Kanji - Level 33 - Kanji Flashcards
灰
Ash
Radicals: 厂cliff + 火 fire
On a cliff, a fire burns to ashes. The ashes then blow off the cliff, and follow the wind wherever it may go.
Reading: はい
The ashes inspire you to write a haiku (はい). Using the ashes you write a haiku on a rock for everyone to enjoy.
装
Attire
Radicals: 丬icicle + 士 samurai + 衣 clothes
If you see icicles hanging off of a samurai’s clothes, don’t worry, those are just part of his winter attire. Samurai have to travel and fight in all sorts of conditions, so it only makes sense that they have attire for every season.
Readings: そう, しょう
Attire like this is important because it reflects your soul (そう). The samurai is wearing clothing with icicles because that’s how his heart feels too: frozen over because he has to fight in this horrible winter weather.
著
Author
Radicals: 艹 flowers + 者 someone
If someone is holding flowers, they’re probably an author. Authors really love flowers, because they help them think of flowery language they can use to sound smart in their books.
Reading: ちょ
Unfortunately, the author is allergic to flowers. They are only allergic to touching them though, so the author is holding the flowers with a pair of chopsticks (ちょ), really close to their face. Using the chopsticks, they can still use the flowers to think of fancy, author-ly words without touching them.
裏
Backside
Radicals: 亠 lid + 里 village + 𧘇 kick
There’s a lid on your village, so you kick it over on its backside to see what’s on its underside.
Reading: うら
It turns out your village’s own backside is covered in uranium (うら). Eureka! You’re all gonna be rich!
股
Crotch
Radicals: 月 moon + 殳 weapon
You keep your moon weapon in your crotch. Where else would you keep it?
Reading: こ
Your crotch has a moon weapon, and it’s served you well, so you should hope that if you have a 子 (こ) one day, they’ll have one too.
垂
Dangle
Radicals: 車 car
This car is all weird because it looks like the side is going to dangle and drip off or something. The front bumper of the car is dangling off and the sides of the car look like they could drip off at any moment.
Reading: すい
You see the parts as they dangle off the car and you get an idea. You could probably swing (すい) on these dangling parts. The parts can probably take some weight still before they drip off the car, so you might as well swing around on them while you still can.
異
Differ
Radicals: 田 rice paddy + 共 together
Put a rice paddy together with other paddies and you’ll see how much they differ. When you’re driving or taking a train through the countryside it may seem like all of those rice paddies blurring together are all the same, but they can differ quite a bit!
Reading: い
To see how rice paddies differ, you need an eagle’s (い) eye view. It can be hard to see from the ground, so soar up into the sky like an eagle and look down at the rice paddies together.v
皇
Emperor
Radicals: 白 white + 王 king
Social commentary aside, the white king is the king that wears all white. Traditionally, this is someone better than a king. The emperor!
Readings: こう, おう
Who is the emperor? It is こういち. こういち the emperor stands over his subjects.
拡
Extend
Radicals: 扌fingers + 広 wide
To make your fingers wide you extend them.
Reading: かく
As you extend your fingers a cock (かく) comes running by and runs straight into them. Bu-COCK!
屁
Flatulence
Radicals: 尸 flag + 比 compare
Use a flag to compare your flatulence.
Reading: へ
How do you read flatulence? Heh(へ)…heh..heh..heheheh. You can’t NOT laugh at the word flatulence.
Note that some dictionaries incorrectly list おなら as a reading for this kanji. While おなら also means “flatulence” (as in “fart”), you’ll only ever encounter this reading in hiragana, as the kanji can only be read as へ.
暮
Livelihood
Radicals: 莫 greenhouse + 日 sun
A greenhouse is already really good when it comes to a plant’s livelihood. But add the sun into that equation and you have something really great for the plants. Their livelihood will be awesome, now!
Reading: ぼ
From out of nowhere, Bobo (ぼ) the notorious clown thief starts picking the plants, ending their livelihood. Bobo needs the flowers for his clown acts, so he uses the livelihood of the flowers to support his own livelihood.
