Kanji - Level 31 - Kanji Flashcards
帯
Belt
Radicals: 山 mountain + 一 ground + 冖 forehead + 巾 towel
There’s a mountain coming out of the ground that you want to climb, but your forehead needs a towel for all your sweat. You don’t have a towel, so you take off your belt and tie it around your forehead.
Reading: たい
The belt isn’t absorbent enough, so you wrap it in your tie (たい) and then tie the whole thing around your forehead again.
廊
Corridor
Radicals: 广 canopy + 郎 guy
The canopy guy is a guy who stands in the corridor trying to sell people canopies.
Reading: ろう
You take the corridor, but this time the canopy guy is gone. In his place is a new salesman. This one is trying to sell you roe (ろう).
離
Detach
Radicals: 离 rocket + 隹 turkey
The rocket turkey has several points which will detach during takeoff.
Reading: り
When the rocket turkey parts detach, they fall to the ground onto a bed of reeds (り).
径
Diameter
Radicals: 彳loiter + 圣 tombstone
You loiter around a tombstone to measure its diameter. You’re doing this to each tombstone, and if you loiter around long enough, you’ll soon know the diameter of every tombstone.
Reading: けい
You need to know the diameter of each tombstone so you can make cakes (けい) for each one. But the cakes can’t be wider than the tombstones, or they’ll flop off onto the ground.
融
Dissolve
Radicals: 鬲 bully + 虫 insect
You see a bully take an insect and dissolve it in some acid. Bullies are messed up, mean people. They do awful things that normal kids and people wouldn’t do… like dissolve a living creature.
Reading: ゆう
The only bullies heartless enough to dissolve insects like this are youths (ゆう). Do you really think an adult would melt a harmless critter? No. Only inexperienced youths could be so cruel.
均
Equal
Radicals: 土 dirt + 勺 pool + 丶drop
You have some dirt next to a pool that has an extra drop of water in it because you need them to be equal. If there’s too much dirt outside the pool and not enough water inside, it’s gonna look weird. We can’t have that.
Reading: きん
You spend a few hours making sure the water-to-dirt ratio is perfectly equal, not for yourself, but because the King (きん) of England told you to. You may agree that equality is important, but it’s the King’s responsibility to keep things that way. Which is why he ordered you, small peon, to do the equalizing work for him.
豪
Exceptional
Radicals: 亠 lid + 口 mouth + 冖 forehead + 豕 pig
You put a lid on a dish you’re cooking, made up of the mouths and foreheads of a pig. This is truly an exceptional dish you are cooking up.
Reading: ごう
Exceptional pig mouth forehead soup is a favorite of Grandpa ごういち. You see him sniffing around your window, then he knocks and waves.
除
Exclude
Radicals: 阝building + 余 surplus
The buildings are at a surplus. Because of that, we will need to exclude some of them from our future plans. Also, we’ll need to remove some buildings too.
Readings: じょ, じ
Working with you on this project to exclude buildings from the plan, as well as remove buildings that already exist is little Jo-Anne (じょ).
貨
Freight
Radicals: 化 change + 貝 shellfish
You want to change your shellfish into freight so you can transport it. That means packing them up into giant freight containers.
Reading: か
To move this freight, you need a car (か). You strap all of the freight containers to the top of your car, stacked nice and high and precarious, so you can move it.
孫
Grandchild
Radicals: 子 child + 系 lineage
A child shares his lineage with a grandchild. The child passes his lineage down to his child and then that child’s child is the grandchild and between them all a lineage is shared.
Reading: そん
The son (そん) of a son is a grandchild. In this case, a grandson. Easy.
墓
Grave
Radicals: 土 dirt + 莫 greenhouse
There’s a strange patch of dirt in this greenhouse that’s actually a grave. Dig around a little and you’ll find the marker buried in there. If you dig deeper you’ll probably find less pleasant things.
Reading: ぼ
You decide to dig even deeper into the grave out of curiosity and you find a bow (ぼ) and some arrows. This must be the grave of a great archer! But you probably shouldn’t keep digging around in this grave looking for more stuff.
幾
How many
Radicals: 幺 poop + 戈 drunkard + 人 person
You poop twice on a sleeping drunkard person and you find yourself wondering how many more times you can poop on them and wonder how much they can take before they realize what’s going on.
Reading: いく
As you continue thinking about how much poop this drunkard can take and how many more poops you can drop on him, he begins to wake up. Quickly, you eke (いく) out one last poop before you scurry away. You eke that poop out just in time to make your escape.
