1,一,one,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One down, 2041 to go. ;). STORY2: To learn this one kanji, I recommend (#2000) this story : Bambi is in a cave, eating a side-dish of salad when trying to learn the kanjis. As he succeed to learn the kanji for one, you get jealous and decide to shoot him with a slingshot. At this moment you hear the police coming, so you hurriedly burn all the proofs into a fire (so you remove the key-words Bambi, slingshot and fire from recommend). So that when the police arrives, the only remaining clue is a single horizontal bar."
2,二,two,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two lines. STORY2: Roman numeral II, written on its side."
3,三,three,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One + two = three. STORY2: THREE measurements define the female shape: BUST, WAIST, and HIPS. Waist is the smallest, and for most women the HIPS are wider than the chest."
4,四,four,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"FOUR year-olds often put their FOOT (human legs) in their MOUTH - but they are too young to realize. STORY2: I imagine a giant devouring a human in four bites. First the giant bites off the person's head, then he bites the torso, then from the waist to the knees, and finally the giant plucks up the remaining portion of the human legs into his mouth. See the fourth bite falling in there?"
5,五,five,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"三 + two vertical lines = 5. STORY2: This Kanji looks like a ""3"" Kanji with two added vertical lines. 3+2= 5."
6,六,six,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Indicating 6 parts of the human body: head, body, 2 arms, 2 legs. STORY2: Six-Six-SIX ((666)) Mark of the Beast!! Imagine that dapper old beastly fellow summoning his top hat to himself. See it scamper over to him on a little pair of beastly legs."
7,七,seven,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji is our good old seven, turned upside down. STORY2: I wrote it upside down so I crossed it out."
8,八,eight,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Hachi"" (eight) begins with the sound of the katakana ""ha"", and it's approximately the same character. STORY2: The valcano hasn't erupted for 8 years."
9,九,nine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Kinda of looks like the kanji of 1　一 with the kanji of 8 八added. So think of it as 　一＋八＝九. STORY2: Warning - naughty reminder A woman in the doggie style position, waiting for my NINE inches."
10,十,ten,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two needles crossing marks the spot, or you can use the Roman character for ten (rotated 45 degrees). STORY2: I scared away ten vampires with a single cross!"
11,口,mouth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Looks like a huge open mouth. STORY2: Momma used to say: ""Keep your trap shut!"" This thing is shaped like a trap door."
12,日,day,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Open the window, new day. STORY2: Picture two halves of a 24-hr period: Day & Night."
13,月,month,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A month is longer than a day. STORY2: Am I the only one who sees this as someone sticking their ass in the air ""mooning"" someone (two cheeks of the butt and the legs coming off of it)? The Moon meaning connects well to the meaning of month, considering that months were traditionally measured by the phases of the moon. Also, the mooning ""ass"" part of it connects well to Hesig's seemingly unconnected ""flesh"" or ""part of the body"" meaning (when used in primitive form)."
14,田,rice field,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A rice field divided into four parts. STORY2: Ten people use their mouths to eat the yield of the rice fields.
15,目,eye,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,There are 3 sections. Imagine the outer two being the whites of your eye. The middle is the pupil. Fill it in with imaginary color. STORY2: 目_目.
16,古,old,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Tombstone and cross on an old man's grave. STORY2: You get OLD fast if you have ten open mouths to feed.
17,吾,I,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I have 5 senses. STORY2: I eat five times at day.
18,冒,risk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't look at the sun directly with your eyes, it's risky! STORY2: You'll risk your eyesight if you look up at the sun."
19,朋,companion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My companion and I are like two moons side by side. STORY2: Under the twin moons of Tatooine, Luke had no COMPANION."
20,明,bright,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The sun makes the moon bright. STORY2: The sun and the moon are brightest objects in the day and night, respectively."
21,唱,chant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Someone chanting with their mouth open for two consecutive days. STORY2: Chants from our mouths are meant to reach the sun and the stars. Stars are just suns just further away so they seem smaller.
22,晶,sparkle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A diamond sparkles as brightly as three suns. STORY2: Sparkle is a forest (#197) of suns!
23,品,goods,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Three boxes of goods are devoured by the hungry mouths of waiting consumers. STORY2: Three hungry mouths waiting for the goods to come.
24,呂,spine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spine connects head and body. STORY2: The spine goes from one opening mouth/opening (mouth/face) to another mouth/opening (genitals). Just think of these openings being enlarged to represent the head and the body. The bottom is bigger because the body is bigger than the face.
25,昌,prosperous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you work from Sun UP to Sun DOWN you will be prosperous. STORY2: I kept getting this mixed up with meanings like 'fortune', so here is a fool proof story! Remember the Vulcan salute from 'Star Trek' (a fiction of the sci-fi genre in which heavenly bodies such as SUNS play a huge role) used with the phrase 'live long and PROSPER'? If that's not enough of a visual reminder, the Vulcan salute shows the fingers parted in to 2 sets of 2, and visually kind of looks like this kanji if you think about it."
26,早,early,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The sun up is early, well before ten. STORY2: An early sun-flower looks like a miniature sun perched on a needlelike stems."
27,旭,rising sun,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,9am carries with it the rising sun. STORY2: Nine planets revolve around our rising sun.
28,世,generation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"3 tens = generation. STORY2: They SAY a generation is ten+ten+ten years, with the big first ten providing a grounding, and the next ten providing a little more grounding for the final ten. But I wish the next generation didn't always SAY ""yo!"". (ON reading is SEI, KUN reading is yo)."
29,胃,stomach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The rice field is harvested once a month to get food for our stomach. STORY2: The stomach is the part of the body that digests food (which, in Japan, is mainly rice)."
30,旦,nightbreak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A nightbreak happens when the sun rises over the horizon (floor). STORY2: It may be easier to think of the keyword ""DAYBREAK"" or ""MORNING"" for this kanji (other kanji dictionaries do). Then the mnemonic phrase ""SUN rising over the HORIZON"" works better. It is an infrequent kanji, but can be found in: 旦夕　（たんせき） morning and evening, or 元旦　（がんたん） New Year's Day."
31,胆,gall bladder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The moon has a lot of gall sticking around after sunrise. STORY2: All the month long I have to start working at nightbreak. This really activates my gall bladder (=I get angry).
32,亘,span,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The sun spans from horizon to horizon in a day. STORY2: The span of the day is the time between the sun goes up and comes down.
33,凹,concave,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The letter ""U"" is concavely written. STORY2: Concave has a concave shape."
34,凸,convex,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I get vexed, I give people the middle finger. STORY2: Convex has a convex shape."
35,旧,olden times,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Age 18 = olden times. STORY2: The old man with a walking stick kept talking of olden times all day long.
36,自,oneself,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Faced with his clone, our hero valiantly cut a mark on his forehead right above his eye so that his comrades could tell his true oneself from the enemy. STORY2: To use an eyedropper by oneself, aim from above to put a drop into the eye."
37,白,white,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A white ray is a drop of sun. STORY2: Even a small drop (') of the sun (日) would make you see nothing but white.
38,百,hundred,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,100 turned sideways. {sort of the same as what ashoksaraf said}. STORY2: That dirty ceiling was painted WHITE a hundred times!
39,中,in,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Pocky goes in the mouth. STORY2: My GF lets me come in her mouth (pictogram).
40,千,thousand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It takes many drops of ten to get to a thousand. STORY2: One T = one thousand.
41,舌,tongue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What is in a mouth that permits it to speak a thousand things? Yes, a tongue. STORY2: Kissing a thousand mouths eventually gets you some tongue."
42,升,measuring box,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It is a thousand or ten? I need my measuring box. STORY2: I can fit a thousand needles into my measuring box, but only if I bend the thousand."
43,昇,rise up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji does not mean ""get up"" or ""awake."" It means rising, like the rising of a salary, or a promotion. STORY: You know that your salary has RISEN UP when your MEASURING BOX has enough dollar bills in it to reach the SUN. STORY2: We Measure the Sun to decide when we should Rise Up out of bed."
44,丸,round,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten! STORY2: Watch out for plump (#120). Here Heisig could have added a ""t"" and we would have had a much better keyword : rotund. Rotund is more specific than ""round"" which begs for confusion with circle (#1811). A dictionary search on ""fat"" or ""round"" doesn't yield this kanji, but ""rotund"" does! Primitive suggestion: the Laughing Buddha is often depicted as a rotund, smiling bald man in robes with a largely exposed pot belly stomach (symbolizing plenitude)."
45,寸,measurement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The decimal system uses drops of ten as a measurement. STORY2: Glue two sticks together to make the best measurement. (I always remember the primitive, but never the original keyword.)."
46,専,specialty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After you have chosen your 10 fields of study, measure how good you are at each to find out your specialty. STORY2: 10 brains glued together allows you to specialize in any specialty that you want. Imagine each brain having its own specialty."
47,博,Dr.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ten specialties grants you the title of Dr. with a dot. STORY2: Watch for doctor (#1694), the sooner the better! In fact this kanji refers to someone well ""learned"", with extensive knowledge. This could apply to any kind of field. The kanji 医 (""doctor"") is directly related to medicine. I would suggest to take away completely the idea of medicine here, and use a popular character whose name includes the keyword such as ""Dr. Who"", ""Dr. Jekyll"", even ""Dr. Dobb's"" if you're into programming."
48,占,fortune-telling,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod. STORY2: A great number of people who do fortune-telling are ""almost old""."
49,上,above,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A magic wand standing on above the floor. STORY2: Above all else, be grounded if you are going to practice augury (#2103)卜. You could turn yourself into a トoad...　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ジョウ　以上　いじょう(above)　　　　ショウ　上人　しょうにん(saint)."
50,下,below,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Roots are below the ground. STORY2: A magic wand hanging below the ceiling.
51,卓,eminent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The most eminent magician is he who learned to use his magic wand early in life. STORY2: The eminent sunflower is the one that stands above the others.
52,朝,morning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There is mist as the moon fades away in the morning. STORY2: Morning has come ""ten"" hours ""early""!!! The ""moon"" is still in the sky!"
53,只,only,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine an animal with only a mouth and legs. STORY2: My girlfriend insists that the only thing I want from her is what's between her legs.. She's drawn me this pictograph to demonstrate. It's a head and two legs spread apart.. I explain that I also love her breasts, and then she smacks me in the face. I'll never understand women.. (I keep failing this kanji, hopefully this silly story will help me!)."
54,貝,shellfish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Eye thought I saw a shellfish legging it down the beach! STORY2: Stare at the shellfish, it looks like an eye with legs."
55,貞,upright,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A magic wand is needed to make a clam stand upright. STORY2: Just the thought of my magic wand on her clam makes my magic wand stand upright.
56,員,employee,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,An employee (member of the company) has to clam up his mouth if he wants keep the job! STORY2: An employee is basically a shellfish with a mouth.
57,見,see,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As a primitive, this is Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. (the giant eyeball with legs...) Makes for easy stories later on. STORY2: Eyes and legs are all you need to see the world."
58,児,newborn babe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the olden times, a newborn babe came out legs first. STORY2: Only 18 and already got a newborn babe. Young girls are so quick to spread their legs these days...　　　RTK2:　ジ　児童　じどう　(child)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ニ　小児　しょうに(infant)."
59,元,beginning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the beginning were just two who walked on human legs. STORY2: In the beginning God created woman, and God asked her how she liked his work. Woman replied, ""Well, you know how I have two eyes, two arms, two legs... it seems redundant to have three breasts. It would look more symmetrical with two."" God nodded, and the middle breast fell off... and it was good. Woman picked up the breast and said, ""Thank you, God! But what do I do with this useless boob?"" And God created man. That's why the women today only have two boobs to match their two human legs."
60,頁,page,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head. STORY2: One drop of ink from a shellfish can fill a whole page.
61,頑,stubborn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A stubborn person in the beginning gets something into their head and can't change their mind. STORY2: Picture a STUBBORN schoolboy, with his arms crossed and his book still open to the BEGINNING PAGE. Despite the teacher telling him to turn the page, he refuses and keeps his book on the BEGINNING PAGE."
62,凡,mediocre,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A drop of breeze is naught but a mediocre wind. STORY2: Is there anything as mediocre as a drop of piss in the wind?
63,負,defeat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tied up, the shellfish had to accept defeat! STORY2: Defeat is defined by a shellfish in binds."
64,万,ten thousand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I bound ten thousand dollars together and hid it under the floor. STORY2: We have ""one"" at the top and if you turn the kanji 90 degrees you will see arabic 4 shich means it has four zeros in front of it!"
65,句,phrase,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Some Japanese phrases are difficult to wrap your mouth around. STORY2: A bound mouth cannot utter a single phrase.
66,肌,texture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,When you expose your flesh to the wind it gets textured: goosebumps! STORY2: The moon's lack of wind preserves its texture.
67,旬,decameron,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hesig should be BOUND for a DAY (or maybe 10 days - a decameron) for calling this Kanji DECAMERON. See martyrdom (#809). STORY2: If you bind up ten days, you get a decameron."
68,勺,ladle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A ladle binds drops together. STORY2: Forget about the primative 'bound up'. Imagine instead the shape of a ladle and holding it upside down to drink the last DROP (of water).
69,的,bull's eye,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I managed to hit the bull's eye by throwing my white ladle. STORY2: A white, bound up, drop in the center is the bull's eye. (why Heisig had to use ""ladle"" instead of the original two primitives that make up ""ladle"" I'll never understand!)."
70,首,neck,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The V shape is your neck on top of your collar bone, or the straight line. Yourself, or the rest of your body is below that! STORY2: The mooses neck supports it's big horns and long nose."
71,乙,fish guts,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a fish hook, that pulls out the fishguts. STORY2: You cut a fish in a z shape on the belly to make it easier to open the fish and rip out its fish guts silly!"
72,乱,riot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The riot police broke up the riot by dragging the rioters away by their tongues with fishooks. STORY2: A tongue with a hook can cause a riot.
73,直,straightaway,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you get a needle in your eye that is hooked in there, get to a hospital straightaway. STORY2: I caught a freaky creature with ten eyes on my fish hook, so I threw it back straightaway."
74,具,tool,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Keep an eye on your tools while you work at the table. STORY2: One tool nobody should be without - a Mordor-type eye that floats over the workbench. It jerks around, monitoring all who come near, and if anyone so much as removes a stapler from the bench - ZAP."
75,真,TRUE,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A compass is a tool with a needle on top that points to true north. STORY2: Ten tools are all a true craftsman needs.
76,工,craft,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I consider craft to be one of the harder primitives to use in stories so I've personified it as Bender the crafty robot from Futurama who was designed to bend I-beams. STORY2: I crafty.
77,左,left,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The LEFT side of my brain posesses the faculties needed for logical crafts, like engineering. STORY2: The left side of my brain, is for crafts."
78,右,right,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The right hand is for putting food in your mouth. (The other hand is for ass-wiping!). STORY2: Always keep your right to free speech (mouth) by your side!
79,有,possess,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Possessed by the Earth's gravity, the moon stays by its side. STORY2: By my side I POSSESS a moon of flesh, better known as your big ass!"
80,賄,bribe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To bribe someone, money is a necessary possession. STORY2: If you possess enough shellfish, you can bribe anyone."
81,貢,tribute,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""This next song is a TRIBUTE to a little SHELLFISH friend of mine who was tragically crushed by an I-shaped table."". STORY2: Tribute is the craft of raising money."
82,項,paragraph,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To write a paragraph is the craft of grouping sentences on a page. STORY2: To craft a page well, we need paragraphs."
83,刀,sword,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This SWORD is so sharp, it can cut the top part of カ off in カタナ. STORY2: If you look really close this kanji looks like a person bending over touching the ground Waiting for someone to put there sword in his ass!"
84,刃,blade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The part of a sword where a drop of blood can usually be found is the blade. STORY2: A drop of blood on the blade of my sword.
85,切,cut,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The seven samurai used their swords to cut their opponents. STORY2: Seven swords cut better than one.
86,召,seduce,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A man is easily seduced by a mouth to his ""sword."". STORY2: To seduce is to make a sword of one's mouth."
87,昭,shining,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Shining is the sun's seduction. STORY2: The sun was shining so bright that it seduced Icarus and he flew too close.
88,則,rule,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you have both money and the power of the sword, you can make the rules. STORY2: If you've got CRABs on your SABER, then you didn't follow the rules of safe sex!"
89,副,vice-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The wealthy guy with the sword standing next to the king, that's the vice-roy who does all the dirty work. STORY2: Vice-president Cheney: a wealthy saber rattler."
90,別,separate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I don't know about you but to me this seems like someone's head is about to be separated from his body. You can see he's kneeling and his mouth is wide open gasping for the last breath he will ever take. STORY2: A wise old samurai keeps his hostages (with their mouths bound up to keep them quiet) in a separate room from his sabers. Putting them together would be a silly mistake.
91,丁,street,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Today, the program ""Sesame Street"" is brought to you by the letter ""T"". STORY2: Two streets make a T-intersection."
92,町,village,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Actually this means town, like one that has lots of streets and is surrounded by all the rice fields. STORY2: Getting this one confused with Town is easy, so remember it with this rhyme. ""Pillage the village, for the rice and and the tea."" the street primitive on the right looks like a 't'."
93,可,can,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A mouth on the street asking for things: ""Can I get some help?! Can I get directions, Can I have some money? Can you please speak English?!"". STORY2: I can eat nails."
94,頂,place on the head,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If I put a street sign on my head what do I get ? A place on the head ! STORY2: NAILS - place directly on the forehead, NAILS - place directly on the forehead, NAILS - place directly on the forehead, 　　　The HEAD ON commercial nails it into your head......"
95,子,child,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A child who is ten will still ask for his ma (top looks a bit like katakana ma). STORY2: A pictograph of a child, with arms outstretched for mother (or perhaps because she is chasing a rat?). Note that this kanji occupies the first space on the Zodiac circle, and is the sign for the rat (such as 2008!)."
96,孔,cavity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The child's arms flailed around at the sight of the hooked tool the dentist was going to use to fill his cavity. STORY2: I warned him about cavities, but the child is still hooked on sweets."
97,了,complete,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The experiment was a complete failure! The child was made without any arms! STORY2: A child with the arms inside the blanket will be completely wrapped up.
98,女,woman,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To remember the order of strokes, remember a female ninja is called a ""kunoichi"". That is, く(hiragana) ノ(katakana) 一(kanji, ichi=one). STORY2: My mother taught me that a woman should always sit with her legs crossed (but the arms can be stretched out)."
99,好,fond,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A woman is fond of her child. STORY2: Jane Fonda carrying a Vietnamese child. Pro-war protesters hold signs, ""I'm not fonda Jane!""...　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　コウ　好評　こうひょう(favorable criticism)."
100,如,likeness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Women share a common likeness. Their mouths are always open, whining about this and that. STORY2: From a woman's other 口comes a baby with a perfect likeness."
101,母,mama,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The two breasts of a momma who breastfeeds. STORY2: This mama had twins, one mouth for each nipple."
102,貫,pierce,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Ariel the Little Mermaid's clamshell bra was held to her breasts by piercings. STORY2: The sad fate of Mama shellfish was to be captured and pierced to make an earring.
103,兄,elder brother,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My elder brother was basically a mouth on legs when he was a teenager. STORY2: Mother, why is elder brother's mouth between the neighbor girl's legs? RTK2:　ケイ　父兄　ふけい　(father and elder brother)　　　　　　　　　キョウ　兄弟　きょうだい(brothers)…　　　　　　　　　　　　　MIXED GROUP:　(ｺｸ): 克104　(ｷｮｳ): 況145　競434　(ｼｭｸ): 祝1089."
104,克,overcome,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Ten elder brothers can overcome anything. STORY2: A teenager addicted to heroine must overcome the needle.
105,小,little,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A little penguin with its wings at its side. STORY2: A depressed child, head low and arms hung low, because he's too little to ride the roller coaster."
106,少,few,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Only a few people can make an ugly face like that. STORY2: Few usually refers to three. To emphasize three, we underline the three drops in little."
107,大,large,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A person stretching their arms and legs to look large and scare a bear away. STORY2: Think of a large St. Bernard dog with his paws all stretched out.
108,多,many,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two evenings too many! STORY2: This reminds me of a childish pseudo-confucion rhyme: ""He who eats many prunes sits on toilet many moons""."
109,夕,evening,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The evening is young, the moon is not full. STORY2: In the evening, I try my best to remember the katakana symbol for ""TA"" (ie. ""ta ta!"")."
110,汐,eventide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Eventide is just another word for evening, and it has the word tide in it which we associate with water. STORY2: Drops of water shower the beach as the evening tide approaches: eventide."
111,外,outside,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A young magician likes to practice outside in the evening with his magic wand (as opposed to the old magician who wakes early to practice with his wand in eminent (#51)). STORY2: Outside in the dark of evening, only a magic wand can help you."
112,名,name,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the evening, when it becomes dark, open your mouth to say your name so that people can recognise you. STORY2: In the evening, her sweet mouth whispered my name."
113,石,stone,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Indiana Jones jumps up and grabs the lip of cliff just in time to evade the huge STONE rolling out of the mouth of the cave! STORY2: There's a VERY simple way to remember this, in case the cliff thing isn't working for you... Just see it as a stone [いし] being hammered by a miner searching for jewel stones [ほうせき] ;)."
114,肖,resemblance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Using DNA matching, a very little bit of flesh can be used to show the resemblence between family members. STORY2: Hey baby, it might be a little bit of flesh now, but in a moment it'll bear a strong resemblance to a candlestick.(nudge nudge, wink wink)."
115,硝,nitrate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"That stone has sparks coming out of it! Someone must have poured nitrate acid on it. STORY2: Salpetre is the common name for Nitrate coming from Latin ""sal petrae"" or stone salt. It is also a component of gun powder so including a candle in this kanji can be quite explosive!"
116,砕,smash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,To SMASH a STONE you need to hit it NINE or TEN times. STORY2: The Stones (the Rolling Stones) are 90 aged but they've done a new SMASH hit!
117,砂,sand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here's how I remember that stone is on the left. This is because sand starts as stones, and only later they become few. STORY2: In good SAND, stones are few, if any."
118,削,plane,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sparks will fly if you attempt to PLANE your sabre. STORY2: With today's strict air regulations, carrying a sabre onto a plane could spark quite a commotion."
119,光,ray,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A ray of light is not a wave but made of little photons with human legs. STORY2: The ray from Honey I Shrunk the Kids made people little - ha! look at them run around on their tiny legs!
120,太,plump,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A large person with a big drop of sweat dripping off of him because he is so plump. STORY2: Fat(""plump"") men always have small penises.....the kanji is a combination of ""large"" with a drop(representing the small penis between his legs)."
121,器,utensil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine four hungry mouths all sitting around the table. They are all banging their utensils on the table waiting for a big meal to be placed in the centre. STORY2: Note: 器 by itself means container/caliber/vessel. And 食器 means eating utensils (""food container"", hehe)."
122,臭,stinking,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ST. BERNARD DOG lifted his large NOSE high in the air to find out where the stinking smell comes from. STORY2: When I is big, Ego stinking."
123,妙,exquisite,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Exquisite women are few and far between. STORY2: A geisha is an exquisite and delicate (another meaning of this kanji) women, however, even in the past there was only few of them."
124,省,focus,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You focus by concentrating your eye on fewer objects. STORY2: Success (or survival?) method for accelerated juggling course: focus on a few nitroglycerine filled juggling balls flying OVER your eyes ---(I have trouble with this few primitive that can be anywhere in a kanji. To build in its location in the story is important somehow).
125,厚,thick,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Sparta we throw our Children over a Cliff. Under the Sun, they fight other Children. In the end, if they survive, they sure have thick skin. STORY2: The thick cliff walls protected the children from the sun."
126,奇,strange,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I find it strange that so many people commit suicide in Tokyo by throwing themselves in front of the train. To me when I look at this kanji, I see a train just about to come out of a tunnel, and above the man waiting for his oppourtunity where he can end it all. STORY2: Imagine a ST. BERNARD DOG carrying a CAN instead of a barrel in rescue missions. How strange!"
127,川,stream,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"So as not to confuse this with river (#146) think of streamers falling down. STORY2: There are three default I/O Streams in UNIX, stdin, stdout, and stderr."
128,州,state,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There were 3 little islands in the stream who all decided to set themselves up as independent states. STORY2: シュウ　The original meaning of this character was ""sandbar"", and for me this conjures up images of the Mississippi River, which is very wide with many sandbars and which was used to define the borders in ten American states. Picture Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer floating by state after state as they adventure down the mighty Mississippi, occasionally beaching their raft on sandbars."
129,順,obey,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Obey, Obey!"" says the brain-washing scientist as he sends a stream of orders to fill your head. STORY2: Obey the orders streaming down from head office."
130,水,water,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The kanji for water is an abstract primitive itself, so unless one is willing to break down its etymological development, it should just simply be memorized by strokes; constructing a story is not necessarily useful unless it strongly denotes its shape (I find that Heisig's story doesn't do this). STORY2: For those having issues with this* ""A 7K foot pool of water"" Notice it looks like a 7, and a K. Might have to practice writing it a few times."
131,氷,icicle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Icicles start with 1 frozen drop of water. STORY2: A drop in temperature turns water into an icicle.
132,永,eternity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It would take an eternity to count all the drops of water. STORY2: It takes but one drop from the most special water: the fountain of youth (and it is written in a special way to with an extra horizontal line on the top) to live for an eternity. (In order to remember that the drop is at the top, think that the drop must come from the topmost water in order for its effects to be true)."
133,泉,spring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"White is a symbol of purety, so white water is pure water, the precise definition of spring water. STORY2: Perhaps the most common appearance of this kanji is in the word 温泉 (おんせん, onsen), a Japanese hot spring. The kanji is an excellent image of someone enjoying a Japanese hot spring: a little white towel on top, water below. (This helps keep all associations: spring, little and onsen)."
134,原,meadow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Follow the springs down the cliff and you will find a nice meadow. STORY2: Sorry about this, but Heisig was stupid calling this kanji meadow, used in composite words the most common meaning is ORIGIN... To remember just think that life may have begun in pounds or springs in a land with many cliffs ... Just to answer correctly the review lessons think of meadow as the origin of a huge forest."
135,願,petition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Let's petition to save that beautiful MEADOW from overdevelopment by signing on this PAGE. STORY2: Japanese hippies PETITION to save a meadow by getting people on the street to sign their page - as you pass by they call out: ""お願いします、おねがいします。”."
136,泳,swim,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With that much WATER (2 actually) you would need to swim for an ETERNITY. STORY2: If you don't know how to swim, you'll be in that water for eternity."
137,沼,marsh,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The marshlands near Mordor seduce Frodo into gazing upon them, and he falls into the water--splash! STORY2: A marsh is where water is seduced into the ground."
138,沖,open sea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Open sea is a lot of water in the middle of nowhere. STORY2: Water in the middle of the ocean is referred to as open sea.
139,江,creek,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A CREEK is a small trail of water easily crafted with a stick. STORY2: Creeks are small water, easily crossed with a simple i-beam."
140,汁,soup,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,To make soup you just take water and add (+) the rest of your ingredients. STORY2: To make soup you just take water and add ten tasty ingredients.
141,潮,tide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The morning tide is basically, well, WATER in the MORNING. STORY2: This is not the eventide, but the water of the morning tide."
142,源,source,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The water that flows from the meadow is the source of life for the wild antelope. STORY2: The source of clean water is from the meadow (#134): it comes from that spring at the bottom of the cliff. Pay no attention to Julie Andrews lying face down in spring. The water's clean. Trust me.
143,活,lively,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Conversations can become more lively after everyone has had a few drinks. It's because ""watery tongues"" loosen lips! STORY2: I'm sure I can get her pretty lively and wet using my tongue."
144,消,extinguish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To extinguish a SPARK, you need WATER. STORY2: You need a few drops of water to extinguish the candle."
145,況,but of course,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you ask your teenager if what he's drinking is water (and not Vodka), he will answer ""but of course"". STORY2: キョウ But of course, this character really means ""situation/condition"". ""Elder brother gulped some water and said, 'What the hell was Heisig's mental CONDITION when he came up with this definition? Heisig must have a drinking CONDITION. But of course, if Heisig sticks to water, rather than sake (like me, water quaffing, situation assessing, sober elder brother), his SITUATION may improve.'""　[MODEL COMPOUND: 状況　(じょうきょう)　state of affairs; conditions]."
146,河,river,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A river CAN exist only if there is WATER. STORY2: I kept confusing this with stream. My Japanese friend said that to him this is for an artificial river. Looking at kanji compounds with this there are two that struck me: One is the Yellow River in China (黄河), and the other is the Milky Way (銀河). Now I either think of the Little Engine that could dragging a bunch of stuff down a river in China and polluting it (so it turned yellow) or I see the Little Engine that Could flying across the sky making the Milky Way."
147,泊,overnight,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Please supply a guest who stays overnight with WATER and WHITE sheets. STORY2: When I go to an OVERNIGHT party, all I need is a bit of water and some of that hard white. (crack). (not really, but come on. much easier to recall than white sheets)."
148,湖,lake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is my favorite story. Simply associate the sad moment of an OLD person, standing near the WATER of the lake and looking at the MOON reflected in the lake. The created primitives themselves are put so beautifully, that you will not forget this kanji. STORY2: Water reflects the old moon in the lake."
149,測,fathom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A fathom is the unit you use when making rules about water's depth. STORY2: You can't fathom how deep this water is. Perhaps you should use a ruler to measure it?
150,土,soil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remembering soil is easy. If soil is soft, you can take a walking stick and plunge it two* feet into the ground. STORY2: King Arthur pulled the magical sword Excalibur out of the hardened soil to claim his place as king."
151,吐,spit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The only things that come out of my MOUTH and onto the GROUND are spit and vomit. Everything else (words, song) floats on the air. STORY2: SPIT goes from my MOUTH to the GROUND."
152,圧,pressure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The GROUND at the base of a CLIFF must suffer from enormous pressure. STORY2: For physics people: p = F/A (p:pressure, F:Force, A:Area). Where the force is from the immensity of the cliff. The area on the cliff is covered by soil. So the equation becomes p = F/A = cliff/soil which preserves the position of the primitives."
153,埼,cape,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This refers to LAND, not the STRANGE gear superheroes wear. STORY2: Cape Cod ""odd"" is a land where odd=strange things happen."
154,垣,hedge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before the Great Wall of China, there was a dirt hedge that spanned across. STORY2: The HEDGE of roses growing from the castle grounds fully spanned the castle walls."
155,圭,squared jewel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Piling SOIL upon SOIL for aeons is how SQUARE JEWELS are formed deep in the earth. STORY2: How would you stop someone stealing your biggest square jewel? Bury it deep in the soil under ground. Then plant ivy to mark the spot.
156,封,seal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king used a special seal of ivy leaves glued onto his document. STORY2: A bit of ivy glued to a letter can make a lovely SEAL when in a pinch, says Martha Stewart."
157,涯,horizon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Try to reverse Heisig's story in this Kanji: imagine being trapped in one of those prison towers on an ivy cladcliff like in the movies. From your prison ontop the ivy clad cliff all you can see in the distant horizon is nothing but water. STORY2: From the water, I can see the ivy-clad-cliffs on the horizon."
158,寺,Buddhist temple,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the Buddhist temple the monks are seated on the ground, glued there in meditation. STORY2: To be allowed to join the Buddhist temple, imagine an aspiring monk being asked to stand still in the soil for a long time in a measurement of his resolve."
159,時,time,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the SUN starts to shine on the TEMPLE, it's time to get up. STORY2: In ancient Japan, TIME of ''day'' was announced at the ''buddhist temples''. They did this by ringing large iron bells. This is similar to churches who ring their bells to announce the time of day."
160,均,level,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Soil is scooped up into a ladel. The extra drop is brushed off to make it level. STORY2: To remember the extra stroke in the ladle, make a vivid image of a big drop of excess soil fr0m the ladle falling out onto the ground when you level it."
161,火,fire,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For some reason, this kanji reminds me of a person running, her arms (the two drops) raised up, because she caught on fire! STORY2: A tepee getting shot at by fire arrows."
162,炎,inflammation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,To fight fire with fire would just inflame a situation. STORY2: An inflammation can often feel like FIRE upon FIRE burning.
163,煩,anxiety,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An anxiety feels like FIRE in the HEAD. STORY2: Many performers get ""Michael Jackson anxiety"" wherein they fear their head will catch on fire."
164,淡,thin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Drink water and burn twice as many calories as you eat... you'll definitely get thin. Imagine inside your body, all those calories literally being burned from above and below... THAT's what it takes to become thin. STORY2: Thin girls are twice as hot when they're wet."
165,灯,lamp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Imagine old gas lamps which had a flame to light up the street signs. STORY2: A lamp is fire you can hang from a nail.
166,畑,farm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Many farms are created by first setting FIRE over the land to clear the land for the FIELDS. STORY2: When creating a farm, the prospective farmer must first set fire to the forest to clear the ground. Only then can he plow the fields. Fire before fields to make a farm."
167,災,disaster,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What a disaster! First a FIRE, then on top of it came FLOODs. STORY2: Don't know about Japan, but here in Australia, flooding rivers and bushfires are the most common natural disasters."
168,灰,ashes,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fire underneath the cliff will eventually turn everything above to ashes. STORY2: Scene from ""The Big Lebowski"" : Walter scatters Donny's ashes, but a wind blows much of the ashes into ""The Dude"" Lebowski's face. Upset, The Dude lashes out at Walter. Walter apologizes and hugs The Dude, before suggesting ""Fuck it, man. Let's go bowling."" I bet you that The Dude wanted to cremate (fire) Walter right there and then, at the top of the cliff! (thanks Elktapestry)."
169,点,spot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The FORTUNE TELLER was burned by FLAMES on the spot because she was accused of being a witch. STORY2: You have to stimulate the G-spot with your magic wand in order to get her on fire. Or you can juste use your mouth...
170,照,illuminate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"SHINING FLAMES illuminate! STORY2: The sun was seduced to give us fire, by which we illuminate the night."
171,魚,fish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The elements of this kanji are bound up, rice field and cooking fire. When I think of bound up cooked rice, it makes me think of sushi, which in turn brings to mind fish. STORY2: Bind that FISH and cook his brains! Yarhh!"
172,漁,fishing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You need WATER and FISH for fishing. STORY2: If you are confusing this with angling like me, take fishing to mean not the act of catching a fish but the act of being a fish not living but fishing (i.e. in the water)."
173,里,ri,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ri is a Japanese way of measuring the area of the GROUND underneath a RICE FIELD. STORY2: Hint: Heisig makes here a severe disservice to everyone by using a weird keyword for this character. You'll save a lot (and I mean, a whole lot) of trouble later by giving it instead its intended meaning: House of the Parents."
174,黒,black,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you burn the GROUND of a RICE FIELD with FIRE, eventually it will turn black. STORY2: If your parent's home catches on fire, it will turn black."
175,墨,black ink,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Theres BLACK on the GROUND...most likely someone spilt some black ink. STORY2: Anyone who has worked with laserjet ink cartridges will know the black ink looks like powdered dirt.
176,鯉,carp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Japanese carp are massive fish - they are measured in ri! STORY2: The fish got carpal tunnel syndrome from the computer(I know it's lame but it's hard to find a good story for this).
177,量,quantity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I did such a quantity of work that when NIGHT BREAK came, I was asleep on the COMPUTER. STORY2: If you find that by nightbreak, you're still playing at your computer, chances are your World of Warcraft character has a high quantity of levels. [thanks to ssmoler] ..... To remember that nightbreak appears ABOVE computer, think of looking UP from your computer at the window to realize you've been playing until nightbreak."
178,厘,rin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I threw my Rindows computer off a cliff because it kept crashing. Now, after its last crash, it's worth less than a rin. STORY2: A computer dropped off of a cliff would be worth about 1 RIN."
179,埋,bury,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You can't bury computers underground, because of the dangerous heavy metals, so you hide them behind an equally large mound of soil and hope no-one notices. STORY2: I used SOIL to BURY my COMPUTER."
180,同,same,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Muslim women wearing veils (HOOD) all look the same, you can just see ONE MOUTH and very little else. STORY2: Imagine monks wandering around the monastery. Covered in their hoods and chanting as if with one mouth they all look the same !"
181,洞,den,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"All the animals in the den share the same water. STORY2: ""Den"" and ""cave"" also make me think of a monk's cell. Monks take vows of silence and fast. So a den is where you'd find nothing but water (to drink) and a monk."
182,胴,trunk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A trunk, a trunk // The body of a monk // The body of a monk in a trunk, a trunk. STORY2: Dead flesh all looks the same when you chop off everything but the trunk. Yes, I'm appalled at how gruesome this story is too."
183,向,yonder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Look over yonder ! That tiny dot is robin hood at the mouth of his secret cave ! STORY2: There was an old woman named Wanda,// Who wanted to make herself blonder.// She covered her くち// With a glass hood from Gucci// And dropped some hair dye on from yonder."
184,尚,esteem,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An especially esteemed alien has three antennae on his helmet. STORY2: Remember that scene from Star Wars, where Luke is wearing that helmet that only his mouth could see, and was swinging at that little thing buzzing around the room? That was Obi-Wan's trick to get Luke to build his self-esteem, or his confidence in the Force."
185,字,character,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"CHILDren learn Kanji characters underneath a HOUSE. STORY2: ""Why do I have to wear this roof on my head all the time father?"" ""Shut up! It builds character!""."
186,守,guard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A GUARD is usually ""glued"" to the house he watches. STORY2: A guard provides a measure of security to those under a roof."
187,完,perfect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Make the perfect impression in the beginning by removing your shoes upon entering a Japanese home. STORY2: In the beginning, Adam and Eve had a home in Eden. It was perfect."
188,宣,proclaim,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You can proclaim your opinions from the comfort of your HOUSE and have it SPAN the entire globe these days via The Internet. STORY2: I heard young Muslims have to memorise the Koran and proclaim it aloud as a kind of rite of passage. Imagine the SPAN of hours spent under a ROOF practising that! It must surely be worse than trying to get through Heisigs RTK - count yourself lucky.
189,宵,wee hours,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I burn the CANDLE in my HOUSE until the WEE HOURS reviewing the kanji!!! STORY2: I agree with elktapestry. This kanji really means ""early evening"", not ""wee hours"" [Heisig really should have done his homework on this and several other characters (e.g., #145 ""but of course"" -- what the hell???). Oh well.] ""Every house lights candles in the EARLY EVENING which stay lit until the wee hours"". E.G. 宵の口（よいのくち）early evening; 今宵（こよい）this evening; tonight."
190,安,relax,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's funny, Hesig gives no Kanji in his book that means cheap/inexpensive... well... if you were wondering what Kanji would carry that meaning, look no further. Sometimes I wonder if Hesig just thinks our little brains would be too easily confused by multiple meanings. Regardless, think of that woman relaxing. Cheapest place to do that is in one's own home rather than at some fancy resort, eh? 家で休暇を取るは安いですね。. STORY2: You can only relax, when you have woman under roof to do all chores."
191,宴,banquet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The WOMAN spent all DAY preparing a banquet in the HOUSE. STORY2: Under the roof, all day long, the woman prepared for the banquet (this wording helps me remember the order of this kanji's elements)."
192,寄,draw near,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The strange house has a sign saying ""DRAW NEAR"" in its window, instead of a 'Beware' sign. It must be a trick! STORY2: Imagine a horror movie set in a haunted mansion. The house is very strange. The characters draw near to one another for protection against the unknown."
193,富,wealth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember Ducktales? That rich duck had that room in his house where he kept all the wealth! He had so much in that house you could even swim in it! STORY2: In ancient Japan, a RICE FIELD is a unit of wealth as it can produce enough to feed all the MOUTHs in ONE HOUSE."
194,貯,savings,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It takes a lot more than one clam of savings to buy a house on a street. STORY2: My SAVINGS plan - I nail my moneybags up in the rafters below my roof. I'm very secretive about it, and I wear a disguise with a big mustache (another meaning of this kanji) while I stash my loot."
195,木,tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you need a story for a tree, then you need to be hit by one. STORY2: Pictograph of a tree."
196,林,grove,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A grove has at least two TREEs. STORY2: Two tree huggers saying that protecting the environment is grovey man...　RTK2:　リン　森林　しんりん(woods and forests).
197,森,forest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The higher you go up a mountain the less trees there are, that's so u dont mess up with their possition like i do. STORY2: Another tree planted within a grove turns it into a FOREST."
198,桂,Japanese Judas-tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Simple mnemonic : ""The Japanese Judas-tree is the tree on which Judas hang himself to the ivy"" (Judas the traitor of the Christian bible). Just picture Judas hanging himself, using ivy as a if it was a rope. STORY2: A tree covered in poison ivy will quickly betray you, thus the name JAPANESE JUDAS-TREE."
199,柏,oak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The wood from oak trees can be used to make barrels in which white wine is aged. What's more, I love white wine with an oaky flavour... STORY2: An oak tree is white, from left to right!"
200,枠,frame,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,wood at 90 (9 * 10) degrees. STORY2: Nine out of ten picture frames are made out of wood. The rest are made of metal or plastic.
201,梢,treetops,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At Christmas time, on the treetops, people used to place great big candles (Now we usually place a star instead). STORY2: If you cut off the treetops, they still resemble the trees they used to be part of. Treetops=tree resemblance."
202,棚,shelf,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A shelf is a wooden companion to books. STORY2: I think of an Otaku, with a wooden shelf full of anime action figure statures, who are sadly his only companions."
203,杏,apricot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,From the tree straight into the mouth is the best way to eat an APRICOT! STORY2: Imagine Totoro sleeping under his tree. As he snores a giant apricot falls nicely into his open mouth and he emits a giant burp of satisfaction. I can hear that music alreay....to - to to - to - ro...
204,桐,paulownia,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japan, a paulownia (きり）is known as the ""princess tree"". It was once a traditional TREE planted at the SAME time as the birth of a daughter. It would grow fast enough that, at the time of her wedding, it could be used to make a dresser as a wedding present for her. STORY2: Paulownia is a Japanese tree which looks same as any other tree."
205,植,plant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Plants don't become trees straightaway. STORY2: When you plant plants, you use a piece of WOOD to make the plant grow STRAIGHT."
206,枯,wither,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A tree withers away as it gets old. STORY2: When flowers get old they suffer (frame 225), but old trees just WITHER away painlessly. (Picture flowers crying in pain, but a dried up tree silent and sad)."
207,朴,crude,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Wooden wands are the crudest. They are nothng compared to their carbon fibre equivilents. STORY2: A beginner magician starts with a crude wooden magic wand. Later he'll upgrade to magicite, of course."
208,村,town,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you've ever played an old 8 bit or 16 bit RPG, like Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy or Inindou, you'll remember that every town was all bordered off by a line of trees with no space in between to get out through. Imagine that the trees were glued together so you could only exit town through the main or side gates, (so you couldn't escape the important scripted scenes.). STORY2: Pfft. At it's core, a town is just a bunch of wood glued together. Edit - Stop starring this piece of crap story! xD."
209,相,inter-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The prime minister is having inter-course behind that tree! All you can see are his eyes poking out from the righthand-side of the tree. STORY2: ソウ/ショウ/あ INTER /MUTUAL /ASPECT /PHASE /MINISTER. ""Long ago, before there were telephones, people living far from one another would climb trees to eye each other's aspects and inter-act for their mutual benefit. Those who did this best became government ministers, with the top person (perhaps the one with the longest neck (首, neck (#70)) becoming the prime minister 「首相 (しゅしょう)""."
210,机,desk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My wooden desk is so messy, it looks like a strong wind blew my things all over it. STORY2: Whenever I'm alone at my computer desk, I'm always getting wood and breaking wind."
211,本,book,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The origin of a book is paper made out of TREEs. ONE tree can make many books. STORY2: An axe cutting a tree to make books.
212,札,tag,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Botanists like to identify TREEs by HOOKing tags on them. STORY2: Might be good to note that this is also the Kanji for ""Paper Money"" w/ the reading さつ (千円札＝1000 Yen paper bill)... It also takes on the meaning of Playing Card with the reading of ふだ as in 花札 (Hanafuda cards) or トランプの札 (""trump"" playing cards). For the tag meaning I like to think of wooden tags hung on hooks from trees... but for these other meanings I like to think of both paper money and playing cards as paper (tree) products with the ability to ""hook you in"" so to speak."
213,暦,calendar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Years-Months-Days: It takes many years for a cliff to form or erode. A tree takes many months to grow. But days pass by regularly - so in this way, we see the movement of time such as with a CALENDAR. STORY2: This is just a picture of a wall calendar with a page for each month. The bottom half has the grid of days, the top half has a pretty picture of a forest this month. The cliff radical here is the top and left edges of the paper. You can see the paper curling up at the lower left where a breeze is trying to turn the page."
214,案,plan,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I plan to RELAX on top of that TREE. STORY2: If you bring a woman to your house, generally its not a good plan to stick your wood up her bottom, she may scream in pain あん!"
215,燥,parch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig, so it's worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest ""furniture"" (a common type of wooden goods). REF: parch (FRAME 215) , maneuver (#671), winding (#1369), seaweed (#2035). Story: It's been so parched recently that your furniture suddenly catches fire. STORY2: The parchment says you need fire to make goods from trees."
216,未,not yet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I believe a better version of that by mameha1977: [Cheat] Remember these as a set: The tree (木) does not yet (未) have exremities (末) of vermilion (朱). STORY2: [Cheat] Remember these as a set: The tree (木) is not yet (末) vermilion (朱).
217,末,extremity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The tree has reached the extremity of its growth and no longer produces small, new branches at the top. Instead the existing top branch just grows longer and longer. STORY2: There are no great stories for this one yet, and I always forget it.. So, let's try something ridiculous: The man lived by himself in the wilderness, with no females within miles. So, his only way of relief was to stick his extremity into a small hole in a tree.. The poor guy. Which horizontal stroke is the extremity? The longer one or the shorter one? That, my friends, is up to your own imaginations. I'd prefer not to dwell on that point, myself. ;)."
218,沫,splash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The extremity of a wave of water is the splash. STORY2: A splash is WATER that has reached its EXTREMITY.
219,味,flavor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My mouth has not yet swallowed the food because the flavor is so delicious that I keep chewing it. STORY2: To enjoy a food's FLAVOR, it must be in one's MOUTH but NOT YET swallowed."
220,妹,younger sister,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My younger sister is NOT YET a fully grown WOMAN. STORY2: Is your younger sister a woman? Not yet! Damn!
221,朱,vermilion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It's autumn: only one vermilion leaf on the tree has not yet fallen. STORY2: [Cheat] Remember these as a set: The tree (木) is not yet (未)[correction wrong character before] vermilion (朱).
222,株,stocks,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Which tree would you buy stocks in - the healthy one on the left, or the one with only one vermilion leaf left on the right? STORY2: Ideally, one buys stocks when a company is young, ""green,"" and rapidly growing -- then sells them just before the last vermillion leaf falls off, and a period of dormancy or limited growth begins."
223,若,young,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The young little girl held a cute flower in her right hand. STORY2: In Hawaii, if you wear a flower over your left ear, it means you are taken. A flower over the right means you are not. The younger you are, the more likely you are to have a flower over your right ear…　　　　　　RTK2: 　ニャク　老若　ろうにゃく (young and old)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ジャク　若干　じゃっかん(few)."
224,草,grass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Grass grows in earlier than flowers. STORY2: This grass is very long. The only flowers you can see are sunflowers – the rest are hidden by the grass.
225,苦,suffering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Flowers for the old man suffering in the hospital. STORY2: The derivates from opium poppies such as morphine can be used to tame the suffering of the old.
226,寛,tolerant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A tolerant person will ignore SEEing GRASS (marijuana) in the HOUSE of a friend. STORY2: To be tolerant is to see flowers (meaning ""beautiful things"") in every house, instead of looking for drawbacks."
227,薄,dilute,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A Dr. missing his needle can only use dilute flower water for medicine. STORY2: Note This character belongs to a set of characters which share the flower/water primitive such as:: dilute (#227), fall (#299), clan (#1912), and seaweed (#2035).... (落 薄 藩 藻) It may be helpful to create a primitive keyword for this occurrence (like seaweed or watering can) which can save a lot of time distinguishing them from characters like Sino 満 and Full 満, where the water primitive is larger than the flower primitive."
228,葉,leaf,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On top of the leaves a flower appears, promising new generations for the old tree below. STORY2: The flower generation spent far too much time up trees trying to smoke leaves."
229,模,imitation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If I find out this furniture you're selling me is made of imitation wood, I'll put you in the graveyard. STORY2: The Japanese are so enamored of everything plastic, they even put IMITATION plastic trees in their graveyards! (No, not really, but I wouldn't be surprised)."
230,漠,vague,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The precise locations of sailors who meet a WATERY GRAVE are vague. STORY2: The water in the graveyard has worn away the headstones, so the writing is vague."
231,墓,grave,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The soil under a graveyard is full of graves. STORY2: A grave is a patch of soil in a graveyard.
232,暮,livelihood,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He made a livelihood out of robbing GRAVEYARDS in broad DAYlight. STORY2: The gravedigger makes his LIVELIHOOD digging in the graveyard all day For graveyard, imagine an idyllic picture: beautiful grass with the sun shining down...and a dog peeing on one of the graves. Don't confuse with occupation (#1034). Hold onto the irony of making your LIVElyhood from tending dead people."
233,膜,membrane,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the moonlight of the graveyard I hear a zombie say, MMMMM..EMM...BRANEsssss. STORY2: The membranes in your flesh rot when placed in the graveyard."
234,苗,seedling,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you plant seedlings in a FIELD eventually they will FLOWER. STORY2: Crap! There are flowers in the rice field... Who let those seedlings get in there?!
235,兆,portent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,When your wife's LEGs get huge hairs on them it is surely a bad portent for things to come. STORY2: A bad portent makes the hairs on your legs stand.
236,桃,peach tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The pits of a peach tree look like turtles. STORY2: King Koopa consistently captures Princess Peach. Eventually he's going to run out of castles and just set her in a tree.
237,眺,stare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sauron's One fiery eye stare at Frodo and it is a sign of portent. Evil will become whomever the eye is staring upon. STORY2: You lost a staring contest with a turtle because you blinked your eye before he did. (The contest wasn't fair, because turtles have nictitating membranes, and don't need to blink so often.) Eye comes first, because stare is most associated with eyes. And compare with challenge (#658) where this same obstreperous turtle challenges you to a finger wrestling contest. (Sibyl's story with some notes that helped me)."
238,犬,dog,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A large dog, dripping drool. STORY2: If we remember large (#107) as a man with his arms outstretched, the drop represents man's best friend - a dog."
239,状,status quo,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It was left to the turtle to make right with the dog and thus maintain the status quo.. STORY2: A turtle mounting a chihuahua clearly disrupts the status quo.
240,黙,silence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The computer won't stop beeping, which is making the chihauhua bark, and it's driving this guy insane. The only solution he can come up with is to throw them both on the fire and finally enjoy the silence. STORY2: Your neighbor is so sick of you playing Led Zeppelin that he takes your copy of the song Black Dog and burns it. Finally, silence in the neighborhood."
241,然,sort of thing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Flesh of a dog over a cooking fire = ""hotdog"". There are all sorts of things in hot dogs. Believe me, you don't want to know what sort of things . Visualize the hotdog curling as it cooks, to remember the unusual way the flesh primitive curves in this kanji. (tweaked version of ziggr's. Thanks!). STORY2: There are all sorts of things in hot dogs. (I use hot dog for this primitive (meat of a dog over a cooking fire). I swear I can actually see the 月 here as a hot dog, with its slight curve and grill marks.)."
242,荻,reed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,REEDS are the only FLOWERS that WILD DOGS like to FIRE up and smoke while they are playing poker. STORY2: A reed is a flower that looks like a hot dog.
243,狩,hunt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Actually when hunting it may be a good idea to use a pack of dogs as your personal guard. STORY2: After a pack of wild dogs hunt some food, they will guard it fiercely."
244,猫,cat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The cat hid in the FLOWERS of the FIELD from the WILD DOGs. STORY2: Dawgs always wanna put their seedlings in pussies.
245,牛,cow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A cow tried to climb up a vermilion tree, but in doing so, it broke its two bottom branches off. STORY2: A cow bleeds vermilion when you cut off two of it's legs."
246,特,special,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of not special people, but special animals. The sacred Hindu cows are special - they can wander around the temple without fear of becoming roast beef. STORY2: The Church Lady is traveling through Japan and notices with distaste a sacred cow relieving itself inside a Buddhist Temple. ""Well, isn't that special""."
247,告,revelation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The revelation makes the cow's mouth drop down, ""Hamburgers are made of what?!"". STORY2: When you get a revelation, you may drop to the ground with your mouth wide open."
248,先,before,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I've never seen a cow with human legs before! STORY2: Nasty story but it keeps the meaning true to the kanji. ""BEFORE you stick it in a COW and SPREAD the legs (the bottom stroke of this cow looks like two legs) make sure she has HUMAN LEGS""-------------sorry, I'll remove if I get enough reports, but will keep if I get more stars."
249,洗,wash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japan, you always wash with water from the shower before you enter the bathtub. STORY2: You wash things with WATER to get them back to the clean state they were in BEFORE."
250,介,jammed in,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The two strokes at the bottom look like a J and I, which stands for ""jammed in."". STORY2: Two people jammed in under an umbrella. A woman with a dress and a man (straight). It's always me that ends up getting wet.... but the tail of the skirt is this time!"
251,界,world,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,One Japanese farmer I know is so small minded that he thinks the entire world is JAMMED IN the borders of his little RICE FIELD. STORY2: A famous philosopher once said that his world consisted of all the things he could jam into his brain.
252,茶,tea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some people think drinking tea is boring and quaint. That's why I spice mine up by adding a cocktail umbrella, which of course is made from a wood-en toothpick supporting a paper umbrella with flowers printed on top. STORY2: When I drink herbal tea I like to drink it under a parasol. If it's too hot I go ""ho, ho, ho !!"" (katakana ホ)."
253,合,fit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I wouldn't mind a meeting of mouths with her, she's really fit ! STORY2: He had such a big mouth that he could easily fit one whole umbrella in it."
254,塔,pagoda,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In order to build a pagoda in this small Japanese garden everything has to fit: the soil to the left and the flowers in the upper right corner. STORY2: Pictograph-o-rama. This is a corner of a Japanese garden, with a small mound of soil on the left, and a little concrete pagoda in the front with flowers behind it. (To my eye, the fit looks a lot like a little pagoda anyway. This may or may not cause confusion for you, though...)."
255,王,king,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,To be king you have to be a real crafty one ! STORY2: The king unites heaven and earth. (imagine heaven being the top line over the soil).
256,玉,jewel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king is said to have only one family jewel below the belt... STORY2: The king is said to have only one family jewel below the belt...and he hangs left! (I always screw up the direction of the ""drop"")."
257,宝,treasure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On treasure island is a single house - where all the jewels are stored. STORY2: Put a ""roof"" (lid) on your jewels and voila! You've got a treasure chest."
258,珠,pearl,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The king of the Oysters produces special Vermillion pearls! STORY2: King Vermillion is a little queer and likes to wear pearl necklaces.
259,現,present,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The KING ... can SEE clearly the PRESENT state of affairs in the land. (maybe he hees them in the crystal ball on the left?). STORY2: Hey, I want my money back! This crystal ball is out of order, I can see the present instead of the future!"
260,狂,lunatic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Oh no ! A pack of dogs has bitten the king. He has turned into a rabid lunatic ! STORY2: Think of King Nebuchadnezzar, who for 7 years lost his sanity and had to live like a wild animal."
261,皇,emperor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ancient Rome had Emperors instead of Kings, and they wore white robes. Thus an emperor is a king in white. (make sure you picture a roman emperor not a japanese one and you'll be ok). STORY2: The white dove descended on the king and he was promoted to emperor."
262,呈,display,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The mouth of the king is displaying his bling. STORY2: What a pathetic display! The king is sprawled on his throne, head back and mouth wide open, fast asleep. We should never have let him drink so much at that banquet last night."
263,全,whole,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fat king hogs the whole space under his umbrella. (tweaked version of radical tyro's story. ""fat"" makes a more vivid image for me.). STORY2: The king takes up the whole space under his umbrella."
264,栓,plug,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fat king under his umbrella offers useless advice to the workers. ""You'll need the whole tree to plug that gap"". Imagine a grossly fat, incompetent king under a parasol giving annoying advice to sweating workers who know what they're doing. (I always have trouble bringing up the ""whole"" primitive. This story reminds me how to build that part. ). STORY2: To plug the hole, you need to use a whole piece of wood - like a cork or something."
265,理,logic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The king of LOGIC is the computer. STORY2: Computers are ruled by logic (it is the king of computers).
266,主,lord,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A lord is a little drop down from King in hierarchy. STORY2: Although this kanji's meaning hasn't caused me much trouble, I've had problems remembering the direction of the drop above king, since drops at tops of kanji often seem to appear in different directions. To remember this one, I think of the placement of the drop in jewel (#256). Both of them use the king primitive and include a short drop stroke going from the top left to bottom right."
267,注,pour,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Visualize an idiot trying to figure out how to extinguish a candle. He sees a glass of WATER and decides to pour it onto the CANDLESTICK to put it out. Water spills everywhere. STORY2: Like water the hot wax poured down the side of the candlestick.
268,柱,pillar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The main pillar in a house should be made of the biggest and strongest tree - the lord of the trees. STORY2: ""Why has this pillar been carved in the shape of a giant penis?!"" ""You said that 'it should be made of wood', My Lord.""."
269,金,gold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fat king taking up the whole space under the umbrella actually isn't fat - he just has two big gold bars hidden under his clothes. STORY2: Under the umbrella's shade, the king sang, "" Drop it to the left, drop it to the right, give me all the GOLD in sight!""."
270,銑,pig iron,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pig iron is basic/crude metal, that is, before it has been processed. STORY2: Pig-iron is crude metal (金) before (先) it is refined. If you have trouble with this character, envision a big minotaur (cow head with human legs) as a blacksmith, smelting metals and making swords for war."
271,鉢,bowl,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is the BOWL of an alchemist: see how he mixes metals in his bowl, as he follows the instructions from his book? STORY2: If I was begging with a BOWL, I would want GOLD and BOOKS."
272,銅,copper,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I can't believe no one has used this one yet: Copper is metal which looks almost the same as gold. Really, look it up on Wikipedia, it's yellow and it's shiny (atleast in some compounds)! STORY2: Copper is an excellent conductor. In other words, it's a metal for which the voltage is the same everywhere. That's why it's used for wires."
273,釣,angling,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,All the people that go to the Japanese festivals to catch fish part time are suckers. Me? I'm a pro. I bring a big-ass golden ladle. I'm a true ANGLING professional. STORY2: Imagine an effeminate Roman 2000 years ago angling with a golden ladle instead of a rod because it matches his eyes and hair better and it impresses the boys. (Why a Roman? Because 'angling' is just the roman-derived way to say 'fishing' - use this to distinguish fishing from angling.).
274,針,needle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Remember the story of the needle in the haystack. Why would someone even look for a needle if it wasn't a GOLD NEEDLE? STORY2: A golden needle is worth ten times more than an ordinary needle.
275,銘,inscription,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A piece of metal with a name on it. Well, this is basically the definition of inscription. STORY2: I imagine ancient Egyptian inscriptions: Pharaohs' names written in gold."
276,鎮,tranquillize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Tranquilize - using a metal syringe to get the truth. STORY2: Enough gold can tranquilize the truth in anyone.
277,道,road-way,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When we go out on the ROAD-WAY, we often risk our own necks (that's why I take the train! ). STORY2: Watch as a villianous fiend stretches a poor damsel's neck over a dusty road. Her ear pressed to the ground, she can hear the rumble of a carriage thundering down the roadway. Will the hero save her in time? Or will her neck be ground into the road, spilling it's precious contents into the dust?"
278,導,guidance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For guidance on the road-way, glue a GPS unit to your car. STORY2: Good guidance will help you stay glued to the right path."
279,辻,crossing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Cross-road. STORY2: This kanji appears in the remarkable compound, 辻斬り 【つじぎり】 (n): killing a passerby in order to test a new sword. Imagine a cross by the road, at a busy crossing, marking the spot of the unfortunate passerby's death."
280,迅,swift,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The car went too swiftly through the crossing and was hooked by the cops. STORY2: In the Heisig version of Frogger, you can image ten giant fish hooks sweeping across the road, with our hapless hero 'froggy' forced to make a swift crossing or end up as fish bait."
281,造,create,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A cow creates a road by eating all the grass on its path. STORY2: CREATION is the ROAD to REVELATION (if you're feeling artsy) :).
282,迫,urge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you have the URGE to go to White Castle, you know it's time to hit the road. STORY2: When you start down the road of cocaine, you're sure to feel some pretty bad URGEs soon."
283,逃,escape,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I used my pants to make a rope, which I then used to escape from prison; hence the naked, hairy legs running along the road! STORY2: A turtle version of frogger dodging cars to escape to the other side of the road...　　　RTK2:　トウ　逃走　とうそう(escape)...　　　　　　　MIXED GROUP:　桃236　(ﾁｮｳ): 兆235　眺237　挑658　跳1284."
284,辺,environs,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Caution: this kanji doesn't mean environment; it means ""environs; boundary; border; vicinity"". To separate the environs, create the border by placing daggers on the road. STORY2: To protect the environs around their village, samurai would travel the roads with their swords."
285,巡,patrol,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The cops don't PATROL anymore - they just flood the road. STORY2: The Venice cops patrol on river roads.
286,車,car,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My car is so fast it can go through ten rice fields in ten minutes. STORY2: Rather than hobbling along with a walking stick to cross through a span, it's much better to use a car. (Imagine an old man with a walking stick creeping along a span of road, and you, in a car, whizzing right by him. It's funny 'cause it's true.) Also, it's important to include the word ""through,"" so you know the walking stick goes right THROUGH the span."
287,連,take along,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you put your car on the road you should always take along a few friends. Don't confuse with carry (#303). STORY2: This kanji also means ""linked"" or ""series"" so I've changed the kanji meaning to ""GO ALONG (WITH EACH OTHER)."" Well, a ROAD and a CAR certainly GO ALONG with each other. And the CAR will help you to GO ALONG the ROAD. This Kanji is the ""Union"" in Soviet Union and the ""United"" of United Nations (the countries that ""go along with each other"" at least some of the time)."
288,軌,rut,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My car got so stuck in a rut it required nine people pushing to get it out again. STORY2: I got my car stuck in a rut ! I'm gonna have to call 999 !
289,輸,transport,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The car is a cattle-car, used to transport animals for the butcher's meeting - a convention on new butchering techniques. Hear the screams of the animals as it pulls up in front of the convention hall, where the butchers are waiting with their knives out front. STORY2: The vehicle transports animals for a meeting with the butcher."
290,前,in front,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I get horny my flesh sword sticks out in front of me. STORY2: If you stand in front of a bull's horns, you are asking for your flesh to be cut (or butchered if you prefer)."
291,各,each,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Son, I've never told you this but each woman has a second mouth between their fiiiiiine walking legs. STORY2: Each and every one of us walks and talks differently."
292,格,status,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Ranger! I want you to go check the status of each tree."" ""Errr, Each tree sir?"" replies the ranger looking out over the vast forest. ""That's Right, I want the status of each tree! Move out!"". STORY2: A man measures his own status by the size of his woody...and compares it to each one he sees."
293,略,abbreviation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,There are so many abbreviations and acronyms nowadays that no brain can remember each of them. Mnemonic: ab-brain-each-ation. STORY2: A very anal farmer wants to catologue each grain of rice in his rice field. Imagine him scribbling a tiny abbreviation of his name and a number on each grain.
294,客,guest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Each person under my roof is treated as a guest. STORY2: In my house I welcome each guest.
295,額,forehead,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sign the guestbook page with your forehead. (Picture a guestbook full of forehead prints like thumbprints). STORY2: In New Zealand, people welcome guests by touching their foreheads together."
296,夏,summer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In SUMMER you are hot from the top of your head down to your walking legs. STORY2: I personally think it was too confusing to try and use head as the primitive. (How am I supposed to remember that the animal legs are replaced with walking legs instead of human legs?) Rather, I think have the image of a hot summer and you want to keep oneself under a ceiling not out jogging around."
297,処,dispose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The best way to dispose of a nasty bit of wind is to let it go and use those walking legs to dissapear. Nobody will ever know it was you. STORY2: To dispose of rubbish you should walk it to the bin not throw it to the wind.
298,条,twig,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"They all say they have a TREE between their WALKING LEGS but most only have a TWIG. STORY2: Don't confuse with branch or bough - think of snapping twigs. A twig is always the kind of wood that snaps when the hunter's walking legs just barely touch it, making a snapping sound that alerts the prey to the hunter's presence."
299,落,fall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Water each flower or the petals will wither and fall. STORY2: [It's been suggested on the forum (http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=1079) that flower across the full width of the kanji and water on the left below it should have its own keyword; seaweed is a popular choice. See also dilute (#227), clan (#1912), seaweed (#2035). This story is for the benefit of those using that idea.] Picture a group of Japanese skydivers falling through the sky -- suddenly each one opens, instead of a parachute, an enormous sheet of nori seaweed to carry them safely down."
300,冗,superfluous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king's crown was blown off by the wind. ""Oh well,"" he said, ""it's just a superfluous symbol."". STORY2: The court jester wears a crown and is full of wind with bad jokes. He is superfluous to the King's court. This kanji is read as ""JOU"" and commonly used to create the compound for jou-dan 冗談 (jest or joke) hence court jester. Also jou-go 冗語 (redundancy) and jou-in 冗員 (useless workers) 員-employee (#56)."
301,軍,army,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,British army cars are at the service of the crown. STORY2: Imagine a crown is the hood ornament on every army car.
302,輝,radiance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Rays of light emitted from Apollo's chariot = radiance. Don't put the sun into this kanji. The rays are coming from the chariot directly! STORY2: Radiance is an army of rays.
303,運,carry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don’t confuse it with “take along” (287). In that one, there was a car so you could take along your friends once you found them on the road. In this one, there is an army chariot just to carry military supplies (sorry no room for you). STORY2: Roads carry armies (in contrast to seas carrying navies or skies carrying air forces)."
304,冠,crown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember the SUPERFLUOUS CROWN that flew away in the WIND? Well now the king is saying ""i should have had the thing GLUED to my head from the BEGINNING"". STORY2: A crown, from the beginning of the new king's life, is glued to him. He must inherit it."
305,夢,dream,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Last night's date with Miss Sweden was like a dream. She even laid flowers over my eyes to crown the perfect evening. STORY2: In the movie American Beauty, Kevin Spacey liked to DREAM about his daughter's friend and have a rose petal fall onto his eye from the ceiling. He did this lying in his bed each evening. You can almost see him lying in his bed in this kanji."
306,坑,pit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A whirlwind digs a hole in the ground throwing out lots of dirt until it ends up with a giant pit. STORY2: Tazmanian Devil whirlwinds a pit into the soil. Note: Take care difference between pit and rut.
307,高,tall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two little aliens in a trenchcoat and top hat, trying to look TALL. The bottom one, in the glass helmet, is under the coat. The top one has his top hat pulled down in disguise, so all you can see is his mouth. STORY2: Here we have TWO MOUTHS each wearing a different hat. The top one is wearing a TOP HAT which is know to be as a TALL hat. The bottom one is wearing a SPACE HELMET which is known as an EXPENSIVE hat. (this kanji means both)."
