Shark Kanji 01

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1 一 one One down, 2041 to go. ;).

2 二 two Two lines.
3 三 three One + two = three.
FOUR year-olds often put their FOOT (human legs) in their MOUTH - but they are too
4 四 four young to realize.
5 五 five 三 + two vertical lines = 5.
6 六 six Indicating 6 parts of the human body: head, body, 2 arms, 2 legs.
7 七 seven This kanji is our good old seven, turned upside down.
Hachi (eight) begins with the sound of the katakana "ha", and it´s approximately the
8 八 eight same character.
Kinda of looks like the kanji of 1　一 with the kanji of 8 八added. So think of it as
9 九 nine 　一＋八＝九.
Two needles crossing marks the spot, or you can use the Roman character for ten
10 十 ten (rotated 45 degrees).
11 口 mouth Looks like a huge open mouth.
12 日 day Open the window, new day.

13 月 month A month is longer than a day.
14 田 rice field A rice field divided into four parts.

There are 3 sections. Imagine the outer two being the whites of your eye. The middle
15 目 eye is the pupil. Fill it in with imaginary color.
16 古 old Tombstone and cross on an old man´s grave.
17 吾 I I have 5 senses.
18 冒 risk Don´t look at the sun directly with your eyes, it´s risky!
19 朋 companion My companion and I are like two moons side by side.
20 明 bright The sun makes the moon bright.
21 唱 chant Someone chanting with their mouth open for two consecutive days.
22 晶 sparkle A diamond sparkles as brightly as three suns.
23 品 goods Three boxes of goods are devoured by the hungry mouths of waiting consumers.
24 呂 spine Spine connects head and body.
25 昌 prosperous If you work from Sun UP to Sun DOWN you will be prosperous.
26 早 early The sun up is early, well before ten.
27 旭 rising sun 9am carries with it the rising sun.
28 世 generation 3 tens = generation.

29 胃 stomach The rice field is harvested once a month to get food for our stomach.
30 旦 nightbreak A nightbreak happens when the sun rises over the horizon (floor).
31 胆 gall bladder The moon has a lot of gall sticking around after sunrise.
32 亘 span The sun spans from horizon to horizon in a day.
33 凹 concave The letter "U" is concavely written.

34 凸 convex When I get vexed, I give people the middle finger.
35 旧 olden times Age 18 = olden times.
Faced with his clone, our hero valiantly cut a mark on his forehead right above his eye
36 自 oneself so that his comrades could tell his true oneself from the enemy.
37 白 white A white ray is a drop of sun.
38 百 hundred 100 turned sideways. {sort of the same as what ashoksaraf said}.
39 中 in Pocky goes in the mouth.
40 千 thousand It takes many drops of ten to get to a thousand.

41 舌 tongue What is in a mouth that permits it to speak a thousand things? Yes, a tongue.
42 升 measuring box It is a thousand or ten? I need my measuring box.

This kanji does not mean "get up" or "awake." It means rising, like the rising of a
salary, or a promotion. STORY: You know that your salary has RISEN UP when your
43 昇 rise up MEASURING BOX has enough dollar bills in it to reach the SUN.
44 丸 round Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten!

45 寸 measurement The decimal system uses drops of ten as a measurement.
After you have chosen your 10 fields of study, measure how good you are at each to
46 専 specialty find out your specialty.
47 博 Dr. Ten specialties grants you the title of Dr. with a dot.
48 占 fortune-telling Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod.

49 上 above A magic wand standing on above the floor.
50 下 below Roots are below the ground.
51 卓 eminent The most eminent magician is he who learned to use his magic wand early in life.
52 朝 morning There is mist as the moon fades away in the morning.

53 只 only Imagine an animal with only a mouth and legs.
54 貝 shellfish Eye thought I saw a shellfish legging it down the beach!

55 貞 upright A magic wand is needed to make a clam stand upright.
An employee (member of the company) has to clam up his mouth if he wants keep the
56 員 employee job!
As a primitive, this is Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. (the giant eyeball with legs...)
57 見 see Makes for easy stories later on.
58 児 newborn babe In the olden times, a newborn babe came out legs first.
59 元 beginning In the beginning were just two who walked on human legs.
60 頁 page A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head.

A stubborn person in the beginning gets something into their head and can´t change
61 頑 stubborn their mind.
62 凡 mediocre A drop of breeze is naught but a mediocre wind.
63 負 defeat Tied up, the shellfish had to accept defeat!
64 万 ten thousand I bound ten thousand dollars together and hid it under the floor.
65 句 phrase Some Japanese phrases are difficult to wrap your mouth around.
66 肌 texture When you expose your flesh to the wind it gets textured: goosebumps!
Hesig should be BOUND for a DAY (or maybe 10 days - a decameron) for calling this
67 旬 decameron Kanji DECAMERON. See martyrdom (#809).
68 勺 ladle A ladle binds drops together.
69 的 bull´s eye I managed to hit the bull´s eye by throwing my white ladle.
The V shape is your neck on top of your collar bone, or the straight line. Yourself, or
70 首 neck the rest of your body is below that!
71 乙 fish guts This is a fish hook, that pulls out the fishguts.
The riot police broke up the riot by dragging the rioters away by their tongues with
72 乱 riot fishooks.
73 直 straightaway If you get a needle in your eye that is hooked in there, get to a hospital straightaway.
74 具 tool Keep an eye on your tools while you work at the table.
75 真 TRUE A compass is a tool with a needle on top that points to true north.
I consider craft to be one of the harder primitives to use in stories so I´ve personified it
76 工 craft as Bender the crafty robot from Futurama who was designed to bend I-beams.
The LEFT side of my brain posesses the faculties needed for logical crafts, like
77 左 left engineering.
78 右 right The right hand is for putting food in your mouth. (The other hand is for ass-wiping!).
79 有 possess Possessed by the Earth´s gravity, the moon stays by its side.
80 賄 bribe To bribe someone, money is a necessary possession.
This next song is a TRIBUTE to a little SHELLFISH friend of mine who was tragically
81 貢 tribute crushed by an I-shaped table..
82 項 paragraph To write a paragraph is the craft of grouping sentences on a page.
83 刀 sword This SWORD is so sharp, it can cut the top part of カ off in カタナ.
84 刃 blade The part of a sword where a drop of blood can usually be found is the blade.
85 切 cut The seven samurai used their swords to cut their opponents.
86 召 seduce A man is easily seduced by a mouth to his "sword.".
87 昭 shining Shining is the sun´s seduction.
88 則 rule When you have both money and the power of the sword, you can make the rules.
The wealthy guy with the sword standing next to the king, that´s the vice-roy who
89 副 vice- does all the dirty work.
I don´t know about you but to me this seems like someone´s head is about to be
separated from his body. You can see he´s kneeling and his mouth is wide open
90 別 separate gasping for the last breath he will ever take.
91 丁 street Today, the program "Sesame Street" is brought to you by the letter "T".
Actually this means town, like one that has lots of streets and is surrounded by all the
92 町 village rice fields.
A mouth on the street asking for things: "Can I get some help?! Can I get directions,
93 可 can Can I have some money? Can you please speak English?!".
94 頂 place on the head If I put a street sign on my head what do I get ? A place on the head !
95 子 child A child who is ten will still ask for his ma (top looks a bit like katakana ma).
The child´s arms flailed around at the sight of the hooked tool the dentist was going to
96 孔 cavity use to fill his cavity.
97 了 complete The experiment was a complete failure! The child was made without any arms!
To remember the order of strokes, remember a female ninja is called a "kunoichi".
98 女 woman That is, く(hiragana) ノ(katakana) 一(kanji, ichi=one).
99 好 fond A woman is fond of her child.

Women share a common likeness. Their mouths are always open, whining about this
100 如 likeness and that.
101 母 mama The two breasts of a momma who breastfeeds.

102 貫 pierce Ariel the Little Mermaid´s clamshell bra was held to her breasts by piercings.
103 兄 elder brother My elder brother was basically a mouth on legs when he was a teenager.
104 克 overcome Ten elder brothers can overcome anything.

105 小 little A little penguin with its wings at its side.
106 少 few Only a few people can make an ugly face like that.
107 大 large A person stretching their arms and legs to look large and scare a bear away.
108 多 many Two evenings too many!
109 夕 evening The evening is young, the moon is not full.

Eventide is just another word for evening, and it has the word tide in it which we
110 汐 eventide associate with water.
A young magician likes to practice outside in the evening with his magic wand (as
opposed to the old magician who wakes early to practice with his wand in eminent
111 外 outside (#51)).
In the evening, when it becomes dark, open your mouth to say your name so that
112 名 name people can recognise you.
Indiana Jones jumps up and grabs the lip of cliff just in time to evade the huge STONE
113 石 stone rolling out of the mouth of the cave!
Using DNA matching, a very little bit of flesh can be used to show the resemblence
114 肖 resemblance between family members.
115 硝 nitrate That stone has sparks coming out of it! Someone must have poured nitrate acid on it.
116 砕 smash To SMASH a STONE you need to hit it NINE or TEN times.
Here´s how I remember that stone is on the left. This is because sand starts as stones,
117 砂 sand and only later they become few.
118 削 plane Sparks will fly if you attempt to PLANE your sabre.
119 光 ray A ray of light is not a wave but made of little photons with human legs.
120 太 plump A large person with a big drop of sweat dripping off of him because he is so plump.
Imagine four hungry mouths all sitting around the table. They are all banging their
121 器 utensil utensils on the table waiting for a big meal to be placed in the centre.
The ST. BERNARD DOG lifted his large NOSE high in the air to find out where the
122 臭 stinking stinking smell comes from.
123 妙 exquisite Exquisite women are few and far between.

124 省 focus You focus by concentrating your eye on fewer objects.
In Sparta we throw our Children over a Cliff. Under the Sun, they fight other Children.
125 厚 thick In the end, if they survive, they sure have thick skin.
I find it strange that so many people commit suicide in Tokyo by throwing themselves
in front of the train. To me when I look at this kanji, I see a train just about to come out
126 奇 strange of a tunnel, and above the man waiting for his oppourtunity where he can end it all.
127 川 stream So as not to confuse this with river (#146) think of streamers falling down.
There were 3 little islands in the stream who all decided to set themselves up as
128 州 state independent states.
Obey, Obey! says the brain-washing scientist as he sends a stream of orders to fill your
129 順 obey head.
The kanji for water is an abstract primitive itself, so unless one is willing to break down
its etymological development, it should just simply be memorized by strokes;
constructing a story is not necessarily useful unless it strongly denotes its shape (I find
130 水 water that Heisig´s story doesn´t do this).
131 氷 icicle Icicles start with 1 frozen drop of water.
132 永 eternity It would take an eternity to count all the drops of water.
White is a symbol of purety, so white water is pure water, the precise definition of
133 泉 spring spring water.
134 原 meadow Follow the springs down the cliff and you will find a nice meadow.
Let´s petition to save that beautiful MEADOW from overdevelopment by signing on
135 願 petition this PAGE.
136 泳 swim With that much WATER (2 actually) you would need to swim for an ETERNITY.
The marshlands near Mordor seduce Frodo into gazing upon them, and he falls into
137 沼 marsh the water--splash!
138 沖 open sea Open sea is a lot of water in the middle of nowhere.
139 江 creek A CREEK is a small trail of water easily crafted with a stick.
140 汁 soup To make soup you just take water and add (+) the rest of your ingredients.
141 潮 tide The morning tide is basically, well, WATER in the MORNING.
142 源 source The water that flows from the meadow is the source of life for the wild antelope.
Conversations can become more lively after everyone has had a few drinks. It´s
143 活 lively because "watery tongues" loosen lips!
144 消 extinguish To extinguish a SPARK, you need WATER.

If you ask your teenager if what he´s drinking is water (and not Vodka), he will answer
145 況 but of course "but of course".
146 河 river A river CAN exist only if there is WATER.
147 泊 overnight Please supply a guest who stays overnight with WATER and WHITE sheets.
This is my favorite story. Simply associate the sad moment of an OLD person, standing
near the WATER of the lake and looking at the MOON reflected in the lake. The
148 湖 lake created primitives themselves are put so beautifully, that you will not forget this kanji.
149 測 fathom A fathom is the unit you use when making rules about water´s depth.
Remembering soil is easy. If soil is soft, you can take a walking stick and plunge it two*
150 土 soil feet into the ground.
The only things that come out of my MOUTH and onto the GROUND are spit and
151 吐 spit vomit. Everything else (words, song) floats on the air.
152 圧 pressure The GROUND at the base of a CLIFF must suffer from enormous pressure.
153 埼 cape This refers to LAND, not the STRANGE gear superheroes wear.
154 垣 hedge Before the Great Wall of China, there was a dirt hedge that spanned across.
155 圭 squared jewel Piling SOIL upon SOIL for aeons is how SQUARE JEWELS are formed deep in the earth.
156 封 seal The king used a special seal of ivy leaves glued onto his document.
Try to reverse Heisig´s story in this Kanji: imagine being trapped in one of those prison
towers on an ivy cladcliff like in the movies. From your prison ontop the ivy clad cliff all
157 涯 horizon you can see in the distant horizon is nothing but water.
At the Buddhist temple the monks are seated on the ground, glued there in
158 寺 Buddhist temple meditation.
159 時 time When the SUN starts to shine on the TEMPLE, it´s time to get up.
160 均 level Soil is scooped up into a ladel. The extra drop is brushed off to make it level.
For some reason, this kanji reminds me of a person running, her arms (the two drops)
161 火 fire raised up, because she caught on fire!
162 炎 inflammation To fight fire with fire would just inflame a situation.
163 煩 anxiety An anxiety feels like FIRE in the HEAD.
Drink water and burn twice as many calories as you eat... you´ll definitely get thin.
Imagine inside your body, all those calories literally being burned from above and
164 淡 thin below... THAT´s what it takes to become thin.
165 灯 lamp Imagine old gas lamps which had a flame to light up the street signs.
Many farms are created by first setting FIRE over the land to clear the land for the
166 畑 farm FIELDS.
167 災 disaster What a disaster! First a FIRE, then on top of it came FLOODs.
168 灰 ashes The fire underneath the cliff will eventually turn everything above to ashes.
The FORTUNE TELLER was burned by FLAMES on the spot because she was accused of
169 点 spot being a witch.
170 照 illuminate SHINING FLAMES illuminate!
The elements of this kanji are bound up, rice field and cooking fire. When I think of
171 魚 fish bound up cooked rice, it makes me think of sushi, which in turn brings to mind fish.
172 漁 fishing You need WATER and FISH for fishing.

The ri is a Japanese way of measuring the area of the GROUND underneath a RICE
173 里 ri FIELD.
174 黒 black If you burn the GROUND of a RICE FIELD with FIRE, eventually it will turn black.
175 墨 black ink Theres BLACK on the GROUND...most likely someone spilt some black ink.
176 鯉 carp Japanese carp are massive fish - they are measured in ri!
I did such a quantity of work that when NIGHT BREAK came, I was asleep on the
177 量 quantity COMPUTER.
I threw my Rindows computer off a cliff because it kept crashing. Now, after its last
178 厘 rin crash, it´s worth less than a rin.
You can´t bury computers underground, because of the dangerous heavy metals, so
179 埋 bury you hide them behind an equally large mound of soil and hope no-one notices.
Muslim women wearing veils (HOOD) all look the same, you can just see ONE MOUTH
180 同 same and very little else.
181 洞 den All the animals in the den share the same water.
182 胴 trunk A trunk, a trunk // The body of a monk // The body of a monk in a trunk, a trunk.
183 向 yonder Look over yonder ! That tiny dot is robin hood at the mouth of his secret cave !
184 尚 esteem An especially esteemed alien has three antennae on his helmet.
185 字 character CHILDren learn Kanji characters underneath a HOUSE.

186 守 guard A GUARD is usually "glued" to the house he watches.
Make the perfect impression in the beginning by removing your shoes upon entering a
187 完 perfect Japanese home.
You can proclaim your opinions from the comfort of your HOUSE and have it SPAN the
188 宣 proclaim entire globe these days via The Internet.
189 宵 wee hours I burn the CANDLE in my HOUSE until the WEE HOURS reviewing the kanji!!!
It´s funny, Hesig gives no Kanji in his book that means cheap/inexpensive... well... if
you were wondering what Kanji would carry that meaning, look no further. Sometimes
I wonder if Hesig just thinks our little brains would be too easily confused by multiple
meanings. Regardless, think of that woman relaxing. Cheapest place to do that is in
one´s own home rather than at some fancy resort, eh?
190 安 relax 家で休暇を取るは安いですね。.
191 宴 banquet The WOMAN spent all DAY preparing a banquet in the HOUSE.
The strange house has a sign saying "DRAW NEAR" in its window, instead of a
192 寄 draw near ´Beware´ sign. It must be a trick!
Remember Ducktales? That rich duck had that room in his house where he kept all the
193 富 wealth wealth! He had so much in that house you could even swim in it!
194 貯 savings It takes a lot more than one clam of savings to buy a house on a street.
195 木 tree If you need a story for a tree, then you need to be hit by one.
196 林 grove A grove has at least two TREEs.
The higher you go up a mountain the less trees there are, that´s so u dont mess up
197 森 forest with their possition like i do.
Simple mnemonic : "The Japanese Judas-tree is the tree on which Judas hang himself
to the ivy" (Judas the traitor of the Christian bible). Just picture Judas hanging himself,
198 桂 Japanese Judas-tree using ivy as a if it was a rope.
The wood from oak trees can be used to make barrels in which white wine is aged.
199 柏 oak What´s more, I love white wine with an oaky flavour...
200 枠 frame wood at 90 (9 * 10) degrees.

At Christmas time, on the treetops, people used to place great big candles (Now we
201 梢 treetops usually place a star instead).
202 棚 shelf A shelf is a wooden companion to books.
203 杏 apricot From the tree straight into the mouth is the best way to eat an APRICOT!
In Japan, a paulownia (きり）is known as the "princess tree". It was once a traditional
TREE planted at the SAME time as the birth of a daughter. It would grow fast enough
that, at the time of her wedding, it could be used to make a dresser as a wedding
204 桐 paulownia present for her.
205 植 plant Plants don´t become trees straightaway.
206 枯 wither A tree withers away as it gets old.
Wooden wands are the crudest. They are nothng compared to their carbon fibre
207 朴 crude equivilents.
If you´ve ever played an old 8 bit or 16 bit RPG, like Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy or
Inindou, you´ll remember that every town was all bordered off by a line of trees with
no space in between to get out through. Imagine that the trees were glued together so
you could only exit town through the main or side gates, (so you couldn´t escape the
208 村 town important scripted scenes.).
The prime minister is having inter-course behind that tree! All you can see are his eyes
209 相 inter- poking out from the righthand-side of the tree.
210 机 desk My wooden desk is so messy, it looks like a strong wind blew my things all over it.
211 本 book The origin of a book is paper made out of TREEs. ONE tree can make many books.
212 札 tag Botanists like to identify TREEs by HOOKing tags on them.
Years-Months-Days: It takes many years for a cliff to form or erode. A tree takes many
months to grow. But days pass by regularly - so in this way, we see the movement of
213 暦 calendar time such as with a CALENDAR.
214 案 plan I plan to RELAX on top of that TREE.
Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig,
so it´s worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest "furniture" (a common type of wooden
goods). REF: parch (FRAME 215) , maneuver (#671), winding (#1369), seaweed
215 燥 parch (#2035). Story: It´s been so parched recently that your furniture suddenly catches fire.
I believe a better version of that by mameha1977: [Cheat] Remember these as a set:

216 未 not yet The tree (木) does not yet (未) have exremities (末) of vermilion (朱).
The tree has reached the extremity of its growth and no longer produces small, new
217 末 extremity branches at the top. Instead the existing top branch just grows longer and longer.
218 沫 splash The extremity of a wave of water is the splash.
My mouth has not yet swallowed the food because the flavor is so delicious that I keep
219 味 flavor chewing it.
220 妹 younger sister My younger sister is NOT YET a fully grown WOMAN.
221 朱 vermilion It´s autumn: only one vermilion leaf on the tree has not yet fallen.
Which tree would you buy stocks in - the healthy one on the left, or the one with only
222 株 stocks one vermilion leaf left on the right?
223 若 young The young little girl held a cute flower in her right hand.
224 草 grass Grass grows in earlier than flowers.
225 苦 suffering Flowers for the old man suffering in the hospital.
226 寛 tolerant A tolerant person will ignore SEEing GRASS (marijuana) in the HOUSE of a friend.
227 薄 dilute A Dr. missing his needle can only use dilute flower water for medicine.
On top of the leaves a flower appears, promising new generations for the old tree
228 葉 leaf below.
If I find out this furniture you´re selling me is made of imitation wood, I´ll put you in
229 模 imitation the graveyard.
230 漠 vague The precise locations of sailors who meet a WATERY GRAVE are vague.
231 墓 grave The soil under a graveyard is full of graves.

