Kanji - Level 32 - Kanji Flashcards
酸
Acid
Radicals: 酉 alcohol + 夋 spider
Mix spiders into alcohol to make acid. Spiders have a little bit in them already, but if you really want to make it potent, smash them in some whiskey to make a deadly acid that will rip through anything.
Reading: さん
You’re trying to find a container for this acid when Santa-san (さん) bursts through your wall. He frowns down at you. You’re on the naughty list now. You killed spiders AND made dangerous acid? Ooooh you’re in trouble.
賛
Agree
Radicals: 夫 husband + 貝 shellfish
A husband and his husband find a shellfish and agree to share it.
Reading: さん
Since the husbands were able to agree, Santa-san (さん) believes they’re both good husbands and belong on the good list. Therefore, Santa-san gives them each lots and lots of shellfish for Christmas.
祖
Ancestor
Radicals: ネ spirit + 且 top hat
You come across a spirit wearing a top hat and it claims to be your ancestor. Well of course, if you remember correctly, all of your ancestors wore top hats when they were alive. This spirit must be your long lost, great great… uh… somebody.
Reading: そ
You ask your ancestor what it wants and it points to the soap (そ) by the sink. Soap? It nods at you. I guess your ancestor is here to see the wonders of soap.
銭
Coin
Radicals: 金 gold + 㦮 bar
To use your gold at the bar you need to turn it into a coin. Well, more than one coin, probably. But you know for sure that you can make at least one coin out of the gold you have.
Reading: せん
You use the coin to pay a centaur (せん) at the bar. The centaur is the bartender and he makes special drinks for those who pay in gold coins. Good for you!
衛
Defense
Radicals: 行 go + 韋 Korea
If you want to go to Korea you’ll need a good defense.
Reading: えい
You need a good defense to go to Korea, so you fill your pockets with acorns (えい). When you get to Korea you plant them all around yourself. In no time you’ll have a strong tree defense, keeping you safe.
机
Desk
Radicals: 木 tree + 几 table
A tree combines with a table to make a desk. When you think about it, a desk is just a table with more stuff. To make this more stuff, like drawers and such, you need more wood, and wood comes from trees. Add materials from the tree to the table and you have a desk.
Reading: つくえ
When you finish the desk you turn to your friend and say, “It’s cool, eh (つくえ)?” Your friend looks at you and says, “S’coo’ eh? What?” “This desk, it’s cool. It’s cool, eh?” “Aw, yeah man. S’coo’ eh.”
Another way to remember this reading is to think about where you find lots of desks. That’s right, in a school (つくえ).
汚
Dirty
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 二 two + 勹 prison
A tsunami hit not one, but TWO prisons, making them extremely dirty.
Reading: お
What’s the most dirty are the prisons’ obi (お) collections. You can hear the prisoners crying, “Oh, not the obi. Our obi are all dirty, oh no!”
飼
Domesticate
Radicals: 食 eat + 司 director
You eat part of a director to domesticate him. This director has been going around kicking cameramen and punching actors and it’s really ruining his reputation. You need to domesticate him. The only way to do this is to shock him into submission. His ego is so big from two blockbusters that you have to eat part of him to get him to calm down.
Reading: か
While you did succeed in your attempt to domesticate the director, he is now bleeding profusely from the bite wound. All over the script! You gotta get your car (か) and drive him to the hospital like right away. Get to the car! Hurry!
複
Duplicate
Radicals: ネ spirit + 复 black hole
Put a spirit in a black hole and a duplicate comes out. The duplicate looks exactly like the original spirit that went in. How strange.
Reading: ふく
Suddenly the duplicate spirit starts yelling, “Why did you throw me into that black hole?! F*** (ふく) you!”
染
Dye
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 九 nine + 木 tree
A tsunami runs into nine trees and produces a dye the color of the forest. The tsunami water mixes with each tree, nine of them actually, and the resulting liquid is a forest green dye.
Reading: せん
The dye continues to pass through the forest and hits a group of centaurs (せん). Now each centaur is dyed with the forest green dye. They don’t look happy.
卵
Egg
Radicals: 勺 pool
Two pools, both altered and not quite like a pool you’ve seen before are put together and flipped around – this is an egg. One pool is the egg white, the other pool is the egg yolk. They’re different, but similar.
Reading: たまご
You remember Tamagotchi (たまご), right? Well, Tamagotchi is an egg, and the toy looks like an egg, so it’s pretty easy to remember that tamago means egg.
永
Eternity
Radicals: 永 eternity
The eternity radical and the eternity kanji are the same!
Reading: えい
How long is an eternity? Just look at this little acorn (えい) and ask. The acorn starts small but it grows into a huge tree and can live for all eternity by dropping more acorns to create more trees. Its acorn line will live on forever!
績
Exploits
Radicals: 糸 thread + 責 blame
Taking a piece of thread you blame the exploits of your past on poor judgment. You tie this thread around your finger to remind you of all the exploits you accomplished in your day. Most of them weren’t actually on purpose, so you blame them on poor judgment and accident.
Reading: せき
One of your exploits was when you got dressed in the dark and were wearing funny clothes and everyone thought that it was sexy (せき). The newspapers and fashion agencies couldn’t get enough of your sexy style.
眼
Eyeball
Radicals: 目 eye + 艮 root
The eye’s root is the eyeball.
Reading: がん
You know who has some pretty good eyeballs? Gandhi (がん). Gandhi used his eyes to see the oppression around him and decided to do something about it. But it’s all thanks to his eyeballs.
液
Fluid
Radicals: 氵tsunami + 夜 night
A tsunami that hits at night leaves even more fluid than normal. It’s dark at night, so the sun isn’t there to help evaporate all that tsunami liquid.
Reading: えき
This fluid stays in the 駅 (えき) longer than anywhere else. All of those tsunami liquids pour deep inside the 駅 late at night and the sun still can’t reach them to help evaporate them during the day. It’s a real nightmare.