308,享,receive,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In basketball however, tall children receive all the attention. STORY2: Tall children receive all the attention. They also make great receivers in football... this kanji also means 'catch' (therefore a football receiver is a great image)."
309,塾,cram school,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Welcome to our cram school: you will receive a rounded education on our grounds. STORY2: ""You can receive a well-rounded education if you study at our cram school"" says the advertisement. ""Just come to our school grounds and check it out yourself!""."
310,熟,mellow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine tall children sitting round the fire toasting marsh-mellows. STORY2: The cram school (309) tortures its students - especially the tall and fat ones who need to grow up - over a fire until they mellow. (Note that here the keyword 'mellow' only means to mature, ripen, or acquire skill; not the colloquial meaning of 'chill out')."
311,亭,pavilion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The Pavillion on crown street is the tallest I have ever seen. STORY2: The tallest Pavilion crowns the street.
312,京,capital,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tokyo, capital of Japan: tall buildings, small people (compared to the buildings). STORY2: The capital is where the powerful act formal wearing top hats, open their mouths, and get little done."
313,涼,refreshing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you're a tourist in the capital during the heat of summer, finding a water fountain is oh, so refreshing. STORY2: The water from the capital of Japan, Tokyo, is so refreshing!"
314,景,scenery,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imaging the sun rising over the capital--classic postcard scenery. STORY2: Anyone who's been to Kyoto doesn't need to think too deeply into this Kanji! Imagine a sunny day in the old capital, and there's no better scenery."
315,鯨,whale,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If fish were cities, the whale would surely be the capital. STORY2: When the whale was first discovered it was the biggest fish people had ever seen. Stories exaggerated its size - people said it was as big as the entire capital city!"
316,舎,cottage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The cottage is so small - it has an umbrella for the roof; soil for the floor and room for only one mouth. STORY2: My vacation cottage is nothing but a hole in the ground covered by an umbrella.
317,周,circumference,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If my LIDDED CROCK has the same CIRCUMFERENCE as my head, I like to use it as a HELMET. STORY2: You're at a motorcycle store looking to buy a helmet. The only way to check the circumference of your head is to put increasingly larger lidded crocks on your head until one slips on just right. Now you know what size helmet to buy."
318,週,week,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a road built so well that it takes only a week to travel the circumference of the earth. STORY2: Actually the week is like a never ending road where we travel in a circle through the same seven days again and again, the circumference is always the same. circumference (#317) also means circuit or lap, so that also makes think about the rotations of the moon, sun and the earth -- all important for measuring all kinds of time periods."
319,士,gentleman,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What a handsome gentleman. Standing up so straight, and broad shoulders too!! He's like a modern samurai! STORY2: A gentleman has broad shoulders and doesn't soil himself."
320,吉,good luck,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The samurai's wife gives him a (uhum) before battle for good luck. STORY2: A true samurai gentleman will always mouth, ""Good luck"" to his opponents before a match."
321,壮,robust,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Half of a turtle shell as a shield makes a samurai more robust. STORY2: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are robust gentlemen aren't they?
322,荘,villa,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A villa is fancier (decorated with flowers) and more robust than the average. STORY2: The teenage mutant samurai turtles live in a villa with flowers on the roof so that the neighbours don't get suspicious.
323,売,sell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The samurai happened to find an extra large crown that he wore as a belt on his waist, just above his legs. I wonder if he will sell it to me? STORY2: A ""samurai"" will never sell his ""crown"" (king), even it meant having both his ""human legs"" chopped off!"
324,学,study,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the school house there are kids always studying. (BTW, atomiton, this is NOT 字). STORY2: Children in schoolhouses are there to study, nothing else!!!"
325,覚,memorize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In a schoolhouse in class: 1) you see something on the blackboard, then 2) you memorize it. STORY2: You'll never memorize all the kanji by seeing them in a school house. You need Heisig and RtK!"
326,栄,flourish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The TREES FLOURISH in the CLASSROOM, a little too much perhaps, there's no room for the students any more. STORY2: Students are like young trees. They tend to flourish in the schoolhouse."
327,書,write,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Make sure you practice writing kanji with a brush every day before the sun goes down. STORY2: The calligrapher had a peculiar habit: when using her brush to write, she would stick out her tongue, just slightly."
328,津,haven,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A brush laying in dirty water is a haven for bacteria. STORY2: The haven for a BRUSH is in WATER.. Otherwise they get dry and withered and cant be used?!
329,牧,breed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a taskmaster giving a cow the command to ""start breeding, and start doing it now!"", except that the cow takes his advice a bit too literally and starts chasing the taskmaster to carry out this command! instead of finding another cow to breed with. Hence, you see the taskmaster running to the right, trying to stay ahead of the cow. STORY2: Hint: This is the kanji from which taskmaster is derived. Actually, this kanji has nothing to do with breed, and a lot to do with pastures and shepherds (also for cowboys, japanese and spanish don't differenciate between animals). Think of a cowboy (taskmaster) who brings his cows to the pasture."
330,攻,aggression,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Aggression is the craft of a good dominatrix. STORY2: AGGRESSION is a well-honed craft for any decent taskmaster.
331,敗,failure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you end up in failure, you give money to the taskmaster to train you. STORY2: The shell who was defeated before (defeat (#63)) is being chastised by the taskmaster for his failure to win."
332,枚,sheet of,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The taskmaster is a strict bathroom monitor who hands out only one sheet of really rough, splintery toilet paper per person. You can see the wood fibers. STORY2: This taskmaster is the bathroom nazi: he counts how many sheets of toilet paper and tissue you use, and then tells you what % of a tree you just killed."
333,故,happenstance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,An OLD TASKMASTER is no happenstance (coincidence). The older you get the more rigid in your ways. STORY2: Need to disambiguate from enemy (#443) as it's easy to mix up antique and old here. Let's think of an accidental president -- he is an old taskmaster who has managed to win the election by happenstance .
334,敬,awe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The flowery phrases of the schoolmaster held the students in awe. STORY2: 敬 【けい】 (n) reverence; respect. 敬語 【けいご】 (n) honorific; term of respect; (P) STORY: The TASKMASTER demands RESPECT. If you don't talk to him in HONORIFICS and FLOWERY PHRASES you will be sorry.
335,言,say,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A pictogram of someone saying a four letter word from their mouth after the censors have gotten a hold of it. STORY2: This is simple a pictogram of a mouth SAYing something. The lines are soundwaves. No need to complicate it.
336,警,admonish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,To admonish is to enforce awe by means of words. STORY2: Watch in awe as mom admonishes the rude clerk with words that you've never heard her use before.
337,計,plot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A plot is a summary of a book that can be given in ten words. STORY2: Say-ten's (satan's) evil plot.
338,獄,prison,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The wild dog family visits their cousin in prison. They exchange words over the interphone at the visiting booth. STORY2: The only thing keeping the new chihuahua inmate from being 'initiated' by the pack of wild dogs were his quick words in prison.
339,訂,revise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Revise, revise and revise until you have all the words nailed down. STORY2: Remember how Martin Luther revised the words of the catholic church and nailed his 95 Theses at the door of the church in Wittenberg?"
340,討,chastise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I said some bad words, and my mother chastised me by washing my mouth out with glue instead of soap! STORY2: In Colonial New England, people who committed adultery had words glued to them. A famous example is the ""A"" worn by Hester Prynn for committing adultery (i.e., not being chaste). In this way, words glued to you are supposed to chastise you and prevent further breaches of chastity."
341,訓,instruction,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The best type of Japanese INSTRUCTION is full immersion, which consists of going to Japan and swimming in the stream of words that surrounds you every day. STORY2: Listen carefully to the words of instruction before you try swimming in the river."
342,詔,imperial edict,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The mnemonic ""words to seduce the masses"" was just too vague and I kept forgetting it. So now instead I picture a seductive female reading aloud the imperial edict to the masses, thus ""seducing"" the masses. STORY2: The emperor did not need an imperial edict; his words were more than enough to seduce Anakin to the dark side."
343,詰,packed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"WORDS of GOOD LUCK are PACKED into fortune cookies. STORY2: Nowadays, grafitti comes pre-packaged. The factory takes a bunch of words and aerosol cans and then makes sure the words get tightly packed inside. All you have to do is spray and everything takes care of itself!"
344,話,tale,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tales are always spoken, not written, and because of this, words fly out of your tongue, rather than your pen. STORY2: Tales are spoken words, passed on from person to person, eventually being spoken by a thousand mouths."
345,詠,recitation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Listening to the words in a recitation of Vogon poetry is worse than spending an eternity in hell. [Note: I assume those 2 reports are to warn against possible confusion with poem (#346) but how can you confuse Vogon poetry with an actual poem? Anyway, it's the next frame, so it should be easy to keep them straight... Or maybe there's a kanji for Vogon in RTK3?]. STORY2: If you study some words for a recitation, there is a good chance they will be stuck in your memory for all eternity."
346,詩,poem,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A poem is a temple of words. STORY2: WORDS used in a TEMPLE must be very well chosen. That's why most people will speak using a poem if they are SAYING something in a TEMPLE.
347,語,word,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The simplest word to say is I. STORY2: May I say a word about that?
348,読,read,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Read the WORDS used to SELL things. STORY2: People will say (言) almost anything to make a sale (売); don't believe everything you read (読).
349,調,tune,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To tune an old-fashioned radio, you turn the dial the full range of the circumference, until you can clearly hear what's being said. STORY2: words + circumference The most catchy tunes are words the go round and round the circuference of your head and you can't get it out of your mind."
350,談,discuss,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Think of an online discussion group where misunderstanding someone's words leads to flaming. An angry discussion = inflamed words. STORY2: Internet discussions often involve inflammatory words. Flame war!
351,諾,consent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The words of the very young are useless without CONSENT from their elders. STORY2: Delores might say, ""Yes!"", but she's way too young give any legal consent."
352,諭,rebuke,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A PETA activist speaks at a meeting of butchers to rebuke them. STORY2: I imagine Socrates gate-crashing a meeting of butchers and REBUKING them: 'You've been killing things again; you have, haven't you?' while the embarrassed butchers blush and try to hide their knives behind their backs and stand in front of hanging sides of beef."
353,式,style,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Each Indian tribe crafts their arrows in a certain style.. STORY2: The latest style is shirts crafted out of arrows.
354,試,test,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In an essay test, you are judged on both your choice of words and your writing style. STORY2: The Japanese oral exam was a test of my speaking style."
355,弐,II (two),0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"II (older form of writing 2). After shooting one arrow (the dash top left), I have 2 arrows left in my quiver (bottom left). STORY2: Once you have two old arrows left in your quiver, you better start running...!"
356,域,range,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An astronaut lands back at the launch range, kisses the earth beneath him with his mouth, then heads off to a fiesta to celebrate a safe flight. STORY2: Instead of Heisig's ""Fiesta"" I use ""Spear"". Why? A spear is just a DROP extra on an Arrow. 域, range actually means range as in limits/boundary/border sort of range(In a box it was the old meaning for Country國 (581). Ok way too much etymology here, but back to story. With your SPEAR standing in a HOLE on the FLOOR with SOIL to its left9as you dug some out), you can see the RANGE of the spear in attacking a possible enemy (re Diablo and other RPGs, spear's have range)."
357,賊,burglar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Burglars... those guys!!! Burglars only want money (clams) so that they can get needles (drugs) and party (fiesta)! STORY2: After the fiesta, we found out that some burglar had stolen our money, probably breaking in with a lockpick needle..."
358,栽,plantation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The plantation is where we get our Christmas trees. We pick them out at Thanksgiving to be sure we get a good one. STORY2: During Thanksgiving, all the trees on the plantation celebrate the harvest. It's a good time for them, too."
359,載,load,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After eating a big Thanksgiving dinner, you have to be careful in the car ride home not to drop a load in your pants. STORY2: After 'Thanksgiving' dinner, my girlfriend gave me a BJ on the drive back home. I blew my 'load' and 'soiled' the 'car'. But it was LOADS of fun! Please report this story if this makes you feel uncomfortable :)."
360,茂,overgrown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The gay parade looks astonishing, as if overgrown with flowers. STORY2: When your garden gets OVERGROWN, it's like the plants are mocking you. Here, you can see the roses actually parading around the yard, wilfully choking out the other, more docile plants. Then they actually go and parade down the street!"
361,成,turn into,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It only takes a single stroke of a dagger for a parade to TURN INTO a bloodbath. STORY2: The gay parade suddenly TURNED INTO a DAGGER throwing fight.
362,城,castle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The sand castle is just the soil (#150) that turns into a castle. STORY2: ""Someday this mound of dirt here will turn into our CASTLE"", the ants think to themselves when scoping out a new ant hill."
363,誠,sincerity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sincerity happens when what you say actually turns into something. STORY2: Sincerity is turning your words into actions.
364,威,intimidate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The march of women - against intimidation in the workplace - is pretty intimidating in itself! STORY2: Interesting that this kanji also has the meanings of ""dignity"" and ""threaten."" I can see how a march of women in Japan would be seen as intimidating by most men."
365,滅,destroy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Water flows down to destroy the march of fire. STORY2: Use a water cannon to destroy a line of marching fire monsters. I keep mixing this one up with disaster (#167) and demolition (#400). Remember, you DESTROY monsters (think of the Godzilla movie ""Destroy All Monsters!""). Fires and floods are natural DISASTERs. And DEMOLITION is something you carefully do while wearing protective garments. (vaguely based on stefanot's balrog story)."
366,減,dwindle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When WATER was tossed on the PROTESTORS (a march of mouths), the numbers began to DWINDLE. STORY2: When water supplies dwindled, the population became a horde of dry mouths, marching to seize the water in the neighboring kingdom."
367,桟,scaffold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Japanese festival floats are often so tall they need wood scaffolds to be completed. (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5909.html). STORY2: You need a SCAFFOLD made of WOOD to build a FLOAT if it will be several stories high.
368,銭,coin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Political hopefuls in Rome threw gold COINS from floats when they were campaigning for office. STORY2: Interesting fact: The Japanese one yen coin is the only coin in the world that can float on water. http://www.hanamiweb.com/floatingyen.jpg.
369,浅,shallow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The water can't be too SHALLOW if you expect to float. STORY2: The water isn't shallow enough to ford (#372). We'll have to cross by float!
370,止,stop,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you find in the ground a walking stick with a magic wand, STOP! Maybe it's some kind of macumba/black magic/voodoo bad thing. STORY2: If you don't remember this one from the 10,000,000 STOP signs on roads all over Japan, you're beyyond help!"
371,歩,walk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When walking your pet, you must stop a few times along the way when nature calls. STORY2: When you learn to walk, you take your steps a few at a time. Picture a clumsy but happy toddler who falls every few steps but keeps getting up to try again."
372,渉,ford,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The new Ford Jesus. It can do everything except WALK on WATER. STORY2: A ford is a place where one can walk through the water, a place only a few footsteps deep."
373,頻,repeatedly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. STORY2: Are you familiar with the joke about the ditzy secretary who repeatedly walked back and forth forcibly over all the pages of her boss' most important letters. When confronted she just says ""Well you said they needed to be stamped before they're mailed.""."
374,肯,agreement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A secret agreement between a covert gov't agency and aliens states that we will not step foot on the moon again in return for alien technology. STORY2: NASA and Armstrong made an agreement: They'd never tell anyone that no-one actually stepped foot on the moon.
375,企,undertake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mary Poppins floated down with her umbrella to undertake the job of stopping the children's misbehaving. STORY2: The Undertaker is an evil WWE wrestler - he beat his opponent with an umbrella until he stopped moving.
376,歴,curriculum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A CURRICULUM is a calendar that replaces days with reasons to stop having fun. STORY2: A little like a calendar, your CV records your footsteps through time."
377,武,warrior,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,ONE-ARROW can STOP a warrior. STORY2: A great warrior can stop any 0pponent with one arrow.
378,賦,levy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A warrior stands guard at a bridge collecting shells as a levy for any who want to pass. STORY2: ""Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And those good old warrior boys, drinking whiskey and rye, said pay up the clams or you'll die. Pay up the clams or you'll die...""."
379,正,correct,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you do it correct on the first attempt you can stop. STORY2: The correct way of learning Japanese? First, stop everything you're doing. Then, go pick up a copy of Heisig's book and work from there."
380,証,evidence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your words must be absolutely correct if you plan to use them as evidence. STORY2: ""If what you say is indeed correct, we could use use your testimony as evidence""."
381,政,politics,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Those involved in politics are always trying to elect the correct taskmaster. STORY2: Insane political correctness on the left, and facists taskmasters on the right- thats politics in a nutshell right there."
382,定,determine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In The Karate Kid, the boy must prove his determination by MENDING his teacher's HOUSE in various ways. STORY2: People who decide to renovate (ooh, that's a fancy word, let's say ""mend"") their houses must be very determined DIYers. (Using DIY helps me remember this story when I see DEtermine)."
383,錠,lock,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even if you lock up your GOLD, a DETERMINED thief will get it in the end. STORY2: The best stories for this kanji tend to have a thief in them, which always makes me confuse them with the kanji for burglar (357). So, let's try this one: My girlfriend wears a metal chastity belt with a lock but I am determined to open it! I must get inside!"
384,走,run,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hint: This kanji is NOT soil on top of mend, as Heisig claims - that would duplicate one of the strokes. Instead, it is 10 on top of mend. So my story is: If you run 10 miles, you will need to mend your socks! STORY2: The sports ground needs MENDING after the game as the players have been RUNNING around which has caused the ground to be chopped up."
385,超,transcend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A successful marathon runner needs to be able to transcend seductions, such as the possibility of rest, shelter from the rain, or a cold beer. STORY2: To transcend oneself is to reach a higher plane of reality. A head shaven monk is telling me this. We are in a Tibetan monastery. He was once an athlete, a runner. He used to run everywhere, until one day, he saw a beautiful cheerleader along his path. She tried very hard to seduce him, but he forced himself to transcend his urges. He did reach his running goal, and he has became a lonely monk. He wishes now he had just broken down back then and...."
386,赴,proceed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Don't run into trouble,"" Dumbledore tells Harry. ""Proceed with caution with your wand out."". STORY2: While running, my magic wand tells me where to proceed."
387,越,surpass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The person in charge of running the parade surpassed all our expectations (by just a extra drop...). STORY2: The parade of runners are all trying to SURPASS each other - and they end up running all the way to Vietnam (note that this kanji is also used for the country of Vietnam).
388,是,just so,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sun' 'Mend' - It just so happens that sunshine can mend your gloomy spirits. STORY2: My image here is of Fabrice (the guy who runs this website) spending all day obsessively mending the code so this page looks just so....
389,題,topic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ""TOPIC"" of the day's newspaper must be placed JUST SO at the top of the PAGE to attract attention. STORY2: You spend ALL DAY, mending your socks JUST SO. Then you have a look at the HEADING of the newspaper. The topic---FREE SOCKS TO BE GIVEN AWAY!!!!"
390,堤,dike,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Making a dike is all about arranging the soil just so.... STORY2: The little Dutch boy has his finger stuck in the dike, and that's the only thing keeping his town from going under. He really really needs to go to the bathroom though, so he devises a plan to carefully add a bit of dirt - there, place individual bits in just so - there, I think it's good enough. Pull it out -----yes! Success!"
391,建,build,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Build is easy to remember if you can remember that archtiechts have two steps in building. 1. Take a brush and brush out the blueprints. 2. Get a visual image of the blueprints all rolled up like they usually are. The second step is easy, it's just the architecht stretching out the blueprints and showing it to his clients. STORY2: A construction worker's classic morning. Stretch, brush his teeth, and then start to build."
392,延,prolong,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Stretching correctly prolongs life. Even the top part of 正 is stretching... STORY2: Here's a great mnemonic: ""stop, drop, and stretch (!?)."" Now let's associate it with 'prolong': if you're ever in an uncomfortable spot, like being asked tricky questions or caught in a lie, just PROLONG the situation - stop, drop, and stretch. They may be confused by your odd behaviour, but it'll buy you a few moments to think up another good lie to get out of the sticky situation!"
393,誕,nativity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Nativity = born, being born. Think of birth as a painful and prolonged event. And of course, all the words and curses being yelled at the soon-to-be father for doing this to her! STORY2: When you are being born ( nativity ), your mother's WORDS are PROLONGED. (Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis huuuuuuuuuuuuuurtss a lottttttttt~!! Owwwwwww!!!)."
394,礎,cornerstone,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Features like stones and groves of trees are the cornerstones of a happy zoo. STORY2: A zoo which is still under construction is already full of animals. At the moment, only the cornerstone has been set in place. To temporarily keep the animals from escaping, a closely-packed grove of small trees is planted around the stone. (Note that this zoo needs some serious mending.)."
395,婿,bridegroom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The virgin bridegroom tries to understand the new, mysterious part of his woman's body - but with little success. It's a zoo down there! (primitives placement: the part of the body is 'down there' - the woman is 'left' unsatisfied). STORY2: The only reason anyone talks about a bridegroom is if they're about to or have just gotten married. Of course, then you have to go on your honeymoon. So you take your woman to the zoo for a month. Pretty cool honeymoon."
396,衣,garment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The only garments allowed in this club are top hat and scarf. STORY2: The garments most commonly associated with the craft of a magician are the top hat and the magic wand. (It's a stretch, but the way I remembered this kanji is through that phrase. This way you can remember it through using primitives we have already learned.)."
397,裁,tailor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The tailor was hard at work making sure all the pilgrims were dressed in their best garments for thanksgiving. STORY2: The tailor worked hard after thanksgiving to alter garments so they'd fit people who'd eaten too much at their thanksgiving dinners.
398,装,attire,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The TURTLE SAMURAI needs special GARMENTs for his ATTIRE since his body is much more ROBUST than others. STORY2: The ninja turtles tried to go eat at a fancy restaurant, but they were told to come back after their were dressed in proper attire. However, it's too difficult for them to find proper garments because they bodies are so robust! (sannomiya + drwarrior12)."
399,裏,back,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The computer had carefully dressed up in clothes to look human. It was n't until I looked at the back and saw the cables and stuff that I realized what it was. STORY2: Can computers be gay? I'm not sure, but mine always wears a top hat and scarf, and for some reason its back door port is always open..."
400,壊,demolition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you stand too close to a DEMOLITION site, the dust might sting you like NEEDLES in your EYE and get your GARMENTs all dirty. STORY2: Since that needle eye thing turns up a lot, I turned it into Darth Vader. It kinda looks like him to me, with the eye being his metal mouth piece thing. So, Darth Vader swings his cape (his garment) demolishing a nearby building, leaving nothing but a pile of dirt."
401,哀,pathetic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so that you can't see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it's cool. I think it's pathetic. STORY2: A poor, homeless child like Oliver Twist, with a hungry open mouth, is pathetic-- in the original sense of the noun ""pathos."" The tattered tophat and scarf he wears only adds to the pathos."
402,遠,distant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Keep distant from a lidded crock on the road wrapped in a scarf. It might be a bomb. STORY2: When traveling to a distant land, what better way of keeping warm on the road is there than carrying a warm lidded crock and wearing a scarf?"
403,猿,monkey,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The MONKEY likes to play hide and seek with the PACK of WILD DOGS by hiding in the LIDDED CROCK. But he is easy to see because the SCARF he always wears is at the base of the LIDDED CROCK. STORY2: To catch a monkey, chase him with wild dogs into a lidded crock, then tie it with a scarf."
404,初,first time,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""This is the first time we've been out of the Shire, Mr. Frodo!"" Says Sam, covering himself with his cloak and clutching his dagger. STORY2: On his FIRST TIME, he cloaked his dagger with a Trojan."
405,布,linen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A matador holding his red linen by his side. STORY2: The first rule of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Universe is ""DON'T PANIC!"" The second rule, of course, is to always have a towel by your side. Personally, I prefer the linen sort."
406,帆,sail,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When stranded at sea, we needed a Sail. The best we had was a TOWEL, which was MEDICORE, only catching a DROP of WIND. STORY2: A towel makes a mediocre sail."
407,幅,hanging scroll,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the west, the rich use $100 bills to light their cigars... In Japan, after showering, when the wealthy don't have any clean towels, they simply grab a hanging scroll off the wall and use it to dry off! STORY2: The towels of the wealthy: hanging scrolls."
408,帽,cap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you wear a towel as a cap, you are at risk of being seized and searched in U.S. airports. STORY2: Originally the first cap was a turban which was a towel wrapped around the head to keep the sun out of the eyes."
409,幕,curtain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There is a graveyard outside my house that scares me, so I put a huge towel over the window to serve as a curtain so I can get a good nights sleep. STORY2: When you're dead in the graveyard, ""it's curtains for you.""."
410,幌,canopy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A canopy is a towel to block the suns rays. STORY2: From the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Universe: A towel is useful, among other things, as a canopy to keep out the sun's rays from your face while napping."
411,錦,brocade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Brocade is the art of sewing gold on a white towel. STORY2: Never heard of this word before encountering it here. So it turns out that the fanciest brocade in the world is actually a towel used by a Turkish monarch. It's embroidered with gold and cocaine. Yes, cocaine - what you thought it'd be something else? That is some true art right there. I think a great many people would want to own this towel."
412,市,market,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My recurring nightmare: Walking through the market, and suddenly realizing that I'm wearing only a top hat...and a towel. STORY2: At the MARKET you find lots of nice TOP HATS and TOWELS."
413,姉,elder sister,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Unlike the younger sister (妹), who is not yet old enough to date... the elder sister is on the market! STORY2: She's old enough to be allowed to go to the market."
414,肺,lungs,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"LUNGS are a PART of the BODY that can be found at any meat MARKET or black MARKET. STORY2: The PART OF THE BODY most important if you work at a MARKET is your LUNGS so that you can shout out at the top of your voice ""IRASSHAIMASEEE"" to attract customers."
415,帯,sash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"First, note that the top half of the kanji consists of one and mountain. Of course, the ""number 1"" mountain in Japan is Mt. Fuji. The bottom half, under Mt. Fuji, consists of crown and towel. Now for the story. Archaeologists digging under Mt. Fuji (Japan's #1 mountain) in an ancient royal tomb (they know it's royal because of the crown) discover what looks like a towel, but after they clean it up, they see it is actually a splendid royal sash for the king's kimono. STORY2: Beautiful ""Miss Housewife Japan"" is on posters everywhere, cooking right before Mt. Fuji (the number one mountain) while wearing nothing but her crown, and an apron tied with a sash. (hodgepodge of mspertus, zwarte_kat, et al, with a jot of hadaka apron to focus the image.)."
416,滞,stagnate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"History of the first karate blackbelts: In those days, it was often difficult to find fresh, clean water, so samurai usually had to wash their sashes in stagnant puddles. The longer one had been studying martial arts, the older the sash on one's karate uniform and, therefore, the darker the color. So why weren't their karate uniforms black too? Never seen a ninja???? STORY2: A moat is a stagnate ring of water like an obi (sash) of water tied around the castle."
417,刺,thorn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A TREE with a BELT wrapped around the middle. If you tighten the BELT, hundreds of tiny SABERS pop out of the tree in all directions, looking like THORNS. STORY2: The BELT TREE has THORNS like SABERS."
418,制,system,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The system for making leather belts involves slicing up a cow with a sword. STORY2: Why all the gore and violence? How about a samurai cow? He doesn't have to be a violent samurai, either. He only wears the sword because he's part of the bushi SYSTEM. Actually, he studies ikebana, shodo, and zen. Imagine him sitting cross-legged in a Zen temple (a very Special Zen temple). The master asks him if a dog has buddha nature and, shifting the swords in his belt, he calmly replies, ""Moo!""."
419,製,made in...,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Made in china - a system of exploitation . making garments for nothing. STORY2: A SYSTEMATICALLY made GARMENT will no doubt have MADE IN on the label.
420,転,revolve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The REVOLVING wheels of the car (with REVOLVER blaring on the stereo) kicked up RISING CLOUDS of dust. STORY2: Just a note to remember the cloud primative: The name of Goku's pet cloud that he used to help him rise (fly) in the Dragonball anime series (and also the scientific name for a certain type of cloud) is Nimbus [ http://www.rpgclassics.com/shrines/gba/dbztlog/screen2.jpg ]. The katakana-ization of this is {ニム}バス, so the rising cloud primative is just an abbreviation of that name written from top to bottom in the old Japanese style."
421,芸,technique,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine an old Kung-fu movie: ""Try my rising cloud flower technique!!!"" smash pow crack!! . STORY2: One technique to smoke weed is to vaporize it and inhale those rising clouds to create a stronger effect."
422,雨,rain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"From the ceiling hangs a towel dripping four drops like RAIN. STORY2: Towel hung out on a line to ....oops, it's rain."
423,雲,cloud,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Every rising cloud is a potential rain cloud. (Thanks astridtops). STORY2: Every cloud is a potential rain cloud.
424,曇,cloudy weather,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Cloudy weather is when a cloud blocks the sun (up above). STORY2: In cloudy weather, the sun is still there even if obscured by the clouds...　RTK2:　ドン　曇天　どんてん(cloudy skies)."
425,雷,thunder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If it's raining and you're standing in the middle of a rice field, you're sure to soon become acquainted with the thunder up close and personal. STORY2: Thunder is a sure sign of rain coming. When you hear the thunder, you've got time to get out of the field before it starts raining."
426,霜,frost,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"FROST is kind of an inter-weather, phenomenon, something between rain, snow and freezing temp’s. STORY2: The freezing RAIN formed FROST on the TREE right before your EYES. If you want, frost-y then think Frost Tree to get to the mnemonic. SECOND STORY: FROSTY the snowman? It's RAIN that FROSTS that can then INTER-act with the kids, till he melts of course."
427,冬,winter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't slip off your legs in winter, strap two skis to your feet. STORY2: In winter my walking legs feel like blocks of ice."
428,天,heavens,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you think of the sky as a ceiling above our heads, here you have the heavens as the largest ceiling you could ever imagine. As Heisig pointed out, nothing comes above the ceiling primitive thus the order of primitives is taken care of. STORY2: The ceiling that all large dogs aspire to go to is known as heaven. After all, All Dogs Go to Heaven."
429,橋,bridge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The nicest bridge is not in Hollywood or Los Angeles, but in San Francisco. STORY2: A small 5 year old child has lost her mother in a tragic death. Her family tells her, ""Don't worry, your mom is an angel now, in heaven, watching over you."" The small girl takes this very literally and is found one day, gathering pieces of wood. Her dad asks her, ""What are you doing with that wood?"" ""I'm trying to build a bridge to heaven to visit the angels.""."
430,嬌,attractive,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The most attractive woman in the world is obviously Angelina Jolie. STORY2: The most attractive of women are said to resemble angels. Similarly, angelic women tend to be attractive."
431,立,stand up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A vase that can't stand up won't be a vase for long. STORY2: He was a stand up guy: he'd lend you the top hat he wears everyday if you asked, and he will turn everything upside down to help you find your tools."
432,泣,cry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Guys have two ways of watering when they are standing, the less common one is crying. STORY2: She stood up to leave the room when her eyes started to water..."
433,章,badge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the military, badges are given out early in the day, with everyone standing at attention. STORY2: Ash Ketchum stood up early in the morning, and said, ""Pikachu, let's go get us another badge!""."
434,競,vie,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,TWO twin BROTHERS are competing (VYING) for the title of who is the older BROTHER. The game is that they must balance a VASE on their head and the one who drops his looses and becomes the younger BROTHER! STORY2: Two crazy brothers vying for the guiness records books of stupidity by trying to stand on their heads the longest.
435,帝,sovereign,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The crazy sovereign stands up from his throne, wearing nothing but a crown and a towel. That's why they try to keep him locked up in the castle away from the public. STORY2: This one is so tricky for me. The key is to remember that the bottom stroke on the standing element takes those little crown ""winglets"" on the right and left. The most effective image might be of QEII (who is quite short) using her crown as a kind of stool. She's standing on her crown rummaging through a high cupboard looking for her apron. I guess the sovereign's servants have the day off."
436,童,juvenile,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The juvenile stood on top of his computer and broke it. Noob. STORY2: The movie Zoolander is a little JUVENILE and silly, but I love it nonetheless. Just remember Owen Wilson standing on the desk, hitting the computer like a monkey. (The files are IN the computer - IN the computer...)."
437,瞳,pupil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japanese comics, the eye's of juvenilles all have enormouse pupils. STORY2: WARNING: This kanji only means the pupil of the eye. It can be confusing to use a story that has pupil meaning student in it."
438,鐘,bell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The METAL bell rings to call the JUVENILES to class. STORY2: The METAL bell rings to call the JUVENILES to COMPUTER class.
439,商,make a deal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I use what I think is the real etymology for this kanji which is so shocking it sticks. The STANDING member at the top is a certain part of the body that all men have and it is approaching the HOLE between TWO LEGS (the HOOD) with extra marks to show they are FLESHY - ie a womans legs. So this shows the oldest DEAL of all time - prostitution. STORY2: Slick Willy standing on the motorcycle helmet he's trying to sell you to demonstrate how rugged it is. His legs crash through the top of it and after a moment of awkward silence his mouth opens and says, ""hey, we can still make a deal.""."
440,嫡,legitimate wife,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Legitmate wifes tend to be women who are antiques in contrast to the young bit of illigitmate fluff on the side. STORY2: Your legitimate wife is like an antique bong. Its not your favorite but you still hit it sometimes...
441,適,suitable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of the term from televison ""suitable for all audiences"" to get the sense of the word. What program could be more suitable for the whole family than the ""antiques road(show)"". STORY2: That old thing in your attic might be suitable to be shown on the Antiques Roadshow."
442,滴,drip,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,DRIPS of WATER were collected in ANTIQUE VASES since the museum had a leaky roof. STORY2: You must never let water drip onto antiques.
443,敵,enemy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The taskmaster became my enemy for life when he smashed the antique vase holding my wife's ashes. STORY2: Indiana Jones is an enemy of taskmasters in search of antique artifacts. RTK2: 　テキ　敵地　てきち(enemy territory)...　　　　　　　　　　　Pure Group:　嫡440　適441　滴442 　摘657.
444,匕,spoon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To remember the primitive meaning, picture someone sitting on the ground performing Seppuku...with a spoon. http://tinyurl.com/co48k. STORY2: Not only is stroke order important, but also be sure to note the direction of a stroke. In both 'spoon' and 'seven', the first stroke is the horizontal one - but here it is written right to left in a downward flick, while in 'seven' it is a strong line from left to right."
445,北,north,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Warning: The left part is NOT the primitive turtle! The stroke order is different. Sometimes it will look exactly the same but not always depending on the font / style used to draw this character. Be sure to study the difference! STORY2: In the north, the weather is so cold that people are often seen sitting back to back to preserve warmth."
446,背,stature,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"While japanese people are generally small, people in the northern contryes have taller stature because of all the flesh they eat! STORY2: Up in the Great White North, we eat a lot of meat - thus giving us great STATURE. Mmmm.... baby seals."
447,比,compare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A gay couple about to turn around to compare which role is better... STORY2: Compare the two spoons... the one on the left is funny-looking.
448,昆,descendants,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS. STORY2: Japanese people have compared themselves as being descendants of the sun. (Amaterasu, the sun godesss). Sun, comparing = descendants."
449,皆,all,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you compare colors, you will find that white is produced from the mix of all the others. STORY2: Sometimes, Dr. Heisig's keyword choices are really quite bizarre. This doesn't mean all, it means everyone!! Picture two ku klux klansmen comparing whose skin is whiter...finally, they agree that everyone there is white."
450,混,mix,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"People have to mix their fluids (have sex), in order to create descendants. STORY2: Give plants the right mix of water and sun. Then compare the results...　RTK2:　コン　混乱　こんらん(disorder)."
451,渇,thirst,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You awaken from your siesta because you feel extremely thirsty so you go looking for some water. STORY2: The muchacho taking his SIESTA cries out that he is THIRSTY. So you pull out a bottle of WATER and pretend you're going to give it to him...but then you dump it all on the ground before his eyes. HAHA, sucked in muchacho!!"
452,謁,audience,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The talk was so boring the audience took a siesta. STORY2: The man talking during his siesta (in his sleep) is saying strange things and drawing an audience.
453,褐,brown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Why is my package late? Imagine a UPS driver dressed in BROWN garments taking a siesta. What can BROWN do for you? STORY2: Mexicans use a cloak (pancho) for their siestas. Their color is usually brown.
454,喝,hoarse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you have a siesta with your mouthopen, you will wake up with a hoarse voice. STORY2: After taking a siesta, you find that your mouth is hoarse (after all you ARE thirsty remember)."
455,旨,delicious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Use a spoon to eat a DELICIOUS hot fudge sundae. Duh.. STORY2: It's sooo delicious I could spoon it in all day.
456,脂,fat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every chef will tell you, fat is what make the meat taste delicious. STORY2: Fat is the most delicious part of the flesh. (Note this refers to physical fat, not the concept of obesity obese (#494))."
457,壱,I (one),0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I am 'the one' , says the samurai with the crown around his waist and a spoon up his a***. STORY2: The samurai who has been crowned number one is so good he uses a spoon to fight with rather than a sword."
458,毎,every,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Freud believed every man wants to lie down with his mother. STORY2: Who does every person want to lie down with? Yo' MAMA!
459,敏,cleverness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Every master(or taskmaster) must have some degree of cleverness. STORY2: Cleverness is something every taskmaster must have. Every taskmaster has cleverness.
460,梅,plum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Plums actually grow on every single tree. What, you didn't know that? They do. Orange trees, apple trees, cantaloupe trees. Plums are simply mutant fruits that have been installed in the root software of every single tree. I hear that some plum-loving scientists are working on a way to hack every tree's genetic code so that every tree will bear nothing _but_ plums. STORY2: EVERY Japanese person asks you if you like UMEBOSHI. No I say, I prefer to eat my PLUMS fresh from the TREE."
461,海,sea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every drop of water will eventually return to the sea. STORY2: As depicted in the classic SF film Fantastic Voyage, every drop of water is a sea, if you look close enough. Imagine peering through a microscope at a vast sea teeming with microbial life (and perhaps a minaturized submarine). Note: Take care not to confuse with ocean (#549)."
462,乞,beg,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Lying down, Captain Hook is begging to be spared from the ticking crocodile. STORY2: Men beg lying down. Women beg as hookers."
463,乾,drought,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"During a drought, everything begs for even a mist for relief. STORY2: Beggar has to drink mist because there is no water in the drought. I get this one confused with thirst 451 but try to remember that there is no water element beacuse it is a drought."
464,腹,abdomen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The only body part that doubles over. STORY2: Imagine getting punched in the abdomen, a fairly tender part of flesh, and instead of doubling forward, you double back. That would be pretty painful."
465,複,duplicate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My girlfiend saw someone wearing the exact same (duplicate) outfit at a party, so she doubled back to change! STORY2: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione uses a device called a ""time-turner"" to double back in time, but this creates duplicates. The smart thing to do would be to combine Hermione's time-turner with Harry's invisibility cloak. That way, one could double back in time without creating any visible duplicates."
466,欠,lack,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To me, this kanji looks like a person with two arms and two legs, but who lacks a head. STORY2: When your body lacks oxygen you yawn."
467,吹,blow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is clearly a BLOWJOB, we can see the MOUTH and the LACK OF condom. (I am sorry for the image, but it sticks forever in your mind). STORY2: I keep confusing this with suck (#689). Consider someone blowing bubbles using their chewing gum because they're lacking attention in class."
468,炊,cook,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese cooking sometimes lacks fire, e.g., sashimi. STORY2: This character shows the difference between a cook and a chef: a chef prepares food with passion and love; a cook only stands there with a pan over a fire, with no passion and just yawning."
469,歌,song,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Can-Can-ers lack the ability to sing a song, so they just dance. STORY2: Can-can dancers are supposed to be big-bosomed girls who dance. Yet these so called can-can dancers are flat-chested and singing a song, so audience of men is yawning in boredom."
470,軟,soft,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Cars are rough steel things, lacking softness. STORY2: If your car has really soft seats, you may start yawning and eventually fall asleep at the wheel (imagine that this seat is a huge soft beanbag that nearly swallows the driver, and it will be easier to remember)."
471,次,next,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Is this store lacking ice? Let's try the next one, then. STORY2: A rapper called ""Ice"" went for auditions but was told he lacked talent. Next..."
472,茨,briar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To prevent animals from eating the beautiful flowers in your garden, the best thing to do is to plant briar bushes immediately next to them. STORY2: The briar patch may look unremarkable now before it blooms, but there will be flowers next, and it will be beautiful."
473,資,assets,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Assets are the next best thing to money. STORY2: The first SHELLS you get you obviously spend, but the NEXT SHELLS are your ASSETS, you should bury them in a low safe place (placement!)."
474,姿,figure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The next woman always has a better figure! Thinking like that, you'll end up alone in an old folks home longing for the good old days! STORY2: Whenever I am next to a woman, I can't help but take notice of her figure."
475,諮,consult with,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Having a word with the next mouth over, like a neighbor, is usually a good way to consult with somebody for cheap. Because, you know, actual consultants charge huge sums. STORY2: ""Consulting with"" is having words with the next mouth."
476,賠,compensation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Compensation is money you give to someone to shut them up (i.e. muzzle their mouth). STORY2: Compensation is a kind of euphemism for hush money here. Money that muzzles.
477,培,cultivate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To cultivate the land is to tame it, control it. In short, you muzzle it's unruly, chaotic nature. STORY2: The illegal immigrants cultivate the land but are socially and politically muzzled (wear muzzles while they work too)."
478,剖,divide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you DIVIDE someone, there is sure to be a lot of screaming. That's why you should use a MUZZLE before using the SABER. STORY2: Divide and conquer - first you cut them up (saber) , then you shut them up (muzzle)."
479,音,sound,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you were standing on the sun, believe me, you'd be making sound. STORY2: The tongue wagging in a mouth produces a very high-pitched sound, breaking a nearby vase."
480,暗,darkness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture the sun exploding - there would be a gigantic noise and then...nothing. Everything would plunge into darkness. STORY2: In places of complete darkness, such as caves where the sun can't reach, creatures such as bats have learned to navigate by sound rather than sight. The poor guys must have to fly around screaming ""Marco!"" and ""Polo!"" all the time."
481,韻,rhyme,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What is a RHYME but some SOUND that EMPLOYEES say to get them through work. STORY2: Dr Seuss's employee finally rebels against him: ""I'm tired of odd sounds all the time, I will not, cannot, speak in RHYME!""."
482,識,discriminating,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Words are difficult to discriminate/discern from sounds in the middle of a fiesta. STORY2: I have discriminating taste. I'd rather listen to the words of a lecture than attend a kazoo concert. (Picture some snobby guy in a tweed jacket turning up his nose at entering a loud raucous kazoo recital).
483,鏡,mirror,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mirror should suggest vanity. Imagine a spoiled girl who gets her parents to buy her a Golden mirror so she can stand in front of it all day vainly admiring her lovely human legs. STORY2: metal + stand up + sun + legs remember the legend of Amaterasu who retired in a cave. the other Gods brought a MIRROR made of polished METAL at the entrance of the cave. Amaterasu who was STANDING UP saw her image of the SUN and began to dance with her LEGS.
484,境,boundary,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the dense cities of Japan even a small garden is a luxury. In this house, the owner has put mirrors on the boundary of his land so it feels much bigger. STORY2: This is an old trick to keep out migrants. You put a bunch of dirty mirrors on the boundary of your land and theirs. When they approach the boundary, what they see in the mirror is their own land and someone that looks like themselves, only dirtier, so they figure your country isn't any better than their own and they head back home."
485,亡,deceased,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The top hat hanging on a hook belonged to the now deceased Charlie Chaplin. STORY2: The recently DECEASED are said to hang their hats on a hook by the door to the afterlife.
486,盲,blind,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Deceased eyes! Easy ;). STORY2: A person with deceased eyes is blind.
487,妄,delusion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I had a problem with remembering that ""deceased"" went over the ""woman"". So, here's my story: The delusional woman was carrying her deceased husband on her back. STORY2: If you think you should perish for that woman, you have a major delusion."
488,荒,laid waste,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After Godzilla laid waste to the city, the survivors put some flowers on the bodies of the deceased and floated their bodies down the stream. STORY2: Laying waste is just a euphamism for flushing poop down the toilet. It smells nothing like flowers, more like deceased flowers, and it's flushed down into a stream of sewage. Use ""waste"" to avoid destroy (#365) demolition (#400)."
489,望,ambition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're dead meat, buddy, my ambition is to be king. STORY2: The ambitions of kings often result in dead bodies."
490,方,direction,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Note: The primitives are top hat and bound up. Compare ten thousand (#64). Story: A rich man wearing a top hat and bound up from head to toe hobbles up to you and asks for directions to the nearest police station because he just escaped from his kidnappers. STORY2: I always keep my directions bound to the bottom of my top hat so I won't lose them.
491,妨,disturb,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Capt. Jack Sparrow's compass gets disturbed every time a beautiful woman walks by him (just picture Keira Knightley in her sexy asian outfit as Elizabeth and the image will be fixed forever). STORY2: One way to Disturb a woman is to give her directions while she is in the middle of driving -- she just can't take that kind of stress.
492,坊,boy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Little boys always head in the direction of mud and dirt. STORY2: Boys thoughts often head in dirty directions.
493,芳,perfumed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"She used a perfume so strong, that you can track her by following the direction of the smell of flowers. STORY2: People always seem to overdo it with their perfume. It seems that whenever I am at school, somebody walks by with their cheap flowery perfume. If I close my eyes, I can actually use that floweriness as a compass - it tells me which direction they're in."
494,肪,obese,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Flesh in all directions"" = obese. STORY2: Yo momma so obese, she changed the direction of the moon."
495,訪,call on,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you call on someone, you point your words in their direction. STORY2: When calling on a girl, you'd better what what sweet words will turn her fancy in your direction. (Image: last century teenagers on a frilly couch in the sitting room, she with her back to him, and he fumbling for the right words to turn her around)."
496,放,set free,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Go in any direction away from your taskmaster when you are set free. STORY2: When slaves were set free from their masters, they set off in all directions… RTK2:　ホウ　放射　ほうしゃ(radiation)… Pure group: 倣979."
497,激,violent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the taskmaster found his favorite white compas damaged by water, he became the most violent taskmaster there ever was. STORY2: Overnight the slave got Violent and was Set Free. Overnight....Set Free."
498,脱,undress,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,HORNY TEENAGERS love to UNDRESS FLESH. STORY2: Before you undress I should warn you -- the sight of flesh brings out the devil in me.
499,説,rumor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The words of a horny teenager typically fall into one of two categories: either rumors or explanations. STORY2: The words of the devil incite rumours and false explanations.
500,鋭,pointed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pointed is the metal devil's pitchfork. STORY2: The Horny teenager who worked part time at a gold smelting plant always had uncontrollable errections that pointed out all the time, this is not a good thing to have when you work in a gold smelting plant, surely he will one day end up with a Goldmember!"
501,曽,formerly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Artist formerly Known as Prince has the horniest brain around, and I think you can imagine what his wagging tongue is doing... STORY2: Formerly, horned animals were used to plough the ricefield, and it took all day. Nowadays it's done by machine."
502,増,increase,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Prices always INCREASE for LAND that was FORMERLY cheaper. STORY2: Farmers work the land so they can INCREASE their formerly puny crop supply.
503,贈,presents,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Presents represent money that was formerly yours. STORY2: Imagine if the number of presents you get increases with each birthday. So on your first birthday, you receive just one shell as a present, but the next year it increases to two shells as presents, and so on, increasing and increasing so by the time you're elderly, the number of shells you'll get as presents will have increased to an awful lot of presents. GOT IT YET? PRESENTS = SHELLS + INCREASE."
504,東,east,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Traditionally seen as a pictograph of the sun rising behind a tree. STORY2: The sun pierces through the trees as it rises in the east…　　　　　　RTK2:　トウ　東北　とうほく (the northeast)　東京　とうきょう(Tokyo)… MIXED GROUP　凍506　(ﾁﾝ):陳1301　(ﾚﾝ): 練1343　錬2030.
505,棟,ridgepole,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Feng Shui states that the ridgepole of a house should be made of wood and face east. STORY2: Ok just a note to the 'ridgepole facing east story' im making up a story to JUSTIFY why that is the case. Assuming that 99% of you guys use the age old story of a 'sun rising through a tree tells you were the east is', back in those days when people used ridgepoles they wanted to align their houses in such a way that they face the rising sun, so they wake up with a bright day, and wake up early with the sun seeping through in a perpendicular manner( as the ridge pole faces the sun in the morning)."
506,凍,frozen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Eastern Siberia is often frozen by ice. According to wikipedia, Yakutia (in Eastern Siberia) holds the record as the coldest town on Earth. Check it out yourself...it made it stick for me! STORY2: The ice will stay frozen until the sun is visible through the trees."
507,妊,pregnancy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A pregnant woman is a porter of her child. STORY2: The gentleman gave the woman a bit of sperm...BAM PREGNANCY!
508,廷,courts,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A porter has run away from his master. His punishment is to be stretched out on the rack. So say the courts in this barbaric time. STORY2: The gentleman stretched the truth a bit in court.
509,染,dye,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To make this dye, I used water and the barks of nine different trees. STORY2: The baseball team hangs their freshly dyed dripping jerseys at the top of a tree to dry."
510,燃,burn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Any sort of thing can burn in the fire. STORY2: Somebody from PETA is really angry that they sell dog meat in China, so they've gone to burn down the whole cart (my mnemonic for ""sort of thing"" was seeing strips of dog flesh roasting, and saying ""well, that's just the sort of thing they do here in China)."
511,賓,V.I.P.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This house is reserved to V.I.P. only. If you are not one of the few with enough money to call you that way, keep out! STORY2: The V.I.P. visits your house, but your ceiling is too low for his inflated head, which he bumps and hurts. You have to give him your few shells as compensation."
512,歳,year-end,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Santa had to put his foot down to stop a march of little guys, namely elves. They were protesting the harsh treatment they get every year-end when Santa asks them to step up toy production for the holiday season. STORY2: At the year-end, everything seems to come to a stop. However, there's still enough time for a little march to celebrate."
513,県,prefecture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japanese this is KEN, as in Barbie's boyfriend. He has lovely blue eyes, a girlfriend who is as thin as a straightened out fish hook. But, down where it counts, he has very little to show... STORY2: After sticking a fishhook in your eye, the yakuza boss probably has little more to do to convince you to move to a different prefecture."
514,栃,horse chestnut,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There are a bunch of HORSE CHESTNUT TREES on top of this CLIFF above the beach. Chestnuts keep rolling off the cliff and falling on people's heads. So far TEN THOUSAND people have been killed by falling chestnuts, and the Japanese government still ain't did shit about it. STORY2: There is a horse chestnut tree that has grown by a cliff for so long, it has deposited 10,000 horse chesnuts that lie at the bottom. Don't worry over this one too much, you'll spend so much time trying to figure out the right story for it, you probably won't forget it."
515,地,ground,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture the ground as an extent of soil where scorpions are buried like land mines. Imagine a sign post saying 'no trespassing, scorpion mines' if that helps, and how it is dangerous to walk there. STORY2: The soil is littered with scorpions everywhere and no ones dares put their foot on the ground."
516,池,pond,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember the story of the scorpion that begged the turtle for a ride across the pond? Halfway across the water, the scorpion stung the turtle on the neck and they both sank to the bottom. STORY2: Water scorpions loves to live in the pond."
517,虫,insect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I see the bottom of this kanji as an arm, and the top is an insect biting into the arm, sucking some blood. STORY2: Insect in one drop of amber. Think Jurassic Park."
518,蛍,lightning bug,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bugs have to go to school to learn how to become lightning bugs. Only the brightest bugs graduate to become lightning bugs. STORY2: Q: Who's the smartest insect in school? A: The lightning-bug. Because he's so bright! (Image: lightning bug in school with glasses, pocket protector, etc. Maybe even have some cool kids teasing him)."
519,蛇,snake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A snake eats insects and he does that outside, while we eat in the house and preferably with a spoon. STORY2: Solid Snake crawled like a bug, infiltrated my house, and took out everyone with a spoon."
520,虹,rainbow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Little is it known that a rainbow is actually created by insects of different colours flying in formation, a craft they have perfected to create the rainbows we see today. STORY2: Rainbow is of course created by billions of colored insects (what? you really thought it was an optical illusion?). However I had problems remembering that the insect primitive goes on the left. If you have similar difficulties, try this: rainbow is an Insect-Craft. Mnemonic: I.C. Rainbow (I see rainbow)."
521,蝶,butterfly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A butterfly is an insect that appears after spending a generation on a tree as a cocoon. STORY2: Butterflies are insects that like to eat just the flowers but leave the leaves behind. (helps me to think of the kanji for leaves, minus the flower bit)."
522,独,single,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The bachelor's apartment looked like it had been attacked by a pack of wild dogs. There were even insects in the kitchen. No wonder he's single! STORY2: A SINGLE guy is a WILD DOG who BUGS many women.
523,蚕,silkworm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There are no insects in heaven - well, that is, except for silkworms. What, do you expect Jesus to import his fancy robes from China? STORY2: In China it was believed that the silkworms were insects sent from heaven because of the beautiful material they produced."
524,風,wind,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"They say that when an INSECT flaps its wings even the single DROP of WIND that it creates is sometimes enough to create a hurricane on the other side of the Earth. STORY2: The WIND usually carries things around in it - drops of rain or snow, and lots of insects."
525,己,self,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji looks like the ""s"" of ""self"", looking at its own reflection in a mirror (reversed sideways), as if pondering about his ""self"". STORY2: When Superman looks at himself in the mirror, this is what he sees on his chest."
526,起,rouse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Be careful when you're RUNNING through the jungle, because you might step on and ROUSE a sleeping SNAKE. Then you'll have to RUN like hell before it bites you! STORY2: Nothing will rouse you quite as much as finding a snake in your bed. You will run away like you've never run before!"
527,妃,queen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Cleopatra. STORY2: Be careful you don't pick up a drag queen at a club - they might look like women, but they have a snake down there!"
528,改,reformation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The taskmaster of Slytherin ( wizardry house symbolized by a snake ) plans a reformation of Hogwarts, disallowing the study of magic to all muggle-born. こわいですね！. STORY2: This is a Meiji reformation taskmaster, trying to force usage of the Roman alphabet in Japan in place of Kanji. He holds a snake in the shape of the letter S and tries to explain how much simpler this is (j/k)."
529,記,scribe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A scribe writes down the words spoken by a snake (i.e. a lawyer). STORY2: Snakes have no hands. So, when a snake needs to write down something, it has to call in a SCRIBE, who will write down all the sayings of the snake."
530,包,wrap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The snake bound up its prey by wrapping his body around it. STORY2: Imagine Jessie sending in her Ekans (snake pokemon), and telling it to use bind attack to wrap up pikachu."
531,胞,placenta,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a newborn baby, fresh out of the womb, being entirely wrapped by the long piece of flesh, called a placenta, that once fed him. STORY2: Placenta is flesh/part of the body wrapped around the foetus."
532,砲,cannon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Primitive cannons fired stones wrapped with poisonous snakes. STORY2: Cannon = stone projectile wrapped by a barrel.
533,泡,bubble,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When water forms a bubble, it wraps a pocket of air. STORY2: To prevent people from popping bubble wrap for fun, the post office has started filling the bubbles with water."
534,亀,tortoise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It seems bizarre, but tortoises are a genetic cross with the head of a fish and the tail of an eel. Where the shell comes from, no one knows. STORY2: A tortoise is prosperity bound up with a tail. They are very lucky creatures."
535,電,electricity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of a two natural sources of electricity: electrical storms (a form of weather) and electrical eels. 電話 でんわ phone, call. STORY2: This kanji was invented by the first Chinaman to discover electricity. He was so unfortunate, he stepped on an electric eel and got struck by lighting at the same time."
536,竜,dragon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Have you ever seen an asian DRAGON? it looks like an eel, but can stand up because it has legs. STORY2: If the poor villagers don't provide him with a vase full of eels each day, the dragon will lay waste to the village."
537,滝,waterfall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Water Dragon dwells in the waterfall. STORY2: Ever went under a waterfall, vase in hand, trying to catch eels from the water as it pours down?"
538,豚,pork,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pork comes from the flesh of a sow. STORY2: One possible pictograph for ""sow"" primitive: the top line is a feeding trough, the stroke touching it is the head, the long curved stroke is the body (with a little hook at the end for the curly tail), and the four remaining strokes are the sow's legs."
539,逐,pursue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In association with consummate (#540), our sow is on the road pursuing a mate. STORY2: The pig is on the road in the pursue of the turtle who is trying to escape (#283). (See story on escape (#283) & consummate (#540))."
540,遂,consummate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is still Miss Piggy only she's gotten horny (as she often does) and now she's pursuing Kermit to help her consummate her desires. STORY2: In association with pursue (#539), our sow has tracked down a suitable mate, they've consummated their relationship, and now the little sow is all grown up into a boar with horns."
541,家,house,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of ""The Three Little Pigs"". There was a house made of straw, another made of sticks, and a third made of bricks, each occupied by a pig. So, naturally, housetop over pig means house, the central element of that story. STORY2: Man, ever hear of cleaning? This house is a pig sty."
542,嫁,marry into,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Since the Nihonjin man is hardly ever home, the woman feels more like she's married into the house than into a relationship. STORY2: Traditionally, it was the women who would marry into the households of their husband's families."
543,豪,overpowering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Orwell's 'Animal Farm' the pigs overpowered every other animals. They crownded themselves as ruler of the farm and walked tall on their rear legs, a crime strictly forbidden in the animal republic. STORY2: Ganon, the tall crowned pig, has been overpowering ther land of Hyrule for decades."
544,腸,intestines,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Intestines are the part of the body that is taken out of piglets to make piggy banks. Just imagine factory workers scraping out the intestines of real piglets and packaging them up for little children. STORY2: Taking things too literally, you used a real piglet as a piggy bank. Now when you smash it open to get your coins out, you have to dig out your coins from its intestines. ew."
545,場,location,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're looking for a good location to bury your piggy bank savings. It has to be in some soft soil that's easy to dig up, well hidden, and easy to rememger like this kanji. STORY2: Don't confuse with place (#1127). Think of location not as a single fixed spot, but as the act of locating. You've buried your piggy bank in the dirt in your backyard, but you can't remember where. You frantically dig everywhere in a process of location to find your piggy bank."
546,湯,hot water,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a hot water kettle for your tea, except this one is a pink piggy bank that pours the water from its snout (and squeals when the water is piping hot). Make sure to use a potholder! STORY2: Hot water is a phrase that can mean ""getting into trouble."" This kanji pictures just one of the many meanings of that phrase: it's water that you get into (with creditors and the like) when your piggy bank is empty!"
547,羊,sheep,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture of a sheep run over by a steam roller. Must have been a ram, note the horns. STORY2: Our Lord and King put on ears and a tail to become a lowly sheep for the slaughter."
548,美,beauty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I guess this kanji proves it's not just the Welsh whose idea of beauty is a large sheep. STORY2: A Sheep on top of a dog is NOT a beautiful thing.
549,洋,ocean,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This kanji refers to the waters of the Pasheephic ocean. STORY2: Remember the story of Jason and the Argonauts from Greek myth? Jason travelled across oceans of water in order to recover the fleece of a certain sheep.
550,詳,detailed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Trembling from head to hoof from such a traumatic experience, the sheep gives a very detailed worded account to the detective about his wolf attack. ""We need more details Mr. Sheep. Tell us exactly where the baaad man touched you"". STORY2: Say! detailed sheep, not like that! DE-TAILED sheep. Got it?"
551,鮮,fresh,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The freshest fish is caught in the middle of the night while most people are ""counting sheep."" (If you've ever been to Tsukiji fish market, you know what I mean). STORY2: This one's easy to remember. The kanji gives 2 examples of foods that should be purchased fresh. To remember which foods, take the first letter of fresh, ""F"", to stand for fish and the final sound of fresh, ""SH"", to stand for sheep: FreSH. It even puts the primitives in the right order."
552,達,accomplished,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Dolly (the first cloned sheep ever) grow tired of being a celebrity and escaped from the labs by digging a tunnel. She turned out to be an ACCOMPLISHED escapist, as she managed to dig a road under the soil. /Imagine Dolly performing a escape, like those movies where the main character has to escape from jail. STORY2: The dirty sheep had come far down this road and had accomplished many things."
553,羨,envious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A very thirsty sheep, who always lacked water, spends his days watching his fellow sheep (in the farm next door or in another pen) and being very envious of their water. STORY2: Envious of the greener grass on the other side of the fence, the sheep looks down in disgust at his own dry grass lacking water."
554,差,distinction,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This New-Zealand pro-gamer has won many distinctions playing WoolCraft (a massively multi-user game in which the goal is to shear sheep). STORY2: Noob players make no distinction between what games they play, whether it's the geniune thing or a bootleg fake copy. The biggest example of course, would be the legit World of Warcraft and the biggest ripoff there is: World of Wool-craft!"
555,着,don,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A pullover is donned by pulling wool over your eyes. STORY2: Someone who is donning a disguise does that in order to pull the wool over your eyes.
556,唯,solely,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The mouth of a turkey is used solely for saying, ""Gobble."" Likewise, your mouth, full of turkey, is solely used to gobble it up. STORY2: Sadly my mouth gets to taste turkey solely on Christmas Day."
557,焦,char,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I put the turkey over the oven fire, it always ends up being charred beyond recognition. I'm not a very good cook. STORY2: Char could be any meat over oven fire. So why is it a turkey in this kanji? Because charred turkey is what sticks out most in your mind as the thing that ruined Thanksgiving dinner."
558,礁,reef,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Coral reefs are now dying off due to our abuse of the environment and now look like charred stone. For a picture illustrating this, see http://www.nacri.org/images/Hof-dredgingfig8.jpg. STORY2: Reefs are often formed from volcanic rock, or ""rock that has been charred""."
559,集,gather,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hunter-gathers, searching all along the ground for food. They never look up and see the Turkeys that have gathered on top of the trees to hide. Those were some smart turkeys! STORY2: Gather the turkeys for Thanksgiving. Gather the trees for Christmas. In that order..."
560,准,quasi-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Quasi-modo, the famous hunchback of Notre-Dame wasn't actually a hunchback at all!! He used a frozen turkey to make a hunch! STORY2: An iced turkey is only quasi-as-good-as fresh turkey."
561,進,advance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Why did the turkey cross the road? To advance to the other side, of course. STORY2: [re: raulir] Animals on the road: Turtles escape (#283) and Pigs pursue (#539), while the Turkeys advance (looking very formidable indeed)."
562,雑,miscellaneous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Newscast: ""Among today's miscellaneous stories, we have a report on a baseball team that was chased up a tree by a turkey. Stay tuned for this and more!"". STORY2: On the left we have baseball and wood, which obviously means a baseball bat. Instead of balls, there are miscellaneous other objects you may hit with it. While beating people may be one favorite use, in this case we see it used for making turkey mash."
563,雌,feminine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Stop | spooning | turkeys. Spoon females. STORY2: To become feminine you must stop using a spoon to eat turkey and use a knife and fork like a proper lady.
564,準,semi-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the turkey fighting semi-final, turkeys are injected with drugs via needles and splashed with water to help them last the match. STORY2: The anhinga, or water turkey, has a needle-like nose, so really it's only a semi-turkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga."
565,奮,stirred up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The St. Bernard dog pounces on a turkey in a rice field and stirs up all the other birds around. See them all gobble gobbling in fear? STORY2: Gruesome, but it makes it easy to remember. Here goes: The St. Bernard stirred up a crowd of turkeys and caught one. It bit the head, brains spilling onto the rice field."
566,奪,rob,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the big dogs robbed the family of their Christmas turkey? Well, the following year Ralphie's mom glued the holiday bird to the kitchen table, just as a precaution. STORY2: Don't let the neighbor's St.Bernard rob tonight's turkey....glue it to the table if you must."
567,確,assurance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To assure that no one will get into the Turkey coop, put a huge rock in the entrance! STORY2: You've heard the expression ""killing two birds with one stone."" (一石二鳥 is-seki-ni-chou). We'll, there's another one that roughly translates as ""killing an entire coop with a giant boulder. "" That's the method that hunters use when they want absolute assurance of taking home a bird."
568,午,noon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Noon is a good time for a ten minute nap (using lie down as nap). STORY2: Noon is the hour of the horse.
569,許,permit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If horses could speak, you might have to ask their permission before mounting them. STORY2: Mr Ed ( a famous talking horse ) was finally at a loss for words when told he would need a permit for public speaking."
570,歓,delight,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Imagine a spoiled little girl. Her delight when she gets a Pegasus for her birthday... and then like all spoilt little girls she gets bored of it quickly... hence the yawn. STORY2: I would be delighted if Japanese lacked the Pegasus kanji.
571,権,authority,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I have Eric Cartman of the “South Park” animated series, wearing a cop uniform, riding a wooden Pegasus (such as on a funfair), and yelling “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!!”. STORY2: No one has the authority to tie up a pegasus to a tree!"
572,観,outlook,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Microsoft Outlook works about as well as a pegasus that can't see: they both crash all the time. STORY2: I used to hate birds.They're loud, stupid and worst of all they shit on your head. Used to think birds were the most vile creatures on earth. Then I encountered a pegasus. I was just walking down the road, minding my own business when I happened to look up. I saw it there, braying noisily, ivory wings outstretched like an angel, back leg raised ever so slightly. It dropped a steaming brown load right on my face. It changed my outlook completely. Birds are the second most vile creatures on earth."
573,羽,feathers,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Pictograph. Easy enough. STORY2: These days the biggest concern in airline safety is ICE on the WINGS of the plane. Birds that fly long distances also have to worry about getting ICE on their FEATHERS.
574,習,learn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a white bird loosing a couple feathers as it is learning to fly. You learn a lesson as you watch it doing so, maybe you learn that “nothing comes for free” or that “one has to be prepared to loose in order to gain”... STORY2: Learning is all about adding more feathers to your cap and the most prestigious of all is the beautiful pure white feather you'll receive when you have learned the kanji!"
575,翌,the following,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your feathers would also stand up if you were a hen in a slaughter house and you heard: ""The following!"". STORY2: ""The following segment is sponsored by...Swiffer - who make excellent feather dusters for cleaning your vases""."
576,曜,weekday,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tip: feathers + turkey : This combination of primitives appears six times in Heisig, so it's worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest ""futon"" (your futon is made from turkey feathers). REF: weekday (FRAME 576) , laundry (#577), leap (#1285), outstanding (#2272), twinkle (#2534), shimmering (#2880). Story: On weekdays you hang your futon out in the sun. STORY2: The poor farmer spends every weekday while the sun shines, plucking turkey feathers."
577,濯,laundry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: When turkeys do the laundry, they put their feathers in water (they don't have clothes)."
578,曰,sayeth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""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."". STORY2: When pent up alone, one sayeth little."
579,困,quandary,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I'm supposed to make an enclosure for my tree, but if I use its wood for the enclosure, there won't be anything left to be pent-in. What a quandary! STORY2: You are pent in the garden of eden with one tree, but outside is the whole world to explore! What a quandary -- should you stay in paradise with the tree of knowledge or should you go out into the world?"
580,固,harden,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Fossils are old things pent in that have hardened. STORY2: Remember Metapod from Pokemon? All it used was harden, which kept it pent in until it grew old enough to evolve into Butterfree.."