232 暮 livelihood He made a livelihood out of robbing GRAVEYARDS in broad DAYlight.
233 膜 membrane In the moonlight of the graveyard I hear a zombie say, MMMMM..EMM...BRANEsssss.
234 苗 seedling If you plant seedlings in a FIELD eventually they will FLOWER.
When your wife´s LEGs get huge hairs on them it is surely a bad portent for things to
235 兆 portent come.
236 桃 peach tree The pits of a peach tree look like turtles.
Sauron´s One fiery eye stare at Frodo and it is a sign of portent. Evil will become
237 眺 stare whomever the eye is staring upon.
238 犬 dog A large dog, dripping drool.
239 状 status quo It was left to the turtle to make right with the dog and thus maintain the status quo..
The computer won´t stop beeping, which is making the chihauhua bark, and it´s
driving this guy insane. The only solution he can come up with is to throw them both
240 黙 silence on the fire and finally enjoy the silence.
Flesh of a dog over a cooking fire = "hotdog". There are all sorts of things in hot dogs.
Believe me, you don´t want to know what sort of things . Visualize the hotdog curling
as it cooks, to remember the unusual way the flesh primitive curves in this kanji.
241 然 sort of thing (tweaked version of ziggr´s. Thanks!).
REEDS are the only FLOWERS that WILD DOGS like to FIRE up and smoke while they
242 荻 reed are playing poker.
Actually when hunting it may be a good idea to use a pack of dogs as your personal
243 狩 hunt guard.
244 猫 cat The cat hid in the FLOWERS of the FIELD from the WILD DOGs.
A cow tried to climb up a vermilion tree, but in doing so, it broke its two bottom
245 牛 cow branches off.
Think of not special people, but special animals. The sacred Hindu cows are special -
246 特 special they can wander around the temple without fear of becoming roast beef.
247 告 revelation The revelation makes the cow´s mouth drop down, "Hamburgers are made of what?!".
248 先 before I´ve never seen a cow with human legs before!
249 洗 wash In Japan, you always wash with water from the shower before you enter the bathtub.
250 介 jammed in The two strokes at the bottom look like a J and I, which stands for "jammed in.".
One Japanese farmer I know is so small minded that he thinks the entire world is
251 界 world JAMMED IN the borders of his little RICE FIELD.
Some people think drinking tea is boring and quaint. That´s why I spice mine up by
adding a cocktail umbrella, which of course is made from a wood-en toothpick
252 茶 tea supporting a paper umbrella with flowers printed on top.
253 合 fit I wouldn´t mind a meeting of mouths with her, she´s really fit !
In order to build a pagoda in this small Japanese garden everything has to fit: the soil
254 塔 pagoda to the left and the flowers in the upper right corner.
255 王 king To be king you have to be a real crafty one !

256 玉 jewel The king is said to have only one family jewel below the belt...
257 宝 treasure On treasure island is a single house - where all the jewels are stored.
258 珠 pearl The king of the Oysters produces special Vermillion pearls!
The KING ... can SEE clearly the PRESENT state of affairs in the land. (maybe he hees
259 現 present them in the crystal ball on the left?).
260 狂 lunatic Oh no ! A pack of dogs has bitten the king. He has turned into a rabid lunatic !
Ancient Rome had Emperors instead of Kings, and they wore white robes. Thus an
emperor is a king in white. (make sure you picture a roman emperor not a japanese
261 皇 emperor one and you´ll be ok).
262 呈 display The mouth of the king is displaying his bling.

The fat king hogs the whole space under his umbrella. (tweaked version of radical
263 全 whole tyro´s story. "fat" makes a more vivid image for me.).
The fat king under his umbrella offers useless advice to the workers. "You´ll need the
whole tree to plug that gap". Imagine a grossly fat, incompetent king under a parasol
giving annoying advice to sweating workers who know what they´re doing. (I always
have trouble bringing up the "whole" primitive. This story reminds me how to build
264 栓 plug that part. ).
265 理 logic The king of LOGIC is the computer.
266 主 lord A lord is a little drop down from King in hierarchy.

Visualize an idiot trying to figure out how to extinguish a candle. He sees a glass of
WATER and decides to pour it onto the CANDLESTICK to put it out. Water spills
267 注 pour everywhere.
The main pillar in a house should be made of the biggest and strongest tree - the lord
268 柱 pillar of the trees.
The fat king taking up the whole space under the umbrella actually isn´t fat - he just
269 金 gold has two big gold bars hidden under his clothes.
270 銑 pig iron Pig iron is basic/crude metal, that is, before it has been processed.
This is the BOWL of an alchemist: see how he mixes metals in his bowl, as he follows
271 鉢 bowl the instructions from his book?
I can´t believe no one has used this one yet: Copper is metal which looks almost the
same as gold. Really, look it up on Wikipedia, it´s yellow and it´s shiny (atleast in some
272 銅 copper compounds)!
All the people that go to the Japanese festivals to catch fish part time are suckers. Me?
273 釣 angling I´m a pro. I bring a big-ass golden ladle. I´m a true ANGLING professional.
Remember the story of the needle in the haystack. Why would someone even look for
274 針 needle a needle if it wasn´t a GOLD NEEDLE?
275 銘 inscription A piece of metal with a name on it. Well, this is basically the definition of inscription.
276 鎮 tranquillize Tranquilize - using a metal syringe to get the truth.

When we go out on the ROAD-WAY, we often risk our own necks (that´s why I take the
277 道 road-way train! ).
278 導 guidance For guidance on the road-way, glue a GPS unit to your car.
279 辻 crossing Cross-road.
280 迅 swift The car went too swiftly through the crossing and was hooked by the cops.
281 造 create A cow creates a road by eating all the grass on its path.
282 迫 urge When you have the URGE to go to White Castle, you know it´s time to hit the road.
I used my pants to make a rope, which I then used to escape from prison; hence the
283 逃 escape naked, hairy legs running along the road!
Caution: this kanji doesn´t mean environment; it means "environs; boundary; border;
284 辺 environs vicinity". To separate the environs, create the border by placing daggers on the road.
285 巡 patrol The cops don´t PATROL anymore - they just flood the road.
286 車 car My car is so fast it can go through ten rice fields in ten minutes.
When you put your car on the road you should always take along a few friends. Don´t
287 連 take along confuse with carry (#303).
288 軌 rut My car got so stuck in a rut it required nine people pushing to get it out again.
The car is a cattle-car, used to transport animals for the butcher´s meeting - a
convention on new butchering techniques. Hear the screams of the animals as it pulls
up in front of the convention hall, where the butchers are waiting with their knives out
289 輸 transport front.
290 前 in front When I get horny my flesh sword sticks out in front of me.
Son, I´ve never told you this but each woman has a second mouth between their
291 各 each fiiiiiine walking legs.
Ranger! I want you to go check the status of each tree. "Errr, Each tree sir?" replies the
ranger looking out over the vast forest. "That´s Right, I want the status of each tree!
292 格 status Move out!".
There are so many abbreviations and acronyms nowadays that no brain can remember
293 略 abbreviation each of them. Mnemonic: ab-brain-each-ation.
294 客 guest Each person under my roof is treated as a guest.

Sign the guestbook page with your forehead. (Picture a guestbook full of forehead
295 額 forehead prints like thumbprints).
296 夏 summer In SUMMER you are hot from the top of your head down to your walking legs.
The best way to dispose of a nasty bit of wind is to let it go and use those walking legs
297 処 dispose to dissapear. Nobody will ever know it was you.
They all say they have a TREE between their WALKING LEGS but most only have a
298 条 twig TWIG.
299 落 fall Water each flower or the petals will wither and fall.
The king´s crown was blown off by the wind. "Oh well," he said, "it´s just a superfluous
300 冗 superfluous symbol.".
301 軍 army British army cars are at the service of the crown.
Rays of light emitted from Apollo´s chariot = radiance. Don´t put the sun into this kanji.
302 輝 radiance The rays are coming from the chariot directly!
Don’t confuse it with “take along” (287). In that one, there was a car so you could take
along your friends once you found them on the road. In this one, there is an army
303 運 carry chariot just to carry military supplies (sorry no room for you).
Remember the SUPERFLUOUS CROWN that flew away in the WIND? Well now the king
304 冠 crown is saying "i should have had the thing GLUED to my head from the BEGINNING".
Last night´s date with Miss Sweden was like a dream. She even laid flowers over my
305 夢 dream eyes to crown the perfect evening.
A whirlwind digs a hole in the ground throwing out lots of dirt until it ends up with a
306 坑 pit giant pit.
Two little aliens in a trenchcoat and top hat, trying to look TALL. The bottom one, in
the glass helmet, is under the coat. The top one has his top hat pulled down in
307 高 tall disguise, so all you can see is his mouth.
308 享 receive In basketball however, tall children receive all the attention.
309 塾 cram school Welcome to our cram school: you will receive a rounded education on our grounds.
310 熟 mellow Imagine tall children sitting round the fire toasting marsh-mellows.
311 亭 pavilion The Pavillion on crown street is the tallest I have ever seen.
312 京 capital Tokyo, capital of Japan: tall buildings, small people (compared to the buildings).
When you´re a tourist in the capital during the heat of summer, finding a water
313 涼 refreshing fountain is oh, so refreshing.
314 景 scenery Imaging the sun rising over the capital--classic postcard scenery.
315 鯨 whale If fish were cities, the whale would surely be the capital.
The cottage is so small - it has an umbrella for the roof; soil for the floor and room for
316 舎 cottage only one mouth.
If my LIDDED CROCK has the same CIRCUMFERENCE as my head, I like to use it as a
317 周 circumference HELMET.
Imagine a road built so well that it takes only a week to travel the circumference of the
318 週 week earth.
What a handsome gentleman. Standing up so straight, and broad shoulders too!! He´s
319 士 gentleman like a modern samurai!
320 吉 good luck The samurai´s wife gives him a (uhum) before battle for good luck.
321 壮 robust Half of a turtle shell as a shield makes a samurai more robust.
322 荘 villa A villa is fancier (decorated with flowers) and more robust than the average.
The samurai happened to find an extra large crown that he wore as a belt on his waist,
323 売 sell just above his legs. I wonder if he will sell it to me?
324 学 study In the school house there are kids always studying. (BTW, atomiton, this is NOT 字).
In a schoolhouse in class: 1) you see something on the blackboard, then 2) you
325 覚 memorize memorize it.
The TREES FLOURISH in the CLASSROOM, a little too much perhaps, there´s no room
326 栄 flourish for the students any more.
327 書 write Make sure you practice writing kanji with a brush every day before the sun goes down.
328 津 haven A brush laying in dirty water is a haven for bacteria.
Imagine a taskmaster giving a cow the command to "start breeding, and start doing it
now!", except that the cow takes his advice a bit too literally and starts chasing the
taskmaster to carry out this command! instead of finding another cow to breed with.
329 牧 breed Hence, you see the taskmaster running to the right, trying to stay ahead of the cow.
330 攻 aggression Aggression is the craft of a good dominatrix.
331 敗 failure If you end up in failure, you give money to the taskmaster to train you.
The taskmaster is a strict bathroom monitor who hands out only one sheet of really
332 枚 a sheet of rough, splintery toilet paper per person. You can see the wood fibers.
An OLD TASKMASTER is no happenstance (coincidence). The older you get the more
333 故 happenstance rigid in your ways.
334 敬 awe The flowery phrases of the schoolmaster held the students in awe.
A pictogram of someone saying a four letter word from their mouth after the censors
335 言 say have gotten a hold of it.
336 警 admonish To admonish is to enforce awe by means of words.
337 計 plot A plot is a summary of a book that can be given in ten words.
The wild dog family visits their cousin in prison. They exchange words over the
338 獄 prison interphone at the visiting booth.
339 訂 revise Revise, revise and revise until you have all the words nailed down.
I said some bad words, and my mother chastised me by washing my mouth out with
340 討 chastise glue instead of soap!
The best type of Japanese INSTRUCTION is full immersion, which consists of going to
341 訓 instruction Japan and swimming in the stream of words that surrounds you every day.
The mnemonic "words to seduce the masses" was just too vague and I kept forgetting
it. So now instead I picture a seductive female reading aloud the imperial edict to the
342 詔 imperial edict masses, thus "seducing" the masses.
343 詰 packed WORDS of GOOD LUCK are PACKED into fortune cookies.
Tales are always spoken, not written, and because of this, words fly out of your
344 話 tale tongue, rather than your pen.
Listening to the words in a recitation of Vogon poetry is worse than spending an
eternity in hell. [Note: I assume those 2 reports are to warn against possible confusion
with poem (#346) but how can you confuse Vogon poetry with an actual poem?
Anyway, it´s the next frame, so it should be easy to keep them straight... Or maybe
345 詠 recitation there´s a kanji for Vogon in RTK3?].
346 詩 poem A poem is a temple of words.
347 語 word The simplest word to say is I.
348 読 read Read the WORDS used to SELL things.

To tune an old-fashioned radio, you turn the dial the full range of the circumference,
349 調 tune until you can clearly hear what´s being said.
Think of an online discussion group where misunderstanding someone´s words leads
350 談 discuss to flaming. An angry discussion = inflamed words.
351 諾 consent The words of the very young are useless without CONSENT from their elders.
352 諭 rebuke A PETA activist speaks at a meeting of butchers to rebuke them.
353 式 style Each Indian tribe crafts their arrows in a certain style..
354 試 test In an essay test, you are judged on both your choice of words and your writing style.
II (older form of writing 2). After shooting one arrow (the dash top left), I have 2
355 弐 II (two) arrows left in my quiver (bottom left).
An astronaut lands back at the launch range, kisses the earth beneath him with his
356 域 range mouth, then heads off to a fiesta to celebrate a safe flight.
Burglars... those guys!!! Burglars only want money (clams) so that they can get needles
357 賊 burglar (drugs) and party (fiesta)!
The plantation is where we get our Christmas trees. We pick them out at Thanksgiving
358 栽 plantation to be sure we get a good one.
After eating a big Thanksgiving dinner, you have to be careful in the car ride home not
359 載 load to drop a load in your pants.
360 茂 overgrown The gay parade looks astonishing, as if overgrown with flowers.
361 成 turn into It only takes a single stroke of a dagger for a parade to TURN INTO a bloodbath.
362 城 castle The sand castle is just the soil (#150) that turns into a castle.
363 誠 sincerity Sincerity happens when what you say actually turns into something.
The march of women - against intimidation in the workplace - is pretty intimidating in
364 威 intimidate itself!
365 滅 destroy Water flows down to destroy the march of fire.
When WATER was tossed on the PROTESTORS (a march of mouths), the numbers
366 減 dwindle began to DWINDLE.
Japanese festival floats are often so tall they need wood scaffolds to be completed.
367 桟 scaffold (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5909.html).
Political hopefuls in Rome threw gold COINS from floats when they were campaigning
368 銭 coin for office.
369 浅 shallow The water can´t be too SHALLOW if you expect to float.
If you find in the ground a walking stick with a magic wand, STOP! Maybe it´s some
370 止 stop kind of macumba/black magic/voodoo bad thing.
371 歩 walk When walking your pet, you must stop a few times along the way when nature calls.
372 渉 ford The new Ford Jesus. It can do everything except WALK on WATER.
I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk
around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this
kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into
373 頻 repeatedly my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head.
A secret agreement between a covert gov´t agency and aliens states that we will not
374 肯 agreement step foot on the moon again in return for alien technology.
Mary Poppins floated down with her umbrella to undertake the job of stopping the
375 企 undertake children´s misbehaving.
376 歴 curriculum A CURRICULUM is a calendar that replaces days with reasons to stop having fun.
377 武 warrior ONE-ARROW can STOP a warrior.
378 賦 levy A warrior stands guard at a bridge collecting shells as a levy for any who want to pass.
379 正 correct If you do it correct on the first attempt you can stop.
380 証 evidence Your words must be absolutely correct if you plan to use them as evidence.
381 政 politics Those involved in politics are always trying to elect the correct taskmaster.
In The Karate Kid, the boy must prove his determination by MENDING his teacher´s
382 定 determine HOUSE in various ways.
383 錠 lock Even if you lock up your GOLD, a DETERMINED thief will get it in the end.
Hint: This kanji is NOT soil on top of mend, as Heisig claims - that would duplicate one
of the strokes. Instead, it is 10 on top of mend. So my story is: If you run 10 miles, you
384 走 run will need to mend your socks!
A successful marathon runner needs to be able to transcend seductions, such as the
385 超 transcend possibility of rest, shelter from the rain, or a cold beer.
Don´t run into trouble, Dumbledore tells Harry. "Proceed with caution with your wand
386 赴 proceed out.".
The person in charge of running the parade surpassed all our expectations (by just a
387 越 surpass extra drop...).
388 是 just so ´Sun´ ´Mend´ - It just so happens that sunshine can mend your gloomy spirits.
The "TOPIC" of the day´s newspaper must be placed JUST SO at the top of the PAGE to
389 題 topic attract attention.
390 堤 dike Making a dike is all about arranging the soil just so....
Build is easy to remember if you can remember that archtiechts have two steps in
building. 1. Take a brush and brush out the blueprints. 2. Get a visual image of the
blueprints all rolled up like they usually are. The second step is easy, it´s just the
391 建 build architecht stretching out the blueprints and showing it to his clients.
392 延 prolong Stretching correctly prolongs life. Even the top part of 正 is stretching...
Nativity = born, being born. Think of birth as a painful and prolonged event. And of
course, all the words and curses being yelled at the soon-to-be father for doing this to
393 誕 nativity her!
394 礎 cornerstone Features like stones and groves of trees are the cornerstones of a happy zoo.
The virgin bridegroom tries to understand the new, mysterious part of his woman´s
body - but with little success. It´s a zoo down there! (primitives placement: the part of
395 婿 bridegroom the body is ´down there´ - the woman is ´left´ unsatisfied).
396 衣 garment The only garments allowed in this club are top hat and scarf.
The tailor was hard at work making sure all the pilgrims were dressed in their best
397 裁 tailor garments for thanksgiving.
The TURTLE SAMURAI needs special GARMENTs for his ATTIRE since his body is much
398 装 attire more ROBUST than others.
The computer had carefully dressed up in clothes to look human. It was n´t until I
399 裏 back looked at the back and saw the cables and stuff that I realized what it was.
If you stand too close to a DEMOLITION site, the dust might sting you like NEEDLES in
400 壊 demolition your EYE and get your GARMENTs all dirty.
One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so
that you can´t see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it´s cool. I think it´s
401 哀 pathetic pathetic.
402 遠 distant Keep distant from a lidded crock on the road wrapped in a scarf. It might be a bomb.
The MONKEY likes to play hide and seek with the PACK of WILD DOGS by hiding in the
LIDDED CROCK. But he is easy to see because the SCARF he always wears is at the base
403 猿 monkey of the LIDDED CROCK.
This is the first time we´ve been out of the Shire, Mr. Frodo! Says Sam, covering
404 初 first time himself with his cloak and clutching his dagger.
405 布 linen A matador holding his red linen by his side.
When stranded at sea, we needed a Sail. The best we had was a TOWEL, which was
406 帆 sail MEDICORE, only catching a DROP of WIND.
In the west, the rich use $100 bills to light their cigars... In Japan, after showering,
when the wealthy don´t have any clean towels, they simply grab a hanging scroll off
407 幅 hanging scroll the wall and use it to dry off!
If you wear a towel as a cap, you are at risk of being seized and searched in U.S.
408 帽 cap airports.
There is a graveyard outside my house that scares me, so I put a huge towel over the
409 幕 curtain window to serve as a curtain so I can get a good nights sleep.
410 幌 canopy A canopy is a towel to block the suns rays.
411 錦 brocade Brocade is the art of sewing gold on a white towel.

