1004-1203 Flashcards
1004賃fare
ARNOLD is trying to push responsibility of the bus fare over to his PORTER: “you are responsible for the fare! Where’s the FARE SHELL-MONEY?”
1005代substitute
Imagine ARNOLD in one of his movies SUBSTITUTING his toothpick with an ARROW…
1006袋sack
Someone is SACKED from his job, his uniform is taking, and he’s now wearing a potato SACK as a SUBSTITUTE for his GARMENTS.
1007貸lend
When you LEND money to someone, that someone is using your money in SUBSTITUTE for his own SHELLS.
1008化change
MR. T can change a SPOON into a spork using only his teeth
1009花flower
The flowers change with the seasons.
1010貨freight
Imagine some MONEY being FREIGHTED between different countries, the currency automatically CHANGING (magic?) every time it crosses a border.
1011傾lean
Mr. T gave a girl some change to lean over and give him head.
1012何what
What can Mr T do? You mean: what cant MR T do, you fool`
1013荷baggage
TSA guard: What’s in the #baggage#?! It’s just flowers, I swear!
1014俊sagacious
(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
In Japan, the emperor is a bystander - he stands on his crown but can’t really affect the direction of the country. (thx shimouma)
1016久long time
This is maybe a mummy (bound up person) that you naturally haven’t seen for a LONG TIME.
1017畝furrow
•a long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, esp. For planting seeds for irrigation This represents the FURROWS in a TOP HAT, a FIELD, and in the face of a person having lived a LONG TIME (or the furrows if the face you haven’t seen for a long time).
1018囚captured
In one of his movies, ARNOLD is CAPTURED, and PENT into some kind of cage.
1019内inside
While other PERSONS are usually wearing a BELT, ARNOLD prefers to say that “I am inside the BELT” with his charming accent.
1020丙third class
Imagine ARNOLD traveling THIRD CLASS: his head would reach the CEILING and his BELT too short.!
1021柄design
This THIRD CLASS cabin (in a plain) has gotten an improved DESIGN by a TREE standing in the aisle. It didn’t really help.
1022肉meat
INSIDE a person is nothing but MEAT.
1023腐rot
Some MEAT lying in the MUNICIPALITY government CAVE is going ROTTEN. People are too busy to get it processed in time.
1024座sit
Some workers in a an ASSEMBLY LINE (maybe assembling hemp?) has nothing to SIT on but the SOIL during their breaks.
1025卒graduate
This is some GRADUATE ASSEMBLY LINE of a university I know of: they put a TOP HAT on the students and give them a NEEDLE (vaccination) making then forget all bad things about the education level.
1026傘umbrella
This type of UMBRELLA is made by TWO ASSEMBLY LINES: one making the body and one making the handle. They cross in the end where someone tries it out the two parts together.
1027匁monme
“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!”3.75 grams of weight.
1028以by means of
Mr T now makes a living by means of a plow/hoe and the sweat he puts into it.
1029似similar
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
“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
Horror scene: Hanging from the ceiling, a plough and fishhook dripping with blood down onto the #tile#d bathroom floor.
1032瓶flower pot
A flower pot that has been dropped on the floor is like a puzzle of ceramic tiles to glue together.
1033宮Shinto shrine
Here’s a HOUSE-SHRINE, a HOUSE-SHINTO-SHRINE, decorated with SPINES.
1034営occupation
The teacher tells the kid in the SCHOOL HOUSE to straighten their SPINES (sit up straight) if they want a good OCCUPATION in life.
1035善virtuous
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.
1036年year
You know it’s going to be yet other strange YEAR when you see the HORSE wearing SUNGLASSES WITH A LENS POPPED OUT.
1037夜night
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
a wet dream……..water fluid that comes out at night….
1039塚hillock
A small hill•A SOW standing in a HILLOCK of her own dirt, looks so proud that a CROWN is the only thing missing.
1040幣cash
(A small animal with a small belt (which the taskmaster pulls in when something should be shredded). Someone is SHREDDING away false CASH printed on TOWELS before the police comes.
1041弊abuse
Someone (maybe the TASKMASTER) is ABUSING someone by forcing BOTH THEIR HANDW down a SHREDDER.
1042喚yell
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.
1043換interchange
The FOUR BOUND UP ST BERNARD DOGS becomes friendly, and agree to INTERCHANGE some HUMAN FINGERS while they are still BOUND UP…
1044融dissolve
(The left part: a food processor with human legs in it. See the ceiling (lock), the mouth (opening), the hood and spike?) Some BUG are ran in the food processor until they are DISSOLVED in the other ingredients, making it a drink consisting of HUMAN LEGS, BUGS, and maybe other things.