581,国,country,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In my country (England) the crown jewels are kept pent-in in the Tower of London. Which happens to be where enemies of the state were once also pent-in (probably for trying to steal those jewels). STORY2: Just think of Japan, a country which is like a jewel but historically very enclosed."
582,団,group,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you are admitted into a group like the Yakuza, you're well and truly done (だん) for. You must stick to the group like glue, and you will be pent-in for life, never being able to leave. STORY2: A pent-in group will naturally be more cohesive, or ""glued together.""."
583,因,cause,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"We once had a dog with big paws // and oh what great trouble he'd cause // we built a huge pen // to keep him pent in // and stop him from breaking more laws //. STORY2: Why is there poop on the kitchen floor? Oh, the cause is that you kept the dog pent in the house all day. Next time remember to walk him."
584,姻,matrimony,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Matrimony is the state in which the woman has got you pent in like a dog so that you cannot go after other bitches. STORY2: When the woman gets angry, she treats her man like a pent in dog (i.e., puts him in the doghouse). It's a perfect metaphor for the state of matrimony."
585,園,park,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A nice picnic pent up in the park, with your crock pot and scarf (picnic blanket). STORY2: There was a homeless man living in a box at the park so I gave him a lidded crock filled with hot curry tied with a scarf...　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　エン　庭園　ていえん(Japanese garden)…　　　　　　　　　　Pure Group:　遠402　猿403."
586,回,-times,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Write mouth two -times. STORY2: Pretty much a pictograph, see book. Keyword meanings : to turn round, counter for number of times, counter for rounds. Some simple compounds using previously learned kanji : 次回 (next time), 毎回 (every time/each round), 回る (to wander around)."
587,壇,podium,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A man on the podium announce the rules for the contest: You must fill a top hat with dirt as many times as you can by nightbreak. STORY2: Abraham Lincoln used a simple mound of soil for a podium, when he wore his top hat and gave the speech he had practiced many times until nightbreak. But it was so magnificent that no one noticed."
588,店,store,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Try to remember all those stores from Zelda that were inside caves and had fortune-teller like vendors. STORY2: The fortuneteller has a store in a cave.
589,庫,warehouse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I think of the Batcave. It's a big cave that Batman uses as a warehouse to store his car, the Batmobile, and all his cool big-boy toys. STORY2: Have you ever worked in a warehouse? It's like a giant metal cave. Watch out for that forklift!"
590,庭,courtyard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the courthouse caved in, trials had to be held in the courtyard. STORY2: Back in caveman days, courts were held in caves. When too many people showed up to watch, they spilled out into the courtyard (the yard outside the cave court ) . 庭 (にわ): garden, yard, compound 庭園 (ていえん): garden, park 校庭 (こうてい): schoolyard."
591,庁,government office,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some bureaucrats at a government office decided that the tunnels of caves need to get street signs, which are then nailed to the walls of the cave. STORY2: In some of the scarier countries, when someone is invited to visit a ""government office"", it's actually a dungeon where they're dragged into a cave and nailed to the wall."
592,床,bed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The two safe places to sleep in the wilderness are in a tree and in a cave. So these can be considered as beds. STORY2: (based on mspertus:) The two safe places to sleep in the wilderness are in a tree and in a cave. So to be on the safe side it is best to put a tree in a cave and use it as a bed.
593,麻,hemp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Image: while Batman is out, Robin is smokin' a huge doob in a secret corner of the Batcave where he nurtures his hemp grove). STORY2: Where is the best place to hid your grove of hemp trees? In a cave, you dope!"
594,磨,grind,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you grind the hemp you are bound to get stoned quicker. STORY2: You must GRIND the HEMP collected in the grove by your cave on solid STONE to make the best ropes.
595,心,heart,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The four chambers in the heart. In the West, we point to our head when asked about the mind. In the East, they point to the heart. So then, the radical for ""state of mind""…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　シン　安心　あんしん(peace of mind). STORY2: Heart needs three drops of blood to work."
596,忘,forget,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You only truly forget her when she has perished in your heart. STORY2: To forget means that something perishes from your heart.
597,忍,endure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A ninja must be able to endure the pain of clinging to a ceiling, motionless, for hours at a time, waiting for just the right moment to drop down and thrust the blade of his sword into the hearts of his enemies. By the way, this character is used in the compound 忍者 (ninja) which is why I choose to use ninja as its primitive meaning. STORY2: Someone with a razor blade stuck in their heart has to endure the pain wherever they go and can tell no one about it."
598,認,acknowledge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You are given a speech about some serious mistakes of yours, and you have to endure the whole thing, because all you can do is acknowledge. STORY2: I never read the ""acknowledgements"" section of books or theses, because they are mostly just boring words that i must endure reading, before i can get to the interesting part. :)."
599,忌,mourning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember the tale of Cleopatra? She was MOURNING the loss of her Marc Antony, so she placed the asp SNAKE to her HEART. STORY2: You are mourning the death of a relative, and it feels as if a snake had bitten into your heart. -- ""mourning feels like snake-bitten heart""."
600,志,intention,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A samurai's intentions always come from the heart. STORY2: Gentleman always have hearts full of good intentions.
601,誌,document,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A will is an important document that contains your final word on how you intend to distribute your assets. STORY2: This is quite simple: a document is a set of words describing your intentions.
602,忠,loyalty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Their true loyalty exists in the middle of their hearts. STORY2: Your loyalty is to what's in your heart.
603,串,shish kebab,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Naka naka , ""who's there?"" shish kebab .... ""shish kebab who?"". STORY2: This is a pictograph if ever I saw one. Two chunks of meat on a skewer."
604,患,afflicted,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A person who is afflicted with the vampire disease can only be killed with a sheesh-kebab through the heart. STORY2: If you are afflicted with severe heartburn, eating a spicy shish kebab will feel only slightly less painful than having it jammed straight into your heart."
605,思,think,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Think with your brain NOT your heart. STORY2: To think is to use your brain over your heart.
606,恩,grace,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Grace here is a favor freely bestowed, like a good deed. So to remember this kanji, go to the local shelter, find a big dog pent up in a small cage and adopt him. That will cause a warm feeling in your heart! STORY2: This kanji tells us that wherever heart is the cause, grace is the consequence. Think of “grace” as a graceful act: something benevolent that comes from the heart."
607,応,apply,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[bravo, scottamus!] To apply for the job as a (replacement) Batman, you have to make it to the heart of the cave past all the traps he set up to test you. There, you see a table with the application form on it. Now that you think about it, the ad in the paper did say ""Those who don't make it to the heart of the cave need not apply."". STORY2: In the videogame Zelda, Link enters a CAVE to visit a fairy that will APPLY magic to fill his HEART containers."
608,意,idea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you get a good IDEA you get excited and you can hear the SOUND of your HEART, it's pounding so hard. STORY2: Picture someone who's just had a great idea, but in place of a blinking light bulb over their head, you see a heart thumping with great noise. Imagine the greater the idea, the louder the sound of the beating heart."
609,想,concept,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The concept of love is basically two hearts inter-acting as one. STORY2: 'Inter-heart'' is a new therapy CONCEPT that helps macho guys share their feelings with each other.
610,息,breath,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your breath brings oxygen in through your nose which is then pumped around your body by your heart. STORY2: I think I've met my dream girl, but there's a problem. her breath is horrible! So, do I listen to my nose or my heart?"
611,憩,recess,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Recess to me is a school break. At recess some kiddies are comparing their latest body piercings. Tongues and noses are nothing special. The new cool is to have your heart done! STORY2: Ah recess; tongues slandering, noses being turned up, and beneath it all, young hearts being broken. Dominant in playgrounds is the noise of tongues, which helps me remember that in this kanji tongue comes first."
612,恵,favor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Too easy. Imagine the Wizard of OZ. There, the three heroes asked the Wizard for three FAVORS: the lion wanted courage of TEN men, the scarecrow wanted a BRAIN, and the tin man wanted a HEART. Ok, the lion bit is stretching but you have it memorized now, so who cares? STORY2: Do yourself a favor and take ten minutes to think about your decison...　RTK2:　エ　知恵　ちえ(wisdom)　　　ゴ　互恵　ごけい(reciprocal)."
613,恐,fear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If your heart surgeon is mediocre in his craft, you have plenty of reason to fear. (""Oops, I think I left my scissors in there""). STORY2: My deep dark fear at the bottom of my heart is that I am mediocre at my craft."
614,惑,beguile,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"She was beguiled/mislead by his charm: at the party he kissed her on the mouth, they did it on the floor and thus he stole her heart. Poor girl! STORY2: The same cowboy from frame # 356 (elements mouth, floor and fiesta), kisses the floor with his mouth, once again, before going to the fiesta. There, he uses his good looks to beguile women (gets them to buy him drinks or such), by playing with their hearts."
615,感,emotion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Emotion is a march of mouths inside your heart telling you what to feel. STORY2: Strong EMOTIONS don't stay hidden. They march right out of one's heart (below) and out one's mouth (shouted, snarled, or gently whispered - depending on exactly what kind of emotion it is!)."
616,憂,melancholy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Melancholy makes me think of Hamlet cause he was so 'emo'. In order to play up his feelings he bares his head and holds his crown over his heart then walks (on walking legs) around the palace making everyone see how melancholy he is. What a wuss. STORY2: This is an image of the crucifixion. Jesus is on the cross. His crown of thorns has slipped down and is around his neck, right between his head and his heart. His walking legs can be seen dangling from the cross as well. How MELANCHOLY!"
617,寡,widow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The new widow sits in the house, her head in her lap (the extended stroke), her dagger in her husband. STORY2: The house's head, her husband, was murdered with a dagger. You can still see the drops of blood above the dagger. She is now a widow."
618,忙,busy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Busy (as in ""occupied"") means a state of mind where all other thoughts are perished. STORY2: ^^^Make the ""state of mind"" primitive Data (from Star Trek) instead right now and save yourself the headache; 'state of mind' is too vague! (Data can stay so busy as not to sleep without dying. He's a robot)."
619,悦,ecstasy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,ECSTASY alters our STATE OF MIND and makes us DEVILS. STORY2: The state of mind that horny teenagers are looking for.
620,恒,constancy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Constancy is holding the same state of mind over a long span of time. (tweaking PepeSeco and mspertus). STORY2: Data is the epitome of constancy. As a robot, his consistency spans the entire day."
621,悼,lament,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the world's most eminent magician died, everyone's state of mind became that of lamentation. He was buried with his famous sun-flower wand in his hand. STORY2: Data laments that he could never see his eminent father, his creator, ever again. He paints a picture of his father, that looks like a sunflower in the shape of a magic wand."
622,悟,enlightenment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Enlightenment is a state of mind that goes beyond the five senses. STORY2: Data finds enlightenment when he discovers the answer to the question, ""Who am I?"". (Image: Data meditating in a sitting lotus position)."
623,怖,dreadful,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Someone in a dreadful state of mind has crawled into his bed and is hiding under the sheets (linens). STORY2: Being an android, Data is white as a sheet. Doctor Crusher always has to remind herself that this is perfectly normal. From a doctor's perspective, he really does look dreadful."
624,慌,disconcerted,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(re: wazzab) The state of mind of the people of New Orleans as they examined their city's concert hall laid waste can best described as disconcerted. STORY2: Data walks in and sees Picard weeping. ""What is the matter, Captain?"" Picard looks up, and replies that his entire home planet has been laid to waste. Data, the master of tact, offers up this consolation: ""Ah. I can see how that would be DISCONCERTing"". It turns out that the flow of tears was really just because Picard had lost his chance at getting at some rare (and thus valuable) flowers on his home planet."
625,悔,repent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""For all have sinned..."" so everyone's state of mind should be to repent. STORY2: When you repent, you heal your state of mind by going over every thing you regret doing."
626,憎,hate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Like the saying goes, Hate just begets Hate. A state of mind that just increases and increases until it explodes. STORY2: Data's one true emotion is hate for Prince's music. (Image: Data hunched over hands to his ears and screaming while Picard bobs to Purple Rain)."
627,慣,accustomed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It took him awhile, but Data finally got ACCUSTOMED to his nipple/breast piercings. They were constantly rubbing up against his shirt and his heart-shaped locket. Picture Data, shirtless, squeezing his nipples in front of Picard and saying ""Yes, at first they were a bit shelly, but I've grown quite ACCUSTOMED to them"". That last bit should do it for you. STORY2: Some hardcore monks have a state of mind that has become accustomed to their self-torture through piercing themselves."
628,愉,pleasure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the meeting of butchers, in their narrow state of mind, they throw lame jokes around like, 'Oh hello, it's a pleasure to meat you', and find this rather pleasing. STORY2: Image : Data attending a meeting of the butchers union. As a joke to begin his speech he says, 'Its a pleasure to MEAT you all.' (thanx to Shibo & nestOr)."
629,惰,lazy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: When in a lazy state of mind, the things you need to do are left for next month."
630,慎,humility,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Humility is the state of mind of accepting the truth about yourself - both favorable and unfavorable. (tweaked version of Raichu's). STORY2: Humility is a state of mind when you consider yourself in accordance with the truth (you neither boast nor demean yourself).
631,憾,remorse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remorse is the state of mind where I feel bad for what I did while I was tired and emotional! STORY2: Tip: If you are confusing this keyword, remorse, with repent (#625) and regret/resentment (#1460), then note that rEMOrse contains EMOtion."
632,憶,recollection,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Recollection is about bringing ideas back to your mind. STORY2: Data's recollection powers are unparalled. He never loses a single idea.
633,慕,pining,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pining, yearn for... etc. Presumably for lost love. An easy one here, someone standing in the graveyard, placing an old valentine card amonst all the existing tributes. STORY2: Morticia and Gomez (of the “Addams Family”) are spending their Valentine's Day at the graveyard, pining for each other's affection."
634,添,annexed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Annexed to the U.S.A. in 1898, Hawaii is nestled in the waters of the Pacific, a little drop of heaven, often visited on Valentines.. (from Ihatobu with the date corrected. Hawaii became a state in 1959)...　RTK2:　テン　添付　てんぷ(appendix)."
635,必,invariably,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You swear you'll be in love forever, but invariably there comes a time when your heart is divided. STORY2: For this kanji I invariably got the stroke order wrong. I nearly lost heart, but decided to stick (pun) to it. Then I noticed the order is 1) katakana ソ (altered slightly); 2) fishhook; 3) two drops. Now I invariably get it right."
636,泌,ooze,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Anything full of water will invariably begin to ooze. STORY2: When you pierce a heart with a stake, it invariably oozes blood."
637,手,hand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This pictograph actually really works if you look at it as a hand with fingers spread and middle finger pointing down. see the very top stroke as the edge of a shirt cuff, and it will all come together. STORY2: A hand is useful for 千一(1001) things."
638,看,watch over,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's a hot day of summer with a clear sky, you're sitting outside a cafe (or maybe on a reclining chair in the garden), and you watch over the kids with a hand covering your eyes from the sunlight (next time, don't forget the sunglasses). STORY2: Think of the monster from Pan's Labrynth, that watched over the poor girl with eyes in the palm of his hands."
639,摩,chafe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you grind the hemp without a stone but use your hand instead it will chafe. (Image: ""Robin, why are your hands all chafed?"" 'Uh... (I've been grinding hemp all day)'). STORY2: When the feds came to bust your little hemp grove, you jumped out the back side of the cave and tried to repel down with a hemp rope. Unfortunately, the rope chafed your hands and you fell .. ouch!"
640,我,ego,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Someone with a huge EGO is too good for any romantic partner and as such has nothing but personal ""hand fiestas"" with himself every night. STORY2: Did you hear about the guy who had such a big EGO that he threw a fiesta for his left hand?"
641,義,righteousness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Righteous Christians are sheep with egos (reworked from raulir, fixes word order to match radical order). STORY2: On the other hand, Woman tend to have too much self-righteousness to allow any man to touch their wooly black sheep this results in similar hand fiestas."
642,議,deliberation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Careful deliberation produces words of righteousness. STORY2: At the worst of times, a jury's deliberation descends into a war of words between competing self-righteous, power-tripping bastards."
643,犠,sacrifice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A cow that is righteous sacrifices her milk for the human race. STORY2: Cows are truly righteous animals. They SACRIFICE their milk so that we can have some. And if they don't have any left, they give a sheep a hand fiesta (good lord this is going too far) and give us that instead. What righteous cows."
644,抹,rub,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I like to RUB my FINGERS over my EXTREMITIES ....like my extremity-ly long, umm, hair.... This has been edited in response to being reported ...you can change ""hair"" to whatever extremity-ly long body part you like. STORY2: When you're cold, your RUB your FINGERS over your EXTREMITIES vigorously to warm up a bit. I'd still rather go in for a warm fire and some hot cocoa, though."
645,抱,embrace,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When embracing someone, wrap your fingers around her butt for added effect. You may think of ""bound with snakes"" as a description of the fingers slithering around the buttocks, if you want a particularly graphic image. STORY2: Here, I'm picturing that scene from ET (the extra terrestrial), where ET hugs Elliot before leaving. You see that EMBRACE is ET's long FINGERS that WRAP around Elliot."
646,搭,board,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ok, this is a little wierd, but i took this back to the kanji for pagoda (#254). I think it helps simplify the image, and also helps anchor the pagoda kanji in memory better as an added bonus. say this aloud once, and i think it will bring out a vivid image very quickly: ""Now boarding the pagoda ride. Please keep your fingers inside at all times..."". STORY2: When you board the ship on the way out from Hawaii a beautiful crewmember takes her fingers and fits a lei around you ....a lei is flowers fitted together with your fingers."
647,抄,extract,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You can extract her juices by inserting a few fingers. STORY2: The mafia want to extract information from you. You don't say a word, so out comes the knife. They cut of your fingers until you only have a few left and then you speak."
648,抗,confront,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Gandalf confronts the evil beast, shouting ""you shall not pass!"". He holds up a single finger and sends forth a whirlwind. STORY2: Imagine a thumb war. A confrontation of fingers in a whirlwind."
649,批,criticism,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of the two most famous critics, Ebert and Roeper. On their show, they compare thumbs (which are technically fingers) with each other before dispensing criticism. STORY2: My criticism earned me the FINGER when I COMPARED her cooking to my mother's."
650,招,beckon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A Geisha beckons you with her index finger, and as you approach she runs her fingers all over her body in an attempt to seduce you. Keyword meaning : “invite”. STORY2: I bet you all know the Maneki Neko, or beckoning cat, who with its raised fingers tries to seduce all good things (success, happiness and harmony) to its owner."
651,拓,clear the land,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A huge index finger coming down from the sky is kicking boulders of rock, clearing the land. Maybe it's the finger of God preparing a place for his little people to live. STORY2: I imagine clearing the land in order to set up your tent after a long day of backpacking. Using your fingers, you pick up all of the rocks and get them out of the way so that you can get a comfortable night sleep. If you don't clear the land you can just picture the rock sticking into your back as you toss and turn all night long."
652,拍,clap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Image: the most snooty prim and proper English Lord with white gloves clapping only with his fingers. ""Oh bravo old chap. Bravo...""). STORY2: I clapped so hard, my fingers became white."
653,打,strike,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're using a hammer to drive a nail into a plank, but you miss and strike your fingers, ouch ! PS: the character does not mean ""to go on strike"", it will be very helpful in the long run to create images that convey the proper sense of the character! STORY2: My teacher used to strike my fingers with a street sign."
654,拘,arrest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You approach the thief from behind, stick your finger at his back to fake a gun, and say the phrase ""You're under arrest"". STORY2: Giving the police the finger and a colorful phrase is a surefire way to get arrested."
655,捨,discard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Someone stuck their fingers in my cottage cheese! I'm going to have to discard the lot! STORY2: The wicked witch from Hansel and Gretel only likes the meaty parts of kids. Outside her candy cottage, you can see a pile of discarded fingers."
656,拐,kidnap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Wrap your FINGERS around someone's MOUTH to keep them quiet, then put the KNIFE to their throat to ensure their cooperation. This is the best way to KIDNAP someone. STORY2: After you beckon (#650) someone by seducing them, you kidnap them and hang them upside down (the reversed positions of seduce)."
657,摘,pinch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My grandma always pinched me with her fingers when i was playing with her antiques. Imagine her fingers, also quite antique, thin, bony and hard, pinching at your hand. ""Keep your fingers away from my antiques!!"". STORY2: >_< Don't you hate when your aunt (who is an antique) PINCHES your cheeks with her antique fingers?"
658,挑,challenge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here comes a new challenge, try to kill Bowser, the giant Turtle using jut on finger. STORY2: You are sure to take a challenge because your victory was portended. So you stand self-confident before your foe, point a finger at him and say ""I will prevail, as was long portended!""."
659,指,finger,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Finger lickin' delicious. STORY2: I remember this not as finger which has too many uses elsewhere but as ""fingering"" then its easy: fingering some delicious..."
660,持,hold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the BUDDHIST TEMPLE you'll see wonderous things, such as the priest that can HOLD himself upside down with just a FINGER. STORY2: In Kyaiktiyo, there is rocking stone which sits on the edge of a cliff, and there is a Buddhist temple built on the top of it. You can rock the stone by pushing it with your finger, but it still holds in place. It's true, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaiktiyo."
661,括,fasten,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Teacher was always telling us to fasten our lips by pulling a zipper shut with our fingers. It always frightened me because I imagined getting my tongue stuck in the zipper. STORY2: On the plane, you refuse to FASTEN your seatbelt and even go so far as to give the stewardess the finger and stick out your tongue at her. The crew comes and pins you down and forces you to FASTEN it."
662,揮,brandish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A military leader in his chariot is brandishing his finger at the enemy, crying ""chaaaaaaaaarrrgggeeee!"". STORY2: Think of the movie Gladiator but instead Maximus is brandishing a giant foam brand name (nike, rebok, adidas, whatever) finger like you see at a baseball game. He's riding in a chariot using the foam finger to kill his enemy."
663,推,conjecture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In mathematics, a conjecture is a mathematical statement which has been proposed as a true statement, but which no one has yet been able to prove or disprove. Have you heard of the Finger-Turkey conjecture ? It states that if turkeys had fingers, they would be able to count. Be sure to imagine a turkey with fingers at the tip of its wings, counting from one to ten. STORY2: In the midst of conjecture on whether it was done or not, mom stuck her fingers in the turkey to check."
664,揚,hoist,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My piggy bank is so heavy that I cannot HOIST it using just my fingers. STORY2: Picture a major robbery where some dudes are breaking into a bank to steal their money. They get their man in the vault through the ceiling - now he's hanging from a rope a few feet from the ground (like in the movies, dodging laser beams). He reports back that he has found the loot, and its all in a large piggy bank in the center of the vault. The alarm sounds and he's got to think fast. He jams the four fingers of his right hand in the piggy bank slot and tells his team to hoist him up, he's got the loot!"
665,提,propose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When a man PROPOSES to a lady, he takes her FINGER and places the ring on it JUST SO, and the moment sweeps her away. STORY2: I tried to propose to my girlfriend, but the ring was too small to fit her finger. Instead of saying yes, she just uttered an annoyed sigh. So I rushed to the jeweler where he made it bigger. But now it was too big, so I rushed back to make it smaller. This spiel kept going on until the ring was finally just so. Her eyes lit up and she said yes."
666,損,damage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Boss yells, ""Who damaged the Xerox machine?!"" fingers of employees point at one another. STORY2: If you finger your employee, you risk incurring many damages from a possible sexual harassment lawsuit."
667,拾,pick up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I tried to PICK UP the bowling ball...but my FINGERS didn't FIT in the holes. STORY2: Try PICKING UP a girl by trying to FIT your FINGER in you know what... let me know how that works.
668,担,shouldering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One of Hercules' labors was to hold the world in his fingers for Atlas and not move until nightbreak, shouldering the considerable burden. STORY2: One of the classic stories of shouldering a heavy burden is that of the kid who had to stick his finger on a dam until nightbreak to prevent it from breaking down."
669,拠,foothold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When rockclimbing, when your weight disposes of the valuble foothold, all that's left is your fingers keeping you from death. Meanwhile, your walking legs are left dangling in the wind. STORY2: Once you have a good foothold, you can dispose of your fingerhold."
670,描,sketch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sketch is a seedling (#234) of things to come. Before the assault, the sergeant draws a sketch of the attack with his fingers in the sand. STORY2: I'm bad at drawing, so when I try to sketch the kanji for cat, you can sort of recognize it, but I don't get the curve of the ""wild dogs"" just right."
671,操,maneuver,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig, so it's worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest ""furniture"" (a common type of wooden goods). REF: parch (#215) , maneuver (FRAME 671), winding (#1369), seaweed (#2035). Story: Using just a finger you are trying to maneuver your furniture round your room. STORY2: Luke skywalker points his fingers and uses the force to maneuver the goods through the tree branches and up over the tree."
672,接,touch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pervert meets a woman. The pervert tries to touch the women with his lustful fingers. The woman takes a vase, lifts it over her head and smashes it on the pervert's head... STORY2: CHIKAN!! These are the perverts who use their fingers to touch standing women on crowded trains."
673,掲,put up a notice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A muchacho puts up a notice that says “NO FINGER SNAPPING ALLOWED. MUCHACHOS ON SIESTA”. The muchachos are sleeping soundly, completely oblivious to the sound of dogs barking, guitar playing and even gun shots. Now imagine one tourist passing by and snapping his fingers and waking up all the muchachos at once. STORY2: Just as I was finished putting up a ""no siestas"" notice on my property, a muchacho gave me the finger, sat down, and promptly fell asleep."
674,掛,hang,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think RPG. The wizard points his finger to the guard and the ivy he has just animated with his magic wand climbs down the wall to hang the poor guy, opening the way for the adventurers into the dungeon. STORY2: 3 ways you could hang something: 1) the normal way, with your finger putting something on a hook or whatever, 2) hanging from a vine the natural way, or 3) by means of the magic of the wand."
675,研,polish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My stones are so huge that it takes two hands to polish them! STORY2: You use two hands to polish a stone: one to hold it and the other to rub it.
676,戒,commandment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two hands, fiesta.....when moses received the ten commandments with two hands, he went back down the mountain and threw a fiesta with the jews, celebrating the arrival of the commandments. STORY2: When Moses returned with the commandments in his hands he saw that his people were throwing a fiesta. At first he was excited. Then he looked around and got pissed. ""Awww, c'mon guys. Golden idols? Really?""."
677,械,contraption,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ten commandments were heavy. So to help carry them, Moses made a wooden contraption; the ark of the covenant. STORY2: Think of a complex wooden contraption capable of giving you a two-handed fiesta."
678,鼻,nose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,An Egyptian embalmer reaching both hands into the dead pharaoh's nose and yanking out handfuls of brain. STORY2: I sneezed so hard that through my NOSE I blew out my BRAINS into BOTH HANDS.
679,刑,punish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This kanji is for severe punishment. A man has his shackled hands placed on a wood block and they're chopped off with a saber. No more stealing bread in the Middle East... STORY2: In Arab countries they punish theives by cutting off BOTH HANDS with a SABRE.
680,型,mould,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A famous ninja once pressed his two hands and saber into the soil of his temple, before going onto a mission from which he never came back. Think of some sort of signature that he left behind him. The mould of his two hands and saber has since become a popular attraction in the area. STORY2: As a PUNISHMENT they made me lay face down in the DIRT leaving a nice imprinted MOULD of my whole BODY."
681,才,genius,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spinal tap: ""Every other band's amps go to ten. But you see my extra stroke of genius - these go to eleven."". STORY2: A TEN year old had a STROKE of GENIUS and wrote this joke: 何歳ですか？　　　。。。天才です！."
682,財,property,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you're a money genius, you can afford a lot of property. STORY2: The keyword refers to property in the sense of money or funds rather than of buildings or real estate. Keep this one distinct from frame 193 (“wealth”) and frame 473 (“assets”). Here we have a genie, gulping down oysters. Someone tries to grab an oyster and the genie puts his big arms around his oysters and states his “right of ownership” : “They're mines, my property!”."
683,材,lumber,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A TREE GENIUS is a LUMBER jack. Duh. STORY2: Just when the were about to turn the last tree into lumber, the Lorax (the tree-genie) jumps out and puts a stop to the whole affair."
684,存,suppose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"How do you suppose they manage to cram a genie inside a bottle? Well, I suppose they put him in there while he's still a little child... STORY2: Villagers on a little remote island one day find a bottle washed out by the sea onto the beach. After wiping the bottle and taking a closer look, they are amazed to see a (very small) child in it. The villagers suppose that the child is a genie in a bottle."
685,在,exist,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Genie in the bottle does exist but you need to dig deep into the soil to find one. STORY2: You wipe the soil from the bottle, only to have a genie float out above you, saying: 'I am the genie in a bottle, what is your wish?' So now you know that they do exist."
686,乃,from,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"FROM a pictograph of a thumbs up. That's how it also gets the primitive meaning of fist. STORY2: Think Charlton Heston: ""From my cold, dead fists"". Speech given to the National Boxing Association, in response to stricter control on boxing gloves."
687,携,portable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This character is the ""kei"" in ""keitai"" (cell phone), a word you will no doubt hear often in Japan, since everyone has one. Imagine you've just arrived in Japan, but don't have a cell phone yet, so instead you're carrying around a portable turkey you can hold in your fist. To dial a number, just poke it with your fingers. STORY2: Because they have no fingers, turkeys must use their fists when dialing on a portable phone."
688,及,reach out,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I like to think of this as a fist with with brass knuckles because of the extra line. An old school thug reaches out to help you up but then with his other hand ( with the brass knuckles) punches you. STORY2: Reach out and fist someone (Do you see the person primitive?).
689,吸,suck,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a baby reaching out and holding mom's breast as if it were bottle, and sucking on it to get some milk. STORY2: An open mouth and reaching hands : a baby wants to suck at his mother's breast."
690,扱,handle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"See suck (#689): if it's too big to handle, just use your fingers instead... STORY2: One of the first thing a baby can do with his hand is to reach out and grab your finger as if it was a little handle."
691,丈,length,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Both a meter and a yard are about one arm-length. STORY2: This kanji reminds me of the kanji for big (I think it looks the same kinda of except for the last stroke). Maybe this works for guys, but when you were growing up you would compare ""length"" with your friends trying to show how BIG you were. You wouldn't show ""it"" but you would spread your arms out as wide as possible to exaggerate your length. Maybe even so wide that you trip (I the 3rd stroke getting pushed over)! I just find it easier to relate this to the previous kanji."
692,史,history,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I sleep in history class with my mouth tucked under my arm. STORY2: History students usually going to school with a history book tucked under their arm. But now instead of a book, you have a small talking mouth that tell you about history. ""When I was young, I used to walk 5 miles everyday.....""."
693,吏,officer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One officer can change the course of history. STORY2: One officer, namely Napoleon, changed the course of history. (Thanks, ayoung24). Napoleon is also my primitive meaning."
694,更,grow late,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's starting to GROW LATE, so God will take the SUN, and TUCK IT UNDER HIS ARM, and walk away. In the morning, he'll bring it back, so don't worry. STORY2: At nightbreak (#30) the sun rises above the floor, so it is logical that when it is growing late, the sun would rise to the ceiling. Time to pack up your things and take your belongings under your arm."
695,硬,stiff,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A stiff drink on the ROCKs after it GROWS LATE is a way to unwind after a long day... STORY2: Stones are so stiff that even if you spent all day straining trying to change their shape, it would grow late far before you ever accomplished your task."
696,又,or again,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After her boyfriend's crotch has been satisfied, a woman might suggest they cuddle. The boyfriend, on the other hand, might say, ""Or again, we could fool around . . . "". STORY2: This keyword should really be ""again"" not ""or again"" Here is some context: think of the phrase ""Jya mata"" ""じゃ又"" which is a farewell similar to ""then again"". Also ""Mata ne"" ""又ね"" and mata ashita (again tomorrow) ""又明日""。 Note this kanji is rarely used, most of the time JP people spell it out ""mata"" except for in the last example: 又明日."
697,双,pair,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The animals boarding Noah's Ark all came in pairs – but Noah had to carefully check the two crotches in each pair to ensure that the animals were of different sexes and thus able to further their species after the flood. STORY2: Crotch to crotch is how many pairs spend their private time together. . .
698,桑,mulberry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Children going around the mulberry tree singing ""This is the way we wash our crotch, wash our crotch, wash our crotch..."". STORY2: Imagine kids all over the top of a mulberry tree, sitting astride limbs so that their weight is on their crotches. (Mulberry trees have big sprawling limbs that run horizontally or at shallow angles making them easy to climb and sit in. I have an old mulberry in my yard, and my kids are in it constantly)."
699,隻,vessels,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On Vessels that travel long distances, sailors often get quite lonely. They keep TURKEYS on the VESSELS, but not for use as food. The lonely sailors take turns enjoying the turkey's CROTCH. STORY2: Donald Duck is a big bird that does not wear pants. It's good to use him as a mnemonic because he is a sailor, and this kanji is used to count vessels."
700,護,safeguard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of the flower-vessels as a the Greenpeace vessel “Arctic Sunrise”, only instead of a rainbow there is a big flower painted on the hull (this will come back in seize (#701) and harvest (#908)). Think of “flower-power” and of the “peace” in “Greenpeace” and it will make some sense hopefully. -- In this kanji, we see an inauguration speech being given before the Greenpeace vessel is set afloat and sent to safeguard our planet. STORY2: (With sarcasm) A Bush speech telling how all the US vessels are always welcomed, covered with flowers and words of gratitude for safeguarding democracy from the evil doers."
701,獲,seize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pack of genetically-modified wild dogs is seized by a group of Greenpeace activists and taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (the flower vessel, see safeguard (#700)). STORY2: Customs just seized a crate of poppies (flowers) detected by trained wild dogs who inspected the vessel."
702,奴,guy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"That GUY stole my WOMAN so I kicked him in the CROTCH. (This story helps keep the word ""GUY"" as someone you hold in contempt). STORY2: Guys only care about 2 things: women and their crotch (preferably at the same time)."
703,怒,angry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This woman is angry because of the guys in the previous frame who pay more attention to her crotch than her heart. I prefer to decompose the kanji in three elements here because it is easier to read like a mnemonic. STORY2: WOMEN get very ANGRY over the thought that GUYS are more interested in her CROTCH than her HEART.
704,友,friend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A good friend is always at your side. ---- I teach at a Japanese High School, and I often see chummy male students grabbing each other's crotches in a joking manner. It's still weird to me, but apparently reaching to your side and grabbing you neighbor's crotch is a great way to express friendship. STORY2: Think of a sex friend (a fuck buddy if you will). The benefit of such a relationship is that there will always be a crotch by your side. (the Japanese refer to such a friend as セフレ, just as we do)."
705,抜,slip out,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't let good friends slip out between your fingers. STORY2: Imagine a cliché Hollywood situation: one person is lying on the edge of the abyss and another (presumably his friend) is hanging, only thing holding him is the grip of their hands. Then fingers slip out of the grip and he falls in said abyss."
706,投,throw,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Well, you usually use your fingers to throw objects used as missile weapons. Easy. By the way, for those of you looking for a less anachronistic image for the missile primitive as a modern rocket, try a slingshot. it's a crotch (originally a tree branch) that sends missile projectiles flying into/like the wind. And for this present kanji, it is something you naturally use with your fingers... STORY2: If you use the primitive ""semen"" (flying in the wind from your crotch) instead of missile then all kanjis with this primitive will hilariously create a perfect story."
707,没,drown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Note: this kanji is more collapse/cave-in/sink (#1888) than humans drowning) A water missile? A torpedo! And when it hits it's target? The ship collapses then sinks and everyone drowns! STORY2: The submarine's hull was breached after being struck by a torpedo (""water missile""), causing the entire crew to drown."
708,設,establishment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Establishment can be attacked by words or by missiles. Writers will use words, whereas militars will use missiles. STORY2: When you attack the establishment with words, it fights back with missiles."
709,撃,beat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your car has missles?! That beats mine, hands down. STORY2: Think 3 methods of attack all combined into 1 kanji: 1. Vehicle to transport troops 2. Once troops have disembarked they have their missiles 3. If they run out of missiles they resort to hand to hand combat to beat the enemy."
710,殻,husk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Samurai's husk/shell/armour is superflous to missile attacks 甲殻　卵殻　貝殻. STORY2: husk or shell. Japan's recent history in a nutshell: first the samurai became superfluous and then the Americans started to throw missiles and bombs during WWII.
711,支,branch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture sliding down the branch of a tree (in this case a pine tree or any tree with needles) and getting a bunch of needles stuck in your crotch--ouch!! STORY2: A special branch of the military called the Needle Crotch Unit. Their only weapon is the needle embedded in their crotches, and they're quite adept at using them."
712,技,skill,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Adapted from darg_sama's) Balancing a branch on your finger is the prototypical example of a skill that is nothing more than a skill (i.e., it is completely useless). STORY2: I think of a guy balancing a branch on his finger, which definitely takes some minimal amount of skill."
713,枝,bough,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The tree's primary branch is known as the bough. STORY2: Differentiate between BOUGH and branch (#711): 'branch' is smaller, and can also refer to the branch of a store (支店), which has nothing to do with a tree. But a BOUGH is a main part of a tree, perhaps where the trunk splits into several large boughs, and so it logically utilizes the 木 radical."
714,肢,limb,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The limbs that this kanji represents are parts of the body that are connected to the trunk, like the main branches to a tree (“arms and legs” is the second meaning of this kanji). In other words, limbs are ""flesh branches"". STORY2: Limbs are body parts that branch off."
715,茎,stalk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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 suspicious (#716), lightly (#717), diameter (#882), sutra (#1360). STORY2: PRIMITIVE: soiled crotch = soiled underwear. To precent anyone from picking the beautiful flower, the gardner hung soiled underwear on the stalk."
716,怪,suspicious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you're suspicious, your state of mind twists round and round like a spool of thread. STORY2: Imagine a loud farting sound on The Enterprise (sorry). Everyone looks around trying to find who did it. The one looking most suspicious is Data. His soiled crotch gives him away."
717,軽,lightly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Fact: this kanji is used to denote a certain class of vehicles in Japan whose engines are under a certain size (less than 750cc I think) and are called light vehicles here. Imagine a so-called light vehicle or a light-truck with a load of spools driving down a road ever so lightly, careful not to let any of the spools roll out onto the street. STORY2: I want to tread lightly on the environment.... That's why I CAR-SPOOL to work everyday.... I know, lame."
718,叔,uncle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Oh come on people - say what we've all been thinking: the uncle is that creepy guy towering above a little one's crotch. STORY2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let's make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team). You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching..."
719,督,coach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Creepy uncle volunteers as gymnastics coach so he can eye the team from below. STORY2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let's make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when COACHing..."
720,寂,loneliness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The unmarried uncle's house is the picture of lonlieness. STORY2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let's make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching..."
721,淑,graceful,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Uncle (the one who is lonely and coaches kids in his spare time) is actually a graceful guy once he hits the water, as he used to be part of the swimming team in his youth. STORY2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let's make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching..."
722,反,anti-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I think of an anti-hero (Dirty Harry etc.) for this primitive, whose trademark for disposing of villians is not an honorable fight, but a kick in the crotch and then a shove off a cliff (perhaps whilst the villain's back is turned). STORY2: Many cultures are so anti-sex you'd think they just want people to throw their crotches over a cliff."
723,坂,slope,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As the villain (pushed off by the anti-hero) is tumbling down the slope, he activates gadget skis to escape, spraying soil everywhere as he flies down the slope. STORY2: This kanji depicts a classic enviornmental problem: erosion. Erosion occurs when all of the soil washes of the side of the cliff, eventually causing the cliff to disappear, leaving a slope (an anti- cliff if you will) in its place."
724,板,plank,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Of course, trees are anti-plank. Wouldn't you be if you were a tree? STORY2: Trees are naturally opposed to, or anti, the making of planks."
725,返,return,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pretty obvious: to return is to turn back on the road you're on and go the opposite way. STORY2: In ""The Return of the anti-hero"", Clint Eastwood kicks the villain in the crotch, pushes them off the cliff and onto a busy highway. A tiring movie franchise to say the least...."
726,販,marketing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The goal of marketing is to get people who are naturally anti-buying to spend their shells (money). STORY2: 『MARKETING: MONEY, ANTI』 The wide presence of MARKETING in our society has led people to become ANTI-MONEY."
727,爪,claw,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pictograph of Wolverine's adamantium claws. STORY2: Pictograph, see book. * I prefer the primitive meaning of an eagle rather than vulture. Somehow vulture makes me think more about meat and dead corpses than claws. An eagle however immediately brings to my mind the image of an eagle plunging into a stream catching fish in his claws, or that of the great eagles rescuing Bilbo and his party in Jrr Tolkien's novel “Bilbo the Hobbit”."
728,妥,gentle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Overly gentle women are vultures who want to marry you and steal your money - not true but an easy mnemonic! STORY2: An eagle must be extra gentle to pick up a dainty woman in its sharp claws.
729,乳,milk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A fledgling is being nursed at a zoo, it is fed milk through a small tube that is bent in the shape of a hook (so that it fits inside its beak). The fledgling soon becomes addicted to milk, giving us this very catchy mnemonic: “fledgling hooked on milk”. STORY2: Drinking milk not only reduces cavity (#96)'s but also strengthens nails (claws) thanks astgtciv."
730,浮,floating,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Floating rubber ducky!!! STORY2: A nest of fledglings somehow fell into the water (maybe it was perched on a tree bending over the river), but they are safe for now as the nest is floating. The fledglings are enjoying the cruise but they are soon coming to a great waterfall... ( a little drama to help us remember the story)."
731,将,leader,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The leader in this race is the turtle! It appears he has covered the vulture’s feet in glue, so that the vulture cannot get off the starting block. STORY2: X-men and TMNT join forces: Their new leader is an awsome asshole. He is simply Wolverine and Raphael glued together back to back (the biggest assholes from both groups combined)."
732,奨,exhort,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's easy to picture a LEADER that uses a BIG dog to EXHORT his people to do more. STORY2: Here we have a St.Bernard exhorting the vulture to become the leader in the race against the turtle, but he can't because of the glue. see leader (#731)."
733,採,pick,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You pick cheries with your fingers, then along comes a giant vulture and picks up the whole tree with its claws. STORY2: Tip: vulture + tree : Heisig later combines these into a single kanji 采 called grab (#2090). Story: As you go to pick your nose, your parent grabs your finger and pulls it away (& gives you a lecture on social etiquette). REF: ""grab"" also appears in vegetable (#734), coloring (#1714)."
734,菜,vegetable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A vegetarian vulture is munching on a flower, perched on a tree, patiently waiting for a patch of vegetables to grow. STORY2: Wolverine is turning into total hippie. He said he only eats vegetables now and last time I saw him sitting in a tree with flowers in his hair."
735,受,accept,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The bird house is the brothel (someone else said so) and of course everyone is welcome - thay accept any crotch. STORY2: A birdhouse is a whorehouse that will accept any crotch even those with STDs. (Image: a birdhouse whorehouse with every kind of bird coming and going. Some old madam at the front hole accepts everyone, even the nasty old crows)."
736,授,impart,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Please accept this finger,"" you say, imparting it to your yakuza boss. STORY2: This character depicts a student and teacher. The teacher imparts his knowledge on the student, pointing the way and guiding with the finger. Meanwhile, the student sits there passively accepting the tutelage of his superior."
737,愛,love,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you really love someone, you won't keep them in a cage-like bird house relationship, but rather open the door and let their heart walk around freely. Think less about ""I"" (あい) and more about ""we"". STORY2: The man is about to enter the 'birdhouse' (brothel) when he remembers his true love at home, and, following his heart, uses his walking legs to go straight home."
738,払,pay,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're at a restaurant and raise your finger to indicate to the waiter that you want to pay. Your friend elbows you in the ribs -- it's his shout, and he insists on taking care of the bill. STORY2: You are walking out of the restaurant when the waiter uses his FINGERS to grab you at the ELBOW and says, ""excuse me sir, didn't you forget to PAY?""."
739,広,wide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Batcave is very wide and has a lot of elbow room for Batman to do his yoga. STORY2: A wide cave has a lot of ""elbow room""."
740,拡,broaden,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Japanese girls are tight and may require fingers inserted to broaden them and make them wide enough before you can... STORY2: Spread your fingers wide to broaden your hand.
741,鉱,mineral,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Elbonium: a new mineral found in wide caves shaped like elbows and made of metal. STORY2: A wide range of metals are classed as minerals.
742,弁,valve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Opening a stuck valve requires 2 hands and a lot of elbow grease. STORY2: The cubans build a pipe to flood the USA. Castro just has to turn the valve on it, and USA is flooded. Suddenly, CIA agents tackle him from behind, grabbing both his arms. But Castro manages to open the valve with his elbow, by raising the elbow above his head. Success! USA is no more..."
743,雄,masculine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Men walk with their elbows out from their sides in a weird turkey trot when they try to appear very MASCULINE. Think of a 70's pimp walk. STORY2: Masculine duties are to offer your elbow to the lady by your left side and to cut the turkey on special meals.
744,台,pedestal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When someone's elbow is above your mouth he/she is probably standing on a pedestal. STORY2: After training your whole life, you manage to get a bronze medal in the Olympics. You're extremely proud of your accomplishment as you step up to receive your medal. The guy in first place is up on a pedestal, towering above you, his elbow level with your mouth. Being a smug bastard, he ""accidentally"" knocks his elbow into your mouth, causing you to bleed and lose a tooth. Just cause he won the gold doesn't mean he can place himself on such a high pedestal and do whatever he wants!"
745,怠,neglect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"While standing on the pedestal at the award ceremony, the recipient heartlessly neglected to mention the people that got him there. STORY2: Someone you put on a pedestal will NEGLECT your heart."
746,治,reign,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,From his water pedestal Neptune reigns over his Sea Empire. STORY2: Build a moat around your pedestal to protect your reign of power.
747,始,commence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Many men, before they commence their relationship with the woman of their desires, place her on something of a pedestal, which often leads to disappointment later on. STORY2: If you want to commence a relationship, just put a woman on a pedestal and she'll love ya forever."
748,胎,womb,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The body part feminists like to put on a pedestal is the womb, especially when they hear a man complain about some responsibility. ""We give birth, so it's your duty to do so-and-so"". STORY2: If any body part deserves to be put on a pedestal, it is the womb from which new life springs forth."
749,窓,window,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is either a love scene or a murder scene that you are seeing through a window. The love scene: through the window of a house (from a distance), you see a pair of human legs, then elbows, and then some pink hearts floating up like in a cartoon. The murder scene: peering through the window of a house, you see a gruesome murder scene. Human legs dangling from a ceiling fan, an elbow sticking out of a wall, and a heart still beating on the carpet. STORY2: A photographer is at home, recovering his broken human legs. With nothing better to do, he is looking through the rear window with his camera (he needs to use his elbow to support those heavy lenses) until his heart begins to race as he witnesses a murder!"
750,去,gone,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Going, going, GONE!"", said the gravedigger as he shoveled soil onto the body's protruding elbow (the last bit left to cover). STORY2: If you want the soil stains gone from your clothes, then you'll need to put some elbow grease into cleaning them."
751,法,method,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji shows up in a lot of words related to the legal process. Try this image: using a very outdated judicial method, the people of Salem dunked accused witches in the water until they were all gone. STORY2: There already was a system (#418) for butchering cows, a technique (#421) for turning smoke into flowers - why can't there be a method of about the same relevance for making water gone? Evaporation anyone?"
752,会,meeting,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the local company they have a very gory way of getting rid of incompetent personnel : they arrange a business meeting in a very special room where the walls are ... meeting. Not surprisingly the boss is never present at these meetings, he's the one who pushes the button that sets the walls in motion. STORY2: The only thing created in most meetings is a lot of hot air. Imagine a cloud of it rising to the roof."
753,至,climax,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sexual climaxes don't always happen on the bed; they sometimes happen against a wall or on the ground! STORY2: The climax of the Berlin Wall affair was the tearing of it to ground.
754,室,room,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You book a room in a love hotel called ""Climax House"". STORY2: A simple room is made up of a roof, some walls, and a dirt floor."
755,到,arrival,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7731/karatesd3.jpg Just look at this image... STORY2: Just as we were about to climax her father arrived with a sword.
756,致,doth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To reach climax I doth the bidding of my dominatrix taskmaster. STORY2: This character is used in two very high-frequency words: ""you are welcome"" (どう致しまして) and the honorific form of onegaishimasu (お願い致します; おねがいいたします). Can't you just picture this ridiculously polite S&M picture? A businessman, who DOTH the bidding of his taskmistress, is climaxing and yelling out ""お願い致します"" while she whips and says ""どう致しまして"". (This kanji also means ""to bring about"" and ""do humbly"", which is perfect for this image)."
757,互,mutually,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The 69 position allows both parties to mutually give themselves pleasure. STORY2: If you can combined your walls with another house's walls, both houses would mutually benefit, by the increase in size...."
758,棄,abandon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of a really loud and annoying baby, you want to abandon it but it keeps coming back...so you take of your belt by the buckle, and buckle the baby to a tree! STORY2: As in sash (#415), I treat the one mountain in the middle to mean Mt. Fuji (Japan's ichiban mountain). Now we see an infant being abandoned on top of Mt. Fuji well above the tree line to die of exposure."
759,育,bring up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bringing up your offspring means raising them from infant until they are meat ready to be harvested. What, cannibalism is in poor taste? Forget I ever brought it up. But bring up will forver be infant meat to me. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs! STORY2: I will bring up my infants to eat meat. I'll not endure any vegetarian children in my house!"
760,撤,remove,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A terrible yakuza taskmaster is bringing up his infant. Every time the infant does something wrong... well, you know what happens to yakuzas when they do something wrong. STORY2: ""Don't lay a finger on him,"" a concerned mother says as the state REMOVES her child away for upbringing by a taskmaster foster home."
761,充,allot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Scene at the baby factory: Manager: ""Good news! Your infant has been allotted human legs"". Parent to be: ""Thanks a lot!"". STORY2: In China, to prevent too many human legs walking around, couples are alloted only one infant…　RTK2:　ジュウ　補充　ほじゅう(supplement)…　Semi-Pure Group:　銃762　(ﾄｳ): 統1347."
762,銃,gun,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Everyone is allotted a metal gun"" (US constitution according to the NRA). STORY2: What is a gun but a device for allotting pieces of metal? One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...etc."
763,硫,sulfur,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sulphur is like a rock, but it can stink like a stream of infant doodie. STORY2: Infants are baptised in streams inorder to prevent their descent into a place of sulphur and brimstone."
764,流,current,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"INFANT Moses placed in the WATER and sent down the current of the STREAM. STORY2: A water-breathing infant (genetically modified?) is caught in a flood, and drifts with the current, apparently enjoying himself in the process."
765,允,license,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In some Asian kung-fu version of James Bond, the main protagonist has a “License To Kill” with his deadly elbows and human legs. His suit is always stained of red blood at the elbows and lower legs (this to help create an image that distinguish the two elements). STORY2: A midget driver trying to pass the road test to get their driver's license. Their elbows are too short to turn the wheel and their legs are too short to reach the gas and breaks."
766,唆,tempt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,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. STORY2: Prostitutes in Amsterdam have a license to show off their walking legs and tempt customers with their mouths.
767,出,exit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Suddenly, a cactus comes out of the ground with a sign that reads: exit. Now you can leave the desert! (Note: giving this primitive the meaning 'cactus' can be useful later). STORY2: The exit lays between these two mountains."
768,山,mountain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pictograph, see book. * As a primitive this element appears equally as well at the top or bottom of the kanjis (besides appearing to the left). Since a mountain often brings to mind towering peaks, I will consider it implied that the element is placed at the top of the kanji. When this primitive appears at the bottom, I will arrange my story in a way that other elements are said to be at the very top of the mountain (see FRAME 775 for an example). STORY2: YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY NEED A MNEMONIC FOR THIS!!!!"
769,拙,bungling,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With fingers fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could exit, the bungling husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress. STORY2: Horror movie cliche 769: Bungling victim's fingers fumble & bungle trying to open the exit door."
770,岩,boulder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A mountain-sized stone is known as a boulder. STORY2: Here we see mountain rocks rolling down the mountain, gathering into a single monstrous boulder crushing everything in its path. Think snowball effect, even if it wouldn't work with rocks."
771,炭,charcoal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Burn enough charcoal and you'll have a mountain of ash. STORY2: You get charcoal from volcano (""fire mountain"", 火山) ashes."
772,岐,branch off,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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). STORY2: In a lot of Super Nintendo-era RPGs, there are mountain levels to get through. You view them from overhead, so you can see a mazelike path with many branches. Picture your sprite characters at one such fork in the mountain path, as it branches off in two directions."
773,峠,mountain peak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Heisig mentions at kanjiclinic.com that he wishes he'd chosen mountain pass for this keyword as it's closer to what the word means. If we do this, the kanji makes complete sense because a mountain pass is just below the mountain top. STORY2: To the north of Lorien lies the Misty Mountains, and below their towering peaks are the Mines of Moria. The Fellowship of the Ring first tried for the MOUNTAIN PASS that goes above, but were halted by the wizardry of Saruman at Caradhras, and so are forced to take the MOUNTAIN PASS that goes below, through the mountain - a path long feared by Gandalf for the ancient evil that lurks there. Note : the kanji does in fact refer to a ""mountain pass""."
774,崩,crumble,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sam and Frodo were steadfast companions even as Mount Doom crumbled above them. STORY2: September 11. [lol it also has 11 strokes], whoever reported this story is a loser, get alife. This is the best story on the website."
775,密,secrecy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To maintain secrecy, secret societies invariably have to house themselves in the moutains. STORY2: To maintain secrecy, secret societies invariably have to house themselves on top of the moutains. (Slight tweak of chamcham's story, using fuaburisa's idea for remembering where to put the mountain primitive.)."
776,蜜,honey,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I think of honey, I think of a bee hive, which is a HOUSE that INVARIABLY has INSECTS. STORY2: A house with a lot of honey will invariably attract many insects."
777,嵐,storm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Storm is a full-blown wind that rips the mountains off the ground (you see one flying here). STORY2: Winds are gathering at the base of the mountain (note the hint to primitive placement), going up, and turning into a huge mountain storm."
778,崎,promontory,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is “Cape Strange” from FRAME 153, only with mountain in place of soil. Interestingly, there is also 碕 which is made of the primitives stone and strange. The three kanjis 碕, 埼 and 崎 all have the same meanings and pronunciations. They have very little uses other than names, for which promontory is the clear winner with over 2300 uses in place and people names, while the other two kanjis account for less than 200 names. STORY2: A promontory is a small, strange mountain that juts out into the sea."
779,入,enter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pictograph, see book. * As a primitive, using the image of going through a door, even one that stands alone with the frame and no wall around, helps flesh out the primitive “enter”. STORY2: Person enters stage left…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ニュウ　入院　にゅういん(admittance into a hospital)."
780,込,crowded,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,During a traffic jam it is impossible to get your car to enter the roadway as it is crowded with cars. Think of a grid lock so bad cars are litterally scraping up against each other like people on a Japanese train during rush hour. STORY2: Everybody tries to enter the road during rush hour. That's why it's so crowded.
781,分,part,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When something is entered by a dagger, it ends up being cut in several parts. STORY2: (This kanji also has the meanings of ""understand"" and ""minute""). It's important to understand that were you to enter an hour with a dagger and cut it into parts, those parts would be minutes."
782,貧,poverty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the case of true poverty, not having money is only part of the problem. There are other components as well, like lack of education, class structuring, etc., but that doesn't really matter. Just remember that the money is only part of it, not the whole. STORY2: Parting with your money will lead to poverty."
783,頒,partition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The PART of my HEAD where I remember the KANJI is in the kanji PARTITION. STORY2: The last time I tried to partition a hard drive under Linux, I got a severe migraine that parted my head."
784,公,public,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I always open the doors to the public restrooms with my elbows because I don't want to touch the door with my hands. STORY2: I always enter the doors to the public restrooms with my elbows because I don't want to touch the door with my hands.
785,松,pine tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Following up with the ""entering public restrooms"" story for the right-hand primitive: public restrooms always reek of pine tree scented disinfectant. STORY2: A pine tree is a public tree: they are frequently planted in public squares, in commemoration of the respect Conficius held for them."
786,翁,venerable old man,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The venerable old man is the public figure head of the Native American Village, answering all questions and solving all problems. The higher in rank you get in this tribe, the more feathers decorate you. Imagine this old man covered in beautiful feathers. STORY2: The venerable old man is using the public restroom in the park where he feeds the pigeons. But, alas, there is no toilet paper! So, he's caught a pigeon and is using it to wipe his bottom. (note the feathers on the bottom of the kanji, this helps remember placement). Can you see the feathers flying everywhere?"
787,訟,sue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Take care what words you say in public lest you be sued. STORY2: [+radical_tyro] Socrates was giving a speech in public. Things were going rather well, until his robe opened a bit and people saw his, well, not-public area. He was promptly sued for public indecency. Certain things shouldn't be made public in public, you know?"
788,谷,valley,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This could be seen as a very accurate pictograph of another type of valley: a valley mouth open under the umbrella of inner labia, with the outer labia parted above. There are even more connections to be made among the primitive keywords and the visuals, but i will enter no further... STORY2: Think of the classic anime 風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind). We see Nausicaa entering the valley mouth gliding on an umbrella."
789,浴,bathe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This story is quite lascivious, sorry... Now, imagine you are at a 混浴　（こんよく） [two kanjis we now know] Onsen (温泉), and you are watching a woman bathe. Just picture the water dripping down her cleavage (that valley in between her breasts). Note: cleavage in Japanese is 谷間. STORY2: The mountain man uses the water from the valley to bathe."
790,容,contain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Imagine a house big enough to contain an entire valley. might want to live there. And now imagine cleaning it. . . . Maybe not . . . STORY2: Biodome.
791,溶,melt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of what happens when the snow on top of the mountains melts: it turns into water and flows down onto the rooftops of all the houses in the valley below. STORY2: [melt; dissolve; thaw] An ice cube is melting, loosing the water it contained."
792,欲,longing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The valley has something my life is lacking.... something I've been longing for.. peace and quiet."
793,裕,abundant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Again using the fact that cleavage in Japanese is called ""valley of the chest"": a woman with abundant cleavage tightly wraps up her bosom in a form-fitting cloak, but leaving her valley exposed. Another unforgettable image (thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week). STORY2: Welcome to cloak-valley, the valley where everyone wears cloaks and every shop sells cloaks. Mnemonic : “cloaks are abundant in the valley”."
794,鉛,lead (metal),0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Picture the molten lead (the heavy metal) being discreetly drained out of the factory into a gully behind. STORY2: Lead -> Dental fillings -> Metal that enters the mouth to fill a hole in a tooth.
795,沿,run alongside,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Water in a gully runs alongside the path. STORY2: Picture one of those idiots that run alongside the bicyclists in the Tour de France trying to give them water. Watch as the cyclist shoves the person into a gully that runs alongside the road.
796,賞,prize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a bit silly.. or maybe not only a bit, but.. You know some foodstuffs (cereals come to mind) sometimes have prizes mixed in them? Well, in this case, the prize was a shell (money, remember) and you only notice in the outhouse... (see also secret (#904)). STORY2: As a prize for being the 1,000,000th person to use the restaurant's outhouse, I got all the clams I could eat."
797,党,party,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every major political party, if personified, would look like a giant outhouse walking around with human legs spewing out a constant stream of bullshit. STORY2: Every political party is full of shit. But nobody ever says how they get that way. Well, here's your answer - a political party memer is in the outhouse, greedily chowing down on the contents inside. He's grown so accustomed to the taste that he's in all the way, and all you can see are his legs through the window. He'll come inside later to the auditorium to make a speech and spew everything out."
798,堂,public chamber,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,In most communities you will be hauled into city hall if you use the ground as an outhouse. STORY2: There is a secret hall buried in the soil underneath the outhouse.
799,常,usual,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's usual to take your towel with your when you go to the outhouse at the onsen (hot springs bath in Japan) so everybody doesn't see your stuff. STORY2: In the outhouse toilet you'd usually hope to find toilet paper to wipe your ass. If it's already gone, which is usually the case, simply use the towel."
800,裳,skirt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Haven't you ever noticed that the men / women signs on the front of outhouses are sometimes very similar? The silhouettes are usually the same, but one will decidedly be wearing a garment in the shape of a SKIRT. Also, we've already learned the kanji for ""woman"", so if the signs are only in kanji you have no right to wander in and claim ignorance, perv!"
801,掌,manipulate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you're going to manipulate your body with your hand, then go do it in an outhouse, at least! STORY2: Instead of magazines, we keep a Rubiks Cube in the outhouse to manipulate with your hands while you do your business."
802,皮,pelt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pelt is hooked on a branch. A small tent is made with a pelt and a branch planted in the ground. The mnemonic hints at the first stroke (the hanging pelt) and the hook at the end of the second stroke. This is chinese radical #107 meaning “skin”. STORY2: To be honest, this is one of those cases where I have found it easier to ""just remember it"" as a radical, as it occurs so frequently: 彼（かれ him）波（なみ wave）and so on."
803,波,waves,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Waves are the ocean's pelt (skin). STORY2: The Inuit used water-proof seal pelts for their kayaks, to travel the waves."
804,婆,old woman,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An old woman is seen here as a woman with waves (i.e. wrinkles, creases). STORY2: You know ""The Old Man and the Sea."" Well, this is the sequel, ""The Old Woman and the Sea Waves.""."
805,披,expose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You expose holes in a pelt by passing your fingers through them and wiggling them on the other side. The sense of the kanji here is to reveal something that was hidden, to make known, to open your heart (thus revealing it, exposing it to others), express your opinion, etc. STORY2: Think of it in this vulgar way. You really want her to expose her “beaver” pelt, so you have to encourage her with your fingers to expose it."
806,破,rend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before the invention of scissors or knives, sharp STONES were used to REND PELTs, so that caveman designers could complete new styles for the upcoming year. STORY2: Rend is a violent, primitive kind of word. (Image: cavemen rending pelts right off live animals with stone tools)."
807,被,incur,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you wear a coat of fur (pelt) you are sure to incur the wrath of animal rights extremists. STORY2: A cloak of fur (pelt) will incur the wrath of animal lovers.
808,残,remainder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The remainder of the bones have been thrown from the float (for the dogs maybe, at the end of the parade). STORY2: Throwing all those coins (see coin (#368)) was a really bad idea; people got mad with greed. The only remainders left were the bones of those that was on the float."
809,殉,martyrdom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think of the early Christian martyrs who suffered martyrdom because of their faith. See them held in cells for 10 days (a decameron) before being fed to the lions. They appear before the chanting Roman crowds as bones to be devoured. Think of what was leftover after the lions finished them off....nothing, not even a pile of bones to bury. STORY2: The boney man martyred himself during his 10 day hunger-strike."
810,殊,particularly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A t-bone steak is vermilion - particularly if served rare. STORY2: Castlevania -- The vermillion skeletons (bones) are particularly hard because they just keep regenerating.
811,殖,augment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Advertisement for Breast Implants -- Tired of nights all alone? Want to get boned straightaway? AUGMENT your breasts and all your troubles will be solved! STORY2: In the movie “Gattaca”, Vincent Freeman (played by Ethan Hawke) augments his size by straightening his bones (his legs), in order to match up with the genetically “perfect” population, and reach his goal of travelling in space. The stretching of his lower leg bones involved multiplying the bone cells, another sense of this key word."
812,列,file,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A line of skeletal warriors, all armed with sabers. STORY2: Skeleton army rank and file. Dudes made of bones carrying sabres."
813,裂,split,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"They tried issuing the skeleton warriors with proper garments to wear, but they kept getting split by the sharp bones or by their sabres. In the end, it was decided they look scarier naked anyway. STORY2: Someone takes a sword made of bone to split the garment right down the middle. Very effective."
814,烈,ardent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The nazis were ardent believers in the master arian race, see them marching everyone else into the oven fires, single file. STORY2: The undead, marching single file, prove how ardent they are be walking across a field of flame. Fun fact, ardent used to mean to burn."
815,死,death,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ok, this is where knowing some Eastern culture comes in handy! In Japanese society, when someone dies they creamate the body and pick out the remaining bones with special chopsticks. In this case, they're out of chopsticks so they decide to use (gasp!) a spoon instead. STORY2: Imagine the grim reaper (the bringer of death), carrying a spoon made of human bones instead of a scythe."
816,葬,interment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I imagine an interment as a funeral. At this funeral it's an open casket, and the dead body (death) is holding flowers with both of its hands. STORY2: During the interment ceremony, the grandchildren placed flowers over the dead body while the widow sat praying with two hands."
817,瞬,wink,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine Snoopy winking with his big eyes (and a happy smile) standing next to Woodstocks Birdhouse, woodstock being so cool that he wears little sunglasses. STORY2: What a dilemna, you wore SUNGLASSES over your EYES when you went to the BIRDHOUSE so you wouldn't be recognized - but now you can't WINK at the girl you want!"
818,耳,ear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your ear is like the eye on the side of your head for seeing things, but there is hair around it that creates jagged lines. STORY2: Pictograph, see book. * The primitive meaning can easily be extended to ear plugs."
819,取,take,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You put your ear next to a womans crotch...and somehow, from it, you hear the words ""Take me...."". STORY2: Fuaburisu's with a twist: You know that classic trick where someone pretends to take something out of an someone else's ear (such as a coin). Instead of a cigarette or a pen he pulls the person’s crotch out of their ear. Very painful!"
820,趣,gist,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The gist of it is this: We take the money and run! STORY2: Pickpocket advice: It's simple, FIRST run, then take. Yeah, that's the gist of it!"
821,最,utmost,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"TAKE the UTMOST care when you SUN bath all DAY, or you'll get burned from your EARS to your CROTCH. STORY2: Do your utmost - seize(take) the day."
822,撮,snapshot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Take the utmost care that you don't have your finger in the way when you take a snapshot. STORY2: When I learned photography from my dad as a little girl, he explained the basics to me: ""when you take a snapshot, be careful not to put your fingers before the lens, and don't look towards the sun (this was in the days that photographs would be spoiled by direct sunlight)."
823,恥,shame,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Amelia Ear-Heart (sic) brought shame to those who said women couldn't fly. STORY2: Vincent Van Gogh's greatest shame was cutting off his ear to win the heart of a woman.
824,職,post,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Worst post in history: quality checker at the kazoo factory. Imagine the toll on your ears! STORY2: Buckingham Palace guards are famous for staying at their post no matter what, even if you blow a kazoo in their ear!"
825,聖,holy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The trick for me is to remember that the 耳 is to the left of the 口. However, this is easy because a true holy man uses his ear to listen (i.e., to God or his supplicant) before he opens his mouth to speak, unlike a charlatan who just makes something up. Of course, kings are often true holy men and prophets (e.g., King David in the bible). STORY2: A holy man hears with his ears before he speaks with his mouth, which places him higher than a king in people's esteem."
826,敢,daring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Only a truly daring Japanese student would wear a spike in his ear under the gaze of the Japanese teacher taskmasters! STORY2: See that ear nailed over there ? It's the ear of the last person who was too daring with the taskmistress.
827,聴,listen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I promise to use my ear to do nothing but listen ... stick a needle in my eye, cross my heart and hope to die! (Intentionally said backwards to get the order of the primitives correct). STORY2: Listening to others is different from hearing [1626] with the ear. One must allow the words to pierce through the eyes (the window of the soul) and reach deep into the heart...a symbol of thinking about and contemplating on what was said, not just the sounds of words spoken. A married man while reading his newspaper, his wife going on about something suddenly, says, ""You're not listening to me, are you?"" He replies, ""I heard every word you said. You said..."" “Yes, but you're not listening.""."
