Lesson 8 Flashcards
(51 cards)
stream
[134]
川
A pictograph of a stream.
*P: stream, flood
state
[135]
州
State are just drops of land separated by rivers/streams.
*drops of something, stream
obey
[136]
順
If someone is a “stream head” they go with the flow of what everyone else is doing and obey the person who is the head of an organization.
*stream, head
water
[137]
水
A walking stick being dropped vertically into the water, and water splashes out in all four directions around it.
*walking stick, droplets
*P: water
icicle
[138]
氷
The walking stick is frozen in the water. There is even a icicle growing on it!
*water, a drop of something
eternity
[139]
永
One drop of water causes ripples in the surface going outward for eternity.
*water, a drop of something
spring
[140]
泉
When you look at a spring of water, where the water bubbles up on top it is white.
*white, water
*P: spring
gland
[141]
腺
Dig into your flesh and pull out a lymph gland. Now give it a squeeze and watch a spring of lymph spout out of it.
*flesh/body part, spring
meadow
[142]
原
A young maiden is skipping through a beautiful spring meadow. Along the way fresh springs are erupting from underground spraying water around her dramatically. But the meadow ends suddenly in a cliff and the maiden skips right off the edge!
*cliff, spring
petition
[143]
願
In the same meadow the maiden was running through there is a sculpture of a giant head. It is a deity. The people in the local area knelt before the giant head on the meadow and petitioned it to put safeguards on the cliff.
*meadow, head
swim
[144]
泳
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming (through the water for eternity).
*water, eternity
marsh
[145]
沼
Land becomes marshy because it gets really thirsty and seduced water to come to it, but it was too good at it.
*water, seduce
open sea
[146]
沖
The key word open sea readily suggests being out in the middle of a great body of water.
*water, in the middle of
pan-
[147]
汎
“The sense of the key word here is the ‘all-inclusive’ we find in terms like ‘Pan-American Games’. Instead of a water sports event that brings together the best talent, think of a meet of the region’s most mediocre athletes, many of whom cannot even tread water. The ‘Pan-Mediocre Water Sports Competition’.”
*water. mediocre
creek
[148]
江
The creek is a lesson in “water-craft”. Unlike other larger bodies of water, creeks are often just a little dribble of water. You can dig one on your own and probably did as a little kid. You find a bigger body of water and dig a small side path into dry land. Thus creek = water-craft.
*water, craft/I-beam/artificial
cleanse
[149]
汰
A plump person went to a very successful skinny spa. It had special cleansing medicinal water. They got into the spa’s water and their excess fat melted away, leaving a greasy scum on top of the water but the customer fully cleansed.
*water, plump
soup
[150]
汁
Soup is made by adding a bunch of different things to water. What is the best soup on the world? The special ten-ingredient soup.
*water, ten
grains of sand
[151]
沙
We already know that good sand has only a few stones in it, but to make it perfect there should a drop of water for every grain of sand.
*water, few
tide
[152]
潮
The pair to eventide, morning tide.
*water, morning
source
[153]
源
The key word source suggests this character is referring to where the water comes from. Here it suggests that the water comes from the bubbling springs in the meadow.
*water, meadow
lively
[154]
活
When a party is lively there is a lot of talking. When the talking gets a little too lively drops of water (spittle) go flying from their flailing tongues.
*water, tongue
extinguish
[155]
消
The perfect way to extinguish a fire would be to make sure that every drop of water hit a spark of the fire.
*water, spark/candle
but of course
[156]
況
*“Just picture yourself ready to go off on your first date as a teenager, and having your mother grill you about your manners and ask you embarrassing questions about your hygiene. ‘Did you have a good shower?’ ‘But of course….’ you reply annoyed.”
*water, teenager
river
[157]
河
Unlike the little stream, the river is a body of water that can accommodate boats. Here we see that the little train that could has now become a riverboat and is chugging up the river.
*water, can
