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.
548美beauty
Among Australia SHEEP-farmers, nothing is more BEAUTIFUL than a LARGE SHEEP.
410幌canopy
A large TOWEL stretched overhead with only a few of the SUN’s RAY breaking through represents a CANOPY over one’s bed.
404初first time
CLOAK AND DAGGER. What I leave to you is to decide on an appropriate con nation for FIRST TIME to take advantage of them. First time I played kill zone, I used the CLOAK class for the FIRST TIME, it’s main weapon, a DAGGER.
467吹blow
To BLOW is really no more than a deliberate effort to make one’s MOUTH LACK all the air that is in it.
579困quandary
Someone is planning to build a new opera, but there is a TREE standing in the middle of the suitable property. You are in QUANDARY(perplexity) about if you will PENT the TREE inside the opera to make it a major tourist attraction or cut down the tree to avoid complicated architectural problems.
599忌mourning
You’re MOURNING over a friend who was killed by a special incident: a SNAKE hogged onto his HEART and ripped it out.
578曰sayeth
“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.”
600志intention
In all the history of Japan, there is someone’s INTENTION that was never questioned: the ones coming from a SAMURAI’S HEART.
425雷thunder
The full rumble and roar and terror of THUNDER us bear felt not with your head tucked under your pillow safe in bed, but out in an open RICE FIELD where you can get the real feel of the WEATHER.
571権authority
In this special forest, a TREE and a PEGASUS are the most powerful creatures, currently fighting for AUTHORITY, to be head of the forest.
485亡deceased
A TOP HAT hanging in a HOOK in the front hall, right where the deceased left it the day he died, reminds us of him and his kanji.
472茨briar
Earlier we made mention of the story of Briar Rose (or “sleeping beauty” as we called her in FRAME 165) and drew attention the Briar Hedge that few about her castle. But in the SECOND part of the story, these briars blossomed into FLOWERS. Hence her name, Briar Rose.
524風wind
Imagine you live nearby some swamp, and whenever it had a chance, the WIND picks up a swarm of INSECTS and DROPS it over your place.
414肺lungs
One is surprised, strolling through the MARKET, to find among the MEATS hung out for a sale a slab marked: LUNGS.
450混mix
People have to mix their fluids (have sex), in order to create descendants.
572観outlook
You SEE a PEGASUS flying, and wonder what your OUTLOOK on life would be, if you could see what the PEGASUS can see.
434競vie
Two TEENAGERS at seen here STANDING UP to one another, VYING for the attention of their peers.
541家house
My messy HOUSE is often referred as a SOW sty (pig).
577濯laundry
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.
536竜dragon
The DRAGON here is just painted on the VASE, but you try fooling people to pay to see it. Actually it’s just an EEL inside, not looking like a DRAGON at all,
516池pond
This is a SCORPION letting go all it’s venom DROP BY DROP, making a whole POND of the stuff.
542嫁marry into
The kanji in his frame demonstrates the traditional Japanese approach to marriage: it is the WOMAN who leaves her family for another HOUSEhold, this MARRYING INTO a man’s family.
490方direction
Spinning a DAGGER about on its hilt on the top of a TOP HAT– waiting to see in which DIRECTION it points when it comes to rest– one leaves to fate where one is going next. Take care in writing this character.
569許permit
If HORSES could SPEAK, it is likely that you would have to be more polite, asking the HORSE for PERMISSION before you get up on its back.
585園park
There is one PARK in the world that has a LIDDED CROCK wearing a SCARF. Because it is one of the most modern contemporary art works, it is PENT IN behind a fence. The lesson of this park and its SCARF-wearing LIDDED CROCK is: LIDDED CROCKS also need warmth and to be taken care of. Just like humans. Imagine yourself visiting this famous PARK.
482識discriminating
•able to recognize or draw fine distinctions. A person of DISCRIMINATING intellect can tell the difference between mere KAZOO-buzzing and WORDS spoken wisely.
