404-603 Flashcards
509染dye
Many Japanese people have black hair, but many DYE their hair like a WOOD-like color. All you have to do is add WATER and wait NINE hours!
553羨envious
This SHEEP lives in the second floor of the sheep house, and has obviously been forgotten by the farmer. In LACK of WATER, it is now facing a slow death, while being ENVIOUS of the other SHEEP downstairs who drinks as much as they want.
513県prefecture
In the universe, a prefecture is as important as a LITTLE EYE OF A NEEDLE.
528改reformation
St. Patrick, who brought Christianity to and reformed Ireland, was known for driving the SNAKES out of the island, thus being the most famous SNAKE TASKMASTER in that time.
594磨grind
The CAVEMEN GRINDS the HEMP with a STONE before giving the final delicate product to the dealers.
552達accomplished
Image you hit a SHEEP to death while driving at the road. You want to avoid trouble, and starts to dig down the SHEEP in a hole next to the road. You’re happy when the last SOIL and DIRT is on top of the SHEEP; your task is ACCOMPLISHED and you can hit the ROAD.
501曽formerly
This primitive (named for it’s associations with the kanji of the following frame) is composed of a pair of HORNS growing out of a BRAIN with a TONGUE WAGGING in the MOUTH beneath. Think of “former” in connection with administrators or heads of state who have just left office but continue to make a nuisance of themselves by advertising their opinions in public policy,
423雲cloud
Here is the full character for CLOUD from which the primitive for a RSING CLOUD derives. CLOUDS begin with vapors RISING UP in small CLOUDS from the surface of the earth, and then gathering to make CLOUDS that eventually dump their RAIN back on the earth.
439商make a deal
See the peddler (person who sells door to door) STANDING atop his MOTORCYCLE HELMET as if it were a soapbox, hawking his ware to passers by. The LEGS and MOUTH represent the tools of the trade of MAKING A DEAL any way you can.
496放set free
The TASKMASTER sets an unruly servant FREE, giving him no more than a quick glance at the COMPASS and a boot from behind.
532砲cannon
This is an old CANNON, this cannon used SARON WRAP and uses ROCKS to fling them to the opposing side.
427冬winter
WALKING LEGS slipping in the ICE are a sure sign of WINTER.
517虫insect
Beetle with a broken horn
568午noon
With a but if stretching, you might see a horse’s head pointing leftward in this character. That gives the primary meaning of the Chinese zodiacal sign of the HORSE, which corresponds to the hour of NOON.
512歳year-end
When the year stops, or ends, our endless MARCH also STOP up a LITTLE but I look back at our achievements – before it starts again trying I make next year even better.
539逐pursue
While driving on the ROAD, you suddenly see a whole bunch of SOWS(fucking pigs) blocking the road. You step out if the car, trying to PERSUADE them to move.
502増increase
This kanji depicts an increase if SOUL, multiplying so fast that it literally buries everything in it’s path.
546湯hot water
Imagine your PIGGY BANK was left in the sun for too long, and is now glowingly hot. You pour some cold WATER into the slot on the back to cool it down, but for a very short time, the WATER became hot – hot water.
488荒laid waste
The FLOWERS that PERISH in the FLOOD are taken here as symbols of an area that has been LAID WASTE. Laid Waste: something that was destroyed
406帆sail
A shitty SAIL made of a TWOWEL makes a MEDIOCRE vessel, which anyone can make.
424曇cloudy weather
We refer to days when the SUN is covered by the CLOUDS as CLOUDY WEATHER.
586回-times
Pictograph of a circle revolving inside another many TIMES faster.
547羊sheep
This pictograph shows the animal HORNS at the top attached to the head (3rd stroke), the front and back legs (strokes 4 and 5) and body (final stroke)
415帯sash
The part of the APRON where one finds the BUCKLE (represented pictorially by the first 5 strokes) is in the SASH.