828,懐,pocket,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(re: taijuando) When you are in New York City you have to be alert, i.e. in the ""New York State of Mind"": you need ten eyes to make sure no one will go through your garments and pick your pockets. STORY2: Imagine Darth Vader's state of mind when he discovers his garment has not pockets. "" D O NOT WANT!""."
829,慢,ridicule,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I'll focus on the mandala primitive here. I guess Heisig chose this keyword for phonetic reasons and as a character it's the ""man"" in mandara/mandala (曼荼羅). A mandala is a graphic representation of the universe, here split in 3 planes of existance, the sun representing the cosmos, the eye represents the human observer, the crotch represents the animal instincts. STORY2: He' s often ridiculed for having his eye on crotches all day."
830,漫,loose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One obscure Tibetan sect-- the Otaku cult-- has an unusually loose interpretation of mandala drawing practice. Instead of traditional mandalas they draw mangas (漫画). They then pour water on the image to wash it away, and begin anew. STORY2: Even NELSON MANDALA dreams of drops of WATER glistening on comic book/ anime girls with LOOSE morals. (This story has been edited in response reports)."
831,買,buy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When something catches my eye, I take out a few clams and buy before anybody else does. STORY2: Rules to Buying: 1. You've had your eye on it for a while. 2. You have enough shells to afford it."
832,置,placement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On the JET Programme, many people have their eye on a placement in Tokyo, Osaka or another big city, and write it on their application form. They are usually sent to the countryside straightaway. STORY2: Working in retail you learn the placement of any item should be at eye level so it's seen straightaway."
833,罰,penalty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For Japanese, when the mind's eye (the sideways eye) feels guilty for something bad that the body has done, there are two penaltys to choose from. One, you can say I'm sorry. Two, you can commit suicide by sabre. Why, oh why, do so many Japanese executives commit suicide at the first sign of scandal when all the have to do is say I'm sorry to get off the hook. (on yomi: バチ, バツ). STORY2: There is a 3-way masterplan for every goalkeeper to prevent a goal at penalty shootout: 1. Look directly into the eyes of the player --- 2. Confuse him by screaming senseless words --- 3. Pull out you your saber and ... (that's up to you)."
834,寧,rather,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pretty tough kanji. Think of elegant old housewives with English accents dining together at a HOUSE party. The hostess brings out a dish of hors d'oeuvres: a SPIKE of metal with an EYEBALL and a HEART skewered on it. Upon being offered this treat, one of the housewives says in her English accent, ""I'd RATHER not."". STORY2: Rather a house with a heart than an eye with a spike."
835,濁,voiced,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fly is wrapped in a spiderweb voicing ""Help me, Help Me"" under the watchful eye of the spider who's venom is dripping like water from her fangs. STORY2: Pour water over the eyes of a bound up insect if you want to hear a pitiful buzz that is very similar to a VOICED consanant."
836,環,ring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Together with the next kanji, the keywords spell “send back the ring”. First we have a jewel. Next we have the great eye of Sauron searching for the fellowship hiding under the many ceilings during their journey. The fourth and fifth primitives are the mouth of Gollum always mumbling “My preciousss”; and Pippin's scarf! Placement: the eye appears at the top similarly to how the Great Eye of Sauron is perched atop the Dark Tower. STORY2: In conjunction with send back (#837)....... When I tried to give her the jewel ring, she eyed me, threw it to the floor, opened her mouth and tried to speak, she said nothing. She grabbed her scarf and left."
837,還,send back,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You've probably guessed it by now, this is the road that Sam and Frodo take to send back the ring to Mount Doom! (see previous frame, the jewel is replaced by the road). STORY2: Continued from ring (#836)....... So I'm on the road going to send back the ring minus the jewel, the hit to the floor knocked it out."
838,夫,husband,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even though it is argued size is not important, I'm sure most women would like their husband to have a big one. STORY2: Homer Simpson, as a primitive."
839,扶,aid,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Using his finger the husband sometimes is an erotic aid to his partner. STORY2: In Homer Simpsons' house, the first aid kit is usually used for when he smashes his fingers trying to build something (there are countless Simpsons episodes you can draw from for this)."
840,渓,mountain stream,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Simpsons are on vacation. Homer stops to take a leak in a mountain stream but gets snatched by an eagle. Hear his scream? STORY2: A husband who went fishing at the mountain stream to feed his family, fell in the rapids (we'll assume this is a large mountain stream). He is saved from the waters by a great eagle. He comes back home with nothing to feed the family, his clothes still dripping wet as he tells his wife of how he was saved by a great eagle, and of course she does not believe him. The story continues in chicken (#1947)."
841,規,standard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the male-dominated world of yesterday, the husband's way of seeing things was considered the standard point of view. Women who dared to disagree were frowned upon. STORY2: Unfortunately, Homer Simpson is the standard model of a husband in American society. (Placement: You have to look in the RIGHT places to find one that doesn't fit that mold.)."
842,替,exchange,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A show like ""Trading Spouses"" called ""exchanging husbands"" where 2 husbands are exchanged for a day (thanks dingomick). STORY2: Marge's dream: to exchange Homer for another husband for just one day."
843,賛,approve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Out of two potential husbands, which would you approve of? Well, the one with shells (money) of course!!! STORY2: Bush's campaign- ""John Kerry approves using taxpayers' money to support gay marriage. I don't."" ""I approve this message""."
844,潜,submerge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When a submarine or similar vessel SUBMERGES an EXCHANGE of air for WATER takes place in special compartments. STORY2: The two husbands exchange for a day on the reality TV show (see exchange (#842)) finally goes underway. One of the two husband's first job is to fix the water faucet in his new family's apartment. Unfortunately, he isn't very good at fixing things and after a few failed attempts the entire apartment is submerged in water."
845,失,lose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The drop falling here is the husband's toupee... he's already lost his hair once, now he's losing it again. Such is life, I suppose. STORY2: Note: Heisig's stroke order is wrong. It's the same as vermilion, drop first. Homer loses/drops his wedding ring."
846,鉄,iron,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Iron is a metal that gradually becomes lost due to oxidation and rust. STORY2: Compare with pig-iron (#270). In moving from pig-iron to iron, some of the metal's maleability is LOST. (The only difference between the two kanji is that IRON has knee-less, unbending legs, while PIG-IRON (270) has very supple, bendable legs.)."
847,迭,alternate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you get lost, you just take an alternate road to get back on track. STORY2: When you lose your way, you can always try to tell the wife that you merely took an alternate road. To save time you know. I'm not LOST, I'm just taking an alternate road. Ahem."
848,臣,retainer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Its a pictograph of a teeth with a retainer in the middle. STORY2: Retainer = A slave (for the purposes of this kanji.) This is a pictograph of a slave collar with two handcuffs dangling from it.
849,姫,princess,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Princess Leia becomes Jabba's slave (“princess Leia is a woman slave”). STORY2: Cinderella: A woman who was a slave who became a princess.
850,蔵,storehouse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The storehouse is overgrown with slaves. The slaves are to be sold in the store, to differentiate from a warehouse, which doesn't have the word ""store"" in it. STORY2: Slaves moved flowers from the storehouse in preparation for the parade."
851,臓,entrails,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You signed your organ donor card, right? So, when you die, your entrails and other body parts will be placed in a storehouse. STORY2: Again with the Pyramids, each Pharaoh had their entrails taken out and put into little jars that were shaped in the forms of their Gods and entombed along with the preserved body. So, the entrails are the parts of the body that are placed in the storehouse along with the Pharaoh! Damnit, why can't they always be this easy? :(."
852,賢,intelligent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An intelligent man is neither slave to his crotch nor to money. But an intelligent slave will know how to use his/her crotch to make money. STORY2: Every intelligent man is a slave to two things, his: 1) crotch, and 2) money."
853,堅,strict,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The strict parent thinks adolescent kids are ""slaves to their crotch"" (= can't control their hormones), so he grounds them. Permanently! STORY2: I'm very strict about not just sleeping with anyone. People who are slaves to their crotches often end up with dirty genitalia and I don't want to get their VD. (on yomi=ケン)."
854,臨,look to,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The slave is look to the future, ""One day"" he thinks ""I will be able to recline with all my goods, a tv, stereo and washing machine, and when that day comes I shall be truly happy"" he sighs. STORY2: Imagine a slave(or in this case, a female porn star) looking to her new gangbang film where she reclines and gets all 3 holes filled at the same...........OK. Very vulgar, but I was inspired by raulir's clever use of ""3 holes""........."
855,覧,perusal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The slave reclines on the floor at night to watch the stars. Since that's the only thing the slave is allowed to “read”, he does so very thoroughly and diligently, hence perusal. STORY2: [+scottamus] ""Please, come in and peruse this fine selection of slaves, all reclining here on the floor for your perusal. Have a look here"": http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Slave_ship_diagram.png/440px-Slave_ship_diagram.png."
856,巨,gigantic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is actually the top view of a porn star with a gigantic erect penis. The top and bottom are his arms and the middle is his penis. Imagine him making the pumping motion while he's banging some chick. The arms move in, the penis moves out and vice versa. STORY2: The letter E, with a GIGANTIC middle stroke."
857,拒,repel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Having gigantic fingers is useful to repel insects. You can swat them away a lot easier! STORY2: A woman might be REPELLED by a porn star's GIGANTIC penis, so he kindly offers to use his FINGERS instead."
858,力,power,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I always refer to the power of the KATAKANA ""KA"". STORY2: I have a very powerful muscle カ in my driveway!"
859,男,male,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Male is seen here as muscles working in the field, in other words working in the rice fields is the work of the male who are usually stronger. This is more or less the meaning of the original Chinese character. STORY2: When it comes to choosing a MAN, I prefer brains over muscles."
860,労,labor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Those jocks who always tried to show their muscles in the schoolhouse are now the ones out there doing manual labor jobs while we sit here and learn Japanese. Ha! STORY2: At the schoolhouse, the administration develops the children's muscles by making them do manual labour."
861,募,recruit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The necromancer hangs out at the local graveyard and uses his dark powers to recruit an army of undead. Emphasize the verb form to keep distinct from the noun cadet (#1173). STORY2: WANTED: Hardworking GRAVEYARD diggers. Must have 6 months experience with POWERFUL muscles as will be working in South Africa burying deceased elephants.
862,劣,inferiority,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I have an inferiority complex because I have fewer muscles than everyone else at the gym. They all look like Macho Man Randy Savage (power) to me. STORY2: I had trouble remembering the relative position of the components, so now I use this story: Even muscular men have inferiority if they have few things above their muscles (i.e., brain cells)."
863,功,achievement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The great achievements of humankind, were crafts completed by muscle power: the pyramids, the Eiffel tower, etc. STORY2: All of Arnold Schwarzenegger's achievements started with him crafting his muscles."
864,勧,persuade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mnemonic ""pegasus persuasion power"". I think of the hippogriff from Harry Potter as being like a pegasus. To befriend a hippogriff, you have to persuade it you mean no harm, you can do this if you have ""pegasus persuasion power"". STORY2: It would take a powerful argument to persuade me Pegasus was real… RTK2:　カン　勧奨　かんしょう(encouragement)… 　　　　　　　　Semi-Pure Group:　歓570　観572 　(ｹﾝ): 権571."
865,努,toil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"GUY POWER!!! Body builders toiling in the gym all day....　　　　　RTK2:　ド　努力　どりょく (effort)...　Pure Group: 　奴702 　怒703. STORY2: Guy + Power: To reach a position of power in the company, the average guy has to toil very hard for many years."
866,励,encourage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"10,000 Persians are at the base of the cliff, but the leader of the 300 Spartans just flexes his huge muscles and encourages his men by shouting that they have the power to fight them all. STORY2: People encourage you, giving you the power so you can dive off the 10,000m high cliff into the sea."
867,加,add,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you eat anymore, you will be adding more カロries. (katakana karo). STORY2: This is Power Mouth, the most annoying neighbour in the world who always has something to add."
868,賀,congratulations,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When someone at work gets married, you pass around an envelope to which you add some money and a card which you sign with your congratulations. STORY2: Congratulations are so much better when you add money to them."
869,架,erect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Instant wood. Just add Viagra. STORY2: I'm not sure I know about erector sets or tinker toys but I do know about jenga. You play by taking wooden pieces from the middle of a wooden tower and adding them to the top. In this way you erect a very unstable structure.
870,脇,armpit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What part of the body has a very, very, very powerful smell? The armpit, of course! STORY2: (no important on yomi) The part of Conan's body that is three times more effective at defeating foes than his muscles are his stinky ARMPITs. [Note: Typically, when the flesh primitive is on the left side it refers to a body part - this helps distinguish in from threaten (#871)]."
871,脅,threaten,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Compare the primitive positions of armpit (#870) and threaten (#871). When your triceps rest alongside your body, they fit snugly against your armpit. When you hold them above your body, however, your posture becomes quite threatening. STORY2: Don't threaten a warewolf. He's three times as powerful ON a full moon.　RTK2:　キョウ　脅迫　きょうはく (blackmail)…　Pure Group:　協872."
872,協,co-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The nurse says : “If you co-operate, that needle (syringe) in your triceps won't hurt”. Note: both co- and cooperate are meanings for this kanji. STORY2: Co-operation: 3 persons can have the power of ten if they co-operate."
873,行,going,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I use The Flash for for this primitive; a superhero who is always going very fast. STORY2: To me, this looks like a bridge going over a body of water, being supported by columns underneath it. Being that I live near the ocean, I see tourists and vacationers coming and going constantly on the bridge. Because the bridge is so long, it forms an arc to support the structural integrity. You can see that arc here."
874,律,rhythm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The calligrapher's brush is moving down a column of a script, in rhythm with his meditation. STORY2: The army COLUMN walked to the RHYTHM made by the drummer using a cool BRUSH like drum stick. Picturing the brush as a drum stick is not difficult if you've seen such a thing in jazz videos."
875,復,restore,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before going all the way to the Boss in a Final Fantasy game, you should probably double back to save at a restore point. STORY2: The column of soldiers has to double back to restore the peace in the village they just left."
876,得,gain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To gain more knowledge of what's goin on in the world I'm reading column after column of articles in the newspapers, and it takes so much time I'm glued to it till nightbreak. STORY2: Imagine fat people......they avoid going outside to exercise and stay glued to their TV set until nightbreak....so of course they gain weight."
877,従,accompany,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The line of viking soldiers is always accompanied by a horn mending specialist. STORY2: I'm going to accompany the horny girl to her room so I can ""mend"" her."
878,徒,junior,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The junior employee is always RUNNING around GOING here and there for his superiors. STORY2: Junior is going to run the family business one day... 　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ト　生徒　せいと(student).
879,待,wait,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A line queued up outside the Buddhist temple, waiting to see the shrine on New Year's Day. STORY2: The COLUMNS of this TEMPLE are a well-know meeting spot. You can always see someone WAITING there."
880,往,journey,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Medieval Japan, going to see your lord was often a long journey. STORY2: The fellowship of the ring is on a long journey through the depths of Khaz Modan. Imagine they walk through the hall of pillars, with only light being from their own candlesticks that. Soon they will meet much more light than they would ever want to..."
881,征,subjugate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,America seeks to GO and CORRECT other nations. But really what they do is subjugate them... STORY2: To subjugate is to have somebody stand still and stiff as a column and behave one hundred percent correctly.
882,径,diameter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Scientists recently measured the diameter of Earth by drilling a deep hole and dropping a line of thread off a humongous spool until it got to the other side. STORY2: 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: Measure the diameter of a column (maybe Nelson's Column in London?) using a roll of toilet paper. Spool also appears in stalk (#715), suspicious (#716), lightly (#717), sutra (#1360)."
883,彼,he,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What's the main difference between a he and a she? The he has a column covered in a pelt... a penis. Badum-ching. STORY2: The ultimate he-man is the Neanderthal cave man. His club is as big as a pillar (column), and he wears a ragged pelt as his only clothing. To remember the column, imagine the cave man resting the club vertically like a column when not in use."
884,役,duty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese kamikaze pilots (and the American from Dr. Strangelove) are so devoted to their duty that they go with their missiles. STORY2: Imagine those poor saps in charge of nuclear silos, responsible for ICBMS, those towering column missiles. When the order comes they must decide whether to obey their concience or do their duty and damn the world to atomic annihilation."
885,徳,benevolence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hearkening back to the kanji for LISTEN... Benevolence is a good listener who is willing to go the distance to help. STORY2: In a rare act of benevolence, the Sparten column removes the needle from the cyclops's eye, and he repays them by eating their hearts."
886,徹,penetrate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The taskmistress in a moment of weakness allowed the man's column to penetrate her. As punishment he was made to bring up their infant. STORY2: Ha! In this frame, a bunch of taskmasters are lined up to penetrate the kids they raise/bring up! I'm thinking of some priests and choir boys."
887,徴,indications,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you see a column of kings being marched up the mountain under a taskmaster's whip... indications are, there has been a coup. STORY2: All indications are that the taskmaster's son is going to be king of the mountain soon …　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　チョウ 象徴　しょうちょう(symbol)…　　　　Pure Group:　懲888."
888,懲,penal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Penal servitude is served until indications show that one has had a change of heart (learned one's lesson). Easily confused with punish (#679) and penalty (#833). Concentrate on the reasons behind the penal system (""changing people's hearts"" here), instead of the penalty itself or the punishment (revenge) aspect. It may help to note that there's no sword, but a heart :-) (Note: 懲りる = learn from one's bad experiences). STORY2: Judge: You will serve a penal sentence until indications show you have a heart."
889,微,delicate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Column of 300 spartans were in a delicate situation. They had travelled in one line (using only their legs) to the mountain pass to face the fierce Persian task master. STORY2: Telling your taskmistress (wife) why you are going mountain climbing without her is a delicate situation... ""For one thing you have such beautiful legs and I don't want to risk injuring them honey""...　　　　　　RTK2:　ビ　微笑　びしょう(smile)　""delicate laugh""."
890,街,boulevard,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The boulevard of boulevards, the Champs Elysées, with the Arc de Triomphe covered in ivy to give the champions a heroes' welcome. STORY2: Specifically... ivy boulevard... think hollywood & vine."
891,衡,equilibrium,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To maintain the social equilibrium in a future dystopian society, the brains of citizens are bound up (hypnotized). The government is using mental wave emitting statues shaped like St. Bernard's dogs put alongside the boulevards. STORY2: I think BALANCE is an easier keyword. I was walking down a busy French boulevard when between the rushing traffic I saw the wierdest thing. BALANCING on the central crash barrier was a St. Bernard dog, BALANCING a fish on its nose. As I looked closer, I realised it was a trick; it was holding the fish's tail in its teeth, and only pretending to BALANCE it. (keeps the position of the elements!)."
892,稿,draft,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The first DRAFT of catcher in the rye was actually called ""catcher in the TALL WHEAT""...good thing they changed it. I read it in 高校. STORY2: Aliens often draft their plans for invasion by cutting designs among the tall wheat."
893,稼,earnings,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your earnings allow you to bring home your daily bread (made of wheat, naturally). STORY2: Hmm, EARNINGS. Think of the popular saying ""Bringing HOME the bacon"". Here, EARNINGS is the picture ""Bringing HOME the bread(WHEAT) and the bacon (PIG)."
894,程,extent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The extent to which some people will go to create 'wheat displays', or as some call them 'crop circles', is truly amazing. STORY2: The wheat crop has come in, and the mouth of the king is gobbling it all up. Everyone is waiting to see... to what extent will the king manage to eat it this year?"
895,税,tax,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Nobody likes the tax man, so here it is only fitting that the person who comes over to take some of your wheat is depicted here as a devil. Keep in mind that in feudal societies there was no kind of money to speak of, so taxes were paid by serfs in wheat to the devils who came over to keep them poor. STORY2: This is an easy one. Taxes is like the devil taking away your hard earned wheat."
896,稚,immature,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Immature turkeys are stuffed with wheat to make it look bigger. STORY2: I can't believe I brought you to the fanciest restaurant in town and you asked for turkey on wheat...how immature is that?!
897,和,harmony,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The first step to harmony is having enough wheat to feed every mouth in the world. Once we are all fed it is easier to get a long in harmony. STORY2: People who live in harmony with nature live in the country. they are yokels or hillbillys. See Billy-bob sitting on the porch in their denhim dungarees a sheaf of wheat, sticking from their mouth."
898,移,shift,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture the WHEAT field, filled with MANY, MANY stalks of WHEAT. Notice how they SHIFT like waves in the slightest breeze. When you hear SHIFT, just picture that scene. STORY2: Many people are making the shift from white to whole wheat bread."
899,秒,second,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,An hourglass filled with wheat counts time. A few wheat seeds drop every second. STORY2: I'll be with you soon... please wheat a few seconds.
900,秋,autumn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In AUTUMN, the WHEAT looks the color of FIRE, meaning it's time to harvest it. STORY2: Every autumn the wheat is set on fire to clear the way for next year's crop..."
901,愁,distress,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In AUTUMN, the farmer's HEART is in DISTRESS as to if he has enough crops. Even better, the farmer will experience great DISTRESS in his HEART if his WHEAT catches FIRE! STORY2: Here we have distressed (think ""gloomy"") people with ""seasonal mood disorder"" during the autumn season. Hence ""autumn heart"" is distressed (gloomy)."
902,私,private,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Warning sign: ""Private wheat, trespassers will be elbowed"". STORY2: I already know this as watashi, or ""I"". In order to associate the keyword of private, I'll think of this one as ""Private I"", like a detective."
903,秩,regularity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Think of REGULARITY in terms of bowel movements. Enough WHEAT in your diet will help your DROPS with improved REGULARITY. STORY2: Eating plenty of wheat will improve regularity and help you lose weight.
904,秘,secret,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The prize at the bottom of a cereal box is invariably a secret decoder ring. STORY2: A young couple meets in secret in the wheat field because their families are enemies. They cross their hearts and swear eternal - even if secret - love. Do not confuse with secrecy (#775).
905,称,appellation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Taking appellation to mean the act of naming, we have the little baby superman reclining in the space craft that landed in a wheat field. Mr. and Mrs. Kent look down and decide to call him Clark. (I also thought of Jesus but he was born in a barn full of hay not wheat). STORY2: WHEAT that is RECLINING and LITTLE (small) can't get the APPELLATION ""quality wheat""."
906,利,profit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the middle ages there where only 2 ways for peasantry to make a profit. one by being a farmer, 2 to be a mercenary and live by the way of the sword. STORY2: 1. Steal a bunch of wheat from a wheat field by cutting it down with your saber. 2. ????? 3. Profit!"
907,梨,pear tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Japanese pear tree is the most profitable in the world, because it produces its fruit in pairs [sorry for the awful pun]. STORY2: And a profit in a pear tree...12 days of christmas."
908,穫,harvest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The harvest of genetically modified crops is taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (see the flower vessel in safeguard (#700)). STORY2: Wheat is harvested; the grain (flower) is put into vessels for shipping.
909,穂,ear of a plant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The pilgrims only had wheat, so they asked the Indians to do them a favor and trade them for some ears of corn. STORY2: The ""ear of a plant"" is the seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn. In other words, it is the part which feeds us. Hence -- ""the ear (of a plant) is the favor of the wheat""."
910,稲,rice plant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The rice plant is common in Japan because all the wheat was eaten by vultures in the olden times. STORY2: It used to be that wheat was grown in Japan. However, this was often stolen by vultures, so in olden times, the gods gave the Japanese the rice plant."
911,香,incense,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you focus the suns though a magnifying glass on to the bottom of a stalk of wheat it will start to smoulder and burn like a stick of incense. The weird thing is that it burns from the bottom upwards, hanging in the air as if my magic. Try it and see! STORY2: When the sun burns the wheat a smell of incense remains in the air."
912,季,seasons,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's a season for planting wheat and there's mating season for having children. STORY2: Look at this adorable child with a bale of wheat on his head! He's playing Autumn in his school play the ""Four Seasons"". Aww...too cute! Perhaps we should light the wheat on fire to complete his Autumn costume. (I know, twisted...but I kept forgetting what was on his head)."
913,委,committee,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Female WHEAT farmers decide to create a COMMITTEE, which they fittingly name “The WHEAT WOMEN COMMITTEE.”. STORY2: At committe meetings, Japanese bureaucrats slurp ramen noodles off of naked women."
914,秀,excel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You spend three hours putting all of your wheat sale transaction records into Microsoft Excel, when suddenly it crashes, so you put your fist through the monitor. STORY2: A soviet-era poster for the 5-year plan shouts ""Excel"" and shows a fist clenching a sheaf of wheat. Wheat/Fist."
915,透,transparent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you excel in the Mario Kart road, your movements are saved and you can race against yourself as a transparent racer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8CkcrL-k4. STORY2: If you want to excel at driving in the roadway, it's better if your windows and windshield are transparent. Picture the drivers with opaque windshields all wrecked on the side of the road."
916,誘,entice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Word and Excel somehow manage to entice people to use them, despite their plethora of bugs. STORY2: Think of the smooth talker who EXCELS at using WORDS to entice women (including married women if it makes it easier to remember)."
917,穀,cereals,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There are different cereals in different parts of the world. Japan has samurai cereal. Great Britain has Crowned Wheat ... the United States and Russia have Missile cereals. STORY2: The samurai crowns wheat as the best cereal, and blows all others up with missiles (he's a cereal killer)."
918,菌,germ,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Can also mean bacteria.....imagine the wheat pent in your fridge growing to the point where they resemble flowers.......I actually had something similar happen to onions...they grew footlong legs after about 2 or 3 years......OR just think of that Cowboy Bebop episode with the lobster in the fridge... :-). STORY2: Actually it means germs as in microorganisms. So for example, you have to keep wheat enclosed so it isn't exposed to other plants. That way it can't catch any germs (like fungi) from them."
919,米,rice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Stroke order: I like to think of the first two strokes as “chop sticks” with which one eats the rice. The rest then is the “tree” meaning “plant” in this contexct. also: USA. STORY2: Two drops of rice in a tree, simple."
920,粉,flour,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Parts of parts of parts of parts of rice... is flour. (Image: geishas patting their face with RICE flour to make it white. Not wheat flour...). STORY2: In the United States, part of every meal is made from flour."
921,粘,sticky,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is another way of fortune telling -- throw sticky rice against the wall, and look for the message in whatever sticks. STORY2: CONDI RICE was told by the FORTUNE TELLER that she will get STICKY..."
922,粒,grains,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sage is using rice to fill up a vase, but as an exercise in patience, he's doing it grain by grain. STORY2: There's a contest...whoever guesses the number of grains of rice in a vase wins."
923,粧,cosmetics,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Condy Rice is actually white, but she uses special cosmetics made from dirt she found in a cave to appear black - it's better for the political situation. STORY2: Modern cosmetics are just the descendants of the old RICE flour and CAVE DIRT ('cause it's darker) used in the past."
924,迷,astray,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The road that the USA is heading down is, well... let's just say that they're astray... STORY2: If you go astray, just follow the rice you dropped along the road to find your way back."
925,粋,chic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In extremely chic restaurants, you have to pay 90 bucks for a bowl of rice. STORY2: Americans think that tattoos with Chinese characters are chic, but nine out of ten times they end up with something trivial tattooed on their arm, like rice."
926,糧,provisions,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine Japanese army provisions like obentou boxes, always containing the same quantity of rice. (thanks darg_sama, emphasizing quantity and the nuance of food ""rations"", ""food supply"": the kanji also appears in ""military provisions"" and ""army rice""). STORY2: All Japanese provisions contain a certain quantity of rice... they eat it with just about every meal!"
927,菊,chrysanthemum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Chrysanthemum flower consists of many tiny petals, just like many rice grains bound up together. STORY2: [+astgt] Chrysanthemum is a terrorist orginization whose sole objective is to tie up Condi Rice. One day, Condi Rice is standing outside when a group of chrysanthemum agents swoop in from the sides, bound her up with chrysanthemum rope, and dash off. They leave a lone yellow chrysanthemum flower on top of the bound Condi Rice as a sign to let her discoverers know who committed this brave and noble act."
928,奥,core,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the core of a nuclear reactor, scientists have discovered a way to get power from rice, by penting it in under high pressure. It's very dangerous, so they've trained a st. bernard dog to run things, he's adding more drops of rice as necessary. STORY2: 奥さん　（おくさん) is a common way to say ""wife"". In the innermost core of the house, the bored pent up housewife drops her chores and consumes so much rice she becomes a very large housewife."
929,数,number,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Young taskmaster is learning numbers by watching women haul sacks of rice past him. ""One... two... four! No, wrong! Go back, go back!"". STORY2: Women toil in the rice fields carrying heavy sacks of rice to be numbered and counted by the taskmaster."
930,楼,watchtower,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The young taskmaster (see number (#929)) uses a tree as a watchtower to get a better view of his rice-carrying women. ""I can seeeee you! One! Two! Three!"". STORY2: On the top of the woodmade watchtower we look for our enemies, who will come to steal our rice and our women."
931,類,sort,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Note this character means sort in the sense of what kind, I believe a better keyword would be ""variety"" and this character does appear in some dictionaries with the primary meaning as variety, my story: I'm in a Chinese restaurant and the waiter says ""What sort of rice would you like with your dog head?"". STORY2: Condi Rice is the SORT of person that would give HEADaches to a BIG DOG.....This story has been edited because of people reporting it. I like it better without ""aches"", but whatever works for you!"
932,漆,lacquer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"LACQUER is a type of WATERY type of liquid used to protect items made from TREES, sort of an UMBRELLA of protection. So protective, you can carry around RICE in the LACQUERED, WOODEN product. STORY2: Water is falling from a tree onto the umbrella underneath which is protecting the rice underneath it. But it's completely dry since the umbrella is lacquered."
933,様,Esq.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here we have the requirements to be counted among the ranks of the noble Esq. You must posses a forested estate, herds of sheep, and granary full of grains of rice. STORY2: This is -Sama, a generic high term of respect for someone in an unusual profession. If you met a person that created a wooden sheep that was squeezing a single grain of rice out of its ass, you'd definitely call that person -sama. Because that is impressive."
934,求,request,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Enemy: ""Any final requests?"" // MacGyver: ""Just an arrowhead and some grains of rice."" (MacGyver then throws the grains of rice at the enemy and uses the arrowhead to cut his hands free from the rope.). STORY2: Robin Hood holds his rich victim at arrowpoint and kindly requests that he hands over his grains of rice."
935,球,ball,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Someone files a request to see the family jewels and, to their surprise, you show them your balls! STORY2: The KING REQUESTS your presence at the ball ... game."
936,救,salvation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Like in the biblical sense, someone looks skyward and makes a request for salvation from this horrible taskmaster... STORY2: For salvation you have to request forgiveness from God (the ultimate taskmaster)."
937,竹,bamboo,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pandas like to eat bamboo. I'm using panda as the primitive name when it fits the story. ^__^. STORY2: Two reclining victims impaled on bamboo spheres...　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　チク　松竹梅　しょうちくばい(pine, bamboo, plum)."
938,笑,laugh,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the people tried to build a tower of bamboo to reach the heavens, the gods just laughed and laughed. STORY2: That Panda is in bamboo heaven! Just look at him laugh!"
939,笠,bamboo hat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The bamboo vase was beautifully crafted, but the tourist didn't know what it was and wore it as a little bamboo hat. STORY2: The bamboo part is easy. Just remember that this kanji refers to those particular bamboo hats that are worn primarily by Buddhist monks, who always seem to stand outside of train stations, collecting alms."
940,笹,bamboo grass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The bamboo generation smokes bamboo grass. STORY2: “One of the most attractive aspects of bamboo is that it is a renewable resource; it takes less than a year for a stalk to reach maturity, compared to the decades for most trees, whether needle or broadleaf.” -- Mnemonic : ""bamboo grass is the next bamboo generation""."
941,筋,muscle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Muscle is part of the body that gives strength, and can be both supple and tense like the bamboo. STORY2: Lifting BAMBOO STICKS is an old way for your BODY to put on lots of MUSCLE."
942,箱,box,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The best kind of BOX is made from BAMBOO sticks that are INTER-laced to make it air tight. Just picture such a box and you've mastered this kanji. STORY2: I think of a box made of inter-locking of bamboo strips.
943,筆,writing brush,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Bamboo is the best material from which to make a brush if you want it to be a writing brush. STORY2: Bamboo would make an excellent writing brush as the ink could flow through the hollow center like an ink pen... 　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ヒツ　鉛筆　えんぴつ(lead pencil).
944,筒,cylinder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Seriously, all BAMBOO sticks look the SAME, just long CYLINDERS. Should the story be more complicated? STORY2: Fully-grown bamboo consists of a number of cylinder-like sections, all exactly the same."
945,等,etc.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Bamboo Buddhist Temple has bamboo buddhas, bamboo buildings, bamboo benches, bamboo beds, bamboo bowls, etc. etc. etc. STORY2: ""So what'd you see in Japan?"" - ""Bamboo, temples...etc.""."
946,算,calculate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before the time of digital calculators, people used old school calculators made of bamboo (abacus). It's not as easy as a calculator, but you don't need any batteries either. All you need are your eyes and your two hands. STORY2: Tip : you may see this as an Abacus, which is used to calculate. This particular ancient chinese Abacus has eyeballs in place of beads, and its frame is made of bamboo. You'd be amazed at how fast people can calculate with this, especially if they can use both hands at once to move the ... eyeballs."
947,答,solution,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The solution to this puzzle is, like the match stick game, to make the bamboo pieces fit together. STORY2: For the frustrated housewife the solution came in form of a BAMBOO stick that FITS her well."
948,策,scheme,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The temples in kyoto belt bamboo around trees in a scheme to protect them from the huge number of tourists. (true story)-----------対策　　たいさく　　measure, countermeasure. STORY2: (Elaboration of jameserb's story:) A clever scheme from Wile E Coyote -- he ties one of those rubber belts to some trees and uses it to launch a bamboo spear at the roadrunner..."
949,簿,register,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Note : the keyword is not a verb, think of a record book. This acupuncturist who uses bamboo in place of flowers to dilute water into his patients (see frame 227), managed somehow to appear on the register of acupuncturists. Chances are, he won't stay on the register for long. My image is close to that of gorgon's story. STORY2: This doctor dilutes (see 227) his patients with bamboo stalks rather than the flowers of a standard diluting acupuncturist hence he needs to be on the Bamboo Accumpunturist Diltuers (BAD) register. Pumping that much water into a body can be dangerous; see the huge bamboo stems with gallons of water sloshing in and out of the patient."
950,築,fabricate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bamboo crafting is a mediocre substitute for wood when you are building or fabricating a house. While it may look good and might attract a chick (ちく) or two, the kids'll (きず) just tear it to pieces as its not sturdy enough. STORY2: A bamboo fabrication is a mediocre substitute for wood."
951,人,person,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Behold Mister T (of ""A-Team"" fame)! I chose Mr.T because he's sure to make amusing stories. He is a very versatile character since he's both the big, tough guy and the “moralistic” person, telling kids not “to do drugs or alcohol”. He is easy to imagine, the heavy gold chains are probably the most prominent feature of the character. And last but not least you can always pepper your story with the famous line “I pity da foo!” * Fittingly, on the left side of the kanji, it looks like a “T”. STORY2: [I appreciate some people's occasional habit of using P for person in shared stories. That makes it easier to substitute Mr. T, Captain Picard, or whomever else a student is using as person.]."
952,佐,assistant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T's assistant is on his left. Why? Because Mr T has this bad habit of suddenly extending his right arm (what with all the boxing that he did), and his assistant got inadvertently punched in the face more than once (ouch). So now his assistant is always to his left side, much safer - ""Stay on my left, foo!"". STORY2: On your right is your ""right-hand man"" that you credit for all your success....on the left...... is your assistant who does all the grunt work and gets no credit for anything..."
953,但,however,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"However drunk Mr T is when he comes back to his place, he always get up at nightbreak. “I pity da foo who gets up after nightbreak !”, says Mr. T. STORY2: MR.T leads a busy life, however he always makes sure to be in bed by NIGHTBREAK, however much he might want to stay up watching A-Team re-runs."
954,住,dwell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When Mr T shows people round his dwelling he takes a big candlestick (with a candle in it!) so that the light shows off his collection of bling bling jewellery. STORY2: Mister T dwells in a big brass candlestick, the flame of which serves as a beacon for the boats in the nearby harbour. Sometimes in the morning, Mister T has to clear the wax that has landed and solidified in front of the door."
955,位,rank,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr T ranks first position in the stand-up competition (doing knee flexions). Just picture him doing hundreds of these while the rest of the participants are already completely exhausted after a mere hundred. STORY2: Rank A person's standing.
956,仲,go-between,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When negotiating a hostage situation, Mr. T acted as the go-between, or person in the middle, for law enforcement and the terrorist. STORY2: Go-between The person in the middle."
957,体,body,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mister T works out his body (body-building), using two piles of books (i.e. an exercise that can be done at home with two chairs, similar to push-ups but working mostly the shoulders, trapezius and triceps). STORY2: Mr. T works out his body then rips a book apart to test is body. His favorite to destroy is Dianetics."
958,悠,remote,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T ventured out into a remote area to visit with his wise, old taskmaster who must use a walking stick to get around and originally gave Mr. T the heart to fight crime for the good of the community. STORY2: Yoda, the Jedi with the walking stick who was a hard taskmaster for Luke but who had a big heart, was permanently exiled on the remote planet Dagobah."
959,件,affair,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Note: this kanji refers to event or case. Current Affair headline: Mr. T has affair with cow. ""It's only animal 'man' enough for me"". STORY2: I'm having a hard time keep straight just which animal Mr. T is having an affair with. chamcham's story made me realize that Mr. T is not having an ""affair"", he's having an ""heifair."" Get it?"
960,仕,attend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Back in the day, a person who stands beside a samurai is usually attending to them or working for them. STORY2: [+fuaburisu] Mr T attends to Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai, who is doing hara-kiri. Imagine Tom Cruise outside in the final scene, stabbing his knife into his stomach, while Mr T looks patiently on. ""I pity da foo....no, really.""."
961,他,other,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's one or the other: fight Mr. T, or be thrown into the scorpion pit. STORY2: Old latin saying: homo hominis scorpio (people are scorpions to other people)."
962,伏,prostrated,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't need a silly story for this one: prostration is when a person puts themselves in a low position like a dog, as an extreme gesture of humility. STORY2: Mr T has beaten up the chihuahua, who lies prostrated in front of him. ""Now,"" Mr T says, ""I quiero some Taco Bell!""."
963,伝,transmit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mister T transmits a message with rising clouds (smoke) signals, to a nearby American Indian tribe. The smoke signals spell : ""I p-i-t-y y-o-u f-o-o !"". STORY2: Hanging one-handed under Cloud City, the Jedi-in-training Luke, uses the force to transmit his distress to Leia."
964,仏,Buddha,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T says, ""I ain't afraid o' no foo! I'll give anyone an elbow to the face, I don't care if it's Buddha himself!"". STORY2: Buddha is a person who always seems to have his elbows bent."
965,休,rest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T resting by a tree. STORY2: Chuck norris rests againsts the tree, but wait, no... the tree rests and stands against him."
966,仮,provisional,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T was offered a job in the Iraq Provisional Authority, but he turned it down, because he's anti-war. ""I pity da fool thinks this sand pit worth invadin' when our schools be in such sad shape!"". STORY2: Mr. T is anti anything provisional. ""I pity da foo' who's so indecisive that he can't make nothin' permanent""."
967,伯,chief,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If Mr T was white I am sure he would have been commander in chief of the USA, he just the sort of clown Americans love to vote for. (NB: I tried with the indian chief motif but kept adding feathers by mistake). STORY2: Mr T was originally supposed to be the chief of the A-Team, but then the producers realized that America didn't want to see a Black guy as the chief of a prime-time TV show. So here, we see Mr T doing a bunch of cocaine, and then spreading it all over his face to look white, and trying out for the part of Hannibal. The directors were so impressed that they let him stunt double for Hannibal in a few episodes. OR, Mr T chiefin' on some crack cocaine. You make the call."
968,俗,vulgar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T says, ""Don't be like them valley girls, always speaking vulgar language and acting all vulgar! They ain't nothing but foos!"". STORY2: Mr T meets the vulgar (common) people of the valley and participates in the vulgar customs (folkways). Looking at the vulgar (common) people, Mr T says - “I pity you foo!”."
969,信,faith,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T has faith in the Word of God. (Image: Mr. T kneeling and prayering in front of a bible. ""Pity me, fool.""). STORY2: Faith is believing that a person will be true to his word."
970,佳,excellent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T wants to go to an excellent school, so he enrolls in Harvard, an ivy-league school. STORY2: Bill and Ted are walking through medieval Europe when they see a humongous square jewel. ""Excellent!"" they both yell. But only after grabbing it do they realize it is chained to the neck of Mr. T, who grimaces angrily at them. ""Bogus!"" they cry, and totally run away."
971,依,reliant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr T is reliant (depends on) on his garment (the gold chains). STORY2: Mr. T. is so self-reliant he even makes his own garments.
972,例,example,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T shows the example to the kids, and stays in the file (at supermarket, ...). “I pity da foo who does not follow my example !”. STORY2: When Mr. T. wants to make an example out of a group of people, he lines them up all single file and knocks them all out with one punch!"
973,個,individual,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This keyword gave me trouble, I could write the kanji from memory but could not remember the keyword the other way around. In such case the dictionary definition can be helpful : ""Middle English, single, indivisible"". Here we have Mr. T. who is so hardened (all the body workout he's had) that he became in-dividual, that is, in-divisible. ""I pity da foo who can be divided into smaller units."". STORY2: Mr. T insists that people be individual. He appears on television, saying, ""Being an individual is hard! But you gotta do it! Harden yourself, and be individual!""."
974,健,healthy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T in a public service announcement yells, ""I'm healthy because every day I build a food pyramid, foo!"". STORY2: ""Mr.T, sir, how do you stay so healthy?"" I asked. ""Simple, foo,"" he answered, ""you gotta build the body up by bodybuilding!""."
975,側,side,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T rulezzz! I am on his side! STORY2: Chuck Norris's rules are easy to live by, just be on his side."
976,侍,waiter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T infiltrates the secret samurai Buddhist temple as a waiter with a tray of green tea. (Careful: attend (#960)). STORY2: Remember the kanji for wait, 待. Well, now we have a waiter, and he's dropped a dish. See: 侍! 待 crash 侍."
977,停,halt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Halt fool"" - Mr T acting as a bouncer at the pavillion. STORY2: Mister T makes a halt at the African pavilion at the World's Fair. He eats all the snacks on offer, and chats up the ladies - ""“I pity da foo who does not halt by your pavilion, it's the best !""."
978,値,price,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T (person) tells the used car salesman to tell him the real price straight away, and when he doesn't he throws him through the windshield. STORY2: Mr. T is shopping for new chains. He knows what he wants and money isn't an issue. ""Cut the jibba-jabba, tell me the price, straightaway!""."
979,倣,emulate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T downloads an emulator so that he can play his favorite game, Pokemon. He plays for a different reason, though - he hates to see them poor little foos in the ball so he spends his entire time setting them free. STORY2: The black slave who was set free (#496) decides to emulate Mr. T, his role model. He uses his compass to head to Cali to start anew."
980,倒,overthrow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The A-Team are planning to overthrow the government. However, they can't do a damn thing until Mr T arrives. STORY2: In Return of the Jedi, after a climactic light sabre battle, Luke and Vader overthrow the emporer (literally throwing him over the balcony)."
981,偵,spy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is a terrible spy. He walks around upright. ""Why should I hide?! I've got nothing to be ashamed of!"". STORY2: NOTE: The second primitive is upright, not eminent. There is an error in the book."
982,僧,Buddhist priest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T and the artist formerly known as Prince, who by the way is a buddhist, want to form a new heavy metal band. Instead of ""Judas Priest"" they will be called ""Buddhist Priest"". STORY2: While a waiter at the Buddhist temple (see FRAME 976), Mr T increases in wisdom and becomes a Buddhist priest."
983,億,hundred million,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T has an clear idea of what he would do if he ever got hundred million dollar. (I guess it would be a enormous gold chain !). STORY2: Mr. T's bright idea is to get a hundred million kids to vow not to use drugs. ""C'mon, foo! Sign the paper!""."
984,儀,ceremony,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is the master of ceremonies because he is a righteous dude. STORY2: Mr. T was briefly a rapper, that is an M.C., that is a master of CEREMONIES (the origin of the phrase). But he sang only RIGHTEOUS songs, no cursing or anything like that. (all true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo )."
985,償,reparation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T says, ""This ain't no prize, foo! This is reparations for slavery!"". STORY2: NOTE: do not confuse with compensation (#476)賠. However, 賠 is always used in conjunction 賠償... But 償 is used in various other compounds. Mr. T sold all his jewelry to give as reparations to slave families. The governent tried to honor his charity by giving him a prize, but it was a shitty outhouse filled with clams."
986,仙,hermit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A HERMIT is a PERSON who lives in the MOUNTAINS. STORY2: After living as an hermit (recluse) for a while in the mountains, Mister T becomes an immortal mountain fairy (""fairy"" is another meaning of this kanji)."
987,催,sponsor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"And now a word from our sponsor. We see Mr. T, doing a sort of George Foreman thing, grilling Mountain Turkeys. ""I pity da foo who don't have a Mr. T grill!"". STORY2: Mister T sponsors a meeting in the mountains (he's an hermit), talking over a megaphone “I pity da foo who does not come to my event !”. The old turkey comes, and Mister T catches it and cooks it for dinner, muahaha."
988,仁,humanity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The beginning of humanity required at least TWO people. Mr. T and Mrs. T! STORY2: Mr. T shows his humanity by giving two bucks to every homeless person he sees.
989,侮,scorn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T has scorn for every fool. STORY2: People full of scorn tend to hate every person (including themselves).
990,使,use,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T uses the officer as a punching bag. STORY2: Of course Mr. T will tell a police officer if he catches someone using drugs, foo!"
991,便,convenience,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T loves the convenience of the new konbini. Not only does it stay open even if it grows late, they have brand new toilets, and a Post Office! STORY2: Mr. T takes a dump on the floor of a convenience store. Well, it was growing late and he couldn't wait. He pities the fool who will have to clean it up!"
992,倍,double,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T keeps his double muzzled ... he wants all the glory. STORY2: Mr T, like many holywood stars, has a butt double who is used only for scenes where T's buttocks are exposed (he has issues with bearing his behind). The butt double has no speaking parts - he is muzzled. Of course T himself isn't he's rambling on about pity and foo."
993,優,tenderness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The A-Team is on a mission to help Hamlet. With uncharacteristic tenderness, Mr. T consoles the melancholy Hamlet. ""No, I really DO pity the poor foo. There, there little guy...take my hanky"". (Careful: benevolence (#885). STORY2: Someone can't be melancholy for long if just one person treats them with a little tenderness."
994,伐,fell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At a fiesta, Mr. T tries to knock down a large pinata, but in his overly enthusiastic swings to get ""the sucka,"" he actually FELLS the tree the piñata is hanging from, crushing some party goers. “I pity da fools who got crushed by my FELLED tree!”. STORY2: Mr T at the fiesta fell over blind drunk."
995,宿,inn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Toyoko Inn can house 100 people or 1 Mr. T. STORY2: The inn is like a big house that can addomodate a hundred persons. Only this time, there's just Mister T and he's booked all the rooms!"
996,傷,wound,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T cannot believe the reclining piggy bank won't give up. He has cut off its legs one by one until it cannot stand, yet, despite being rendered almost completely useless it won't surrender. “It's just a flesh wound!” the reclining piggy bank yells. STORY2: Mr. T gets wounded by reclining on his piggy bank."
997,保,protect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T opens his mouth from the top of the tree saying ""I pitty da foo who don't protect the trees!"". STORY2: Tip: Heisig later combines mouth and tree into 呆 dumbfounded (#2181). Story: Your person (Mr. T. or whoever) is dumbfounded when told to protect the bad guys rather than fight them."
998,褒,praise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is praised for his protecting of the trees by being given a top hat and scarf which he wears over his mohawk and chains, respectively. STORY2: An old lady puts a top hat and scarf on her poodle and praises him for how cute he is. The dog thinks, ""Someone protect me from this psycho!""...　RTK2:　ホウ　過褒　かほう(excessive praise)."
999,傑,greatness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My wise person says greatness does not come from wearing shades (sunglasses) but from planting trees to shade everyone. STORY2: Mr T stands in front of you, his greatness radiating out from him so brightly. You need to put on your sunglasses and hide behind a tree to even talk to the guy. ""Recognise, foo!""."
1000,付,adhere,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"賀 TO EVERYONE WHO MADE IT TO 千 kanji!! Remember, after this, you'll be 読ing japanese novels, the news, and the internet like a native. 吉 to ALL of you in your amazing japanese 往. :). STORY2: If a PERSON ADHERES to something, they stick to it like GLUE."
1001,符,token,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I dropped my token down the drain, so I used a piece of bamboo with chewing gum on the end to retrieve it. STORY2: At the arcade, Mr. T adheres a bamboo rod to his token so that he can put it in the machine and pull it out repeatedly."
1002,府,municipality,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A municipality, like any type of government, adheres to having caves for offices (see government office (#591)). STORY2: Even if a municipality is in a cave, you have to adhere to its policies."
1003,任,responsibility,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It is always Mr. T's responsibility to be the porter and carry around everyone's luggage because he's so strong. STORY2: In pregnancy (#507), the woman was the porter for the first nine months. Now, as a new father, Mr.T is assuming all the RESPONSIBILITIES that comes with it. Can't you just see him here as the new porter, wearing a harness with a his little dude (who already has a little matching mohawk)?"
1004,賃,fare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's your own responsibility to pay the bus fare with the correct number of shells/money. STORY2: In Japan they have automatic ticket gates so you cant easily cheat on your train fare. In England however the ticket gates are fairly open. It is a different kind of system. In England you are given the RESPONSIBILITY to put in the right amount of MONEY, but if you are caught cheating, the fines are stiff and you feel like a real CHINCHIN. ""un.CHIN""."
1005,代,substitute,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Mister T substitutes an arrow for a toothpick"" -- The keyword meaning is to replace something with something else, to act for another, to represent. It's best to stick to the first meaning, because the last two are very close to ""mediator"" which will come in frame 1761. The idea here is that the arrow is not a toothpick, neither it is changed into one, but it can substitute for one. STORY2: Mr. T shot the substitute teacher with an arrow."
1006,袋,sack,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sack is an easy substitute for a garment. STORY2: A worker who was recently sacked from his job, is wearing a sack of potatoes as a substitute garment (naked otherwise), in some kind of protest. The kanji is close to frame 1547 ""bag"", and although the later really refers to a ""straw sack"", I use the image of a sack of potatoes here, and that of a ""plastic bag"" for frame 1547. The keywords would have been better swapped in my opinion, but the relevancy is not so important at this point (see notes of Lesson 31 in the book)."
1007,貸,lend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In order for the bank to lend you money, you need to put up some sort of collateral as a substitute for the money. STORY2: The poor substitute teacher asks the class to lend him some money for the bus fare home."
1008,化,change,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Referring to a scene in the movie ""The Matrix"" where a girl bends a spoon with the power of her mind alone, I imagine Mister T who changes a spoon into something else (maybe the waiter forgot to bring knives or forks). Note: as a primitive, it can help to use the image of ""spare change"", this can help you keep it distinct from other similar kanji such as ""shape"" or ""turn into"". STORY2: Mr. T reaches into his wallet for some spare change but it has all changed into spoons."
1009,花,flower,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The flowers change with the seasons. STORY2: The flower is the essence of transience. So, the conceptual flower involves both the concept of flower plus change."
1010,貨,freight,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Freight is the shells (money) paid to change the location of something big. Don't confuse with the similar 賃 fare (#1004). STORY2: This is a freight train that runs on spare change. Imagine getting on the freight train with a bunch of spare change. You put in some change and it starts up...goes for a few minutes, then starts to slow down. You look at the slot..there's actually a slot for spare change and one for regular shells. Your call, but it seems to prefer spare change over shells."
1011,傾,lean,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T gave a girl some change to lean over and give him head. STORY2: Leaning over changes the position of the head...　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ケイ　傾向　けいこう(tendency).
1012,何,what,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What can Mr T do? 'You mean: what can't MR T do, you fool'. STORY2: What can't Mr. T not do?"
1013,荷,baggage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"TSA guard: What's in the baggage?! It's just flowers, I swear! STORY2: Your girlfriend arrives at the airport. You give her flowers, but she brushes you off and says ""here, carry my BAGGAGE."" Dumbfounded at her rudeness, you say, ""what?""."
1014,俊,sagacious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The entire town wants to get rid of legal prostitutes, but the sagacious Mr T realizes that they are a benefit to the economy and society. So he lets the sa-geishas stay. STORY2: (re: sweetneet) Since he is not very sagacious, Mr. T failed his driver's license and now needs to resort to his walking legs to get around."
1015,傍,bystander,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japan, the emperor is a bystander - he stands on his crown but can't really affect the direction of the country. (thx shimouma). STORY2: Mr. T is in the street, standing up, wearing an golden crown and a compass in his hand... he's asking the bystander if they know how to get to buckingham palace (!)."
1016,久,long time,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Note: this is the ひさ in ひさしぶり . Long time no see mummy! (A bound up person). STORY2: This is a picture of a person bowing ""long time no see!""."
1017,畝,furrow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Using a TOP HAT to make FURROWS in the RICE FIELD takes a LONG TIME! STORY2: A mummy tries to furrow his brow but realizes that he's got no head - just a brain with a top-hat on it. So he furrows his brain. [trigger: furrow your brain].
1018,囚,captured,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A person pent in is obviously captured. Imagine a man put inside a wooden box, his evil capturers waiting for ransom money. STORY2: Mr. T can't be captured. This kanji is lying."
1019,内,inside,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T's new belt is huge! When he's inside it, his feet no longer touch the ground! STORY2: How is a person ever supposed to get inside that girl when she's wearing such a huge chastity belt? I guess that's kinda the point, eh?"
1020,丙,third class,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In this third class flight, the seatbelts are so bad that with the slightest turbulence all the persons hit the ceiling. (it's almost pictographic here!). STORY2: But third class is so small Mr. T's head hits the celing."
1021,柄,design,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Half Way!!!! STORY2: This is a ""design"" as in a ""pattern"", not a verb as in ""to design"". The tree grain design was too expensive for the third class airline to use for the panelling. They just painted it."
1022,肉,meat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here we are looking at an x-ray of a cannibal whose insides are full on people-meat. STORY2: A person's inside - fleshy, raw, pink, meat."
1023,腐,rot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The rotting meat adheres to the cave walls. STORY2: Smaller municipalities are well known for filling their budgets with pork (meat). Thats why they are also well known for being rotten.
1024,座,sit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE HALFWAY THERE!!!! =). STORY2: Coal mine (cave); tea break time; the assembly line stops and everyone sit or squat on the dirt floor, in a long line, to rest."
1025,卒,graduate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ph.D graduation for assembly line of doctors(needles) with the cap and tassel(top hat). It took them 10 years (Bachelor's, Masters, PhD) to get there.... :-p. STORY2: When you graduate, you wear a hat and graduate in an assembly line while your parents sit on pins and needles because it will take ten years to pay off those loans."
1026,傘,umbrella,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There are two assembly lines at the umbrella factory. One is responsible for making the top of the umbrella, and the other for making the handle. The two lines cross at the end, where one man tries frantically to jam the sets of parts together. STORY2: FOUR PERSONS can fit under this UMBRELLA if they are thin as a NEEDLE."
1027,匁,monme,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Dude! What happened to your arm! It's all bound up!"" ""Yeah man, it's a bummer... with my arm like this I can only lift one monme!"". STORY2: ""Dude! What happened to your arm! It's all bound up!"" ""Yeah man, it's a bummer... with my arm like this I can only lift one monme!"" ""You'll never be able to use your dagger now!"" (adapted from ergerg)."
1028,以,by means of,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A man earns his living by means of the plow. I imagine a sweating man dragging a bronze-age ""ard"" behind him as he plows his field himself, too poor to afford an ox. STORY2: Mr T now makes a living by means of a plow/hoe and the sweat he puts into it."
1029,似,similar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T finds that living by means of dragging a plow is similar to slavery. STORY2: A Mr T impersonator is becoming similarer (more like) by means of plastic surgery. The process is painful and his face is all bound up in bandages as the surgery heals.
1030,併,join,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T furiously works a puzzle in an attempt to join Mensa, the high-IQ society. STORY2: ""Why do I gotta join these two puzzle pieces? I ain't got time for joining no jigsaw-jabba!"" Mr. T apparently gets a severe case of crankypants when doing puzzles."
1031,瓦,tile,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Horror scene: Hanging from the ceiling, a plough and fishhook dripping with blood down onto the tiled bathroom floor. STORY2: [true stroke order] First draw T for Tile, which then becomes I. Then draw an 'L' fish hook with a dash in the middle to make a mediocre 'e' that few can see.//ガ wa3 와 (wa)."
1032,瓶,flower pot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A flower pot that has been dropped on the floor is like a puzzle of ceramic tiles to glue together. STORY2: To solve this puzzle all you need is to put the flower pot on top of the proper tile. (cue secrets tune from Zelda).
1033,宮,Shinto shrine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This Shinto shrine is built with human spines. Have you ever seen the ossuary in Sedlec, near Kutna Hora in Czech Republic ? It is a small church entirely decorated with human bones. Do a web search for ""sedlec ossuary"", it's quite a sight. STORY2: A friend of mine made up a rhyme for this one: ""house with a spine, Shinto shrine""!"
1034,営,occupation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The schoolhouse is the backbone of a foundation that will allow you to find a good occupation. STORY2: During the German occupation, this Nazi officer's occupation was to manage schools that were requisitioned for training the children of the Aryan race to stand proud with an erect spine (mnemonic : ""the occupation's spine schools""). Kanji meanings : to manage, to conduct (business), and also ""barracks; camp; encapment"". This story should help avoid confusion with post (#824) and employ (#1083). The military occupation theme hints to the secondary meaning, e.g. 営倉 ""detention barracks""."
1035,善,virtuous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a priest's teaching: ""To achieve virtue one must first submit himself as a sheep to God's flock, rejecting the horns of Satan and resisting the mouth of Hell. STORY2: To be virtuous, a good rule to follow is to put your sheepishness (discretion) over your horns (anger) before using your mouth. In other words, ""discretion is the better part of virtue""."
1036,年,year,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A horse wears a pair of sunglasses with one lens popped out after a particularly raucous celebration to ring in the New Year. STORY2: A horse wears a monocle for New Years to appear dignified for the year of the horse. ――one lens = monocle, you will encounter this again in kanji like descend (#1308)."
1037,夜,night,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Actually, the lower-right primitive isn't quite ""walking legs."" It's a little more like ""evening"" with an extra stroke across it (look up the stroke order). So, it helps me to see this kanji for night as: evening plus an extra stroke representing the tuxedo tails to match the top hat which my special person is wearing out on the town... STORY2: Here we have Mister T sleepwalking, wearing a top hat as if he was the ambassador of the night, walking, and walking and walking on his tired walking legs, until he drops (back into his bed)."
1038,液,fluid,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A wet dream........water fluid that comes out at night.... STORY2: I imagined some kind of liquid (water) that was discovered on another planet. It solidifes during the day, and becomes fluid only at night, in the absence of light. The question is, could any lifeforms thrive in there ?"
1039,塚,hillock,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,There's already King of the Hill. This is Queen of the Hillock. It's Ms. Piggy sitting on top of a mound of soil in her crown. STORY2: The crowned sow (we met her in overpowering) is standing atop her little mound of earth - hillock - the undisputed champeen of all the pigsty.
1040,幣,cash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A counterfeiter is using a shredder to shred a towel in order to print up some cash (he needs some rag paper) . STORY2: In order to create some cash, first you feed a towel through a shredder to get the raw materials. (""Paper"" money isn't plain paper; it's mostly linen.)."
1041,弊,abuse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Bush administration taskmasters hid their abuse of power by shredding documents as fast as they could using both hands....　　　　　RTK2: 　ヘイ　弊害　へいがい(abuse)...　　　Pure Group:　幣1041. STORY2: You’ve heard of Edward Scissor hands? Well this is Medward Shredder Hands. Instead of nicely trimming your shrubs, he uses his TWO SHREDDER equipped HANDS to ABUSE your plants by shredding them into wood chips."
1042,喚,yell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think yelp when you hear yell to help dinstinguish this from shout (1508). I think of the sounds that would come from the mouths of the 4 dogs if they were bound up together. I'm imagining lots of yelping. STORY2: Yell? You mean, Old Yeller. Here, we see four St Bernard dogs all yelling for a chance to play a part in Old Yeller. They're so loud that you have to bound them, and their mouths, up."
1043,換,interchange,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After months of practice, you finally managed to teach a nice trick to your sled-pulling four bound up St. Bernard dogs: one snap of your fingers and they interchange their positions. STORY2: On the snap of your fingers, the four St. Bernard dogs bound up interchange places."
1044,融,dissolve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I have created the element ""old camera"" out of the left side of the kanji: from the subject's point of view, the light is captured by one mouth (the lens). The photographer is under a big hood, we only see his legs, and he is holding a spike in his right hand, which is the shutter release. Now, at the time the photographer takes the photo, a little insect is flying near the flash. The flash is so powerful that the insect is burnt and dissolves in the air. STORY2: I've seen this crazy thing with only one mouth that can dissolve up to 4 nails and an insect at the same time. Sweet! (It's a venus flytrap, btw)."
1045,施,alms,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Under their banner, volunteers are requesting alms for scorpion sting victims. STORY2: ""ALMS for the poor"" cries the beggar under his tattered BANNER. An evil bastard instead drops a SCORPION into his begging bowl."
1046,旋,rotation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A merry-go-round with a big banner on top and below a veritable zoo of bakelite animals on poles in perpertual rotation accompanied by silly music. Giraffes, elephants, zebras, rhinos... STORY2: Don't confuse with revolve or axis! Think of rotation as a rotation of animals in the zoo - some are on display (in rotation), some are in cages in the back (out of rotation). The ones currently in rotation (on display) are advertised with a large banner."
1047,遊,play,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The BANNER warns that CHILDREN PLAY on the ROAD. STORY2: There is always a stupid banner talking about children at play near the road. They mean ""drive slowly"", but it sounds like its slow(stupid) children that are at play."
1048,旅,trip,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The boat starts to leave on it's trip across the Atlantic. Underneath a huge banner that spans the width of the ship and says ""Bon Voyage"", the people wave their rags signalling a safe journey for all on board the Titanic. STORY2: After a long long trip, what once was a proud beautiful banner, we had nothing more than a simple rag remaining."
1049,勿,not,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji is NOT a piglett. STORY2: The butcher is standing over the piglet. ""This is a piglet...(cuts of head)...NOT!""."
1050,物,thing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The cow's ""thing"" is tied in a knot! ouch. STORY2: A cow is not a thing. Its an animal. If you study japanese you know that living beings and things are discerned from each other with the verbs iru and aru."
1051,易,easy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The sun is not an easy place to get to. STORY2: Under the sun, it is easy to untie a knot. Under a pitch-dark sky, it is knot so easy."
1052,賜,grant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A grant is easy money. STORY2: Do you want free shells from the government? It's easy with my new book, ""How to Get a Free Grant from the Government!"" Call today!"
1053,尿,urine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Animals use their urine to mark their territory. So for them, their body water works as a flag denoting their ""country"" (why bother? we all know which story you are going to pick). STORY2: Someone is pissing on the American flag, but since the urine is clear it looks like water."
1054,尼,nun,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Red cross nuns sit in a tent under the red cross flag, spooning out food to the hungry. STORY2: A nun sits in protests under an American flag."
1055,泥,mud,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"TV gets weirder and weirder... Now they're doing mud wrestling shows with nuns splashing around in the water. What will they think of next? STORY2: Water monks live in a den, but water nuns live in the MUD."
1056,塀,fence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[fence; wall; (kokuji)] A fence separates one soil from the other. On a large scale, large pieces of soils in the world have a virtual fence called nation. Picture a world map where all countries have their soil with one color, their national flag as the legend and a fence on the borders... don't you think it looks like a giant puzzle? STORY2: Why the Earth has to be fenced off and flags used to represent each ""country"" is a puzzle to me - we're all just monkeys on a big rock spinning round the Sun!"
1057,履,footgear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"NOTE: The most common use is in はく, meaning to put on footgear, rather than actual footgear itself. STORY: You are asleep in camp when you are woken up with news that the FLAG has fallen to the enemy. You quickly PUT ON YOUR FOOTGEAR and run off to RESTORE the FLAG. STORY2: You should never use a flag as a shoeshine cloth to restore your footgear."
1058,屋,roof,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Flag at the climax (highest point) of a castle roof. STORY2: A couple climaxing on the roof, draped in the American flag. The neighbors are mortified and call the landlady..."
1059,握,grip,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Fingers gripping the roof as your about to fall to your death. Think of an action scene in some movie. STORY2: (This is the にぎ of sushi). A sushi chef climaxes into a rice ball, wraps it in an American flag, and grips is firm with his fingers to form the ""Fuck You America Onigiri.""."
1060,屈,yield,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When yielding, soldiers raise the white flag before exiting from the trenches. STORY2: If you live in Japan, you are only too familiar with the helpful little man who assists you in getting out of every parking lot or parking garage, standing at the exit, waving his flag to make traffic yield to you."
1061,掘,dig,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you dig with your fingers hard enough, soil eventually yields. STORY2: When you dig, you'd better hope that whatever you're digging into yields to your fingers. If not, you're bound to lose some nails."
1062,堀,ditch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(See dig (#1061)). When soil finally yielded thanks to your digging efforts, what you have is a ditch. STORY2: Ditch / trench. The yielding army abandons it's patch of soil, leaving behind a landscape of ditchs and trenches. Trench warfare."
1063,居,reside,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A humongous American flag in Florida marks the place where all the old people reside. STORY2: It is an old tradition that people plant a flag on places where decide to reside; this tradition still goes on: Antarctica, the moon: flags all over the place! cf. set (#1064)."
1064,据,set,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The man set his finger firmly on the map and said ""Here is where they reside, I am certain of it"". STORY2: Cf. reside (#1063): you set the flag with your fingers on the place where you reside: an old tradition."
1065,層,stratum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The strata have piled up in an ever increasing pile of dirt. As the geologists go down the rocks, they flag each stratum with the name of the corresponding era. STORY2: Archaeologists at a dig site place small flags marking layers or strata of rock. Each of these layers was formerly the top layer. (This is not increase! Hseige keeps messing up)."
1066,局,bureau,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The Federal Bureau of Investigation has email scanners that flag certain phrases. STORY2: They do nothing at the bureau other than repeating the stupid catchphrase they have on their flag.
1067,遅,slow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sheep crossing guard waves a SLOW flag for his fellow sheep crossing the road. STORY2: Road sign (flag): ""Sheep on highway! Drive slowly.""."
1068,漏,leak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"WATER always LEAKED in the spot left by the FLAG planted in the roof everytime it RAINED. Not too hard to picture a hole left in the ceiling from a flag, now leaking water. STORY2: Mark the holes where rain water can leak through with little flags."