561進advance
While driving on the road, you suddenly see a TURKEY in a motorbike advancing in the mirror. Looks like he’s trying to surpass you, to further ADVANCE ahead on his journeyZ
456脂fat
This kanji tells us that if you feed the FLESH with too many DELICIOUS things, it soon picks up a thick layer of fat.
551鮮fresh
This Australian SHEEP-farmer, who lives on a farm in the outback, hundred of miles from any civilization, faces an undeniable truth: the only FRESH meat he has is the FISH from the river nearby and his precious SHEEPS.
511賓V.I.P.
This V.I.P., so important that his visit makes you have to even renovate the CEILING in your HOUSE, leaving you with just a FEW SHELL left.
437瞳pupil
Begin with the double meaning of the keyword pupil: “student” and the “Apple of one’s eye.” Now all to have to do is dwell on the phrase “juvenile of one’s eye” (meaning here) until it provides you with an image.
458毎every
Behind EVERY successful person LIES a woman… Who usually turns out to be one’s MAMA!
503贈presents
The PRESENTS offered here are MONEY that INCREASES each time you give it away.
538豚pork
Sow means “FEMALE PIG”Pork is a culinary term, it means the FLESH of a SOW.
409幕curtain
A dirty TOWEL draped over the entrance to the old GRAVEYARD is painted to look like the CURTAIN of death that leads to the other world.
448昆descendants
grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS
507妊pregnancy
•porter: person employed to carry burdens. A WOMAN who is in her PREGNANCY is a bit like a PORTER, bearing her new companion wherever she goes.
573羽feathers
Pictograph of two bird-wings, we get FEATHERS.
419製made in…
A label indicating that GARMENT was MADE IN U.S.A or Taiwan or Japan is itself a symbol for the SYSTEMATIZATION of the GARMENT industry.
581国country
This COUNTRY likes to PENT IN its JEWELS, and this does not only refer to the stones; JEWELS like Nobel Prize-winners and other important persons that the world are interested in are also being PENT IN inside this COUNTRY.
405布linen
A matador holding his red linen by his side.
583因cause
This St. Bernard is PENT inside a very secure fence. When your neighbours asks why, you simply answer that it is “with good CAUSE”. The truth is too horrible would have led to demonstrations outside your door.
588店store
In ancient times, the CAVE of the FORTUNETELLING was usually the only STORE around, where you could pick up important herbs and other ingredients while the FORTUNETELLER gave you some hints about your future. ZELDA
429橋bridge
The BRIDGE shown here is made of TREES in their natural form, except that the trucks have been carved into the forms of ANGELS, a sort of “Ponte degli angeli”
540遂consummate
The HORNS atop the SOW suggest a boar at work in the background. This BOAR, living besides the ROAD, has consummated your car bumper, and its mouth now takes the very horizontal form of the bumper.
574習learn
This a WHITE BIRD LEARNING to fly, which looses a couple of FEATHERS in the process. This learns you, no gain without painX
417刺thorn
Thorns grow on a bush here that has wrapped itself around a TREE like a BELT, cutting into the poor TREE like little SABERS.
556唯solely
This sophisticated uses ONE MOUTH SOLELY for eating and one mouth SOLELY for singing. Imagine the replaceable beaks.
521蝶butterfly
Butterflies are originally small INSECTS spending a GENERATION in top of a TREE before developing wings and fly away.
515地ground
This particular GROUND is inhabited by scorpions and you can see a sign: SCORPION MINES! No trespassing!
527妃queen
This is a queen with a forky SNAKE tongue, making it impossible to hear what this WOMAN is sssssszzzaying.
469歌song
The SONG in this kanji is being sung by a chorus line of CAN-CAN girls. They suck so the audience YAWNS.