My recurring nightmare: Walking through the market, and suddenly realizing that I´m
412 市 market wearing only a top hat...and a towel.
Unlike the younger sister (妹), who is not yet old enough to date... the elder sister is
413 姉 elder sister on the market!
LUNGS are a PART of the BODY that can be found at any meat MARKET or black
414 肺 lungs MARKET.
First, note that the top half of the kanji consists of one and mountain. Of course, the
"number 1" mountain in Japan is Mt. Fuji. The bottom half, under Mt. Fuji, consists of
crown and towel. Now for the story. Archaeologists digging under Mt. Fuji (Japan´s #1
mountain) in an ancient royal tomb (they know it´s royal because of the crown)
discover what looks like a towel, but after they clean it up, they see it is actually a
415 帯 sash splendid royal sash for the king´s kimono.
History of the first karate blackbelts: In those days, it was often difficult to find fresh,
clean water, so samurai usually had to wash their sashes in stagnant puddles. The
longer one had been studying martial arts, the older the sash on one´s karate uniform
and, therefore, the darker the color. So why weren´t their karate uniforms black too?
416 滞 stagnate Never seen a ninja????
A TREE with a BELT wrapped around the middle. If you tighten the BELT, hundreds of
417 刺 thorn tiny SABERS pop out of the tree in all directions, looking like THORNS.
418 制 system The system for making leather belts involves slicing up a cow with a sword.
419 製 made in... Made in china - a system of exploitation . making garments for nothing.
The REVOLVING wheels of the car (with REVOLVER blaring on the stereo) kicked up
420 転 revolve RISING CLOUDS of dust.
Imagine an old Kung-fu movie: "Try my rising cloud flower technique!!!" smash pow
421 芸 technique crack!! .
422 雨 rain From the ceiling hangs a towel dripping four drops like RAIN.
423 雲 cloud Every rising cloud is a potential rain cloud. (Thanks astridtops).
424 曇 cloudy weather Cloudy weather is when a cloud blocks the sun (up above).
If it´s raining and you´re standing in the middle of a rice field, you´re sure to soon
425 雷 thunder become acquainted with the thunder up close and personal.
FROST is kind of an inter-weather, phenomenon, something between rain, snow and
426 霜 frost freezing temp’s.
427 冬 winter Don´t slip off your legs in winter, strap two skis to your feet.
If you think of the sky as a ceiling above our heads, here you have the heavens as the
largest ceiling you could ever imagine. As Heisig pointed out, nothing comes above the
428 天 heavens ceiling primitive thus the order of primitives is taken care of.
429 橋 bridge The nicest bridge is not in Hollywood or Los Angeles, but in San Francisco.
430 嬌 attractive The most attractive woman in the world is obviously Angelina Jolie.
431 立 stand up A vase that can´t stand up won´t be a vase for long.
Guys have two ways of watering when they are standing, the less common one is
432 泣 cry crying.
In the military, badges are given out early in the day, with everyone standing at
433 章 badge attention.
TWO twin BROTHERS are competing (VYING) for the title of who is the older BROTHER.
The game is that they must balance a VASE on their head and the one who drops his
434 競 vie looses and becomes the younger BROTHER!
The crazy sovereign stands up from his throne, wearing nothing but a crown and a
435 帝 sovereign towel. That´s why they try to keep him locked up in the castle away from the public.
436 童 juvenile The juvenile stood on top of his computer and broke it. Noob.
437 瞳 pupil In Japanese comics, the eye´s of juvenilles all have enormouse pupils.
438 鐘 bell The METAL bell rings to call the JUVENILES to class.
I use what I think is the real etymology for this kanji which is so shocking it sticks. The
STANDING member at the top is a certain part of the body that all men have and it is
approaching the HOLE between TWO LEGS (the HOOD) with extra marks to show they
439 商 make a deal are FLESHY - ie a womans legs. So this shows the oldest DEAL of all time - prostitution.
Legitmate wifes tend to be women who are antiques in contrast to the young bit of
440 嫡 legitimate wife illigitmate fluff on the side.
Think of the term from televison "suitable for all audiences" to get the sense of the
word. What program could be more suitable for the whole family than the "antiques
441 適 suitable road(show)".
442 滴 drip DRIPS of WATER were collected in ANTIQUE VASES since the museum had a leaky roof.
The taskmaster became my enemy for life when he smashed the antique vase holding
443 敵 enemy my wife´s ashes.
To remember the primitive meaning, picture someone sitting on the ground
444 匕 spoon performing Seppuku...with a spoon. http://tinyurl.com/co48k.
Warning: The left part is NOT the primitive turtle! The stroke order is different.
Sometimes it will look exactly the same but not always depending on the font / style
445 北 north used to draw this character. Be sure to study the difference!
While japanese people are generally small, people in the northern contryes have taller
446 背 stature stature because of all the flesh they eat!
447 比 compare A gay couple about to turn around to compare which role is better...
448 昆 descendants Grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS.
If you compare colors, you will find that white is produced from the mix of all the
449 皆 all others.
450 混 mix People have to mix their fluids (have sex), in order to create descendants.
You awaken from your siesta because you feel extremely thirsty so you go looking for
451 渇 thirst some water.
452 謁 audience The talk was so boring the audience took a siesta.
Why is my package late? Imagine a UPS driver dressed in BROWN garments taking a
453 褐 brown siesta. What can BROWN do for you?
454 喝 hoarse If you have a siesta with your mouthopen, you will wake up with a hoarse voice.
455 旨 delicious Use a spoon to eat a DELICIOUS hot fudge sundae. Duh..
456 脂 fat Every chef will tell you, fat is what make the meat taste delicious.
I am ´the one´ , says the samurai with the crown around his waist and a spoon up his
457 壱 I (one) a***.
458 毎 every Freud believed every man wants to lie down with his mother.
459 敏 cleverness Every master(or taskmaster) must have some degree of cleverness.
Plums actually grow on every single tree. What, you didn´t know that? They do.
Orange trees, apple trees, cantaloupe trees. Plums are simply mutant fruits that have
been installed in the root software of every single tree. I hear that some plum-loving
scientists are working on a way to hack every tree´s genetic code so that every tree
460 梅 plum will bear nothing _but_ plums.
461 海 sea Every drop of water will eventually return to the sea.
462 乞 beg Lying down, Captain Hook is begging to be spared from the ticking crocodile.
463 乾 drought During a drought, everything begs for even a mist for relief.
464 腹 abdomen The only body part that doubles over.
My girlfiend saw someone wearing the exact same (duplicate) outfit at a party, so she
465 複 duplicate doubled back to change!
466 欠 lack To me, this kanji looks like a person with two arms and two legs, but who lacks a head.
This is clearly a BLOWJOB, we can see the MOUTH and the LACK OF condom. (I am
467 吹 blow sorry for the image, but it sticks forever in your mind).
468 炊 cook Japanese cooking sometimes lacks fire, e.g., sashimi.
469 歌 song Can-Can-ers lack the ability to sing a song, so they just dance.
470 軟 soft Cars are rough steel things, lacking softness.
471 次 next Is this store lacking ice? Let´s try the next one, then.
To prevent animals from eating the beautiful flowers in your garden, the best thing to
472 茨 briar do is to plant briar bushes immediately next to them.
473 資 assets Assets are the next best thing to money.
The next woman always has a better figure! Thinking like that, you´ll end up alone in
474 姿 figure an old folks home longing for the good old days!
Having a word with the next mouth over, like a neighbor, is usually a good way to
consult with somebody for cheap. Because, you know, actual consultants charge huge
475 諮 consult with sums.
Compensation is money you give to someone to shut them up (i.e. muzzle their
476 賠 compensation mouth).
To cultivate the land is to tame it, control it. In short, you muzzle it´s unruly, chaotic
477 培 cultivate nature.
When you DIVIDE someone, there is sure to be a lot of screaming. That´s why you
478 剖 divide should use a MUZZLE before using the SABER.
479 音 sound If you were standing on the sun, believe me, you´d be making sound.
Picture the sun exploding - there would be a gigantic noise and then...nothing.
480 暗 darkness Everything would plunge into darkness.
481 韻 rhyme What is a RHYME but some SOUND that EMPLOYEES say to get them through work.
482 識 discriminating Words are difficult to discriminate/discern from sounds in the middle of a fiesta.
Mirror should suggest vanity. Imagine a spoiled girl who gets her parents to buy her a
Golden mirror so she can stand in front of it all day vainly admiring her lovely human
483 鏡 mirror legs.
In the dense cities of Japan even a small garden is a luxury. In this house, the owner
484 境 boundary has put mirrors on the boundary of his land so it feels much bigger.
485 亡 deceased The top hat hanging on a hook belonged to the now deceased Charlie Chaplin.
486 盲 blind Deceased eyes! Easy ;).
I had a problem with remembering that "deceased" went over the "woman". So,
here´s my story: The delusional woman was carrying her deceased husband on her
487 妄 delusion back.
After Godzilla laid waste to the city, the survivors put some flowers on the bodies of
488 荒 laid waste the deceased and floated their bodies down the stream.
489 望 ambition You´re dead meat, buddy, my ambition is to be king.

Note: The primitives are top hat and bound up. Compare ten thousand (#64). Story: A
rich man wearing a top hat and bound up from head to toe hobbles up to you and asks
for directions to the nearest police station because he just escaped from his
490 方 direction kidnappers.
Capt. Jack Sparrow´s compass gets disturbed every time a beautiful woman walks by
him (just picture Keira Knightley in her sexy asian outfit as Elizabeth and the image will
491 妨 disturb be fixed forever).
492 坊 boy Little boys always head in the direction of mud and dirt.
She used a perfume so strong, that you can track her by following the direction of the
493 芳 perfumed smell of flowers.
494 肪 obese Flesh in all directions = obese.
495 訪 call on When you call on someone, you point your words in their direction.
496 放 set free Go in any direction away from your taskmaster when you are set free.
When the taskmaster found his favorite white compas damaged by water, he became
497 激 violent the most violent taskmaster there ever was.
498 脱 undress HORNY TEENAGERS love to UNDRESS FLESH.

The words of a horny teenager typically fall into one of two categories: either rumors
499 説 explanation or explanations.
500 鋭 pointed Pointed is the metal devil´s pitchfork.
The Artist formerly Known as Prince has the horniest brain around, and I think you can
501 曽 formerly imagine what his wagging tongue is doing...
502 増 increase Prices always INCREASE for LAND that was FORMERLY cheaper.
503 贈 presents Presents represent money that was formerly yours.
504 東 east Traditionally seen as a pictograph of the sun rising behind a tree.
505 棟 ridgepole Feng Shui states that the ridgepole of a house should be made of wood and face east.
Eastern Siberia is often frozen by ice. According to wikipedia, Yakutia (in Eastern
Siberia) holds the record as the coldest town on Earth. Check it out yourself...it made it
506 凍 frozen stick for me!
507 妊 pregnancy A pregnant woman is a porter of her child.
A porter has run away from his master. His punishment is to be stretched out on the
508 廷 courts rack. So say the courts in this barbaric time.
509 染 dye To make this dye, I used water and the barks of nine different trees.
510 燃 burn Any sort of thing can burn in the fire.

This house is reserved to V.I.P. only. If you are not one of the few with enough money
511 賓 V.I.P. to call you that way, keep out!
Santa had to put his foot down to stop a march of little guys, namely elves. They were
protesting the harsh treatment they get every year-end when Santa asks them to step
512 歳 year-end up toy production for the holiday season.
In Japanese this is KEN, as in Barbie´s boyfriend. He
has lovely blue eyes, a
girlfriend who is as thin as a straightened out fish hook. But, down where it counts, he has very little to show...
There are a bunch of HORSE CHESTNUT TREES on top of this CLIFF above the beach.
Chestnuts keep rolling off the cliff and falling on people´s heads. So far TEN
THOUSAND people have been killed by falling chestnuts, and the Japanese
514 栃 horse chestnut government still ain´t did shit about it.
Picture the ground as an extent of soil where scorpions are buried like land mines.
Imagine a sign post saying ńo trespassing, scorpion mines´ if that helps, and how it is
515 地 ground dangerous to walk there.
Remember the story of the scorpion that begged the turtle for a ride across the pond?
Halfway across the water, the scorpion stung the turtle on the neck and they both
516 池 pond sank to the bottom.
I see the bottom of this kanji as an arm, and the top is an insect biting into the arm,
517 虫 insect sucking some blood.
Bugs have to go to school to learn how to become lightning bugs. Only the brightest
518 蛍 lightning bug bugs graduate to become lightning bugs.
A snake eats insects and he does that outside, while we eat another snake in the
519 蛇 snake house and preferably with a spoon.
Little is it known that a rainbow is actually created by insects of different colours flying
520 虹 rainbow in formation, a craft they have perfected to create the rainbows we see today.
521 蝶 butterfly A butterfly is an insect that appears after spending a generation on a tree as a cocoon.
The bachelor´s apartment looked like it had been attacked by a pack of wild dogs.
522 独 single There were even insects in the kitchen. No wonder he´s single!
There are no insects in heaven - well, that is, except for silkworms. What, do you
523 蚕 silkworm expect Jesus to import his fancy robes from China?
They say that when an INSECT flaps its wings even the single DROP of WIND that it
524 風 wind creates is sometimes enough to create a hurricane on the other side of the Earth.
This kanji looks like the "s" of "self", looking at its own reflection in a mirror (reversed
525 己 self sideways), as if pondering about his "self".
Be careful when you´re RUNNING through the jungle, because you might step on and
526 起 rouse ROUSE a sleeping SNAKE. Then you´ll have to RUN like hell before it bites you!
527 妃 queen Cleopatra.
The taskmaster of Slytherin ( wizardry house symbolized by a snake ) plans a
reformation of Hogwarts, disallowing the study of magic to all muggle-born.
528 改 reformation こわいですね！.
529 記 scribe A scribe writes down the words spoken by a snake (i.e. a lawyer).
530 包 wrap The snake bound up its prey by wrapping his body around it.
Imagine a newborn baby, fresh out of the womb, being entirely wrapped by the long
531 胞 placenta piece of flesh, called a placenta, that once fed him.
532 砲 cannon Primitive cannons fired stones wrapped with poisonous snakes.
533 泡 bubble When water forms a bubble, it wraps a pocket of air.
It seems bizarre, but tortoises are a genetic cross with the head of a fish and the tail of
534 亀 tortoise an eel. Where the shell comes from, no one knows.
Think of a two natural sources of electricity: electrical storms (a form of weather) and
535 電 electricity electrical eels. 電話でんわ phone, call.
Have you ever seen an asian DRAGON? it looks like an eel, but can stand up because it
536 竜 dragon has legs.
537 滝 waterfall The Water Dragon dwells in the waterfall.
538 豚 pork Pork comes from the flesh of a sow.
539 逐 pursue In association with consummate (#540), our sow is on the road pursuing a mate.
This is still Miss Piggy only she´s gotten horny (as she often does) and now she´s
540 遂 consummate pursuing Kermit to help her consummate her desires.
Think of "The Three Little Pigs". There was a house made of straw, another made of
sticks, and a third made of bricks, each occupied by a pig. So, naturally, housetop over
541 家 house pig means house, the central element of that story.
Since the Nihonjin man is hardly ever home, the woman feels more like she´s married
542 嫁 marry into into the house than into a relationship.
In Orwell´s Ánimal Farm´ the pigs overpowered every other animals. They crownded
themselves as ruler of the farm and walked tall on their rear legs, a crime strictly
543 豪 overpowering forbidden in the animal republic.
Intestines are the part of the body that is taken out of piglets to make piggy banks.
Just imagine factory workers scraping out the intestines of real piglets and packaging
544 腸 intestines them up for little children.
You´re looking for a good location to bury your piggy bank savings. It has to be in some
545 場 location soft soil that´s easy to dig up, well hidden, and easy to remember like this kanji.
Imagine a hot water kettle for your tea, except this one is a pink piggy bank that pours
the water from its snout (and squeals when the water is piping hot). Make sure to use
546 湯 hot water a potholder!
547 羊 sheep Picture of a sheep run over by a steam roller. Must have been a ram, note the horns.
548 美 beauty I guess this kanji proves it´s not just the Welsh whose idea of beauty is a large sheep.
549 洋 ocean This kanji refers to the waters of the Pasheephic ocean.
Trembling from head to hoof from such a traumatic experience, the sheep gives a very
detailed worded account to the detective about his wolf attack. "We need more
550 詳 detailed details Mr. Sheep. Tell us exactly where the baaad man touched you".
The freshest fish is caught in the middle of the night while most people are "counting
551 鮮 fresh sheep." (If you´ve ever been to Tsukiji fish market, you know what I mean).
Dolly (the first cloned sheep ever) grow tired of being a celebrity and escaped from the
labs by digging a tunnel. She turned out to be an ACCOMPLISHED escapist, as she
managed to dig a road under the soil. /Imagine Dolly performing a escape, like those
552 達 accomplished movies where the main character has to escape from jail.
A very thirsty sheep, who always lacked water, spends his days watching his fellow
553 羨 envious sheep (in the farm next door or in another pen) and being very envious of their water.
This New-Zealand pro-gamer has won many distinctions playing WoolCraft (a
554 差 distinction massively multi-user game in which the goal is to shear sheep).
555 着 don A pullover is donned by pulling wool over your eyes.

The mouth of a turkey is used solely for saying, "Gobble." Likewise, your mouth, full of
556 唯 solely turkey, is solely used to gobble it up.
When I put the turkey over the oven fire, it always ends up being charred beyond
557 焦 char recognition. I´m not a very good cook.
Coral reefs are now dying off due to our abuse of the environment and now look like
charred stone. For a picture illustrating this, see http://www.nacri.org/images/Hof-
558 礁 reef dredgingfig8.jpg.
Hunter-gathers, searching all along the ground for food. They never look up and see
the Turkeys that have gathered on top of the trees to hide. Those were some smart
559 集 gather turkeys!
Quasi-modo, the famous hunchback of Notre-Dame wasn´t actually a hunchback at
560 准 quasi- all!! He used a frozen turkey to make a hunch!
561 進 advance Why did the turkey cross the road? To advance to the other side, of course.
Newscast: "Among today´s miscellaneous stories, we have a report on a baseball team

562 雑 miscellaneous that was chased up a tree by a turkey. Stay tuned for this and more!".
563 雌 female Stop | spooning | turkeys. Spoon females.
The anhinga, or water turkey, has a needle-like nose, so really it´s only a semi-turkey
564 準 semi- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga.
The St. Bernard dog pounces on a turkey in a rice field and stirs up all the other birds
565 奮 stirred up around. See them all gobble gobbling in fear?
Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the big dogs robbed the family of
their Christmas turkey? Well, the following year Ralphie´s mom glued the holiday bird
566 奪 rob to the kitchen table, just as a precaution.
567 確 assurance To assure that no one will get into the Turkey coop, put a huge rock in the entrance!
568 午 noon Noon is a good time for a ten minute nap (using lie down as nap).
569 許 permit If horses could speak, you might have to ask their permission before mounting them.
Imagine a spoiled little girl. Her delight when she gets a Pegasus for her birthday... and
570 歓 delight then like all spoilt little girls she gets bored of it quickly... hence the yawn.
I have Eric Cartman of the “South Park” animated series, wearing a cop uniform, riding
571 権 authority a wooden Pegasus (such as on a funfair), and yelling “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!!”.
Microsoft Outlook works about as well as a pegasus that can´t see: they both crash all
572 観 outlook the time.
573 羽 feathers Pictograph. Easy enough.
Imagine a white bird loosing a couple feathers as it is learning to fly. You learn a lesson
as you watch it doing so, maybe you learn that “nothing comes for free” or that “one
574 習 learn has to be prepared to loose in order to gain”...
The following segment is sponsored by...Swiffer - who make excellent feather dusters
575 翌 the following for cleaning your vases.
Tip: feathers + turkey : This combination of primitives appears six times in Heisig, so
it´s worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest "futon" (your futon is made from turkey
feathers). REF: weekday (FRAME 576) , laundry (#577), leap (#1285), outstanding
(#2272), twinkle (#2534), shimmering (#2880). Story: On weekdays you hang your
576 曜 weekday futon out in the sun.
At the laundry you stuff your large futon (made from turkey feathers) in the machine,
577 濯 laundry thereby causing it to break -- as shown by the water spurting out the side.
Sayeth?! Who the hell says "sayeth"? Doesn´t seem quite right...just like this kanji,
578 曰 sayeth which is just like "day" but doesn´t seem "quite right.".
I´m supposed to make an enclosure for my tree, but if I use its wood for the enclosure,
579 困 quandary there won´t be anything left to be pent-in. What a quandary!
580 固 harden Fossils are old things pent in that have hardened.
In my country (England) the crown jewels are kept pent-in in the Tower of London.
Which happens to be where enemies of the state were once also pent-in (probably for
581 国 country trying to steal those jewels).
When you are admitted into a group like the Yakuza, you´re well and truly done (だん)
for. You must stick to the group like glue, and you will be pent-in for life, never being
582 団 group able to leave.
We once had a dog with big paws // and oh what great trouble he´d cause // we built a
583 因 cause huge pen // to keep him pent in // and stop him from breaking more laws //.
Matrimony is the state in which the woman has got you pent in like a dog so that you
584 姻 matrimony cannot go after other bitches.
585 園 park A nice picnic pent up in the park, with your crock pot and scarf (picnic blanket).
586 回 #NAME? Write mouth two -times.

A man on the podium announce the rules for the contest: You must fill a top hat with
587 壇 podium dirt as many times as you can by nightbreak.
Try to remember all those stores from Zelda that were inside caves and had fortune-
588 店 store teller like vendors.
I think of the Batcave. It´s a big cave that Batman uses as a warehouse to store his car,
589 庫 warehouse the Batmobile, and all his cool big-boy toys.
590 庭 courtyard When the courthouse caved in, trials had to be held in the courtyard.
Some bureaucrats at a government office decided that the tunnels of caves need to
591 庁 government office get street signs, which are then nailed to the walls of the cave.
The two safe places to sleep in the wilderness are in a tree and in a cave. So these can
592 床 bed be considered as beds.
(Image: while Batman is out, Robin is smokin´ a huge doob in a secret corner of the
593 麻 hemp Batcave where he nurtures his hemp grove).
594 磨 grind If you grind the hemp you are bound to get stoned quicker.
The four chambers in the heart. In the West, we point to our head when asked about
the mind. In the East, they point to the heart. So then, the radical for "state of
mind"…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　シン　安心　あん
595 心 heart しん(peace of mind).
596 忘 forget You only truly forget her when she has perished in your heart.
A ninja must be able to endure the pain of clinging to a ceiling, motionless, for hours at
a time, waiting for just the right moment to drop down and thrust the blade of his
sword into the hearts of his enemies. By the way, this character is used in the
597 忍 endure compound 忍者 (ninja) which is why I choose to use ninja as its primitive meaning.
You are given a speech about some serious mistakes of yours, and you have to endure
598 認 acknowledge the whole thing, because all you can do is acknowledge.
Remember the tale of Cleopatra? She was MOURNING the loss of her Marc Antony, so
599 忌 mourning she placed the asp SNAKE to her HEART.
600 志 intention A samurai´s intentions always come from the heart.