1069,刷,printing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"We printed a japanese flag on his white towel by stabbing him with a saber while he was wearing it. STORY2: The image that keeps coming to me is of the giant mechanical printing presses. The cloth-based material is coming off the roll like a flag and then, after printing, gets cut into sheets by saber-like cutting tools."
1070,尺,shaku,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Slang for blowjob and that's priceless for stories...but also the character looks like the letter R which I think of as standing for RULER (12 inches) other meanings include: rule, measure, length. STORY2: Since this is SLANG for BLOW JOB and since it looks like an ""R"", let's have the primitive be the R in BROW JOB. :)."
1071,尽,exhaust,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A women is so exhausted by her ""shakuhachi"" that see needs to ice her jaw. STORY2: That's not ice...it's my last drops and I'm exhausted! ;)."
1072,沢,swamp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're hiding from the enemy underwater in a swamp. To breathe, you have your shakuhachi flute poking up through the surface of the water. STORY2: Sirens in the swamp play eerie music on their shakuhachi flutes to lure you in - you follow the enchanting music then its too late as you get trapped in the swamp!"
1073,訳,translate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You cannot pretend to translate into words the melody of the shakuhachi! STORY2: You all know that 'shakuhachi' is a slang word for blowjob, right? In this kanji you got a job as a TRANSLATOR for Japanese porno movies. So you sit there all day translating dirty WORDS and watching girls perform SHAKUHACHI. This is the life!"
1074,択,choose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hand job or ""shakuhachi"", choose. STORY2: Depending on where you choose to put your fingers, the shakuhachi will produce a different note."
1075,昼,daytime,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Roosters in Japan are very civilised, they play the shakuhachi at nightbreak to signify the beginning of daytime. STORY2: In a Zelda game, you can warp to the daytime if you play your shakuhachi to bring about nightbreak... or your ocarina if you don't have a shakuhachi."
1076,戸,door,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Traditional Japanese storefront doors have several flags, known as ""noren,"" hanging down from a curtain rod in front of them. I see this as a pseudo-pictograph, and use the horizontal line across the top to represent the curtain rod, since noren don't usually hang from the ceiling. STORY2: A Japanese door has a noren, a flag hanging from a rod. (I give this primitive the meaning of a noren-covered door)."
1077,肩,shoulder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The shoulder is the best part of the body to bash a door open with (Don't ever try this. Use your foot). STORY2: The shoulder is part of the body you use to push through the noren in a doorway. I was having trouble with positioning of the primitives until I tweaked shaydwyrm's story slightly. If you think of pushing through a noren, this makes sense as a pictograph. The noren hangs from above, and you push through it from below."
1078,房,tassel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Explanation here: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=14684#p14684. STORY2: When you graduate from a school, after they gave you your tassel, they shove you to the door and give you a compass saying ""Sayonara & Good Luck out there!"" (ボウ)."
1079,扇,fan,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's insanely hot today! I'm standing in the doorway, fanning myself with feathers. STORY2: I am a fan of the Doors but I also like the Wings. I have a fan that I take to rock concerts with the picture of each band on the sides."
1080,炉,hearth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This hearth is equipped with a fire-proof door. On the kanji you can see somewhat pictographically the fire-proof door keeping the fire behind, and nothing comes under the door primitive, where you would have expected to see another primitive. STORY2: -""Honey? Do we have any wood left for the hearth?"" -""Aagh, just use the frickin' door!""."
1081,戻,re-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The St. Bernard dog whining at the door of his master’s house in order to re-enter / re-turn inside. STORY2: Think about hachiko, the dog waiting at the door of the station, waiting for his master to re-turn."
1082,涙,tears,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I see the story of Hachiko: the faithfull dog who still waited for his master to return long after he had died. Brings a tear to the eye. STORY2: Tears are watery (water + re).
1083,雇,employ,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Our company has no standards. We'll employ any turkey who walks in the door. STORY2: Comedy. An executive is having an argument with a cocky, but skilled, employee: ""Damn it, you might be good. But that don't account for your behavior. You keep this up and I'll fire your ass."" ""No, you won't."" ""What damn it, I'll fire you your ass so fast you won't...know...""-. ""And what will you do after you fire me, employ the next turkey that walks through that door?"" A turkey then walks through the door and hands the Exec his resume. --""The Exec employs the turkey that walked through the door""."
1084,顧,look back,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I was EMPLOYED to give HEAD...when I look back, maybe that was not a wise career move. STORY2: The people we employ are always turning their heads to look back. They don't want to be caught playing solitare on company time."
1085,啓,disclose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Behind closed DOORS, the TASKMASTER tortures to get prisoners to open their MOUTHS and DISCLOSE information. STORY2: You signed a non-disclosure agreement with the taskmaster but you opened your mouth as soon as you got out the door!"
1086,示,show,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A boy made an altar, but he's afraid to show it to God because he thinks it's two little. STORY2: ""I'll SHOW you mine if you show me yours!"", she said. I did & she scoffed because it was TWO LITTLE."
1087,礼,salutation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Indy, my friend, you must be very careful! If you approach the altar and do not give the proper salutation a large fishhook will rip you away"". STORY2: You should fish hook (bend/bow) your body before an altar as a form of salutation to God/gods."
1088,祥,auspicious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bringing a sheep to sacrifice on the altar was a sign of an auspicious life. The poor could only afford a pigeon, the more auspicious an expensive sheep for an offering. STORY2: On this ewe-spicious occasion, you sacrifice a sheep at the altar. —— Sorry, but I really need more than generic altar sacrifices to connect keywords to stories. Sometimes an egregious pun is the only way."
1089,祝,celebrate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's a Bar Mitzvah. At the altar, the teenager is singing in his awful, mid-puberty voice. We'll all celebrate when that part is over! STORY2: When Japanese people turn 20 they usually visit the altar at their local shrine and celebrate no longer being a teenager."
1090,福,blessing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This recalls the selling of indulgences in the history of the Church (As an aside, Protestantism began as a protest of this practice). Basically, one gave wealth to the altar (i.e. priest) and received a blessing. If you prefer a Jewish version, think of the donation (wealth) that is expected when you're called to the ark (altar in the kanji) to give a blessing over the torah. STORY2: Put all your wealth on the church altar and receive one blessing. (You stand up out of your wheelchair or something.)."
1091,祉,welfare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"And in front of every altar, she stopped to pray for the welfare of the others. STORY2: Religious Republicans regularly go to the altar to pray for a stop to welfare."
1092,社,company,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you enter a Japanese company it's like you join a cult... your workdesk becomes your altar and you worship the very soil the office is built on. STORY2: Some Japanese companies, including Toyota, have a Shinto shrine on their grounds to bring luck and prosperity to the company and its employees."
1093,視,inspection,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The beaurocracy in Japan is such that even altars need to be inspection approved. A little man with glasses comes once a year to give the altar a ""visual once over"" as he calls it (perhaps checking for unauthorised symbology?). STORY2: [inspection; regard as; see; look at] Inspection: you 示 show (#1086) and someone else 見 see (#57)."
1094,奈,Nara,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's beautiful place, but the dark side of Nara is that they sacrifice St. Bernards on evil altars every night after the tourists leave! STORY2: Nara is just a big show for tourists."
1095,尉,military officer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Of course it had to be the military officer's idea to glue a national flag to the altar he's stationed at. STORY2: Perhaps you have heard about Koizumis controversial visits at the Yasukuni war memorial shrine. It is the japanese flag waving above a small stone altar. A military officer keeps watch here night and day, to honor the dead war heroes, as if he is glued to the ground."
1096,慰,consolation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A military officer must offer consolation to the hearts of the families of his fallen men. STORY2: This Kanji appears in the word 慰安婦 いあんふ, which was what the infamous WW II ""comfort women"" were called in Japanese. The story goes something like this: As a way of providing consolation to battle-weary, heartsick military officers and soldiers, the Japanese set up comfort stations (brothels) for their servicemen. (Just to be clear: this is not an endorsement of the practice, just a way to remember the Kanji.)."
1097,款,goodwill,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Samuari, altar, yawn The samurai is on the altar, preaching about goodwill. The audience just yawns however, they want to see the man fight! STORY2: For better remembering the placement of the eleements: The samurai kneels before the altar at his wedding ceremony, when some of the attendants lets out a big yawn. He is a kind man and for the day his goodwill benefits everyone. No beheadings."
1098,禁,prohibition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Similar to radical tyro's story. If you live in Japan, your main exposure to this kanji is probably ""no smoking"" signs. So I imagine the government enacting a prohibition of tobacco, and burning whole groves of tobacco plants on an altar (the altar of public health, or self-righteousness, if you will). STORY2: Hidden in a grove was a church with a secret altar that was stocked full of prohibited alcohol during the American prohibition period of 1920-1933. A local registered himself as a mininster of this altar so he could stock prohibited alcohol ""for sacremental purposes"" and share it with his kin (きん)."
1099,襟,collar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A collar is the part of your cloak that, if tightened too tight, will prohibit breathing. STORY2: Collars are prohibited from wizarding cloaks. Blood purists say they're too muggle."
1100,宗,religion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I never really did figure out what religion my host family was - all I knew was that they kept an altar in their home. STORY2: All the RELIGIONS have their own temples, which are houses where they place their altars."
1101,崇,adore,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In ancient Greece, it was the religion of the time to adore the gods who live on Mount Olympus. STORY2: I would adore the religious people if they just went and threw themselves off a mountain top."
1102,祭,ritual,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A ritual such as a circumcision: a small piece of flesh from the crotch is left on the altar. STORY2: There are many famous penis matsuris(festivals) in Japan. The rituals of these festivals involve placing the flesh of the crotch on an altar.
1103,察,guess,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I have an informed guess about whose house the dark rituals are performet at. STORY2: It's anyone's guess who's house she will wake up in the morning after the festival (祭-matsuri)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　サツ　警察　けいさつ(police)…　Pure Group:　擦1104.
1104,擦,grate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you mis-guess the cheese you'll grate your fingers on the cheese-grater (happens to me all the time). STORY2: Ouch! Guess how many fingers I just grated in the grater? (Edit: OR: Ouch! Guess what I just grated in the grater? -- my finger!).
1105,由,wherefore,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Wherefore art thou, Sprouteo?"" (Juliet has fallen in love with a brussel sprout) (OR: A brussel sprout has fallen from Juliet's dinner plate and rolled off). STORY2: ""Cogito ergo sum."" Wherefore is a bad choice here for two reasons. For one, it's often mistranslated as ""where"" when in fact it's an urge to know a cause or reason; and two, because this kanji represents the reason, not the urge. [A thought sprouts from my brain. I think, therefore I am.]."
1106,抽,pluck,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[When I see the word pluck, I think eyebrows, not vegetables. So, to avoid confusing with pick (#733):] Each time this singular, long, wiry black hair starts to sprout out of my chin again, I pluck it with my fingers. STORY2: If you pluck your fingers, new ones will sprout in their place. (try it ;)."
1107,油,oil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The liquid oil that sprouts from an oil field. STORY2: In a rather surprising scientific breakthrough, genetically modified Brussel sprouts (which have become extremely absorbative), are thrown in the water to suck up oil spills."
1108,袖,sleeve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine some magic cloak, that when worn, has little green sprouts appearing on the sides that grow into sleeves. STORY2: The bad magician says, ""As you can see, there's nothing up my sleeves!"" Then he trips over his cloak and brussel sprouts fall everywhere."
1109,宙,mid-air,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Jack's beanstalk sprouted up, pushed at the roof and lifted the house so that it hangs in mid-air suspended on the SPROUT. STORY2: Hahaha, the image of walking into a house and finding a sea of brussel sprouts floating mid-air is enough for me to remember. Maybe there's a magician in the kitchen shouting a reassuring ""Don't mind the sprouts!""."
1110,届,deliver,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the US, when the mail is delivered, a flag sprouts up on your mailbox. (We don't have that in Australia.). STORY2: A Japanese man ordered some Brussel sprouts from Belgium. They are delivered with a little Belgian flag (as seen sometimes in shops, little flags indicating the provenance and authenticity of the food like cheese and meat)."
1111,笛,flute,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Flute is made of bamboo sprout. STORY2: You pick up your bamboo flute, and recoil in shock as out comes not the dulcet melody you had hoped to play, but rather a Brussels sprout! You play again, and again a Brussels sprout. A bamboo flute that plays sprouts! Fabulous! Puts that golden egg laying goose in its place."
1112,軸,axis,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Germans manufactured so many cars during World War II that it was almost as if they were sprouting from the factories of the Axis. STORY2: An absurd image, but what the heck - worked for me. Imagine a car going across a plain at a fast speed. Suddenly a single sprout (the only one to be seen) gets stuck to the car's wheels, causing the car to fly around its axis."
1113,甲,armor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Funny.. this appeared to me as a pictograph of a samurai's armor. Then I looked up images of the samurai armor and it is not even remotely similar. Then I realised it looks in fact like the belly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I somehow associated with the samurai armor because of the ""turtle samurai"" that appeared earlier. Fits me. The bit that pokes down is to protect the genitals, I guess. STORY2: It looks like a bird's eye view of a tank (modern armor)."
1114,押,push,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Push the roots down, instead of plucking the seedling. STORY2: Use your fingers to make sure the roots of your plant are deep underground by pushing them down, down, down."
1115,岬,headland,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A headland is a mountain that is firmly rooted despite being surrounded on 3 sides by water. (Just like your head is a mountain surrounded by air on 3 sides, a headland!). STORY2: Headlands are natural forts; in fact, once men build castles on them, they become armoured mountains. (Gibralter, for example, is basically an armoured mountain)."
1116,挿,insert,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A rice farmer's delicate fingers have inserted 1,000 rooted seedlings into his field. STORY2: Imagine a crazy japanese hentai: multiple fingers and thousand of root-like tentacles are inserting themselves in... well, I think you can fill the rest."
1117,申,speaketh,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I imagine thomeone who can not pronounth the ""s"" and speaketh like thith becauth they have a cane in their mouth. STORY2: I had persistent trouble confusing this one with 曰 sayeth (#578). The way I keep it sorted out is that this one is used in ""moshi moshi"" when answering the phone, similar to the way an American would say ""hello, this is X speaking.""."
1118,伸,expand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here we see Mr. T. expanding his gang with some trained fighter monkeys. STORY2: Mr. T wants to show you the incredible expanding monkey trick. He grabs a monkey by the tail and neck, stretches him out a few times, then blows him up like a balloon. The monkey EXPANDs until it pops. Haha, sucka monkey, I pity you foo."
1119,神,gods,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Gods are gathered around debating Zeus' latest purchase for Mount Olympus. A huge and extremely kitsch gilded altar in the shape of giant ""speak no evil"" monkey. Hera decides she will never let him go shopping alone again . STORY2: Hinduism has many gods, not just one God. One of the most famous of these gods is Hanuman the monkey. Many altars are dedicated to him."
1120,捜,search,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The monkey searches around with his fingers for his crotch. STORY2: If you are familiar with the Monkey legends (西遊記 Journey to the West) there is a good image for this character: While searching for the end of the universe, monkey reaches to his crotch and urinates on Buddha's fingers. (Update: new link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYXFppaKLL4)."
1121,果,fruit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If only Eve had used her brains and not taken the forbidden fruit from the tree. STORY2: Eve ate fruit from the tree and knowledge filled her brain.…　　　　　　RTK2:　カ　果汁　かじゅう (fruit juice)…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Semi-Pure Group:　菓1122　課1123　(ﾗ): 裸1124.
1122,菓,candy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This candy is made in the shape of a flower, each petal with the taste of a different fruit. STORY2: Candy is coloured like flowers and flavoured like fruit."
1123,課,chapter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After I finish each chapter of RTK, I eat a piece of fruit to celebrate all the new words I've learned. (Thanks Misha!). STORY2: Words signify the written words in a book. The fruit represents something whole, complete. A chapter in a book often offers a complete idea, setting, or account. It's good to disambiguate the keyword from paragraph (#82). To reinforce the kanji, imagine eating a fruit at the end of each chapter of Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"" to reward yourself. (If you ate a fruit at the end of each paragraph, you'd very quickly run out of fruit)."
1124,裸,naked,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here we have Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden fruit and realizing they were naked, and so clothing themselves in a cloak. STORY2: Hey honey, I'm naked underneath this cloak. I've got some nice melons and a fresh peach waiting for you. Don't you want to taste my forbidden fruits...?"
1125,斤,ax,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Errata: stroke order in 4th edition is wrong. Top stroke is first. STORY2: The axe-wielding maniac nails a poor victim, right under a cliff. Blood everywhere! (thanks scottamus!)."
1126,析,chop,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,We chop down trees with axes to analyze their rings. STORY2: Wood + axe = chop? how much more simple can it get?
1127,所,place,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You outsiders better learn your place! An axe stuck in the door when you get home is a pretty good indicator that this might not be the best place for you. STORY2: A place for everything and everything in its place. To the right of the door is the standard place for the axe.
1128,祈,pray,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Religious freedom has not always been respected throughout history, and nobody knew how to force religion on an indigenous people like the Spanish missionaries. They posted conquistadors at either side of the altars at the local missions, and if anybody refused to pray, they would get the axe. STORY2: A warrior prays for victory before the battle. He kneels at the altar, his battle axe at the ready."
1129,近,near,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The end is near. The axe-murderer is waiting for you on the road... STORY2: An absurd image, but working for me: two points A and B are separated by a long road. To make A and B near, take an ax, cut a big chunk of road, and the work is done."
1130,折,fold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's the latest Japanese game show: Forudo! Contestants are given a sheet of paper and are told to fold it into a complex origami shape. If they're not done in 60 seconds, a huge axe descends from the ceiling and chops their work in half. Contestants know to recoil their hands from the falling axe, but some have been so absorbed in folding, they ignore the buzzer and get their fingers chopped off. STORY2: Fold some origami into the shape of an axe with your fingers. It's even as sharp, so watch out for paper cuts!"
1131,哲,philosophy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A two-hour lesson of philosophy in high school. All the students, bored to death, are folding sheets of paper into planes, love notes or whatever, while the mouth of the teacher is talking about Platon, Kierkegaard and many other notorious philosophers. STORY2: I fold my mouth, therefore I am."
1132,逝,departed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One of the dearest of Japan's dearly departed is Sasaki Sadako, who developed Leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima, and became famous for folding more than a thousand paper cranes, never giving up hope. To this day, people in Hiroshima still fold origami cranes in her memory. For this character, let us imagine a parade in her honor, the entire road lined with folded cranes. STORY2: The BIG ONE hits Tokyo. You see a news report of the recently departed victims who died when the roads folded (from the earthquake)."
1133,誓,vow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- ""the folded words are vows"". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive ""fold"". STORY2: A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with origami cranes with their vows written on the BOTTOM."
1134,暫,temporarily,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Your car has been savagely (see steadily) attacked by an ax. It will be some days before your car is fixed. So you are temporarily without car. STORY2: Today is Car Axe Day. The day where you can temporarily (today only) attack cars using an axe without punishment.
1135,漸,steadily,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I imagine firemen working steadily to rescue a man from a crashed car. First, they spray it with water; then, they use an axe to break through the window. STORY2: Water + Car + Axe: The steadily rising water was filling the car, but the firefighters took their axe and broke the window, getting me out."
1136,断,severance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[Based on fuaburisu's] A man puts some rice on a fishhook as bait, but catches a fish so strong, he needs to take out his axe and sever the line lest he be dragged into the depths. STORY2: When you get the ax at work, use your severance pay to buy fishhooks and rice. At least that way you can eat sushi."
1137,質,substance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What is this substance on this clam? I've already broken 2 axes on it! (Good question...質問). STORY2: Another keyword that I do not like by Heisig. 質【しつ】 (n,n-suf) quality. Story: Your at a local ax dealer and you have TWO AXES which you are testing for QUALITY by trying to split CLAMS right down the opening. Picture yourself succeeding with one AX and then some weird SUBSTANCE comes out of the shell...eww (I don't like clams)."
1138,斥,reject,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The kids at school used to reject me.. Made me feel really bad till I brought my axe to school. See the drop of blood on it? STORY2: The quality expectations are very high in our axe manufacturing facility. If there's one drop of rust on any axe, it gets rejected."
1139,訴,accusation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I strongly reject the accusation implicit in your words. STORY2: Words that make you feel rejected.
1140,昨,yesterday,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One can use a simple word play to remember this character - the day that I saw before today was yesterday. STORY2: Yester-DAY, all my troubles seemed SAW far away..."
1141,詐,lie,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pinnochio gets frustrated that every time he utters a word of a lie, his nose grows and he has to get the saw out again. STORY2: Her lies are words that cut not like a knife, no not cleanly, but savagely like a saw."
1142,作,make,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T.'s favorite magazine is Make. He loves to make things. But he's a purist: he only uses saws, no power tools. STORY2: When the A-Team crash lands on a deserted island, Mr. T salvages a saw from the wreckage and says, ""I don't know about y'all foos, but I'm gonna make a raft.""."
1143,雪,snow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"SNOW isn't all that different from RAIN, except it can be removed with a BROOM because it only forms in freezing temperatures. STORY2: Rain just soaks into the soil. Snow has to be swept away with a broom...　RTK2:　セツ　積雪　せきせつ(pilled up snow)."
1144,録,record,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A monk won a gold metal for breaking the current record for most swept rice in one minute. STORY2: This character is about a recording for a music box. The tines of the mechanism are like a metal broom and the little pins on the cylinder are like metal grains of rice.
1145,尋,inquire,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The policed inquired into the erotica scandal. They tried to sweep away the evidence, but some of it stuck. (Note: katakana エロ ero in the middle of this kanji is the Japanese word for erotica.). STORY2: As a verb this means, this means ""to ask; to enquire; to search; to look for; to look into; to investigate;"". Imagine the police inquiring in an in-depth investigation. They are interrogating a suspect. But the suspect has a crafty mouth and is very sly. He/she also knows when to keep their mouth shut(glued) at the right moments to avoid self-incrimination. As a final measure, the police torture the suspect by tickling him/her with a broom while they inquire."
1146,急,hurry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"She was always bound to a broom, her heart pounding in a hurry to finish before she was punished for being slow. STORY2: Fantasia: Bound up brooms out of control send Mickey's heart racing--he has to hurry and figure out how to stop them before the magician returns!"
1147,穏,calm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The farmer is calm knowing that his wheat fields are protected from vultures by his strawman with a heart (all the better to do the job properly). STORY2: This whole kanji is a picture of calmness. The wheat has been harvested and even the vultures sit calmly watching the humans sweep and clean-up after the harvest is over. Hearts are peaceful and calm at this time of the year. Even the days are calm without storm.
1148,侵,encroach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The parson ENCROACHES on the French maid; driven wild by her little broom, dainty tiara and sinfully short skirt showing her knickers (crotch)! STORY2: Mr T. hits a condom salesman (broom + crown + crotch) over the head with a broom because the dude ENCROACHed Mr. T's privates area during the sale."
1149,浸,immersed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The French maid draws a bath for her amorous master, but slips and falls in - getting immersed. (thanks to Nukemarine for the French maid image!). STORY2: After being hit in the head with the broom, the condom salesman IMMERSED his head in some water."
1150,寝,lie down,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After work, the French maid goes home and lies down with a turtle. Turtle? Well, he's sloooow and always hard... (thanks to Nukemarine and Wakela!). STORY2: After being hit on the head encroach (#1148), the condom salesman goes back to his house to lie down. He hasn't made a single sale today, so he doesn't have enough money to buy a pillow. He lies down on his pet turtle and cries himself to sleep."
1151,婦,lady,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In high society, a lady is a woman who never touches a broom or an apron. STORY2: The LADY of the house is nothing more than a WOMAN who's a HOUSEWIFE (BROOM and APRON anyone?)."
1152,掃,sweep,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Whether I SWEEP something away with my FINGERS or my BROOM, I should always wear my APRON. STORY2: FINGERS of the HOUSEWIFE (in itself, holding a BROOM, with an APRON) busily SWEEP the floor."
1153,当,hit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some mothers use a small broom to hit their children when they misbehave. STORY2: Here is a weird carnival game where you hold a broom like a javelin and throw it, trying to hit the center of a very small target. The target is so small, in fact, that if someone does manage to hit it, the operator turns in surprise and says, ""Whoa, really?! (本当?!)""."
1154,争,contend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This can be seen as a Retarius, a roman gladiator. The Retiarius always fought with a net to bound up his opponents, and with a trident, which was able to pierce enemies after tying them. They were terrific contenders, so they were only paired with gladiators specially equipped to fight them. STORY2: A boxing ring is bound up by the ropes. The contender is cheating and using a rake."
1155,浄,clean,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Bottled water marketers contend to make their version of tap water sound the cleanest. STORY2: The water contends against the dirt in the ultimate battle for cleaninless.
1156,事,matter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Just one word about this matter from your mouth and you will find this rake across it. STORY2: I had to take one day off from work due to 'personal matters' after stepping on a rake and having the handle snap up and smack me across the mouth. I certainly wasn't going to tell anyone about it.
1157,唐,T'ang,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two archeologists are in a cave looking at Chinese artifacts from various eras. One picks up a rake and says, ""What about this – T'ang, do you think?"" The second puts the rake in his mouth and answers, ""Yes, it does tang a bit"". STORY2: Screw it, this character refers to the drink. The powdery orange substance is actually found on the floor of tropical caves, where trained aboriginal peoples use wooden rakes to rake the Tang into a pile before putting a bit of it in their mouths to see if it's tasty or not."
1158,糖,sugar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sugar made from rice has a tangy flavour. STORY2: The T'ang are the ones who began using sugar in China--of course, the first thing they tried it on was rice."
1159,康,sane,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A psychiatric hospital is located in a CAVE. To determine, which patients are sane and can be released, they are given a SIEVE and asked to empty a bathtub (the sane ones take out the plug and get the water out with ease). STORY2: People on the cave age became more sane after they started using sieves to avoid eating harmful things with their grains. (This kanji is almost exclusively used to write 健康, health)."
1160,逮,apprehend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Think police roadblocks. They act like road sieves, letting good people through but apprehending criminals. STORY2: In Space Balls, they were combing the desert in order to apprehend Lone Star. Picture Dark Helmet saying ""Combing the desert failed, we must now sieve the road!""."
1161,伊,Italy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ""boot"" of Italy has gotten Europe all muddy. Who else could mop it up but Mr T? STORY2: Here I have Mister T cleaning up with a mop, a real mess of spaghetti, in front of the Piza (in Italy)."
1162,君,old boy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's a tendancy in Japan to make the younger members (kouhai) clean up after the older members (senpai) of a group, which results in a lot of grumbling and whining. ""Well old boy,"" a senpai might say, ""If you did as much work with the mop as you do with your mouth, you would have been done an hour ago"". STORY2: The Beatles, english old boys, had hairs like mop and a good singing mouth."
1163,群,flock,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Good ol' boys are like sheep; they tend to flock together. STORY2: A little girl herder calls out, ""羊君、きて！"" to the sheeps and they flock to her at once."
1164,耐,-proof,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[akrodha] My comb is rust-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof. But unfortunately it is not idiot-proof--and I glued it to myself. STORY2: I spent $100 recently on this excellent rust-proof, water-proof, fire-proof comb. But two days after having bought it, I left it in my back pocket and sat down, snapping this expensive comb in half! I glued it back together, but now every time I try to comb through my thick hair, it just breaks apart again. I guess my comb is also glue-proof."
1165,需,demand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Supply and demand is a simple concept: when it rains, the demand for combs goes up to deal with wet hair. STORY2: If it's raining combs, then the demand for them sure does drop."
1166,儒,Confucian,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"No more Confucian jibba-jabba! I demand you tell me why it's raining combs!"". STORY2: One day, Mr. T started reading the little proverbs he found in fortune cookies, and with this newfound wisdom he became a Confucian scholar. He was suddenly in high demand as people came from all over to ask for his sage advice, immensely satisfied with suggestions such as, ""You will find happiness with a new love""."
1167,端,edge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Have you ever seen those shots in movies where the hero is standing at the edge of a sheer mountain face, hair blowing in the wind? It probably wouldn't seem so heroic if you saw him ten minutes earlier, when a crew of stylists was carefully combing his hair so it would fall perfectly. STORY2: When you stand a comb on its edge, it looks like the mountain (#768) kanji."
1168,両,both,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Primatives celing; belt; mountain as per Cumulative Errata. See volfy post for link. Both effective ways to commit suicide, hang your self from the celing with your belt or jump off a mountain. STORY2: Both of Tiger Wood's initials is the logo on his belt... 　　　　　　　　RTK2:　リョウ　両親　りょうしん(one's parents)."
1169,満,full,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Add water THEN the flowers. With both the vase will be full. STORY2: I was thirsty so I gulped down the water. Then I realized I was also hungry. So I ate the flowers. Yes, I am responsible for both the missing water and the missing flowers. Yes, I'm afraid both. Am I still hungry or thirsty? Thank you for asking! How kind! But no, I feel quite full now."
1170,画,brush stroke,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You decide one day to paint a kanji on your ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a brush, so, being innovative, you use a sprout. Knowing it could be messy, you search for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a shovel down on the floor to catch any drips resulting from the BRUSH-STROKEs. STORY2: To paint a kanji in your ceiling with only natural materials, you use a sprout as a brush and shovel some dirt to use as paint for your strokes. [modified from johnskb's]."
1171,歯,tooth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Stop shoveling rice into your mouth, you'll hurt a tooth! Use chopsticks instead. STORY2: My dentist used his foot and a shovel to dislodge the rice stuck between my teeth."
1172,曲,bend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It looks like the mouth of Bender the robot, from Matt Groening's animated series ""Futurama"". Thus, I use the character Bender the robot as a primitive. STORY2: Also means ""melody"". Think of it as a pictogram of a guitar where you have to bend the strings to make a melody."
1173,曹,cadet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A space cadet eager to make one bend around the sun. (a dangerous maneuver). STORY2: Bender lasted just one day in the space cadets.
1174,遭,encounter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Close encounters of the third kind. The space cadet encounters aliens on the road. STORY2: Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) has an ""encounter of the third kind"" on the road. Reference to Steven Spielberg's 1977 movie ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"". Also a reference to popular stories of people reportedly chased by UFO's while driving on the road."
1175,漕,rowing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) is rowing, during some army exercise, and he's very afraid of water (Bender is a robot). STORY2: The space cadet is in training, rowing in the water (see it splash)."
1176,槽,vat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Also as part of some army survival exercise, the cadets (including Bender see frame 1172) are sent into the woods to build a vat (for collecting water for example). STORY2: Bender the Cadet (kudos to Fuaburisu) is found on an army training exercise, hiding behind a tree, getting drunk on the famous scotch whiskey Vat 69."
1177,斗,Big Dipper,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Since the meaning of ""big dipper"" is rather specific and the sense of measurement seems to be a more common usage, I concentrate on the primative meaning of measuring cup. This is a pictograph, with the first two strokes representing the measuring ticks on the side of the cup. STORY2: Is it just me, or do all of these traditional kanji pictographs look like they were drawn by a retarded bunny rabbit?"
1178,料,fee,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When buying rice, the fee is calculated by the cup. Naturally we don't just use any cup; it has to be a proper measuring cup. STORY2: Samurai(s) once received their fee in the form of rice that had been carefully weighed in a measuring cup beforehand."
1179,科,department,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The national DEPARTMENT of WHEATS and MEASURES. Get it? This one was hard until I came up with this. STORY2: Agriculture/astronomy departments...　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　カ　科学　かがく (science).
1180,図,map,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Can't see direct relation to Big Dipper (#1177) since its writing order is completely different. As raulir noted, it's written as overlapping at the last stroke of ツ and the first of メ. I take it as a pictograph or treasure map. Two dots represent big trees and the cross (marking the treasure) is placed relative to them. STORY2: A pictograph of a treasure map. Two steps east then X marks the spot. 図る はかる attempt, deceive; 地図 ちず map; 意図する いとする make a goal, intend to do."
1181,用,utilize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To tenderize meat in an emergency wilderness situation, just utilize your walking stick! STORY2: I'll confuse this with use (#990), so build a distinction right from the start. For me, ""utilize"" has an artificial, business-speak connotation; you only utilize ""utilize"" when you're trying to puff up what you're saying and sound important. So: ""BioTools Inc introduces the FG2000 screwdriver, utilizing the our latest FleshGrip(tm) technology!"" I'm seeing this as a picture of a stubby screwdriver with a handle made of flesh, a short shaft, and prongs to hold a screw in place until you drive it."
1182,庸,comfortable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To live a comfortable life, single men need only a cave for living, a rake for cleaning and a screwdriver for fixing. STORY2: When I first moved in to my new cave, all I had was a bed (see bed (#592)). But now I've settled in, got myself a few handy things like a rake and a screwdriver, and made myself more comfortable."
1183,備,equip,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T wants to climb up and pick the flowers at the top of the cliff. He equips himself with screwdrivers to use as climbing spikes to reach the top of the cliff. Imagine a large AMMO belt full of philips screwdrivers instead of bullets. STORY2: An RPG where you're using Mr T as a character. Before you enter a battle, you equip the flower cliff screwdriver. This is a small screwdriver obtained at the bottom of a cliff that, when used in battle, shoots out pink flowers. When they touch the ground in front of the enemy, they create a massive cliff, and the ground under the enemy falls away into the sea. Picture being at the item select menu and EQUIPping this item just before facing a tough boss."
1184,昔,once upon a time,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Once upon a time, the children were forced to eat their salad every day. STORY2: For those who don't know the expression, ""salad days"" means the time of one's youth. (originally from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_days). I suspect Heisig chose ""salad"" as the name for the radical just for this phrase..."
1185,錯,confused,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A long time ago, people of the world got confused because there were so many kinds of Metal coins. today we only have the euro. STORY2: Once upon a time, it was thought that the ancient ""art"" of alchemy could transform anything into gold. At that time, people were obviously confused about the difference between reality and myth. (Arguably people are still as confused as ever, just about different things now.)."
1186,借,borrow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Once upon a time I let Mr T borrow my salad bowl, but he won't give it back. ""This be mine now, foo!"". STORY2: Mr. T borrowed a copy of Cinderella and won't give it back. He keeps watching it over and over again, trying to figure out how the Fairy Godmother does her magic."
1187,惜,pity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What a pity! My state of mind when i think of the opportunities I missed from once upon a time. STORY2: Data says ""What a pity"" when he hears that once upon a time there were no robots."
1188,措,set aside,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Long ago our ancestors set aside the use of fingers and began to use cutlery. (Raichu,11-7-2006) The way I remember it's 昔 once upon a time (#1184) rather than 旧 olden times (#35) is that they began to use cutlery to eat salad. (I also think about how when you visit the Medieval Times theme park, which is set in Once upon a time, their gimmick is that you eat with your fingers.). STORY2: ""Once upon a time..."" Oh hell, you're just too old for this. You close your fairy tale book and set it aside, pushing it away with your fingers."
1189,散,scatter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The taskmaster is dissatisfied with the meal she's served, and scatters the salad & meat across the floor for the servants to clean up. STORY2: Perhaps you've heard of Nyotaimori or Nantaimori (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyotaimori) in which sushi is ate from the flesh of a naked person, the story comes easily. Scatter salad over the flesh of the taskmaster in preperation for some nantaimori :)."
1190,廿,twenty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A generation is 30, one stroke less is twenty. STORY2: Ten plus ten is twenty (see generation (#28))."
1191,庶,commoner,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Commoners have to huddle in caverns around a campfire, while higher class people get heating and central air conditioning in a hotel. STORY2: If you are so poor that you are a commoner, you will have to live twenty commoners to a cavern, with only one fire for everyone to share."
1192,遮,intercept,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The commoners are revolting! We must intercept them on the road before they reach the castle! STORY2: If don't want your secret message to be intercepted, make sure your deliveryman is dressed as a commoner while traveling on the road."
1193,席,seat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Remember those poor commoners huddled in groups of 20 in a cave? The only thing they had for a seat was some old toweling (while their lords could recline on luxurious couches). STORY2: You're tired from walking the tour at this cavern and there's no benches to sit down on, so you take a towel and sling it up into a hammock-like seat using the stalagmites. (Big no-no)."
1194,度,degrees,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The cavern refugees are so poor that they can't afford thermometers. So, the menfolk expose their crotches inside the cavern, and approximate the temperature in degrees from how shrivelled everything looks downstairs... STORY2: The cave is twenty degrees cooler than the outdoors. Twenty male crotches experience shrinkage."
1195,渡,transit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This particular form of transit is a ferry (one of the actual meanings of this character). Naturally it can only cross the water if it's not frozen, so the temperature must be above 0 degrees. STORY2: The transit system in Tokyo is one of the best in the wrold, but why is it that when it is 35 degrees outside, it is about 2 degrees on the train? Or when it is 2 degrees outside, it is 35 degrees inside the train. This degree of difference means I am always sweating then getting the chills! I think I caught a fever!"
1196,奔,bustle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hustle and bustle = a big St. Bernard dog frisking about in a haystack, knocking it down and spreading the hay about, after the field hands just stacked it up. STORY2: A bustle is also the name for the big wire-framed skirts that women used to wear. Here's a St. Bernard dog jammed ass-first into the top of a haystack, looking like some kind of proper Victorian-era lady as he struggles to get out."
1197,噴,erupt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"History of Pompei: An unexpect eruption and from the mouths of the volcano come lava that threatens the farmers collecting haystacks in the fields and the fisherman catching shells on the coast. STORY2: A bit nasty (but makes the whole thing much easier to remember) is to take the right side and call it a bearded clam. For erupt, you can make your own story about the mouth/opening on the left."
1198,墳,tomb,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After the eruption all is a tomb. The soil has covered the remains of the farmers gathering haystacks and of the fisherman collecting shells. STORY2: Using soil and hay to make bricks, the Egyptians built the pyramids to entomb the Pharaohs along with all of their money."
1199,憤,aroused,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Note: this word in Japanese has the idea of ""indignant"". So aroused here refers to being aroused because of anger over some unjust or wrong act, unfairness etc. It doesn't seem to carry a meaning associated with arousal in the sense of sex or pleasure. So, my story: think of the angry state of mind aroused at finding all your clams buried under your haystack stolen, gone! STORY2: Data was aroused/indignant when he saw what the volcano had done to the farmers building their haystacks and the fishermen collecting their shells . The tragedy of it all aroused him so much he didn't even notice he was feeling emotion."
1200,焼,bake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ah, there's no better way to bake a pizza than an oven fueled by a burning strawman. And if you listen carefully, there are stifled strawman screams coming from the kitchen. Think of this image: http://users.mtrx.net/funnypics/content/-rdm1-ABCD1234-rdm1-/2005/2005-08-23-0002/Doughboy.jpg. STORY2: Too lofty (#2095)尭 a career choice for the strawman becoming a baker. He was fired soon after starting his first shift. Literally!...　　　RTK2:　ショウ　全焼　ぜんしょう(entirely destroyed by fire)."
1201,暁,daybreak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The sun rising beside a straw man in a corn field is a classic cartoon depiction of daybreak. STORY2: The first person to see the sun at daybreak is of course the straw man who stands outside all day.
1202,半,half,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine karate chopping the number three in half with a WALKING STICK and pausing the picture just as the first ""board"" breaks. STORY2: I think of this as a pictograph, there are three boards to cut, the first one is already in half and there are still two more to go."
1203,伴,consort,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The person who is your consort is most commonly ""your other half"". STORY2: Mr. T wants to splits himself in half so he can be his own CONSORT."
1204,畔,paddy ridge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A PADDY-RIDGE divides the RICE FIELD in HALF. STORY2: Think about a large rice field as a big square. Then you draw a line down the middle, halving it into two. Then you draw a line across the middle, halving it again into four... These halvings are paddy-ridges that separate the rice field into separate sections. I dunno the reason why, but that's how it's done."
1205,判,judgment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the bible, King Solomon's JUDGMENT was admired not by saying to cut the baby in HALF with the SWORD, but that it revealed who the true mother was. STORY2: It takes good judgement to cut things in exactly half with a saber."
1206,券,ticket,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Entering the movie, the dude asks for your ticket, so he can tear it in half. He looks at you funny when you hand him a ticket already torn in half. He quietly tears the stub into quarters after you show him your dagger with a smile. STORY2: In Japan, the JR railway ju-hachi-kippu seasonal discount ticket can be cut into quarters with a dagger and shared with your friends. (its actually sort-of true)."
1207,巻,scroll,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At a mysterious bazaar, you happen to come across something interesting: a rolled-up scroll for only 25¢. You buy it up impulsively until you realize that the powerful spell contained within is cursed by a poisonous snake. If you try to cast this spell, the snake will pop out of nowhere and bite you! Hrmph. No wonder it was so cheap... STORY2: How to make snake maki: Take a snake. Roll it up in rice and nori (seaweed paper) like a scroll. Cut into quarters and serve on a wooden geta with ginger and wasabi."
1208,圏,sphere,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I assosiate scrolls with spell casting, the efect of this spell is pent in a certain sphere of influence, outside it no damage is done. STORY2: [RPG] You're fighting a powerful enemy. Your mage uses a scroll/quartersnake of protection, and he's pent in a sphere of protection."
1209,勝,victory,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After your VICTORY cut your enemy's FLESH into QUARTERs to show your POWER. STORY2: After England's victory over Scottish rebel William Wallace, they had his flesh drawn and quartered and then sent around Britain to demonstrate their power."
1210,藤,wisteria,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"According to legend, the great Ogaki wisteria tree grew and flowered from magical rice grains that were planted under the quarter moon. STORY2: The wisteria is a type of hanging vine covered with flowers. By the light of the quarter moon, the flowers look like clusters of rice grains."
1211,謄,facsimilie,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sending a facsimile to the moon can be problematic only a quarter of the words actually get there. STORY2: As a prank, a guy sits with his butt flesh on the facsimile machine, inserts a quarter, and tries to fax it to his boss. However the facsimile machine has pattern recognition technology and instead of an image of his flesh, it just transmits the word ""asshole"". Don't forget it's flesh, not words, on the left side; the flesh image gets transformed into words."
1212,片,one-sided,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Fuaburisu's pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife is a one-sided version of the story. Others say he was giving her the finger. STORY2: Taking the keyword in the sense of only one part of a whole, I see this as a pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife (I couldn't see any trees or branches in there)."
1213,版,printing block,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before the advent of printers in Japan, typewriters couldn't be built as they were in the west due to how many kanji there are. Lots of small printing blocks had to be used instead. One side of the printing block would have a mirrored (anti) image of the kanji. This is true. STORY2: Nazi propaganda. Picture the printing blocks producing very one-sided (Aryan), anti-Jewish propaganda spreading posters to hang around town."
1214,之,of,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Of all the kanji, this is the only one 之orro can write. STORY2: The Z of Zorro (and yes he has a hat)."
1215,乏,destitution,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Children in complete destitution have no hope of ever getting toys to play with, so when they find even a tiny drop of a building block they are overjoyed. STORY2: Just one drop (of alcohol) and he starts walking in zig-zags – no wonder Zorro's living in destitution. (Note: As a primitive let 之 be Zorro or Zig-Zag: it's pictographic)."
1216,芝,turf,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Zorro, with a flower between his teeth for the ladies, defends his turf against evildoers. ""This is my turf! And this...is for the lady."". STORY2: Artificial turf made easy: flowers stuck on top of building blocks that you can place anywhere."
1217,不,negative,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[Smithsonian] Scene: Mr. T hanging from the ceiling being tortured. He is asked if he is going to talk. Spitting (a drop of saliva) in the torturer's face, he says ""Negative"". STORY2: One below zero is a negative number."
1218,否,negate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To distinguish between 否 negate, and 不 negative (#1217): Note that negate contains 口, which is a kind of gate. STORY2: Negative mouths negate everything."
1219,杯,cupfuls,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The maple tree is very negative about it, but the farmer still collects cupfuls of maple syrup from it. STORY2: A few cupfuls of sake can create a very negative situation. Like smashing into that tree...　　RTK2:　ハイ　一杯　いっぱい(one cupful)."
1220,矢,dart,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Zeus ran out of lightning bolts and has to drop darts from the heavens. STORY2: Do not mistake with LOSE 失.
1221,矯,rectify,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Angels have now been given a powerful tool to rectify human behavior instantly, without delay - they have been allowed to drop darts on those who misbehave... spare the dart and spoil the man... STORY2: The darts of the angel Cupid are supposed to bring people joy, but usually just make things a lot worse. Here we see another angel flying around shooting people with the anti-darts (antidote), to rectify the situation."
1222,族,tribe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With a banner declaring ""Keep Out!"" and blow darts to back it up, the Amazon tribe is not that friendly. STORY2: Once tribes shot darts under their war banners, now they are putting banner ads on the internet for betting on dart-games at their casinos :(."
1223,知,know,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I should know. After all, I did graduate from Dartmouth! STORY2: [know; wisdom] [An arrow 矢 like mouth 口] If you know the answers, they will fly like darts from your mouth."
1224,智,wisdom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Wisdom is knowing everything OVER the sun (fools assume everything UNDER). STORY2: Knowing more each day, brings wisdom."
1225,矛,halberd,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"マオ Zedong always carried a halberd. STORY2: Make the halberd a heroic warrior (perhaps of scandinavian origin) who weilds this polearm - the most effective, brutal and vicious one - with great skill. He can use it to hook, pierce and chop (the three strokes)."
1226,柔,tender,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[tender; weakness; gentleness; softness] Love me tender, Love me perfect, Never cheat on me. Or I'll impale you on my Halberd, And hang ya atop a tree... STORY2: Use a halberd to tenderize a tree: halberds can chop, poke, and slash, so it's all good!"
1227,務,task,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It is with the halberd he holds that the taskmaster exerts his power over those actually performing the task. STORY2: So many video games have a ""boss"" stage you must pass in order to advance to the next level. Here, your task is to use your halberd to beat the taskmaster with the huge, bulging muscles."
1228,霧,fog,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This fog is the perfect weather for us to perform our task undetected. STORY2: FOG is easy to associate with the RAIN primitive. So think of FOG as a type of RAIN that is slow at the TASK of getting the place wet.
1229,班,squad,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Am I the only one who took this as penis and balls? In order to be in the man-squad, naturally you need to have two balls with your ""spear"" in the middle there. STORY2: Here we have two kings trying out for the cheer-leading squad. A spear on the floor separates their dancing areas."
1230,帰,homecoming,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A female warrior returns home from battle. Her husband takes away her spear to symbolize the end of fighting and gives her a broom and an apron. “Boy, this is some kind of HOMECOMING,” thinks the veteran. (Adapted from johnskb). STORY2: Well, the boss man warrior upon his homecoming has set aside his spear. Remember the lady (#1151) (who put aside her broom and apron)? I wonder what they're doing now?"
1231,弓,bow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My personification for this primative is Legolas from the Lord of the Rings: a master at the bow. I suppose robin hood etc would work too. STORY2: I have a BOW made from a SNAKE that I BOUND UP. He sure wasn't happy!
1232,引,pull,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Put a walking stick in the bow and pull it back, ready to fire at the geezer. STORY2: This is actually a bow and an arrow. (Real origin of this kanji). Pull and release to fire!"
1233,弔,condolences,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Perhaps a pictograph of a soldier's weapons--his sword and bow-placed ceremonially over his body before burial, while people offer their condolences. STORY2: Send your condolences to the old geezer whom you shot the walking stick into with your bow. (see pull (#1232))."
1234,弘,vast,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you pull the bow back with your elbow, you can shoot a vast distance. STORY2: The valley was so vast that if you yelled elbow! you could hear it echo bow, bow, bow."
1235,強,strong,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,An insect who can fly vast distances is strong. STORY2: Legolas is so strong that he can even shoot down vast numbers of tiny insects at vast distances with ease.
1236,弱,weak,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two weak archers agree on a duel to the death. They constantly shoot at each other but never manage to hit their target. But what they lack in skill they make up in determination, and they keep shooting for hours, and days, and months, until it's wintertime and their bows are coated in ice. STORY2: BOWS with ICE on them are brittle and WEAK."
1237,沸,seethe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Re CharleyGarrett: This liquid looks like ordinary water, but it will instantly seethe when it comes in contact with counterfeit dollar bills. The inventor must be rich (and probably has dollar signs in his eyes). STORY2: When his daughter used a lot of water for her shower, the father could practically see the dollar signs, so he was seething with anger."
1238,費,expense,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An expense is an expense, whether you put it in dollars or in local money. STORY2: A dollar sign next to an amount of money denotes an expense."
1239,第,No.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The No. 1 currency in the world is the dollar. But, the Asian nations are fast catching up and may in reality have already surpassed it. So, let the bamboo represent the No. 2 currencies (the yen, etc.). The reverse order (bamboo on top and the dollar on the bottom) is really a look at the future. STORY2: Bamboo bling is the newest Asian Rapper, No. 1 on the charts right now."
1240,弟,younger brother,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Younger brothers are always more prone to mischief. Mine, you can almost see the little horns on him and the dollar signs on his eyes when he comes up with a money-making scheme. STORY2: The younger brother was a horny dollar -chasing bastard."
1241,巧,adroit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Adroit: dextrous, deft, skillful. Snare is a little generic so I'll use BEAR TRAP, with huge teeth cartoon style that snares you around the ankle. In the crafting of a bear trap, one must be particularly adroit. Otherwise they will become the victim of their down device. STORY2: To be adroit one must have mastered the crafting of snares."
1242,号,nickname,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My nickname is ""No Lips"". Yep, I shouldn't have put my mouth on that bear trap... STORY2: When certain nickname snares to people's mouths, they will call you that way forever."
1243,朽,decay,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This snare isn't terribly effective, because it's swinging from a decaying tree. Imagine the tree as being so decayed that when an animal gets caught in the snare, its struggles cause the tree to collapse into a putrid mess. STORY2: 枯 wither The decay of an animal in the TREE was from something caught in a SNARE."
1244,誇,boast,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The hunter's boast: I say, it was a ""big one"", but the snare broke and it got away. (credit to many others before). STORY2: A dog owner boasts about how obedient, not how smart, his Saint Bernard dog is. ""Why, my dog will even walk right into a trap if I tell him to. Watch!"" With a single word, ""go!"", his dog obediently runs into a snare trap hanging from the ceiling. In a flash, the dog is netted tightly and swinging from the ceiling. Don't forget the ceiling!"
1245,汚,dirty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A hunter Washes, with WATER, his TWO SNAREs, because they are dirty. STORY2: Washing your dirty snare in water, the extra line represents the water level as you submerge the snare."
1246,与,bestow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"David went to battle with a slingshot and it only took him one shot to slay Goliath. Partly because of this, the prophet Nathan was later instructed to bestow upon David the throne of all Israel. STORY2: In The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, one of the first weapons bestowed on Link was the slingshot."
1247,写,copy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A crown was bestowed to the British royalty museum, but it was only a copy. STORY2: True fact: in the UK the right to print a copy of the KJV Bible is bestowed by the crown -- there are only a few authorised bible printers. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Bible#Copyright_status)."
1248,身,somebody,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Somebody was just looking for you. He had a longnose that reaches down below his mouth, and a long jaw that sticks out past his nose, and a scar across his face. (greenapple,16-3-2006) The way to remember that this is somebody rather than someone (#1256) is that the story is full of body descriptions. STORY2: Somebody was just looking for you. He had a long nose that reaches down below his mouth, and a long jaw that sticks out past his nose, and a scar across his face."
1249,射,shoot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You SHOOT SOMEBODY with a GLUE-gun. STORY2: The aim of shooting is to end up with a bullet stuck in someone's body.
1250,謝,apologize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Dick Cheney... STORY2: The famous speech by the man that Dick Cheney shot in the face: ""I'm sorry for the trouble I have caused the Vice President""."
1251,老,old man,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An old man, wondering what it's like in a grave, sits in a freshly dug plot. When a gravekeeper mistakes him for dead and begins burying him with soil, the old man saves himself by flailing his walking stick in the air. STORY2: Old man sits in the dirt, having a stroke."
1252,考,consider,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before shooting an old man with a slingshot, one shold carefully consider the possible consequences. STORY2: Even though he had the old man Mr. Wilson within the sights of his slingshot, Dennis the Menace considered what he was doing and stopped."
1253,孝,filial piety,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This child has taken filial piety to the next level. He is actually carrying the old man on his shoulders. STORY2: +dilandau23: This child has taken filial piety to the next level. He is actually carrying the old man on his shoulders. There is a picture of a statue depicting this here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_piety.
1254,教,teach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In early Japan, filial piety was the cornerstone of education, and harsh taskmasters were employed to teach it. STORY2: You could say that the taskmistress is teaching you filial piety when she whips you and asks, ""Who's your daddy?!""."
1255,拷,torture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Torture 101 class they teach you to Consider the Fingers as the first part to inflict pain to. Then you can move on to other parts (like feet, groin, head, etc. etc. ; ) ). STORY2: ""Aaaargh, stop!"" cries the victim of torture, his fingers being squeezed by the thumb screws. ""I'll consider it,"" the torturer says coolly, ""if you tell me the names of all the agents in your organization.""."
1256,者,someone,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I find the best way of memorizing this kanji is in conjunction with the Japanese compound for ninja: 忍者 -- i.e. someone who endures (see FRAME 597 for the kanji 忍). A 忍者 is not just a 身 (somebody), it's 者 who can 忍 great 拷! STORY2: Back in the day, the old man used to be someone. His name was in the papers and all that. I use CHUCKY from the movie Child's Play as my major alternate meaning for this primitive."
1257,煮,boil,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I had a hard time with the next several frame numbers trying to use ""puppet."" So i thought of ""voodoo doll"" but then found ""love doll"" (which is just a special type of puppet) fit well with these 8 frames. Observe: Here I am boiling my love doll over the flames to warm her up a bit... STORY2: There is a lesser known voodoo practice of boiling a puppet over an oven fire, to really make your victim feel the heat!"
1258,著,renowned,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here I am, putting a wreath of flowers on my love doll's head and pretending she is someone of great renowned. STORY2: This someone is so renowned they are covered with flowers every time they perform on stage."
1259,署,signature,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before giving your SIGNATURE to accept the LOVEDOLL, you should EYE over the LOVEDOLL for any damages, then give your SIGNATURE. STORY2: The ninja's signature move was to paralyse people just by looking in their eyes."
1260,暑,sultry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ahh, a fine sultry day with my love doll under the hot sun. I think she's getting a tan! STORY2: [from decamer0n] This is the kanji for atsui (暑い) as in hot. If you've ever been in Japan in the summer no doubt you have heard hoards of people bellowing ""Atsui! Atsui!"" Here you are laying with your love doll under the hot sun. Luckily the manufacturers were smart and when the doll got to hot it would bellow ""Atsui! It's so sultry!""."
1261,諸,various,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Because i get tired of saying the same old thing, I have lately been trying to use various terms of endearment to my love doll. I think she appreciates it too. STORY2: When you pull the string at the back of Chucky, he will say various things. ""Hidey-ho! Ha ha ha!"" ""Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?"" ""I'm going to eat your liver, bitch!""."
1262,猪,boar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My love doll is made of special pheremone impregnated vinyl. Unfortunately, a pack of wild dogs mistook her for a wild boar and tore her to pieces. Oh dear! STORY2: (Image: a pack of wild dogs chasing Pinocchio who's trying to escape by riding on the back of a boar. See him bouncing around as they race along?)."
1263,渚,strand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I was stranded on a desert island surrounded by water for hundreds of miles on end. I wasn't upset though - I had my love doll! What a great strand of sand to be stranded on - just me and my love doll! STORY2: A lovely romantic walk on the strand, splashing in the water with my love doll."
1264,賭,gamble,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When we gamble at the shell game, I always win against my love doll. STORY2: People who gamble compulsively are like puppets controlled by money."
1265,峡,gorge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A gorge is where God has cut into a mountain with a pair of scissors. (synewave,6-10-2006) http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/197361.html. STORY2: A kid cuts a gorge into a paper mountain, with a pair of scissors."
1266,狭,cramped,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In a CRAMPED space, a brave man holds off PACK OF WILD DOGS with only a pair of SCISSORS. STORY2: A pack of wild dogs, waiting in a very cramped waiting room, to get their hair cut by Edward Scissors Hands, who is very popular."
1267,挟,sandwiched,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"挟まる 【はさまる】 (v5r,vi) to get between; to be caught in; (P) Story: You know how in tokyo there are those really packed trains where train staff in gloves shove people in? Well imagine being sandwiched in so tight, that when the doors close, only your FINGERS are sticking out. The train staff have no choice... they must cut them off with SCISSORS =( snip snip.. STORY2: Fingers sandwiched between a pair of scissors. Don't move or else!"
1268,追,chase,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Maestro, coattails flapping wildly, is being chased down the road by his fans. STORY2: Maestro primative = James Bond. Here he gives chase down the road to the bad guys. I'm thinking of the car chase in 'The Man with the Golden Gun' - NOT pursue (#539). I think about 'Race N Chase' (a scalextric type toy)...there were no pigs in 'Race N Chase', only cars."
1269,師,expert,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A maestro in a large auditorium with high ceilings is conducting his orchestra of expert musicians at a fever-pitch, sweat pouring out of him. When the piece is over he reaches for his towel to wipe his brow. STORY2: Maestro is such as expert, he can conduct even with a towel hanging from the ceiling in front of him."
1270,帥,commander,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The COMMANDER is a military MAESTRO who never throws in the TOWEL. STORY2: The greatest of them all; Commander James Bond, 007. Here he is the maestro of undressing women, removing the towel from some bond girl. Of course the towel symbolises her last vestige of resistance."
1271,官,bureaucrat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"No one likes classical music anymore. Our Maestro is here at home without his baton sighing sadly before he heads off for another day as his new job as a bureaucrat. STORY2: Bureaucrat, def: The maestro without a baton, the one who orchestrates oppressive rules, regulations and taxes on every household."
1272,棺,coffin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The maestro at home was sick of being a bureaucrat, so he got some wood and built himself a coffin and got in. STORY2: An excellent use of wood is to make coffins for bureaucrats."
1273,管,pipe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese bureaucrats send all their messages through an inter-office bamboo pipe system. STORY2: ""The Japanese internet is a series of bamboo pipes"" said one ignorant bureaucrat trying to draft Internet legislation."
1274,父,father,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Luke, I am your father. Darth Vader (really surprised nobody put this one up before: 2 laserswords). STORY2: Not to confuse anyone, but I think if you put your mind to it, you can see the image of a father here. The first two strokes take on the form of his eye brows, and the third and fourth stroke make up the nose and mustache."
1275,交,mingle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even though your FATHER is an old man, he can't give up his party lifestyle. Once a week he still dons his cool TOP HAT (well, it was cool 40 years ago) and goes out on the town to MINGLE with the ladies. This is a pretty common thing in Japan, where old motherfuckers still think they can pick up 19 year old girls. STORY2: Darth Vader tries to mingle with his troops. He even weares one of the helmets of the stromtroopers. (one of them laughs: white helmet, black suit. Darth Vader thereby slashes him in 2)."
1276,効,merit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mingling with the powerful can bring you success, bypassing the need for any merit. STORY2: There is great merit in mingling with the powerful."
1277,較,contrast,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The people I had invited to the party were mingling quite well with one another, until they all suddenly started talking about the cars they own. Pretty soon the crowd divided itself into distinct, contrasting crowds: rich snobs with fancy cars, soccer moms with minivans, and hippies with bicycles. STORY2: Our world of today, cars mingling on busy streets, is in stark contrast to the one of yesteryear, where it was people who would mingle on the streets."
1278,校,exam,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With the exam scores posted on a TREE, the students MINGLED around looking at the results. test. 試. STORY2: Note: this Kanji does not mean exam. It means school. I find this keyword an choice odd as school by itself is not used elsewhere. Examples: 校長 is principal (lit. school chief); 中学校 is junior high school (lit. middle study/knowledge school)."
1279,足,leg,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Captain Ahab lost his leg to the great white whale's mouth and had to mend it with a peg leg. STORY2: I'll use my mouth to mend your leg, I'll kiss it all better :)."
1280,促,stimulate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr T, ever the optimist, is trying to stimulate Capt Ahab's wooden leg by rubbing it down. Capt Ahab normally wouldn't let anyone do that, but he appreciates Mr T's stimulating conversation. STORY2: You stimulate a person by giving him a kick."
1281,距,long-distance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You can step a long-distance if you have a leg that's gigantic! STORY2: You can step a long-distance if you have gigantic wooden legs (stilts).
1282,路,path,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When pirates try to hide, it's always easy to find them. Their wooden legs leave distinctive prints, showing where each is hiding and the exact path he took. STORY2: I have a wooden leg for each type of path. One with a rubber stopper at the end for absorbing shocks on paved paths, and one with a wide foot to distribute weight better on mud paths."
1283,露,dew,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,After the rain the path was covered with dew. STORY2: Dew forms on the path least weathered.
1284,跳,hop,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A girl with a wooden leg always wanted to play hopscotch with the other girls, but every time she tried to hop she'd lose her balance and injure another girl. That's why the other girls make fun of her and see her presence as a portent to injury. STORY2: A turtle with a wooden leg needs to hop to get around."
1285,躍,leap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Well, there are weekdays weekday (#576) and there are laundry days laundry (#577), and on February 29th leap day, the manufacturer recommends servicing or replacing your peg leg because they tend to wear out every 4 years. STORY2: [Story for people following katsuo in making feathers+turkey a 'futon' primitive] If you're going to leap from a high place, better hope there's a futon below -- otherwise you're going to break your leg at the very least..."
1286,践,tread,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The pirate with the wooden leg chased after the parade float and was run over by the next one, leaving tread marks all over him and his leg. STORY2: Pirates must tread carefully when walking on parade floats, so as not to break through the weak plaster with their wooden legs."
1287,踏,step,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You have to watch your step when moving your leg on a watery day. STORY2: So, we've walked on the moon, but it's going to take a pirate with a wooden leg, with a huge supply of cooling water to land on the sun and take that ""one small step for a man""."
1288,骨,skeleton,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Your body meat is attached to the bone joints of your skeleton. STORY2: The top box 口 is the skull and the brain 田 has shriveled to the size of marble (but following kanji convention it is depicted as a square) and rolled into the bottom right hand corner. With all the hair and flesh gone the crown has slipped down to the shoulders like a necklace. 月 represents the rest of the body of the skeleton. [Idea for position of crown thanks to n1williams].
1289,滑,slippery,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't give water to a skeleton. When he drinks it, it'll sluice right through his bones, forcing you to put one of those ""Caution - Slippery Floor"" signs up on the resultant puddle. STORY2: Slippery surfaces are very dangerous for skeletons, since their bone feet slip easily... a few drops of water, and zweep! A large mess of bones to pick up and reassemble!"
1290,髄,marrow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A skeleton is shuffling along the shoulder of the road, so you pull up next to him and ask where he is going. He says he's going to donate his marrow to the hospital because he got into some financial trouble and lost everything; his marrow is the only thing he still possesses. STORY2: A skeleton by the side of the road, holding a sign ""Possess marrow, will travel"". Yeah, it makes no sense but I don't foget the kanji."
1291,禍,calamity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Continued from auspicious (#1088). Once a year, the people pray for a sign from the gods. But if the gods are feeling particularly mischievous, they'll send down a jawbone to the altar. The people see this as a sign of calamity to come. The gods think of it as an amusing prank. STORY2: Calamity Jane went to the altar to confess her sins and the priest's jawbone fell to the floor...　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　か　禍福　かふく (fortune and misfortune)...　Pure Group: 渦1292　過1293."
1292,渦,whirlpool,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Grampa's flushing the toilet, when his denture (Jawbone) pops out and gets sucked down the whirlpool! STORY2: A whirlpool is water opening its jaws to swallow anything whole."
1293,過,overdo,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Jaws XII~! Jaws strikes the highway! Man, they're really overdoing it now. STORY2: In 'American History X' Edward Norton's character overdoes it when he makes the dude that tried to steal his car lie face down with his jawbone open over the pavement of the roadway and then stamps on the back of his head. My teeth still tingle when I think of that!"
1294,阪,Heights,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you're scared of Heights, you don't want to stay at The Pinnacle; you are anti- The Pinnacle. Primitive: The Pinnacle is a dream-like gated community at the top of a mount. This allows for innumerable stories for all the kanji with this primitive since you have a whole city to work with. Also prevents confusion with ""mountain"". STORY2: People are being displaced in 大阪 to make room for a new development, Osaka Heights, the pinnacle of modern Japanese housing. An angry mob of protestors are outside with Anti-Osaka Heights signs."
1295,阿,Africa,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Can you see Africa from The Pinnacle? I can! I can! STORY2: A kinda pictogram: 'BoT', the first 3 letters in 'Botswana' an African country."
1296,際,occasion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On occasian, rituals are held at the very tip of The Pinnacle. STORY2: Many rituals are practiced every day (blessing before meals, evening prayer, etc.) Only the peak rituals (wedding, Bar Mitzvah, etc.) qualify to be called an occasion."
1297,障,hinder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The officer at the gate to The Pinnacle with a giant badge sewn to his chest hinders all visitors. But not the handicapped. They're hindered enough already. They're given a badge and can pass right into The Pinnacle. STORY2: The pinnacle of racism was that of the Nazis. They made the Jews wear a badge on their clothes to identify them. They hindered their every movement. Moreover the peace-loving Dutch all wore the badges so that the Jews would be unidentifiable. Effectively hindering the Nazi plot.
1298,随,follow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[Image: Follow the 'Yellow-Brick Road' to success] The pinnacle signifies your personal goal and destination. What you're seeking to possess lies at the end of the yellow-brick road. You must follow the road to get what you want. STORY2: I fled to The Pinnacle for safety, but the demon followed me right up the road!"
1299,陪,auxiliary,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In case of emergency, The Pinnacle has auxiliary guard dogs, but they keep them muzzeled until they're needed. STORY2: When you climb the pinnacle you'll need to take a muzzle of auxiliary oxygen."
1300,陽,sunshine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A kid is perched on a pinnacle with his piggy bank. He uses the coins to catch the sunshine, and redirect it into people's eyes, far below. STORY2: The Pinnacle is environmentally friendly. They collect solar power through sunshine on their piggybank shaped solar arrays."
1301,陳,line up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every morning at The Pinnacle, the residents line upon the East side for morning stretches and leisure. STORY2: Hikers line up to get to the top of that great pinnacle of the East... Mount Fuji. Seriously, they really do! ...probably the only mountain in the world with a queue at the top."
1302,防,ward off,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A giant compass is The Pinnacle's self-defense system. It points in the direction of any invaders so the city is prepared well ahead to ward off the intruders. STORY2: To ward off enemies, the ancient Greece kept watch from the Acropolis, where they had a clear view in all directions."
1303,附,affixed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A sign was AFFIXED on the PINNACLE of the Acropolis so that tourists would ADHERE to the rules. STORY2: The Pinnacle is firmly affixed to the top of the mount with bubble gum. (adhere (#1000)).
1304,院,Inst.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Institution of The Pinnacle is perfect in every way. It is the new House of God, his chosen city. STORY2: To reach the pinnacle of kanji perfect you need to attend the Heisig Inst."
1305,陣,camp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Paparazzi make camp outside of The Pinnacle in their cars, waiting for the celebs to come out. STORY2: Note: This kanji is most often used in a military context. Story: Here we see an encampment of military vehicles laying siege to The Pinnacle. With other countries being envious of the perfect life they lead there that makes sense. Fortunately, the pinnacle knows how to ward off (#1302) enemies."
1306,隊,regiment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every regiment of The Pinnacle's army is lead by a Miss Piggy with a viking helmet on. STORY2: Every regiment of The Pinnacle's army has an animal name. This regiment is called ""Horned Pig Regiment"". They're wearing Wiking helms and are usually cowered in mud."
