Lesson 2

Question 1

Old
[16]

Answer 1

古

Pictograph of a tombstone with a cross on top.

Question 2

I
[17]

Answer 2

吾

I have five mouths/holes (mouth, nostrils, ears) in my head

*five, mouth

Question 3

Risk
[18]

Answer 3

冒

the sun is a risky thing to look at

*sun, eye

Question 4

Companion
[19]

Answer 4

朋

“flesh of my flesh” you are my companion! They are so close they may as well have been the same person in two bodies.

*two flesh

Question 5

Bright
[20]

Answer 5

明

the sun and moon are the brightest things in the sky

*sun, moon

Question 6

chant
[21]

Answer 6

唱

the choirmaster led them in a chant

*one mouth, two mouths with wagging tongues

Question 7

sparkle
[22]

Answer 7

晶

the sunlight sparkled on all edges of the diamond

*three suns

Question 8

goods
[23]

Answer 8

品

The customer waited with bated breath for the heaps of goods they had ordered.

The masses waiting with open mouths waiting like fledgelings in a nest waiting to consume the goods they ordered.

*three mouths

Question 9

spine
[24]

Answer 9

呂

two vertebrae in the spine

*a picture of two of the vertebrae in the spine linked by a stroke

Question 10

prosperous
[25]

Answer 10

昌

If we had the benefit of two suns farmers would be very prosperous!
What could be more prosperous than a sky with two suns in it?

*two suns

Question 11

early
[26]

Answer 11

早

Sunflower pictograph.
The sunflower (with needles for peddles) is the early riser in the garden. The sun shines on it before everyone else because it shares its name.

*made of: sun, needle
*as a primitive: sunflower

Question 12

rising sun
[27]

Answer 12

旭

Baseball is a very popular sport in the land of the rising sun (Japan). Image of the red rising sun on the flag as a baseball and the flagpole flying the flag as a baseball bat.

*baseball, sun

Question 13

generation
[28]

Answer 13

世

ten plus ten plus ten equals a generation (~30yrs). The lower horizontal line is like the addition lines written under numbers to add them up.

Question 14

stomach
[29]

Answer 14

胃

the flesh/part of the body that holds up the brain is the stomach. You have to eat in order for the brain to work properly.

*brain, flesh

Question 15

nightbreak
[30]

Answer 15

旦

“nightbreak” (daybreak) occurs as the sun begins to rise. The horizontal stroke at the bottom represents the floor/horizon that the sun is poking its head over.

*sun, floor

Question 16

gall bladder
[31]

Answer 16

胆

would you have the gall to run around naked, with all of your flesh showing, at night break?

*flesh, nightbreak

Question 17

span
[32]

Answer 17

亘

how many sunsets and sunrises mark the span of our lives? The journey of the sun as it moves from the horizon (the floor) to its highest point at noon (the ceiling). That is the span of its movement.

*ceiling, sun, floor

Question 18

concave
[33]

Answer 18

凹

Question 19

convex
[34]

Answer 19

凸