A will is an important document that contains your final word on how you intend to
601 誌 document distribute your assets.
602 忠 loyalty Their true loyalty exists in the middle of their hearts.
603 串 shish kebab Naka naka , "who´s there?" shish kebab .... "shish kebab who?".
A person who is afflicted with the vampire disease can only be killed with a sheesh-
604 患 afflicted kebab through the heart.
605 思 think Think with your brain NOT your heart.
Grace here is a favor freely bestowed, like a good deed. So to remember this kanji, go
to the local shelter, find a big dog pent up in a small cage and adopt him. That will
606 恩 grace cause a warm feeling in your heart!
In the videogame Zelda, Link enters a CAVE to visit a fairy that will APPLY magic to fill
607 応 apply his HEART containers.
When you get a good IDEA you get excited and you can hear the SOUND of your
608 意 idea HEART, it´s pounding so hard.
609 想 concept The concept of love is basically two hearts inter-acting as one.
Your breath brings oxygen in through your nose which is then pumped around your
610 息 breath body by your heart.
Recess to me is a school break. At recess some kiddies are comparing their latest body
piercings. Tongues and noses are nothing special. The new cool is to have your heart
611 憩 recess done!
Too easy. Imagine the Wizard of OZ. There, the three heroes asked the Wizard for
three FAVORS: the lion wanted courage of TEN men, the scarecrow wanted a BRAIN,
and the tin man wanted a HEART. Ok, the lion bit is stretching but you have it
612 恵 favor memorized now, so who cares?
If your heart surgeon is mediocre in his craft, you have plenty of reason to fear.
613 恐 fear ("Oops, I think I left my scissors in there").
She was beguiled/mislead by his charm: at the party he kissed her on the mouth, they
614 惑 beguile did it on the floor and thus he stole her heart. Poor girl!
615 感 emotion Emotion is a march of mouths inside your heart telling you what to feel.
Melancholy makes me think of Hamlet cause he was so émo´. In order to play up his
feelings he bares his head and holds his crown over his heart then walks (on walking
616 憂 melancholy legs) around the palace making everyone see how melancholy he is. What a wuss.
The new widow sits in the house, her head in her lap (the extended stroke), her dagger
617 寡 widow in her husband.
618 忙 busy Busy (as in "occupied") means a state of mind where all other thoughts are perished.
619 悦 ecstasy ECSTASY alters our STATE OF MIND and makes us DEVILS.
Constancy is holding the same state of mind over a long span of time. (tweaking
620 恒 constancy PepeSeco and mspertus).
When the world´s most eminent magician died, everyone´s state of mind became that
621 悼 lament of lamentation. He was buried with his famous sun-flower wand in his hand.
622 悟 enlightenment Enlightenment is a state of mind that goes beyond the five senses.
Someone in a dreadful state of mind has crawled into his bed and is hiding under the
623 怖 dreadful sheets (linens).
(re: wazzab) The state of mind of the people of New Orleans as they examined their
624 慌 disconcerted city´s concert hall laid waste can best described as disconcerted.
625 悔 repent For all have sinned... so everyone´s state of mind should be to repent.
Like the saying goes, Hate just begets Hate. A state of mind that just increases and
626 憎 hate increases until it explodes.
It took him awhile, but Data finally got ACCUSTOMED to his nipple/breast piercings.
They were constantly rubbing up against his shirt and his heart-shaped locket. Picture
Data, shirtless, squeezing his nipples in front of Picard and saying "Yes, at first they
were a bit shelly, but I´ve grown quite ACCUSTOMED to them". That last bit should do
627 慣 accustomed it for you.
At the meeting of butchers, in their narrow state of mind, they throw lame jokes
628 愉 pleasure around like, Óh hello, it´s a pleasure to meat you´, and find this rather pleasing.
When I am in a LAZY state of mind I use my left hand to play with my meat...it feels
629 惰 lazy like someone else is doing it, which is good cause I´m to lazy to get a date.
Humility is the state of mind of accepting the truth about yourself - both favorable and
630 慎 humility unfavorable. (tweaked version of Raichu´s).
Remorse is the state of mind where I feel bad for what I did while I was tired and
631 憾 remorse emotional!
632 憶 recollection Recollection is about bringing ideas back to your mind.
Pining, yearn for... etc. Presumably for lost love. An easy one here, someone standing
633 慕 pining in the graveyard, placing an old valentine card amonst all the existing tributes.
Hawaii is a little drop of heaven nestled in the waters of the Pacific, most often visited
by honeymooners and valentines. It was annexed to the U.S.A. in 1959, and more
recently to Japan as well-- albeit only unofficially, and through private commercial
634 添 annexed holdings.
You swear you´ll be in love forever, but invariably there comes a time when your heart
635 必 invariably is divided.
636 泌 ooze Anything full of water will invariably begin to ooze.
This pictograph actually really works if you look at it as a hand with fingers spread and
middle finger pointing down. see the very top stroke as the edge of a shirt cuff, and it
637 手 hand will all come together.
It´s a hot day of summer with a clear sky, you´re sitting outside a cafe (or maybe on a
reclining chair in the garden), and you watch over the kids with a hand covering your
638 看 watch over eyes from the sunlight (next time, don´t forget the sunglasses).
If you grind the hemp without a stone but use your hand instead it will chafe. (Image:
639 摩 chafe "Robin, why are your hands all chafed?" Úh... (I´ve been grinding hemp all day)´).
Someone with a huge EGO is too good for any romantic partner and as such has
640 我 ego nothing but personal "hand fiestas" with himself every night.
Righteous Christians are sheep with egos (reworked from raulir, fixes word order to
641 義 righteousness match radical order).
642 議 deliberation Careful deliberation produces words of righteousness.
643 犠 sacrifice A cow that is righteous sacrifices her milk for the human race.
I like to RUB my FINGERS over my EXTREMITIES ....like my extremity-ly long, umm,
hair.... This has been edited in response to being reported ...you can change "hair" to
644 抹 rub whatever extremity-ly long body part you like.
When embracing someone, wrap your fingers around her butt for added effect. You
may think of "bound with snakes" as a description of the fingers slithering around the
645 抱 embrace buttocks, if you want a particularly graphic image.
Ok, this is a little wierd, but i took this back to the kanji for pagoda (#254). I think it
helps simplify the image, and also helps anchor the pagoda kanji in memory better as
an added bonus. say this aloud once, and i think it will bring out a vivid image very
646 搭 board quickly: "Now boarding the pagoda ride. Please keep your fingers inside at all times...".
647 抄 extract You can extract her juices by inserting a few fingers.
Gandalf confronts the evil beast, shouting "you shall not pass!". He holds up a single
648 抗 confront finger and sends forth a whirlwind.
Think of the two most famous critics, Ebert and Roeper. On their show, they compare
649 批 criticism thumbs (which are technically fingers) with each other before dispensing criticism.
A Geisha beckons you with her index finger, and as you approach she runs her fingers
650 招 beckon all over her body in an attempt to seduce you. Keyword meaning : “invite”.
A huge index finger coming down from the sky is kicking boulders of rock, clearing the
651 拓 clear the land land. Maybe it´s the finger of God preparing a place for his little people to live.
(Image: the most snooty prim and proper English Lord with white gloves clapping only
652 拍 clap with his fingers. "Oh bravo old chap. Bravo...").
You´re using a hammer to drive a nail into a plank, but you miss and strike your
fingers, ouch ! PS: the character does not mean "to go on strike", it will be very helpful
653 打 strike in the long run to create images that convey the proper sense of the character!
You approach the thief from behind, stick your finger at his back to fake a gun, and say
654 拘 arrest the phrase "You´re under arrest".
655 捨 discard Someone stuck their fingers in my cottage cheese! I´m going to have to discard the lot!
Wrap your FINGERS around someone´s MOUTH to keep them quiet, then put the
KNIFE to their throat to ensure their cooperation. This is the best way to KIDNAP
656 拐 kidnap someone.
My grandma always pinched me with her fingers when i was playing with her antiques.
Imagine her fingers, also quite antique, thin, bony and hard, pinching at your hand.
657 摘 pinch "Keep your fingers away from my antiques!!".
658 挑 challenge Here comes a new challenge, try to kill Bowser, the giant Turtle using jut on finger.
659 指 finger Finger lickin´ delicious.

At the BUDDHIST TEMPLE you´ll see wonderous things, such as the priest that can
660 持 hold HOLD himself upside down with just a FINGER.
Teacher was always telling us to fasten our lips by pulling a zipper shut with our
fingers. It always frightened me because I imagined getting my tongue stuck in the
661 括 fasten zipper.
A military leader in his chariot is brandishing his finger at the enemy, crying
662 揮 brandish "chaaaaaaaaarrrgggeeee!".
In mathematics, a conjecture is a mathematical statement which has been proposed
as a true statement, but which no one has yet been able to prove or disprove. Have
you heard of the Finger-Turkey conjecture ? It states that if turkeys had fingers, they
would be able to count. Be sure to imagine a turkey with fingers at the tip of its wings,
663 推 conjecture counting from one to ten.
664 揚 hoist My piggy bank is so heavy that I cannot HOIST it using just my fingers.
When a man PROPOSES to a lady, he takes her FINGER and places the ring on it JUST
665 提 propose SO, and the moment sweeps her away.
Boss yells, "Who damaged the Xerox machine?!" fingers of employees point at one
666 損 damage another.
667 拾 pick up I tried to PICK UP the bowling ball...but my FINGERS didn´t FIT in the holes.
One of Hercules´ labors was to hold the world in his fingers for Atlas and not move
668 担 shouldering until nightbreak, shouldering the considerable burden.
When rockclimbing, when your weight disposes of the valuble foothold, all that´s left
is your fingers keeping you from death. Meanwhile, your walking legs are left dangling
669 拠 foothold in the wind.
A sketch is a seedling (#234) of things to come. Before the assault, the sergeant draws
670 描 sketch a sketch of the attack with his fingers in the sand.
Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig,
so it´s worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest "furniture" (a common type of wooden
goods). REF: parch (#215) , maneuver (FRAME 671), winding (#1369), seaweed
(#2035). Story: Using just a finger you are trying to maneuver your furniture round
671 操 maneuver your room.
A pervert meets a woman. The pervert tries to touch the women with his lustful
fingers. The woman takes a vase, lifts it over her head and smashes it on the pervert´s
672 接 touch head...
A muchacho puts up a notice that says “NO FINGER SNAPPING ALLOWED.

MUCHACHOS ON SIESTA”. The muchachos are sleeping soundly, completely oblivious
to the sound of dogs barking, guitar playing and even gun shots. Now imagine one
673 掲 put up a notice tourist passing by and snapping his fingers and waking up all the muchachos at once.
Think RPG. The wizard points his finger to the guard and the ivy he has just animated
with his magic wand climbs down the wall to hang the poor guy, opening the way for
674 掛 hang the adventurers into the dungeon.
675 研 polish My stones are so huge that it takes two hands to polish them!
Two hands, fiesta.....when moses received the ten commandments with two hands, he
went back down the mountain and threw a fiesta with the jews, celebrating the arrival
676 戒 commandment of the commandments.
The ten commandments were heavy. So to help carry them, Moses made a wooden
677 械 contraption contraption; the ark of the covenant.
An Egyptian embalmer reaching both hands into the dead pharaoh´s nose and yanking
678 鼻 nose out handfuls of brain.
This kanji is for severe punishment. A man has his shackled hands placed on a wood
block and they´re chopped off with a saber. No more stealing bread in the Middle
679 刑 punish East...
A famous ninja once pressed his two hands and saber into the soil of his temple,
before going onto a mission from which he never came back. Think of some sort of
signature that he left behind him. The mould of his two hands and saber has since
680 型 mould become a popular attraction in the area.
Spinal tap: "Every other band´s amps go to ten. But you see my extra stroke of genius -
681 才 genius these go to eleven.".
682 財 property If you´re a money genius, you can afford a lot of property.
683 材 lumber A TREE GENIUS is a LUMBER jack. Duh.
How do you suppose they manage to cram a genie inside a bottle? Well, I suppose
684 存 suppose they put him in there while he´s still a little child...
685 在 exist Genie in the bottle does exist but you need to dig deep into the soil to find one.
FROM a pictograph of a thumbs up. That´s how it also gets the primitive meaning of
686 乃 from fist.
This character is the "kei" in "keitai" (cell phone), a word you will no doubt hear often
in Japan, since everyone has one. Imagine you´ve just arrived in Japan, but don´t have
a cell phone yet, so instead you´re carrying around a portable turkey you can hold in
687 携 portable your fist. To dial a number, just poke it with your fingers.
I like to think of this as a fist with with brass knuckles because of the extra line. An old
school thug reaches out to help you up but then with his other hand ( with the brass
688 及 reach out knuckles) punches you.
Imagine a baby reaching out and holding mom´s breast as if it were bottle, and sucking
689 吸 suck on it to get some milk.
690 扱 handle See suck (#689): if it´s too big to handle, just use your fingers instead...
691 丈 length Both a meter and a yard are about one arm-length.
692 史 history I sleep in history class with my mouth tucked under my arm.
693 吏 officer One officer can change the course of history.
At nightbreak (#30) the sun rises above the floor, so it is logical that when it is growing
late, the sun would rise to the ceiling. Time to pack up your things and take your
694 更 grow late belongings under your arm.
695 硬 stiff A stiff drink on the ROCKs after it GROWS LATE is a way to unwind after a long day...
After her boyfriend´s crotch has been satisfied, a woman might suggest they cuddle.
696 又 or again The boyfriend, on the other hand, might say, "Or again, we could fool around . . . ".
697 双 pair Crotch to crotch is how many pairs spend their private time together. . .
Children going around the mulberry tree singing "This is the way we wash our crotch,
698 桑 mulberry wash our crotch, wash our crotch...".
On Vessels that travel long distances, sailors often get quite lonely. They keep
TURKEYS on the VESSELS, but not for use as food. The lonely sailors take turns
699 隻 vessels enjoying the turkey´s CROTCH.
Think of the flower-vessels as a the Greenpeace vessel “Arctic Sunrise”, only instead of
a rainbow there is a big flower painted on the hull (this will come back in seize (#701)
and harvest (#908)). Think of “flower-power” and of the “peace” in “Greenpeace” and
it will make some sense hopefully. -- In this kanji, we see an inauguration speech being
700 護 safeguard given before the Greenpeace vessel is set afloat and sent to safeguard our planet.
A pack of genetically-modified wild dogs is seized by a group of Greenpeace activists

701 獲 seize and taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (the flower vessel, see safeguard (#700)).
That GUY stole my WOMAN so I kicked him in the CROTCH. (This story helps keep the
702 奴 guy word "GUY" as someone you hold in contempt).
This woman is angry because of the guys in the previous frame who pay more
attention to her crotch than her heart. I prefer to decompose the kanji in three
703 怒 angry elements here because it is easier to read like a mnemonic.
A good friend is always at your side. ---- I teach at a Japanese High School, and I often
see chummy male students grabbing each other´s crotches in a joking manner. It´s still
weird to me, but apparently reaching to your side and grabbing you neighbor´s crotch
704 友 friend is a great way to express friendship.
705 抜 slip out Don´t let good friends slip out between your fingers.
Well, you usually use your fingers to throw objects used as missile weapons. Easy. By
the way, for those of you looking for a less anachronistic image for the missile
primitive as a modern rocket, try a slingshot. it´s a crotch (originally a tree branch) that
sends missile projectiles flying into/like the wind. And for this present kanji, it is
706 投 throw something you naturally use with your fingers...
(Note: this kanji is more collapse/cave-in/sink (#1888) than humans drowning) A water
missile? A torpedo! And when it hits it´s target? The ship collapses then sinks and
707 没 drown everyone drowns!
Establishment can be attacked by words or by missiles. Writers will use words,
708 設 establishment whereas militars will use missiles.
709 撃 beat Your car has missles?! That beats mine, hands down.
710 殻 husk Samurai´s husk/shell/armour is superflous to missile attacks 甲殻　卵殻　貝殻.

Picture sliding down the branch of a tree (in this case a pine tree or any tree with
711 支 branch needles) and getting a bunch of needles stuck in your crotch--ouch!!
(Adapted from darg_sama´s) Balancing a branch on your finger is the prototypical

712 技 skill example of a skill that is nothing more than a skill (i.e., it is completely useless).
713 枝 bough The tree´s primary branch is known as the bough.
The limbs that this kanji represents are parts of the body that are connected to the
trunk, like the main branches to a tree (“arms and legs” is the second meaning of this
714 肢 limb kanji). In other words, limbs are "flesh branches".
Suggestion: Replace "spool" with "toilet paper/roll". Reasons: (1) Toilet paper/roll
usually comes on a spool. (2) Toilet paper is used to clean the soil off your crotch.
Story: Just get a flower and carefully wrap some toilet paper around its stalk. Spool
715 茎 stalk also appears in suspicious (#716), lightly (#717), diameter (#882), sutra (#1360).
When you´re suspicious, your state of mind twists round and round like a spool of
716 怪 suspicious thread.
Fact: this kanji is used to denote a certain class of vehicles in Japan whose engines are
under a certain size (less than 750cc I think) and are called light vehicles here. Imagine
a so-called light vehicle or a light-truck with a load of spools driving down a road ever
717 軽 lightly so lightly, careful not to let any of the spools roll out onto the street.
Oh come on people - say what we´ve all been thinking: the uncle is that creepy guy
718 叔 uncle towering above a little one´s crotch.
719 督 coach Creepy uncle volunteers as gymnastics coach so he can eye the team from below.
720 寂 loneliness The unmarried uncle´s house is the picture of lonlieness.
Uncle (the one who is lonely and coaches kids in his spare time) is actually a graceful
721 淑 graceful guy once he hits the water, as he used to be part of the swimming team in his youth.
I think of an anti-hero (Dirty Harry etc.) for this primitive, whose trademark for
disposing of villians is not an honorable fight, but a kick in the crotch and then a shove
722 反 anti- off a cliff (perhaps whilst the villain´s back is turned).
As the villain (pushed off by the anti-hero) is tumbling down the slope, he activates
723 坂 slope gadget skis to escape, spraying soil everywhere as he flies down the slope.
724 板 plank Of course, trees are anti-plank. Wouldn´t you be if you were a tree?
Pretty obvious: to return is to turn back on the road you´re on and go the opposite
725 返 return way.
The goal of marketing is to get people who are naturally anti-buying to spend their
726 販 marketing shells (money).
727 爪 claw A pictograph of Wolverine´s adamantium claws.
Overly gentle women are vultures who want to marry you and steal your money - not
728 妥 gentle true but an easy mnemonic!
A fledgling is being nursed at a zoo, it is fed milk through a small tube that is bent in
the shape of a hook (so that it fits inside its beak). The fledgling soon becomes
729 乳 milk addicted to milk, giving us this very catchy mnemonic: “fledgling hooked on milk”.
730 浮 floating Floating rubber ducky!!!

The leader in this race is the turtle! It appears he has covered the vulture’s feet in glue,
731 将 leader so that the vulture cannot get off the starting block.
732 奨 exhort It´s easy to picture a LEADER that uses a BIG dog to EXHORT his people to do more.
You pick cheries with your fingers, then along comes a giant vulture and picks up the
733 採 pick whole tree with its claws.
A vegetarian vulture is munching on a flower, perched on a tree, patiently waiting for a
734 菜 vegetable patch of vegetables to grow.
The bird house is the brothel (someone else said so) and of course everyone is
735 受 accept welcome - thay accept any crotch.
736 授 impart Please accept this finger, you say, imparting it to your yakuza boss.
If you really love someone, you won´t keep them in a cage-like bird house relationship,
but rather open the door and let their heart walk around freely. Think less about "I"
737 愛 love (あい) and more about "we".
You´re at a restaurant and raise your finger to indicate to the waiter that you want to
pay. Your friend elbows you in the ribs -- it´s his shout, and he insists on taking care of
738 払 pay the bill.
739 広 wide The Batcave is very wide and has a lot of elbow room for Batman to do his yoga.
Japanese girls are tight and may require fingers inserted to broaden them and make
740 拡 broaden them wide enough before you can...
741 鉱 mineral Elbonium: a new mineral found in wide caves shaped like elbows and made of metal.
742 弁 valve Opening a stuck valve requires 2 hands and a lot of elbow grease.
Men walk with their elbows out from their sides in a weird turkey trot when they try to
743 雄 male appear very MASCULINE. Think of a 70´s pimp walk.
When someone´s elbow is above your mouth he/she is probably standing on a
744 台 pedestal pedestal.
While standing on the pedestal at the award ceremony, the recipient heartlessly
745 怠 neglect neglected to mention the people that got him there.
746 治 reign Build a moat around your pedestal to protect your reign of power.
Many men, before they commence their relationship with the woman of their desires,
747 始 commence place her on something of a pedestal, which often leads to disappointment later on.
The body part feminists like to put on a pedestal is the womb, especially when they
hear a man complain about some responsibility. "We give birth, so it´s your duty to do
748 胎 womb so-and-so".
The top primitive is similar to hole (#1316). A window is a hole (#1316) in your house
that you occassionally sit next to while leaning on your ELBOW and gazing out, a
749 窓 window picture of a lonely HEARTedness.
Going, going, GONE!, said the gravedigger as he shoveled soil onto the body´s
750 去 gone protruding elbow (the last bit left to cover).
This kanji shows up in a lot of words related to the legal process. Try this image: using
a very outdated judicial method, the people of Salem dunked accused witches in the
751 法 method water until they were all gone.
At the local company they have a very gory way of getting rid of incompetent
personnel : they arrange a business meeting in a very special room where the walls are
... meeting. Not surprisingly the boss is never present at these meetings, he´s the one
752 会 meeting who pushes the button that sets the walls in motion.
Sexual climaxes don´t always happen on the bed; they sometimes happen against a
753 至 climax wall or on the ground!
754 室 room You book a room in a love hotel called "Climax House".
755 到 arrival Http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7731/karatesd3.jpg Just look at this image...

