Kanji - Level 30 - Kanji Flashcards
魅
Alluring
Radicals: 鬼 demon + 未 jet
A demon on a jet is pretty alluring. Demons themselves are pretty intriguing, but put one on a jet? Now that’s alluring.
Reading: み
This alluring demon on a jet wants one thing and one thing only. Meat (み). Human meat. This demon needs human meat to survive so he is taking his jet into the city to feast on some meat.
背
Back
Radicals: 北 north + 月 moon
You fly north to the moon and break your back when you finally land on it. You weren’t braced for impact so when you hit the moon, your back took all of the impact.
Reading: はい
Your back hurts so much that the only way to properly explain the pain is in haiku (はい) form.
I flew to the moon.
It is there I broke my back.
My back hurts real bad.
騒
Boisterous
Radicals: 馬 horse + 又 stool + 虫 insect
A horse gets trapped in a small room with a stool and an insect, and together they create a very boisterous situation. The horse and the insect are both scrambling frantically to get out of the small room, knocking the stool around all over the place.
Reading: そう
At the height of their boisterous sounds, there’s a sudden, awful CRONCH(!) and you see the soul (そう) of the insect slowly rising out of the room, through the ceiling.
飾
Decorate
Radicals: 食 eat + 𠂉 gun + 巾 towel
When you eat you want to see the shape of your gun from under a towel, so you decorate your house with them.
Reading: しょく
If you actually decorate your house like this it will give people quite a shock (しょく). In fact, they might be so shocked they run out of there screaming.
預
Deposit
Radicals: 予 beforehand + 頁 geoduck
If you want to buy a geoduck you have to go to the bank beforehand to deposit enough money. If you don’t deposit your money you won’t have enough in your account to buy even one! They’re expensive, after all.
Reading: よ
You go to the bank to make the deposit and there is a kid standing in your way playing with a yo-yo (よ). You try to squeeze past and he hits you in the face with the yo-yo! Now you can’t see! Now you can’t make the deposit!
渇
Dry up
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 日 sun + 勹 prison + 匕 spoon
You’re stuck in a prison on the scorching hot sun with nothing but a spoon. Lucky for you, a tsunami is coming, right as you can feel yourself completely dry up. So you take your spoon and use the tsunami to quench your thirst.
Readings: かわ
This method of quenching your thirst reminds you of being in a car wash (かわ). The water pours over you in waves, and you’re stuck inside a metal cage. Totally the same thing as a car wash, right?
版
Edition
Radicals: 片 one sided + 反 anti
If you are anti one sided paper you should bind them all up into an edition.
Reading: はん
The first edition you create is a fan fiction all about the adventures of Han (はん) Solo. You hated how short and one sided his story in Star Wars seemed to be, and trying to keep track of it all was really hard. But not anymore!
柵
Fence
Radicals: 木 tree + 冊 bookshelf
You’ve made yourself a tree bookshelf (that is, a bookshelf cut into a tree), so you build a fence to keep the riffraff out.
Reading: さく
On your fence, you hang up a sack (さく) to accept donations.
旗
Flag
Radicals: 方 direction + 𠂉 gun + 其 crab
Traveling in the direction of the ocean, you take a gun and shoot a crab, then stick a flag in the beach and claim it as your own. The crab was the only thing standing in the way of you conquering the area. Now that the flag is in the ground, no one can dispute who it belongs to.
Reading: き
To make sure that no one removes your flag, you lock it to one of the lifeguard posts and you throw away the key (き). Since no one will have the key to unlock the flag, no one will be able to remove it.
浮
Float
Radicals: 氵tsunami + ⺤ cleat + 子 child
A tsunami knocks a cleat off a child and the shoe begins to float away in the water. This child was just out playing soccer, minding his own business, when the tsunami crashed in and knocked his cleats off his feet. Now the cleat is floating away with the tsunami.
Readings: う, うわ
While you float in the water, an uni (う) jabs into your foot. “Uwaaa~ (うわ)” you cry. That uni really hurts. They’re all spikey and painful and junk. “Uwaaaa~”
越
Go beyond
Radicals: 走 run + 成 become
You run every day and soon you become a human that can go beyond the normal speed limits of man. You run and you run and you run. This training allows you to become super human. You go beyond the limits of a normal human. You become a human who can run really fast.
Reading: えつ
To solidify your ability to go beyond the abilities of other humans, you etch (えつ) sacred runes into your legs to preserve your running abilities. Etching these runes makes sure that your skills will never deteriorate.
照
Illuminate
Radicals: 日 sun + 召 call + 灬 boil
The sun is being called on to boil the earth by illuminating it.
Reading: しょう
The person who calls the sun asking it to illuminate the earth is the Shougun (しょう). It’s very specifically the Shougun’s responsibility to make sure the earth is illuminated every morning.
漏
Leak
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 尸 flag + 雨 rain
A tsunami rips a flag off your house in the rain, causing a leak where it was ripped out. The rain and the tsunami combined just tore the flag right off your house. The force was so strong that it actually removed part of the wall, and now you have a leak in your home.
Reading: ろう
The leak is getting worse and worse and so is the tsunami, when you see something outside. It’s a bunch of roe (ろう) floating in the waves. Using your quick thinking skills you scoop it up and shove it into the cracks where the water is leaking in. It works like a charm!
系
Lineage
Radicals: 系 lineage
The lineage radical and the lineage kanji are the same.
Reading: けい
You trace your lineage back and realize that every single person in your family loved cake (けい). Most of them were cake bakers, too!
覧
Look at
Radicals: 臣 servant + 𠂉 gun + 一 ground
+ 見 see
A servant holding a gun sits on the ground to see if he can find something to look at. The servant is on watch duty and has the gun to protect the perimeter. He patrols the grounds to look at the distance to see if there are any trespassers.
Reading: らん
You start backing away, but then you realize that you are Macho Man Randy (らん) Savage. Randy Savage backs away from no fight! I mean, look at this guy – this servant guy. Take away the gun and he’s not much to look at. You can take him.
