Nature, environment, natural science, politics Flashcards

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Answer 1

かぜ | wind, air ## Footnote primitives: "wind" + "droplet" + "insect" story: a swarm lf insects that is magically turned into a great wind

Answer 2

あらし | storm, tempest ## Footnote primitives: "mountain" + "wind" story: a storm is the wind whipped up into a mountain

Answer 3

かわ | river, stream ## Footnote this is a primitive

Answer 4

いずみ | spring, fountain ## Footnote elements: "white" + "water"

Answer 5

まゆ | cocoon (of an insect) ## Footnote elements: "flowers" (leaves) + "enclosure" (coffin) + "thread" + "insect" story: the little insect feasts on flowers, then spins itself into an enclosure.

Answer 6

いけ | pond ## Footnote primitives: "water" + "scorpion" (might be a sum of something as well, more helpful here)

Answer 7

かみ、かみなり | thunder, lightning ## Footnote elements: "rain" (weather) + "rice field" note that 電 can also mean flash of lightning. I like this kanji better, because it is "rain" + "eel", but it does not seem to be common. More often, 雷光, らいこう, is used, literally thunder light.

Answer 8

きり | fog, mist ## Footnote primitives: "rain" (weather), "task"

Answer 9

ゆき | snow ## Footnote primitives: "weather" (rain) + "broom" story: this rain can be swept aside with a broom!

Answer 10

しも | frost ## Footnote primitives: "rain" (weather) + "tree" + "eye" story: frost lets you see every detail of a barren tree

Answer 11

unclear | flash of lightning; associsted with everything electric ## Footnote primitives: "weather/rain" + "eel"

Answer 12

らい、らいこう | lightning ## Footnote also 電光, でんこう雷/電: thunder, lightning, 光: light

Answer 13

あめ | rain ## Footnote primitives: this is a pictograph of rain drops in a cloud, topped by a single line for the sky

Answer 14

くも | cloud ## Footnote primitives: "weather/rain" + "rising cloud" story: vapour rises up from the surface to form clouds

Answer 15

めっきん | sterilisation ## Footnote 滅: associated with desctruction, downfall, ruination, 菌: germ, bacterium, fungus

Answer 16

なんぶ | southern part, south of a region ## Footnote 南: south, 部: part, division, part

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きた | north ## Footnote primitives: two people sitting on the ground (the left is the typical "person on the ground") story: ... huddled together against the northern cold

Answer 18

ひがし | east ## Footnote primitives: a "sun" piercing through a "tree" (as it rises in the east)

Answer 19

みなみ | south ## Footnote primitives: "belt" + "happiness" story: southern climes are well-suited to leisurely lifes, causing you to losen your belts as you get fat and happy

Answer 20

にし | west ## Footnote primitives: "one" + "four" story: west is the foruth of the four points of the compass, so we take onky one out of four.

Answer 21

はる | spring (season) ## Footnote primitives: "bonsai" + "sun"

Answer 22

なつ | summer ## Footnote primitives: "head" + "walking legs" story: the heat makes you hang your head nearly as low as you walking legs

Answer 23

あき | autumn ## Footnote primitives: "wheat" (crop) + "fire" story: autumn is the time of year when fires burn on the harvested fields, burning forgotton crop

Answer 24

ふゆ | winter ## Footnote primitives: "walking legs" + "ice"

Answer 25

ほくとう | northeast

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なんとう | southeast

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なんせい | southwest

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ほくせい | northwest

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せんそう | war ## Footnote 戦: war; battle, competition, troops,; associated with fighting and strategy, 争: associated with competing, fighting, quarreling (physical and verbal), struggling

Answer 30

せっかい | lime (stone) ## Footnote 石: stone, 灰: "cliff" + "fire", ash

Answer 31

せきたん | coal ## Footnote 石: stone, 炭: "mountain" + "ash", charcoal, associated with everything carbon

Answer 32

せきゆ | oil, petrolium ## Footnote 石: stone, 油: oil (also for cooking) note that if you swap the kanji, you get 油石、あぶらいし: charcoal

Answer 33

すみ | charcoal ## Footnote primitives: "mountain" + "ash"

Answer 34

あぶらいし | charcoal, coal ## Footnote 油: oil, 石: stone

Answer 35

たんすいかぶつ | carbohydrate ## Footnote 炭: charcoal, 水: water, 化: -ification, 物: thing, object

Answer 36

たんか | carbonisation ## Footnote 炭: charcoal, 化: -ification

Answer 37

こおり | ice ## Footnote "water" crystalizing around a drop of a crystalization seed