忠
Loyalty
Radicals: 中 middle + 心 heart
Those that are in the middle of your heart are the ones you have the most loyalty towards. The middle of your heart is the most sacred, special place for people, so it makes sense that those you keep in the middle of your heart are those you are most loyal to.
Reading: ちゅう
You pictured Chewbacca (ちゅう), didn’t you? No? Well you should have. Chewbacca deserves everyone’s loyalty. Chewbacca is super loyal to you, so he deserves your loyalty back.
肺
Lung
Radicals: 月 moon + 市 city
There is a moon and a city inside your lung. Inside of your lung there is a city and above that city lies a moon. It’s a pretty sight, but also very strange. Moons and cities don’t usually reside inside lungs.
Reading: はい
Having a moon and city inside your lung inspires you to write a haiku (はい). Perhaps the city and moon are just metaphorical. Either way, a haiku is the best way to go about things here.
誌
Magazine
Radicals: 言 say + 士 samurai + 心 heart
To say what’s in a samurai’s heart you start a magazine. You go around writing about and interviewing all the samurai so you can share what they say to everyone who wants to read!
Reading: し
Unfortunately, your magazine helps the sheep (し) samurai find other samurai… and kill them. None of the samurai want to share their feelings with your magazine anymore, oh no!
操
Manipulate
Radicals: 扌fingers + 喿 syrup
If someone has their fingers in your syrup, it’s just another way of saying they manipulated you. Cause only slimy people manipulate other people, so their fingers are slimy and sticky because they’re covered in your syrup from mucking up your life.
This also has another meaning: chastity. Just imagine if someone wanted you to keep your chastity and they called s.e.x. when someone “puts their fingers in your syrup.” That would be pretty effective, right? Cause it’s like, super gross.
Reading: そう
If you want to manipulate someone else it’s going to have a permanent effect on your soul (そう). Being manipulative isn’t cool. And your soul will suffer forever for it.
筋
Muscle
Radicals: 竹 bamboo + 月 moon + 力 power
This bamboo absorbed the moon’s power, and you want that power in your body, so you surgically insert them into your body to replace your muscles and tendons.
Reading: きん
Your special muscles and tendons have become famous and the King (きん) of England has requested that you appear in his court! It looks like he wants you to teach his barber surgeons how you got your new muscles.
否
No
Radicals: 不 not + 口 mouth
The Not Mouth says “no”. What else would you expect from something named the “Not Mouth”? The Not Mouth will always say “no”, regardless of the question.
Reading: ひ
You ask the Not Mouth if it is afraid of heat (ひ). The Not Mouth says, “no”. So you set the Not Mouth on fire. The Not Mouth then screams, “NONONONONONONONONONOOOOOO~!” Looks like someone can’t handle the heat.
盛
Pile
Radicals: 成 become + 皿 plate
If you become a plate, I will pile food up upon you. With such a huge pile, everyone will think you’re prosperous.
Readings: せい, じょう
You’re so prosperous you use your saber (せい) to cut the food pile and shove the bits into your plate mouth. In fact, your entire family is using your special saber to cut and eat off of you. A normal knife wouldn’t be able to get through all this food!
宣
Proclaim
Radicals: 宀 roof + 一 ground + 旦 dawn
Someone climbs onto the roof from the ground when dawn comes to proclaim that a new day has begun! They proclaim this at the top of their lungs!
Reading: せん
The thing that climbs up on the roof to proclaim that the new day is here is a centaur (せん). Ohoho, did you think I was going to say it was a rooster? Wrong! Centaurs are taller than humans and roosters, so when they climb onto the roof with their horse legs they can see dawn starting before anyone else.
賃
Rent
Radicals: ｲ leader + 王 king + 貝 shellfish
The leader who is king of every shellfish sets the rent for everyone. If you rent a home in King Shellfish’s kingdom, the rent will be set by the great shellfish leader himself.
Reading: ちん
If you don’t have enough shellfish to pay your rent, King Shellfish will punch you in the chin (ちん).
