Level 13-2 Flashcards
億
Hundred Million
N/A
On’Yomi:
おく
Kun’Yomi:
None
Meaning Mnemonic
A cult leader has a great idea to recruit a hundred million new members. Since he’s the guy with all the ideas, he is the leader of the cult. His idea is to give every new member a free puppy. He’ll have a hundred million new recruits in no time.
Additional Info:
Imagine a hundred million free puppies. That’s a lot. Imagine playing with all of them. You’d be pretty happy. Unless you hate puppies. Then you’d be pretty unhappy, I imagine.
Reading Mnemonic
The cult leader has his headquarters in Oklahoma (おく). Are there a hundred million people in Oklahoma? No, probably not. But hey, this leader is shooting for the stars. First Oklahoma, then the universe!
Additional Info:
Picture this cult leader gathering a hundred million people into Oklahoma. It’d be awfully crowded. Imagine yourself being stifled by the bodies of a hundred million other people.
器
Container
vessel
On’Yomi:
き
Kun’Yomi:
うつわ
Meaning Mnemonic
Big products need to be put in a big container. A small container just won’t do. These products are big and they need a big container to be contained in.
Additional Info:
Imagine having all these big products. How will you contain them all!? Imagine yourself stuffing all of these big products into their respective containers.
Reading Mnemonic
Once you get the big products into a container, you then lock it with a key (き). You wouldn’t want these products to bust out of their containers, so it’s best to lock them up with a key.
Additional Info:
Imagine the size of these big keys you have to use to lock these containers. It’s a really big key. Picture yourself straining to turn the key in the lock.
宿
Lodge
N/A
On’Yomi:
しゅく
Kun’Yomi:
やど
Meaning Mnemonic
A leader wearing a helmet requests housing for himself and a hundred of his men at a local lodge. The leader is the only one wearing a helmet, so that way you know he is the leader. He leads a hundred men, but they need to rest. That’s why they’ve stopped at this lodge.
Additional Info:
Imagine one hundred soldiers all in a lodge at the same time. It’s going to be mighty loud and mighty crowded. Hear the noisy din of the soldiers as you try and make your way through the crowded lobby at the lodge.
Reading Mnemonic
The entrance made by the hundred bodies shook (しゅく) the lodge to its foundation. Being shook by the soldiers steps, everyone else in the lodge was startled.
Additional Info:
Imagine being in a lodge and the ground shook beneath you. You’d probably think it was an earthquake. Feel your legs wiggling back and forth as the ground shakes beneath you.
情
Feeling
emotion
On’Yomi:
じょう
Kun’Yomi:
なさけ
Meaning Mnemonic
If you eat a blue fish stick, you may end up feeling sick. Fish sticks aren’t supposed to be blue, so there’s obviously something very wrong with this fish stick. You’ll be feeling very ill if you eat this blue fish stick.
Additional Info:
Imagine the feeling of eating this mutated blue fish stick. It tastes… odd. Imagine feeling it on your tongue as you taste its blue fish stickiness.
Reading Mnemonic
You start to get the feeling that this isn’t actually a fish stick at all. You think it might be human meat. Human meat from Joseph (じょう) Stalin!?!? How did Joe end up in the fish sticks? What is quality control doing!?
Additional Info:
Now imagine the feeling of biting into a fish stick, only to realize it’s Joseph Stalin. It’s hard to eat. And it’s blue. Why is Joe so blue? Maybe he was really sad when they turned him into a fish stick.
感
Feeling
N/A
On’Yomi:
かん
Kun’Yomi:
かん
Meaning Mnemonic
A drunkard with the heart of a creeper is going to leave you feeling pretty uncomfortable. His creeper heart shows its true nature whenever he’s drunk, and since he’s a drunkard, he is drunk a lot. He’s a serial creeper and leaves everyone feeling violated.
Additional Info:
Imagine this creepy drunkard hitting on you, feeling your shoulders and touching your hair. You’re feeling incredible uncomfortable. Imagine what this would be like and how you’d be feeling.
Reading Mnemonic
You have the feeling this drunkard has been drinking all day. You can tell because he has a beer can (かん) in his hand, a can in his pocket, and a can in his sock.