1045施alms
Under their banner, volunteers are requesting alms for scorpion sting victims.
1046旋rotation
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
The BANNER warns that CHILDREN PLAY on the ROAD.
1048旅trip
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.
1049勿not
This kanji is NOT a piglett
1050物thing
A COW is NOT a THING, it’s an ANIMAL.
1051易easy
The sun is not an easy place to get to.
1052賜grant
A grant is easy money.
1053尿urine
This FLAG (yellow?) is shown when they is too much URINE in the swimming pool WATER.
1054尼nun
Red cross nuns sit in a tent under the red cross flag, spooning out food to the hungry.
1055泥mud
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?
1056塀fence
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
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.
1058屋roof
Flag at the climax (highest point) of a castle roof
1059握grip
fingers gripping the roof as your about to fall to your death. Think of an action scene in some movie.
1060屈yield
When yielding, soldiers raise the white flag before exiting from the trenches.
1061掘dig
If you #dig# with your fingers hard enough, soil eventually yields.
1062堀ditch
(See {掘}). When soil finally yielded thanks to your digging efforts, what you have is a #ditch#.
1063居reside
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. {1064}
1064据set
The man #set# his finger firmly on the map and said “Here is where they reside, I am certain of it”.
1065層stratum
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.
1066局bureau
Thinking about the FBI - Bureau - all agents just swear by trusting PHRASES before the FLAG when hired.
1067遅slow
A sheep crossing guard waves a #SLOW# flag for his fellow sheep crossing the road.
1068漏leak
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.
1069刷printing
After PRINTING logos are colored on FLAGS and TOWELS, the workers at the print shop take their SABERS to cut the products into the right sizes.
1070尺shaku
Shaku is about 20 inches, here, a flag is measured.
1071尽exhaust
It’s no doubt EXHAUSTING to use a SHAKUHACHI FLUTE full of ICE.
1072沢swamp
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.
1073訳translate
This magic SHAKUHACHI flute can TRANSLATE your SPEECH into Japanese.
1074択choose
Hand job or “shakuhachi”, choose.
1075昼daytime
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
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.
1077肩shoulder
The SHOULDER is PART OF THR BODY that most often tends to bump into DOORS.
1078房tassel
Explanation here: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=14684#p14684
1079扇fan
It’s insanely hot today! I’m standing in the doorway, fanning myself with feathers.
1080炉hearth
A FIRE proof DOOR keep the FIRE inside this HEARTH (the door to the right)
1081戻re-
The St. Bernard dog whining at the door of his master’s house in order to re-enter / re-turn inside.
1082涙tears
Tears are watery (water + re).
1083雇employ
Our company has no standards. We’ll employ any turkey who walks in the door.
1084顧look back
I was EMPLOYED to give HEAD…when I look back, maybe that was not a wise career move
1085啓disclose
Behind closed DOORS, the TASKMASTER tortures to get prisoners to open their MOUTHS and DISCLOSE information.
1086示show
A boy made an altar, but he’s afraid to show it to God because he thinks it’s two little.
1087礼salutation
SALUTATION (a hand salute in this case) was given to the ALTAR by a veteran with a HOOK for his hand. Just keep that mental picture and you own this kanji.
1088祥auspicious
•conducive to success; favorable•The Jews were before sacrificing SHEEP by the ALTAR yo assure an AUSPICIOUS start of the year or harvest.
1089祝celebrate
When Japanese people turn 20 they usually visit the altar at their local shrine and celebrate no longer being a teenager.
1090福blessing
Someone kneels before the ALTAR asking for BLESSING in the form of WEALTH. And it comes! Imagine a lot of wealth suddenly appears.
1091祉welfare
And in front of every altar, she stopped to pray for the welfare of the others.
1092社company
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.
1093視inspection
As a reaction to the increase in abide by priests, these police INSPECTORS are installing an ALTAR that can SEE what’s going on in the church (with a hidden camera?) to INSPECT the priests at all times,
1094奈Nara
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!
1095尉military officer
This is the Yasukuni war hero shrine which PM koizumi often visit (see the Japanese flag above the altar?) A MILITARY OFFICER is as GLUED to the shrine, standing guard.
1096慰consolation
The MILITARY OFFICER GLUED to the YASUKUNI SHRINE offers CONSOLATION to the HEARTS of the people visiting their forefathers who died in the war.
1097款goodwill
samuari, altar, yawnThe samurai is on the altar, preaching about goodwill. The audience just yawns however, they want to see the man fight!
1098禁prohibition
Have you seen how much things are PROHIBITED when buying a product? It’s PROHIBITED to use the knife as a murder weapon, etc. Well, this kanji shows it’s PROHIBITED to put a whole GROVE in top of an ALTAR - as it would surely break down.
