Kanji - Level 28 - Kanji Flashcards
攻
Aggression
Radicals: 工 construction + 夂 winter
Construction in the winter leads to aggression. Just think about it. It’s cold, it’s unpleasant, and you don’t want to be there. So, you start to develop an aggression towards other people working with you on this winter project.
Reading: こう
You’re taking your aggression out on everyone. Then, the sexy construction worker from WaniKani Level 1, こういち, walks by without a shirt on. You take out all your aggression on him.
撃
Attack
Radicals: 車 car + 殳 weapon + 手 hand
If someone is coming toward you in a car, holding a weapon in their hand, they’re going to attack you!
Reading: げき
Right before the attack begins, you recognize the hand holding this weapon and driving this car. It’s Gecki (げき), your long-lost gecko who you may or may not have let fly off into a really fierce tsunami. Oops. I think he may be here attacking you out of revenge.
浜
Beach
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 斤 axe + 一 ground + ハ fins
After a tsunami, you find an axe on the ground next to some fins on the beach. The tsunami was pretty violent, and it looks like this axe got blown into some fish and cut off their fins and now those things are just on the ground by the beach.
Reading: はま
Walking down the beach a bit more, you also find a hammer (はま). Gosh, looks like the tsunami hit a workshop or a hardware store or something. First the axe, now a hammer.
綺
Beautiful
Radicals: 糸 thread + 奇 odd
This thread is odd, but that’s what makes it beautiful. It’s a little frayed, it’s a little miscolored, but that’s what makes it appealing to you.
Reading: き
You take this beautiful thread and lock it up with a key (き). You want to keep it all to yourself, you want its beauty to be for your eyes only!
益
Benefit
Radicals: 丷 horns + 一 ground + ハ fins + 皿 plate
There are some horns on the ground next to fins on a plate that are meant to benefit everyone. If you’re a member of this town, one of your benefits is this little set up.
Reading: えき
Another benefit is free 駅 (えき) usage! Whenever you come back home from places on the train, this 駅 is completely free.
沼
Bog
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 召 call
A tsunami can’t resist the call of a bog. Whenever a tsunami is headed toward land, a bog will always call out to it, “Hey tsunami, don’t you want to hit me with your water? Come this way~”
Reading: ぬま
As you listen to the bog’s call you realize it looks just like the Numa (ぬま) Numa guy in your mind. You open your eyes and it’s just a bog. You close your eyes, and there he is. The Numa Numa guy.
児
Child
Radicals:丨stick + 日 sun + 儿 legs
Pointing your magic solar powered wishing stick at the sun, you attain the legs of a child. You’re old and want young legs to carry you around, so you took your wishing stick that’s powered by the sun, and you wished for the legs of a child.
Readings: じ, に
As you delight in your new legs, Jesus (じ) descends from the sky. “My child,” he says, “why have you pointed the stick at the sun and wished for the legs of a child? You were already perfect, just as all of God’s children are perfect.”
揃
Complete
Radicals: 扌fingers + 前 before
Your fingers before were complete.
Reading: そろ
To have your complete fingers back, you gotta run to the hospital solo (そろ).
憲
Constitution
Radicals: 宀 roof + 生 life + 罒 net + 心 heart
The roof protecting your life and the net protecting your heart are both protected by the constitution.
Reading: けん
Your country’s constitution is being protected by none other than Ken (けん) the samurai, hero for hire.
冷
Cool
Radicals: 冫ice + 令 orders
You got your ice orders. Of course, your ice orders are to make things cool and cold.
Reading: れい
How will you make things cool and cold? You’ll use a special ray (れい) gun that shoots a cold ray.
処
Deal with
Radicals: 夂 winter + 几 table
A winter table would be an odd thing to deal with. Winter can be hard to deal with on its own, but turn your table into winter? Just dealing with your food getting cold would be the worst!
Reading: しょ
This winter table is something you have to deal with, sure, but what if you just gave it to a circus show (しょ)? They like weird stuff like this.
微
Delicate
Radicals: 彳loiter + 山 mountain + 兀 pi + 夂 winter
You loiter on the mountain, reading off the digits of pi on this winter morning. The cold mountain air is so delicate, and changes only in very tiny ways — just like pi when you add another digit to it.
Reading: び
Ah! Of course! The delicate bumble bee (び). Slightly out of place in winter, but this tiny creature is your idea of delicate. It lands on your finger, and you look at every tiny fiber of its being.
博
Exhibition
Radicals: 十 cross + 丶drop + 専 specialty
You wear a great big cross with a drop on it, and head to a specialty exhibition for gambling. The big cross and drop on your chest is your badge for being admitted into the exhibition. Everyone at the specialty exhibition has a cross and drop, and everyone is gambling.
Readings: はく, ばく
You’re not very good at gambling, but you are pretty good at cheating. You hack (はく) the specialty exhibition gambling machines to pay out lots of cash just for you. You hack quickly and quietly, so luckily no one notices that you’ve hacked the system.
程
Extent
Radicals: 禾 grain + 口 mouth + 王 king
The Grain Mouth King pours grain from his mouth for you and his other subjects. You go to him and pull his finger. When you do this, grain pours from his mouth. But we were greedy. We didn’t understand the extent to which we were harvesting his mouth wheat.
Reading: てい
The extent to which we were harvesting grain from his mouth was too great. The Grain Mouth King has run out of grain. He worries he will lose power if he has no grain to offer, so he switches to barfing out tater (てい) tots instead.
凍
Frozen
Radicals: 冫ice + 東 east
Ice from the east is frozen. Well, of course, all ice is frozen, but ice from the east is like, really super frozen.
Reading: とう
Japan is a country in the east, and this ice was frozen in とうきょう. とうきょう is really good at freezing frozen things, so it makes sense that this frozen ice came from there.