Additional Info:
Imagine yourself carrying lots of cans. It would probably be a pretty awkward feeling to carry a can in your sock, but hey – you only have so many pockets.
整
Arrange
organize
On’Yomi:
せい
Kun’Yomi:
ととの.*
Meaning Mnemonic
The ent is hanging around in the winter. He is trying to correct this problem (that it is winter), though he can’t do it on his own. So, he goes and talks to his Wizard friend, asking if there’s any way to arrange for a weather change.
Additional Info:
Imagine the ent talking to the wizard about this. He keeps saying “if you can arrange this I’d be very grateful” in a gangster sort of voice. Focus in on the “arrange” portion.
Reading Mnemonic
By talking to the wizard, the ent finds out that the only one who can arrange this is Hard Gay. He calls up Hard Gay and asks for the weather change. Hard Gay yells “SEI SEI SEI!” up at the clouds while thrusting his hips and the cold flees in terror, bringing about summer.
Additional Info:
Think about how this was a good arrangement. Also be sure to think of Hard Gay making it nice and warm again (and feel the warmth on your skin as winter rolls away due to the arrangement that was made).
映
Reflect
reflection
On’Yomi:
えい
Kun’Yomi:
うつ.*
Meaning Mnemonic
In the central part of the sun, there are thousands of mirrors all pointed outward bouncing off light. I bet you didn’t know this was what the sun was made up of. A ton of mirrors all trying to reflect light. If there’s enough, there will be a lot of brightness. Reflect, reflect!
Additional Info:
The sun can reflect off a lot of things. Glare from the sun is annoying. Imagine the sun’s light being reflected into your eyes. The light hurts and you have to squint.
Reading Mnemonic
Somehow you get a closer look at these mirrors. They are in the shape of an ace (えい), the ace of spades. So when the sun hits it and reflects off, the reflected light is in the shape of an ace.
Additional Info:
Imagine hearing the song Ace of Spades playing in your head as you picture the reflection from the mirror hitting you in the eyes. Senses overload!
熱
Heat
fever
On’Yomi:
ねつ
Kun’Yomi:
あつ.い
Meaning Mnemonic
Swimming in a circle womb, a fish tail gathers heat from the mother. All this heat is concentrating, though, causing the fish to get a fever.
Additional Info:
Imagine this fish swimming around and picture it gathering heat every time it moves. You can see the red hot heat radiating off of the fish as it starts to glow.
Reading Mnemonic
The best way to catch this fish would be with nets (ねつ). Nets are a great way to catch fish, especially ones like this who have too much heat from a fever. They use the nets to catch it so they can get it to a doctor.
Additional Info:
Picture yourself using nets trying to catch these feverish fish. Feel the rock of the boat you’re on as the water sprays up in your face. Don’t lose your concentration!
疑
Doubt
N/A
On’Yomi:
ぎ
Kun’Yomi:
うたが.う
Meaning Mnemonic
“Use a spoon as an arrow. Your mama has it correct, kid,” the policeman says to you. This doesn’t seem right, but this guy is a policeman. Maybe he’s trying to protect the citizen from your knife arrows by making you use spoons? A lot of doubt is creeping into your mind in regards to what this policeman said.
Additional Info:
Try to shoot the spoon with your bow n’ arrow. It works terribly. Even more doubt that the policeman was telling the truth.
Reading Mnemonic
You realize the bow and spoon won’t be enough. You need to get your steak knives back, so you grab your guitar (ぎ) and come up with a song with the goal of swooning your mama into giving your knives back.
Additional Info:
Go ahead and come up with a song, right now, playing a fake guitar. Yep, stand up and do it.
福
Luck
fortune
On’Yomi:
ふく
Kun’Yomi:
None
Meaning Mnemonic
A pelican followed all the way to a rice paddy by a creeper has no luck. This pelican has been trying to get away from this creeper since he started creeping on him by the ocean. Now the pelican has traveled all the way to an inland rice paddy and the creeper is still creeping. What terrible luck.
Additional Info:
Imagine how unlucky you are to get followed by a creepy creeper. It really creeps you out. Picture the creeper with his lecherous stares and heavy breathing. You feel a very strong lack of luck.
