lesson 1

Question 1

one

prim: floor or ceiling　　

Answer 1

一

Question 2

two

Answer 2

二

Question 3

three

Answer 3

三

Question 4

four

Answer 4

四

Question 5

five

Answer 5

五

Question 6

six

Answer 6

六

Question 7

seven

prim: diced, i.e., “cut” into pieces

Answer 7

七

Question 8

eight

Answer 8

八

Question 9

nine

prim: baseball team or baseball

Answer 9

九

Question 10

ten

prim: needle

Answer 10

十

Question 11

mouth

prim: mouth, an opening or entrance to a cave, a river, a bottle, or even the largest hole in your head

Answer 11

口

Question 12

day

prim: sun or day or a tongue wagging in the mouth

Answer 12

日

Question 13

month

prim: this character can take on the sense of moon, flesh, or part of the body

Answer 13

月

Question 14

rice field

prim: rice field is most common, sometimes the meaning is brains

Answer 14

田

Question 15

eye

prim: eye, or more specific eyeball

Answer 15

目

Question 16

old

prim: old, ten and mouth
picto: a tombstone with a cross on top

Answer 16

古

Question 17

I

” perceiving subject” five senses are concentrated in the head, 2 nostrils, 2 ears, and 1 mouth

Answer 17

吾

Question 18

risk

a sun above and an eye below (danger)

Answer 18

冒

Question 19

companion

Answer 19

朋

Question 20

bright

the sun, the bright insight, the moon, the bright intuition

Answer 20

明

Question 21

chant

one mouth making no noise (choirmaster) and two mouth with wagging tongues (minium for a chorus)

Answer 21

唱

Question 22

sparkle

a tiny sun in three places (‘everywhere”) to give a sense of something that sparkles on all sides

Answer 22

晶

Question 23

goods

goods produced for the “masses” of open mouths to “consume” whatever comes their way.

Answer 23

品

Question 24

spine

two of the vertebrae in the spine linked by a single stroke

Answer 24

呂

Question 25

prosperous

two suns, sunny days

Answer 25

昌

Question 26

early

prim: sun flower as the first flower of the day

Answer 26

早

Question 27

rising sun

baseball pat for the flagpole of the japanese flag of the rising sun

Answer 27

旭

Question 28

generation

three tens with “addition” lines

Answer 28

世

Question 29

stomach

part of the body that keeps the brain in working order

Answer 29

胃

Question 30

nightbreak

the horizon on which the sun is rising

Answer 30

旦

Question 31

gall bladder

part of the body
nightbreak

don’t let the nightbreak on your anger

Answer 31

胆

Question 32

span

journey of the sun as it moves from one horizon to its noonday heights in the sky overhead, marking the span of our lives

Answer 32

亘

Question 33

concave

Answer 33

凹

Question 34

convex

Answer 34

凸

Question 35

olden times

walking stick is needed or days of the olden times

Answer 35

旧

Question 36

oneself

the nose as a little drop between your eyes

Answer 36

自

Question 37

white

a single drop to sun spells white

Answer 37

白

Question 38

hundred

japanes people of 99 years are called a “white” year. Substract one from hundred

Answer 38

百

Question 39

in

Answer 39

中

Question 40

thousand

think of squeezing two more zeros
out of an eyedropper along side a ten

Answer 40

千

Question 41

tongue

a thousand mouths able to speak the same language

Answer 41

舌

Question 42

measuring box

Answer 42

升

Question 43

rise up

a sun and a measuring box

Answer 43

昇

Question 44

round

add a drop to nine and you have a round number

Answer 44

丸

Question 45

measurement

prim: its meaning is glue or glued to

Answer 45

寸

Question 46

elbow

part of the body that has been glued to its task

Answer 46

肘

Question 47

speciality

ten fields glued together to represent
speciality

Answer 47

専

Question 48

Dr.

needle, speciality, and a drop
specialist with a needle and a drop represent the period at the end of Dr.

Answer 48

博

Question 49

fortune telling

a divine rod with a mouth hence fortune telling

Answer 49

占

Question 50

above

Answer 50

上