Answer 38

ひょうが | glacier ## Footnote 氷: ice, 河: river

Answer 39

ひょうがき | ice age, glacial period ## Footnote 氷河: glacier, 期: period, era

Answer 40

こもれび | sunlight filtering through trees ## Footnote 木: tree, 漏れ: leak out; leak out, ommission, 日: sun(light). cf. 葉洩日, sunlight filtering through tree leaves. Note that 漏れ might be replaced with 洩れ, which also means leak, filter out

Answer 41

は | leaf ## Footnote primitives, bottom to top: "tree" + "generation" + "flowers"

Answer 42

かんけつせん | geyser ## Footnote 間: between, among + 欠: lack, vacancy = 間欠: intermittent, 泉: spring, fountain

Answer 43

かいちょう | seabird, marine bird ## Footnote 海: sea, 鳥: bird

Answer 44

すいせい | Mercury (planet) ## Footnote 水: water, 星: planet

Answer 45

すいぎん | mercury (substance) ## Footnote 水: water, 銀: metal note that the planet is 水星、すいせい, not 水銀の惑星

Answer 46

きんせい | Venus (planet) ## Footnote 金: gold, money, 星: planet

Answer 47

かせい | Mars (planet) ## Footnote 火: fire, 星: planet

Answer 48

もくせい | Jupiter (planet) ## Footnote 木: tree, 星: planet

Answer 49

どせい | Saturn (planet) ## Footnote 土: soil, 星: planet

Answer 50

てんのうせい | Uranus (planet) ## Footnote 天王: heavenly ruler, 星: planet

Answer 51

かいようせい | Neptune (planet) ## Footnote 海王: "Ocean ruler", 星: planet Note that 海王 is a homonym of 海洋, ocean, but that the planet is indeed written as "planet of the ocean ruler", not "Ocean planet". Note that the gods Neptune and Poseidon are usually written in their katakana forms (ネプチューン and ポセイドン, respectively). The kanji-version 海神、かいしん (海: sea, 神: god, deity) exists, but is rarely used.

Answer 52

めいようせい | Pluto (dwarf planet) ## Footnote 冥: associated with gods snd divinity, but also with Hades, the underworld, + 王: king, ruler, = 冥王: "Ruler of the underworld", 星: planet

Answer 53

たいようけい | solar system ## Footnote 太陽: the sun, 系: system, group

Answer 54

ちきゅう | the earth ## Footnote 地: the land, land; place; earth, 球: ball, sphere; orb, globe

Answer 55

いし | stone, rock ## Footnote primitives: "cliff" + "opening" (mouth)

Answer 56

rampant growth; endless, dense, thick

Answer 57

けむり | smoke ## Footnote primitives: "fire" + "west" + "soil, ground"

Answer 58

えんとつ | chimney, smokestack ## Footnote 煙: smoke, 突: associated with protrusion, breaking through, sudden (cf. 突然、とつぜん), rarely arousal, stimulation

Answer 59

どくさい | dictatorship; despotism ## Footnote 独: associated with self-contained, on your own; originality, creativity; independence. On it's own: Germany. 裁: judge; also associated with ruling 独裁者、どくさいしゃ: dictator

Answer 60

しはい | control; rule, direction / direct ## Footnote 支: associated with support, payments, 配: associated with distribution, deployment, installation, cf. 配達、はいたつ: delivery, 配管、はいかん: plumbing

Answer 61

かんきょう | environment; rarely circumstances ## Footnote 環: ring, circle, (in the sense of surroundings?), 境: environment; also associated with border, demarcation

Answer 62

はなび | fireworks ## Footnote 花: flower; bloom, blossom, 火: fire Note the pronounciation here!

Answer 63

れっぷう | gale; violent wind ## Footnote 烈: fierce, rage, 風: wind note the sound changes of れつ and ふう

Answer 64

らんりゅう、らんきりゅう | (air) turbulence ## Footnote 乱: riot, war; rebellion, revolt, 気: air, 流: method of; also associatef with fluency, flowing, streaming, cf. 流れる、ながれる: streaming, flowing

Answer 65

みんしゅしゅぎ | democracy ## Footnote 民: people, nation + 主: master, lord, proprietor, owner = 民主: democratic, 主 + 義: righteousness, duty, justice, teachings, morality = 主義: principle, rule, doctrine

Answer 66

ささる | prick; get stuck in, pierce, lodge in ## Footnote ハチに刺される: get stung by a bee primitives: thorn, sword. Note that 刺 means to stab or prick

Answer 67

ゆうがた | evening, dusk ## Footnote 夕: last night, dip, associated with sunset and evening, 方: ubiquitous kanji associated with direction, some outcome, things becoming.

Answer 68

かげ | shadow, image; reflection, silhouette ## Footnote primitives: scenery, 景 + "shape". Note that "scenery" is made up of sun, 日 and capital, 京.

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