466欠lack
The pictograph hidden in this character is of someone yawning. The first stroke shows the head thrown back; the second, the arm bent at the elbow as the hand reaches up to cover the mouth. The next two is the legs, since YAWNING shows a lack of something (psychologically, interest; physiologically, sleep), the connection is plain to see.
545場location
As a small kid, you burried your PIGGY BANK under some SOIL in the garden, only with a little bit of the tail showing so that you could later locate its LOCATION.
489望ambition
The story of AMBITION talks if a KING walking under the PERESHING (or “waning”) MOON dreaming great dreams about his kingdom. (The roots of AMBITION are from the same word as “ambulate,” meaning to walk about.)
491妨disturb
Imagine a COMPASS that is DISTURBED every time a WOMAN passes by, sending the needle spinning madly round and round. Just like my cock! Oooooooooooh
563雌female
This male TURKEY, with SPOONS taped to his feet, leaves a very feminine SPOON-FOOTPRINT to fool the hunters.
479音sound
The kanji for SOUND depicts something STANDING in the air over a TONGUE WAGGING IN A MOUTH, much the same as a sound does for the briefest of moments before disappearing.
454喝hoarse
When the muchacho on SIESTA looks up and opens his MOUTH to talk, his voice is so HOARSE you cannot understand him.
470軟soft
The cushion of one’s CAR is so SOFT, they start YAWNING at the wheel.
564準semi-
These turkeys are in the SEMI-Final of WATER-polo, based on a NEEDLE - illegal dope - that by all to before the competition. That is very SEMI-professional.
497激violent
Some cosmic TASKMASTER hovering overhead whips up the waves to make them dash VIOLENTLY against the shore. In the WHITE foam that covers the WATER we see a broken COMPASS floating, all that remains of a shipwreck,
522独single
This depicts the most disgusting SINGLE guy a woman can ever imagine: he lives with a PACK OF WILD DOFS and insects are constantly swarming around his head
474姿figure
This kanji depicts a WOMAN’s figure as a sort of SECOND self.
476賠compensation
* Element for Muzzle shows a VASE Fixed over a MOUTH.Picture a CLAM used as a MUZZLE to quiet the complaints of a fisherman’s widow asking COMPENSATION for her lost husband at sea.
500鋭pointed
METAL that has been POINTED (as an awl, a pick, a nail, or a knife) tends to serve the DEVIL’s purposes as well as civilization’s: our tools are also our weapons.
480暗darkness
When “DARKNESS covered the Earth” at the beginning of time, there was neither SUN nor SOUND.
471次next
This key word connotes the “next in line” of a succession of people or things. Let there be a LACK of ICE on the hottest day of summer, and you stand impatiently in line waiting for the distributor to call out “NEXT”
426霜frost
Think of frost as a cooperative venture, an INTER-action of the malevolent forces of WEATHER that sit around a conference table and finally decide to allow a very light amount of moisture to fall just before a short and sudden freeze.
494肪obese
If you eat too much, you may need a COMPASS to find your way around the OBESE mass of FLESH that piles up in your midsections compare this with the stories for round and fat, similar in meaning but distinct in imagery. You so obese you need a compass to search through that fat.
550詳detailed
This is a SHEEP with a graduation hat, holding a very detailed SPEECH, slowing down now and then to take a closer look at his notes and ensure that all DETAILS are emphasised properly.
566奪rob
Whereas burglary implies clandestine appropriation of another’s property, ROBBERY refers to taking by force.This ST BERNARD is trying to ROB a TURKEY from the neighbor farm in secrecy, but finds that the TURKEY somehow GLUES his mouth. Making him a walking proof of the dirty robbery.
477培cultivate
The barrel hoops used by many Japanese farmer to stretch clear plastic over row of vegetables in a garden patch in the hopes of CULTIVATING bigger and bigger vegetables is a way of MUZZLING the SOIL. Muzzling the ground with a giant vase, inside that, cultivation occurs.
526起rouse
You are accidentally kicking the SNAKE’s bed so it ROUSES quickly. RUN!