1099襟collar
A collar is the part of your cloak that, if tightened too tight, will prohibit breathing.
1100宗religion
What better sign if RELIGION can you get than an ALTER within God’s HOUSE.
1101崇adore
In ancient Greece, it was the religion of the time to adore the gods who live on Mount Olympus.
1102祭ritual
A ritual such as a circumcision: a small piece of flesh from the crotch is left on the altar.
1103察guess
One can only GUESS what kind of RITUAL are done inside this HOUSE. Maybe something concerning the FLESH of your CROTCH on top of the ALTAR.
1104擦grate
You hear a GRATING sound from somewhere, and GUESS that ogre is GRATING some FINGERS to spice up his dinner.
1105由wherefore
“#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)
1106抽pluck
The ogre is having fun PLUCKING up some HUMAN FINGERS and using them to PLUCK his beard SPROUTS.
1107油oil
You use some WATER-based OIL to wash and clean your beard SPROUTS
1108袖sleeve
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
Jack climbs the SPROUT if the been stalk and up in the MID-AIR, he sees a HOUSE.
1110届deliver
There’s a FLAG SPROUTING up from the mail box when the mail is DELIVERED. In the us.
1111笛flute
This is bit as advanced as the SHAKUHACHI flute, but a flute made out of BAMBOO SPROUTS.
1112軸axis
A CAR is running really fast when suddenly a SPROUT (the only one in miles sight) gets stuck in one if the wheels and make the turn around it’s own AXIS.
1113甲armor
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.
1114押push
An ogre PUSHED some FINGERS down into the earth hoping they will make ROOTS and grow new fingers
1115岬headland
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!)
1116挿insert
After pushing ten THOUSAND FINGERS into down to the earth, the ogre tried to INSERT more in the small piece of land he has.
1117申speaketh
I imagine thomeone who can not pronounth the “s” and speaketh like thith becauth they have a cane in their mouth.
1118伸expand
Here we see Mr. T. expanding his gang with some trained fighter monkeys.
1119神gods
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
The monkey searches around with his fingers for his crotch.
1121果fruit
If only Eve had used her brains and not taken the forbidden fruit from the tree.
1122菓confectionary
CANDYWhen opening a package of peach candy, you have a FLOWERY smell and a FRUITY flavor.
1123課chapter
The first WORDS in the first CHAPTER is what brings FRUIT to a book. Alternatively, the first WORDS in the first chapter if the bible is about the forbidden FRUIT.!
1124裸naked
Here we have Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden fruit and realizing they were naked, and so clothing themselves in a cloak.
1125斤ax
This character represents a picture if an AX, the two vertical lines being the handle and the horizontal stokes of the blade.
1126析chop
This AXE can CHOP down a TREE in just one strike
1127所place
One day when the AXE-MAN returns to his PLACE, he doesn’t bother to open the DOOR but instead AXES his way inside.
1128祈pray
This is from the days when we didn’t have religious freedom - you can see the AXE next to the ALTAR which become destiny for those who didn’t PRAY.
1129近near
As you get NEAR the MURDER SCENE, you can see an AXE on the ROAD.
1130折fold
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
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.
1132逝departed
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.
1133誓vow
Sadako Sasaki vowed to fold 1000 paper cranes and kept her word. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki)
1134暫temporarily
Your CAR is bit by an AXE when you’re driving (some maniac?) meaning it will be TEMPORARILY out of order for some days.
1135漸steadily
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
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
What is this #substance# on this clam? I’ve already broken 2 axes on it! (Good #question#…質問)
1138斥reject
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?
1139訴accusation
Words that make you feel rejected.
1140昨yesterday
YESTERDAY is the DAY you saw before toDAY.
1141詐lie
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.
1142作make
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
RAIN that undergoes a change so that it can be swept aside a BROOM is SNOW.
1144録record
A monk won a gold metal for breaking the current record for most swept rice in one minute.
1145尋inquire
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.)
1146急hurry
She was always bound to a broom, her heart pounding in a hurry to finish before she was punished for being slow.
1147穏calm
This whole kanji is a picture of #calm#ness. 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
“I pity da fool who encroaches on me”. Mr T. is dressed as a French maid (= broom + crown + crotch), working undercover at a hotel that has a problem with guests misbehaving towards female staff.
1149浸immersed
**YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS AND OVER TO SEE THIS **You load SEXY.FRENCH.MAIDS.XViD.avi and you see a French maid, immersed in sperm. Shit close the porno someone is coming!!
1150寝lie down
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!)