1307,墜,crash,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One of the members of our air force regiment has been shot down; he managed to safely eject, but his plane crashed into the ground. STORY2: The regiment led by horny Miss Piggy wearing a viking helmet accidently falls off The Pinnacle and crashes into the ground below. // old story with wrong meaning of regiment: Kermit is so frustrated with horny Miss Piggy's regimented sex schedule, he throws her off The Pinnacle and she crashes into the ground."
1308,降,descend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Sunglasses-missing-one-lens"" is obviously the monocle. The proper, high-class way to descend The Pinnacle is wearing a monocle with your walking legs splayed to a full gentlemanly stride. STORY2: After a cool, hip businessman angered the executives at The Pinnacle, they beat him up, popping out a lens from his sunglasses, and tossed out the window, head first, walking legs second. One executive later commented, ""It was like he was descending into Hell from Heaven!""."
1309,階,story,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"All buildings of The Pinnacle are multi-storey. They don't have much room, so they have to build up. It sucks when someone presses all the buttons on the elevator! You have to stop at each storey! STORY2: Some stupid kid has pushed all the buttons in the elevator. As it stops at all storeys you reach a pinnacle of impatience. Finally you reach your storey, the last one, at the pinnacle of the building."
1310,陛,highness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your highness is the pinnacle of finesse compared to all of us commoners who are but like dirt on the ground. STORY2: His Highness, the main man at the Pinnacle, often compares those who live outside the city's walls to dirt."
1311,隣,neighboring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"America thinks it is the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all neighboring countries through its mirrored, aviator sunglasses. STORY2: All the neighboring communities to the Pinnacle have a major problem. The kids at the Pinnacle have a habit of throwing down rice from the city walls in all directions, so people in neighboring communities are forced to wear sunglasses all the time in order to avoid getting rice in their eyes."
1312,隔,isolate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Pinnacle, to me, is a city that makes itself out to be perfect but is filled with dirty secrets that photographers are always trying to reveal (see dissolve (#1044) The city's councilmen have isolated all professional photographers to make sure they don't photograph these ""dirty secrets"". (which are up to your imagination). STORY2: The people of the pinnacle isolate themselves, dissolving any outside friendships."
1313,隠,conceal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The wheat farmer's heart is calm (#1147) about the eagle not stealing his crops because of the broom scarecrow. But he still conceals all his wheat at The Pinnacle in case anyone else trys to steal it. STORY2: Move the broom with a vulture perched on top, and you'll find the concealed entrance to the heart of The Pinnacle."
1314,堕,degenerate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Any attempt to possess the pinnacle will degenerate into a land (""ground"") war. STORY2: A degenerate doctor at The Pinnacle is doing illegal abortions. He's so sick he just throws the aborted fetuses onto the ground far below. And like a possess demon, he keeps some tied to his side on a belt as trophies."
1315,陥,collapse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Pinnacle is actually bound up by supports from olden times. Eventually, they give out, and the whole thing starts to collapse. STORY2: The Pinnacle is supported by pilings which were bound up in olden times. One day when the bindings rot away, the whole thing will collapse. (tweaking dihutensoa's story to work a little better for me)."
1316,穴,hole,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A black hole is a ""House of Infinity"". Infinity is of course represented by a sideways ""8"", but here we have a Japanese ""8"" instead. STORY2: Billiards anyone? House rules here state that the first person to pot the eight ball into the hole wins the game."
1317,空,empty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The craft of creating a black hole is in creating an emptiness which can attract things. STORY2: Hole-craft is the way of making empty spaces, like the sky."
1318,控,withdraw,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With my fingers, I punch in my bank code and withdraw some money from my account. And now it's empty again, as usual! STORY2: If you find yourself in a fight with a karate master with no weapons or martial art skills, just your empty fingers, you should withdraw because 空手 (karate=""empty hand"") is more powerful than 控 (=""empty fingers"")."
1319,突,stab,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you stab something you often leave a big hole. STORY2: The police have recruited a special breed of St. Bernard that can lick the wounds of a stabbing victim. The bleeding will stop instantly, saving the victim's life. One quirky side-effect, however, is that this treatment leaves behind a rather large hole..."
1320,究,research,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Most research scientists have 9 holes.....two nostrils, two ears, a mouth, and four eyes...... :-). STORY2: Scientiest are researching , and have already found nine black holes !"
1321,窒,plug up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sticking a plug up your hole will lead to stronger climaxes. STORY2: Here we have a Hole and Climax to mean PLUG UP. This is so butt-f**king easy, pun intended. If you PLUG UP her Hole, she will Climax."
1322,窃,stealth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This more commonly means ""steal"", like how a thief cuts a hole to steal the jewels. STORY2: Stealth bombers cut holes through the enemy radar."
1323,窪,depression,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A depression is a hole in the ground. Water naturally collects there which provides moisture for vines to grow. STORY2: The depression in the ground become a trap: the hole was filled with water and covered with ivy.
1324,搾,squeeze,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You have trouble squeezing your hand through the hole so you use a saw to enlarge it. STORY2: (Thanks DrJones) You squeeze the teats of the cow with your fingers but it's your first try and you don't have any milk come through the holes, so you take a saw and cut the teats to make bigger holes. Poor cow, this story squeezes my heart."
1325,窯,kiln,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Be sure to put a hole in that ceramic sheep before you put it over the fire. Otherwise, it'll just explode in the kiln. (If you've never done ceramics before, it's important that the object have a hole in it, or this really will happen.). STORY2: You put the sheep in the hole of the kiln and turn on the flames."
1326,窮,hard up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hard up = nothing but your body, living in a hole, with just a bow to hunt for your food. STORY2: Somebody so hard up for cash, the volunteered to explore a black hole with nothing but a bow."
1327,探,grope,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A pictograph of a japanese schoolgirl getting groped by perverts on the train. The fingers of course, a crown (her too short skirt) and her legs below (which to be honest are pretty thick like tree trunks). STORY2: Note: The combination ""crown +human legs"" appears seven times in Heisig. In four cases (nos. 323, 1327, 1328, 2920) the crown is above the human legs, and in the other three cases (1888, 2472, 2679) one leg passes through the crown. The naming is inconsistent, so I call the first pattern ""Miss World"" (who is wearing a crown she won due to her attractive human legs) and the second ""garter"" (one human leg passes through the crown and wears it as a garter)."
1328,深,deep,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If the groper's ""tree"" goes up the girl's miniskirt too deep, he'll ejaculate fluid. (Sorry it's kinda coarse but it works.). STORY2: Thrown in deep water, the Japanese School girl tries to reach a floating tree to save herself."
1329,丘,hill,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Excalibur is the sword planted in a rock. Lesser known AXCAHILLBUR is the axe planted on top of a hill. STORY2: At Capitol Hill proposals get axed on the floor.
1330,岳,Point,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A point is a extra little hill at the top of a mountain. We'll call it 'Fireman's Point'. STORY2: This actually means a high mountain. So, to cater to the keyword, it's surely obvious (ahem) that if something gets such a fine title as Point, it must be more magnificent than the average mountain. It's as if there was a hill on top of an average mountain, adding to its height."
1331,兵,soldier,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Listen up soldiers! We're going to take that hill. You are no longer men with human legs. You are voracious animals, with animal legs! Got it? Animal legs! Now take that hill! STORY2: The hill is so steep that you almost have to have animal legs to walk on it. However, the soldiers have no problem because they've been trained to march there."
1332,浜,seacoast,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Seacoast -> Coast Guard -> ""water soldiers"" lined up on the seacoast defending our shores. STORY2: Imagine Normandy after the strikes on the beach. The water of the entire seacoast dyed red with the blood of thousands of soldiers."
1333,糸,thread,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I also went with Spiderman. However, in the cases where this primitive appears under other primitives, as opposed to on the left (I think there are ~5 times in this chapter) I've opted to use a similar character: Venom. This helps keep the positioning clear, especially on such characters as dainty (#1363) and accumulate (#1364). STORY2: You'll be seeing this one a lot. Seriously."
1334,織,weave,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman weaves his way through the skyline while listening to his theme song on his ipod. It is played, of course, by kazoos. STORY2: Play the kazoo magically and the thread will weave itself."
1335,繕,darning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After a day being virtuouos and keeping the city safe, Spiderman's outfit is in need of some repair. Luckily, as he can shoot out threads darning is very easy for him to do. STORY2: Darning is too obscure a word for me, I prefer to just think of it as repair. And obviously, repairing someones broken cloth things is a virtuous thing to do, and you need thread to do it."
1336,縮,shrink,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After spending the night at an inn, spider man discovered to his dismay that his costume had shrunk in the wash, and no longer fit! STORY2: Don't let the Inn wash your threads, they will shrink them!"
1337,繁,luxuriant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Important: Luxuriant does NOT mean luxurious, as the other stories indicate. Definition: abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation. When Venom realized he couldn't beat Spider-Man in a fair fight, he showed his cleverness by spraying venom all over Spider-Man's luxuriant garden. STORY2: Venom is covered in a luxuriant and surprisingly clever symbiotic suit, but it's also the taskmaster for his every evil act."
1338,縦,vertical,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When Spider-man does his amazing vertical wall climbing, a throng of photographers accompanies him to get a good shot of the action. STORY2: True vertical can be found by hanging a plumb line - a thread accompanied by a weight."
1339,線,line,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This kanji is used for train lines. Spiderman does a hot spring tour of Japan using the train lines. You can see the Spidey costume hanging on the washing line as he enjoys the onsen. STORY2: Japan's train lines are like threads that spring from Tokyo station.
1340,締,tighten,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(astridtops) Spiderman managed to get behind the sovereign. (pick your favourite nowadays country ruler who isn't doing a good job). Spidey has tightend a web around the sovereing's throat. As long as the sovereign says what spidey whispers, he will be fine. Sovereign yelping : ' we will draw are troops back! and we will spend more money on healthcare, schools and less on wars!' Spidey whispering: ' If you continue at this pace, you might be doing good things AND the people will like you.'. STORY2: The sovereign appears to be ruling, but in reality someone behind him (for instance his wife) has a thread around his throat, and if he dares to make a decision she doesn't like, she starts pulling the thread and tightens it around his throat."
1341,維,fiber,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hey, Spidey! Eat that turkey if you want, but make sure you eat some fibers: you want spidey threads, don't ya? STORY2: If you want to increase your fiber intake, just leave on those threads that are used to sew up the stuffed turkey and eat them too."
1342,羅,gauze,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Lots of girls in Japan wear gauze patches over one eye made of course white fibers. They think it is cute, and I must admit, I have come to think so too. STORY2: Rocky won the match but left with a nasty eye injury, and needs some gauze for it. I use a modified version of the Rocky theme song to remember this one -- ""the eye and the fiber""."
1343,練,practice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spidey stays on the east side of the city to practice. The West Side is too dangerous. STORY2: [+ skinnyneo] Spiderman visits the East to practice his swinging skills. All those Asian cities with skyscrapers and low crime rates make it easy for him to practice.
1344,緒,thong,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman has a secret fetish, he likes nothing better than to dress his lovedoll in a thong. Wierd, eh! STORY2: Instead of puppet I like to think of ""someone"" as ninja (since it is the second kanji in ninja). A ninja must be able to steal a thread from a woman's thong without her noticing."
1345,続,continue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even though Peter Parker has become Spiderman, he continues to sell pictures that he takes as a photographer. STORY2: Here's how Spiderman comics sell: At the end of the comic they leave with with a cliffhanger and say ""to be continued"". In fact, the japanese verb 続く is used in comics and tv shows to mean ""to be continued"". They have adapted the model created by Spiderman to hook the readers so that they can sell more comics."
1346,絵,picture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's never a picture of Spiderman meeting Peter Parker... I wonder why? STORY2: Peter Parker's editor tells him ""Next time you have a meeting with spiderman take a goddamn picture, you're a photographer after all""."
1347,統,overall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spidey is alloted the biggest crime fighter jurisdiction in NYC because his OVERALL arrest record is the best. STORY2: According to Greek mythology, there's a thread alloted to everyone, and its length is the overall determinant of your fate."
1348,絞,strangle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman hates going to parties and having to mingle. He wants to strangle someone after just a little small talk. STORY2: Darth Vader, who was mingling among the crowd with his hat, is spotted by Spiderman. Spiderman jumps at him to teach the villain for coming to New York. Darth Vader catches him in mid air and strangles him with the force..."
1349,給,salary,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman wanted to be a salaryman, but the suit just didn't fit him. STORY2: Spiderman has so little free time in his schedule that he is unable to fit in a job with a good salary."
1350,絡,entwine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When threads become entwined, each thread is tangled to another. STORY2: Spiderman entwines each villain in a tangled mess of spidersilk."
1351,結,tie,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ok, here, you have to think of the phrase ""TIE the knot"" , which means a wedding (this kanji is used in the marriage compound 結婚 けっこん ). Now, at US weddings, it ends with the couple driving away with cans being dragged behind the car. So here, think of SPIDERMAN, who will TIE the knot with Mary Jane. At his wedding, Spider THREAD attached (or TIED) to SPRAYCANS are being drug behind the limo as they drive off. STORY2: Spiderman and a fan have a competition to see who can tie up the most enemies fastest. Spidey's using his webs and the fan is using an aerosol can of silly string. So far they are tied."
1352,終,end,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This winter is so cold that spiderman's web gets brittle! Could this be the end of spiderman? STORY2: Spider-Man can't wait for winter to end. Going outside in spandex isn't exactly toasty.
1353,級,class,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This Kanji is the same ones used in the Japanese Language proficiency tests; i.e. ikkyuu (一級) The Kanji doesnt describe class as in a ""class of students"" or ""classroom,"" but rather a grade of quality or ability. ---------- Spiderman is taking the JLPT Level 1. In desperation he REACHES OUT to grab his friend's answer sheet next to him, who seems to be doing well. The other test takers are obviously a class above him. Looks like this test is above his class of knowledge. STORY2: Spiderman with his arm stretched out showing the class how he produces webs."
1354,紀,chronicle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Worst fan fiction ever....SPIDERMAN joins the CHRONICLES of narnia to battle a big SNAKE!! STORY2: In a CHRONICLE the THREAD of the story can twist and turn like a SNAKE.
1355,紅,crimson,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After Spider-Man is whacked in the head with a I-beam, crimson blood flows from the wound. STORY2: Spiderman crafted a crimson costume to fight crime in."
1356,納,settlement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Have you heard about patients who have surgery and the doctor mistakenly leaves a medical instrument INSIDE the patient’s body and proceeds to stitch up the patient’s incisions with stitching THREAD? Can you say “malpractice SETTLEMENT”?　. STORY2: Spider-Man was working as a surgeon's assistant. By accident, he threw his spider webs inside the patient, causing his death. Fortunately, the hospital reached an out-of-court settlement with the victim's family."
1357,紡,spinning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman can spin his webs in any direction. STORY2: ""You keep me spinning right round, baby right round, like a compass baby."" Spidey is making a retro 80s music video, spinning right round on his giant compass, singing his favourite song."
1358,紛,distract,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman got distracted when someone yelled, ""Spiderman, wait a minute."" He turned around and flew into a building. (""part"" also means ""minute""). STORY2: Due to the distractions of being a super-hero, spiderman can only work part-time. (variation on ayoung24's story)."
1359,紹,introduce,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman seduces all the girls he's introduced to. STORY2: Peter Parker did a terrible job of seducing MJ. Spiderman however, seduced her as soon as they were first introduced."
1360,経,sutra,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The word ‘sutra’ literally means a rope or thread that holds things together. Here we see that it is a spool that is holding the threads together. STORY2: Spiderman is intriqued by some of the positions of the karma sutra, but reluctant to take part in an sutra orgy as he'd have to reveal his soiled underwear."
1361,紳,sire,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Monkeys are very adept at swinging around trees. But when they met Spiderman, who could swing around even better than they could, they all quickly addressed him as sire. STORY2: Spiderman married a monkey and sired a brood of spider-monkeys."
1362,約,promise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He tied a thread around the ladle as a reminder of his promise to do more house work. STORY2: Spiderman promised to get Aunt Mae's ladle back. He started to do a blood oath by spilling drops of blood but Aunt Mae stopped him and bound up the wound. ""It's only a ladle Peter""."
1363,細,dainty,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Dainty women would always rather work with thread than in a field. STORY2: Spider-Man used to just be a dainty, brainy nerd."
1364,累,accumulate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you accumulate knowledge in your brain, neural pathways are constructed. All those pathways end up like a huge ball of thread tangled together. The more knowledge you accumulate the more threads you throw into the mix!! STORY2: (dingomick) Venom is upset because Spidey is just that much brainier than he is! He chooses to accumulate as many brains as he can, snatching them out of people's heads and storing them on top of his own, till there's just one massive brain on top of his head!"
1365,索,cord,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman has been captured and given the ultimate torture: they forced a crown of needles on his head and attached it to an electrical cord, which they are about to plug into an outlet... STORY2: (modified akrodha's great story) VENOM has been captured by scientists and is being experimented on: they forced a CROWN of NEEDLES on his head and attached it to multiple electrical cords, which are connected to a big machine."
1366,総,general,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spiderman could not achieve general acceptance by the media even after winning the public's heart. STORY2: To win GENERAL approval THREAD your way into the PUBLIC's HEART.
1367,綿,cotton,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman's polyethylene suit starts to ride up after a while, so he always looks forward to the white cotton towels he wears while lounging around his apartment. STORY2: Spiderman has a dark secret - he has stolen all the white cotton towels from every hotel he has ever been in."
1368,絹,silk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spider-man loves to run his mouth all over Mary Jane's silky flesh. STORY2: Spiderman has little squares in the flesh of his wrists that the silk webbing comes out of.
1369,繰,winding,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After stopping a bank heist, Spiderman is seen winding his webbing around the stolen goods to trap them in a tree until the police arrive to take them back. STORY2: Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination appears 4 times. I suggest calling it ""furniture"" (a common type of wooden goods). REF: parch (#215) , maneuver (#671), winding (FRAME 1369), seaweed (#2035). Story: You are winding up your new furniture using a thread to get it through the window of your high-rise apartment."
1370,継,inherit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spider-Man is hooked on rice--it's all he inherited from his Uncle Ben. (thanks Nukemarine). STORY2: A poor chinese fisherman could expect to inherit: the thread for his pole, a hook for catching something to eat, and some rice to live off of. (not concentrating on stroke order, sorry if that throws anyone off). (Adapted from bigloui,12-4-2006)."
1371,緑,green,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman's nemesis the Green Goblin is in a slump; He's replaced his glider with a broom and is throwing grains of rice instead of bombs. STORY2: Tie green thread around the broom that you use for sweeping up grains of rice (ie the kitchen broom) to distinguish it from the other colour threaded brooms that you might use in say the toilet, or the garage etc..."
1372,縁,affinity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There once was a lonely little pig that constantly followed Spiderman, always nuzzling his leg and oinking tenderly. Spiderman finally caved in and decided to keep the little pig under one condition: the pig was to take a broom and sweep up all of Spiderman's leftover threads after having fought crime. The pig felt such affinity for Spiderman, he happily accepted—and did a good job too. STORY2: Spiderman has no affinity for a broom hence his house is a pig sty."
1373,網,netting,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman traps The Rhino under the hood of his famous netting, where even Rhino's horns can not break free, in fact if the netting did not dissappear after a few hours then Rhino might even perish in there. STORY2: You use a 糸 to make a net shaped like a hood. A stray animal got caught in it by its horns and perished."
1374,緊,tense,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Whenever Venom is tense, he loses control of his sex drive and becomes a slave to his crotch. STORY2: You'd be tense too if you were a slave and your owner removed the threads covering your crotch."
1375,紫,purple,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Venom starts to choke on a spoon. He's about to get it out, when you manage to stop the spoon from getting out, so he turns purple, as he chokes, and dies. STORY2: Why is your ass purple? Well, I stopped and sat for a bit on a pile of thread... (I guess it was freshly dyed)."
1376,縛,truss,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spidey received good word that the acupuncturist working down the road was actually the evil Doctor Octopus! Spidey headed over to the clinic, and trussed the acupuncturist Doc Oc up using the maniac's own metal limbs! STORY2: Because people are so afraid of the procedure, string has to be used by the acunpunturist to truss up his victims, er, patients."
1377,縄,straw rope,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The tortoise has escaped! We tied it up with a straw rope, but all that's left of the rope are some torn threads, and the unbound tortoise is nowhere to be found. (Note that the right half here is not ""eels"". This is (in my opinion) a mistake in the RTK book, as we already decided in waterfall (#537) to refer to the simplified form of dragon as ""eels"". It is much better to call the right half of this character an ""unbound tortoise"".). STORY2: When Spiderman fights the giant tortoise, he grabs a straw rope from the edges of the sumo ring and swings it at his head. However, the tortoise quickly tucks his head back into his shell to avoid the blow (hence no head on the tortoise)."
1378,幼,infancy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In its infancy, a butterfly is protected by a cocoon, as it doesn't yet have any power of its own. STORY2: During their infancy, children are often wrapped up tight like a cocoon (i.e. in those Snugli carriers) and supported by the muscle of their parents."
1379,後,behind,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Column of walking legs (caterpillar) getting into a cocoon, about to leave its past self behind. STORY2: after a grub goes through the cocoon stage, it leaves its walking legs behind for a life of flight."
1380,幽,faint,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The villagers haven't the faintest idea that giant coccoons resting in the mountain are soon to hatch. STORY2: Frodo and Sam fainted in the mountains and the spider wrapped them in cacoons.
1381,幾,how many,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the Mexican fiesta, there is a coccoon eating competition. How many coccoons can one person eat? No one has managed more than two before giving up... STORY2: How many went to the party? Two aliens and one person (I feel sorry for that person)."
1382,機,mechanism,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An abacus is a mechanism made of wood used to calculate how many 'anythings'. STORY2: To avoid confusing with contraption (#677), focus on the ""ism"" of mechanism. For example, fetishism refers to having a fetish; mechanism here refers to having a mecha-like property, where mecha is a type of anime robot that can transform itself. Imagine a mecha that can transform itself between two forms: a huge immovable tree (as a form of defense) and a gigantic marching abacus that smashes enemies between its giant beads."
1383,玄,mysterious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,What could be more mysterious than a cocoon in a top hat trying to sneak in...? (Pimitive: GANDALF). STORY2: The invisible man in his top hat and cocoon of white bandages is the most mysterious man in the world.
1384,畜,livestock,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The livestock are disappearing! I've placed Gandalf over the rice field to protect them. STORY2: This mysterious rice field grows not only rice, but livestock too! Picture little pigs and chickens growing right out of the ground, among the rice plants. How bizarre!"
1385,蓄,amass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One sneaky farmer wanted to amass a large collection of livestock. We all know that cows like to eat flowers, so he planted lines of flowers leading to his own fields. The livestock followed the lines, eating the flowers one by one, and amassed in his field. STORY2: Kobe beef. The Japanese amass a fortune pampering livestock feeding them flowers, offering beer, playing music and giving them massages… RTK2:　チク　蓄電池　ちくでんち(battery cell)…　Pure Group:　畜1384."
1386,弦,bowstring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A magic bow that only Gandalf can yield: there is no bowstring on it, and he uses his magic to fire arrows. STORY2: A bow with a mysterious invisible bowstring."
1387,擁,hug,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A mysterious turkey with human fingers wants to hug me... I will never go to Tokyo Disneyland again! STORY2: Imagine Gandalf hugging a turkey....ouch! It bit off his finger!
1388,滋,nourishing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Water is doubly mysterious. It's in all our nourishment...and yet, it's really not nourishing at all. STORY2: Going off the idea of the right side meaning rapid growth/increase of small objects, I've decided to make the right side be Gremlins, those little mysterious creatures that double rapidly. Gremlins find water a little too nourishing, as it makes them instantly multiply."
1389,慈,mercy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mercy comes from the doubly mysterious heart of God. STORY2: Here we see the DOUBLE-MYSTERIOUS Siamese twins again, at the MERCY of the machines that pump blood through their veins, since the single HEART they share won't do the job..."
1390,磁,magnet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A magnet is a rock with two sides; one that mysteriously pushes and one that pulls; doubly mysterious. (see astridtops' story). STORY2: I found some stones on the siamese twins. Turns out the stones were magnetic, and they weren't siamese twins at all!"
1391,系,lineage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Primitive: DNA, a drop of looong spiraled thread that is the key to your lineage). STORY2: Spiderman's lineage (who his family is etc...) can be found in his DNA in a drop of blood. The villain that gets blood of Spidey will be able to find out who is family and lineage is. be carfefull spidey..."
1392,係,person in charge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mister T gets a DNA test, and discovers that he was meant to be the person in charge after all. STORY2: The person in charge usually must come from a long standing lineage of persons in charge."
1393,孫,grandchild,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your grandchild is the child of your DNA. STORY2: Your child continues the family lineage by passing on your DNA, giving you a grandchild."
1394,懸,suspend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The prefecture has suspended all DNA research for heart disease because of corruption. All involved will be suspended by their wrists. STORY2: The prefecture has suspended all research into inheritable (lineage) heart disease.
1395,却,instead,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,[instead; on the contrary; rather] Gone is the time for stamps - use e-mail instead. STORY2: If you tried to attach money to an envelope to pay for postage it would be GONE before it arrived at the post office. That's why we use STAMPS instead.
1396,脚,shins,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Shins are the part of the body that one uses instead of one's eyes, for finding furniture in the dark. (Ouch!). STORY2: Shins are the part of the body that Japanese traditionally sit on instead of their asses."
1397,卸,wholesale,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Selling WHOLESALE HORSES over the internet had to be STOPPED because the cost of STAMPS was too much. STORY2: If you need horseshoes (shoes that fit your horse's footprint), buy them at the wholesale shop. They lick and paste stamps in your membership card so you can get free merchandise later."
1398,御,honorable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An honorable man will not try to cut in front of the line at the wholesale stamp store. (Imagine just how much honor it takes facing those long lines at the post office!). STORY2: In front of the COLUMNS of the Capitol, the HONORABLE congressmen can be bought WHOLESALE."
1399,服,clothing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's customary to cover the flesh with clothing, but some designs are so outrageous they're not bigger than a stamp that just covers your crotch. STORY2: Modern clothing shows a lot of flesh -- some is practically no more than a postage stamp covering your crotch!"
1400,命,fate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you're born, your fate is measured, fitted, and stamped onto your soul. Good luck defying it. STORY2: Mouth meets stamp. Mail the letter to the university and wait on fate…　RTK2:　メイ　一生懸命　いっしょうけんめい(with all one's might)　　　　　　　　ミョウ　寿命　　じゅみょう　　(span of one's life)."
1401,令,orders,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(re: dingomick) ""These are your orders,"" declares the general while passing out documents at the meeting. As everyone started to leave, the general exclaims ""Oh wait! I need to certify these orders!"" and went around stamping each paper with his personal chop-seal. STORY2: ""These are your orders,"" declares the general at the meeting as he stamps them with his chop-seal. (Primitive: chop-seal imaged as a papal ring, the one's they would press into wax as their official seal. Also a cattle brand.)."
1402,零,zero,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The amount of people that can order the rain to rain. STORY2: Despite the rain, the zero pilot flies on. He has kamikaze orders."
1403,齢,age,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You know you are fast approaching a ripe old AGE when you get ORDERS from the dentist to get new TEETH. STORY2: The tooth fairy has orders to stop giving money if a child is a certain age. RTK2:　レイ　高齢　こうれい(advanced age)…　　　　　　　　　　　　Semi-pure group: 　令1401　零1402　冷1404　鈴1406　(ﾘｮｳ): 領1405.
1404,冷,cool,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To keep your water cool, just order some ice. STORY2: The Japanese boss gives an order at the meeting: eat ice to stay cool (since they won't be running the air conditioning anymore)."
1405,領,jurisdiction,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two cowboys are crossing a state limit. One says to him “Did you know that in this Jurisdiction there are Orders to get your head?”, so he takes out his gun and shoots him. He claims the reward afterwards. (Thanks Fuaburisu). STORY2: Orders are given by the head person in any jurisdiction."
1406,鈴,small bell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some restaurants have a small gold bell to call someone to take customers' orders. STORY2: In high society, people ring a small golden bell to call their servants and give their orders."
1407,勇,courage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I imagined some kind of initiation rite in old China, where every young man has to show his courage. They then receive a chopseal which is a mark of their courage. STORY2: Re: fuaburisu - The initiation rite in question is actually a reverse elbow chop to the brain, and you receive the chop seal if you have the power to withstand it. This initial imagery helps me with the altered chop seal and vertical placement."
1408,通,traffic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I bounce down the road on my pogo stick, easily getting through the dense traffic. (Note: New primitive: chop-seal + utilize = pogo stick. Because a chop-seal is long and thin with a rubbery bit at the end. If it were big enough, you could utilize it as a pogo stick). [Edit: pogo stick also appears in 1409, 1690, 2530]. STORY2: Building on gorgon's story I now change mine to a much more silly and rememberable one. The Chinese police is using a helicopter to check and regulate the traffic. Hanging from the helicopter is a huge chopseal that they utilize to mark some of the cars that are causing trouble on the road."
1409,踊,jump,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The winner of the long jump competition was disqualified when they found he used a pogo stick tied to his leg to jump further. STORY2: The high jumper has his wooden leg fitted with a pogo stick, and can now jump even higher. (See my note at traffic (#1408) for pogo stick). EDIT (2 years later): Keyword ""jump"" leads to confusion later on (see cjon256's post), ""Dancing"" would be better (but be sure to keep it distinct from dance (#1774)). New Story: I was no good at dancing due to my wooden leg... until I had it fitted with a pogo stick!"
1410,疑,doubt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Katsuo) You come at the zoo entrance. 'Here sir, a spoon to feed the animals.' cool 'and a dart(gun) in case stuff go wrong' ....' please chop-seal (sign) here for in case of accidents the zoo is not responsible.' 'lion feeding time is. bla bla' You are having serious doubts about if you still want to go into this zoo. STORY2: A very doubtful story: At the entrance to my local zoo they issue you with a special spoon (to feed the animals) and a dart gun (to defend yourself in case of animal attack). You must then hanko (seal) a document to say you’ve received both these items, only after which will they let you enter the zoo. (Oh, and if you forget your hanko, I doubt they’ll let you in)."
1411,擬,mimic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ask a MIMIC to give an impression of DOUBT, and he will no DOUBT scratch his head with his FINGER. STORY2: I doubt you can mimic all these animals with just your fingers: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Raymond+Crowe%22+Letterman (shadow puppets -- you'll love it!)."
1412,凝,congeal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I doubt that the jello would congeal sitting on the counter, so I placed it in the icebox. STORY2: Is there any doubt that ice is congealed stuff?"
1413,範,pattern,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This pattern made of bamboo is for a new model of car designed to leave as small an ecological fingerprint as possible. STORY2: How about a serial killer who's pattern is to drive by the victim and club them with a bamboo stick. Finally he makes a mistake and drops the bamboo stick, which is dusted for fingerprints."
1414,犯,crime,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Crimes can often be solved using the tools of dogs and fingerprints. STORY2: This crime gang has yet to be caught because their pack of wild dogs takes care of licking off the fingerprints from all the crime scenes.
1415,厄,unlucky,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Seeing some finger prints at the edge of a cliff, I wondered who that unlucky person was. STORY2: Sherlock Holmes is very unlucky: he just fell off a cliff while he was looking around for fingerprints."
1416,危,dangerous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're bound up by ropes to an unlucky person. It's dangerous, because whatever happens to him will happen to you too. STORY2: While rock climbing you are bound to the cliff by just your fingerprints, which is why it's so dangerous."
1417,宛,address,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your address should be displayed on your house and mailbox. STORY2: For the primitive: This is a hi-tech Japanese mailbox, it automatically lights up in the evening, and has a biometric fingerprint scanner. --- Each house's address, even if it's hard to see in the evening, is like its own unique fingerprint."
1418,腕,arm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Like in Memento, I tattoo my address on my forearm flesh so I don't forget it. STORY2: In Iraq people are having their addresses tattooed on their bodies, usually their arms, so they can be identified if they are killed. (true story)."
1419,苑,garden,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese ""gardens"" aren't anything more than a pot of flowers on top of the mailbox. STORY2: My mailbox is actually right in the middle of my garden, which kind of sucks since the mailman has to trample all my flowers to get to it."
1420,怨,grudge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I couldn't drop my grudge against him. So I put a severed pig's heart in his mailbox. He got the message. STORY2: I had a little grudge against my ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend...so I ripped out his heart (like in indiana jones and the temple of doom) and then I left it in her mailbox.
1421,柳,willow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Having decided to use SIGN OF THE HARE rather than RECEIPT and STAMP my mnemonic goes as follows: The WILLOW is the TREE that droops likes a HARE's ears. STORY2: A strange thing about the japanese willow tree is, it grows eggs... but the eggs have no yokes. weird eh?"
1422,卵,egg,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The Easter Bunny dropped an egg on my desk and got yolk all over my receipts and stamps. STORY2: The 卯sign of the hare (#2041) hides eggs in his ears for Easter...　RTK2:　ラン　卵巣　らんそう(ovary).
1423,留,detain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Got a receipt for that dagger, son? If not, we're going to detain you and send you to work in the rice fields. STORY2: The use of RANSOM NOTE (think of a receipt with a dagger through it on a door) works great with DETAIN. Here the RANSOM NOTE says that the girl has been DETAINED in an undisclosed location. To get her back take the RANSOM to a empty FIELD."
1424,貿,trade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's a buyback program where you can trade in your dagger for money. But it's quite ineffective, since only registered dagger-owners with the original receipts can participate, and not criminals with illegally-purchased daggers. STORY2: The new RANSOM note (a receipt stuck to a door with a dagger) from DETAIN (1423) appears again (probably after you went to the field as instructed) now gives instruction to TRADE the victim for CURRENCY you were told to bring."
1425,印,stamp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before sticky backs, they had to staple stamps to letters. STORY2: Aaaagh, this old stamp doesn't stick! Okay I'll just staple it."
1426,興,entertain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To me, this looks like a pictograph of a road leading to the big city (see the buildings?) where there are plenty of places to be entertained. Unfortunately in this city, every store is the same: staples. What tools! [ayoung24]. STORY2: Photographically, this kanji simply looks like a set of two speakers (the staples primitives) between the sub-woofer (primitive for same) -- all this as a tool to entertain a group of drunks at a club."
1427,酉,sign of the bird,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The sign of the bird on this whiskey bottle is of course the Famous Grouse blended Scotch. STORY2: Normally birds fly south, but one bird flew west. People were worried about it and kept asking ""Is there any sign of the bird – you know, the one that flew west?""."
1428,酒,sake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sake is just watered down whisky. STORY2: Sake is the generic term for alcohol (not just japanese rice wine). And a very popular alcoholic drink in Japan is whiskey and water.
1429,酌,bartending,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the local pub, their bartending practises are unusual. They serve the whiskey by pouring it from a ladle, like one would from the punch bowl. STORY2: Ever seen the anime Bartender? Bartending isn't just about bottles of whiskey, it's about ladling out advice."
1430,酵,fermentation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The secrets of fermentation are passed to the son who displays the most filial piety. STORY2: Since filial piety is all about respecting ones elders, and the older a whiskey bottle is (i.e. the time it have spent undergoing fermentation) the more respect you should give it, the meaning of this kanji becomes clear. If it doesn't, sink back some whiskey and it will."
1431,酷,cruel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It's cruel to pour alcohol down a cow's mouth. STORY2: Offering whiskey to people to encourage them to make revelations is cruel.
1432,酬,repay,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a different kind of tax refund - instead of money, the state repays you with whiskey. STORY2: Hint: bottle deposit refund - the state will repay the recycling deposit for each alcohol bottle returned."
1433,酪,dairy products,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To stay healthy, Dr. Phil told me to have some dairy products with each bottle of whiskey I drink... STORY2: In an attempt to increase sales of dairy products, the grocery store is giving away a free miniature whiskey bottle with each dairy product you buy."
1434,酢,vinegar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Drinking alcohol that's turned to vinegar feels like a saw going down your throat. STORY2: I spent ages sawing that whiskey bottle open, but when I got in, it had all turned to vinegar!"
1435,酔,drunk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,God you're drunk! How many whiskeys did you have? 9? 10? STORY2: Whiskey with 90 percent alcohol will get you drunk. I don't care who you are.
1436,配,distribute,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To DISTRIBUTE WHISKY during Prohibition you had to be as sneaky as a SNAKE. STORY2: In Japan, it's rude to distribute the sake to your self before anybody else."
1437,酸,acid,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The prostitute carries an old whiskey bottle filled with acid to throw at any difficult Johns. STORY2: Dealing alcohol requires a license, dealing acid requires fast legs (to run from the police)."
1438,猶,waver,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The waver for this kanji means to hesitate. I wavered before going into the bar with a bunch of horned wild dogs drinking whiskey straight out of the bottle. STORY2: . Have you ever had Wild Dog brand whiskey? That stuff is downright evil. So evil, the bottle has horns, and you need to sign a waver before you drink it. Because of this warning you will surely waver as you bring the shot glass to your lips."
1439,尊,revered,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I drank the Devil Whiskey and was revered by all. Too bad I had to have my anus glued shut from the damage it did to my digestive system... STORY2: Red Bull, the chieftain (#2906) is so revered in his clan that everyone sticks to him like glue."
1440,豆,beans,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If I eat BEANS, after ONE MOUTHful I fart like some kind of HORNED ANIMAL. STORY2: I hate using primitives that are completely unrelated. Let's call this one Mr. Bean! He's an easy character to build stories with."
1441,頭,head,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The head of the family sits at the head of the table. STORY2: Mr Bean's head.
1442,短,short,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He's so short, he can't even throw over a table while playing darts. STORY2: Sort of like ping pong, this kanji represents a game where you throw darts over a table at your opponent. The serve is rarely returned, so the games tend to be short.------------ This character apparently refers to duration, not just to height."
1443,豊,bountiful,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The bountiful feast was so bountiful that it bent the table below it under its weight! いただきま～す！. STORY2: Her bust and bum was so bountiful I couldn't resist the urge to bend her over a nearby table and...
1444,鼓,drum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese festivals have drums so big, a samurai has to SIT (not stand) on a table to beat one with a tree branch! http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~hidafyh/furukawayh/gyouji/image/maturi03.jpg. STORY2: I really hate the primitive meaning of ""table"" for ""bean."" I just use ""bean."" Anyways, for the DRUM primitive, imagine a SAMURAI who beats on a DRUM with two chopsticks, and a BEAN skewered on each end of the chopstick to produce a better sound. And the obvious story is: ""DRUMing on a DRUM with a huge BRANCH""."
1445,喜,rejoice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The samurai sitting on the drum is on a stage, and the people below him are rejoicing with their mouths in unison. It helps me to imagine the placement this way. STORY2: In the taiko (drum (#1444)) song of rejoicing, the drummers shout with open mouths."
1446,樹,timber-trees,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The hippies object to trees being cut down for timber. They have glued themselves to the timber-trees and are beating their drums. STORY2: Everyone likes to see big trees fall down. For this kanji imagine hundreds of spectators glued to their chairs, then a drum roll and then a cry of ""timber!!!"" as the huge tree crashes to the ground."
1447,皿,dish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Three dishes stacked side-by-side in a dishwasher. STORY2: Pictograph of a dish with a three-layer cake slice on it.
1448,血,blood,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Vampire orders blood in one of those posh restaurants. Imagine his shock when all he gets is a giant white bowl and just a single drop of blood in the centre and a drizzling of balsamic around the edge. Disgusted he calls the manager over tells him its overpriced tosh and bites into his neck with a huge gush of blood spraying everywhere. STORY2: Image: Holy Grail with a drop of Jesus blood on it.
1449,盆,basin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The part of the kitchen sink in which you wash dishes in is the basin. STORY2: Your mom yells at you to stop throwing dishes in the basin. She lifts up (to show primitive order) the broken parts to show you the damage you've done.
1450,盟,alliance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(re: Raichu) An undercover alliance between Japan (the sun on its flag) and Turkey (the moon on its flag) detected by a surveillance satellite dish. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100126a3.html. STORY2: A new alliance is proclaimed at the end of a meal between officials. As a symbol of their alliance they clean up together one dish, and present it to the photographers. The clean dish under the flash lights appears very bright, and it's pretty much all you can see on the photo that appears on the next morning's newspapers, with the title ""New alliance, one bright dish!""."
1451,盗,steal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You are so poor you dont know where your next dish will come from all you know is that you will have to steal it. STORY2: The first thing to steal is the silverware; next, the dishes."
1452,温,warm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you leave water out in the sun in a dish, naturally it will get warm. STORY2: I ate the sun on a plate, and I now feel warm inside. I had to drink water to stop this burning."
1453,監,oversee,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The slavetrader oversees the slaves washing dishes int he kitchen. No reclining on the floor! STORY2: The slaves are reclining on the floor when the overseer comes in. They tell him ""We're not goofing off, a dish fell and broke and we're cleaning it off the floor""."
1454,濫,overflow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Who's job is it to oversee the water level on the dam? It'ts overflowing! STORY2: The overseer isn't doing his job and he lets the slaves overflow the sink!
1455,鑑,specimen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The overseer tags his slaves with gold earrings, just like specimens. STORY2: (Thanks bodhisamaya) The authorities are suspicious about the athlete that won GOLD at the olympics. They are now OVERSEEING a thorough drug test, taking all sorts of SPECIMENS."
1456,猛,fierce,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The fierce WILD DOG attacked the CHILD who came near his feeding DISH. STORY2: If you want to make your wild dogs fierce, feed them a child. Children are the holy grail of dogfood you know..."
1457,盛,boom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Japan's economic boom turned their empty plates into full ones. STORY2: The boom of satellite TV has made antennas turn into dishes.
1458,塩,salt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the old days, salt was a worth alot, so it is not surprising to find someone reclining on the ground, mouth to plate, getting every last grain of that delicious salt. STORY2: Remember the mock sushi documentary that circulated a while ago: ""Because some feel that the shoyu was not salty enough, complementary salt dishes are provided on the ground outside the sushiya, you can recline and put as much as you desire in your mouth""."
1459,銀,silver,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Like gold, silver is a metal. STORY2: Not sure why Heisig find the right side so troublesome. My grandma's hairpin (just before long (#1920)) is made of silver, the metal that best reflects sun light. I'm sure you can see the flash from her hair as she walks by on a sunny day. Note that the two elements (sun and hairpin) share not only a horizontal stroke, but also the left vertical one. Therefore a bit odd stroke order."
1460,恨,resentment,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The athlete's state of mind is nothing but resentment after getting the silver medal. STORY2: Data's greatest resentment is getting a silver medal in Science Olympiad. (Image: Data fuming on the podium muttering about being half robot).
1461,根,root,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Since trees eat through their roots, one could imagine roots as tree silverware. STORY2: The roots of the magical tree are silver."
1462,即,instant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He scratches off the silver stamp and discovers that he is an instant winner. STORY2: For instant postal delivery, buy a silver stamp!"
1463,爵,baron,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An eagle stole the baron's eye in the war, but now he has a silver coin glued in the socket instead. STORY2: Here we see an evil baron - a vulture perched on his shoulder, and a siver eye-patch glued to his eye."
1464,節,node,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Counting the nodes on bamboo is an instant way to tell its age. STORY2: A certain species of bamboo is considered the fastest growing plant in the world. A new node can be formed in an instant.
1465,退,retreat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You see a huge army of people in silver armour on the road so you retreat. STORY2: In the land of Oz, you advance by following the golden road, but you reatreat by following the Silver Road."
1466,限,limit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The speed limit at The Pinnacle is posted on silver signs. STORY2: At The Pinnacle, they limit how much silver you can have. Too much silver will lead to wrongfulness."
1467,眼,eyeball,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"T-1000. http://clicknothing.typepad.com/Images_Posts_2006/T1000.jpg. STORY2: Eyeballs made of silver. That's what they use to play pachinko with, isn't it?"
1468,良,good,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With a drop of silver, the forces of good can vanquish the werewolves. STORY2: A drop of silver is good, but a whole bar of it is better!"
1469,朗,melodious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,[Image: 'Moonlight sonata'] The moon has inspired many good composers (like Ludwig van Beethoven) to write something melodious. STORY2: A glowing halo surrounds a magnificent full moon. A perfect image of the mythic and melodious music of the spheres.
1470,浪,wandering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Water is a good thing to have when you're out wandering. STORY2: John the Baptist with a halo sprinkling water on people as he's wandering the wilderness.
1471,娘,daughter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your daughter is a good girl......well, let's hope so... :-). STORY2: Be careful not to think woman + angel here, which has already been seen for attractive (#430). Suggest using woman with a halo, as in an innocent girl, something that everyone sees their daughters as being."
1472,食,eat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,That umbrella looks good enough to eat! STORY2: Eating good food under huge umbrellas outside a beach front resort …　RTK2:　ショク　食堂　しょくどう(dining room)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ジキ　 断食　だんじき(fasting).
1473,飯,meal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I'm anti-fastfood. Sit down and eat a real meal! STORY2: I'm Anti-McDonald's. Anti-Happy Meal. Anti-hamburger.
1474,飲,drink,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japan, the one thing I always seem to be lacking with my food is a properer sized drink. Instead I have to drink that shot glass of water. STORY2: When you lack food, just drink something to fill you up."
1475,飢,hungry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The smell of cooked food wafts past you in the wind, making your stomach rumble and feeling hungry. STORY2: The wind blew away my food, so now I'm hungry."
1476,餓,starve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"All those starving models in Hollywood - they want to eat, but their ego (about their appearance and trim look) makes sure they grin and bear it! STORY2: He starves for FOOD but his EGO won't let him beg."
1477,飾,decorate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[decorate; ornament; adorn; embellish] We decorate a table before eating, reclining a towel over it. STORY2: Naked sushi: a lady reclining on a towel as decoration for the food laid out on her."
1478,館,Bldg.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This Bldg. is like all the other government buildings - they house bureaucrats who sit around sipping wine and eating expensive meals at the taxpayers expense. STORY2: A building that eats bureaucrats!!!!!!!!
1479,養,foster,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sheep became the foster parent for a wolf pup, feeding it with milk. This story cannot end well... STORY2: Judy Foster in ""The Silence of the Lambs"" is what Dr. Hannibal-the cannibal-Lecter would like to eat."
1480,飽,sated,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My gluttony was only sated after I ate the hamburger AND the wrapper! STORY2: This guy is sated only after eating the hamburger AND its wrapping!
1481,既,previously,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Distinguish from formerly (#501). Think of previously as ""the previous customer"" in a restaurant. At a cheap sleazy diner, the waitress gives you unwashed silverware that was previously used by the previous customer. Yuck. STORY2: For the waitress primitive, I don't really see the receipt. So instead, I imagine a waitress holding a plate above her head, using those legs to weave through the tables."
1482,概,outline,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A murder has been commited. A corpse was found under a tree. The police chalks the outline of the victim, an old silvered-haired waitress working at a restaurant nearby. STORY2: If you attempted to outline the biography of most famous actresses, you'd find that they have roots working as waitresses before getting their big break."
1483,慨,rue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you don't leave some silver as a tip, you will rue the day you earned the resentment of your waitress. STORY2: The resentment of a waitress who gave up going to college to help her boyfriend (with his tuition). She rues that decision ever since she got dumped by him (just after he graduated)."
1484,平,even,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,There's an even covering of water lilies on the pond at 金閣寺（きんかくじ） the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. STORY2: Frogs stay dry (#1648) 干 even as rain drops on their lily pads... RTK2:　ヘイ　　平均　へいきん(an average)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ビョウ　平等　びょうどう(equality).
1485,呼,call,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I'm a lazy fisher, so I genetically engineered a lily pad with a fishing hook at the stem and a mouth to call me whenever it catches something. STORY2: I just follow the calls from the frogs mouths on the lily pads to hook them."
1486,坪,two-mat area,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A two-mat area is just about as much ground as you will need for a lily pond. STORY2: A two-mat area is plenty of space for sleeping in a tent but you won't be comfortable unless the ground is even.
1487,評,evaluate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Good evaluation should always be words of even fairness. STORY2: You get an evaluation copy of MS Word because you want to evaluate whether it's worth buying the full version. At the end of the evaluation period the CD turns into a lilypad so you can't use it any more (an innovative new copy-protection trick).
1488,刈,reap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sheaf? No. This is the sign of the X-Men. I'm going with Wolverine on this one.. Wolverine reaps the bad guys with his saber-like claws. STORY2: The Grim Reaper's name is メリ(Mary)…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　Rare or no official Chinese reading.
1489,希,hope,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Wolverine (sheaf, see reap (#1488)) hopes they invent linen sheets that he won't keep shredding in his sleep. STORY2: ""I hope this works,"" you say as you stuff a sheaf of stalks under your blanket but above your linens. Your real hope is that your parents don't find out that you left the house."
1490,凶,villain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here the villain digs a hole with a shovel and covers it with a sheaf, hoping someone will fall in. STORY2: Wolverine (sheaf, see reap (#1488)) takes out a villain who can't be cut by smacking the crap out of him with a shovel."
1491,胸,bosom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bosom is a Flesh part that should be bound up lest it provoke villian thoughts. STORY2: As you know, female comics villains are always binding the flesh of their bosom up in interesting ways. One has to wonder how these clothes stay on their body at all..."
1492,離,detach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I've finally met my arch-rival, the evilest of all villains. Finally, I'm about to fight him. But what's this? He's suspiciously quiet. I move to attack him, and his right arm falls off at the elbow. Strange. I walk up to him and detach his left arm. Very strange. I undo his belt, and take off his top hat... BLAST! It was just a decoy turkey! STORY2: The most ridiculous character ever dreamt up for a film. DETACHO, a top-hat wearing villian who is able to detach his body parts for use as weapons. His most powerful weapons are his elbows, which he can detach, tie together with his belt and use as nunchucks. DETACHO has a sidekick turkey which he uses as an advanced scout as well."
1493,殺,kill,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Wolverine (sheaf, see reap (#1488)) leaps over a tree and with one swipe of his claws kills a bad guy aiming a missle launcher. STORY2: I suppose when this kanji was made, it was most effective to kill your enemies with sheafs of wood used as missiles."
1494,純,genuine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Earthworm Jim's prized possession is a genuine copy of the #1 issue of Spiderman. STORY2: You need to attach a genuine earthworm to the thread. With plastic bait you won't catch anything.
1495,鈍,dull,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The metal hook is too dull to even pierce an earthworm.... STORY2: From the earthworm's perspective, it most be pretty dull when you are put in a metal bowl, just waiting for being put on the hook on the fishing trip the next day."
1496,辛,spicy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Eating spicy food makes you stand up ten times faster than usual, 'cause you just need to get something to drink! STORY2: Eating spicy food makes you stand up as if you had sat on a needle."
1497,辞,resign,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This guy's job is tasting the spicy curry at the local Indian Food Factory. He has to resign from his job before his tongue is rendered completely useless after all the spicy food that he has to try all day long... STORY2: A lecherous male worker is forced to resign because the female employees compained about his spicy tounge.
1498,梓,catalpa,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The CATALPA is the tree that bears the SPICY Indian bean (NOTE - The Catalpa is also known as the ""Indian Bean"" due to the bean pods that grow from it). STORY2: The caterpillar's favorite tree is the catalpa because it tastes spicy."
1499,宰,superintend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Superintendant Chalmers is dining at Principal Skinner's house. He takes a bite of his meal which is unbelievably spicy. His wig pops off and he yells out: ""SKINNERRR!"". STORY2: The superintendent of an old-age house has to make sure the food is never too spicy."
1500,壁,wall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall? STORY2: Primitive for Ketchup: When the taste is too spicy your mouth has basically given up trying to handle it ..or in other words raised the white flag of surrender. But unlike war , putting Ketchup on it will usually solve the problem. Wall(dingomick); Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall?"
1501,避,evade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You can try and evade them, but they'll ketchup with you on the road... Sorry, couldn't resist it. STORY2: In order to evade the bear, you lie down on the road, put ketchup on yourself, and play dead."
1502,新,new,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(I don't like the 'red pepper plant' primative so I just go for standing atop a tree). Here we have the woodcutter standing atop a tree waving his brand new axe. ""Look what I got for christmas, yippee!"". STORY2: Axe-man grows a patch of red pepper plants in his back garden. He rubs red peppers on the edge of his axes, and this seems to keep them sharp like brand new."
1503,薪,firewood,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If your firewood is too new and still has flowers on it, it's unsuitable for burning. You need drier wood. STORY2: Sometimes, new firewood still has flowers on it."
1504,親,parent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I remember this one the way the Japanese do: a parent standing on top of a tree watching what his or her kid is doing. STORY2: A wise parent lets their kids learn. A kid wants to try to eat the red pepper plant, the wise parent says ""Try it and see for yourself""."
1505,幸,happiness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"happiness is the ONE bite of SPICY curry. STORY2: This is one of those rare occasions when I forgo Heisig for other methods. 「幸せから一本取ると辛い」 -- if you take but one stroke away from happiness, you get painfulness. (oh well, Heisig used similar one for 百)."
1506,執,tenacious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tenacious-D is happy band led by a fat man. (It's Tenacious-D time, ya muthafucka', gwaoh!). STORY2: To be tenacious, you need to have deep stores of happiness (so troubles don't discourage you) and you need to be big and round (so hunger doesn't drive you to give up). The most tenacious person of all time was happy round Buddha!"
1507,報,report,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Recall the fashion model wearing just a stamp over his crotch (clothing (#1399)). When he got happy, of course, it ended up in the news report. STORY2: My child's book report got a happy stamp again :-)…　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ホウ　電報　でんぽう(telegragh)."
1508,叫,shout,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There was a man in a village who had a special gift : whenever he shouted and screamed, his mouth became a cornucopia, overflowing with fruits and food of all sorts. Many of the locals thought he was a cruel man, always screaming at his wife, until they realised he was in fact very kind, and his gift brought prosperity to his family. STORY2: You can hold a CORNUCOPIA up to your MOUTH (like a megaphone) to SHOUT lounder. Also notice that the shape of CORNUCOPIA implies the shouts are 4 letter words."
1509,糾,twist,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[twist; ask; investigate; verify] Stories full of twists are difficult to write, because of the cornucopia of threads the author has to manage. STORY2: A Pepsi promotion where you twist off the cap to find pictures of your favorite heroes like Spider-Man or members of the Fantastic Four."
1510,収,income,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Prostitutes can make a veritable cornucopia of income by using their crotches -- they put the ""come"" in ""income."" (A bit lewd perhaps, but effective in keeping this character distinct from similar keywords like profit (#906) or earnings (#893)). STORY2: Women love men with money. If you have a high income you can get a cornicopia of crotches."
1511,卑,lowly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A LOWLY single rice grain, DROPPED in an empty FIELD, can produce a CORNUCOPIA of food. STORY2: Lowly people only have a drop of brains and use nothing but 4-letter words."
1512,碑,tombstone,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There is a grave of a lowly man with a tombstone made of a simple, small stone. If you bow really low you can read the very small inscription engraved on the stone, it says - “Now that you bowed so low to read this, you are as lowly as I once was”. STORY2: A STONE makes a LOWLY TOMBSTONE."
1513,陸,land,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My rice-seedlings have become sentient and will go on a mission. I can only apologise for the next 6 frames. In the distance, there is a pinnacle, which the newly-awakened rice-seedlings who are still stuck in the ground can see. Could it be the Promised Land? STORY2: When sailors see land in the distance, they first see the pinnacles of the new land, but when they come close enough they'll be able to make out the rice seedlings, and finally the ground!"
1514,睦,intimate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I keep an intimate relationship with my rice seedlings -- I never take my eye from the soil. STORY2: land (#1513) Some of them begin to see eye to eye about the possibility of reaching the promised land. A group of awakened rice-seedlings stuck in the ground becomes intimate and starts to form a plan.
1515,勢,forces,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,land (#1513) The rice-seedlings still stuck in the soil gather round in a circle. Their combined power forces them out of the ground at last. STORY2: What power makes rice seedlings in the ground grow into well rounded plants? The forces of nature.
1516,熱,heat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"land (#1513) The rice-seedlings (newly freed from the ground but with soil still clinging to their roots) gather in a circle around an oven fire. They need to heat up prior to their journey (presumably plants can't walk if they're too cold?). STORY2: Heat up those RICE SEEDLINGS you pulled from the SOIL in a ROUND pan over a low FLAME. (Note: the hot pan image helps reinforce the idea that this kanji for ""atsui"" refers to something hot to the touch, as opposed to hot weather)."
1517,菱,diamond,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"land (#1513) Deciding to use the diamond-shaped water caltrop flower as cover/protection, the rice-seedlings with their walking legs (now free from soil), can start their journey. STORY2: Some girls want diamonds, but others will be satisfied with just flowers. However if you think you can win her over with rice seedlings, expect her to get up on her walking legs and walk on out!"
1518,陵,mausoleum,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"land (#1513) However, the pinnacle that the rice-seedlings finally reach with the use of their walking legs turns out not to be the Promised Land after all, but simply a mausoleum (containing many dead rice-seedlings exhausted from previous quests?). Oh no! STORY2: On top of The Pinnacle is a masoleum for rice seedling farmers. They make an annual walking pilgrimage there."
1519,亥,sign of the hog,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A greedy hog in a top hat who has eaten all of the acorns. He even elbows people out of the way to get them. STORY2: Top Hat + Elbow + Person: The sign of the hog was a very recognizable tattoo - a hog with a big grin in a top hat, sticking his elbow into the person next to him."
1520,核,nucleus,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the nucleus of the acorn, all the DNA is stored -- the building blocks for a new tree. STORY2: The nucleus of an oak TREE is an ACORN."
1521,刻,engrave,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This famous ninja (I always use ninjas with sabres, distinct from samurai) used to engrave the kanji for his name onto acorns, and throw the acorns to distract his enemies. The legend goes that by the time his victims would pick up the acorn and read the engraved kanji, they were already dead. STORY2: While it's traditional for lovers to engrave their names on a tree in many countries, in Japan, however, it was traditional for a samurai to signify his undying love for a woman by engraving the kanji of her name on an acorn with his sabre."
1522,該,above-stated,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I asked my teacher what this strange word meant, and she furiously replied that it was explained in the above-stated paragraph before throwing an acorn at me! STORY2: The above-stated words are the acorn from which the following statement grows."
1523,劾,censure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The liberal squirrel blogged that he would give all his ACORNS to congress if it would exercise its POWER to censure Bush and Cheney. STORY2: Acorn Power is the people's way to CENSURE a congressman you don't agree with. Pelt your Senator with acorns today.
1524,述,mention,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Why are the roads leading through the woods so sticky and dirty? Hmm... I think the forest ranger mentioned something about excess resin on the roads... STORY2: No-body mentioned that there was resin on the road. Now I'm stuck!
1525,術,art,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Behold the ""Boulev'Art"" : a life-size section of a boulevard cast in a huge block of resin. Some call it ... art. STORY2: The definition of art is getting more and more loose these days. Why even some resin spilled onto the boulevard is now counted as art! Hmmph!"
1526,寒,cold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A cold lunch: in the house, celery, pre cooked animal legs (i.e. chicken drumsticks) and ice tea. STORY2: Some strange animal tried to steal a stalk of celery from my house. However, it was freezing and the floor was covered in ice, so the mysterious animal couldn't get any traction. Picture a stalk of celery and a pair of animal legs slipping and sliding clumsily around the ice, and never able to leave the house. Eventually it got so cold that the little animal froze to death."
1527,醸,brew,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On the troical island of JOU, they brew whiskey while wearing grass skirts (top hats and scarves too). (Image: the strangely dresses islanders stirring a pot of brew. Careful fermentation (#1430)). STORY2: Note : up to frame 1530, the kanji share the same chinese reading (JOU), so don't hesitate to group them into the same environment. Here we have the ""brew""-man, who brews some kind of whiskey using palm tree leaves. Instead of collecting them himself, he just buys the grass skirts from the people on this tropical island where he lives (which you may name the JOU island, after the chinese reading)."
1528,譲,defer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(thanks chamcham) A graduate student in anthropology tells the University that he plans to defer his studies for a year, and instead conduct ""field research"" on the grass-skirt-wearing native women on the island of Jou. STORY2: The islanders defer to the words of their chief Jou in his grass skirt."
1529,壌,lot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My dream is to buy a small lot on a tropical island and spend the rest of my days relaxing in a grass skirt. STORY2: On the island of JOU, in order to be considered a lot, a ground must be big enough to grow sufficient grass for a grass skirt."
1530,嬢,lass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Conversation at a party: A: ""Who is that lass?"" B: ""Which one?"" A: ""The woman wearing the grass skirt."" B: ""Alas, I don't know"". STORY2: Two Irishmen visit Hawaii and see a woman wearing a grass skirt and nothing else. ""That's some lassie,"" says one to the other. ""But alass Danny Boy, you can't be bringing her home.""."
1531,毒,poison,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you grow up with a mother that drinks and smokes, you can be sure it's poison in the stuff you get from her breasts. STORY2: Note that stroke order of grow up primitive isn't obvious from Heisig's diagram: single horizontal stroke is drawn first, then vertical and two horizontals."
1532,素,elementary,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When he was growing up, Venom never had many friends in elementary school. Maybe it explains why he turned out how he did. STORY2: This is a pictogram of string theory. Strings are the most elementary particles of matter, which then grow up to become matter itself."
1533,麦,barley,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you eat lots of barley, you'll grow up to have strong walking legs. STORY2: Barley is a very cheap grain, and it's not really worth spending time to harvest. Therefore, scientists have genetically engineered it to grow walking legs once the grain is grown up and mature, so it can harvest itself."
1534,青,blue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The last time I saw a blue moon was in my youth when I was growing up. STORY2: ""Once in a blue moon"" refers to a rare event. But originally ""blue moon"" refers to a full moon, in other words a fully grown-up moon. Whether once a month is rare or not depends on what we're talking about, but that happens to be the origin of the expression."
1535,精,refined,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Before rice is refined, it is actually blue...bet ya didn't know that!! (alternate....Condi Rice was blue when insurgents blew up the iraqi refinery where oil is refined). STORY2: Very refined people in the upper classes have skin as pale as rice and blue blood."
1536,請,solicit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"That door-to-door salesman can stand outside ringing my doorbell until he's blue in the face. There's a big sign on my front door, and the words clearly say ""No Soliciting"". STORY2: Going through smurf blue light district - heres a smurfette saying all sorts of dirty words trying to solicit herself."
1537,情,feelings,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Data is feeling blue about not having any feelings ... hey, wait a minute. STORY2: Feeling blue is a state of mind where you're dominated by your feelings."
1538,晴,clear up,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sun and blue sky! Yep, the weather's cleared up! STORY2: When we speak of clearing up we easily think of both the sun and blue skies. But in another since to clear up is the absence of weather. And therefor the reason weather has no place in its writing."
1539,清,pure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pure sea water is always a radiant blue. STORY2: Bottles of water claim to be pure. They're generally in blue containers, because blue makes you feel like its that much more pure."
1540,静,quiet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When someone you know who is normally talkative goes quiet, it's usually a sign that they are contending with the blues. STORY2: ""And the next contender is.... a Smurf!"" As you can imagine, the crowd goes quiet with shock."
1541,責,blame,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As one grows up, one typically starts to blame all of their problems on money. STORY2: This is the story of a poor fisherman and his wife. A long time ago he caught an oyster with a small but precious pearl. The intelligent wife told him to sell the pearl immediately: the greedy husband figured if he kept the oyster and fed it, it would grow up and yield an even bigger pearl. One day the oyster grew so big, it crashed through the house and escaped back to sea. The angry wife left her husband, blaming his blind greed for their poverty."
1542,績,exploits,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spidey's exploits are world famous but still The Daily Bugle's pages blame him for every problem out there. STORY2: [Geek alert] A lot of modern software is full of exploits which can be abused by hackers. I blame multi-threading.
1543,積,volume,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On many wheat cereal boxes, there is a disclaimer stating that ""This package is sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred."" well they only say that because they don't want to be blamed by people getting really disappointed after they see what a small volume of cereal the box really contains. STORY2: The volume of the wheat crop is way down this year! Blame the weather!"
1544,債,bond,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T's plot of world domination is foiled. Who is to blame? Bond. James Bond. STORY2: [bond; loan; debt] Mr. T buys a lot of high risk bonds and then blames his broker when they all plummet in value.
1545,漬,pickling,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When pickling you MUST use distilled water! When it doesn't come out right, generally it is the water that is to blame. STORY2: Bad water is to blame for the process of pickling."
1546,表,surface,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I was GROWING UP, the SURFACE of my SCARF was always covered with snot from blowing my nose on it. STORY2: As girls grow up, something slowly surfaces from under their scarf."
1547,俵,bag,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T's punching bag has one beat up surface. STORY2: Do you know why every person in Japan has a Louis Vuitton bag? After the 1985 JAL air crash that killed 520 people (the world's worst). An image on tv of the crash showed Louis Vuitton bags (whose LV logo covered surface was somehow impervious) litering the crash site. From that point on they stuck in Japanese people's mind's as durable and high quality. (True story).
1548,潔,undefiled,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To ensure she remained undefiled, a young girl growing up in a rough area always kept a dagger concealed under her threads, even when she went into the water. STORY2: (rgravina) To ensure she remained undefiled, a young girl growing up in a rough area always kept a dagger concealed under her Spiderman underwear (to remember the position of thread), even when she went into the water."
1549,契,pledge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine a totalitarian regime where, while growing up, you have to pledge allegiance to the flag at dagger-point and with St. Bernard guard dogs watching you. STORY2: In order to pledge into her sorority, Alice had to stab a St. Bernard with a dagger. (Come on! DO it, Alice!)."
1550,喫,consume,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This means eat/drink/smoke. Maybe you make a pledge to stop gutsing/binging/puffing, but your own mouth is tempting you to put something in it. STORY2: I make my mouth pledge to consume less."
1551,害,harm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"With kids growing up in your house, you have to keep them from harm of putting anything in their mouth, paint chips, bleach, knvies, etc. STORY2: This is silly, but.. If a house suddenly grows up from your mouth, you will come to great harm."
1552,轄,control,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The roads are icy, and a whole bunch of cars have spun out of control! Luckily, it was just a couple of dents; nobody was harmed. STORY2: Control is very important! Especially when operating a car. Few people realize the harm they can cause just by losing control of their car for a second. Tremendous harm. Stay in control!"
1553,割,proportion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[proportion; comparatively; divide; cut; separate; split] Hey, don't take this out of proportion! I did you just a little harm, no need to come over here with a saber... STORY2: As shown on this pie-chart, the proportion of people harmed by sabres is relatively a small slice compared to those harmed by guns."
1554,憲,constitution,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The constitution is important. At least my parents thought so. In the house where I grew up, it was framed on the wall. Under the watchful (sideways) eye of my mother, we had to study it until we knew it by heart. STORY2: The house of US Congress needs to grow up! Their twisted eyes have lost the heart of the constitution."
1555,生,life,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is the first CELL of a human, the foundation of its entire LIFE, a small DROP that will GROW UP to form a complex organism. STORY2: Growing Up is just a Drop of our LIFE."
1556,星,star,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The sun is the nearest star to the only planet with life - Earth. STORY2: Sun is a star that has given life. Can't say that of any other stars yet.