756 致 doth To reach climax I doth the bidding of my dominatrix taskmaster.
757 互 mutually The 69 position allows both parties to mutually give themselves pleasure.
Think of a really loud and annoying baby, you want to abandon it but it keeps coming
758 棄 abandon back...so you take of your belt by the buckle, and buckle the baby to a tree!
Bringing up your offspring means raising them from infant until they are meat ready to
be harvested. What, cannibalism is in poor taste? Forget I ever brought it up. But bring
759 育 bring up up will forver be infant meat to me. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs!
Don´t lay a finger on him, a concerned mother says as the state REMOVES her child
760 撤 remove away for upbringing by a taskmaster foster home.
Scene at the baby factory: Manager: "Good news! Your infant has been allotted
761 充 allot human legs". Parent to be: "Thanks a lot!".
762 銃 gun Everyone is allotted a metal gun (US constitution according to the NRA).
763 硫 sulfur Sulphur is like a rock, but it can stink like a stream of infant doodie.
764 流 current INFANT Moses placed in the WATER and sent down the current of the STREAM.
In some Asian kung-fu version of James Bond, the main protagonist has a “License To
Kill” with his deadly elbows and human legs. His suit is always stained of red blood at
the elbows and lower legs (this to help create an image that distinguish the two
765 允 license elements).
I named the right part legal prostitute has it represents a walker [walking legs] with
766 唆 tempt the license. It´s easy to imagine a legal prostitute tempting a man with her mouth.
Suddenly, a cactus comes out of the ground with a sign that reads: exit. Now you can
767 出 exit leave the desert! (Note: giving this primitive the meaning ćactus´ can be useful later).
Pictograph, see book. * As a primitive this element appears equally as well at the top
or bottom of the kanjis (besides appearing to the left). Since a mountain often brings
to mind towering peaks, I will consider it implied that the element is placed at the top
of the kanji. When this primitive appears at the bottom, I will arrange my story in a
way that other elements are said to be at the very top of the mountain (see FRAME
768 山 mountain 775 for an example).
With fingers fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could exit, the
769 拙 bungling bungling husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress.
770 岩 boulder A mountain-sized stone is known as a boulder.
771 炭 charcoal Burn enough charcoal and you´ll have a mountain of ash.
On the left, there are three mountains. The road branches off to each of them. (Note:
772 岐 branch off This kanji is mostly used for branches in the road).
Heisig mentions at kanjiclinic.com that he wishes he´d chosen mountain pass for this
keyword as it´s closer to what the word means. If we do this, the kanji makes complete
773 峠 mountain pass sense because a mountain pass is just below the mountain top.
Sam and Frodo were steadfast companions even as Mount Doom crumbled above
774 崩 crumble them.
To maintain secrecy, secret societies invariably have to house themselves in the
775 密 secrecy moutains.
When I think of honey, I think of a bee hive, which is a HOUSE that INVARIABLY has
776 蜜 honey INSECTS.
Storm is a full-blown wind that rips the mountains off the ground (you see one flying
777 嵐 storm here).
This is “Cape Strange” from FRAME 153, only with mountain in place of soil.
Interestingly, there is also 碕 which is made of the primitives stone and strange. The
three kanjis 碕, 埼 and 崎 all have the same meanings and pronunciations. They have
very little uses other than names, for which promontory is the clear winner with over
2300 uses in place and people names, while the other two kanjis account for less than
778 崎 promontory 200 names.
Pictograph, see book. * As a primitive, using the image of going through a door, even
one that stands alone with the frame and no wall around, helps flesh out the primitive
779 入 enter “enter”.
During a traffic jam it is impossible to get your car to enter the roadway as it is
crowded with cars. Think of a grid lock so bad cars are litterally scraping up against
780 込 crowded each other like people on a Japanese train during rush hour.
781 分 part When something is entered by a dagger, it ends up being cut in several parts.
In the case of true poverty, not having money is only part of the problem. There are
other components as well, like lack of education, class structuring, etc., but that
782 貧 poverty doesn´t really matter. Just remember that the money is only part of it, not the whole.
783 頒 partition The PART of my HEAD where I remember the KANJI is in the kanji PARTITION.
I always open the doors to the public restrooms with my elbows because I don´t want
784 公 public to touch the door with my hands.
Following up with the "entering public restrooms" story for the right-hand primitive:
785 松 pine tree public restrooms always reek of pine tree scented disinfectant.
The venerable old man is the public figure head of the Native American Village,
answering all questions and solving all problems. The higher in rank you get in this
tribe, the more feathers decorate you. Imagine this old man covered in beautiful
786 翁 venerable old man feathers.
787 訟 sue Take care what words you say in public lest you be sued.
This could be seen as a very accurate pictograph of another type of valley: a valley
mouth open under the umbrella of inner labia, with the outer labia parted above.
There are even more connections to be made among the primitive keywords and the
788 谷 valley visuals, but i will enter no further...
This story is quite lascivious, sorry... Now, imagine you are at a 混浴　（こんよく）
[two kanjis we now know] Onsen (温泉), and you are watching a woman bathe. Just
picture the water dripping down her cleavage (that valley in between her breasts).
789 浴 bathe Note: cleavage in Japanese is 谷間.
Imagine a house big enough to contain an entire valley. might want to live there. And
790 容 contain now imagine cleaning it. . . . Maybe not . . .
Think of what happens when the snow on top of the mountains melts: it turns into
791 溶 melt water and flows down onto the rooftops of all the houses in the valley below.
Guess what? Japanese has dirty words too! (In fact, a lot of them) A sexual story is
NOT inappropriate here, as this kanji is very sexual, such as in 性欲; lust. As for a story:
792 欲 longing the lack of contact with a woman´s valley will leave a man LONGING for love.
Again using the fact that cleavage in Japanese is called "valley of the chest": a woman
with abundant cleavage tightly wraps up her bosom in a form-fitting cloak, but leaving
her valley exposed. Another unforgettable image (thank you, thank you, I´ll be here all
793 裕 abundant week).
Picture the molten lead (the heavy metal) being discreetly drained out of the factory
794 鉛 lead (metal) into a gully behind.
795 沿 run alongside Water in a gully runs alongside the path.
This is a bit silly.. or maybe not only a bit, but.. You know some foodstuffs (cereals
come to mind) sometimes have prizes mixed in them? Well, in this case, the prize was
a shell (money, remember) and you only notice in the outhouse... (see also secret
796 賞 prize (#904)).
Every major political party, if personified, would look like a giant outhouse walking
797 党 party around with human legs spewing out a constant stream of bullshit.
798 堂 hall There is a secret hall buried in the soil underneath the outhouse.
It´s usual to take your towel with you when you go to the outhouse at the onsen (hot
799 常 usual springs bath in Japan) so everybody doesn´t see your stuff.
Compared to pants, a SKIRT is the GARMENT to be wearing when you want to use one
of those Japanese toilets. It makes it so much easier: you just walk in the OUTHOUSE
800 裳 skirt hike it up, and do your business.
If you´re going to manipulate your body with your hand, then go do it in an outhouse,
801 掌 manipulate at least!
A pelt is hooked on a branch. A small tent is made with a pelt and a branch planted in
the ground. The mnemonic hints at the first stroke (the hanging pelt) and the hook at
802 皮 pelt the end of the second stroke. This is chinese radical #107 meaning “skin”.
803 波 waves Waves are the ocean´s pelt (skin).

804 婆 old woman An old woman is seen here as a woman with waves (i.e. wrinkles, creases).
You expose holes in a pelt by passing your fingers through them and wiggling them on
the other side. The sense of the kanji here is to reveal something that was hidden, to
make known, to open your heart (thus revealing it, exposing it to others), express your
805 披 expose opinion, etc.
Before the invention of scissors or knives, sharp STONES were used to REND PELTs, so
806 破 rend that caveman designers could complete new styles for the upcoming year.
If you wear a coat of fur (pelt) you are sure to incur the wrath of animal rights
807 被 incur extremists.
The remainder of the bones have been thrown from the float (for the dogs maybe, at
808 残 remainder the end of the parade).
Think of the early Christian martyrs who suffered martyrdom because of their faith.
See them held in cells for 10 days (a decameron) before being fed to the lions. They
appear before the chanting Roman crowds as bones to be devoured. Think of what
was leftover after the lions finished them off....nothing, not even a pile of bones to
809 殉 martyrdom bury.
810 殊 particularly A t-bone steak is vermilion - particularly if served rare.
Advertisement for Breast Implants -- Tired of nights all alone? Want to get boned
811 殖 augment straightaway? AUGMENT your breasts and all your troubles will be solved!
812 列 file A line of skeletal warriors, all armed with sabers.
They tried issuing the skeleton warriors with proper garments to wear, but they kept
getting split by the sharp bones or by their sabres. In the end, it was decided they look
813 裂 split scarier naked anyway.
The nazis were ardent believers in the master arian race, see them marching everyone
814 烈 ardent else into the oven fires, single file.
Ok, this is where knowing some Eastern culture comes in handy! In Japanese society,
when someone dies they creamate the body and pick out the remaining bones with
special chopsticks. In this case, they´re out of chopsticks so they decide to use (gasp!)
815 死 death a spoon instead.
I imagine an interment as a funeral. At this funeral it´s an open casket, and the dead
816 葬 interment body (death) is holding flowers with both of its hands.
Imagine Snoopy winking with his big eyes (and a happy smile) standing next to
817 瞬 wink Woodstocks Birdhouse, woodstock being so cool that he wears little sunglasses.
Your ear is like the eye on the side of your head for seeing things, but there is hair
818 耳 ear around it that creates jagged lines.
You put your ear next to a womans crotch...and somehow, from it, you hear the words
819 取 take "Take me....".
820 趣 gist The gist of it is this: We take the money and run!
TAKE the UTMOST care when you SUN bath all DAY, or you´ll get burned from your
821 最 utmost EARS to your CROTCH.
Take the utmost care that you don´t have your finger in the way when you take a
822 撮 snapshot snapshot.
823 恥 shame Amelia Ear-Heart (sic) brought shame to those who said women couldn´t fly.
Worst post in history: quality checker at the kazoo factory. Imagine the toll on your
824 職 post ears!
The trick for me is to remember that the 耳 is to the left of the 口. However, this is
easy because a true holy man uses his ear to listen (i.e., to God or his supplicant)
before he opens his mouth to speak, unlike a charlatan who just makes something up.
825 聖 holy Of course, kings are often true holy men and prophets (e.g., King David in the bible).
Only a truly daring Japanese student would wear a spike in his ear under the gaze of
826 敢 daring the Japanese teacher taskmasters!
I promise to use my ear to do nothing but listen ... stick a needle in my eye, cross my
heart and hope to die! (Intentionally said backwards to get the order of the primitives
827 聴 listen correct).
(re: taijuando) When you are in New York City you have to be alert, i.e. in the "New
York State of Mind": you need ten eyes to make sure no one will go through your
828 懐 pocket garments and pick your pockets.
I´ll focus on the mandala primitive here. I guess Heisig chose this keyword for phonetic
reasons and as a character it´s the "man" in mandara/mandala (曼荼羅). A mandala is
a graphic representation of the universe, here split in 3 planes of existance, the sun
representing the cosmos, the eye represents the human observer, the crotch
829 慢 ridicule represents the animal instincts.
One obscure Tibetan sect-- the Otaku cult-- has an unusually loose interpretation of
mandala drawing practice. Instead of traditional mandalas they draw mangas (漫画).
830 漫 loose They then pour water on the image to wash it away, and begin anew.
When something catches my eye, I take out a few clams and buy before anybody else
831 買 buy does.
On the JET Programme, many people have their eye on a placement in Tokyo, Osaka or
another big city, and write it on their application form. They are usually sent to the
832 置 placement countryside straightaway.
For Japanese, when the mind´s eye (the sideways eye) feels guilty for something bad
that the body has done, there are two penaltys to choose from. One, you can say I´m
sorry. Two, you can commit suicide by sabre. Why, oh why, do so many Japanese
executives commit suicide at the first sign of scandal when all the have to do is say I´m
833 罰 penalty sorry to get off the hook. (on yomi: バチ, バツ).
A pretty tough kanji. Think of elegant old housewives with English accents dining
together at a HOUSE party. The hostess brings out a dish of hors dóeuvres: a SPIKE of
metal with an EYEBALL and a HEART skewered on it. Upon being offered this treat, one
834 寧 rather of the housewives says in her English accent, "I´d RATHER not.".
The fly is wrapped in a spiderweb voicing "Help me, Help Me" under the watchful eye
835 濁 voiced of the spider who´s venom is dripping like water from her fangs.
Together with the next kanji, the keywords spell “send back the ring”. First we have a
jewel. Next we have the great eye of Sauron searching for the fellowship hiding under
the many ceilings during their journey. The fourth and fifth primitives are the mouth of
Gollum always mumbling “My preciousss”; and Pippin´s scarf! Placement: the eye
appears at the top similarly to how the Great Eye of Sauron is perched atop the Dark
836 環 ring Tower.
You´ve probably guessed it by now, this is the road that Sam and Frodo take to send
837 還 send back back the ring to Mount Doom! (see previous frame, the jewel is replaced by the road).
Even though it is argued size is not important, I´m sure most women would like their
838 夫 husband husband to have a big one.
839 扶 aid Using his finger the husband sometimes is an erotic aid to his partner.
The Simpsons are on vacation. Homer stops to take a leak in a mountain stream but
840 渓 mountain stream gets snatched by an eagle. Hear his scream?
In the male-dominated world of yesterday, the husband´s way of seeing things was
considered the standard point of view. Women who dared to disagree were frowned
841 規 standard upon.
A show like "Trading Spouses" called "exchanging husbands" where 2 husbands are
842 替 exchange exchanged for a day (thanks dingomick).
Out of two potential husbands, which would you approve of? Well, the one with shells
843 賛 approve (money) of course!!!
When a submarine or similar vessel SUBMERGES an EXCHANGE of air for WATER takes
844 潜 submerge place in special compartments.
The drop falling here is the husband´s toupee... he´s already lost his hair once, now
845 失 lose he´s losing it again. Such is life, I suppose.
846 鉄 iron Iron is a metal that gradually becomes lost due to oxidation and rust.
847 迭 alternate When you get lost, you just take an alternate road to get back on track.
848 臣 retainer Its a pictograph of a teeth with a retainer in the middle.
849 姫 princess Princess Leia becomes Jabba´s slave (“princess Leia is a woman slave”).
The storehouse is overgrown with slaves. The slaves are to be sold in the store, to
850 蔵 storehouse differentiate from a warehouse, which doesn´t have the word "store" in it.
You signed your organ donor card, right? So, when you die, your entrails and other
851 臓 entrails body parts will be placed in a storehouse.
An intelligent man is neither slave to his crotch nor to money. But an intelligent slave
852 賢 intelligent will know how to use his/her crotch to make money.
The strict parent thinks adolescent kids are "slaves to their crotch" (= can´t control
853 堅 strict their hormones), so he grounds them. Permanently!
The slave is look to the future, "One day" he thinks "I will be able to recline with all my
goods, a tv, stereo and washing machine, and when that day comes I shall be truly
854 臨 look to happy" he sighs.
The slave reclines on the floor at night to watch the stars. Since that´s the only thing
the slave is allowed to “read”, he does so very thoroughly and diligently, hence
855 覧 perusal perusal.
This is actually the top view of a porn star with a gigantic erect penis. The top and
bottom are his arms and the middle is his penis. Imagine him making the pumping
motion while he´s banging some chick. The arms move in, the penis moves out and
856 巨 gigantic vice versa.
A woman might be REPELLED by a porn star´s GIGANTIC penis, so he kindly offers to
857 拒 repel use his FINGERS instead.
858 力 power I always refer to the power of the KATAKANA "KA".
Male is seen here as muscles working in the field, in other words working in the rice
fields is the work of the male who are usually stronger. This is more or less the
859 男 man meaning of the original Chinese character.
Those jocks who always tried to show their muscles in the schoolhouse are now the
860 労 labor ones out there doing manual labor jobs while we sit here and learn Japanese. Ha!
The necromancer hangs out at the local graveyard and uses his dark powers to recruit
an army of undead. Emphasize the verb form to keep distinct from the noun cadet
861 募 recruit (#1173).
I have an inferiority complex because I have fewer muscles than everyone else at the
862 劣 inferiority gym. They all look like Macho Man Randy Savage (power) to me.
The great achievements of humankind, were crafts completed by muscle power: the
863 功 achievement pyramids, the Eiffel tower, etc.
Mnemonic "pegasus persuasion power". I think of the hippogriff from Harry Potter as
being like a pegasus. To befriend a hippogriff, you have to persuade it you mean no
864 勧 persuade harm, you can do this if you have "pegasus persuasion power".
GUY POWER!!! Body builders toiling in the gym all
day....　　　　　RTK2:　ド　努力　どりょく (effort)...　Pure Group: 　奴702
865 努 toil 　怒703.
10,000 Persians are at the base of the cliff, but the leader of the 300 Spartans just
flexes his huge muscles and encourages his men by shouting that they have the power
866 励 encourage to fight them all.
867 加 add If you eat anymore, you will be adding more カロries. (katakana karo).
When someone at work gets married, you pass around an envelope to which you add
868 賀 congratulations some money and a card which you sign with your congratulations.
869 架 erect Instant wood. Just add Viagra.

870 脇 armpit What part of the body has a very, very, very powerful smell? The armpit, of course!
Compare the primitive positions of armpit (#870) and threaten (#871). When your
triceps rest alongside your body, they fit snugly against your armpit. When you hold
871 脅 threaten them above your body, however, your posture becomes quite threatening.
The nurse says : “If you co-operate, that needle (syringe) in your triceps won´t hurt”.
872 協 co- Note: both co- and cooperate are meanings for this kanji.
873 行 going I use The Flash for for this primitive; a superhero who is always going very fast.
The calligrapher´s brush is moving down a column of a script, in rhythm with his
874 律 rhythm meditation.
Before going all the way to the Boss in a Final Fantasy game, you should probably
875 復 restore double back to save at a restore point.
To gain more knowledge of what´s goin on in the world I´m reading column after
column of articles in the newspapers, and it takes so much time I´m glued to it till
876 得 gain nightbreak.
877 従 accompany The line of viking soldiers is always accompanied by a horn mending specialist.
878 徒 junior Junior is GOING to RUN the family business one day...
A line queued up outside the Buddhist temple, waiting to see the shrine on New Year´s
879 待 wait Day.
880 往 journey In Medieval Japan, going to see your lord was often a long journey.
America seeks to GO and CORRECT other nations. But really what they do is subjugate
881 征 subjugate them...
Scientists recently measured the diameter of Earth by drilling a deep hole and
882 径 diameter dropping a line of thread off a humongous spool until it got to the other side.
What´s the main difference between a he and a she? The he has a column covered in a
883 彼 he pelt... a penis. Badum-ching.
Japanese kamikaze pilots (and the American from Dr. Strangelove) are so devoted to
884 役 duty their duty that they go with their missiles.
Hearkening back to the kanji for LISTEN... Benevolence is a good listener who is willing
885 徳 benevolence to go the distance to help.
The taskmistress in a moment of weakness allowed the man´s column to penetrate
886 徹 penetrate her. As punishment he was made to bring up their infant.
If you see a column of kings being marched up the mountain under a taskmaster´s
887 徴 indications whip... indications are, there has been a coup.
Penal servitude is served until indications show that one has had a change of heart
(learned one´s lesson). Easily confused with punish (#679) and penalty (#833).
Concentrate on the reasons behind the penal system ("changing people´s hearts"
here), instead of the penalty itself or the punishment (revenge) aspect. It may help to
note that there´s no sword, but a heart :-) (Note: 懲りる = learn from one´s bad
888 懲 penal experiences).
The Column of 300 spartans were in a delicate situation. They had travelled in one line
889 微 delicate (using only their legs) to the mountain pass to face the fierce Persian task master.
The boulevard of boulevards, the Champs Elysées, with the Arc de Triomphe covered
890 街 boulevard in ivy to give the champions a heroes´ welcome.
To maintain the social equilibrium in a future dystopian society, the brains of citizens
are bound up (hypnotized). The government is using mental wave emitting statues
891 衡 equilibrium shaped like St. Bernard´s dogs put alongside the boulevards.
The first DRAFT of catcher in the rye was actually called "catcher in the TALL
892 稿 draft WHEAT"...good thing they changed it. I read it in 高校.
893 稼 earnings Your earnings allow you to bring home your daily bread (made of wheat, naturally).
The extent to which some people will go to create ´wheat displays´, or as some call
894 程 extent them ćrop circles´, is truly amazing.
Nobody likes the tax man, so here it is only fitting that the person who comes over to
take some of your wheat is depicted here as a devil. Keep in mind that in feudal
societies there was no kind of money to speak of, so taxes were paid by serfs in wheat
895 税 tax to the devils who came over to keep them poor.
I can´t believe I brought you to the fanciest restaurant in town and you asked for
896 稚 immature turkey on wheat...how immature is that?!
The first step to harmony is having enough wheat to feed every mouth in the world.
897 和 harmony Once we are all fed it is easier to get a long in harmony.
Picture the WHEAT field, filled with MANY, MANY stalks of WHEAT. Notice how they
898 移 shift SHIFT like waves in the slightest breeze. When you hear SHIFT, just picture that scene.
899 秒 second An hourglass filled with wheat counts time. A few wheat seeds drop every second.
900 秋 autumn In AUTUMN, the WHEAT looks the color of FIRE, meaning it´s time to harvest it.
In AUTUMN, the farmer´s HEART is in DISTRESS as to if he has enough crops. Even
better, the farmer will experience great DISTRESS in his HEART if his WHEAT catches
901 愁 distress FIRE!
902 私 private Warning sign: "Private wheat, trespassers will be elbowed".

