漢字二 Flashcards
一
One
二
Two
三
Three
四
Four
五
Five
六
Six
七
Seven
八
Eight
九
Nine
十
Ten
口
Mouth
日
Day
月
Month
田
Rice field
目
Eye
古
Ancient
Ten - mouth
Pictograph of a tombstone
胡
Recklessly
Ancient - moon
A new moon is an empty moon, when the moon is ancient, it means it is a full moon, which means a lot of werewolves are going to start acting recklessly
吾
I (literary)
Five - mouth
The place where the original I exists is my head, where I have five mouths (2 ears, 2 nostrils and 1 mouth)
朋
Companion
Flesh - flesh
The first companion of the existence was Eve, when Adam saw her, he exclaimed “flesh of my flesh”
明
Bright
Sun - moon
Millions of years ago, the only bright elements the earth had was the sun and the moon
品
Goods
Mouth - mouth - mouth
The goods are all the articles the companies sell to the insatiable mouths of our consumerism society
晶
Sparkling
Sun - sun - sun
When you reflect the rays of the sun in a crystal diamond, you’ll have a great sparkling on your eyes
昌
Prosperous
Sun - sun
Think of Tatooine, a prosperous planet with an almost infinite daytime, it’s almost never night in that planet, so the skin hydration of their population is prosperous
唱
Sing
Mouth - 2 mouths with wagging tongues
Think of the mouth as a director of the chorus and the wagging tongues as the chorus, singing the most beautiful song of all times
早
Early
Sun - needle
Imagine a sunflower with needles for stem, receiving the early sunlight with all of her friends
旭
Rising sun
Baseball bat - sun
Think of the flag of the rising sun, being held by a baseball bat for flagpole
世
Generation
3 Tens
Imagine a generation of 30 years, you only need to join 3 十
胃
Stomach
Brain - part of the body
The part of the body that keeps the brain working is our stomach, while we feed it, it feeds our entire body
旦
Daybreak
Sun - floor
Imagine a sun poking its head through the horizon
凹
Concave
凸
Convex
自
Oneself
A drop of - eye
The chinese usually point themselves at the nose, that drop in between their eyes
白
White
A drop of - sun
If you take the rays of the sun and compress them in a single dros, you get the white color, it represents the combination of all the colors natural light provides
百
One hundred
One - white
Chinese people say that your 99th birthday is your white year, because if you remove 1 to a 100, you get white
皂
Soap
White - cut
Here we take the sense of cut from 七, giving us this legendary item that cuts through dust and mud, leaving all kind of surfaces white, we are talking about soap
中
Middle (n/adj)
Mouth - stick
It would be horrible if you had a stick jammed between your mouth
千
Thousand
Eyedropper - ten
Imagine an eyedropper, dropping two ceros behind the ten
舌
Tongue
Thousand and mouth
We say that a thousand people share a tongue when they speak the same language, a thousand mouths sharing the same tongue
升
Liter
Thousand - needles
Imagine a cup with a liter of a thousand sharp needles, and the first persona who drinks it will win a thousand dollars
昇
Rise up
Sun - liter
Visualize a morning sun rising up from your liter coffee cup when you have a specific perspective of your window
丸
Pill
Baseball team - a drop of
Imagine a baseball team that constantly uses performance-enhancing drugs, they have their throats full of those small round objects
卜
Divination
Imagine a magic wand that helps you to divinate the future of your family and friends
占
Tell fortunes
Magic wand - mouth
The person who tells your fortune uses a magic want to see your future and then tells it to you
上
Above
Magic wand - floor
A magic want suspended above the floor
下
Below
Ceiling - magic wand
A magic wand floating below the ceiling
卡
Card
Above - below
A shopkeeper moving our credit card above and below desperately because the machine doesn’t recognise it, she moves it until there’s nothing but a strip of plastic
卓
Eminent
Magic wand - sun flower
An eminent person is someone well-known who uses a sunflower as a magic wand to transform the world in whatever he or she wants
朝
Dynasty
Mist - moon
To preserve the mystery of the dynasty, every time the emperors son is going to take the place of his father, they rain mist and light it with the moon so one realizes that the emperor changed
嘲
Ridicule (v)
Mouth - dynasty
Someone who wants to lose their tongue should ridicule the regent dynasty, bluffing all kind of lies and nonsense about their current leaders
只
Only
Mouth - animal legs
Picture this rare kind of animal, consisting only in a giant mouth and a pair of legs, like a Pac-Man, so rare that it is the only of its kind
貝
Shellfish
Eye - animal legs
Here, we see a shellfish consisting in an eye with legs, walking and scaring everybody on its way
貼
Paste
Shellfish - tell fortunes
A shellfish is pasting a lot of advertisements to promote its services as a fortune teller
貞
Chaste
Magic wand - shellfish
Here we see a shellfish wandering all around the world, looking for a true chaste man that can only be found with a special magic wand
員
Employee
Mouth - shellfish
Every employee needs a shellfish shutting their mouth so they can’t ask for promotions or basic human rights
見
See
Eye - human legs
The action of seeing was discovered by humans, but an special kind of humans that consist only in an eye with legs
元
Beginning
Two - human legs
In the beginning, the only human legs that wandered through the world were Adam’s and Eve’s
頁
Page
One - a drop of - shellfish
Here we see a shellfish-book, that consists in only one page, which contains a drop of the world’s wealth, a singular pearl
頑
Stubborn
Beginning - head
Cain and Abel were one of the humans in the beginning of the existence, they were truly stubborn, which also means they were hard-headed
凡
Ordinary
Wind - a drop of
If something is ordinary, no one will notice it, it’ll be like a “drop in the wind”
肌
Muscle
Part of the body - small table
When people are trying to compete about who’s the strongest, they place their strongest part of the body on a small table to arm-wrestle
負
Defeated
Bound up - shellfish
When 2 shellfish fight against each other, the winner binds up the loser, that can only remain laid on the ground, defeated and humiliated
勻
Uniform (adj)
Bound up - two
If an elementary school wants their group to be uniformed, they need to order them to bind up their feet so no one can move from their position
句
Sentence (n)
Bound up - mouth
A sentence is just a bunch of words bound up so they can fit in your mouth
旬
Decameron
Bound up - day
This is a period of ten days bound up
勺
Ladle
Bound up - a drop of
When you use a ladle, you bind up all the drops you can of whatever you are eating
的
Bull’s eye
White bird - ladle
Imagine a small bull’s eye inside of a ladle, its center is a small white bird that twit every time you hit it
首
Heads
Horns - nose
This character refers to all kinds of heads, like the ones the hunters have on their walls; there, the thing that everyone notes first are their horns and noses
直
Straight
Ten - eye - floor
A group of 5 scientists work to draw a straight line on the floor, then, their 5 eyes analyze the line to verify that the line is indeed straight