Kanji - Level 13 - Kanji Flashcards
皆
All
Radicals: 比 compare + 白 white
If you compare white light to the other colors you’ll realize… white consists of all the colors in one. It contains all the colors in the spectrum in one color. It is the one color that is everything.
Reading: みな, みんな
You decide white light is the ultimate color. You decide you want to put it on all things to make everything white. “What a great idea,” you think. You try to put it on everything and you nearly succeed… except, the miners (みな). They keep getting dirty doing all their mining things. NOOO, your plan is ruined!
謝
Apologize
Radicals: 言 say + 身 body + 寸 measurement
You thought it would be a good idea to say the body measurements of everyone in your village and now you have to apologize.
Reading: しゃ
You were told you had to apologize by the village shaman (しゃ). At first you didn’t even know why everyone was glaring at you, but the shaman took you aside and explained. And now she’s standing behind you with her arms crossed as you apologize to everybody.
整
Arrange
Radicals: 束 bundle + 夂 winter + 正 correct
Putting your wood in bundles for winter is the correct way to arrange it. You want to make sure you organize all of your wood before winter comes, or the loose logs could get blown away in the first winter storm.
Reading: せい
Right after you’ve finished arranging the bundles, you take out your saber (せい) and do one final slice. All of the bundles are now perfectly organized AND cut.
橋
Bridge
Radicals: 木 tree + 天 heaven + 口mouth + 冋 mustache
A tree from heaven with a mustache above his mouth valiantly crosses a bridge. This holy tree from heaven was sent down to earth to cross this very bridge. It is the tree’s angelic mission. Also the tree has a mouth and a mustache.
Reading: はし
The tree finishes crossing the bridge and on the other side is a plate of steaming hash (はし) browns! That’s why it has a mouth. To eat yummy bridge hash browns.
缶
Can
Radicals: 缶 can
The radical can is the same as the kanji can. Usually when we talk about a can with this kanji we mean a tin can, though.
Reading: かん
The reading for a can is かん, which seems impossibly easy. If that isn’t close enough for you, picture this:
Genghis Khan (かん) is drinking out of a tin can. He glug glug glugs, gasps, and wipes his face. He holds out the can, “Khan made cans,” and winks.
選
Choose
Radicals: ⻌ scooter + 己 oneself + 共 together
You want to get a scooter, so you have one self (oneself) and another self working together to choose. The two tiny yous sit on each of your shoulders, like angel and devil, and argue about which scooter you should choose.
Reading: せん
Suddenly your selfs both gasp and choose a scooter in front of you that looks like a centaur (せん). The scooter is designed like a human on the top, the bars are its arms, and the bottom with the seat and the wheels are all horse. This centaur scooter is what you choose to ride.
器
Container
Radicals: 大 big + 品 products
Big products need to be put in a big container. A small container just won’t do. These products are big and they need a big container to be contained in.
Reading: き
Once you get the big products into a container, you then lock it with a key (き). You wouldn’t want these products to bust out of their containers, so it’s best to lock them up with a key.
暗
Dark
Radicals: 日 sun + 立 stand
If you yourself are a sun, and you stand next to another sun, no area around you will be dark. The two suns are very bright and standing right next to each other, so all the area will be lit up and nothing will be dark.
Reading: あん
Since the sun has blinded you, your vision is now very dark. You can’t see anything, but you are hungry so you reach around for some food and eat it. Yuck! It’s anchovies (あん). You don’t even like anchovies, how did they get in your house?
疑
Doubt
Radicals: 匕 spoon + マ mama + 矢 arrow + 疋 coat rack
When you get home from school, your mama says to hang your spoons and arrows on the coat rack. That doesn’t sound like something your mama would say, and you begin to doubt that she’s your mama at all! She usually takes them and washes them in the sink. You doubt you could hang them on the coat rack even if you tried.
Reading: ぎ
Your doubt is growing really strong, so you decide to test your mama by putting her head in a guillotine (ぎ)! Oh come on, don’t feel bad, you’re preeettty sure this isn’t your real mama.
料
Fee
Radicals: 米 rice + 斗 ladle
You have a rice ladle that’s specifically for paying the rice fee. Each scoop of something has an extra fee tacked on, so when you use a material, there’s a fee you have to pay in that material as well.
Reading: りょう
One day, the fee ladle is suddenly the size of row (りょう) boat oars! What! You’re supposed to pay a row boat sized fee now?!
感
Feeling
Radicals: 丿slide + 戈 drunkard + 𠮛 creeper + 心 heart
Down a slide, a drunkard comes and places a creeper into your heart. Your entire body is filled with a feeling. A feeling you don’t like.
Reading: かん
This feeling wells up in you and bursts forth. You feel mad, you feel like you want revenge, you feel like Genghis Khan (かん) reborn! And you will have your revenge on this drunkard.
情
Feeling
Radicals: 忄soul + 青 blue
Your soul is blue. As in, it’s sad and not feeling well. This is because your soul changes colors depending on your feelings or what emotions you’re expressing.
Reading: じょう
Why is your soul feeling blue? Because Jourm (じょう), the big local farmhand, was extremely mean to you.
様
Formal name title
Radicals: 木 tree + 羊 sheep + 水 water
A sheep in the water by a tree has the formal name title of Sir Wilburt Coddington III. When he’s not in his castle, Sir Wilburt Coddington III enjoys playing in water and by trees. He’s a royal sheep.
This can also mean manner, as in “manner” of doing things. Someone who has a formal name title has a different manner of doing things.
Reading: さま
This sheep with the formal name title of Sir Wilburt Coddington III only likes to play outside in the water during the summer (さま). Summer is the best season for this fancy sheep. The other seasons just can’t compare.
養
Foster
Radicals: 羊 sheep + 良 good + ハ fins
Sheep fins are good for fostering children. The sheep have been genetically combined with fish, so the sheep have fins (and they’ve lost their tails - which is why the tail part of the sheep radical is missing in this kanji!). These sheep fins are very rich in nutrients and as such are very good for foster children that need to grow up big and strong.
Reading: よう
The best way to foster a better relationship with these foster kids would be to give them some yogurt (よう). Maybe they can dip the sheep fins in the yogurt to help mask the strange taste. Yogurt is also very nutritious, so it’s a good supplement to the foster kids’ diet.
緑
Green
Radicals: 糸 thread + ヨ wolverine + 水 water
If you see a wolverine in the water playing with a piece of thread, there’s no doubt that it’s green. Wolverines love green thread. Almost as much as they love the water.
Reading: みどり
Midori (みどり) is a green colored melon liqueur with a sweet, fruity taste. This wolverine is too young to drink alcohol like Midori, so he just sticks to drinking water.