Think of REGULARITY in terms of bowel movements. Enough WHEAT in your diet will
903 秩 regularity help your DROPS with improved REGULARITY.
904 秘 secret The prize at the bottom of a cereal box is invariably a secret decoder ring.
Taking appellation to mean the act of naming, we have the little baby superman
reclining in the space craft that landed in a wheat field. Mr. and Mrs. Kent look down
and decide to call him Clark. (I also thought of Jesus but he was born in a barn full of
905 称 appellation hay not wheat).
In the middle ages there where only 2 ways for peasantry to make a profit. one by
906 利 profit being a farmer, 2 to be a mercenary and live by the way of the sword.
The Japanese pear tree is the most profitable in the world, because it produces its fruit
907 梨 pear tree in pairs [sorry for the awful pun].
The harvest of genetically modified crops is taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (see
908 穫 harvest the flower vessel in safeguard (#700)).
The pilgrims only had wheat, so they asked the Indians to do them a favor and trade
909 穂 ear of a plant them for some ears of corn.
The rice plant is common in Japan because all the wheat was eaten by vultures in the
910 稲 rice plant olden times.
If you focus the suns though a magnifying glass on to the bottom of a stalk of wheat it
will start to smoulder and burn like a stick of incense. The weird thing is that it burns
911 香 incense from the bottom upwards, hanging in the air as if my magic. Try it and see!
912 季 seasons There´s a season for planting wheat and there´s mating season for having children.
Female WHEAT farmers decide to create a COMMITTEE, which they fittingly name
913 委 committee “The WHEAT WOMEN COMMITTEE.”.
You spend three hours putting all of your wheat sale transaction records into
914 秀 excel Microsoft Excel, when suddenly it crashes, so you put your fist through the monitor.
If you excel in the Mario Kart road, your movements are saved and you can race
against yourself as a transparent racer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8CkcrL-
915 透 transparent k4.
Think of the smooth talker who EXCELS at using WORDS to entice women (including
916 誘 entice married women if it makes it easier to remember).
There are different cereals in different parts of the world. Japan has samurai cereal.
917 穀 cereals Great Britain has Crowned Wheat ... the United States and Russia have Missile cereals.
Can also mean bacteria.....imagine the wheat pent in your fridge growing to the point
where they resemble flowers.......I actually had something similar happen to
onions...they grew footlong legs after about 2 or 3 years......OR just think of that
918 菌 germ Cowboy Bebop episode with the lobster in the fridge... :-).
Stroke order: I like to think of the first two strokes as “chop sticks” with which one eats
919 米 rice the rice. The rest then is the “tree” meaning “plant” in this contexct. also: USA.
Parts of parts of parts of parts of rice... is flour. (Image: geishas patting their face with
920 粉 flour RICE flour to make it white. Not wheat flour...).
This is another way of fortune telling -- throw sticky rice against the wall, and look for
921 粘 sticky the message in whatever sticks.
A sage is using rice to fill up a vase, but as an exercise in patience, he´s doing it grain
922 粒 grains by grain.
Condy Rice is actually white, but she uses special cosmetics made from dirt she found
923 粧 cosmetics in a cave to appear black - it´s better for the political situation.
924 迷 astray The road that the USA is heading down is, well... let´s just say that they´re astray...
925 粋 chic In extremely chic restaurants, you have to pay 90 bucks for a bowl of rice.
Imagine Japanese army provisions like obentou boxes, always containing the same
quantity of rice. (thanks darg_sama, emphasizing quantity and the nuance of food
"rations", "food supply": the kanji also appears in "military provisions" and "army
926 糧 provisions rice").
Chrysanthemum flower consists of many tiny petals, just like many rice grains bound
927 菊 chrysanthemum up together.
In the core of a nuclear reactor, scientists have discovered a way to get power from
rice, by penting it in under high pressure. It´s very dangerous, so they´ve trained a st.
928 奥 core bernard dog to run things, he´s adding more drops of rice as necessary.
Young taskmaster is learning numbers by watching women haul sacks of rice past him.
929 数 number "One... two... four! No, wrong! Go back, go back!".
The young taskmaster (see number (#929)) uses a tree as a watchtower to get a better
930 楼 watchtower view of his rice-carrying women. "I can seeeee you! One! Two! Three!".
Note this character means sort in the sense of what kind, I believe a better keyword
would be "variety" and this character does appear in some dictionaries with the
primary meaning as variety, my story: I´m in a Chinese restaurant and the waiter says
931 類 sort "What sort of rice would you like with your dog head?".
LACQUER is a type of WATERY type of liquid used to protect items made from TREES,
sort of an UMBRELLA of protection. So protective, you can carry around RICE in the
932 漆 lacquer LACQUERED, WOODEN product.
Here we have the requirements to be counted among the ranks of the noble Esq. You
933 様 Esq. must posses a forested estate, herds of sheep, and granary full of grains of rice.
Enemy: "Any final requests?" // MacGyver: "Just an arrowhead and some grains of
rice." (MacGyver then throws the grains of rice at the enemy and uses the arrowhead
934 求 request to cut his hands free from the rope.).
Someone files a request to see the family jewels and, to their surprise, you show them
935 球 ball your balls!
Like in the biblical sense, someone looks skyward and makes a request for salvation
936 救 salvation from this horrible taskmaster...
Pandas like to eat bamboo. I´m using panda as the primitive name when it fits the
937 竹 bamboo story. ^__^.
When the people tried to build a tower of bamboo to reach the heavens, the gods just
938 笑 laugh laughed and laughed.
The bamboo vase was beautifully crafted, but the tourist didn´t know what it was and
939 笠 bamboo hat wore it as a little bamboo hat.
940 笹 bamboo grass The bamboo generation smokes bamboo grass.

Muscle is part of the body that gives strength, and can be both supple and tense like
941 筋 muscle the bamboo.
The best kind of BOX is made from BAMBOO sticks that are INTER-laced to make it air
942 箱 box tight. Just picture such a box and you´ve mastered this kanji.
Bamboo is the best material from which to make a brush if you want it to be a writing
943 筆 writing brush brush.
Seriously, all BAMBOO sticks look the SAME, just long CYLINDERS. Should the story be
944 筒 cylinder more complicated?
The Bamboo Buddhist Temple has bamboo buddhas, bamboo buildings, bamboo
945 等 etc. benches, bamboo beds, bamboo bowls, etc. etc. etc.
Before the time of digital calculators, people used old school calculators made of
bamboo (abacus). It´s not as easy as a calculator, but you don´t need any batteries
946 算 calculate either. All you need are your eyes and your two hands.
The solution to this puzzle is, like the match stick game, to make the bamboo pieces fit
947 答 solution together.
(Elaboration of jameserb´s story:) A clever scheme from Wile E Coyote -- he ties one of
those rubber belts to some trees and uses it to launch a bamboo spear at the
948 策 scheme roadrunner...
Note : the keyword is not a verb, think of a record book. This acupuncturist who uses
bamboo in place of flowers to dilute water into his patients (see frame 227), managed
somehow to appear on the register of acupuncturists. Chances are, he won´t stay on
949 簿 register the register for long. My image is close to that of gorgon´s story.
Bamboo crafting is a mediocre substitute for wood when you are building or
fabricating a house. While it may look good and might attract a chick (ちく) or two,
950 築 fabricate the kids´ll (きず) just tear it to pieces as its not sturdy enough.
Behold Mister T (of "A-Team" fame)! I chose Mr.T because he´s sure to make amusing
stories. He is a very versatile character since he´s both the big, tough guy and the
“moralistic” person, telling kids not “to do drugs or alcohol”. He is easy to imagine, the
heavy gold chains are probably the most prominent feature of the character. And last
but not least you can always pepper your story with the famous line “I pity da foo!” *
951 人 person Fittingly, on the left side of the kanji, it looks like a “T”.
Mr T´s assistant is on his left. Why? Because Mr T has this bad habit of suddenly
extending his right arm (what with all the boxing that he did), and his assistant got
inadvertently punched in the face more than once (ouch). So now his assistant is
952 佐 assistant always to his left side, much safer - "Stay on my left, foo!".
However drunk Mr T is when he comes back to his place, he always get up at
953 但 however nightbreak. “I pity da foo who gets up after nightbreak !”, says Mr. T.
When Mr T shows people round his dwelling he takes a big candlestick (with a candle
954 住 dwell in it!) so that the light shows off his collection of bling bling jewellery.
Mr T ranks first position in the stand-up competition (doing knee flexions). Just picture
him doing hundreds of these while the rest of the participants are already completely
955 位 rank exhausted after a mere hundred.
When negotiating a hostage situation, Mr. T acted as the go-between, or person in the
956 仲 go-between middle, for law enforcement and the terrorist.
Mister T works out his body (body-building), using two piles of books (i.e. an exercise
that can be done at home with two chairs, similar to push-ups but working mostly the
957 体 body shoulders, trapezius and triceps).
Mr. T ventured out into a remote area to visit with his wise, old taskmaster who must
use a walking stick to get around and originally gave Mr. T the heart to fight crime for
958 悠 remote the good of the community.
Note: this kanji refers to event or case. Current Affair headline: Mr. T has affair with
959 件 affair cow. "It´s only animal ´man´ enough for me".
Back in the day, a person who stands beside a samurai is usually attending to them or
960 仕 attend working for them.
961 他 other Old latin saying: homo hominis scorpio (people are scorpions to other people).
Don´t need a silly story for this one: prostration is when a person puts themselves in a
962 伏 prostrated low position like a dog, as an extreme gesture of humility.
Mister T transmits a message with rising clouds (smoke) signals, to a nearby American
963 伝 transmit Indian tribe. The smoke signals spell : "I p-i-t-y y-o-u f-o-o !".
Mr. T says, "I ain´t afraid o´ no foo! I´ll give anyone an elbow to the face, I don´t care if
964 仏 Buddha it´s Buddha himself!".
965 休 rest Mr T resting by a tree.
Mr. T was offered a job in the Iraq Provisional Authority, but he turned it down,
because he´s anti-war. "I pity da fool thinks this sand pit worth invadin´ when our
966 仮 provisional schools be in such sad shape!".
If Mr T was white I am sure he would have been commander in chief of the USA, he
just the sort of clown Americans love to vote for. (NB: I tried with the indian chief
967 伯 chief motif but kept adding feathers by mistake).
Mr. T says, "Don´t be like them valley girls, always speaking vulgar language and acting
968 俗 vulgar all vulgar! They ain´t nothing but foos!".
Mr. T has faith in the Word of God. (Image: Mr. T kneeling and prayering in front of a
969 信 faith bible. "Pity me, fool.").
970 佳 excellent Mr T wants to go to an excellent school, so he enrolls in Harvard, an ivy-league school.

971 依 reliant Mr T is reliant (depends on) on his garment (the gold chains).
Mr T shows the example to the kids, and stays in the file (at supermarket, ...). “I pity da
972 例 example foo who does not follow my example !”.
This keyword gave me trouble, I could write the kanji from memory but could not
remember the keyword the other way around. In such case the dictionary definition
can be helpful : "Middle English, single, indivisible". Here we have Mr. T. who is so
hardened (all the body workout he´s had) that he became in-dividual, that is, in-
973 個 individual divisible. "I pity da foo who can be divided into smaller units.".
Mr. T in a public service announcement yells, "I´m healthy because every day I build a
974 健 healthy food pyramid, foo!".
975 側 side Mr. T rulezzz! I am on his side!

Mr. T infiltrates the secret samurai Buddhist temple as a waiter with a tray of green
976 侍 waiter tea. (Careful: attend (#960)).
977 停 halt Halt fool - Mr T acting as a bouncer at the pavillion.
Mr. T (person) tells the used car salesman to tell him the real price straight away, and
978 値 price when he doesn´t he throws him through the windshield.
Mr T downloads an emulator so that he can play his favorite game, Pokemon. He plays
for a different reason, though - he hates to see them poor little foos in the ball so he
979 倣 emulate spends his entire time setting them free.
The A-Team are planning to overthrow the government. However, they can´t do a
980 倒 overthrow damn thing until Mr T arrives.
Mr. T is a terrible spy. He walks around upright. "Why should I hide?! I´ve got nothing
981 偵 spy to be ashamed of!".
While a waiter at the Buddhist temple (see FRAME 976), Mr T increases in wisdom and
982 僧 Buddhist priest becomes a Buddhist priest.
Mr. T has an clear idea of what he would do if he ever got hundred million dollar. (I
983 億 hundred million guess it would be a enormous gold chain !).
984 儀 ceremony Mr. T is the master of ceremonies because he is a righteous dude.
985 償 reparation Mr. T says, "This ain´t no prize, foo! This is reparations for slavery!".
986 仙 hermit A HERMIT is a PERSON who lives in the MOUNTAINS.
And now a word from our sponsor. We see Mr. T, doing a sort of George Foreman
987 催 sponsor thing, grilling Mountain Turkeys. "I pity da foo who don´t have a Mr. T grill!".
988 仁 humanity The beginning of humanity required at least TWO people. Mr. T and Mrs. T!
989 侮 scorn Mr. T has scorn for every fool.
990 使 use Of course Mr. T will tell a police officer if he catches someone using drugs, foo!
Mr. T loves the convenience of the new konbini. Not only does it stay open even if it
991 便 convenience grows late, they have brand new toilets, and a Post Office!
992 倍 double Mr. T keeps his double muzzled ... he wants all the glory.
The A-Team is on a mission to help Hamlet. With uncharacteristic tenderness, Mr. T
consoles the melancholy Hamlet. "No, I really DO pity the poor foo. There, there little
993 優 tenderness guy...take my hanky". (Careful: benevolence (#885).
At a fiesta, Mr. T tries to knock down a large pinata, but in his overly enthusiastic
swings to get "the sucka," he actually FELLS the tree the piñata is hanging from,
994 伐 fell crushing some party goers. “I pity da fools who got crushed by my FELLED tree!”.
995 宿 inn The Toyoko Inn can house 100 people or 1 Mr. T.
If someone doesn't have a fat piggy bank to cover their medical costs and happen to
996 傷 wound get wounded somewhere, they'll be reclining there forever.
Mr. T opens his mouth from the top of the tree saying "I pitty da foo who don´t
997 保 protect protect the trees!".
Mr. T is praised for his protecting of the trees by being given a top hat and scarf which
998 褒 praise he wears over his mohawk and chains, respectively.
My wise person says greatness does not come from wearing shades (sunglasses) but
999 傑 greatness from planting trees to shade everyone.
賀 TO EVERYONE WHO MADE IT TO 千 kanji!! Remember, after this, you´ll be 読ing
japanese novels, the news, and the internet like a native. 吉 to ALL of you in your
1000 付 adhere amazing japanese 往. :).
I dropped my token down the drain, so I used a piece of bamboo with chewing gum on
1001 符 token the end to retrieve it.
A municipality, like any type of government, adheres to having caves for offices (see
1002 府 municipality government office (#591)).
It is always Mr. T´s responsibility to be the porter and carry around everyone´s luggage
1003 任 responsibility because he´s so strong.
It´s your own responsibility to pay the bus fare with the correct number of
1004 賃 fare shells/money.
Mister T substitutes an arrow for a toothpick -- The keyword meaning is to replace
something with something else, to act for another, to represent. It´s best to stick to
the first meaning, because the last two are very close to "mediator" which will come in
frame 1761. The idea here is that the arrow is not a toothpick, neither it is changed
1005 代 substitute into one, but it can substitute for one.
1006 袋 sack A sack is an easy substitute for a garment.
In order for the bank to lend you money, you need to put up some sort of collateral as
1007 貸 lend a substitute for the money.
Referring to a scene in the movie "The Matrix" where a girl bends a spoon with the
power of her mind alone, I imagine Mister T who changes a spoon into something else
(maybe the waiter forgot to bring knives or forks). Note: as a primitive, it can help to
use the image of "spare change", this can help you keep it distinct from other similar
1008 化 change kanji such as "shape" or "turn into".
1009 花 flower The flowers change with the seasons.
Freight is the shells (money) paid to change the location of something big. Don´t
1010 貨 freight confuse with the similar 賃 fare (#1004).
1011 傾 lean Mr. T gave a girl some change to lean over and give him head.
1012 何 what What can Mr T do? Ýou mean: what can´t MR T do, you fool´.
1013 荷 baggage TSA guard: What´s in the baggage?! It´s just flowers, I swear!
The entire town wants to get rid of legal prostitutes, but the sagacious Mr T realizes
1014 俊 sagacious that they are a benefit to the economy and society. So he lets the sa-geishas stay.
In Japan, the emperor is a bystander - he stands on his crown but can´t really affect
1015 傍 bystander the direction of the country. (thx shimouma).
1016 久 long time Note: this is the ひさ in ひさしぶり . Long time no see mummy! (A bound up person).
1017 畝 furrow Using a TOP HAT to make FURROWS in the RICE FIELD takes a LONG TIME!
A person pent in is obviously captured. Imagine a man put inside a wooden box, his
1018 囚 captured evil capturers waiting for ransom money.
1019 内 inside Mr. T´s new belt is huge! When he´s inside it, his feet no longer touch the ground!
In this third class flight, the seatbelts are so bad that with the slightest turbulence all
1020 丙 third class the persons hit the ceiling. (it´s almost pictographic here!).
This is a "design" as in a "pattern", not a verb as in "to design". The tree grain design
was too expensive for the third class airline to use for the panelling. They just painted
1021 柄 design it.
1022 肉 meat Here we are looking at an x-ray of a cannibal whose insides are full on people-meat.
1023 腐 rot The rotting meat adheres to the cave walls.

1024 座 sit CONGRATULATIONS YOU´RE HALFWAY THERE!!!! =).
Ph.D graduation for assembly line of doctors(needles) with the cap and tassel(top hat).
1025 卒 graduate It took them 10 years (Bachelor´s, Masters, PhD) to get there.... :-p.
1026 傘 umbrella FOUR PERSONS can fit under this UMBRELLA if they are thin as a NEEDLE.
Dude! What happened to your arm! It´s all bound up! "Yeah man, it´s a bummer... with
1027 匁 monme my arm like this I can only lift one monme!".
A man earns his living by means of the plow. I imagine a sweating man dragging a
1028 以 by means of bronze-age "ard" behind him as he plows his field himself, too poor to afford an ox.
1029 似 similar Mr. T finds that living by means of dragging a plow is similar to slavery.
1030 併 join Mr. T furiously works a puzzle in an attempt to join Mensa, the high-IQ society.
Horror scene: Hanging from the ceiling, a plough and fishhook dripping with blood
1031 瓦 tile down onto the tiled bathroom floor.
A flower pot that has been dropped on the floor is like a puzzle of ceramic tiles to glue
1032 瓶 flower pot together.
This Shinto shrine is built with human spines. Have you ever seen the ossuary in
Sedlec, near Kutna Hora in Czech Republic ? It is a small church entirely decorated with
1033 宮 Shinto shrine human bones. Do a web search for "sedlec ossuary", it´s quite a sight.
The schoolhouse is the backbone of a foundation that will allow you to find a good
1034 営 occupation occupation.
Imagine a priest´s teaching: "To achieve virtue one must first submit himself as a
1035 善 virtuous sheep to God´s flock, rejecting the horns of Satan and resisting the mouth of Hell.
A horse wears a pair of sunglasses with one lens popped out after a particularly
1036 年 year raucous celebration to ring in the New Year.
Actually, the lower-right primitive isn´t quite "walking legs." It´s a little more like
"evening" with an extra stroke across it (look up the stroke order). So, it helps me to
see this kanji for night as: evening plus an extra stroke representing the tuxedo tails to
1037 夜 night match the top hat which my special person is wearing out on the town...
1038 液 fluid A wet dream........water fluid that comes out at night....

There´s already King of the Hill. This is Queen of the Hillock. It´s Ms. Piggy sitting on
1039 塚 hillock top of a mound of soil in her crown.
A counterfeiter is using a shredder to shred a towel in order to print up some cash (he
1040 幣 cash needs some rag paper) .
The Bush administration taskmasters hid their abuse of power by shredding
documents as fast as they could using both hands....　　　　　RTK2:
1041 弊 abuse 　ヘイ　弊害　へいがい(abuse)...　　　Pure Group:　幣1041.
Think yelp when you hear yell to help dinstinguish this from shout (1508). I think of the
sounds that would come from the mouths of the 4 dogs if they were bound up
1042 喚 yell together. I´m imagining lots of yelping.
After months of practice, you finally managed to teach a nice trick to your sled-pulling
four bound up St. Bernard dogs: one snap of your fingers and they interchange their
1043 換 interchange positions.
I have created the element "old camera" out of the left side of the kanji: from the
subject´s point of view, the light is captured by one mouth (the lens). The
photographer is under a big hood, we only see his legs, and he is holding a spike in his
right hand, which is the shutter release. Now, at the time the photographer takes the
photo, a little insect is flying near the flash. The flash is so powerful that the insect is
1044 融 dissolve burnt and dissolves in the air.
1045 施 alms Under their banner, volunteers are requesting alms for scorpion sting victims.
A merry-go-round with a big banner on top and below a veritable zoo of bakelite
animals on poles in perpertual rotation accompanied by silly music. Giraffes,
1046 旋 rotation elephants, zebras, rhinos...
1047 遊 play The BANNER warns that CHILDREN PLAY on the ROAD.
The boat starts to leave on it´s trip across the Atlantic. Underneath a huge banner that
spans the width of the ship and says "Bon Voyage", the people wave their rags
1048 旅 trip signalling a safe journey for all on board the Titanic.
1049 勿 not This kanji is NOT a piglett.
1050 物 thing The cow´s "thing" is tied in a knot! ouch.
1051 易 easy The sun is not an easy place to get to.
1052 賜 grant A grant is easy money.