尋
Inquire
Radicals: ヨ wolverine + 工 construction + 口 mouth + 寸 measurement
Wolverine is doing a construction job and he’s using his mouth to measure so he knows how many folks he needs to inquire about helping him with the job. Using one’s mouth is a strange way to measure something, but that’s just how Wolverine does things. Once he measures it all out, he’ll know how many construction workers he needs to inquire about working for him.
Reading: じん
You decide to inquire as to why Wolverine is using his mouth to measure out this construction site. As you get closer you notice his cool ripped jeans (じん). Instead you inquire how he got such a fresh style. He looks you up and down, pulls out his claws, and tears yours up to match his. You’ve completely forgotten what it was you were asking, but who cares! Look how great you look!
編
Knit
Radicals: 糸 thread + 扁 library
Bring thread to the library to knit. Libraries are quiet and generally pretty empty nowadays, so it’s the perfect place to relax and do some knitting. Of course, if you find thread lying around in a library you know what to do now.
Reading: へん
You need to come to the library to knit because if you try to do it at home all your hens (へん) will try to eat the thread. Hens love eating things that look like worms, like hay, string, and thread. So it’s important to get far away from them before you start to knit.
陸
Land
Radicals: 阝building + 坴 womb
A building made from a womb must be placed upon the land.
Reading: りく
The land around your womb building will, unfortunately, reek (りく) though.
探
Look for
Radicals: 扌fingers + 冖 forehead + 儿 legs + 木 tree
Put your fingers to your forehead and stand your legs high up in a tree if you want to look for something. After all, shielding your eyes and getting up high is the best way to look for something, isn’t it?
Reading: たん
You look for it for so long that you can’t help getting a tan (たん). I mean, you’re up some tree, shielding your eyes from the sun as you look for that thing, and it’s been hours, days? Of course you’re going to get a tan.
鑑
Model
Radicals: 金 gold + 監 oversee
You are given some gold to oversee a model. You are a famous architect, so you get a lot of gold for overseeing the construction of models like this one.
Reading: かん
As the model nears completion, you realize it’s taking the shape of Genghis Khan (かん). Was that what this was supposed to look like? You were so busy overseeing the gold in your pocket, you forgot!
泥
Mud
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 尸 flag + 匕 spoon
A tsunami came in and buried your flag so now you have to use a spoon and dig it out of the mud.
Reading: どろ
You may know of Dora the Explorer. But have you heard about her dirty, muddy brother, Doro (どろ)? They’re like a team. And because of all the exploring he does, Doro is always covered in mud.
巣
Nest
Radicals: 𭕄 grass + 果 fruit
Birds use grass and fruit to make their nests.
Reading: す
The bottom of the nest also seems to be padded with someone’s suit (す). Did… did this bird attack a human for this?!
普
Normal
Radicals: 並 line up + 日 sun
You line up your body with the sun and everything looks normal. The sun is lined up behind you, and you’re looking at all the things the sun has lit up. Everything looks normal.
Reading: ふ
Soon you see something that doesn’t look so normal. It’s a fool (ふ), a jester. Dressed all in fool’s garb, this fool is dancing up towards you with a ridiculously unsettling grin on his face.
妨
Obstruct
Radicals: 女 woman + 方 direction
A woman with direction will have things obstruct her path. It’s a sad fact that it’s still a man’s world out there!
Reading: ぼう
This woman is truly magnificent. Some compare her to a bowling (ぼう) ball, because of how she knocks down the obstructions in her path like bowling pins.
棒
Pole
Radicals: 木 tree + 𡗗 spring + 干 dry
A tree in spring that’s nice and dry will make a good pole or rod. Break it out of the ground and it’s just flexible enough for tons of applications.
Reading: ぼう
After much deliberation, you decide to use this pole to go bowling (ぼう). You line up a few more poles for the pins, and roll a rock toward them.
粉
Powder
Radicals: 米 rice + 分 part
If you grind rice, every part of it, eventually it will become a fine powder. You can then use this rice powder as a part to create some other dish. Some kind of cake, perhaps.
Reading: ふん
Actually, grinding the rice down to a powder is super fun (ふん). It’s so fun you don’t want to stop! AH HAHAHAHA! RICE POWDER! SO FUN!
既
Previously
Radicals: 艮 root + 牙 fang
There’s a root where your fang previously was. Your fang isn’t there anymore, you ripped it out.
Reading: き
To remember the beautiful fangs you previously had, you keep all of the ones you pull out in a box you lock with a key (き).