445北north
The cold air from the NORTH is so strong that we see TWO PEOPLE SITTING ON THE GROUND back to back, their arms interlocked so they don’t blow away (Pay special attention to the drawing of the first 3 stroke)
534亀tortoise
This is not a turtle, but a TORTOISE, however you wish to picture the difference. Let the “bound up” at the top refer to the head, and the TWO SUNS, with a long tail running through it, to the shell/
589庫warehouse
This is a CAVE where illegally imported and stolen cars are on display; a stolen car WAREHOUSE where gangsters can pick their preferred cars for a cheaper price.
408帽cap
Because of the risk involved by getting the sun in one’s eyes, one puts together a makeshift CAP out of a dirty old TOWEL.
459敏cleverness
Behind EVERY successful TASKMASTER, the cleverness of a fix to outwit his charges.
484境boundary
Imagine the BOUNDARY of a plot of LAND marked with gigantic mirrors enabling the landowner to keep trespassers in sight at all times
529記scribe
This is the world’s best scriber (a person who copies out documents) . He actually copies the WORDS in a snake-like formation, left-right, right-left, left-right
580固harden
You have PENT a piece of bread into a lab-device and are now observing how much the bread will HARDEN as it gets OLDER. Your thesis is that old bread will be more hard than fresh bread.
433章badge
Try to imagine a club BADGE pinned to your lapel in the form of a mammoth SUNFLOWER protruding from a wee little VASE.
498脱undress
•two horns on the head of the teenager. To undress is to expose the FLESH and tempt the DEVIL in the eyes of one’s onlookers. Ignore the moral if you want, but not the DEVIL.
533泡bubble
bubbles are just WATER WRAPPED around AIR. Remember old times…
510燃burn
HEARTH is a SORT OF THING in the past, it was a problem as it BURNED everything around it.
457壱I (one)
I am ‘the one’ , says the samurai with the crown around his waist and a spoon up his a***
520虹rainbow
Imagine a giant Spider like INSECT crafting something in the sky, a RAINBOW spider they say.
486盲blind
If one’s eyes PERISH before death, one reminds blind for the rest of his life.
435帝sovereign
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.
432泣cry
One cries and cries until one is STANDING up knee-deep in WATER. (Or until one has a VASE-full of WATER)
587壇podium
This is the worst PODIUM experience you have ever had; imagine you are addressing an audience behind a PODIUM made of DIRT, you are forced to wear s silly TOP HAT with the name of your sponsor, and you have to repeat your message so many TIMES that you can’t get home before NIGHTBREAK.
461海sea
Behind EVERY DROP OF WATER, a sea from which it originated.
535電electricity
This EEL is really sensitive to bad weather, and is coughing out ELECTRICITY in the RAIN.
412市market
Dressed in nothing but a bath TOWEL and TOP HAT, one sets off to the MARKETplace to search of a bargain on two, guess what? On more towels!
464腹abdomen
The only #body# part that #doubles over#
453褐brown
The color of the serape or CLOAK of our muchacho on SIESTA is a dull BROWN, the color this kanji indicates.
460梅plum
Behind EVERY Jack Horner’s pie maker, a TREE full of plums.
562雑miscellaneous
You go to the sports outlet to by a BASEBALL BAT, but find that his particular store holds more MISCELLANEOUS goods than you could ever imagine: you also buy a Christmas TREE and a TURKEY before you head home.
452謁audience
Imagine an AUDIENCE with the emperor or the pope in which all those in attendance are sitting down, learning against the wall, sleeping like our muchacho on SIESTA, as the honorable host delivers his SPEECH.
441適suitable
Can you imagine anything less SUITABLE to do with one’s precious ANTIQUES than to display them in the middle of a crowded ROAD-WAY?
555着don
I cannot resist doing this one for you since it clearly describes DONNING (putting on) one’s clothes as “pulling the WOOL over one’s EYES.”
