wearing when you want to use one of those Japanese toilets. It makes it so much easier: you just walk in the OUTHOUSE hike it up, and do your business.
634添annexed
Hawaii is a little drop of *heaven* nestled in the *waters* of the Pacific, most often visited by honeymooners and valentines. It was annexed to the U.S.A. in 1959, and more recently to Japan as well– albeit only unofficially, and through private commercial holdings
721淑graceful
You were always told by your UNCLE that drinking WATER - that will make you GRACEFUL(goodwill) (imagine your uncle Always choosing water above any other drink)
663推conjecture
(A CONJECTURE is a theory not yet proven nor disproved). This CONJECTURE holds that if TURKEYS had FINGERS in the tip of their wings, they would be able to count.
724板plank
The last tree is demonstrating against becoming PLANKS, taking an ANTI-PLANK position (imagine this is the very last TREE out of a forest that has already become PLANKS)
629惰lazy
When I am in a LAZY *state of mind* I use my *left* hand to play with my *meat*…it feels like someone else is doing it, which is good cause I’m to lazy to get a date.
770岩boulder
Here’s a MOUNTAIN ROCKS rolling down from a MOUNTAIN, gathering into like a gigantic BOULDER (like a snowball) and destroys everything in it’s way
698桑mulberry
•a small deciduous tree with broad leaves, native to east Asia and long cultivated elsewhere. A MULBERRY farmer is experiencing his worst nightmare: all the fruit-goods of his MULBERRY TREE is replaced by CROTCH-GOODS, making his good reputation gone forever.
706投throw
A group of ogres are THROWING FINGERS as if they were MISSILES in some kind of competition.
748胎womb
Seeing a PEDESTAL as a base, the WOMB is definitely the PART OF THE BODY where the PEDESTAL is, the beginning of life.
646搭board
•boarding ferries•You’re in your way to BOARD a ferry, but suddenly see a bunch of people pointing their FINGER towards the BOARDING bridge. And then to see it: the BOARDING bridge is decorated with thousand of FLOWERS FITTING together, unconsciously making yourself point your finger at it as well.
692史history
Someone with big ARMS picks up an HISTORIAN at the entrance of a museum, and tucks him under the arm, making it seem like the HISTORICAL facts needed to know are coming out from a MOUTH somewhere under the ARM during the museum-tour.
661括fasten
•close it join securely, fix or hold in place•Have you ever been singing and making fun in front of kids? Here, you’re showing the kids how fun it is to try to speaking when holding a FINGER on your TONGUE. However, it’s not so fun anymore as you find that your FINGER has somehow FASTENED to the TONGUE - making the fun event ending up in the emergency room…