1557,姓,surname,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When women marry, they adopt the surname of their husband, signifiying the start of a new life together. (adapted from gorgon). STORY2: Woman change their surname when they ""start their new life""."
1558,性,sex,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Sex is the only state of mind for many men through their whole life. STORY2: When you're in the state of mind for creating new lives.
1559,牲,animal sacrifice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Animal sacrifice = taking the life of a cow. STORY2: In the 21st century, animal sacrifice is no longer really necessary. We can take a single cell from a cow, with no harm to the cow. We create a viable cell line from this single cell, and feed the resulting biomatter into a furnace at the exact rate necessary to appease the gods."
1560,産,products,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you were to stand up all the products you have accumulated over the course of your entire life on top of one another, the result would probably be as tall as a cliff. STORY2: The salesman is standing on the cliff's edge. ""Buy my products!! Buy my products! Or else I'll take my own life""! Man, that's selling on pressure."
1561,隆,hump,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You are struggling to the top across the humps, but you suddenly see the pinnacle and you feel new life in your walking legs. STORY2: A woman takes her bra off and what happens? Nine months later the hump in her belly pops out between her legs as a new life."
1562,峰,summit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Walking legs"" over ""bushes"" needs to have a primitive meaning of its own. It appears in several kanji, such as 縫 sew (#1563), 逢 tryst (#2417), 蜂 bee (#2687), and 鋒 sword's point (#2768), and it is clumsy to work bushes and walking legs into every story. ""Pointy"" works fairly well: the walking legs are stuck on top of the pointy part of the bush; and for this character: a summit is the pointy end of a mountain. STORY2: Moses climbs to the summit of the mountain using his walking legs to talk to the burning bush."
1563,縫,sew,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Good thing I brought some thread, cause I need to sew my pants that I tore up walking through the bushes (see summit (#1562)) before we hit the road to go back down the mountain. STORY2: Spiderman while walking through bushes chasing a villain, rips his suit and stops on the road to sew it up."
1564,拝,worship,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I put my fingers together in worship of the bush that hangs from the ceiling -- that wonderful mistletoe which has gotten me kissed by many a girl. STORY2: Because I worship her, I only finger ONE BUSH, her's, and no others!"
1565,寿,longevity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This old China man glued shrubs to his body. The added intake of oxygen from the shrubs was, according to him, the secret of his longevity. Sometimes he would sit all day in meditation without moving, and the locals believed the old man had actually turned into a shrub ! STORY2: To ensure longevity of her virginity, Alice applied a thick layer of glue on her bush."
1566,鋳,casting,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,They made a metal casting of the Chinese man who glued shrubs to himself to increase his longevity. It's now sold around the world as it's thought that having one will increase your own longevity.. STORY2: You make a casting of your baby's shoes in gold to ensure the longevity of the experience.
1567,籍,enroll,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Once upon a time, in order to enroll in a Christian school you had to answer a series of questions to ensure that you were really Christian. For example, the principal might show you a picture of a Christmas tree and a picture of some bamboo and ask you which one is most suitable for decoration at Christmas time. STORY2: Once upon a time, Santa Claus visited Asia and left presents under bamboo Christmas trees for all the children who enrolled in his Asian beta-testing..."
1568,春,springtime,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,In the springtime bonsai get plenty of sun. STORY2: When it's springtime you can only leave the bonsai out when the sun has gone down. Their little leaves can't handle too much heat.
1569,椿,camellia,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The tree of spring. Fact: Camellia are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their very early flowering, often among the first flowers to appear in the late winter [early spring?]. STORY2: Anyone who's lived in Japan knows camellia are by far the first tree of spring to flower. And how can you miss those shockingly pink flowers!"
1570,泰,peaceful,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you look into Japanese gardens they seem so peaceful - with their small bonsais and the white stones looking like rice grains. STORY2: Simplistic and peaceful life: A bonsai to trim and enough rice to eat...　RTK2:　タイ　泰国　たいこく (Thailand).
1571,奏,play music,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you play music to them, your bonsai will grow like they are in heaven. STORY2: In heaven you are surrounded by bonsai trees (full-sized ones fall through the clouds) while you play music on your harp. I always have trouble remembering that the bonsai tree is on top, so think of them growing on top of the clouds."
1572,実,reality,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bonsais are grown in a house, away from the harsh reality of the real world where they wouldn't survive. STORY2: On this rather boring 'big brother' type reality show, they have locked up bonsai inside a house and everyone is watching them on TV 24x7. The viewers have to vote on which bonsai shall remain in the house and which one has to leave."
1573,奉,dedicate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To join the temple, you have to dedicate yourself to raising bonsai for enlightenment, and cornstalks for sustenance. STORY2: A Japanese farmer who was growing corn tried to dedicate himself to the god of corn (in the hope it would bring better harvests). He had a little room with prayer beads, incense, etc. One day he brought an offerand that he thought would please the god of corn : a bonsai - corn (a corn plant turned into a bonsai). The god was infuriated and yelled at him ""HOW DARE YOU TORTURE MY CORN IN SUCH WAYS!"". The End."
1574,俸,stipend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T gets a stipend every month if he stays dedicated to his temple training, a very hard thing for the impatient T. STORY2: People who are highly dedicated to their jobs get good salaries/stipends."
1575,棒,rod,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ha! If you know anything about Buddhist monks, during meditation, they're slapped with wooden rods to stay dedicated to their task. STORY2: The wood from this tree is dedicated to making rods to flog naughty kids."
1576,謹,discreet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Muttering words of gratitude for a wonderful meal, I discreetly slipped my cabbage under the table for the dog. STORY2: Cabbage primitive: When a cabbage is growing up, you must put it in your mouth before it flowers, because that's when it becomes bitter. Seriously, it's called 'bolting' or something. When you're discreet, you try to make your words like a cabbage: well-layered, but in an unassuming way."
1577,勤,diligence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It takes great DILIGENCE for a cabbage patch dolly to build up her muscles and win the Miss Universe contest! STORY2: Growing cabbages takes muscle and diligence.
1578,漢,Sino-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the water between Japan and China, the Sino- side has put scarecrows in the water to try and keep the Japanese away. STORY2: Take the left to be ""kanji"" not scarecrow. Sino- (Chinese) people had to put a lot of sweat into learning the kanji. See the drops of sweat coming off."
1579,嘆,sigh,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A sigh escapes the mouth of the scarecrow, who laments: ""...if I only had a brain, I could learn kanji"". STORY2: I will let out a huge sigh of relief from my mouth when I learn the last kanji."
1580,難,difficult,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,It is difficult for a scarecrow to scare a turkey or else they would've been called scareturkeys. STORY2: Learning Kanji is difficult for Turkeys.
1581,華,splendor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Queen of England taking a walk round a village: 'Excuse me, I couldn't help noticing the splendour of the flowers in your garden. Simply splendid. Ten out of ten.' The villager gruffly replies: 'No it 'aint. It's all muck. An' I'm gonna cut it all down and sell it to the farmer for silage.'. STORY2: Hint: Splendor in the Grass. Compare with 草. This is just a more splendid version of that kanji."
1582,垂,droop,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For an old man with a walking stick, even a drop of silage to carry on his back will make him droop low down to the floor. STORY2: Even a drop of silage is enough to make an old man with a walking stick droop low down to the floor. (rgravina - fixed up order)."
1583,睡,drowsy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Our eyes droop when we are drowsy. STORY2: Hint : the eyes of Droopy Dog (see droop (#1582)). When you are drowsy you have ""droopy eyes"". That is, you have Droopy's eyes!"
1584,錘,spindle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Wasn't it a cursed spindle that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on? Therefore the spindle was the metal that caused her to droop and eventually sleep for 100 years. STORY2: Spindle: the needle that drops on an LP record player. This is made of metal. It droops. Viola.
1585,乗,ride,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's a hay ride! You sit on piles of silage and everyone likes to imitate old-time farmers with a piece of wheat sticking out of their mouths. STORY2: [ride; power; multiplication; record; counter for vehicles; board; mount; join] In the near future, we hope to ride on biomass fueled vehicles. Good news for those who have wheat silage surplus."
1586,剰,surplus,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you go for a ride and find a saber beside you, perhaps you got into an Army surplus jeep. STORY2: Recall the wheat sabers we made a profit (#906) off. We made too many and now there's surplus, for sale on this hay ride."
1587,今,now,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,My MEETING is at 7- but that's NOW! STORY2: (re: ruuku35) The meeting is not at quarter to seven but now!
1588,含,include,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This clock includes a mouth that will tell you what the time is now. Hearing impaired people have this kind of watches... now imagine them as a big mouth under the clock. STORY2: Batteries included with this clock. Open the mouth at the back and insert them after purchase.
1589,吟,versify,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A rapper is trying to versify, but sucks: Hickery dickery dock, the mouth spat out the clock. I'm gonna shoot you with my glock, if you don't suck my cock! Versify! STORY2: To versify, words of rhythm needs to shoot out of your MOUTH with a CLOCK-like regularity."
1590,念,wish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Someone wishing from the bottom of their heart that the clock would stop. A mid-life crisis perhaps. STORY2: Remember in the Wizard of Oz when the tin man wished for a heart and the wizard gave him that dinky little clock instead?
1591,琴,harp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two kings were fighting over a beautiful koto (harp). So they had a clock built into it that would measure how long each one played it. That way they could be sure none played it more than othe other. STORY2: Jesus is coming soon. Prepare to meet the king of kings now. Practice your harp playing skills all future angels!...　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　キン　琴線　きんせん(""heart strings"")."
1592,陰,shade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The only shade at The Pinnacle is in the shadow of the giant clock tower, or from a rising cloud. STORY2: Frosty the snowman is running around the pinnacle, staying in the shade. As he looks at his clock to see how much longer he can last, small clouds rise (steam) from his body. Nooo, Frosty!"
1593,予,beforehand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Beforehand, this was a halberd but I cut it short so it could be for hand to hand combat. STORY2: Your halberd doesn't have a handguard? You should have thought of that beforehand (i.e., before you were missing your hand)."
1594,序,preface,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The preface to all human history was written beforehand in caves. STORY2: Rename the ""beforehand"" part to be glove (because you have to wear gloves beforehand if you want to wield the halberd, which is why this primitive is an incomplete halberd). The story: a winter morning. A textbook author is holed up in his tiny office, a veritable cave. He wants to start his masterpiece textbook by first writing the preface. But he can't get started. He sits and stares at empty paper until evening. It gets cold and he puts on gloves, shivering, but still unable to start his preface."
1595,預,deposit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Depositing money into your savings account is something you do beforehand if you use your head. If you're in Japan your passbook says 預金機（よきんき）when you make a deposit. STORY2: You bang your head on the ATM, wishing you'd deposited some money beforehand."
1596,野,plains,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"These days we all work in front of computers. Beforehand we all worked out in the fields, in the plains. STORY2: The plains are a challenging place to get any work done. Be sure you recharge your computer's battery beforehand, or you won't get anything done."
1597,兼,concurrently,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Our ninja hero, disguised as a gardener with a rake, is suddenly attacked from both left and right concurrently by bulls with animal horns. Our hero lets out a blood-curdling scream and tears his rake handle vertically in half, so he now has two wooden staffs (split rake handle) to fight with. He grips each staff (left side and right side) and rams it into the horns of the charging bulls. The force of each charging bull causes the tips of each staff to split again (split bottom of each rake handle). STORY2: You decide to take the bull by the horns and do both chores concurrently, grabbing your double-handled rake before attempting to clean up both your's and your neighbours' garden. But unfortunately, it's not long until your rake splits in two."
1598,嫌,dislike,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Naturally, if you're dating more than one woman concurrently, they will certainly dislike each other! STORY2: Attempting to court two women concurrently will make them both dislike you."
1599,鎌,sickle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This is a special sickle with metal blades on both sides. It can cut many things concurrently! STORY2: The gold sickle of the USSR flag represents both leaders and workers laboring concurrently.
1600,謙,self-effacing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you are self-effacing you use words to concurrently bring yourself down and make yourself look better. STORY2: Though the man's words were self-effacing, his actions concurrently made it clear that his modesty was false."
1601,廉,bargain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Stores don't want you to know it, but if you find the secret cave, they run bargains there concurrently to their regular prices. (Image: pulling a certain level in a store to find the ""bargain cave). STORY2: If you have several sellers competing concurrently, one will cave in and give you a bargain…　RTK2:　レン　廉売　れんばい(bargain)…　MIXED GROUP: 鎌1599　(ｹﾝ): 兼1597　嫌1598　謙1600."
1602,西,west,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The old west represented by a completely empty whiskey bottle (compare sign of the bird (#1427) whiskey bottle about one third full). STORY2: Note: this kanji is also used to denote Spain.
1603,価,value,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T has a high value in the Old West because you see him in ""Wanted"" posters all over the place! (thanks fiminor). STORY2: What might it mean for a person in the old west to be of value? Their face is on a ""Wanted!"" poster, of course. Imagine the reward..."
1604,要,need,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(ヨウ) When Clint needs a woman, he likes to be on top. STORY2: In some movie with the theme of the Old West, the population of a town finds themselve in dire need of women, after all of the town's womens became crazy and started gunshooting and participating in duels and such."
1605,腰,loins,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you want to get closer to the actual meaning, then I think that 腰(こし) is more like the hips or the small of the back. After being sat down in the office too long, people often say 腰がいたい！It's the part of the body that needs massaging. STORY2: To the puritans reading this site - please stop reporting stories that have anything to do with sex! Although (as wrightak said) this kanji really refers to the hips, Heisig clearly chose the keyword 'loins' because it was anatomically close enough, and the primitives lent themselves to an easy-to-remember story. Just because you're all sexually repressed doesn't mean other people won't benefit from a story such as ""the part of the body people need more than any other are the loins""."
1606,票,ballot,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the Old West there were no ballot boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the gunslingers, the ballots were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn't fight in the church. STORY2: In western political elections (US), peoples ballots will often depend on religion and at which altar the prospective president prays."
1607,漂,drift,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Florida, Bush through Kerry's ballots into the water, watching them drift away and setting the whole country adrift. STORY2: The political fanatic stole all the ballots and dumped them in the stream. He calmly watched them drift away as the cops came to a screech behind him."
1608,標,signpost,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Trees were frequenly used as signposts in those days, indicating where one had to go to cast their ballots. STORY2: Large wooden signposts are planted on peoples lawns, with the faces of their representatives all saying: ""Vote [1] Me!"" for the upcoming ballot."
1609,栗,chestnut,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Chestnut tree, west nut tree. STORY2: The cowboy climbed the tree to see where they were in the woods. The poor guy chose a chestnut tree. ouch ouch."
1610,遷,transition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Since the days of the Old West, traveling has transitioned from trying not to step on big snakes to driving on big roads. STORY2: The west has gone through quite a transition, gone are the days when dogs and snakes roamed the desert, it's all roads and casinos now."
1611,覆,capsize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The U.S.S. Old West has capsized, and all the cowboys on board are trying to restore her upright. STORY2: Remember Oregon Trail? Remember how you had to float your wagon across rivers to get to the Old West? Well, sometimes that wagon capsizes. Once that happens you'd better quickly head to the nearest town to restore."
1612,煙,smoke,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the Old West, they used to light fires in the ground to make smoke signals. STORY2: Should be easy. SMOKE brings to mind ""Where there's SMOKE, there's FIRE"". So, the FIRE in the OLD WEST can tell people we're you're at, so put out the FIRE with SOIL to keep the SMOKE to a minimum."
1613,南,south,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"South of my belt leads to happiness. STORY2: In the south (Southern Alabama, Southern Africa, picture any south, but choose one and stick with it) ""they measure happyness by the belt"". If someone has a larger belly (and a longer belt), it is believed they are well fed and thus are happy."
1614,楠,camphor tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"We traveled to southern Japan just to see a camphor tree. It's what we came for. STORY2: Trivia: Cinnamomum camphora is native to Taiwan, southern Japan, southeast China and Indochina,."
1615,献,offering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A South Korean street vendor is offering chihuahu snacks. STORY2: If you go to someones place and the food sucks, you lower it down south of the table as an offering to their dog."
1616,門,gates,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Heisig's stroke order in the 4th edition (and earlier) is wrong, so be careful -- first is the left-most vertical stroke, then draw the rest of the ""sun"" attachment as you would normally. In fact, if you just wrote it out as two suns with elongated sides, you'll get the stroke order exactly correct. STORY2: The gates to Hell. guarded by Cerebus or ... Bill Gates?"
1617,問,question,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A mouth on the Gates of Hell says ""Answer me these questions three, or thru the gates ye soon will be"". STORY2: ""Hark! Who goes there?"" is the expected question from the mouth of the guard at the gate…　　　RTK2:　モン　質問　しつもん(question)."
1618,閲,review,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A little devil at the gates of hell reviews your record to see if you're evil enough to get in. STORY2: As I was reviewing for my exam at a quiet saloon, the devil popped out of nowhere and offered to make sure I pass. But I told him no way, since that's cheating. Besides, I'm just reviewing things I already know. I won't fail. But he kept insisting, so I kicked him and sent him crashing through the entrance gates."
1619,閥,clique,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You set a guard at the gate to fell intruders not of your clique. STORY2: The felled souls of the world, cut down like trees, pass through the gates of hell and join the clique."
1620,間,interval,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The interval between star systems (suns) was too large, so the stargates were created to travel between them. STORY2: We open the gates at regular intervals to let a bit of sun in."
1621,簡,simplicity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The simplicity of bamboo plant is in all its joints being at equal intervals. STORY2: [simplicity; brevity] The ししおどし is a bamboo device for scaring birds from the gates of your garden by clacking against a stone at regular intervals. Its design is simplicity itself. (Inspired by PepeSeco).
1622,開,open,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sure you can squeeze through these gates by kicking them or pushing them with your body, but if you want to get them wide open, you need to do that with both your hands. STORY2: To open the gate, use your both hands."
1623,閉,closed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The gates are too big to be closed by man. Only a genie can. ""Close sesame!"". STORY2: You hear lesbians moaning ""オォ~"" from behind closed gates, and you ask a genius how to get in there."
1624,閣,tower,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To keep this distinct from other kanji such as ""watchtower"" and ""pagoda"", I use the mnemonic ""towering tower"". -- In some old 8-bit kung-fu videogame, with a plot similar as Bruce Lee's last, unfinished movie, the hero must break through a gate at each level of the towering tower, fighting with opponents using various styles of kung-fu until he meets the finale at the topmost level of the ""towering tower"". STORY2: Remember the two towers from lord of the rings... each has it's own - very difficult to master - entrance gate."
1625,閑,leisure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Imagine the gates the Garden of Eden, the ultimate land of leisure. You're not allowed in, but if you peek through you can see trees. STORY2: Getting wood watching lesbians is my idea of leisure time."
1626,聞,hear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Press your ear to the gates and see if you can hear what is going on inside. STORY2: To distinguish from listen, you hear someone at the door (gate)."
1627,潤,wet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Forgetting about the moat, the king stepped out of his gate and landed in the water. Needless to say he got wet. STORY2: (I had the same idea as Dingomick) I imagine some prankster who put a bucket full of water on top of the huge gates, so that it would fall on the king as he came through them. See the king now, between the gates, all wet, dripping drops of water."
1628,欄,column,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,[column; handrail; blank; space] I think about oriental (eastern) Torii gates: they have two supporting columns made of wood. STORY2: A column of text scratched on a black tree beside the gates of Hell: To the East lies The Beast.
1629,闘,fight,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"During the saloon brawl, one guy got glued to a table and was tossed out through the saloon gates. But he really wanted to fight, so he ran back through those gates (with the table still glued to his back) only to be tossed out again. Imagine him repeatedly running in and being tossed back out. STORY2: Food fight! Look, beans are stuck to the gates like glue."
1630,倉,godown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(Warning-this one is crude) Imagine a godown (dockside warehouse) where you can meet girls who will godown on you with their mouth. To keep the place a bit of a secert, they only have one gate. STORY2: Hint : the ""godown"" is like a warehouse, it's on the docks and mostly in Asia. To make an image distinct from that of ""warehouse"" or ""storehouse"", etc, I picture the goods stored there, piled up on pallets really high, and thus they have to ""godown"" before they can be taken outside. The front of this godown is a ""meeting of small gates"", i.e. a row of gates through which goods come in and out. The mouth can be an opening somewhere in the back, or the top, where cranes lift down the goods."
1631,創,genesis,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Back in the day the people were so excited to get hold of the Sega genesis they looted the godown with sabers. STORY2: I prefer to have girls Godown on my sabre to prevent unwanted GENESIS of babies............創造　そうぞう (creation).
1632,非,un-,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This looks like a pictogram of 3 fingers from each hand trying to open up a crack in a wall. That's an un-believable way to escape from prison OR the UN- have a prison in the Hague. STORY2: People in the jail cell are un-friendly, un-comely, and un-cooperative."
1633,俳,haiku,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I pity the fool/ Who put me in this jail cell/ I pity the fool. (Credit taijuando). STORY2: I pity the fool/ Who put me in this jail/ I pity the fool.
1634,排,repudiate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When ordered to go to the jail cell, the defendant gave the judge the finger and said he repudiated all that the legal system stood for if they were going to send an innocent man like him to jail. STORY2: He reached his fingers through the bars of his jail cell, trying to touch his beloved. But she repudiated him and left."
1635,悲,sad,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Saddness is like having your heart captured and jailed because of some sad or terrible event, etc. Here the sad heart waits for someone to come and un-lock their jail cell and set them free again. STORY2: Stuck in a jail cell with his heart crying out to see his family again, the prisoner has never felt so sad."
1636,罪,guilt,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Guilty under the eyes of the law, therefore sentenced to jail. [note: 'UNDER the eye of the law' works in penalty (#833) as well.]. STORY2: It is his guilt that is causing them. He is having these nightmares where the great (sideways) eye appears at the top of his jail cell, and is staring down intently at him. Guilt is a merciless tormentor."
1637,輩,comrade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some man jailed in Russia, is freed by his comrade (from the Communist party perhaps), who crashes into the jail cell with a vehicle. STORY2: (+fuaburisu) But it's the wrong jail cell! Your comrade is one floor above."
1638,扉,front door,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The only way out of a jail cell is to serve your time and walk out the front door. There are no other doors. STORY2: An old man serving a very long jail sentence painted a life-like door at the back of his jail cell, hlafway open, with the blue sky, clouds, etc, as some kind of symbol of freedom. Every time the prison officers come to take him they ask him to come to the door. The old man with a grin always answers ""Which door?"", looking at his painted door with a grin. And the prison officer always answer, sighing - ""The front door !""."
1639,侯,marquis,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is made a marquis after he and the A-Team save the life of a duke. The duke also gives Mr. T the key to the gentleman's dart room where one can relax in luxury, smoke a cigar, and play a friendly game of darts. Mr. T eagerly accepts the key and places it on one of the gold chains that hang around his neck which acts as a key chain. STORY2: (Going off various) Mr. T. is made a marquis and given the key to the city. But somebody disagrees with it and assassinates him with a dart."
1640,候,climate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The marquis has absolutely no interest in issuses of climate change. He's old and near death. [Don't forget the walking stick to symbolize his old age.]. STORY2: The marquis moves to a warmer climate after he gets old enough to need a walking stick to get around.
1641,決,decide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Decide!"" ""Decide?! Death by drowning in polluted water or death by guillotine. How can I decide?"" I asked. STORY2: To decide if someone is a witch or not first dunk them in water. If they don't drown they are a witch and can be sent to the guillotine."
1642,快,cheerful,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A large crowd in a cheerful state of mind applaude each criminal as they become victims of the guillotine. STORY2: A cheerful crowd of insulted aliens applaude as Data's head is chopped off by guillotine.
1643,偉,admirable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is certainly an ADMIRABLE PERSON, so much so that parents are buying lockets with his picture in it and having their children wear them like amulets. STORY2: For locket: The locket (key dangling from something, the vertical stroke) opens like a mouth, but you need a jeweler's monocle to make out the pictures within. ----- Dracula survives a staking attempt when the locket with Mina's admirable picture deflects the blow. ""It was an admirable attempt,"" he admits as he sucks his attacker's blood."
1644,違,difference,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You lose your precious locket on the road to somewhere. You ask people if they've seen it, but no luck. ""Just buy another one,"" someone says. ""I mean, what's the difference?"" Then of course you say ""Well, it makes a huge difference!! Since it has sentimental value, I don't want a different one! "" Then of course they understand. STORY2: An odd version of The Road Less Traveled: ""I found a locket in the road, and that has made all the difference.""."
1645,緯,horizontal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman buys a locket for Mary Jane because he wants to get HORIZONTAL with her. STORY2: Spiderman on a boat, marking the Earth's latitudes. He first attaches a personal locket to a small piece of thread for ballast and good luck, and shoots with his right hand. After a few minutes (and lots and lots of thread), the locket and thread have flown around the world. Spiderman catches the locket with his left hand, and ties the thread's ends together. Voilà."
1646,衛,defense,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[defense; protection] For ""defense against the dark arts"" class, you go the magical boulevard and buy an enchanted locket. STORY2: Since it was in the middle of the boulevard, everyone could see she hit the man only in self-defense, as he was trying to steal her valuable locket."
1647,韓,Korea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's a young Korean male actor, Yon-sama, famous amongst middle-aged Japanese women. Extremely famous. Read about his affect on Japan/Korean relations on Everything2.com. In any case, women just flipped over this guy, traveled to Korea to see his home, started taking Korean language classes, etc. So, imagine here the misty eyes of the Japanese women as they clutch their lockets with Yon-sama's picture inside watching his Korean romantic mini series called ""Winter Sonata"". STORY2: This character represents the flag of South Korea: a locket (circular taegeuk) in the middle of the mist (white background). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Korea."
1648,干,dry,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Dry one item in ten minutes on the clothesline. STORY2: Note: the book shows the strokes for potato rather than dry...dry does not have the hook at the end.
1649,肝,liver,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Well you all know that the liver is the part of the body that would be quite grateful if you led a dry lifestyle (i.e. no alcohol). STORY2: The slaughterhouse prefers to ship dried liver to the supermarkets (can you imagine boxes soaked in blood on the truck that delivers them?). Imagine them lifting the slabs of flesh and hanging them on the clothesline to dry.
1650,刊,publish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The newspaper pages are hung on the clotheseline to dry and then cut down with a sabre to be published. STORY2: The newspaper pages are hung on the clotheseline to dry. This gives the government a chance to censor the news: they cut up unwanted stories with a sabre. Therefore, only state-approved stories are published."
1651,汗,sweat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The way sweat is supposed to work: it gets your skin wet, and then as it evaporates/dries, it cools you off. STORY2: When you sweat your clothes become soaked with water, prompting you to hang them to dry on a clothesline."
1652,軒,flats,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Flats in the city are crowded. You get a space for your car in front, and a clothesline out back. Nothing else. STORY2: Small flats (garages) for cars help keeping them dry."
1653,岸,beach,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the base of mountain cliffs, there is usually a beach. You often can see people lying there, drying off after a swim. STORY2: Three impossibilities for a beach: There cannot be a beach at the top of a mountain. There cannot be a beach on the top of a cliff. There cannot be a beach that is completely dry."
1654,幹,tree trunk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A fine mist is falling, and so everyone gathers around near the tree-trunk, effectively using the rest of the tree as an umbrella in order to keep dry. STORY2: By astridtops - In the rainy mist, Totoro is standing in front of a tree-trunk at the bus stop, under the umbrella he just received. Look at him smiling: even when the big drops fall, he remains dry! Great story...which I get to by thinking: tree-trunk->TT ->Tonari no Totoro. I also imagine Mickey Mouse is there too as the KUNyomi for this kanji is みき."
1655,芋,potato,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If your potatos are growing flowers and those little hooked roots, you should either buy less or eat them faster. STORY2: If your potatoes are growing flowers, you need to store them in a more dry place, like hanging them on hooks so they don't accumulate moisture on the floor."
1656,宇,eaves,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Under the eaves of the house the poor family has potate plants. STORY2: Very good image Erik. To help those who struggleded with this, the eaves of a house is usually the bit where you hang the roof gutter along, usually made of zinc or plastic and shaped as a half-pipe. It catches rain water, so it flows to a drain pipe instead of down onto people and windows. And in this family the potato plants grow along the eaves so the water pours down on them. They are poor. so no gutter."
1657,余,too much,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You hang an umbrella upside-down on a hook of the scales and fill it with little potatoes. No luck: it weights too much. STORY2: This is the kanji for 「あまり Amari」, which means too little in negative sentences and too much in the rest (always with a negative sense). I take the liberty of using the symbol "">"" (more than, another meaning!!) as the umbrella component, and using two (#2) and little (#105) for the potato primitive. So, this kanji either means ""two much"" (more than 2) or ""two little"". (thanks, Virtua_leaf and Thunderball!)."
1658,除,exclude,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To become a member of The Pinnacle, they test you on a scale. If you weigh too much, they exclude you. STORY2: You won't make it unless you exclude something. The climb to the pinacle cannot be completed if you are carrying too much. You just have to decide what you can afford to exclude."
1659,徐,gradually,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You can't expect weight loss to happen overnight. You should limit going to the scale to weigh yourself to once a day or once a week, in order to observe the anticipated weight loss gradually. STORY2: I set up a column chart next to my scales so I could record my weight gradually changing."
1660,叙,confer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Amazed at the weight of his crotch, they conferred every honor upon him. (Image: guy with his junk on a scale getting a medal pinned to his chest/around his neck/being knighted, etc.). STORY2: When you confer again 又, you confer too much 余!"
1661,途,route,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"On this route, all trucks have to check in at the scales before they can get on the road. STORY2: There are too many roads, so you need to plan a route."
1662,斜,diagonal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The main bar of an old-fashioned scale(balance) will be very diagonal if you place a giant measuring cup on one side. STORY2: The constellation of libra (meaning "" scales"" in latin) is diagonal to the handle of the big dipper."
1663,塗,paint,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,If you add too much water to the paint it will drip onto the ground. STORY2: A true artisan mixes his own paint from water and soils on a scale in careful proportions.
1664,束,bundle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mnemonic: Bundle of joy. Here I see the proverbial stork with a baby hanging from its mouth fly straight into a tree. Painful, but he doesn't drop the bundle. STORY2: Unlike in 杏, this big mouth isn't content to wait for apricots to fall in his mouth, so he has climbed the tree and is taking them in bundles."
1665,頼,trust,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"We found a bundle of severed heads in your room, its difficult to trust you. STORY2: RTK is a bundle of pages that we trust to teach us kanji (no ライ!)…　　　RTK2:　ライ　信頼　しんらい(trust)…　　　　　　　　Mixed Group:　(ｿｸ): 束1664　速1669　(ﾁｮｸ): 勅1667　(ｿ): 疎1668　(ｾｲ): 整1670."
1666,瀬,rapids,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You need complete trust in your water guide to attempt Class 5 rapids. STORY2: You can never trust the water in the rapids, it will do everything it can to pull you under. Imagine a line of natives with bundles upon their heads all fighting the rapids to cross the river."
1667,勅,imperial order,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is an imperial order for pizza. To deliver the huge bundle of pizzas to the emperor, the pizza boy needs huge muscles. STORY2: Imperial order carries quite a bundle of executive power."
1668,疎,alienate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[True story] In Osaka the homeless (the alienated) live in large numbers around the city zoo. Picture them in winter all bundled up in rags trying to keep warm, alienated from the society, living literally worst than the animals in the zoo who at least are bundled in their natural furs and have pens to live in sheltered from the elements. STORY2: This kanji is so strange that it was alienated at the kanji zoo. The bundle of joy stork bundles this kanji up and takes it to a kanji foster home."
1669,速,quick,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you find a bundle of money on the road, pick it up quick before anyone notices. STORY2: Uh oh. The stork just dropped the bundle of joy in the middle of the road. Somebody save it, quick!"
1670,整,organize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Recycling in Japan, you have to make sure all your bundles are organized correctly otherwise the taskmasters won't accept them. STORY2: When a bundle of taskmasters organize something chances are it won't be done correctly because they are constantly arguing."
1671,剣,saber,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If it helps, make the awl primitive ice pick instead. They're basically the same thing. This kanji is an easy David vs. Goliath story of the icepick vs. the saber... STORY2: Every self-respecting ninja knows the story of ""The Awl and the Sabre"". According to the legend, a woman once defended herself by using an awl against a sabre! She used to work all day with that awl. However, the bandit using the sabre had no skill. And thus the awl beat the sabre. And from there the saying goes : ""The sabre is powerless against the awl, if one can't use the sabre.""."
1672,険,precipitous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The edge of The Pinnacle is precipitous, so they have a guard posted with an ice pick to poke people and keep them from the edge. STORY2: Well I have someone climbing an inflatable precipitous pinnacle. Once at the top it is so precipitous that the person is afraid to climb down and instead punctures the inflatable pinnacle with an awl to get safely and slowly back to the ground."
1673,検,examination,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're giving a TREE an EXAMINATION. You take a wood sample from the TREE with an AWL (cmp exam (#1278)). STORY2: Don't confuse with exam (#1278), test (#354), evaluate (#1487). Think of examination as a doctor's examination. You're having problems getting wood in bed. You go in for a doctor's examination. The doctor shoves an icepick into your manhood as part of the examination."
1674,倹,frugal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is as frugal as they come. He uses his one ice pick for everything: to eat, pick his teeth, clean his toilet, kill people, cook, etc. STORY2: The Dalai Lama is a very frugal monk and a fit person for being 73...　RTK2:　ケン　倹約　けんやく (economizing)...　　　　　　　　　　　　Pure Group:　剣1671　険1672　権1673　験1980."
1675,重,heavy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The first computer in the world was as heavy as thousand computers are now. STORY2: To me it looks like a car with two extra wheels, like a truck. As it is a very heavy vehicle I suggest an image of a huge mining truck, like the yellow Liebherr T282B. Remember that the first ""wheel"" is a bit bent. http://www.primidi.com/2004/06/21.html."
1676,動,move,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even though the furniture is heavy, it'll be easy to move with all the muscles that he has. STORY2: His MUSCLES are so HEAVY, he barely can move...thats ironic."
1677,勲,meritorious deed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A meritorious deed? Like moving a damsel in distress out of a fire, maybe. STORY2: Prometheus did a meritous deed for humanity by MOVING FIRE from the gods to us humans."
1678,働,work,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T's real line of work is for a moving company. STORY2: Mr T, move. Mr Ts new exercise video called ""Work it suckaz"". Here is shouting ""move it work it move work it!""."
1679,種,species,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After the whole low-carb craze, scientists developed a new low-carb species of wheat, so that dieters could eat it without getting heavier. STORY2: This kanji also means ""Seed."" STORY: Scientists have developed a new SPECIES of WHEAT that has large HEAVY seeds. Now we can feed the world."
1680,衝,collide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Two heavy trucks in a game of chicken collide while racing toward each other on the boulevard. STORY2: 衝 【しょう】 (n) (1) important point (e.g. on a route); (2) important role (responsibility, etc.); (3) (astronomical) opposition. STORY:Two HEAVY trucks are playing a game of chicken on the BOULEVARD. However, they both missed the IMPORTANT POINT: that they have to turn in different directions. Naturally, they COLLIDE when they both turn in the same direction. (ty dingomick)."
1681,薫,fragrant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Do you know how they make those FRAGRANT air fresheners? Well you take some FLOWERS, compress them with a HEAVY weight, and put them on an OVEN FIRE for a while... (cmp perfume (#493)). STORY2: The heavier the flowers the stronger their fragrance when you burn them."
1682,病,ill,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Caveman got ill after flying third class. The cabin air and food got to him. (Primitive: these all got MUCH easier when using CAVEMAN instead. ). STORY2: If you hang around a third class hospital, you'll get ill with the sickness everyone else has."
1683,痴,stupid,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Of course caveman is stupid. He doesn't know anything. He's a caveman! STORY2: This kanji shows stupidity as a ""knowledge-sickness"". Everybody can be stupid at times, and it usually happens because of a lack of experience. Hence the stupidity is a ""knowledge sickness""."
1684,痘,pox,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Caveman has horrible pox. They look like edamame beans oozing bight green paste. STORY2: Pox is a sickness which symptoms include bean-shaped bumps on the skin.
1685,症,symptoms,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Once you have all the symptoms right, you have correctly identified the sickness. STORY2: A sickness can only be correctly diagnosed if the symptoms are identified correctly."
1686,疾,rapidly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I picture a sick caveman, and two people rapidly blowing darts at him. One is blowing poison darts, the other is blowing antidote darts. Will the sick caveman live or die? Depends on how rapidly they fire. STORY2: If shot with a poison dart, sickness develops rapidly."
1687,痢,diarrhea,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For a country full of pay-per-use public toilets, sudden diarrhea is certainly the most profitable sickness! STORY2: Caveman doesn't have any skills, so he sells his diarrhea as chili to peasant wheat farmers for an amazing profit."
1688,疲,tired,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I picture an exhausted sick caveman snuggling up in a comfy pelt blanket. STORY2: Your body feels tired when you have a sickness. All you want to do is wrap yourself up in a nice warm pelt and get better.
1689,疫,epidemic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Sickness-missiles are being engineered by bio-terrorists to spread epidemics all over the world. Imagine seeing footage of a place where those sickness-missiles are built : rows after rows of missiles, and if you look closely on each is inscribed in tiny letters the name of different sickness such as ""flu"", ""plague"", etc. STORY2: SICKNESS / MISSILE ** Hint: True fact about biochemical warfare: in the medieval and ancient world, SICKNESS in the form of the corpses of those who had died from some EPIDEMIC or plague were often hurled at the enemy via the crude MISSILE launchers of the time. [C]."
1690,痛,pain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The CAVEMAN felt such a pain after his POGO STICK got stuck in his butt. STORY2: When I was feeling sick my mum said I shouldn't go out to play on my pogo stick until I felt better. Well I wasn't strong enough to stay up on it and so fell over and have the pain to prove my mum right.
1691,癖,mannerism,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Caveman has a bad mannerism of putting ketchup on everything he eats. I guess that's ok since raw mammoth can't be too good... STORY2: This mannerism is a sickness of the modern generation. It was only recently that we started putting ketchup on everything.
1692,匿,hide,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Young kids likes to hide in cardboard boxes. (Primitive: CARDBOARD BOX, especially kids playing with them.). STORY2: Note that stroke order with box primitive is as follows: first horizontal line, then enclosed element, and then a hook (it's incorrect in 4th edition)."
1693,匠,artisan,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Most people don't know that one of the most revered artisans in Japan preserves the ancient art of cutting cardboard boxes with an ax. STORY2: We here have the axe-man who's an artisan at making sculptures with his axe... The only thing is, he never shows anyone, keeping all his sculptures inside a box down in the basement. He doesn't want any attention."
1694,医,doctor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The doctor puts the cardboard box on his head and throws a dart at a chart to determine his patients' illnesses. STORY2: This DOCTOR prefers to use DARTS instead of syringes for injections. Here, he pulls out his BOX of DARTS, and the child on the examination table squirms."
1695,匹,equal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This kanji is used commonly as a counter for small animals. This is a pictograph of a SMALL ANIMAL'S view from inside a CARDBOARD BOX looking out at his masters HUMAN LEGS. He's probably hiding so the master does not COUNT him with the other animals which will probably be eaten (thus he avoids everyones EQUAL fate on the farm: the kitchen table). STORY2: Imagine a magician doing that trick where he puts his assistant in a box and proceeds to saw her in half. Don’t the human legs sticking horizontally out of the box remind you of an equal sign?
1696,区,ward,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,That's the homeless ward of the city. Wolverine lives in a cardboard box there. STORY2: Every child in this ward has an X-box…　RTK2:　ク　地区　ちく (region).　Mixed Group:　駆1983　(ｽｳ): 枢1697　(ｵｳ): 殴1698　欧1699.
1697,枢,hinge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The hinge on Wolverine's cardboard box is made of wood because he doesn't have enough budget to buy metal hinges. STORY2: You notice a hinge on a tree and realize there's a secret door. You open it up to find an Xbox!!!
1698,殴,assault,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The city decides to disperse the homeless ward with a precision missile assault. They didn't know Wolverine was living in a cardboard box there though... STORY2: In this hospital ward, the personnel is assaulted by missiles. Think of a ward where crazy old people assault the personnel because they don't like the food, they don't want to take their medicines, they want to go home, etc. The patients use whatever they can get their hands on as missiles."
1699,欧,Europe,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Europe? Yawn... I've been to every ward(country/area),"" says Wolverine interviewed from his cardboard box. STORY2: [Europe] X-Box was first released in America and Japan (the biggest videogame markets). Europe had an X-Box lack for a while..."
1700,抑,repress,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A true stamp collecting nerd won't be able to repress the urge to get his fingers on the latest box of collector stamps! STORY2: They would repress dissents by cutting off their fingers and mailing them to relatives in small boxes (of course including stamps for proper postage).
1701,仰,faceup,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"All stamps in Mr T's collection box are lied carefully face-up. STORY2: Mr T with the post package at the post office: 'these stamps don't stick to the box, foo' Postguy:' Try it again but this time with the stamp, face-up.'."
1702,迎,welcome,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Stamp-collectors sit and wait on the road to welcome new mail arrivals. STORY2: Welcome home daddy! Is that box for me? You were on the road a long time! I collected all the stamps from the letters you wrote me　:-) ...　　RTK2:　ゲイ　歓迎　かんげい(welcome).
1703,登,ascend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When an American Indian warrior dies, his body is placed on a TABLE inside a TEEPEE, and a ritualistic ceremony is held to encourage his spirit to ASCEND to that big buffalo hunting ground in the sky. STORY2: When I was a kid I went out camping in a teepee. I ate beans for dinner, and afterwards I produced so much gas that my teepee actually ascended in the air!"
1704,澄,lucidity,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Scuba divers know that when you ascend in the water, your lucidity increases (For non-divers, the deeper you go, the more you become mentally impaired by nitrogen narcosis, every 50 feet is like drinking one martini). Scuba divers also know that as you ascend in the water, the lucidity of the water improves, too. STORY2: A few drops of acid/peyote and the Indians obtain lucidity on their vision quest, as if they were floating in the lucid sky."
1705,発,discharge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I spent some time in her TEEPEE...just the TWO of us...but I looked between her HUMAN LEGS and I saw a nasty DISCHARGE...so I made my 出発　rather hastily. STORY2: Two pairs of human legs poking out of a teepee: you know there'll be a discharge soon, be it sexual, violent (husband returns home with a weapon), or dishonourable (soldier caught molesting a native), or perhaps all of the above."
1706,廃,abolish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I think discharging nuclear weapons should be abolished. That includes underground tests in caves. You listening Kim Jong-il? STORY2: Guns were abolished, so gun enthusiats left for the hills to discharge their guns in caves."
1707,僚,colleague,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Some businesses allow pets in the office. Here, my colleague is Mr T and he set up a little pup tent for his minidog, then turns around and completes his TPS reports. STORY2: Mr. T began working in a japanese compagny. As he sees that his colleague accept to do some extra work during the week-end and even sleep at the office, he says to them: ""I pity da fool who work during week-end! You might as well install a pup tent in the office and forget about your home""."
1708,寮,dormitory,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This guy would rather use his pup-tent as a house, than sleep in the dormitory. So he effectively turned that pup-tent into a house by getting a postal address for it etc. (just to emphasize house). STORY2: All-male dormitories in Japan are really weird, and tend to have a little too much 男気. Here is a trick they play where if they find that one dorm member has pitched a ""pup tent"" while sleeping, they make it into a house by putting a little roof on top of it -- complete with a lit cigarette for a chimney -- and wait for the ""fun"" to start (fun meaning...lighting their friend's genitals on fire)."
1709,療,heal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Final Fantasy 4, sleeping in a tent completely heals you and recovers all your HP and MP (and cures any sickness your characters may have). STORY2: Sick caveman has to sleep in his pup tent. Not the cave because to humid and cold but a nice small pup tent in the sun will heal him from his cold."
1710,彫,carve,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Start with a circumference and carve away until you get the shape you want. STORY2: [My primitive for shape is Mystique, the shape-shifter from X-Men.] Mystique the shape-shifter carves obscure markings around the circumfrence of her blue body."
1711,形,shape,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Everyone in the kindergarten came up with fun and interesting shapes made out of Play-Doh, except for the kid with the amputated arm. Seems like you really need both hands. STORY2: With your two hands, outline the shape of a curvaceous woman. Is that a universally understood gesture? [Careful: mould (#680) which has two hands and soil/clay]."
1712,影,shadow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The sun over the capital cast a shadow with the same shape. STORY2: Mystique the shape-shifter blends into the scenery by transforming into a form that looks like little more than an animated shadow.
1713,杉,cedar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Cedar is an evergreen tree that keeps its SHAPE all year long. That is, it doesn't loose its needles/leaves in the winter. STORY2: Mystique leaning against a cedar tree for a photo shoot."
1714,彩,coloring,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,In Sydney we occasionally get exotic birds. You first notice a colouring in a tree. You look more carefully and you make out the shape of a bird (here represented by its claws). STORY2: Mystique the shape-shifter changes the coloring of her skin to camouflage tones and perches herself in a tree like a vulture waiting for her pray.
1715,彰,patent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The shape of a sheriff's badge makes it patent who he is. STORY2: Mystique the shape-shifter sneaks into the patent office easily after she steals an identity badge from a security guard.
1716,彦,lad,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A young lad is standing atop a cliff, looking at the writhing shape of his fallen lass below. STORY2: A naughty young lad stands on the cliff and throws his Playdoh off the edge."
1717,顔,face,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The lad jumps off the cliff, breaks his head, and smashes his face. STORY2: When I was a lad, a pretty face was all it took for someone to get in my head, and I'd fill pages of lovelorn letters to them."
1718,須,ought,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Why, I OUGHT to RESHAPE your HEAD... STORY2: Since this Kanji is exceptional, the shape ought to be on the left side. Got that into your head?"
1719,膨,swell,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An injured body part may swell. It will begin to throb like a bass drum and will change shape. STORY2: If a PART OF your BODY begins to SWELL and resembles the SHAPE of a bass DRUM, you’re either pregnant or in desperate need of a diet."
1720,参,visit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Whenever the postman has to pay a visit to this place, he brings an elbow-shaped thingy that he throws to the St. Bernard. STORY2: I'm going to visit my grandpa in the hospital. He broke his elbow, and it became really big and contorted into a weird shape. I hope he will be all right!"
1721,惨,wretched,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Whenever I have to visit the relatives... that puts me in one hell of a wretched state of mind. STORY2: Data feels wretched because he has no family to visit.
1722,修,discipline,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is a harsh taskmaster who will discipline you (beat you into shape) with his walking stick. STORY2: You may not have known it, but Mr. T is into discispline. Not just self discipline, in order to get into shape, but what he really likes is when the Task master spanks him with her walking stick. Don't tell Mr. T I told you. I pity da fool, and da fool would be me!!!"
1723,珍,rare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king has a really rare umbrella, it can change shape. STORY2: Tip: umbrella + shape : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig, so it may be worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest ""parasol"" (because it is the same shape as an umbrella). REF: rare (FRAME 1723) , check-up (#1724), measles (#2574), fallible (#2720)."
1724,診,checkup,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The doctor at my checkup was expressing words of concern about my umbrella shaped gut. STORY2: At a check-up the proctologist views an X-Ray. I say, is that shape an umbrella?"
1725,文,sentence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A twist on greenapple: The teacher puts a tophat on all pupils with gramatically correct sentences, while the rest are left with a big red X on their homework. STORY2: The teacher in the tophat puts an X on all the grammatically incorrect sentences."
1726,対,vis-a-vis,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When sitting vis-a-vis, Scots will glue their kilt down to avoid embaressment. STORY2: This is a character that is used in Japanese for ""vs."" (as in, ""Alien vs. Predator"")."
1727,紋,family crest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Who knew that Spiderman was Scottish! He has sewn his family crest onto his uniform. STORY2: A family crest sown on to a garment with thread sometimes has a Latin sentence as a motto.
1728,蚊,mosquito,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The mosquito (an insect) knows only one sentence: Bzzzzz. STORY2: Mosquitoes are the insect who love Scots in plaid kilts because it makes for easy access to the best parts.
1729,斉,adjusted,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The Scotsman goalkeeper adjusted himself. He reached down and adjusted the two things between his skinny fencepost legs. STORY2: The manager climbed a ladder and adjusted the sentence on the sign…　RTK2:　セイ　斉唱　せいしょう(homophony)…　　　　　　　　　　　　Mixed Group (ｻﾞｲ): 剤1730　(ｻｲ): 済1731　斎1732.
1730,剤,dose,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When my medicine dose is way too large, I adjust it by cutting it into smaller pieces with my saber. STORY2: We had to adjust his dose slightly, after he went on a rampage with a sabre."
1731,済,finish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When the goalkeeper finishes the game, he drinks a lot of water and adjusts himself. STORY2: Finish him! Subzero adjusts the water in your body and crushes you into a few million pieces."
1732,斎,purification,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A scottish priest in a tartan kilt has put his altar between a couple of fence posts and is now playing the bagpipes in a very Scottish purification rite. STORY2: Kind of vulgar, but here the SCOTSMAN got tired of adjusting himself so decided try PURIFICATION. Sadly, he did it by straddling the ALTAR with his skinny LEGS."
1733,粛,solemn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Even though it's a maddening task, the monks stay solemn as they rake rice between the fenceposts. STORY2: Note: This is not sieve as it has a full rice and not rice grains and the hook is missing from rake. Also the given stroke order is incorrect (fenceposts should come last)."
1734,塁,bases,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Playing baseball in a rice field with sparklers stuck into the ground to act as bases. STORY2: The traditional New Year's baseball game in Japan is held at midnight in a rice field. They stick sparklers in the ground for the bases so they can be seen, and to be more festive."
1735,楽,music,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The white sparkly thing is Navi. She's hovering/dancing around a tree to the legendary Lost Woods music. STORY2: There we were at the concert...her voice was like a dove...her dress sparkled...then suddenly, a tree fell on her....."
1736,薬,medicine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"New-age medicine involves using things like music and flowers (aromatherapy) as treatment. STORY2: Oh man, this medicinal marijuana is making me hear MUSIC and see FLOWERS everywhere..."
1737,率,ratio,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's quite mysterious how each sparkler gives of sparkles at a precise ratio of ten to one. Physicists have been studying this effect for decades, known as the Sparkler Effect, and using it to explain why stars look like sparklers in the night sky. STORY2: Keep separate from proportion. Gandalf is trying to adjust the aspect ratio of his monitor from 4:3 to 16:9 so that he can watch Lord of the Rings in widescreen format. He's poking around the inside of his monitor with a magnesium needle when he causes a short circuit which sets his needle on fire making the needle look just like a sparkler."
1738,渋,astringent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I think that Heisig meant this as the ""slightly bitter but fresh"" meaning that it can have to describe foods like lemons (しぶい). So imagine a guy trying a cocktail (water), feeling like he's been kicked in the face (footprint) and sparks are flying from his tongue. 'How did it taste?'. 'Hmm, yes, slightly bitter, but fresh"". STORY2: If you eat something astringent water will stop the sparkly sensation in your mouth."
1739,摂,vicarious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Now that I'm a responsible adult, I have to get my vicarious thrills from watching stupid people put sparklers up to their ears and burn their fingers. STORY2: I put my fingers in my ears to avoid going deaf while getting a vicarious thrill from watching kids light off sparklers and fireworks on Chinese New Year."
1740,央,center,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Youve got the st bernard dead centre in your sights (the box). STORY2: The center of a dog's universe is his mouth: bark, eat, bite. What a life! RTK2:　オウ　中央　ちゅうおう(center)…　　　　　　　　　　　　　Semi-Pure Group　(ｴｲ): 英1741　 映1742."
1741,英,England,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The original great seal of the king of England had a very ornate flower in the center. STORY2: England is a country where people think they're the flower at the center of the world. (a description that would fit China much better.. 中華).
1742,映,reflect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the solar system, the Sun is the central source of all light, everything else just reflects it. STORY2: A solar power plant consists of thousands of mirrors reflecting the sun's rays, concentrating the energy on a focal point at the centre. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Two."
1743,赤,red,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He was stabbed with a dagger, and little drops of red blood dropped onto the ground. STORY2: There was red all over the soil after Little Red Riding Hood plunged a dagger into the wolf. Those two dots we see are wolfies animal legs we see, by the way (a la smithsonian)."
1744,赦,pardon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The student blushed until his face was red, so the schoolmaster decided to pardon him. STORY2: There aren't many pardons given by the Red taskmasters in China. 80% of the world's death penalties are performed there...　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　シャ　赦免　しゃめん(pardon)."
1745,変,unusual,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's quite unusual and abnormal to see an apple with walking legs running away from the person who wants to eat it! STORY2: Imagine an apple on walking legs on stage singing ""It's not unusual to be loved by anyone"" (Tom Jones). Keyword can be confused with uncommon (#1797)."
1746,跡,tracks,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pirate pokes the tip of his wooden leg into an apple to disguise his tracks. STORY2: To hide his distinctive wood-leg tracks, this pirate is throwing apples after his tracks in order for animals to come and confuse his tracks."
1747,蛮,barbarian,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The barbarian picks an apple from above and eats it even though there is a worm (insect) in it. STORY2: Barbarians eat apples with worms still in them.
1748,恋,romance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The romance between Snow White and Prince Charming started when Snow White took a bite of poison apple and her heart stopped. STORY2: A childhood romance: a boy takes a red apple to school to try to win the heart of his beloved.
1749,湾,gulf,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In his most daring feat, William tell used his bow to shoot an apple off the head of his son across the water of the gulf. STORY2: An army of archers must cross a gulf of water. Fortunately there are millions of apple trees growing in the cliffs above the gulf. The archers use their bows to shoot down apple after apple, which all fall into the water and slowly fill up the the gulf until the archer soliders can cross on foot."
1750,黄,yellow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The salad did not look very appetizing... The sprouts were yellow and there were animal legs sticking out of it. STORY2: I order a salad with sprouts. I'm asked if I'd like to add chicken. Yes please. My salad then arrives . . . . topped with these horribly gnarled yellow things. Chicken feet! (animal legs) ugh.
1751,横,sideways,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A tree went all yellow. It died and fell down, ending up sideways. STORY2: In a horrible accident, a yellow schoolbus gets wrapped sideways around a tree."
1752,把,grasp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese censorship laws require pornos to use a mosaic screen, so you can't see what the porno chick is grasping with her fingers (but you can assume, neetch). STORY2: Your fingers grasp the Rubic's cube... if only your brain could too."
1753,色,color,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Bound up in the Rubik's cube are the 6 different colours. STORY2: Ever look closely at mosaics? They contain a bunch of images bound up into a larger one. It seems amazing until you realize that the only quality of the smaller images that really matters is their colour.
1754,絶,discontinue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Spider-man's multi-colored tie-dye costume comic book series was discontinued after only one issue because of poor sales and fan protests. STORY2: Spiderman has decided to discontinue his red color suit in favor of the black one, it looks way cooler."
1755,艶,glossy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To print something with bountiful colour, they use glossy paper. STORY2: Glossy prints bring out bountiful colors more so than matte...　　　　　RTK2:　エン　艶聞　えんぶん(love affair)."
1756,肥,fertilizer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"PART OF YOUR BODY excretes something that is commonly used for FERTILIZER. Sometimes this process is slow, so you solve a RUBIK'S CUBE while you sit and wait. STORY2: If you're sick, a part of your body may produce fertilizer that makes a colorful mosaic."
1757,甘,sweet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Little red riding hood is carrying around a wicker basket filled with sweet baked cookies for granny. STORY2: Girls are kinda sweet and sexy until they reach their twenties. So 20 minus ONE.
1758,紺,navy blue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Thanks raulir - As many Japanese perverts know, navy blue threads conceal school girl sweetness underneath. STORY2: Much like Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Spiderman failed to heed Willy Wonka's warnings, and upon chewing on the 3 course meal chewing gum turned a very navy shade of navy blue."
1759,某,so-and-so,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,I had the same idea as fuabrisu. A generic person is described here as having body sort of like a tree trunk and head sort of like a wicker basket. STORY2: Two girls with a lollipop in a tree gossiping' so-and so did this.' 'really? so-and what did she do' ' o she is sooo wrong..'.
1760,謀,conspire,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I imagine a clique of catty girls conspiring against a another girl...they are exchanging lots of words, chatting about how so-and-so girl is now up to such-and-such (gasp!), and how they will spread the word about it. STORY2: You might hear the words of someone conspiring... ""If you do so-and-so...""."
1761,媒,mediator,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In a divorce, the woman needs a mediator because she won't talk to that so-and-so. Imagine the woman on the ground and the so-and-so up in the tree, and the poor mediator climbing up and down, trying to mediate their fight. STORY2: In a divorce, the woman needs a mediator because she won't talk to that so-and-so."
1762,欺,deceit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Kasparov practices deceit by grabbing your rook while pretending to yawn. STORY2: Every day, a smuggler takes bushel baskets on donkeys across the border. But the border patrols can never arrest him for lack of evidence no matter how much they search the bushel baskets: they can't find whatever he is smuggling. What was his deceit? He was smuggling donkeys!"
1763,棋,chess piece,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Chess piece = wooden rook. STORY2: Ever seen those huge chess games in parks? The large wooden chess pieces need to be carted in a shopping trolley.
1764,旗,national flag,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The United Republic of Chess' national flag is actually a banner with a rook, that way they can hang it at every tournament. STORY2: The national flag of Croatia. It's a banner with the Croatian coat of arms, commonly referred to as the Chessboard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Croatia)."
1765,期,period,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The slowest remote chess game ever: a one month period between every move. STORY2: The girl's panties are all in the bushel basket as it's that time of the month again... her period.
1766,碁,Go,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Go is chess played with stones. STORY2: The ignorant gaijin put a rook on top of his opponent's stone when playing Go, much to the consternation of the Japanese players."
1767,基,fundamentals,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Fundamentals of chess: use the rooks to protect your ground. STORY2: A Bushel-basket full of earth contains the fundementals of farming. i.e. earth.
1768,甚,tremendously,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It's a tremendous match between the two chess-players. They are clearly eachother's equal. STORY2: These two bushel baskets are tremendously huge. But not only they are huge, they are also perfectly equal in size."
1769,勘,intuition,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Intuition is a tremendously powerful resource of the mind. STORY2: Using Zareon's story for the previous frame ""tremendously""... The two chessplayers who are eachother's equals are so good at chess that they don't have to even move a muscle. Their brain power does it for them. Furthermore, they don't even have to think, really. Their intuition takes control. This is: extreme chess."
1770,堪,withstand,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Because I hid myself behind a huge dirt barrier I dug, I was able to withstand the tremendous nuclear blast. STORY2: Plain old soil can withstand tremendous amounts of pressure."
1771,貴,precious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Frodo kept the precious in the purse but did a switch with some worthless shells when he went to sleep. Heres gollum opening the purse ""ahhh my preciousssssss.....why you m***** *****!!!!!. STORY2: Inside your purse is all of your money and your keys (き) etc. All of your precious valuables."
1772,遺,bequeath,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bilbo bequeathes the ""PRECIOUS"" to Frodo, who will carry it on the long ROAD to Mordor. STORY2: ""Bequeath"" is an odd old word, isn't it? Basically, it just deals with how I want my precious possessions dealt out, after I die, later down the road. ""Being of sound, but antiquated, mind, I bequeath this to you!""."
1773,遣,dispatch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Dispatch all cars and chase the maestro! He's gone crazy and stolen a ladies purse! STORY2: Apart from meaning DISPATCH, this kanji can mean ""to give (to someone lower than you),"" ""to do,"" and to even ""have intercourse."" STORY: The MAESTRO is on the ROAD waiting for a pimp to DISPATCH some new ladies (lower than him) so that he can GIVE THEM money from his PURSE and then DO IT with them. Where is the MAESTRO'S baton? You don't wanna know..."
1774,舞,dance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The yakuza boss reclines in the oaken bathtub wearing his shades while his personal harem dances nakes for him. STORY2: I learned nothingness (#1775) first because it is a very common kanji. Probably easier to think of this kanji in that context. Attractive dancers should dance wearing nothing but sunglasses.
1775,無,nothingness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When I enter the wooden tub heated by flames in the onsen, I can let all my worries slip away and be submerged into nothingness. STORY2: In a hot tub you can relax and have your stress vanish into nothingness."
1776,組,association,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The leader of the Spiderman association has tons of Spiderman figurines lined up on his shelf. STORY2: Watch this: http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/sith_lord10/updated%20showroom%20july/s29.jpg The leader of the Spiderman association has tons of Spiderman figurines lined up on his shelf.(Zactacular).
1777,粗,coarse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Refined rice [1535] can only be found in exclusive grocery shops. Coarse rice by contrast fills the supermarket shelves - don't go looking for anything else there. STORY2: Ugh, why does this shelf feel so coarse? Because it's made of rice, of coarse! Get it? Of coarse?? Hahahahahahahahahah god i hate my life."
1778,租,tariff,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The EU and US impose such high tariffs on food imports that third world wheat (the most basic of staples) never reaches first world supermarket shelves. STORY2: According to Henshall, this kanji originally represented the harvested rice (the wheat primitive) that farmers paid as a tithe. Its meaning today would seem to be very similar. Imagine the farmer putting aside some of his harvested wheat on a shelf in order to pay the tariff to his lord."
1779,祖,ancestor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The ancestor worship is so common in Daoist and buddhist countries that you can buy tiny altars to put on the shelves, one for each deceased family member. STORY2: The urns of ancestors are kept on shelves next to the altar."
1780,阻,thwart,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In a last ditch effort to thwart the invaders of The Pinnacle, they push glass shelves over the edge onto their heads below. STORY2: The shortness of the Japanese thwarts their attempts to reach the topmost (pinnacle) shelf without grabbing a chair."
1781,査,investigate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A whole team of cops is sent to investigate how a tree could grow on top of a shelf with no soil or water. STORY2: The result of the inverstigation of the missing Trees? Why, most of them had become shelfs!"
1782,助,help,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,HELP! Someone's pinned under this bookshelf and it's gonna take a lot of muscle to lift it off! STORY2: Can you help me move this shelf? I don't have the muscle to do it alone.
1783,宜,best regards,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It seems like every time my Japanese friends send me their best regards, they accompany them with a gift. Over time, I've gotten so many that I had to buy a second house which contains nothing but several fancy shelves. Each shelf is dedicated to a certain friend of mine and contains every last one of their presents. STORY2: We have a shelf in our house where we put Christmas cards from people who send best regards for the holiday season...　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ギ　便宜主義　べんぎしゅぎ(opportunism)."
1784,畳,tatami mat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king is peacefully sleeping on his new tatami mat when all of a sudden a shelf falls over and kills him. You can see his crown poking out and the brains splatter out the top of his head from all the pressure. STORY2: Making tatami mats from rice field waste was Japan's crowning achievement, but for some reason other countries just shelved the idea."
1785,並,row,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a simplification of 竝, a ideogram of two people standing in a row. STORY2: Hint : as a primitive I use the image of a rowing boat. In a rowing boat people sit in rows, but also side-by-side (another meaning of the kanji), working together (yet another meaning of this kanji). Note : there will also be a kanji for ""rowboat"" coming at frame 1876. The rowing boat is associated with the sport, and is a primitive, while the kanji for ""rowboat"" has a generic meaning of ""a small boat"". In any case, the kanji for ""rowboat"" will not appear as a primitive in the book."
1786,普,universal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"People at Universal Studios wait in rows so long that the sun goes down. STORY2: To me, row is way too close to file (#812), so I'm adopting Fab's meaning of rowboat from the previous frame. Universal Studios went through a number of logo animations before settling on the one they are most famous for: the letters UNIVERSAL orbiting the Earth. One of the most ridiculous of these involved a man rowing himself in a boat around the sun."
1787,譜,musical score,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Musical scores are in a universal language. STORY2: A musical score can be read, but not like ordinary words. Music is a universal language."
1788,湿,damp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You first wash you clothes with water and wring them until they are just damp before hanging them in a row under the sun to dry. If you don't wring them damp first they will take days to dry! STORY2: If your things are damp, lay them up in a row under the sun and let the water evaporate. (thx Raichu)...　RTK2:　シツ　湿気　しっけ(humidity)."
1789,顕,appear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"One day a row of Suns appeared in the sky, turning everyone's heads upwards. STORY2: Clouds were covering the sky for months now. Rows upon rows of people spent whole days with their heads turned upwards, waiting for sun to appear."
1790,繊,slender,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman has to stay slender, so during thanksgiving, he keeps away from the long row of food. STORY2: At the time of Thanksgiving, there's a row of all sorts of food on the table, which you mustn't eat if you want to stay as slender as a thread."
1791,霊,spirits,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After raining for two days in a row, you plead with the SPIRITS for some relief. (Adapted from johnskb,21-5-2006). STORY2: When it rains, two worlds come together and spirits can be seen in the forest, dancing in a row."
1792,業,profession,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A truly gruesome profession: an abattoir worker. Where the carcasses are upside down in a row that have not yet been cut up into sausages and steaks. STORY2: The legal profession was turned upside down when Row vs. Wade determined that a fetus is not yet a human…　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ギョウ　営業中　えいぎょうちゅう(""Open for Business"")　　　　　　　　　　ゴウ　宿業　　しゅくごう　　(accumulated karma)."
1793,撲,slap,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After a row husbands take their wives upsides down over the knee and slap them with their fingers on the bottom (if that doesn't get me banned…). STORY2: Here we have badly behaving HUSBANDs, whose wives have had them hung UPSIDE DOWN IN A ROW. Each wife approaches her HUSBAND, berates him, gives him a sharp SLAP in the face and, Three-Stooges style, pokes him in the eyes with her FINGERS."
1794,僕,me,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T also finds himself as one of the HUSBANDs, whose wives have had them hung UPSIDE DOWN IN A ROW. But when his wife comes up to punish him, he pleads, “It’s ME, Baby. I wasn’t behaving badly like these other foo’s.”. STORY2: Building on johnskb: Although it goes against the Heisig method, this story is a lot easier to remember when you know it's the kanji for ""boku."" Males usually use either ""boku"" or ""ore"" (instead of ""watashi"") to refer themselves. ""Boku"" is slightly boyish and soft; ""ore"" is rough & tough. Mr. T would definitely use ""ore"" -- but when he's one of the husbands hung upside down in a row about to be punished by his wife, he puts on a sweet act and switches to ""boku"" when he pleads ""come on baby, it's ME!""."
1795,共,together,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The character for deluge (#1799) gave me the idea to use together as a primitive for Noah's Ark. Noah kept plenty of salad on board to entice the animals with their animal legs to scurry on board together, two by two. STORY2: The conjoined twins, who are always together, have trouble eating together because one is a vegetarian, eating salad and the other is a avid meat eater, eating chicken legs.[Thanks fuaburisu!]."
1796,供,submit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It took over 600 frames for Mr T to make (#1142), the Ark, but when he was finally done, he cast his saw aside and submitted the Ark to Noah for his approval. ""I pity the foo who doesn't climb aboard this ark,"" said Noah to his friend. STORY2: Mr. T submits a resume together with his application. ""I pity da foo don't got no resume!"" he says."
1797,異,uncommon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Noah's Ark is so uncommonly large, he can even fit a rice field on top to feed the animals. STORY2: It's uncommon to find a pair of together twins who are connected at the brain! When such a set does turn up, they are inevitably showcased on TV."