1151婦lady
In high society, a lady is a woman who never touches a broom or an apron
1152掃sweep
Whether I SWEEP something away with my FINGERS or my BROOM, I should always wear my APRON
1153当hit
Some mothers use a small broom to hit their children when they misbehave.
1154争contend
A boxing ring is bound up by the ropes. The contender is cheating and using a rake.
1155浄clean
Bottled water marketers contend to make their version of tap water sound the cleanest.
1156事matter
Just one word about this matter from your mouth and you will find this rake across it.
1157唐T’ang
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”.
1158糖sugar
sugar made from rice has a tangy flavour
1159康sane
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
Think police roadblocks. They act like road sieves, letting good people through but apprehending criminals
1161伊Italy
The “boot” of Italy has gotten Europe all muddy. Who else could mop it up but Mr T?
1162君old boy
Some seniors are doing what they have to do a junior saying “Hey OLD BOY, start MOpping This floor!” And sticking a MOP into his MOUTH.
1163群flock
Some “OLE BOYS” are FLOCKING together like SHEEPS (not unusual in Japan), standing in front if their senior who will share some life secrets with them “old boys…”
1164耐-proof
[akrodha] My comb is rust-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof. But unfortunately it is not idiot-proof–and I glued it to myself.
1165需demand
Simple microeconomic logic: when it RAINS, the DEMAND OF COMBS will go up as people would have to take care of their wet hair
1166儒Confucian
No more #Confucian# jibba-jabba! I demand you tell me why it’s raining combs!”
1167端edge
When you stand a comb on its edge, it looks like the {山} kanji.
1168両both
Under one ceiling both took off their belts in Brokeback Mountain
1169満full
Add water THEN the flowers. With both the vase will be #full#.
1170画brush-stroke
Imagine some of your BRUSH-STROKES SPROUTING up to the CEILING and eventually makes them SPROUT themselves (kanji and other starts sprouting in your ceiling) you would need to SHOVEL it away sooner or later.
1171歯tooth
A dentist wants to get the if some RICE between your TEETH with a SHOVEL - but you scream “STOP”
1172曲bend
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.
1173曹cadet
Bender lasted just one day in the space cadets.
1174遭encounter
On his ROAD to the SUN, CADET BENDER has a 3rd degree ENCOUNTER.
1175漕rowing
Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) is rowing, during some army exercise, and he’s very afraid of water (Bender is a robot).
1176槽vat
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).
1177斗Big Dipper
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.
1178料fee
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.
1179科department
University departments study things like wheat (agriculture) and the big dipper (physics/astronomy), and exact measuring cups (engineering).
1180図map
Run away slaves (Pent in) singing about the Drinking Gourd. Which referred to the night time travel of runaway slavea, who used the Big Dipper to guide them, since there were no MAPS.This frames MAP shows the BIG DIPPER
1181用utilize
to tenderize meat in an emergency wilderness situation, just utilize your walking stick!
1182庸comfortable
To live a comfortable life, single men need only a cave for living, a rake for cleaning and a screwdriver for fixing.
1183備equip
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.
1184昔once upon a time
Once upon a time, the children were forced to eat their salad every day.
1185錯confused
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.
1186借borrow
Once upon a time I let Mr T borrow my salad bowl, but he won’t give it back. “This be mine now, foo!”
1187惜pity
Someone’s STATE OF MIND is in a PITY mode, as they didn’t participate in the SALAD DAY and now are so so fat. “It’s a pity I didn’t participate. Better turn off the MIND switch now”
1188措set aside
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 {1184} rather than 旧 {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.)
1189散scatter
The #taskmaster# is dissatisfied with the meal she’s served, and scatters the #salad# & #meat# across the floor for the servants to clean up.
1190廿twenty
a generation is 30, one stroke less is twenty
1191庶commoner
commoners have to huddle in caverns around a campfire, while higher class people get heating and central air conditioning in a hotel
1192遮intercept
The commoners are revolting! We must #intercept# them on the road before they reach the castle!
1193席seat
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).
1194度degrees
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…
1195渡transit
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.pass across or through (an area).
1196奔bustle
The hustle and BUSTLE of this character is depicted by a ST. BERNARD DOG and a HAYSTACK.move in an energetic or noisy manner.
1197噴erupt
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
Depending on how much money you have, you can be buried in the hay, in the dirt, or in a tomb.
1199憤aroused
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!
1200焼bake
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
1201暁daybreak
The sun rising beside a straw man in a corn field is a classic cartoon depiction of daybreak.
1202半half
Imagine karate chopping the number three in half with a WALKING STICK and pausing the picture just as the first “board” breaks.
1203伴consort
Mr. T wants to splits himself in half so he can be his own CONSORT.