Reading Mnemonic
Finally the pelican gets so fed up with this creeper he decides to turn his luck around and face his creeper. The pelican stops, turns to the creeper and yells, “F$%@ (ふく) YOU! LEAVE ME ALONE!”
Additional Info:
Imagine if you were the creeper and you had a pelican yell this in your face. Feel the hot fishy breath of the pelican as he screams this right at you.
練
Practice
N/A
On’Yomi:
れん
Kun’Yomi:
None
Meaning Mnemonic
Pointing a thread to the east, you practice your navigation skills. You’ve discovered a method to tell direction using just a thread, so you point it to the east in order to find your way. The method takes practice though, so you’re sure to practice every day.
Additional Info:
East is the land of the rising sun, so imagine yourself practicing this method, pointing the thread to the east as the sun rises up. Feel the heat of the sun’s rays and see the bright light as the sun shines up over the horizon.
Reading Mnemonic
Also, you are Ren (れん), from Ren & Stimpy the TV show. Since you’re not in the TV business anymore, you’ve decided to practice your other skills. How mature of you, Ren.
Additional Info:
If you’ve ever seen the show Ren & Stimpy, imagine what it would be like to be Ren. If not, watch a clip on YouTube and pretend you are Ren when you practice doing things, like studying kanji.
課
Section
N/A
On’Yomi:
か
Kun’Yomi:
None
Meaning Mnemonic
I always say the fruit section at the grocery should be at the front of the store. It’s the perfect place for the fruit section, I say.
Additional Info:
Think about it. Every grocery store has the fruit section right at the front, wouldn’t you say?
Reading Mnemonic
To get to the fruit section, you have to go to the store. To get to the store you have to drive a car (か). Driving a car is the fastest way to get to the fruit section at the store.
Additional Info:
Picture yourself driving a car and salivating over the fruit waiting for you in the fruit section. Imagine your favorite fruit as you put the pedal to the metal in your awesome car.
謝
Apologize
N/A
On’Yomi:
しゃ
Kun’Yomi:
あやま.る
Meaning Mnemonic
You say something to somebody about the measurement of their coat. It’s a terrible insult about how it’s way too small or something along those lines. This guy is pissed. he grabs your face and yells until you apologize.
Additional Info:
Feel the fear you’d feel if someone did this to you. Just think “all I need to do is apologize as quickly as possible. Apologize! Apologize!”
Reading Mnemonic
Actually, this “somebody” wasn’t just anybody. It was Shaq (しゃ)! He measures in at quite a height, so you’re probably even more scared now. Apologize more quickly. It’s Shaq you’re talking to.
Additional Info:
Smell his sweat. Feel his giant hand on your face, holding it like a basketball. Now apologize.
輪
Wheel
ring, loop
On’Yomi:
りん
Kun’Yomi:
わ
Meaning Mnemonic
If you drive your car off the roof and into a pile of books, you’ll probably lose a wheel and maybe blow an o-ring. Cars aren’t meant to drive on roofs, and books definitely aren’t soft enough to cushion the fall of the car. There’s going to be damage done. Your wheels will get busted up, and you’ll blow an o-ring or something for sure.
Additional Info:
Picture yourself at the wheel of your car as you drive it off the roof. Imagine how scared you would be. You’re going to be injured. Imagine how terrifying this would be, falling off the roof in a car.
Reading Mnemonic
What is a wheel shaped like? A ring (りん). What does the other meaning of this kanji, ring, sound like? Ring (りん).
Additional Info:
No matter how you look at it, we keep coming back to りんg.
願
Request
N/A
On’Yomi:
がん
Kun’Yomi:
ねがい
Meaning Mnemonic
A geoduck presents a diamond in request for marriage. The geoduck is proposing to you with a diamond ring. This geoduck is requesting you to be its partner in life!
Additional Info:
Geoducks are disgusting, but this one has enough confidence to request you be its lifelong partner. It even got you a diamond!
Reading Mnemonic
When it sees you dawdling about answering, the geoduck makes a request for your immediate response. When you still dawdle, the geoduck pulls out a gun (がん) and asks you again. A gun? What kind of geoduck is this? Time to become gone yourself, so to speak. This is not a healthy relationship.
Additional Info:
Picture a geoduck holding a diamond in one hand and a gun in the other. This is one wacky sight to behold.