1798,翼,wing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The thing about feathers is that they usually cover the entire bird. A creature with feathers only on its wings would be very uncommon. STORY2: WINGS without any FEATHERS would be an UNCOMMON site. Well, unless you like to eat chicken WINGS alot."
1799,洪,deluge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Water plus Noah's Ark equals deluge. STORY2: Lots of water coming together is called a deluge.
1800,港,harbor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"During a deluge, all the poor snakes get washed into the harbour. STORY2: All throughout the deluge Noah had been kicking himself for forgetting to bring any snakes onto the Ark. It wasn't until the deluge had finished, and Noah had brought the Ark safely back to the harbour that he realised that the snakes had been under the Ark all along."
1801,暴,outburst,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Having spent all day stringing together grains of rice he suddenly had an outburst, ""I can take it any longer!"". STORY2: Noah was having an outburst after being at sea for 40 days and 40 nights and running out of rice grains to eat. Then the sun suddenly burst out in an outburst over the Ark and there was an outburst of cheering."
1802,爆,bomb,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Actually means explosion, like an outburst of fire. STORY2: Bombs make fiery outbursts. It's almost too logical, this one."
1803,恭,respect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Noah feels like he gets no respect from the other passengers on the Ark, but they all make him Valentine's Day cards to show how much they respect what he's done for them. STORY2: If you wanna stay together you have to show your valentine respect."
1804,選,elect,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You're driving on the road and you see two snakes together. You can't avoid both, so you have to elect which one gets run over. STORY2: There were so many snakes on the road to Noah's ark so they had to elect which two would represent the snake species."
1805,殿,Mr.,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. President! We all stand here together under a national flag. One thing is certain: we'll never give in. We are launching nuclear missiles now to implement mutually assured destruction protocol. STORY2: (+synewave) Noah looks on in disbelief as Mr. and Mrs. Smith board the Ark, start waving their flag everywhere and blasting everything in sight with a missile launcher."
1806,井,well,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Have you ever seen an old fashioned japanese well? == http://cruises.about.com/od/southeastasiacruise1/ig/Osaka-Japan/Ancient-Well-at-Osaka-Castle.htm."
1807,囲,surround,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The village surrounded the well with a wall so kids wouldn't fall in. STORY2: You get good surround sound when your pent-up in well.
1808,耕,till,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you just grow your christmas tree in a well, there will be no need to till the soil. STORY2: A man was tilling a new plot to plant xmas trees but his tractor hit an old covered-up well and fell halfway in, he's asking for a new tractor for xmas.."
1809,亜,Asia,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: A mouth barred up and not aloud to speak freely is the sign of asia (korea, China, pakistan etc)."
1810,悪,bad,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Because Asian people started to eat Western food, their hearts became bad and they started having heart attacks. STORY2: Asian hearts are bad and evil. They invented so much martial arts: karate, judo, kungfu, muay thai, silat, etc... just to hurt each other. They torture their own people (China, North Korea). They torture other people (Japan in China and Korea). And they are able to hide all this behind their nice facade of kindness. Bad, bad Asians. (did i shatter some people's ideas on Asia? my bad)."
1811,円,circle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The shape of a Yen coin. STORY2: A poor old man is almost killing himself trying to lift a huge glass hood with his cane (using it as a lever), to get to just one yen coin. Note : the kanji refers to a circular, round object, but also to the Japanese currency (pronounced ""en"")."
1812,角,angle,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A museum display of two walking sticks bound together under a glass canopy, showing the first device used to measure an angle. STORY2: The gates have been bound up together leaving no angle to get through...　RTK2:　カク　兎に角　とにかく(anyhow)　""horns on a rabbit""."
1813,触,contact,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"For insects to get in contact with each other, they need to place their antennae at just the right angle. STORY2: Wow, he threw that BOOMERANG with such skill, it made CONTACT with that INSECT in mid flight."
1814,解,unravel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Did you know that you can unravel a cow? If you stick the dagger in at exactly the correct angle, the whole cow will just unravel. STORY2: Unravel the mystery by determining at what ANGLE the SWORD went into the COW."
1815,再,again,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king has eaten too much and has to get a new belt again. See his fat rolls hanging over? STORY2: This is a belt with a non-adjustable jeweled buckle. Everytime you go back to the leathersmith telling him to move the buckle because you've packed on a few pounds (but that this is the last time!), he says ""Again?!? Weren't you just here last month?""."
1816,講,lecture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Image: a professor walking around with a funnel and simply pouring his words into each students head instead of a lecture. (Primitive: FUNNEL, who got the celery stuck in the funnel again?! You know it's not supposed to be used for that!)."
1817,購,subscription,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Subscription is like a money funnel, because the receiving end is small (just one company) and the other end is wide (the whole country). STORY2: My subscription to Money magazine came with a free coin funnel."
1818,構,posture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Trees with good posture look like funnels. For example, http://static.flickr.com/53/118084202_8896e54a14_m.jpg. STORY2: A farm girl uses a wooden funnel as a corset to improve her posture."
1819,溝,gutter,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A gutter funnels water. STORY2: A gutter takes the water that falls as rain and funnels it off to where it can be dealt with appropriately.
1820,論,argument,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: It's very difficult to present a good argument if you don't bring along a scrapbook with some key words jotted down to the meeting."
1821,倫,ethics,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T talks about ethics at the academic conference. ""I pity the fool who gets caught plagarizing someone else's stuff!"". STORY2: Mr. T has no ethics at the scrapbooking convention. He'll do whatever it takes to beat all those ladies."
1822,輪,wheel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Someone stole all the wheels off the ladies' cars at the scrapbook convention. STORY2: 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,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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! STORY2: Mr. T is partial to konbini hentai. He reads them for hours every day after work at his local konbini. (Primitive: KONBINI HENTAI, all the magazines(scrapbooks) by every konbini door in Japan)."
1824,遍,everywhere,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Go down any road in Japan and you'll find konbini hentai everywhere."
1825,編,compilation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: My Spiderman comic book compilation is almost complete...only one left, and I may have to kill for it..."
1826,冊,tome,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pictograph. I think of that Harry Potter spell book that had to be bound shut coz it wanted to eat you. STORY2: 冊 さつ 1: counter for books A heavy scrapbook so full that flowers are sticking out. Only if a scrapbook is that full, it can be called a heavy book."
1827,典,code,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Coding is a tool which you can use to bend the computer to your will. STORY2: Think ""codex"" (mnemonic help) or ""code of laws"", or even Leonardo Da Vinci's code. Here I see a codex as a tool used to bend the masses into submission. Picture a huge codex book lifted down on crowds to bend them down in submission. Another: if you bend to the code without asking questions, you are a tool!"
1828,氏,family name,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Looks a bit like Ft => Family title => Family name. STORY2: The family name is important to me! Drop me from a building, torture me with a fishhook, I'm keeping my one family name. Hook me with a second fishhook, I refuse to change my family name."
1829,紙,paper,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Spiderman doesn't have a single paper with his family name on it (because he doesn't want to reveal his identity). STORY2: I imagine a ridiculously expensive, and rather pointless, Japanese type of paper for writing letters, with one's family name woven in fine thread somewhere in a corner."
1830,婚,marriage,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Marriage is the day in this woman's life where she gets a new family name. STORY2: Tip: Heisig later introduces the kanji 昏 dusk (#2451). Story: Never enter into marriage with a woman at dusk (wait until you see them in daylight). Note: This is an ancient proverb . . . (probably).
1831,低,lower,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mr. T travels to Japan and knows he must bow lower when presenting his business card. STORY2: A person bows low when presenting his business card.
1832,抵,resist,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Most japanese find it impossible to resist pushy businessmen in Japan when they push their damned business cards into your fingers. STORY2: Japan business etiquette tip: When someone hands you a business card, resist the impulse to fiddle around with it with your fingers, and by all means resist the urge to use the card to pick gunk from under your fingernails. Just examine it carefully, ask politely about the (few by now) kanji that you don't know, and put it away carefully in a location that shows your counterparts how important they are to you."
1833,底,bottom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I put all those useless business cards at the bottom of a cave. STORY2: At the bottom of the cave you find a meishi: ""LOST? DIAL 1-800-...""."
1834,民,people,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"All the people of the world with all their family names shouting with their big mouths. STORY2: How many of you know what ""vox populi"" means?"
1835,眠,sleep,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In an Orwellian sense, the eye watching the people never sleeps. STORY2: The little boy from The Sixth Sense couldn't sleep because before his very eyes he saw a dead crowd of people everywhere."
1836,捕,catch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Dog tag: This is a wild animal track device. It has an arrowhead and screwdriver-shaped radio beacon. It's evidently fired in animals to track their movements. When animal has a dog tag, it's easy to catch it: just take a dog tag in your fingers."
1837,浦,bay,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The water of the bay washes all the dog tags up after the battle. STORY2: Otis Redding is sitting on the dock of the bay, looking over the water while clutching the dog tags of his fallen friend from Vietnam."
1838,蒲,bullrush,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,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. STORY2: The bulrush is a flower that grows around bays. http://www.meltonrossnewbarnetby.co.uk/images/bulrush.jpg.
1839,舗,shop,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A shop in an impoverished country is just a cottage with a dog tag identifying it. STORY2: Normal cottages (舎 actually means a building) don't have tags advertising their names, but shops do."
1840,補,supplement,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The name and number printed on a soldier's cloak is a supplement to his main I.D. tag; his dog-tag, in helping identify the soldier."
1841,邸,residence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The business card says his residence is just to the left of the city walls. Can you find it? Yep, got it."
1842,郭,enclosure,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The city finally received the enclosure that it desperately needed, city walls to protect it against attacks from the tall kids. STORY2: Even the tall kids can't get out of the enclosure that is the city walls."
1843,郡,county,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"County cricket. ""I say old boy, you've hit that ball clear over the city walls. That's six and out!"". STORY2: You can take the good old boy out of county (and into the city walls), but you can't take the county out of the good old boy. Is that how the saying goes?"
1844,郊,outskirts,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The city walls mark the outskirts of the inner city, where it begins to mingle with the suburbs. STORY2: The country folk and and the city folk mingle at the outskirts of town, just past the city walls."
1845,部,section,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Within the city walls, this section of town was so noisy that we had to muzzle them up. STORY2: The section within the city walls where dogs must be muzzled by law... RTK2:　へ　部屋　へや(room)...　　　　ブ　全部　ぜんぶ(all)."
1846,都,metropolis,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: In a huge metropolis, it's hard not to feel like just someone within the city walls."
1847,郵,mail,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The drooping citywalls was generating a lot of angry mail for the city officials. STORY2: The city walls droop down in one spot so that the mailtman can throw the mail over.
1848,邦,home country,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He reminisced about his home country: ""Ah, back in my home country, the bushes grew so high that they covered the city walls!"". STORY2: In -my- home country, we'd like to put up walls to keep Bush -OUT-, thank you very much."
1849,郷,hometown,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Your home town is where you earned enough silver to enable you to break out of your giant cocoon (leave home) and explore outside the city walls."
1850,響,echo,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"People's voices are like echoes of sounds from their hometowns....you can always tell where they're from by how they talk. STORY2: My hometown is a ghost town, any sounds echoes and echoes."
1851,郎,son,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,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. STORY2: A good son stays within the city walls so he can care for his parents…　RTK2:　ロウ　新郎　しんろう(bridegroom)…　Pure Group:　廊1852.
1852,廊,corridor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Your son plays in the corridor pretending he's exploring a cave. STORY2: (ロウ) I think of the corridor found in the cave that Yoda made Luke Skywalker walk through as part of his Jedi training in Empire Strikes Back. It was in this corridor that Luke met Darth Vadar, cut off his head and found himself behind Darth Vadar's mask. An early little hint that Luke was Darth Vadar's son."
1853,盾,shield,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a magic shield with ten eyes which have the power to drag the victim towards it. STORY2: From Wikipedia: ""If a Spartan hoplite were to return to Sparta alive and without his shield, it was assumed that he threw his shield at the enemy in an effort to flee; an act punishable by death or banishment."" Picture the enemy of a Spartan soldier poking his eyes out with a sewing needle and trying to steal his shield. However, the Spartan desperately clutches on, and is dragged around for a while, preferring to die than to lose his shield."
1854,循,sequential,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: A column of shielded soldiers advancing sequentially to avoid revealing the size of their army (Think ""Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers"" from Star Wars)."
1855,派,faction,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The radical faction is almost eliminated, sir. They're living in the sewers dressed in rags and dragging their supplies."
1856,脈,vein,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The vein is the part of the body most lusted after by the flesh hungry zombies (drag & rag - see revenantkioku frame 1855). STORY2: To get blood drawn from a vein you present the part of the body to the nurse, and they drag an alcohol swab (rag) across the vein."
1857,衆,masses,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Masses of zombies, splattered with blood. (any zombie movie). STORY2: When the masses are hurt, say in a natural disaster like an earthquake, they can be seen everywhere dragging their bloody rags."
1858,逓,parcel post,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(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. STORY2: In the ancient parcel post, they just would drag the packages behind them tied to cornstalks woven into a long belt down the road. It was a wonder than anything arrived intact."
1859,段,grade,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a military-grade staple gun! It can be loaded with real missiles. STORY2: In order to get your 1st grade, or first-dan (だん) black belt, you have to learn hand to hand combat with new weapons - first the grapple involving the staple gun, and then the missile deployment technique."
1860,鍛,forge,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As a discriminating metalsmith, I use the highest grade metals when forging such precision devices as staple guns and missiles. STORY2: Metal has to be forged many times over in order to reach a high grade."
1861,后,empress,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The F word often comes out of the mouth of the empress."
1862,幻,phantasm,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After the play, The Phantasm of the Opera hangs up his cape on a clothes hanger and returns to his cocoon to sleep. STORY2: You open your closet and find strange, glowing cocoons sitting on your clothes hangers... definitely a phantasm!"
1863,司,director,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The porn director has one big mouth. ""Don't bother putting your clothes on a hanger, just get started."". STORY2: The director sticks a clothes hanger in each actor's mouth and hangs them from the ceiling until he needs them."
1864,伺,pay respects,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T is the director. You better pay respects to him! STORY2: If Mr. T gets a role in a film, he doesnt pay respects to the director, the director pays respects to Mr. T."
1865,詞,parts of speech,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The big mouthed diretor is even picky about the parts of speech you use, shouting, ""More verbs! Less adjectives!"" and such all the time. STORY2: A Grammar is basically a word director that tells us what part of speech each word is."
1866,飼,domesticate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After a pride of hungry lions ate the director, the producer decided to tone down his documentary and film domesticated cats instead. STORY2: When you DOMESTICATE a animal, you are the DIRECTOR of it's life and what it EATS."
1867,嗣,heir,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The director's mouth dropped open as he flipped through the scrapbook of properties he was about to become heir to. STORY2: Careful with inherit (#1370). The egoistic director leaves instructions about what shall be handed down to his heir upon the director's death. First, the director's mouth should be surgically removed and preserved, to be handed down to his heir. Second, a scrapbook of the director's proudest scenes should also be handed down. The mouth reminds the heir that the director must be a loudmouth; the scrapbook reminds the heir of how to be a good director."
1868,舟,boat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Cinnabar (丹) colored boat, the extra drop signifying that the paint hasn't dried yet. The stick represents the oars."
1869,舶,liner,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: A liner is to boat as an emperor (#261) is to a king (#255), or a chief (#967) is to a person (#951): in each case we need only add white to the latter in order to get the former."
1870,航,navigate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To navigate a ""boat"" through a ""whirlwind"" takes a skilled navigator. STORY2: In Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, you can navigate your boat by summoning whirlwinds."
1871,般,carrier,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: In general, carrier boats have missiles."
1872,盤,tray,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"What do you call a ""CARRIER"" of DISHes? A TRAY. STORY2: Imagine a restaurant set in Disney's Fantasia or maybe in Harry Potter's university, where dishes are magically landing and taking off of a carrier tray."
1873,搬,conveyor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: During WWII, morse code was the primary means of communication from sea. The morse code specialist was the conveyor of messages to and from the crew of the carrier, using his fingers to tap out the secret messages. (This works especially well for 搬送周波数 carrier frequency and 搬送波 carrier wave, being the radio waves/frequencies used in morse code)."
1874,船,ship,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A boy floats his toy boat in a gully and imagines it as an immense ship. STORY2: Aargh, hard to keep this separate from boat. How about this: the phrase ""shape up or ship out!"" This phrase originally meant that a soldier had better get his act together, or else face being shipped off into a combat zone. Here we see a poor WW-I soldier who has been shipped off to a combat zone. He's riding in the boat overseas to fight in the trenches (gulley)."
1875,艦,warship,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The warship towers over the smaller benign boats, overseeing their safe path from port to port. STORY2: A warship is a boat that oversees the seas. Think of it as the patroller of the ocean."
1876,艇,rowboat,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In venice, the boat used by the courts to transport criminals is a rowboat. STORY2: 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,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"何これ???? ok, sorry to be crude... if you claw at a girls melons, she is gonna give you the elbow. STORY2: Vegetarian vultures are fighting for a melon, each trying to elbow its way to it with claws."
1878,弧,arc,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you use a bow to shoot a melon, the arc varies depending on how far away you are. STORY2: Joan of Arc (""arc"" also means ""bow"" in french) is practicing with a bow, shooting at melons in a distant field."
1879,孤,orphan,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An orphan will never know the joys on sucking on his mother's melons........ STORY2: Unlike the celebrated story of Momotaro the peach boy, no one knows the story of the melon boy who was left an orphan."
1880,繭,cocoon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: The magic flower is the reason why Spider-Man ended up miniaturized and confined inside a hood-like cocoon together with an insect. Now, only a walking stick separates them both."
1881,益,benefit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The benefit of having sharp horns and fast legs is that an animal can get to the food dish first. STORY2: The benefit of being an animal with horns and fast legs is in keeping it from becoming a dish for the other animals! (shaydwyrm).
1882,暇,spare time,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: Tip: The complex right side of this kanji appears twice more in Heisig. He later names it ""hobby"". REF: shrimp (#2689), haze (#2779)."
1883,敷,spread,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Arrowheads are spread all over the field. The taskmaster profiteerer forces you to find them all using a compass. STORY2: Instead of being glued to one specialty (#46) 専, I decided to spread my attention in many directions 方, and be a taskmaster at none."
1884,来,come,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You horny bastard, don't come, at least not yet! STORY2: Here I see, of all things, Bambi. His animal horns have not yet come out. (As we can see in the kanji, the animal horns are not at the top, not ""poking through"". ) Remember: Bambi will soon come to have a great set of animal horns but they have not yet come out."
1885,気,spirit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Captain Hook, his spirit crushed, is lying on the ground cursing Wolverine who has defeated him with his far superior claws. STORY2: You're reclining on the floor trying to hook a sheaf with a small hook through the cracks. That you've been doing this for seven hours without success shows your burning spirit."
1886,汽,vapor,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Water vapor almost looks like a spirit but has no soul. STORY2: Wolverine disappears into water vapor, seemingly his spirit dissipating into nothingness."
1887,飛,fly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,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? STORY2: Two hummingbirds flying into a measuring box serving as a bird feeder…　RTK2:　ヒ　飛行機　ひこうき(airplane).
1888,沈,sink,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(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. STORY2: This is the famous story of Archimedes and the Crown, where buoyancy was discovered. Watching the crown sink in the water, Archimedes detected the fraud and ran naked through the city (human legs distorted from running) yelling ""Eureka! Eureka!"" See http://math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Crown/CrownIntro.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_%28word%29."
1889,妻,wife,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ten rakes woman. your wife digs her fingernails into you and it feels like 10 rakes when she finds you ontop of another woman. STORY2: (I'm really not sexist, this just helps me remember the kanji): I make my WIFE do all the yard work, and as a really mean joke, I bought her TEN RAKES for her birthday this year. ""Do the yardwork, WOMAN! You have TEN perfectly good RAKES to choose from!""."
1890,衰,decline,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: 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, allowing people to rent him and play catch with him for money!"
1891,衷,inmost,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The guy from pathetic (#401) shared his inmost feelings with a girl and she rammed a walking stick down his throat. It ruptured his inmost organs. STORY2: Besides making money from acting like a dog (see decline), the pathetic man has risked his inmost internal organs by becoming a cane swallower!"
1892,面,mask,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When Jim Carrey puts on The Mask, he can make it seem like he has 100 eyes popping out of his head. STORY2: If you're wearing a mask, a hundred eyes can look at you but none of them will know who you are."
1893,革,leather,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You can feed twenty mouths for a year for the price of ten leather coats. STORY2: I asked the street vendor the price of the LEATHER jacket. He said TWENTY, but with my MOUTH, I talked him down to TEN. (correct stroke order)."
1894,靴,shoes,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Leather shoes are nice because they change shape to fit your foot. STORY2: Leather is often changed into shoes.
1895,覇,hegemony,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the Old West, cowboys had hegemony OVER the Indians despite their leathercraft and ability to navigate by the moon. STORY2: In the old west, animal skins were made into leather and their flesh was eaten, thus using the whole animal, which viewed from the animal side could be taken as humans asserting complete hegemony over them. All your base are belong to us."
1896,声,voice,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When an enemy's flag is raised, a true samurai can split it in half with just his voice. STORY2: Having lost his voice, the samurai comunicated to his troops with a striped flag."
1897,呉,give,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As a present, I gave my dentist a hand-crank tool for spreading mouths. He was so happy since it makes his job easier. STORY2: I see this as a pictograph of an old-style phonograph - a stand, record, crank and bell (the mouth). Even the primitives work out - a tool with a crank which plays music out of the bell mouth. Imaginge giving one of these old and beautiful phonographs to a classical or jazz music buff!"
1898,娯,recreation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A man from a less enlightened society comes for a visit, and asks the host to give him a woman for some recreation. STORY2: While at the dentist's office giving him his hand-crank tool, one of the assistant's asks me if I'd like to join her in the back for some recreation."
1899,誤,mistake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"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. STORY2: You must give words of apology when you make a mistake."
1900,蒸,steam,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji is used in compounds for the steaming of food and also for smoking/fumigation. Here we have the Japanese once again trying to replicate the French cuisine, only with a twist, steaming food with flowers (think of flower-smoked ham for example). Flowers must first be completely soaked in water, and then poured over a thin piece of flooring under which there is an oven fire. STORY2: Note: complete + water + floor are later combined into 丞 helping hand (#2919). Story: The driver of a steam train asks you for a helping hand and explains that your job is to throw flowers on the fire to make the steam."
1901,承,acquiesce,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To get someone to completely acquiesce it takes 3 dunks in the water before they give. STORY2: To get someone to acquiesce, duck them completely in aqua (=water) three times. (variation on dingomick's)."
1902,函,bin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Damn racoons ill show them. I put a snare in the bin as well as a few phosphorous sparklers so as to scare the shit out of the buggers as they rummage through my bin. STORY2: (thegeezer3) Damn racoons... I'll show them. I'll put a SNARE in the BIN as well as a few SPARKLERS so as to scare the shit out of the buggers, then hit them with a SHOVEL."
1903,極,poles,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Can simplify this using decay (#1243). Then: The expedition to the poles is bad for your health, and the decay that started in your mouth spreads to your crotch – at which point you fall to the floor. STORY2: (modified Katsuo) Can simplify this using decay (#1243). You travel to the poles, a frozen wasteland. In desperate need of food you try to set up a snare but the tree is decayed (see story for decay (#1243)) so you catch no prey. The brutal cold first attacks your mouth as your lips turn blue, then your crotch also gets cold as your body fails; finally you fall to the floor."
1904,牙,tusk,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"He stored the tusks into a box, along with the broken halberds. STORY2: The kanji looks like an elephant with tusks. the box is the elephant's eye. The final stroke is the tusk."
1905,芽,bud,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Zoo keepers are baffled as to why the tips of the elephant's tusks keep budding into flowers. STORY2: Buds while they're still small tend to be tusk-shaped.
1906,邪,wicked,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The wicked queen builds her city walls out of menacing tusks. STORY2: As everyone knows, rhinoceroses and elephants are often killed for the value of their TUSKS. Here we see a WICKED city mayor who has had countless elephants killed just to make his CITY WALLS out of TUSKS."
1907,雅,gracious,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Goodness gracious! Such an elegant turkey with a tusk."" This mnemonic is meant to join RtK's keyword with a better proposition. Heisig could have used ""elegant"" here, which is not confounded so easily with graceful (#721), and accurately represents the character's meaning (it is also the chosen keyword in Kodansha's Kanji Learner's Dictionary). STORY2: To not confuse it with grace (#606) or graceful (#721), think of the phrase ""Goodness gracious."" Like: ""Goodness gracious! A turkey with tusks!""."
1908,釈,explanation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mrs. Badger follows the animal tracks to the den where she finds her husband getting a blowjob from a fox. ""I have a good explanation for this. Really!"". STORY2: Animal track primitive: As expected, animal tracks were left in place of the trail of rice I'd purposely dropped the night before. EDIT - also try the footprint for a primitive meaning, the classic symbol of detective films. STORY: This shakuhachi player is so talented, he can do interpretations of animal noises too. They're so realistic he soon has animal tracks leading straight to wherever he's playing."
1909,番,turn,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The famers take it in turns to watch out for any animal tracks on their rice field. STORY2: They take turns alternating between wheat and rice in this field…　　RTK2:　バン　電話番号　でんわばんごう(telephone number).
1910,審,hearing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At your divorce hearing the judge tells you to roll dice to see who keeps the house. (""I can't believe what I'm hearing!"" you say). STORY2: In the courthouse the judge decides your hearing with a roll of the dice."
1911,翻,flip,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Don't play dice with birds. When you're not looking, they'll flip the dice with their feathers. STORY2: When the birds out the back are playing dice, they flip their feathers (not their finger) at their opponents."
1912,藩,clan,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This character refers to feudal clans that were abolished in 1871 (Meiji 4) in favor of prefectures (廃藩置県), and thus were predecessors of the modern prefectures. As we know from 落, flowers and water drops each have their own way of falling. This character says that clans' location was decided in the way flowers, water drops and dice fall: at random. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28country_subdivision%29. STORY2: In the particular clan depicted by this character, each member has to take his or her turn watering the flowers."
1913,毛,fur,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I've heard of people having hair on the back of their hands, but this is ridiculous! That's not hair, that's fur! STORY2: Be careful not to pet a cat the wrong way - most cats don't like you rubbing your hand backwards over their fur."
1914,耗,decrease,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The amount of ""fur"" (needles) on a Christmas tree decreases, until it doesn't look all that good. STORY2: Real fur coats and real christmas trees are dereasing the last couple of years. Plasctic chrismas trees and fake fur it is nowadays."
1915,尾,tail,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,A dog waves its furry tail like a flag. STORY2: A FLAG of FUR is a TAIL.
1916,宅,home,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This kanji is, of course, pronounced ""taku"", and it seems the owner of this home is a little bit otaku himself. He has hung up locks of hair suruptitiously obtained from various females all over his house. A veritable hair fetishist, and certainly someone whose home you wouldn't want to visit. STORY2: ""Home is where the hair is""."
1917,託,consign,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When you consign a matter to someone, you get their word and a lock of their hair (to be used in a voodoo ritual if they don't keep their word). STORY2: In ""The Lord of the Rings"", Galadriel consigned a lock of her hair to Gimli the dwarf, along with some wise words."
1918,為,do,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In this kanji, you can see 3 katakana characters: ソ, ユ, and then ユ again followed by TAIL FEATHERS. STORY: ""So (ソ) you (ユ) wanna DO it?"" ""Only if you (ユ) do"" says the female bird as she raises her TAIL FEATHERS. STORY2: Do me from behind, says the bird, as she shakes her tailfeathers."
1919,偽,falsehood,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T doesn’t ""DO"" FALSEHOOD. It goes against everything he stands for. “I pity da foos who revel in FALSEHOODs!”. STORY2: ""It depends on what your definition of do, uh, is,"" says Mr. T giving falsehood about his affair with a peacock."
1920,長,long,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Geisha with long hair uses an ornate lacquered hairpin to bundle it all up. STORY2: The top of this one reminds me of the staple primitive. So here's my story: The girl's hair was so long that she had to use staples instead of hairpins. It worked, but stapling her hair to her head was kinda painful."
1921,張,lengthen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The longbow is follows the design of a standard bow, only it has been lengthened. STORY2: Legolas recieves spam telling him that his can lengthen his ""bow""...he smirks...he know's it's already long enough."
1922,帳,notebook,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In ancient China books were rolled-up scrolls of paper. So notebooks were nothing more than long towels. STORY2: Students, for this class, your notebook will be a towel. Make sure it's extra long though, we'll have a lot of writing."
1923,脹,dilate,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Taking Viagra let's your blood vessels dilate...resulting in a body part getting long. STORY2: Staying out in the dark moonlit sky for a long time, your pupils dilate."
1924,髪,hair of the head,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Japanese teenage girls consider the style of the hair of the head very important. If a particular style is trendy, soon they all want their own hair in the same shape as that of their friends. STORY2: Friends influence the length and shape of each other's hair."
1925,展,unfold,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You use an American flag to wrap up a salad for a picnic and bind it with a hairpin. Now imagine unfolding it to open up the bounty you've fixed up for yourself. STORY2: Unfold flag, take out the salad, pin the flag down with hairpins and have a picnic."
1926,喪,miss,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I miss my parents dearly. Here they lay, under a big cross, their mouths side by side. I stick hairpins in their graves. CAREFUL: the stroke order/primitive order is: ten, L mouth, R mouth, hairpin. ""Soil"" is not drawn in its stroke order. STORY2: This kanji means miss as in ""miss a (dearly departed) person"", not as in ""miss a target"".　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Here the dearly departed has been buried in the ground, with her favourite hairpin in place of a gravestone, and two mourners stand around crying with open mouths."
1927,巣,nest,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Owls only nest in fruit trees. STORY2: The wise old OWL makes her nest out of FRUIT, carving out the middle for her chicks, because then it's less work: no running back & forth to get food!"
1928,単,simple,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Owls are smart...for this owl everything is simple coz his brain is ten times more powerful than mine. STORY2: An owl's brain is ten times smarter than other simple minded birds…　RTK2:　タン　簡単　かんたん(simple).
1929,戦,war,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"George W. Bush's plans for war were so SIMPLE. To him, its all just a big FIESTA. STORY2: So there's this fiesta in downtown Compton. It's a simple party, but someone invited people from the wrong gangs and the simple fiesta turns into an all-out turf war."
1930,禅,Zen,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Knowing ZEN’s emphasis on “nothingness,” it’s not hard to envision a ZEN ALTAR being quite clean and SIMPLE. STORY2: Simple-minded blond girl (see frame 1928) is very good at Zen, which isn't surprising since she doesn't think much. She has this bad habit of meditating perched on the main temple altar, which infuriates the Zen buddhists. When they get up to her and tell her rudely to step down the altar, she just smiles and teases them : ""Not very zen are you ?"". Who would have thought simple-minded blond girl would teach the Zen buddhists a lesson !"
1931,弾,bullet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Hunting with a bow is too complicated. I'm switching to something simpler--using a bullet. STORY2: The bow was a weapon for simple times, but nowadays it has been replaced by bullets."
1932,桜,cherry tree,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I was taking a picture of my girlfriend under the cherry tree during 花見, when an owl happened to poop on her at the exact moment the shutter snapped. It's really my favorite picture , just don't tell her that. STORY2: The tree in Japan that represents both wisdom (the owl) and femininity (the woman). This is a sakura (さくら), or cherry tree."
1933,獣,animal,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The owl looks for its prey in the rice field. It sees so many potential animals to eat but since it only has one mouth, it decides that the tasty looking chihuahua will be its meal for tonight. (adapted from Copycatken,1-9-2006). STORY2: I have a strange story for this one but it works. I imagine a owl getting into a rice field which serves as a boxing ring. His opponent is a little chihuahua. The fight starts, the owl takes one punch to the mouth and is out cold. In the chihuahua's corner is that coach from Rocky saying ""Your an ANIMAL!!"". A vivid image of this story works pretty well for me."
1934,脳,brain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The brain is the part of the body that an owl will use to defeat the villain. STORY2: The brain is the part of the body that can give you the wisdom of the owl... or the wickedness of the villain.
1935,悩,trouble,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The owl villain is the one that troubles me most of all the super-villains. He's just so smart... you never know what he'll do! Definitely enough to put you in a troubled state of mind. STORY2: Data's brain quickly allerts him to the state of trouble when he see's the brainy owl villain.
1936,厳,stern,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This represents a stern looking owl, perched up on a cliff. This cliff is quite famous for daring individuals to cliff dive off of, but is any of them daring enough to threaten the owl? STORY2: The daring mouse gets a stern look after he climbs onto the owl's cliff...　RTK2:　ゲン　厳禁　　げんきん　(""Strickly Prohibited!"")　　　　　　　　　　　ゴン　華厳経　けごんギョウ(Avatamsaka Sutra)."
1937,鎖,chain,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The chain on this chainsaw is made of little metal shells. STORY2: A gold chain with small seashells hanging on it is in fashion these days.
1938,挙,raise,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a special owl-luring tool. All you need is to raise it in your hand. Owl will come flying and perch on it right away. STORY2: The owl was asked to raise his hand if he needed anything, but he had a wing, not a hand! So he made a tool that looked like a hand which he used when he needed to raise his hand. For raiseing, owl has a tool hand."
1939,誉,reputation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This owl's reputation skyrocketed after he created a tool in order to speak human words. STORY2: By word of mouth, owl-luring tool (raise (#1938)) gained a reputation of amazingly effective and reliable device."
1940,猟,game hunting,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"[game-hunting; shooting; game; bag] According to unicode.org and wwwjdic, 鼡 and 鼠 (mouse (#2065)) are variants. So, for 鼡 (which I'll call rat) I have: an owl, flying in the wind, can easily spot a rat even if it's hiding in the cornstalks. Now 猟 is easy: wild dogs are having fun by game-hunting rats. STORY2: The WILD DOGS are GAME HUNTING the OWL who flies like the WIND through the CORN STORKS."
1941,鳥,bird,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,There is only one bird with such beautiful white tail feathers: the albino peakcock. STORY2: The BIRD let loose a WHITE ONE from it's TAIL FEATHERS...right on my new car!
1942,鳴,chirp,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A chirp is quite simply the sound that comes from the mouth of birds. STORY2: This kanji is not limited to the chirp of a bird, but stands for the sound of any kind of animal. Picture a very weird bird that can imitate with its mouth (a bird with mouth, heh) the voice of many different animals: Meeow! Woof! Mooo! Cuack!!! (Maybe the bird has Kirby powers and obtains the abilities of the animals it eats)."
1943,鶴,crane,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The original version of the ""Ugly Duckling"" was about a crane who grew up in a turkey coop. All the other birds made fun of it for not having a wattle or a snood or fanning its tail... STORY2: Do you know how cranes came to be? Well, they used to keep the poor bird cooped all the time. But the crane really wanted to be free, so it would always streatch its head and neck out of the coop trying to be free."
1944,烏,crow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The book's story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting: As crows are all black, it's hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be. STORY2: A crow is a bird, but not a white one. MEANING: write bird, but skip writing one in white."
1945,蔦,vine,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the jungle there is a flowery vine called hedera rhombea that attracts humming birds by the dozens. They scoot around the flowers sucking up nectar off the vine. STORY2: Note : if you'll remember we already have a primitive for ""ivy"", but it was completely made up from the ""square jewel"" kanji. The kanji here refers to ivy, or vine, and is used in a particular compound for ""Hedera rhombea"", which is a type of ivy native to Japan. This vine here produces a lot of flowers, and attracts many small birds, which is sure to cheer up even the most depressed Japanese gardener."
1946,鳩,pigeon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Feed one pigeon and nine more birds will be swarming you immediately…　RTK2:　On list of rare or no official Chinese reading. STORY2: Imagine some pigeons going to see a baseball game. They would surely be the only birds there!
1947,鶏,chicken,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The vulture's husband is a chicken...heck...who am I to judge their interspecies love? They're both birds so its cool. STORY2: A continuation of mountain stream (#840) (which happens to have the same chinese pronunciation) : the husband who was saved by the great eagle says to his wife that from now on, they will eat chicken ! No more fishing hardships and falling in the water.. just raising birds. Every now and then the great eagle comes to visit and the man offers one of his chicken to the great eagle who had saved his life."
1948,島,island,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,This island is the home of the terrible mythical bird Roc. It sits mighty atop the mountain waiting for the next hapless ship to pass by. STORY2: Birds living on remote mountainous islands have few preditors. Tail feathers aren't really needed are they? Evolutionary process at work!...　RTK2:　トウ　半島　はんとう(peninsula).
1949,暖,warmth,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ducks migrate south for the winter... they follow the warmth of the sun. STORY2: A massive group of migrating ducks is blocking the warmth of the sun as they pass over your house/barbecue/picnic. Their formation is so humongous they block the warmth for a good 10 minutes while they pass over. Mnemonic for the migrating ducks primitive : the migrating ducks stick together like the best of friends, flying together as one (fifth stroke), they are not easy prey for the great eagles / vultures."
1950,媛,beautiful woman,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"As I saw the most beautiful woman on Earth, a flock of migrating ducks passed by and let their poop fly. That just ruined the moment... STORY2: You want to know about a beautiful woman? There's a woman that's so beautiful, the birds migrate to her instead of the sun!"
1951,援,abet,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You abet the escape of migrating ducks by pointing them the way. STORY2: ""Aiding and abetting:"" You are accuse of abetting a drug dealer, by smuggling drugs in migrating ducks. Of course, this means you have to stick your fingers in their mouths."
1952,緩,slacken,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Oh no Spiderman has some migrating ducks stuck in his web, he has to slacken it so they can get out. STORY2: Spiderman is a slacken off. He lays around all day in the park watching migrating ducks...　RTK2:　カン　緩和　かんわ(mitigation)."
1953,属,belong,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"These bugs BELONG TO an extremist group promoting insect independence. They are parading the FLAG of their group, the Nationalist GNATS, and wearing explosives BELTS for their planned terrorist war. STORY2: [WARNING: violent story] Two teams of insects are playing “capture the flag” (ala Unreal Tournament). All of them wear ammunition belts. Here you try to take the flag of the opponent team, when you are faced by an insect: “You’ll get our flag over my dead body!”. You reply: “All your base are BELONG to us!”, shoot him on the head, take the flag and run away. See the drop of blood flowing from his head?"
1954,嘱,entrust,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The commando gnats entrusted their mouths to the translators and what came out was ""All your base are belong to us!"". STORY2: If you entrust me with something, my mouth belongs to you."
1955,偶,accidentally,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mr. T accidentially stepped on Jiminy Cricket (a brainy insect, with a belt sort of sash to hold his ""conscience"" badge). STORY2: Mr. T accidentally steps on Jiminy Cricket. // Primitive: right side: Talking cricket = Jiminy Cricket, a brainy insect with a belt to whip little kids who misbehave."
1956,遇,interview,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I was finally able to score an interview with the wisest being around: Jiminy Cricket. However, his schedule is really packed, so they had to squeeze me in while his tour bus rode between gigs. In fact, it was really short---after a few miles I was kicked out of the bus and stranded in the middle of the interstate. But man, it was worth it! STORY2: On the road to my interview I accidentally bump into Jiminy Cricket who gives me some good advice."
1957,愚,foolish,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"""Don't be foolish!"" says Jiminy Cricket as he lashes you with his belt. Follow logic, like me, not your heart. STORY2: I simply imagine Jiminy Cricket jumping all over the place, like a mad man, yelling ""yeeeeehaaaaa!"". Maybe he just fell in love? Mnemonic - ""Jiminy Cricket has a foolish heart""."
1958,隅,corner,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Jiminy Cricket has a favorite corner he likes to slip into at The Pinnacle for a long drink. STORY2: Oh how the pious fall from their lofty pinnacles! Jiminy Cricket now deals drugs on the street corner.
1959,逆,inverted,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"There's a road that's been inverted- it's gone from horizontal to directly vertical! The only beast that could possibly climb it is a mountain goat of course. STORY2: This reminds me of a cartoon I saw once, perhaps it was with Donald Duck. he is startled and furious when he chases this mountain billygoat further and further up the mountain road, untill the angle is so steep that he finds himself inverted. And falls down, while the goat stands solidly placed inverted and laughs a goaty laughter as Donald plumments and makes that typical Donald shaped cartoon crater at the bottom."
1960,塑,model,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A legend says that if you model a mountain goat (with tail and everything) from dirt and leave to the light of the moon on the first day of the month (#2846), the dirt will became flesh. (blackstockc). STORY2: If you model a mountain goat from ""soil"" and leave it under the full ""moon,"" it will come to life."
1961,岡,Mount,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"White mount , Fuji mount , olympus mount whatever ....The choice is yours but wherever you go they sell those snowglobe souvenir : under a GLASS HOOD you can see the mount with a MOUTAIN GOAT standing on top of it .... So kitsch you just can't forget it . STORY2: This has the same meaning as 丘, so my ""Mount"" is a hill with mountain goats on it under a glass canopy. It's obviously an effort by the locals to add some Mount atmosphere to their hill. As a primitive, it has the meaning ""sturdy"" (really), which Heisig has not used for some reason, but I will. The glass canopy must be pretty sturdy to keep the goats inside (bulletproof glass, I'm sure)."
1962,鋼,steel,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Mount Fuji is completely made up of a metal known as steel. STORY2: Ancient shamans predicted a time when there would be Mounts made of metal. The steel skyscrapers of today…　　　　　　　　RTK2: 　コウ　鋼鉄　こうてつ(steel)…　Semi-Pure Group:　綱1963　(ｺﾞｳ): 剛1964.
1963,綱,hawser,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Spiderman saves Japan from floating away by tying Mt. Fuji to mainland Asia using a hawser made of web. STORY2: A sturdy thread is equally obviously hawser (heavy rope). (see previous frame).
1964,剛,sturdy,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Mount everest is very sturdy, you can hit it all day with a saber and it wont even wobble. STORY2: Anything sturdy in Japan is associated with Mount Fuji. Perhaps this is because it's symmetry is believed to make it rather sturdy itself, unlike all those crooked mountains that are around and tend to fall apart (think rock slides, avalanches, etc.). Here we see Sturdy-brand sabers with Mount Fuji engraved on the blade."
1965,缶,tin can,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Horses kept in the mountains have a unique savory taste. At least so the text on this tin can would have us believe, which contains 100% authentic mountain horse. STORY2: The starving horse, stranded on the mountain, is forced to eat a tasty tin can."
1966,陶,pottery,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At The Pinnacle, traditional pottery is done by binding up a bunch of tin cans into whatever pot shape desired. STORY2: In order the get clay up to the Acropolis for the pottery class, clay is packed into tin cans, bound in huge loads, and lugged up there by some unfortunate soul."
1967,揺,swing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I keep swinging gleefuly on the talons of the soaring condor until he slices off my fingers and sends me plummeting. STORY2: For the condor primitive: A condor is like a vulture, but twice as big and it lives near mountains (a suitable place for such a majestic bird). For swing: I'm sitting on a swing when a condor comes by and picks up the whole swing set with its big finger-like claws and now I'm swinging in mid-air. Weeeeeeeee!!!!!"
1968,謡,Noh chanting,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Noh chanting?!? I meant ""NO CHANTING!"" Now all you, just shut up! Not another word! Don't you know that chanting can provoke attacks from the local condor? So, no chanting, and especially no Noh chanting. STORY2: Picture guy dressed in a condor mask up on stage during Noh performance chanting some words nobody understands."
1969,就,concerning,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In the capital they have been having hearings concerning bioethics and bioengineering they call as their first witness a chihuahua with one human leg. STORY2: Ahem...CONCERNING your recent science fair project, it was a CAPITAL idea, but the CHIHUAHUA with a HUMAN LEG is freaking out the other contestants!"
1970,懇,sociable,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The skunk here is Pepe LePew of Looney Tunes fame. He's a very sociable skunk, as far as skunks go, but instead of having a ""heart of gold"" he has a heart of silver (since he always finishes second in the game of love). STORY2: The skunk here is Pepe LePew of Looney Tunes fame. He's a very sociable skunk, as far as skunks go, but instead of having a ""heart of gold"" he has a heart of silver."
1971,墾,groundbreaking,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"It was the groundbreaking of the new farm, but there was an uninvited guest to the ceremony. It was a famous skunk, the one with the familiar silver stripe. The feet of the crowd rushing from the ceremony site churned up the soil very nicely. The ceremony was ruined but the groundbreaking was a great success. STORY2: I got sprayed by a skunk, so no one is helping me with the groundbreaking of my farm. On a positive note, I found silver laying all over the soil. Mine all mine!"
1972,免,excuse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Obviously this is the rabbit from Alice, excusing himself and rushing away on his legs, as he has a binding day schedule. This is at the same time an image, with bound=ears, day=head and legs are just legs. The image is used in rabbit (#2093). STORY2: What is the rabbit's excuse for being such a jerk? Well he was bound up for a whole day while being stepped on by peoples human legs in some make-up labratory. Yeah I think I can excuse him after knowing that."
1973,逸,elude,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tip : as a primitive rabbit becomes Bugs Bunny of Looney Tunes fame. Here Bugs Bunny eludes Elmer Fudd the hunter, once again. STORY2: Bugs Bunny eludes Elmer Fudd by pretending to be roadkill."
1974,晩,nightfall,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At nightfall the sun excuses itself and goes to sleep. STORY2: Imagine Bugs Bunny halfway sticking out of a rabbit hole, somewhere in Japan, taking in the sun, when all of a sudden, night falls. Our ""sun-loving rabbit"" burrows his way into the earth and pops out on the other side of the planet (say somewhere in America) and there it is, the sun high and bright in the sky! Thus, whenever it is nightfall you can be sure our ""sun-loving rabbit"" is taking in the sun somewhere else accross the globe."
1975,勉,exertion,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Notice how BUGS BUNNY's legs (hint about stroke extension) are starting to get big MUSCLES? It must be because he's always EXERTING himself on the run from Elmer Fudd (or from kicking the shit out of Elmer Fudd when he catches up!!). STORY2: Hint: Energizer bunny.
1976,象,elephant,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"An elephant has huge ears, like a rabbit, and a big, fat body, like a sow. STORY2: An animal with huge ears like a rabbit, and a body fat like a pig... ¡An ELEPHANT! For the ""phenomenon"" connotation you could use Dumbo, or Joseph Merrick (the ""elephant man"") ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick )."
1977,像,statue,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The statue of liberty is being replaced by a statue of Mr. T riding an elephant. STORY2: In India, you see a lot of statues of the Hindu god Ganesha. Easy to recognize: he's the person with the elephant head."
1978,馬,horse,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Turkey with the drops at the top removed and tail feathers added (this matches stroke order and there are the tail feathers already, why not have the whole bird). If you take the two drops of 隹 as wings, then horses are like turkeys, but have no wings and have more prominent tail ""feathers"". Both are actually supposed to be pictographs, though. STORY2: The top part is half a comb (see frame 1920) with an extra vertical stroke to account for a sturdier version used to comb a horse mane. As a primitive I used the theme of the Trojan Horse. Not the modern computer viruses, but the large wooden horse which led to the demise of Troy and of the Trojans. Either its size (much greater than a live horse), or the fact that it conceals things into its belly, will set it appart from the horse primitive that came in frame 568 (""noon"")."
1979,駒,pony,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The cute little innocent-looking plastic pony on the desk of a student is in fact a trojan horse, hiding phrases in its belly which are used for cheating during an exam. No pony will be permitted on desks during tests! STORY2: A particular My Little Pony has a string that when you pull it, it repeats the same dumb phrase like ""I love you""."
1980,験,verification,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,We just verification that there are indeed no soldiers in the belly of this trojan horse. We're just gonna stab it in the belly with this awl to check. STORY2: The verification proves the horse is real by poking it with an ice pick.
1981,騎,equestrian,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If the equestrian team used trojan horses, it would be really strange. STORY2: Equestrian events are where you get horses to do strange things."
1982,駐,parking,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Parking in the dark may be difficult...specially if you're parking a trojan horse. To lend you a tiny bit of help, take this candlestick with you, and at least you'll have some light. STORY2: In the olden days parking lots used to have reserved spaces for where the lord (of the set of houses, shops, whatever) could park his team of horses. nowadays it's pretty much the same...reserved parking in front for the big bosses' cars...."
1983,駆,drive,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You have to be craaazzzzyy to drive a buggy led by a team of horses through a ward of Tokyo! STORY2: Wolverine drives his box by having a horse drag him around. He seems to really be losing it after coming to the homeless ward...
1984,駅,station,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This reminds me of those infamous Mexican porn movies in which shakuhachi is performed on a horse. Here the deed is being done at a train station. As the passengers get off, so does the horse. STORY2: Anyone living in Japan knows that train stations play little melodies when the train is about to arrive. In Ye Olden Days, when horses and carriages were used for transport, the carriage driver would play a little melody on his shakuhachi to let the passengers know the carriage was arriving at the next station."
1985,騒,boisterous,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The hidden Greeks inside the Trojan Horse are getting boisterous as one of them is bitten in the crotch by a nasty insect. If they don't shut up, the Trojans will hear them... STORY2: Or more precisely: the team of horses are getting boisterous because one of them got bitten in the crotch by a horse fly. The kanji also means to roar, make up noise, to kick up a fuss and to make merry. Perhaps it is exactly the etymology behind this kanji."
1986,駄,burdensome,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The Greek warriors inside the Trojan Horse are complaining about this burdensome plump warrior who is not helping at all (say, just eating candies and watching). - ""You know you're such a burden!"". Note : be sure to keep ""plump"" distinct from the primitive meaning of ""round"" (""fat man""). STORY2: If a passenger is too plump and heavy, its too burdensome for the horse."
1987,驚,wonder,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You stand in AWE at the 8th WONDER of the world, a huge TROJAN HORSE. STORY2: This is another word for surprise. 驚く＝おどろく= surprise. The Trojans stood in awe of the magnificent Trojan Horse that they thought was a gift. But imagine their surprise (wonder) when a bunch of Greeks came rushing out of it! (To further cement the connection between the primitives, if needed: It's a wonder that the Trojans managed to speak keigo 敬語 even then, saying ""わたくしたちを殺さないでください!!お願い致します!!"")."
1988,篤,fervent,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A fervent horse doesnt need to be whipped with a bamboo stick during a race, it will go fast by itself. STORY2: A fervent history otaku rebuild the the Trojan Horse. But since he was Japanese, he used bamboo instead of normal wood."
1989,騰,inflation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Every quarter moon, the cost of a trojan horse rises one quarter by inflation. STORY2: Flesh+quarter=McDonald's quarter pounder. Due to inflation, McDonald's has had to start making quarter pounders out of horse meat."
1990,虎,tiger,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Magic wand + first two strokes of pelt (皮) + diced + human legs. A wizard who turns people he doesn't like into newts with his magic wand goes for variety - he has always wanted a tiger pelt - but things go awry when the tiger promptly dices and eats him, leaving only a pair of legs. (a fitting end for a wicked wizard). STORY2: Tigger, the tiger, (from Pooh stories) is happy to have found a magic wand. Using it he can bounce up to a the top of a cliff, seven times as high as some human legs could bounce. Tigger thinks ""Its great to be a tiger!"
1991,虜,captive,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Captive men are thrown to the tigers. I think you can imagine something else is done to captive women... STORY2: Tip: To avoid confusing keyword captive with captured (#1018) note that captive contains ""ti"" for tiger."
1992,膚,skin,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ending up in a tiger's stomach is not good for your skin, as it's full of stomach acids. STORY2: TIGGER only has visible SKIN on his STOMACH. The rest of his body is covered in orange fur."
1993,虚,void,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In Japanese folklore there is no hell, but there is the void. There, a row of tigers waits in the blackness to devour those souls who have failed in their spiritual life. STORY2: Warning to Sigfreid and Roy: Your entertainment contract will be null and void unless you can make all the tigers stand in a row."
1994,戯,frolic,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This is a story about the end of the universe. The universe is turning into a featureless void. There's nothing we can do about it except for throw a fiesta and frolic a little bit before it's all over. STORY2: Sigfreid and Roy's contract having been voided, the tiger is free to frolic about at the fiesta."
1995,虞,uneasiness,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The dentist couldn't help but feel uneasiness as he used his hand crank mouth tool on the tiger in his chair. STORY2: My dear friend, a Bengali merchant, gave me a tiger as a birthday present. I felt uneasiness, knowing that I'll have to reject it. Or was it horror?"
1996,慮,prudence,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Real meaning: ""to ponder"". You have to think with prudence (ponder carefully) about approaching a tiger, as is evident from 虎. STORY2: You have to think with prudence about approaching a tiger. If not, it will eat your brains and heart. Thanks raulir."
1997,劇,drama,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A great Indian drama acted out every year is how a poor Bengali boy fended off the tigers from his pigs using only a sabre. STORY2: If you thought ""The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe"" was full of drama then you'll love ""The Tiger the Sow and the Sword""."
1998,虐,tyrannize,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Here we see the evil tyrannizing tiger. What is on his chest? A giant E, for EVIL, of course. STORY2: The ""E"" shape actually means claws here, and the real etymology is a tiger tyrannizing other animals with its claws (the etymologies actually make sense once in a blue moon!). I think of the claws here as two hooks, representing the front paws. (stroke order of that part: 二＋last of 直)."
1999,鹿,deer,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bambi wanders into a cave and sees a side order of salad and 2 spoons...but what's the main course? STORY2: Santa's reindeer, Rudolf, opens a nightclub in a cave. It's popular with all the deer and reindeer in the world. The cave speciality is a salad w/ dressing on the side. There is no other deer club that can compare. How many other deer nightclubs are there?"
2000,薦,recommend,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Picture an ad in which Uncle Jimbo (of ""South Park"" fame) recommends the latest craze in deer hunting : a high tech slingshot! The ad begins with Bambi prancing around, smelling the flowers. Then, all of a sudden, Bambi is brutally murdered with the slingshot, put on the cooking fire, and the camera pans to Uncle Jimbo happily munching on crispy cooked Bambi! Note: the slingshot is strokes 11-12. STORY2: It is recommended that deers stick to eating flowers. If they try to eat birds, they may end up choking on them, like this one here. Note that the head (白) is gone and the visible part of the body which is normally written with a stroke of the head must by necessity be drawn with a stroke of the tail."
2001,慶,jubilation,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"In this kanji, ""deer"" replaces the ""head"" primitive from the ""melancholy"" kanji. Poor Ned is feeling melancholy so Uncle Jimbo (of South Park animated series) suggests a good deer huntin' trip to fix that and turn that melancholy into jubilation. STORY2: Bambi was melancholy at the death of his mother, but is now in jubilation as he's made friends with thumper."
2002,麗,lovely,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The anthropologist made an exact deer painting from the cave ceiling on the ceiling of his house. Too bad they're both mediocre. All his wife could say was, ""How...lovely."". STORY2: Lovely bambi.... pictographe : just take a look at those innocent open eyes (part 1 it's not more far fetched than seeing mediocre in it) with thin eyebrows what a lovely deer ...(part 2)."
2003,熊,bear,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Most don't know it, but bears have the ability to walk on fire. They're invincible creatures! STORY2: Note : I don't know why James Heisig put ""bear"" ahead of ""ability"" (next frame), but I sugget to skip this, learn the next kanji (""ability"") then go back here and use ability as a primitive."
2004,能,ability,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The amputee has no hands but only stumps of flesh beneath his elbows. To give him the ability to eat he has two spoons implanted in his arm stumps, one in each side. STORY2: Kid from the Oracle's place in the Matrix (whose head is shining like the moon) is holding a a spoon and making it bend using his special ability. When Neo asks to learn this ability the child replies, "" Remember the truth Neo, there is no spoon."" Neo Proceeds to the kitchen pondering these words of wisdom. The Child smiles mischeviously and pulls a second spoon hidden up his sleeve in the crook of his elbow. ""That's right Neo,"" the child laughs, ""there is no spoon...there are two spoons!""."
2005,態,attitude,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"This guy has an attitude problem – lots of ability, but his heart's not in it. STORY2: Having a good attitude means believing in your heart that you have the ability to do anything - like memorizing more than 2000 kanji, for example."
2006,寅,sign of the tiger,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"If you draw the sign of the tiger on the ceiling of your house, you will sprout tiger's legs (animal legs) and be able to run and pounce like the big cats yourself. STORY2: The sign of the tiger is that he's eaten all of the yellow (#1750) salad in the house."
2007,演,performance,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"That was some great performance! He caused the water to shoot up into the air and form the sign of the tiger in airborne droplets. You sure missed a great performance! STORY2: I remember seeing advertisements growing up with the sign of the tiger saying to ""Put a tiger in your tank"", meaning that it would increase the performance of the drops of gasoline you put in."
2008,辰,sign of the dragon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bruce Lee is such a badass he climbed a sheer vertical cliff using only 2 hairpins. STORY2: The kid said ""I don't believe you! Dragons don't exist!"" so we made a little surprise for him: we pinned a huge dragon (it was just a sign really) on a nearby cliff. ""Whoaaa! Dragon!"" the kid said. ""But why won't it move?"" ""I tell you why, cause it's pinned there with two hairpins"" I thought to myself."
2009,辱,embarrass,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"During the shooting of one of his first movies in China, Bruce Lee fell through the cheaply built movie set, and into a barrel of glue. As you can imagine, to put Bruce Lee in that position must have caused great embarass to the chinese producer. Note the hints in the story for the position of the primitives. STORY2: Bruce Lee is embarrassed when he does a high kick and splits his pants. He has to glue them back together."
2010,震,quake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bruce Lee has magical abilities in his newest movie. He can conjure rain and earthquakes. STORY2: A la Kung Fu Hustle, Bruce Lee descends from the storm and causes an earthquake by smashing the ground."
2011,振,shake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Bruce Lee shakes the confidence of his opponents by simply waving his fingers in front of them, they know that each of them is a deadly weapon in their own right. Hwwaaaa... STORY2: Your fingers will be crushed if you shake hands with Bruce Lee."
2012,娠,with child,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Any woman spending a night with the virile Bruce Lee is bound to end up with child. STORY2: BRUCE LEE'S WOMAN was WITH CHILD and it really upset her stomach because little Brandon Lee was kicking ass from the inside.
2013,唇,lips,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"I love Bruce Lee dubbing. His lips move, but sometimes words don't come out of his mouth. STORY2: Bruce Lee says ""Read my lips..."", but when I try to, his mouth isn't moving with the dialogue."
2014,農,agriculture,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The most unlikely persons in the world to take up agriculture must be Bender and Bruce Lee. An awkwared moment as they stare on the various farming utensils, hoe, plow. Both with straw hats on and blue overalls, and drawn in Groenigs irrevent style. STORY2: Bruce Lee is tough. But so is agricultural work. If Bruce took it up, even he would hurt his back from all the bending."
2015,濃,concentrated,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The agriculture of Florida is concentrated on making concentrated orange juice. Just add water! Imagine a can of FCOJ, dumping it into a pitcher and adding water. STORY2: Concentrated water is going to revolutionize the agriculture! Just add water... oh wait..."
2016,送,send off,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"After worshipping the golden calf, God sent the Jews on a long road through the wilderness. STORY2: The problem with the ""gold calf"" primitive is that the first vertical stroke of ""heavenly"" is shorter than the second stroke. But as we know, ""heavenly"" clearly has the FIRST stroke longer, not the second. The primitives we really have here are ""animal horns (first 3 strokes)"" and ""big/dog (last 3 strokes)."" What are the BIGGEST ANIMAL HORNS that you can think of? For me its a MASTODON. STORY: In caveman times, you SENT OFF packages with the MASTODON express."
2017,関,connection,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The golden calf is sent to the gates of Hell for it's connection to false idols. STORY2: There's a weird connection between worshipping the golden calf and visiting the gates of Hell.
2018,咲,blossom,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,Evil blossoms from the mouths of those who worship the golden calf. (Playing it safe and avoiding the image of a flower completely). STORY2: Blossom is an elegant euphemism for the precise part of the golden maiko that commands such a price in gold when she is 'deflowered'. (Along the lines of 'jade pillar' and 'lotus flower' in certain Asian texts.) [See my 2016-2018 for this sad tale.].
2019,鬼,ghost,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"A ghost, or oni, wandering slowly on its human legs, searching for brains to eat. What looks like an elbow here is actually a pictoral representation of the forked tail protruding out of its rear. STORY2: Ghosts aren't very intelligent - they have but a drop of brains - so can't tell the difference between an elbow and a pair of human legs."
2020,醜,ugly,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The ugly oni can't get a date so he drinks sake by himself at the bar. STORY2: Drinking too much whisky can make you as ugly as an oni.
2021,魂,soul,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"When we die, our soul rises up in a ghostlike rising cloud of mist up to heaven (we hope) (Adapted from darg_sama,28-10-2005). STORY2: When you die, your SOUL either goes to the RISING CLOUDS (heaven) or to the ONI (hell, the devil)."
2022,魔,witch,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The witch sold me some hemp that made me see ghosts don't do drugs. STORY2: This modern version of the witch lives in some hippie community. She smokes a lot of hemp, and spends the day talking to ghosts, which not surprisingly appears only to her."
2023,魅,fascination,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Ghosts have not yet left the world, they must still have a deep fascination with their past life on Earth. STORY2: Here the ""Ghostbusters"" founder talks about his fascination for ghosts (picture Dan Arkroyd in the movie if that helps). He says he has a fascination for ghosts ever since he saw one as a teenager. Since then he's been scouring all of the world, trying to capture them on tape, on video... A journalist asks ""When will it end ? Aren't you tired of chasing ghosts ?"" ""Oh no, not yet ! Not until I become a ghost myself anyway !""."
2024,塊,clod,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Without any weapons, our only defense was to throw clods of dirt at the advancing zombie horde. STORY2: Easy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem (or if you prefer, http://schwicky.net/xfiles/episodes/4/kaddish/)."
2025,襲,attack,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The top 16 strokes are the chinese radical for ""dragon"". Joining up both meanings of the radical we can name the top part of this kanji ""imperial dragon"". Two-headed snakes do exist as biological curiosities, and they look a bit like a slingshot (with the heads splitting at a junction). Our imperial dragon here, the pet of a Chinese emperor, is a rare ""three-headed slingshot-snake"" kept in a vase and fed with meat. When the emperor attacked neighbours, his army wore the imperial dragon garment. STORY2: You attack an old dragon 龍 and take his clothes. REF: dragon [old] (#2981)."
2026,嚇,upbraid,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"To upbraid someone, you criticize them in a menacing way. In other words, you jaw at them with your MOUTH until both sides of their face turn RED (hence the double-red). STORY2: Tip: Heisig later names 赫 ""red + red"" as incandescent (#2908). Story: ""So the boss upbraided you, huh?"". ""Yep, his mouth was incandescent."
2027,朕,majestic plural,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"The king says ""Only We are allowed to partake of the flesh of the golden calf."". STORY2: The golden calf is about the difference between monotheism (one king) and paganism (majestic plural). By giving a flesh offering to the golden calf, the rebellious Israelites showed they still believed in the majestic plural."
2028,雰,atmosphere,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"(This is atmosphere as in ambiance, mood). Rain is only part of the atmosphere for a romantic porch date. Food, music, and candles are the rest. STORY2: The part of the sky that is responsible for weather and rain is known as the atmosphere. It only occupies part of the sky though."
2029,箇,item,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You've entered in a chinese shop where apparently the only item in sale is old, dusty, hardened bamboo (for construction for example). It looks like these items have been there forever. Asking the clerk if anything else is available, he doesn't understand and instead asks - ""Two items? Three items?"" (the kanji is a counter for items) - thinking you want to buy something. STORY2: Dragon Quest - You find a hardened bamboo stick, perfect for a weapon, but you can't pick it up because your items are full."
2030,錬,tempering,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Tempering should be done with the metal facing east. (If not, the metal may pick up the earth's magnetic field). STORY2: In the East, especially Japan ...there are masters of tempering metal to great strength....on the Spring of Trivia show in Japan I saw how a Japanese sword ...actually split flying bullets...all because of special Eastern tempering techniques."
2031,遵,abide by,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,You must abide by the revered rules of the road! No devil's brew and stay glued to your lane in the road! STORY2: Even the most revered person must still abide by the rules of the road -- no exceptions are granted to anyone.
2032,罷,quit,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"My eye doesn't seem to have the ability to quit staring at her...　　　　　RTK2:　ヒ　罷業　ひぎょう(a walkout). STORY2: Hey, screw you! Don't you look down on me! I have the ability to quit anytime I want!"
2033,屯,barracks,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The game characters from Worms sleep in their barracks at night. STORY2: Earthworm jim sleeps in a barracks because he is a soldier... apparently.
2034,且,moreover,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Moreover is a literary term to shelve what you had just been talking about, to come back to it later. STORY2: Same as darg_sama. Play on words. I imagine visiting someone who has an impressive collection of medals and trophies (chess champion, for example). After spending an hour showing you all the trophies in the glass shelf, you think ""Whew! It's over."" ... but the person says ""... and wait, there's ""moreover"" !"", pointing at more trophies lined atop the glass shelf."
2035,藻,seaweed,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Let wooden goods = furniture. Then: Walking along the sea shore you see some washed-up furniture with water (waves) splashing against it. From a distance it looks like flowers are growing out the top, but as you get closer you see it is in fact seaweed. STORY2: Take seaweed (water + flower) and hang it to dry in a tree to produce nori goods."
2036,隷,slave,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,The samurai sits on the altar and watches the slave rake rice all day. STORY2: The samurai from goodwill (#1097) maintains his good mood on his wedding day. He tells his slave that he can keep all rice (used for confetti) that he rakes up after the ceremony. Generous Man!!
2037,癒,healing,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"At the butcher's meeting, all the butcher's who have a heart disease attend the faith healing workshop. STORY2: Note: meeting of butchers + heart are later combined into 愈 in the nick of time (#2433). Story: For healing to take place, you must catch the sickness in the nick of time."
2038,丹,cinnabar,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"How about a rusty cinnabar colored dilapidated boat, found abandoned somewhere. The smoke-stack and the keel have fallen off... STORY2: Rusty old boat with the bottom and top missing."
2039,潟,lagoon,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Right part: mortar bound up over oven fire, comprising boiling cauldron. Lagoon is a shallow pond, thus easily warmed by sun, large-scale equivalent of a boiling cauldron. STORY2: I stapled both sides of some tail feathers to a waterfall towering over the lagoon to give it a more tropical feel…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　On list of rare or no official Chinese reading."
2040,丑,sign of the cow,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Pictograph of a stanchion, which includes two vertical posts to restrain cows so they can be milked, with a horizontal stroke showing the number of cows per stanchion: one. A stanchion is a great symbol for the SIGN OF THE COW, since modern, domesticated cows are often stanchioned in barns. STORY2: 77 cows behind a fence."
2041,卯,sign of the hare,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"You know how missing childrens' pictures often appear on milk cartons? Well here we have a missing hare. His concerned family is having his picture printed on the backs of receipts and even on stamps. So far, however, there has been no SIGN OF THE HARE. STORY2: rabbit ears."
2042,巳,sign of the snake,0,0000-00-00 00:00:00,"Haha! If you are reading this then I beat you. You went too slow, browsed the forum too long, or stayed out too late with your Japanese girl/boyfriend, whilst I, Kanji Master (you may call me 'sir'), sat alone in my room with a leaky pen and a clawed grip. All your kanji are belong to me, Heisig. And just remember; I beat you. STORY2: The snake likes stealing pieces from mosaics, so if you notice your mosaic has a piece missing, that’s a sign of the snake."