537滝waterfall
If you bring a VASE to get WATER from this WATERFALL, you have to check if you get any EELS in it, as there are lots of them here.
554差distinction
This girl at the Art Academy received high distinction for her WOOL-CRAFT. Her WOOL-CRAFT was easily DISTINGUISHED from the others.
575翌the following
Have you heard the story of the one who grabbed TWO FEATHERS from a BIRD and out it in a VASE? You can make up the FOLLOWING yourself.
487妄delusion
The “ideal WOMAN” one daydreams about is no more than a delusion. Hence, PERISH the thought of her.
523蚕silkworm
Chinese has always seen the SILKWORMS as INSECTS with a golden aura, descending from the sky as a HEAVENLY gift to is humans.
601誌document
This DOCUMENT features WORDS of INTENTION, contrary to DOCUMENTS that only features words without any more meaning. The WORD of INTENTION makes this a particularly useful DOCUMENT.
447比compare
With TWO SPOONS, one in each hand, you are COMPARING your mother’s cooking with your mother-in-law’s.
473資assets
The first SHELLS you earn, you use to pay your debts. From then in, the NEXT SHELLS you accumulate become your ASSETS. • property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
443敵enemy
Picture your most precious ANTIQUE being knocked over by your most unlikable TASKMASTER, and you have a good picture of how people make themselves ENEMIES for life.
455旨delicious
Something is so downright delicious that one spends the entire DAY with a SPOON in hand gobbling it up.
495訪call on
When making a courtesy CALL ON a dignitary(high ranked person),one has to gauge one’s WORDS with great care. Hence the need for a COMPASS.
440嫡legitimate wife
legitmate wifes tend to be women who are antiques in contrast to the young bit of illigitmate fluff on the side.
431立stand up
Picture of a Vase STANDING UP has it’s meaning extended to represent the general posture if anything STANDING UP.
598認acknowledge
You’re giving a SPEECH of a mistake of yours that can’t be redone, and saying that the only thing you can do is ENDURE and ACKNOWLEDGE the mistake. Yes, you are choosing to acknowledge the mistake and hope to be respected for that, instead of taking your life as many others would do.
492坊boy
The character for a BOY shows us a BOY SCOUT cleaning the DIRT out if his COMPASS– the more DIRT, the better.
505棟ridgepole
If the piece of WOOD in the roof known as the RIDGEPOLE points EAST, the sunrise will be visible from the front door.
413姉elder sister
Of all the WOMEN of the family, it is the ELDER SISTER who has the duty to go to MARKET to do the shopping.
576曜weekday
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) , {577}, {1285}, {2272}, {2534}, {2880}. Story: On weekdays you hang your *futon* out in the *sun*.
570歓delight
If you’ve seen Disney’s animate interpretation of classical music, “Fantasia,” you will recall what was done there with Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony” (the 6th), and the FLYING HORSES that figured in it: the mares are bathing in the steam and the stallions begin to gather. As dusk sets in, the FLYING HORSES all starting YAWNING and pair off for the night: a perfectly delightful portrait of delight.
446背stature
One’s STATURE is measured according to the “NORTHERN-most” PART OF THE BODY.
565奮stirred up
This St. BERNARD DOG is having fun chasing and STIRRING up the TURKEYS. What he doesn’t expect, is the TURKEYS to be STIRRED into the FIELD, which certainly STIRS up the farmers.
428天heavens
This character is meant to be a pictograph of a great man, said to represent The Lord of the HEAVENS.
593麻hemp
In this CAVE, hidden away for others than gangsters and dealers, is a GROVE of HEMP taken care of by a cave-man.
558礁reef
Outside the coast or Greece, there is a REEF, a big STONE, covered by CHARcoal remains. The myth tells us that the Greek Gods had a barbecue party on this place, far from any known civilization.
590庭courtyard
In ancient times the COURTS were held inside CAVES. Imagine several CAVES, whereas one has a big yard with a lot of people yelling and shouting at the unpopular decisions of the COURT. This is obviously the courtyard.