敬
Respect
Radicals: 苟 poem + 夂 winter
Writing a poem about winter is the only way to get respect from other poets.
Reading: けい
Once you have their respect you get cake (けい)!
尊
Revered
Radicals: 丷 horns + 酉 alcohol + 寸 measurement
The horns of the creatures who drink alcohol have a measurement so large that they are revered the world over. The horns are revered both for their size and potency. The horns can be used in medicine, so they are very valuable, those alcoholic monster horns.
Reading: そん
The reason you are interested in these revered horns so much is that your son (そん) is sick and you need one of these revered horns to make a medicine for your son. Only with the revered power of the horns will you be able to save your son’s life.
熟
Ripen
Radicals: 享 receive + 丸 circle + 灬 boil
If you receive something edible, arrange it in a circle and boil it. That way, it’ll ripen more quickly.
Reading: じゅく
Once everything you received has ripened, you kick back near your jukebox (じゅく) and eat it. The jukebox sets the mood, making the ripened treat feels twice as sweet.
噂
Rumor
Radicals: 口 mouth + 丷 horns + 酉 alcohol + 寸 measurement
Your mouth has some hidden horns, and if you have the right alcohol measurement in your body, those horns will come out of your mouth in the form of rumors and gossip.
Reading: うわさ
When you start to tell a rumor or spread gossip, you’re a little drunk, so you slur you words. “Ooo I saw (うわさ)…” is how you start every rumor. It’s got some southern drawl to it almost (Uuuwahsahw).
砂
Sand
Radicals: 石 stone + 少 few
If you grind a stone down to more than just a few pieces, it will become sand. Stones that get broken up enough will become sand, and you pick up a few grains in your hand.
Readings: さ, しゃ
What’s in your hand? A few grains of sand (さ)! Sand, sand, sand!
簡
Simplicity
Radicals: 竹 bamboo + 間 interval
Keeping at a bamboo interval is the definition of simplicity.
Reading: かん
Simplicity is what Genghis Khan (かん) always demanded. Everything he decided was based on simplicity.
蒸
Steam
Radicals: 艹 flowers + 丞 coral + 灬 boil
If you take the flowers off some coral and boil them, steam comes out.
Reading: じょう
As you watch the steam coming off the coral flowers, someone appears behind you. It’s Jourm (じょう), the big farmhand. “Are you steaming coral?” he asks. “Smelled it a mile away. I love steaming me some coral.”
蔵
Storehouse
Radicals: 蔵 storehouse
The storehouse radical and the storehouse kanji meanings are the same. If you know the radical, you know the kanji!
Reading: ぞう
You have a storehouse. Inside is where you keep all your zombies (ぞう).
糖
Sugar
Radicals: 米 rice + 广 canopy + ヨ wolverine + 口 mouth
Bring some rice under a canopy and stuff it in a wolverine’s mouth. Make it chew it a bit, scrape it out, and voila — you’ve made sugar!
Reading: とう
You learned how to make this kind of sugar in とうきょう. You found a special とうきょう sugar sensei and they introduced you to all the secret methods you know now.
納
Supply
Radicals: 糸 thread + 内 inside
The thread you have inside is your whole supply. When you’re outside sewing and you run out, you just go inside, look through your supply, and pick a new one.
Readings: のう, なっ
You have this supply because Nostradamus (のう) had a prediction, saying you would. And that if you didn’t keep a good supply of thread inside, you’d run out.
諸
Various
Radicals: 言 say + 者 someone
They say someone with various talents is important. Various talents can include speaking various languages so if you are someone who knows various languages you can say things that various peoples will comprehend.
Reading: しょ
You’re so good at speaking various languages that you decide to put on a show (しょ). At the show, you say a lot of things in various languages and everyone is impressed.
窓
Window
Radicals: 穴 hole + ム private + 心 heart
The hole leading to the private heart of your house is the window. Or maybe it’s just the window to your soul, and not your house. Like the poetry people say.
Reading: まど
You realize that a ton of people are looking into your window and seeing all your private things. This makes you mad (まど)! What right do they have to know your private thoughts and desires?!