Animals use their urine to mark their territory. So for them, their body water works as
a flag denoting their "country" (why bother? we all know which story you are going to
1053 尿 urine pick).
1054 尼 nun Red cross nuns sit in a tent under the red cross flag, spooning out food to the hungry.
TV gets weirder and weirder... Now they´re doing mud wrestling shows with nuns
1055 泥 mud splashing around in the water. What will they think of next?
[fence; wall; (kokuji)] A fence separates one soil from the other. On a large scale, large
pieces of soils in the world have a virtual fence called nation. Picture a world map
where all countries have their soil with one color, their national flag as the legend and
1056 塀 fence a fence on the borders... don´t you think it looks like a giant puzzle?
NOTE: The most common use is in はく, meaning to put on footgear, rather than
actual footgear itself. STORY: You are asleep in camp when you are woken up with
news that the FLAG has fallen to the enemy. You quickly PUT ON YOUR FOOTGEAR and
1057 履 footgear run off to RESTORE the FLAG.
1058 屋 roof Flag at the climax (highest point) of a castle roof.
Fingers gripping the roof as your about to fall to your death. Think of an action scene
1059 握 grip in some movie.
1060 屈 yield When yielding, soldiers raise the white flag before exiting from the trenches.
1061 掘 dig If you dig with your fingers hard enough, soil eventually yields.
(See dig (#1061)). When soil finally yielded thanks to your digging efforts, what you
1062 堀 ditch have is a ditch.
1063 居 reside A humongous American flag in Florida marks the place where all the old people reside.
The man set his finger firmly on the map and said "Here is where they reside, I am
1064 据 set certain of it".
The strata have piled up in an ever increasing pile of dirt. As the geologists go down
1065 層 stratum the rocks, they flag each stratum with the name of the corresponding era.
1066 局 bureau The Federal Bureau of Investigation has email scanners that flag certain phrases.
1067 遅 slow A sheep crossing guard waves a SLOW flag for his fellow sheep crossing the road.
WATER always LEAKED in the spot left by the FLAG planted in the roof everytime it
RAINED. Not too hard to picture a hole left in the ceiling from a flag, now leaking
1068 漏 leak water.
We printed a japanese flag on his white towel by stabbing him with a saber while he
1069 刷 printing was wearing it.
Slang for blowjob and that´s priceless for stories...but also the character looks like the
letter R which I think of as standing for RULER (12 inches) other meanings include:
1070 尺 shaku rule, measure, length.
1071 尽 exhaust A women is so exhausted by her "shakuhachi" that see needs to ice her jaw.
You´re hiding from the enemy underwater in a swamp. To breathe, you have your
1072 沢 swamp shakuhachi flute poking up through the surface of the water.
1073 訳 translate You cannot pretend to translate into words the melody of the shakuhachi!
1074 択 choose Hand job or "shakuhachi", choose.
Roosters in Japan are very civilised, they play the shakuhachi at nightbreak to signify
1075 昼 daytime the beginning of daytime.
Traditional Japanese storefront doors have several flags, known as "noren," hanging
down from a curtain rod in front of them. I see this as a pseudo-pictograph, and use
the horizontal line across the top to represent the curtain rod, since noren don´t
1076 戸 door usually hang from the ceiling.
The shoulder is the best part of the body to bash a door open with (Don´t ever try this.
1077 肩 shoulder Use your foot).
1078 房 tassel Explanation here: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=14684#p14684.
1079 扇 fan It´s insanely hot today! I´m standing in the doorway, fanning myself with feathers.
This hearth is equipped with a fire-proof door. On the kanji you can see somewhat
pictographically the fire-proof door keeping the fire behind, and nothing comes under
1080 炉 hearth the door primitive, where you would have expected to see another primitive.
The St. Bernard dog whining at the door of his master’s house in order to re-enter / re-
1081 戻 return inside.
I see the story of Hachiko: the faithfull dog who still waited for his master to return
1082 涙 tears long after he had died. Brings a tear to the eye.
1083 雇 employ Our company has no standards. We´ll employ any turkey who walks in the door.
I was EMPLOYED to give HEAD...when I look back, maybe that was not a wise career
1084 顧 look back move.
Behind closed DOORS, the TASKMASTER tortures to get prisoners to open their
1085 啓 disclose MOUTHS and DISCLOSE information.
1086 示 show A boy made an altar, but he´s afraid to show it to God because he thinks it´s two little.
Indy, my friend, you must be very careful! If you approach the altar and do not give
1087 礼 salutation the proper salutation a large fishhook will rip you away.
Bringing a sheep to sacrifice on the altar was a sign of an auspicious life. The poor
1088 祥 auspicious could only afford a pigeon, the more auspicious an expensive sheep for an offering.
It´s a Bar Mitzvah. At the altar, the teenager is singing in his awful, mid-puberty voice.
1089 祝 celebrate We´ll all celebrate when that part is over!
This recalls the selling of indulgences in the history of the Church (As an aside,
Protestantism began as a protest of this practice). Basically, one gave wealth to the
altar (i.e. priest) and received a blessing. If you prefer a Jewish version, think of the
donation (wealth) that is expected when you´re called to the ark (altar in the kanji) to
1090 福 blessing give a blessing over the torah.
1091 祉 welfare And in front of every altar, she stopped to pray for the welfare of the others.
When you enter a Japanese company it´s like you join a cult... your workdesk becomes
1092 社 company your altar and you worship the very soil the office is built on.
The beaurocracy in Japan is such that even altars need to be inspection approved. A
little man with glasses comes once a year to give the altar a "visual once over" as he
1093 視 inspection calls it (perhaps checking for unauthorised symbology?).
It´s beautiful place, but the dark side of Nara is that they sacrifice St. Bernards on evil
1094 奈 Nara altars every night after the tourists leave!
Of course it had to be the military officer´s idea to glue a national flag to the altar he´s
1095 尉 military officer stationed at.
1096 慰 consolation A military officer must offer consolation to the hearts of the families of his fallen men.
Samuari, altar, yawn The samurai is on the altar, preaching about goodwill. The
1097 款 goodwill audience just yawns however, they want to see the man fight!
Similar to radical tyro´s story. If you live in Japan, your main exposure to this kanji is
probably "no smoking" signs. So I imagine the government enacting a prohibition of
tobacco, and burning whole groves of tobacco plants on an altar (the altar of public
1098 禁 prohibition health, or self-righteousness, if you will).
1099 襟 collar A collar is the part of your cloak that, if tightened too tight, will prohibit breathing.
I never really did figure out what religion my host family was - all I knew was that they
1100 宗 religion kept an altar in their home.
In ancient Greece, it was the religion of the time to adore the gods who live on Mount
1101 崇 adore Olympus.
A ritual such as a circumcision: a small piece of flesh from the crotch is left on the
1102 祭 ritual altar.
1103 察 guess I have an informed guess about whose house the dark rituals are performet at.
If you mis-guess the cheese you´ll grate your fingers on the cheese-grater (happens to
1104 擦 grate me all the time).
Wherefore art thou, Sprouteo? (Juliet has fallen in love with a brussel sprout) (OR: A
1105 由 wherefore brussel sprout has fallen from Juliet´s dinner plate and rolled off).
[When I see the word pluck, I think eyebrows, not vegetables. So, to avoid confusing
with pick (#733):] Each time this singular, long, wiry black hair starts to sprout out of
1106 抽 pluck my chin again, I pluck it with my fingers.
1107 油 oil The liquid oil that sprouts from an oil field.
Imagine some magic cloak, that when worn, has little green sprouts appearing on the
1108 袖 sleeve sides that grow into sleeves.
Jack´s beanstalk sprouted up, pushed at the roof and lifted the house so that it hangs
1109 宙 mid-air in mid-air suspended on the SPROUT.
In the US, when the mail is delivered, a flag sprouts up on your mailbox. (We don´t
1110 届 deliver have that in Australia.).
1111 笛 flute Flute is made of bamboo sprout.
The Germans manufactured so many cars during World War II that it was almost as if
1112 軸 axis they were sprouting from the factories of the Axis.
Funny.. this appeared to me as a pictograph of a samurai´s armor. Then I looked up

images of the samurai armor and it is not even remotely similar. Then I realised it looks
in fact like the belly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I somehow associated
with the samurai armor because of the "turtle samurai" that appeared earlier. Fits me.
1113 甲 armor The bit that pokes down is to protect the genitals, I guess.
1114 押 push Push the roots down, instead of plucking the seedling.
A headland is a mountain that is firmly rooted despite being surrounded on 3 sides by

1115 岬 headland water. (Just like your head is a mountain surrounded by air on 3 sides, a headland!).
1116 挿 insert A rice farmer´s delicate fingers have inserted 1,000 rooted seedlings into his field.
I imagine thomeone who can not pronounth the "s" and speaketh like thith becauth
1117 申 speaketh they have a cane in their mouth.
1118 伸 expand Here we see Mr. T. expanding his gang with some trained fighter monkeys.
The Gods are gathered around debating Zeus´ latest purchase for Mount Olympus. A
huge and extremely kitsch gilded altar in the shape of giant "speak no evil" monkey.
1119 神 gods Hera decides she will never let him go shopping alone again .
1120 捜 search The monkey searches around with his fingers for his crotch.
1121 果 fruit If only Eve had used her brains and not taken the forbidden fruit from the tree.
This candy is made in the shape of a flower, each petal with the taste of a different
1122 菓 confectionary fruit.
After I finish each chapter of RTK, I eat a piece of fruit to celebrate all the new words
1123 課 chapter I´ve learned. (Thanks Misha!).
Here we have Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden fruit and realizing they were
1124 裸 naked naked, and so clothing themselves in a cloak.
1125 斤 ax Errata: stroke order in 4th edition is wrong. Top stroke is first.
1126 析 chop We chop down trees with axes to analyze their rings.
You outsiders better learn your place! An axe stuck in the door when you get home is a
1127 所 place pretty good indicator that this might not be the best place for you.
Religious freedom has not always been respected throughout history, and nobody
knew how to force religion on an indigenous people like the Spanish missionaries.
They posted conquistadors at either side of the altars at the local missions, and if
1128 祈 pray anybody refused to pray, they would get the axe.
1129 近 near The end is near. The axe-murderer is waiting for you on the road...
It´s the latest Japanese game show: Forudo! Contestants are given a sheet of paper
and are told to fold it into a complex origami shape. If they´re not done in 60 seconds,
a huge axe descends from the ceiling and chops their work in half. Contestants know
to recoil their hands from the falling axe, but some have been so absorbed in folding,
1130 折 fold they ignore the buzzer and get their fingers chopped off.
A two-hour lesson of philosophy in high school. All the students, bored to death, are
folding sheets of paper into planes, love notes or whatever, while the mouth of the
1131 哲 philosophy teacher is talking about Platon, Kierkegaard and many other notorious philosophers.
One of the dearest of Japan´s dearly departed is Sasaki Sadako, who developed
Leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima, and became famous for folding more than a
thousand paper cranes, never giving up hope. To this day, people in Hiroshima still fold
origami cranes in her memory. For this character, let us imagine a parade in her honor,
1132 逝 departed the entire road lined with folded cranes.
This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of
paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment.
To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- "the
folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an
1133 誓 vow origami for the primitive "fold".
Your car has been savagely (see steadily) attacked by an ax. It will be some days before
1134 暫 temporarily your car is fixed. So you are temporarily without car.
I imagine firemen working steadily to rescue a man from a crashed car. First, they
1135 漸 steadily spray it with water; then, they use an axe to break through the window.
[Based on fuaburisu´s] A man puts some rice on a fishhook as bait, but catches a fish
so strong, he needs to take out his axe and sever the line lest he be dragged into the
1136 断 severance depths.
What is this substance on this clam? I´ve already broken 2 axes on it! (Good
1137 質 substance question...質問).
The kids at school used to reject me.. Made me feel really bad till I brought my axe to
1138 斥 reject school. See the drop of blood on it?
1139 訴 accusation I strongly reject the accusation implicit in your words.

One can use a simple word play to remember this character - the day that I saw before
1140 昨 yesterday today was yesterday.
Pinnochio gets frustrated that every time he utters a word of a lie, his nose grows and
1141 詐 lie he has to get the saw out again.
Mr T.´s favorite magazine is Make. He loves to make things. But he´s a purist: he only
1142 作 make uses saws, no power tools.
SNOW isn´t all that different from RAIN, except it can be removed with a BROOM
1143 雪 snow because it only forms in freezing temperatures.
A monk won a gold metal for breaking the current record for most swept rice in one
1144 録 record minute.
The policed inquired into the erotica scandal. They tried to sweep away the evidence,
but some of it stuck. (Note: katakana エロ ero in the middle of this kanji is the
1145 尋 inquire Japanese word for erotica.).
She was always bound to a broom, her heart pounding in a hurry to finish before she
1146 急 hurry was punished for being slow.
The farmer is calm knowing that his wheat fields are protected from vultures by his
1147 穏 calm strawman with a heart (all the better to do the job properly).
The parson ENCROACHES on the French maid; driven wild by her little broom, dainty
1148 侵 encroach tiara and sinfully short skirt showing her knickers (crotch)!
The French maid draws a bath for her amorous master, but slips and falls in - getting
1149 浸 immersed immersed. (thanks to Nukemarine for the French maid image!).
After work, the French maid goes home and lies down with a turtle. Turtle? Well, he´s
1150 寝 lie down sloooow and always hard... (thanks to Nukemarine and Wakela!).
1151 婦 lady In high society, a lady is a woman who never touches a broom or an apron.
Whether I SWEEP something away with my FINGERS or my BROOM, I should always
1152 掃 sweep wear my APRON.
1153 当 hit Some mothers use a small broom to hit their children when they misbehave.
This can be seen as a Retarius, a roman gladiator. The Retiarius always fought with a
net to bound up his opponents, and with a trident, which was able to pierce enemies
after tying them. They were terrific contenders, so they were only paired with
1154 争 contend gladiators specially equipped to fight them.
Bottled water marketers contend to make their version of tap water sound the
1155 浄 clean cleanest.
I had to take one day off from work due to ´personal matters´ after stepping on a rake
and having the handle snap up and smack me across the mouth. I certainly wasn´t
1156 事 matter going to tell anyone about it.
Two archeologists are in a cave looking at Chinese artifacts from various eras. One
picks up a rake and says, "What about this – Táng, do you think?" The second puts the
1157 唐 T'ang rake in his mouth and answers, "Yes, it does tang a bit".
1158 糖 sugar Sugar made from rice has a tangy flavour.
A psychiatric hospital is located in a CAVE. To determine, which patients are sane and
can be released, they are given a SIEVE and asked to empty a bathtub (the sane ones
1159 康 sane take out the plug and get the water out with ease).
Think police roadblocks. They act like road sieves, letting good people through but
1160 逮 apprehend apprehending criminals.
1161 伊 Italy The "boot" of Italy has gotten Europe all muddy. Who else could mop it up but Mr T?
There´s a tendancy in Japan to make the younger members (kouhai) clean up after the
older members (senpai) of a group, which results in a lot of grumbling and whining.
"Well old boy," a senpai might say, "If you did as much work with the mop as you do
1162 君 old boy with your mouth, you would have been done an hour ago".
1163 群 flock Good ol´ boys are like sheep; they tend to flock together.
[akrodha] My comb is rust-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof. But unfortunately it is
1164 耐 #NAME? not idiot-proof--and I glued it to myself.
Supply and demand is a simple concept: when it rains, the demand for combs goes up
1165 需 demand to deal with wet hair.
1166 儒 Confucian No more Confucian jibba-jabba! I demand you tell me why it´s raining combs!".
Have you ever seen those shots in movies where the hero is standing at the edge of a
sheer mountain face, hair blowing in the wind? It probably wouldn´t seem so heroic if
you saw him ten minutes earlier, when a crew of stylists was carefully combing his hair
1167 端 edge so it would fall perfectly.
Primatives celing; belt; mountain as per Cumulative Errata. See volfy post for link. Both
effective ways to commit suicide, hang your self from the celing with your belt or jump
1168 両 both off a mountain.
1169 満 full Add water THEN the flowers. With both the vase will be full.
You decide one day to paint a kanji on your ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a
brush, so, being innovative, you use a sprout. Knowing it could be messy, you search
for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a shovel down on the floor to
1170 画 brush-stroke catch any drips resulting from the BRUSH-STROKEs.
1171 歯 tooth Stop shoveling rice into your mouth, you´ll hurt a tooth! Use chopsticks instead.
It looks like the mouth of Bender the robot, from Matt Groening´s animated series
1172 曲 bend "Futurama". Thus, I use the character Bender the robot as a primitive.
1173 曹 cadet A space cadet eager to make one bend around the sun. (a dangerous maneuver).
1174 遭 encounter Close encounters of the third kind. The space cadet encounters aliens on the road.
Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) is rowing, during some army exercise, and he´s
1175 漕 rowing very afraid of water (Bender is a robot).
Also as part of some army survival exercise, the cadets (including Bender see frame
1176 槽 vat 1172) are sent into the woods to build a vat (for collecting water for example).
Since the meaning of "big dipper" is rather specific and the sense of measurement
seems to be a more common usage, I concentrate on the primative meaning of
measuring cup. This is a pictograph, with the first two strokes representing the
1177 斗 Big Dipper measuring ticks on the side of the cup.
When buying rice, the fee is calculated by the cup. Naturally we don´t just use any cup;
1178 料 fee it has to be a proper measuring cup.
The national DEPARTMENT of WHEATS and MEASURES. Get it? This one was hard until
1179 科 department I came up with this.
Can´t see direct relation to Big Dipper (#1177) since its writing order is completely
different. As raulir noted, it´s written as overlapping at the last stroke of ツ and the
first of メ. I take it as a pictograph or treasure map. Two dots represent big trees and
1180 図 map the cross (marking the treasure) is placed relative to them.
1181 用 utilize To tenderize meat in an emergency wilderness situation, just utilize your walking stick!
To live a comfortable life, single men need only a cave for living, a rake for cleaning
1182 庸 comfortable and a screwdriver for fixing.
Mr. T wants to climb up and pick the flowers at the top of the cliff. He equips himself
with screwdrivers to use as climbing spikes to reach the top of the cliff. Imagine a large
1183 備 equip AMMO belt full of philips screwdrivers instead of bullets.
1184 昔 once upon a time Once upon a time, the children were forced to eat their salad every day.
A long time ago, people of the world got confused because there were so many kinds
1185 錯 confused of Metal coins. today we only have the euro.
Once upon a time I let Mr T borrow my salad bowl, but he won´t give it back. "This be
1186 借 borrow mine now, foo!".
What a pity! My state of mind when i think of the opportunities I missed from once
1187 惜 pity upon a time.
Long ago our ancestors set aside the use of fingers and began to use cutlery.
(Raichu,11-7-2006) The way I remember it´s 昔 once upon a time (#1184) rather than
旧 olden times (#35) is that they began to use cutlery to eat salad. (I also think about
how when you visit the Medieval Times theme park, which is set in Once upon a time,
1188 措 set aside their gimmick is that you eat with your fingers.).
The taskmaster is dissatisfied with the meal she´s served, and scatters the salad &
1189 散 scatter meat across the floor for the servants to clean up.
1190 廿 twenty A generation is 30, one stroke less is twenty.

Commoners have to huddle in caverns around a campfire, while higher class people
1191 庶 commoner get heating and central air conditioning in a hotel.
The commoners are revolting! We must intercept them on the road before they reach
1192 遮 intercept the castle!
Remember those poor commoners huddled in groups of 20 in a cave? The only thing
they had for a seat was some old toweling (while their lords could recline on luxurious
1193 席 seat couches).
The cavern refugees are so poor that they can´t afford thermometers. So, the menfolk
expose their crotches inside the cavern, and approximate the temperature in degrees
1194 度 degrees from how shrivelled everything looks downstairs...
This particular form of transit is a ferry (one of the actual meanings of this character).
Naturally it can only cross the water if it´s not frozen, so the temperature must be
1195 渡 transit above 0 degrees.
Hustle and bustle = a big St. Bernard dog frisking about in a haystack, knocking it down
1196 奔 bustle and spreading the hay about, after the field hands just stacked it up.
History of Pompei: An unexpect eruption and from the mouths of the volcano come
lava that threatens the farmers collecting haystacks in the fields and the fisherman
1197 噴 erupt catching shells on the coast.
After the eruption all is a tomb. The soil has covered the remains of the farmers
1198 墳 tomb gathering haystacks and of the fisherman collecting shells.
Note: this word in Japanese has the idea of "indignant". So aroused here refers to
being aroused because of anger over some unjust or wrong act, unfairness etc. It
doesn´t seem to carry a meaning associated with arousal in the sense of sex or
pleasure. So, my story: think of the angry state of mind aroused at finding all your
1199 憤 aroused clams buried under your haystack stolen, gone!
Ah, there´s no better way to bake a pizza than an oven fueled by a burning strawman.
And if you listen carefully, there are stifled strawman screams coming from the
kitchen. Think of this image: http://users.mtrx.net/funnypics/content/-rdm1-
1200 焼 bake ABCD1234-rdm1-/2005/2005-08-23-0002/Doughboy.jpg.
The sun rising beside a straw man in a corn field is a classic cartoon depiction of
1201 暁 daybreak daybreak.
Imagine karate chopping the number three in half with a WALKING STICK and pausing
1202 半 half the picture just as the first "board" breaks.
1203 伴 consort The person who is your consort is most commonly "your other half".
1204 畔 paddy ridge A PADDY-RIDGE divides the RICE FIELD in HALF.