493芳perfumed
Here we see a special COMPASS used to pick out those FLOWERS most suited for making good PERFUMES.
481韻rhyme
Poetry restricted to verses that RHYME often finds it has to abandon clarity of thought in order to make the RHYME of the words work. In this kanji’s picture? One becomes a kind if “SOUND-EMPLOYEE”
518蛍lightning bug
This is the SCHOOL HOUSE of the lightning bugs, where thy learn to b as irritating as possible when getting old enough to fly.
411錦brocade
Brocade is the art of sewing *gold* on a *white towel*.
418制system
The kanji show a unique SUSTEM for leading COWS to the slaughterer’s SABER: one ties a BELT about their waist and fixed that BELT to an overhead cable, pulling the COW up into the air where it hangs suspended, helpless against the fate it awaits it.
597忍endure
To ENDURE, deal with something painful without complaining, is like having a RAZOR BLADE in your HEART twinning around.
449皆all
If you *compare* colors, you will find that *white* is produced from the mix of all the others.
514栃horse chestnut
Imagine a HORSE CHESTNUT TREE standing on a CLIFF. Under the CLIFF, exactly TEN-THOUSAND chestnuts has fallen down, making it a paradise for hungry squirrels.
422雨rain
This kanji, also a primitive, is one of the clearest instances we have of a complex pictograph. The top line is the sky, the best 3 strokes a pair of clouds, and the final 4 dots the RAIN collected there waiting to fall.
557焦char
On New Year’s Eve, you leave the TURKEY you have been preparing for the whole day a few minutes, just to find out that the damn OVEN FIRE has CHARRED the Turkey, making it uneatable. The night’s meal is destroyed.
567確assurance
A salesman of a TURKEY-HOUSE is ASSURING a potential buyer if that the huge STONE next to the TURKEY-HOUSE will under no circumstances start to roll and destroy the HOUSE, by kicking and pushing the stone which seems to stay where it is.
438鐘bell
This BELL is made of cheap metal, and so badly made when you ring it, it let’s out a noise like the “BELLowing” of JUVENILES WHO aren’t getting their own way.
591庁government office
This ancient GOVERNMENT OFFICE is found inside a CAVE. In the middle of the CAVR, there is a huge SPIKE standing, which is the office’s file system. All coupons and inquires are filed by impaling it onto this stick, making a chronological filing system that is probably not useful at all.
544腸intestines
Imagine you have a really disgusting PIGGY BANK, with the content coming out of the only part of the PIGGY BANK that is made of real FLESH: the INTESTINES. This is of course a very effective saving function.
531胞placenta
PLACENTA is the PART OF THE BODY that WRAPS up with fetus.
519蛇snake
It’s no secret that SNAKES like eating insects. Howeve, this snake is slightly not sophisticatedly than others, a so-called modern SNAKE, and prefers to eat his INSECTS on a SPOON inside four walls of his house.
444匕spoon
Pictograph if a spoon, is easy enough to remember, provided you keep it distinct for that for SEVEN, where the first written left to right (opposite of here) and cuts noticeably across the second.
468炊cook
Better to picture what happens when you do not pay attention to your work in the kitchen. Here we see a blazing FIRE and an in attentive, YAWNING cook who let things get out of control.
483鏡mirror
•Pair of human legs and a tongue wagging mouth looking at the mirror. After lakes but before glass, polished METAL was used for MIRRORS. These METAL MIRRORS are recalled in this character for a mirror.
603串shish kebab
This pictograph of two pieces of meat on a skewer, a shush kebab, will help us in the next frame.
499説explanation
Not inappropriately, this character likens an explanation to the devil’s own WORDS.
465複duplicate
My girlfiend saw someone wearing the exact same (duplicate) outfit at a party, so she doubled back to change!
