604-803 Flashcards
737愛love
Someone LOVES birds so much, that he puts a BIRDHOUSE over his head when out walking. What do you see: a BIRDHOUSE; a loving, beating heart, and a pair of WALKING LEGS strolling around.
620恒constancy
Constancy is holding the same *state of mind* over a long *span* of time.-steadfastness, as in purpose of affection; faithfulness-
688及reach out
This additional of a final stroke transforms this character from the primitive for a clenched FIST into the kanji for REACHING OUT, as a stroke if kindness can often turn anger into acceptance.
639摩chafe
The CAVEman has used the while day harvesting and putting HEMP into boxes, resulting his HAND being CHAFED by the rough HEMP.
643犠sacrifice
This RIGHTEOUS COW SACRIFICES some of its hay to the play of Jesus Christ.
666損damage
An EMPLOYEE shows the FINGER to a customer, and this DAMAGES the company’s reputation.
763硫sulfur
Sulphur is like a *rock*, but it can stink like a *stream* of *infant* doodie.
651拓clear the land
Imagine a gigantic FINGER comes down from the sky to CLEAR THE LAND: it easily knocks away ROCKS and other elements.
730浮floating
Due to a WATER leakage in the nest, the FLEDGLINGS are now FLOATING around, and might even fall outside if no one stops the WATER soon (imagine dramatic situation)
769拙bungling
•carrying out a task clumsily or incompetently•Someone who is talking to a tourist, points at the EXIT with the FINGER without looking around, and BUNGLES into another person “stop bungling around!”
792欲longing
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.
719督coach
When your UNCLE was COACHING you in chess (or any other game), you always felt as if he had an EYE everywhere, making a perfect strategy to win.
780込crowded
The road is so crowded you don’t even want to ENTER the road. It is foolish entering the crowded road.
796賞prize
You won first PRIZE in a *shell-fish* eating contest. Unfortunately you spent the whole night in the *outhouse* after.
735受accept
As we all know, showing your CROTCH is maybe ACCEPTed in a normal houses but not in a BIRDHOUSE! Imagine the pain!
747始commence
A woman is posing in a PEDESTAL, and the artist with the blank canvas in front of him is thinking “where shall I commence?”
681才genius
Whatever one is particular adept at- one’s special “GENIUS” - one can do very easily, “with one finger” as th phrase goes. This kanji is a pictograph of that one finger. Note how it’s distinctive form is created by writing the final stroke of the element for FINGERS backwards.
700護safeguard
•a measure taken to protect someone it something or to prevent something undesirable• Letting the right part of this kanji represent a Greenpeace VESSEL (non-gov environmental organization) with a FLOWER (peace) logo, this is the SPEECH made by the Greenpeace leader to SAFEGUARD the VESSEL in all kind of weather.
687携portable
This CONJECTURE assumes that if TURKEYS had FINGERS, they would also be able to form a FIST and carry things - making things PORTABLE also from a TURKEY’S point of view.
616憂melancholy
•sadness it depression of the spirits; gloom•Image yourself in a dark, MELANCHOLIC gallery, where you see something that makes you even more MELANCHOLIC: a statue of a sad man; his HEAD hanging, his CROWN covering for his sad HEART and a pair of thin, wearied WALKING LEGS. You think it’s someone important who had to beg for his life. How melancholic!
659指finger
Fingers are delicious, especially chicken fingers…
691丈length
The first horizontal stroke if this kanji measures the LENGTH between the tips of ARMS.
794鉛lead (metal)
Molten METAL is led in a GULLY to its destination, where it becomes LEAD.•this narrow kind if valley, is a gully, us so narrow that the valley folk cannot even use their umbrella.
656拐kidnap
A kidnapper is sticking his FINGER into the victim’s MOUTH, placing a DAGGER under it to make sure she’s quiet.