530包wrap
Here, Fred Flintstone has WRAPPED something with a SNAKE to give to WILMA.
463乾drought
In times of DROUGHT anything at all will do. Here we see the victims BEGGING for just a little MIST for relief.
584姻matrimony
Even though MATRIMONY is said to be an agreement between two persons, it is often the WOMAN who pushes and is the CAUSE of it happening.
442滴drip
Picture WATER dripping on what you thought were precious ANTIQUES, only to find that the artificial aging painted on then is running!
592床bed
The CAVE-man is simply using the trunk of a TREE as his BED, forcing him to wake up early in the mornings.
475諮consult with
To seek the WORDS of a SECOND MOUTH is to consult with someone about something.
407幅hanging scroll
A TOWEL owned by the WEALTHIEST tycoon in the world is made into a HANGING scroll After his death and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
420転revolve
As the wheels of the CAR revolve, they kick up small RISING CLOUDS of dust and debris behind them.
451渇thirst
As you pass by the muchacho taking the SIESTA, he cries out that he is THIRSTY and asks for something to drink. So you turn the WATER hose on him.
421芸technique
The secret TECHNIQUE of making a RISING CLOUD of smoke turn into a bouquet of FLOWERS is shown here.
508廷courts
Those who rule the COURTS, the PORTERS of justice and Oder, at often found to STRETCH the law to suit their own purposes. Recall the kanji for PROLONG.
504東east
As a “Western” language, English identifies the east with the rising SUB. In more fanciful terms, we see the SUN piercing through a TREE as it rises in the EAST.
430嬌attractive
Associating a particularly Attractive WOMAN you know with an ANGEL should be no problem.
596忘forget
Imagine you meet the girl who you were in love with and talked with in high school ten years later. It seems like she’s FORGOTTEN about you, and you feel your HEART PERISH away while talking with her.
560准quasi-
•Seemingly, apparently but not reallyThe TURKEY you bought, FROZEN down in ICE, turns out to be an overgrown chicken, not what you thought. A so-called quasi-turkey
602忠loyalty
Japanese managers expect no less from their workers than LOYALTY to the firm coming from the MIDDLE of the HEART, making everything else than the firm less important.
416滞stagnate
People that has been “SASHED” to something (whether their mother’s apron strings or a particular job) for too long become like WATER that has stopped moving: they start to STAGNATE. Eg: I was SASHED to video games and I became STAGNATE.
595心heart
Pictograph if the heart.
525己self
The kanji carries the abstract and if the SELF, the deep-down inner structure of the human person that mythology has often depicted as a SNAKE– which is what the kanji shows pictographically.
549洋ocean
It’s not seldom that a vaste amount of SHEEPS are being freighted by boat from Australia to countries on the other side of the OCEAN. These sheeps crossing the ocean are suddenly turned from land-sheeps to WATER-sheeps, probably against their will.
506凍frozen
The whole secret to breaking the ICE with the EAST is to peek behind those mysteriously “FROZEN smiles”
462乞beg
See someone LYING DOWN in a public with with a HOOK in place of a hand, BEGGING a morsel of rice or a few pence.
543豪overpowering
The most OVERPOWERING ones in the wild are just CROWNED SOWS with TALL stacks of cash beside it. Your in a boxing match with a CROWNED PIG, look how OVERPOWERING as he looks TALL over you.
436童juvenile
This frame shows up the image if a JUVENILE hacker STANDING on top of a COMPUTER, or rather jumping up and down on it, because it refused to come up with the right answer.
478剖divide
To “divide and conquer” you use a SABER and a MUZZLE.
582団group
You have GROUP-work at school, but this particular teacher doesn’t trust your GROUP. To make sure you will stick together and cooperate, he GLUES you together – but not only that – he also PENT you into a classroom and locks the door, expecting impressive result from this group.
559集gather
During the holiday seasons, all TURKEYS tend to GATHER ATOP A TREE to avoid getting captured.