In the bible, King Solomon´s JUDGMENT was admired not by saying to cut the baby in
1205 判 judgment HALF with the SWORD, but that it revealed who the true mother was.
Entering the movie, the dude asks for your ticket, so he can tear it in half. He looks at
you funny when you hand him a ticket already torn in half. He quietly tears the stub
1206 券 ticket into quarters after you show him your dagger with a smile.
At a mysterious bazaar, you happen to come across something interesting: a rolled-up

scroll for only 25¢. You buy it up impulsively until you realize that the powerful spell
contained within is cursed by a poisonous snake. If you try to cast this spell, the snake
1207 巻 scroll will pop out of nowhere and bite you! Hrmph. No wonder it was so cheap...
I assosiate scrolls with spell casting, the efect of this spell is pent in a certain sphere of
1208 圏 sphere influence, outside it no damage is done.
1209 勝 victory After your VICTORY cut your enemy´s FLESH into QUARTERs to show your POWER.
According to legend, the great Ogaki wisteria tree grew and flowered from magical
1210 藤 wisteria rice grains that were planted under the quarter moon.
Sending a facsimile to the moon can be problematic only a quarter of the words
1211 謄 facsimilie actually get there.
Fuaburisu´s pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife is a
1212 片 one-sided one-sided version of the story. Others say he was giving her the finger.
Before the advent of printers in Japan, typewriters couldn´t be built as they were in
the west due to how many kanji there are. Lots of small printing blocks had to be used
instead. One side of the printing block would have a mirrored (anti) image of the kanji.
1213 版 printing block This is true.
1214 之 of Of all the kanji, this is the only one 之orro can write.
Children in complete destitution have no hope of ever getting toys to play with, so
1215 乏 destitution when they find even a tiny drop of a building block they are overjoyed.
Artificial turf made easy: flowers stuck on top of building blocks that you can place
1216 芝 turf anywhere.
[Smithsonian] Scene: Mr. T hanging from the ceiling being tortured. He is asked if he is
1217 不 negative going to talk. Spitting (a drop of saliva) in the torturer´s face, he says "Negative".
To distinguish between 否 negate, and 不 negative (#1217): Note that negate contains
1218 否 negate 口, which is a kind of gate.
The maple tree is very negative about it, but the farmer still collects cupfuls of maple
1219 杯 cupfuls syrup from it.
1220 矢 dart Zeus ran out of lightning bolts and has to drop darts from the heavens.
Angels have now been given a powerful tool to rectify human behavior instantly,
without delay - they have been allowed to drop darts on those who misbehave... spare
1221 矯 rectify the dart and spoil the man...
With a banner declaring "Keep Out!" and blow darts to back it up, the Amazon tribe is
1222 族 tribe not that friendly.
1223 知 know I should know. After all, I did graduate from Dartmouth!
1224 智 wisdom Wisdom is knowing everything OVER the sun (fools assume everything UNDER).
1225 矛 halberd マオ Zedong always carried a halberd.
[tender; weakness; gentleness; softness] Love me tender, Love me perfect, Never

1226 柔 tender cheat on me. Or I´ll impale you on my Halberd, And hang ya atop a tree...
It is with the halberd he holds that the taskmaster exerts his power over those actually
1227 務 task performing the task.
1228 霧 fog This fog is the perfect weather for us to perform our task undetected.
Am I the only one who took this as penis and balls? In order to be in the man-squad,
1229 班 squad naturally you need to have two balls with your "spear" in the middle there.
A female warrior returns home from battle. Her husband takes away her spear to
symbolize the end of fighting and gives her a broom and an apron. “Boy, this is some
1230 帰 homecoming kind of HOMECOMING,” thinks the veteran. (Adapted from johnskb).
My personification for this primative is Legolas from the Lord of the Rings: a master at
1231 弓 bow the bow. I suppose robin hood etc would work too.
1232 引 pull Put a walking stick in the bow and pull it back, ready to fire at the geezer.
Perhaps a pictograph of a soldier´s weapons--his sword and bow-placed ceremonially

1233 弔 condolences over his body before burial, while people offer their condolences.
1234 弘 vast If you pull the bow back with your elbow, you can shoot a vast distance.
1235 強 strong An insect who can fly vast distances is strong.
Two weak archers agree on a duel to the death. They constantly shoot at each other
but never manage to hit their target. But what they lack in skill they make up in
determination, and they keep shooting for hours, and days, and months, until it´s
1236 弱 weak wintertime and their bows are coated in ice.
Re CharleyGarrett: This liquid looks like ordinary water, but it will instantly seethe
when it comes in contact with counterfeit dollar bills. The inventor must be rich (and
1237 沸 seethe probably has dollar signs in his eyes).
1238 費 expense An expense is an expense, whether you put it in dollars or in local money.
The No. 1 currency in the world is the dollar. But, the Asian nations are fast catching
up and may in reality have already surpassed it. So, let the bamboo represent the No.
2 currencies (the yen, etc.). The reverse order (bamboo on top and the dollar on the
1239 第 No. bottom) is really a look at the future.
Younger brothers are always more prone to mischief. Mine, you can almost see the
little horns on him and the dollar signs on his eyes when he comes up with a money-
1240 弟 younger brother making scheme.
Adroit: dextrous, deft, skillful. Snare is a little generic so I´ll use BEAR TRAP, with huge
teeth cartoon style that snares you around the ankle. In the crafting of a bear trap, one
must be particularly adroit. Otherwise they will become the victim of their down
1241 巧 adroit device.
1242 号 nickname My nickname is "No Lips". Yep, I shouldn´t have put my mouth on that bear trap...
This snare isn´t terribly effective, because it´s swinging from a decaying tree. Imagine
the tree as being so decayed that when an animal gets caught in the snare, its
1243 朽 decay struggles cause the tree to collapse into a putrid mess.
The hunter´s boast: I say, it was a "big one", but the snare broke and it got away.
1244 誇 boast (credit to many others before).
1245 汚 dirty A hunter Washes, with WATER, his TWO SNAREs, because they are dirty.
David went to battle with a slingshot and it only took him one shot to slay Goliath.
Partly because of this, the prophet Nathan was later instructed to bestow upon David
1246 与 bestow the throne of all Israel.
1247 写 copy A crown was bestowed to the British royalty museum, but it was only a copy.
Somebody was just looking for you. He had a longnose that reaches down below his
mouth, and a long jaw that sticks out past his nose, and a scar across his face.
(greenapple,16-3-2006) The way to remember that this is somebody rather than
1248 身 somebody someone (#1256) is that the story is full of body descriptions.
1249 射 shoot You SHOOT SOMEBODY with a GLUE-gun.

1250 謝 apologize Dick Cheney...
An old man, wondering what it´s like in a grave, sits in a freshly dug plot. When a
gravekeeper mistakes him for dead and begins burying him with soil, the old man
1251 老 old man saves himself by flailing his walking stick in the air.
Before shooting an old man with a slingshot, one shold carefully consider the possible
1252 考 consider consequences.
This child has taken filial piety to the next level. He is actually carrying the old man on
1253 孝 filial piety his shoulders.
In early Japan, filial piety was the cornerstone of education, and harsh taskmasters
1254 教 teach were employed to teach it.
In Torture 101 class they teach you to Consider the Fingers as the first part to inflict
1255 拷 torture pain to. Then you can move on to other parts (like feet, groin, head, etc. etc. ; ) ).
I find the best way of memorizing this kanji is in conjunction with the Japanese
compound for ninja: 忍者 -- i.e. someone who endures (see FRAME 597 for the kanji
1256 者 someone 忍). A 忍者 is not just a 身 (somebody), it´s 者 who can 忍 great 拷!
I had a hard time with the next several frame numbers trying to use "puppet." So i
thought of "voodoo doll" but then found "love doll" (which is just a special type of
puppet) fit well with these 8 frames. Observe: Here I am boiling my love doll over the
1257 煮 boil flames to warm her up a bit...
Here I am, putting a wreath of flowers on my love doll´s head and pretending she is
1258 著 renowned someone of great renowned.
Before giving your SIGNATURE to accept the LOVEDOLL, you should EYE over the
1259 署 signature LOVEDOLL for any damages, then give your SIGNATURE.
1260 暑 sultry Ahh, a fine sultry day with my love doll under the hot sun. I think she´s getting a tan!
Because i get tired of saying the same old thing, I have lately been trying to use various
1261 諸 various terms of endearment to my love doll. I think she appreciates it too.
My love doll is made of special pheremone impregnated vinyl. Unfortunately, a pack of

1262 猪 boar wild dogs mistook her for a wild boar and tore her to pieces. Oh dear!
I was stranded on a desert island surrounded by water for hundreds of miles on end. I
wasn´t upset though - I had my love doll! What a great strand of sand to be stranded
1263 渚 strand on - just me and my love doll!
1264 賭 gamble When we gamble at the shell game, I always win against my love doll.
A gorge is where God has cut into a mountain with a pair of scissors. (synewave,6-10-
1265 峡 gorge 2006) http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/197361.html.
A pack of wild dogs, waiting in a very cramped waiting room, to get their hair cut by
1266 狭 cramped Edward Scissors Hands, who is very popular.
挟まる【はさまる】 (v5r,vi) to get between; to be caught in; (P) Story: You know
how in tokyo there are those really packed trains where train staff in gloves shove
people in? Well imagine being sandwiched in so tight, that when the doors close, only
your FINGERS are sticking out. The train staff have no choice... they must cut them off
1267 挟 sandwiched with SCISSORS =( snip snip..
1268 追 chase Maestro, coattails flapping wildly, is being chased down the road by his fans.
A maestro in a large auditorium with high ceilings is conducting his orchestra of expert
musicians at a fever-pitch, sweat pouring out of him. When the piece is over he
1269 師 expert reaches for his towel to wipe his brow.
1270 帥 commander The COMMANDER is a military MAESTRO who never throws in the TOWEL.
No one likes classical music anymore. Our Maestro is here at home without his baton
1271 官 bureaucrat sighing sadly before he heads off for another day as his new job as a bureaucrat.
The maestro at home was sick of being a bureaucrat, so he got some wood and built
1272 棺 coffin himself a coffin and got in.
Japanese bureaucrats send all their messages through an inter-office bamboo pipe
1273 管 pipe system.
Luke, I am your father. Darth Vader (really surprised nobody put this one up before: 2
1274 父 father laserswords).
Even though your FATHER is an old man, he can´t give up his party lifestyle. Once a
week he still dons his cool TOP HAT (well, it was cool 40 years ago) and goes out on
the town to MINGLE with the ladies. This is a pretty common thing in Japan, where old
1275 交 mingle motherfuckers still think they can pick up 19 year old girls.
1276 効 merit Mingling with the powerful can bring you success, bypassing the need for any merit.
The people I had invited to the party were mingling quite well with one another, until
they all suddenly started talking about the cars they own. Pretty soon the crowd
divided itself into distinct, contrasting crowds: rich snobs with fancy cars, soccer moms
1277 較 contrast with minivans, and hippies with bicycles.
With the exam scores posted on a TREE, the students MINGLED around looking at the
1278 校 exam results. test. 試.
Captain Ahab lost his leg to the great white whale´s mouth and had to mend it with a
1279 足 leg peg leg.
Mr T, ever the optimist, is trying to stimulate Capt Ahab´s wooden leg by rubbing it
down. Capt Ahab normally wouldn´t let anyone do that, but he appreciates Mr T´s
1280 促 stimulate stimulating conversation.
1281 距 long-distance You can step a long-distance if you have a leg that´s gigantic!
When pirates try to hide, it´s always easy to find them. Their wooden legs leave
1282 路 path distinctive prints, showing where each is hiding and the exact path he took.
1283 露 dew After the rain the path was covered with dew.
A girl with a wooden leg always wanted to play hopscotch with the other girls, but
every time she tried to hop she´d lose her balance and injure another girl. That´s why
1284 跳 hop the other girls make fun of her and see her presence as a portent to injury.
Well, there are weekdays weekday (#576) and there are laundry days laundry (#577),
and on February 29th leap day, the manufacturer recommends servicing or replacing
1285 躍 leap your peg leg because they tend to wear out every 4 years.
The pirate with the wooden leg chased after the parade float and was run over by the
1286 践 tread next one, leaving tread marks all over him and his leg.
1287 踏 step You have to watch your step when moving your leg on a watery day.
1288 骨 skeleton Your body meat is attached to the bone joints of your skeleton.
Don´t give water to a skeleton. When he drinks it, it´ll sluice right through his bones,
forcing you to put one of those "Caution - Slippery Floor" signs up on the resultant
1289 滑 slippery puddle.
A skeleton is shuffling along the shoulder of the road, so you pull up next to him and
ask where he is going. He says he´s going to donate his marrow to the hospital
because he got into some financial trouble and lost everything; his marrow is the only
1290 髄 marrow thing he still possesses.
Continued from auspicious (#1088). Once a year, the people pray for a sign from the
gods. But if the gods are feeling particularly mischievous, they´ll send down a jawbone
to the altar. The people see this as a sign of calamity to come. The gods think of it as
1291 禍 calamity an amusing prank.
Grampa´s flushing the toilet, when his denture (Jawbone) pops out and gets sucked
1292 渦 whirlpool down the whirlpool!
1293 過 overdo Jaws XII~! Jaws strikes the highway! Man, they´re really overdoing it now.
If you´re scared of Heights, you don´t want to stay at The Pinnacle; you are anti- The
Pinnacle. Primitive: The Pinnacle is a dream-like gated community at the top of a
mount. This allows for innumerable stories for all the kanji with this primitive since you
1294 阪 Heights have a whole city to work with. Also prevents confusion with "mountain".
1295 阿 Africa Can you see Africa from The Pinnacle? I can! I can!
Many rituals are practiced every day (blessing before meals, evening prayer, etc.) Only
1296 際 occasion the peak rituals (wedding, Bar Mitzvah, etc.) qualify to be called an occasion.
The officer at the gate to The Pinnacle with a giant badge sewn to his chest hinders all
visitors. But not the handicapped. They´re hindered enough already. They´re given a
1297 障 hinder badge and can pass right into The Pinnacle.
[Image: Follow the Ýellow-Brick Road´ to success] The pinnacle signifies your personal
goal and destination. What you´re seeking to possess lies at the end of the yellow-
1298 随 follow brick road. You must follow the road to get what you want.
In case of emergency, The Pinnacle has auxiliary guard dogs, but they keep them
1299 陪 auxiliary muzzeled until they´re needed.
A kid is perched on a pinnacle with his piggy bank. He uses the coins to catch the
1300 陽 sunshine sunshine, and redirect it into people´s eyes, far below.
Every morning at The Pinnacle, the residents line upon the East side for morning
1301 陳 line up stretches and leisure.
A giant compass is The Pinnacle´s self-defense system. It points in the direction of any
1302 防 ward off invaders so the city is prepared well ahead to ward off the intruders.
A sign was AFFIXED on the PINNACLE of the Acropolis so that tourists would ADHERE
1303 附 affixed to the rules.
The Institution of The Pinnacle is perfect in every way. It is the new House of God, his
1304 院 Inst. chosen city.
Paparazzi make camp outside of The Pinnacle in their cars, waiting for the celebs to
1305 陣 camp come out.
1306 隊 regiment Every regiment of The Pinnacle´s army is lead by a Miss Piggy with a viking helmet on.
One of the members of our air force regiment has been shot down; he managed to
1307 墜 crash safely eject, but his plane crashed into the ground.
Sunglasses-missing-one-lens is obviously the monocle. The proper, high-class way to
descend The Pinnacle is wearing a monocle with your walking legs splayed to a full
1308 降 descend gentlemanly stride.
All buildings of The Pinnacle are multi-storey. They don´t have much room, so they
have to build up. It sucks when someone presses all the buttons on the elevator! You
1309 階 story have to stop at each storey!
Your highness is the pinnacle of finesse compared to all of us commoners who are but
1310 陛 highness like dirt on the ground.
America thinks it is the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all neighboring
1311 隣 neighboring countries through its mirrored, aviator sunglasses.
The Pinnacle, to me, is a city that makes itself out to be perfect but is filled with dirty
secrets that photographers are always trying to reveal (see dissolve (#1044) The city´s
councilmen have isolated all professional photographers to make sure they don´t
1312 隔 isolate photograph these "dirty secrets". (which are up to your imagination).
The wheat farmer´s heart is calm (#1147) about the eagle not stealing his crops
because of the broom scarecrow. But he still conceals all his wheat at The Pinnacle in
1313 隠 conceal case anyone else trys to steal it.
1314 堕 degenerate Any attempt to possess the pinnacle will degenerate into a land ("ground") war.
The Pinnacle is actually bound up by supports from olden times. Eventually, they give
1315 陥 collapse out, and the whole thing starts to collapse.
A black hole is a "House of Infinity". Infinity is of course represented by a sideways "8",
1316 穴 hole but here we have a Japanese "8" instead.
1317 空 empty The craft of creating a black hole is in creating an emptiness which can attract things.
With my fingers, I punch in my bank code and withdraw some money from my
1318 控 withdraw account. And now it´s empty again, as usual!
1319 突 stab When you stab something you often leave a big hole.
Most research scientists have 9 holes.....two nostrils, two ears, a mouth, and four
1320 究 research eyes...... :-).
1321 窒 plug up Sticking a plug up your hole will lead to stronger climaxes.
1322 窃 stealth This more commonly means "steal", like how a thief cuts a hole to steal the jewels.
A depression is a hole in the ground. Water naturally collects there which provides
1323 窪 depression moisture for vines to grow.
1324 搾 squeeze You have trouble squeezing your hand through the hole so you use a saw to enlarge it.
Be sure to put a hole in that ceramic sheep before you put it over the fire. Otherwise,
it´ll just explode in the kiln. (If you´ve never done ceramics before, it´s important that
1325 窯 kiln the object have a hole in it, or this really will happen.).
1326 窮 hard up Hard up = nothing but your body, living in a hole, with just a bow to hunt for your food.
A pictograph of a japanese schoolgirl getting groped by perverts on the train. The
fingers of course, a crown (her too short skirt) and her legs below (which to be honest
1327 探 grope are pretty thick like tree trunks).
If the groper´s "tree" goes up the girl´s miniskirt too deep, he´ll ejaculate fluid. (Sorry
1328 深 deep it´s kinda coarse but it works.).
Excalibur is the sword planted in a rock. Lesser known AXCAHILLBUR is the axe planted
1329 丘 hill on top of a hill.
1330 岳 Point A point is a extra little hill at the top of a mountain. We´ll call it ´Fireman´s Point´.
Listen up soldiers! We´re going to take that hill. You are no longer men with human
legs. You are voracious animals, with animal legs! Got it? Animal legs! Now take that
1331 兵 soldier hill!
Seacoast -> Coast Guard -> "water soldiers" lined up on the seacoast defending our
1332 浜 seacoast shores.
I also went with Spiderman. However, in the cases where this primitive appears under
other primitives, as opposed to on the left (I think there are ~5 times in this chapter)
I´ve opted to use a similar character: Venom. This helps keep the positioning clear,
1333 糸 thread especially on such characters as dainty (#1363) and accumulate (#1364).
Spiderman weaves his way through the skyline while listening to his theme song on his
1334 織 weave ipod. It is played, of course, by kazoos.
After a day being virtuouos and keeping the city safe, Spiderman´s outfit is in need of
1335 繕 darning some repair. Luckily, as he can shoot out threads darning is very easy for him to do.
After spending the night at an inn, spider man discovered to his dismay that his
1336 縮 shrink costume had shrunk in the wash, and no longer fit!
Important: Luxuriant does NOT mean luxurious, as the other stories indicate.
Definition: abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation. When Venom realized he
couldn´t beat Spider-Man in a fair fight, he showed his cleverness by spraying venom
1337 繁 luxuriant all over Spider-Man´s luxuriant garden.
When Spider-man does his amazing vertical wall climbing, a throng of photographers
1338 縦 vertical accompanies him to get a good shot of the action.
This kanji is used for train lines. Spiderman does a hot spring tour of Japan using the
train lines. You can see the Spidey costume hanging on the washing line as he enjoys
1339 線 line the onsen.
The sovereign appears to be ruling, but in reality someone behind him (for instance his
wife) has a thread around his throat, and if he dares to make a decision she doesn´t
1340 締 tighten like, she starts pulling the thread and tightens it around his throat.
Hey, Spidey! Eat that turkey if you want, but make sure you eat some fibers: you want
1341 維 fiber spidey threads, don´t ya?
Lots of girls in Japan wear gauze patches over one eye made of course white fibers.
1342 羅 gauze They think it is cute, and I must admit, I have come to think so too.
You practice your Japanese skills in a discussion thread with lots of people from the
1343 練 practice Far East (since many of the people who are interested in studying Japanese are Asian).
Spiderman has a secret fetish, he likes nothing better than to dress his lovedoll in a
1344 緒 thong thong. Wierd, eh!
If you attach strings to the things you sell, you will be able to continue making profit
1345 続 continue from them even after the fact.
1346 絵 picture There´s never a picture of Spiderman meeting Peter Parker... I wonder why?
Spidey is alloted the biggest crime fighter jurisdiction in NYC because his OVERALL
1347 統 overall arrest record is the best.
Spiderman hates going to parties and having to mingle. He wants to strangle someone
1348 絞 strangle after just a little small talk.
If your threads 糸 don't fit 合 right you're not going to be able to get a job with a
1349 給 salary decent salary.
1350 絡 entwine When threads become entwined, each thread is tangled to another.
Ok, here, you have to think of the phrase "TIE the knot" , which means a wedding (this
kanji is used in the marriage compound 結婚けっこん ). Now, at US weddings, it ends
with the couple driving away with cans being dragged behind the car. So here, think of
SPIDERMAN, who will TIE the knot with Mary Jane. At his wedding, Spider THREAD
1351 結 tie attached (or TIED) to SPRAYCANS are being drug behind the limo as they drive off.
This winter is so cold that spiderman´s web gets brittle! Could this be the end of
1352 終 end spiderman?
This Kanji is the same ones used in the Japanese Language proficiency tests; i.e. ikkyuu
(一級) The Kanji doesnt describe class as in a "class of students" or "classroom," but
rather a grade of quality or ability. ---------- Spiderman is taking the JLPT Level 1. In
desperation he REACHES OUT to grab his friend´s answer sheet next to him, who
seems to be doing well. The other test takers are obviously a class above him. Looks
1353 級 class like this test is above his class of knowledge.
1354 紀 chronicle In a CHRONICLE the THREAD of the story can twist and turn like a SNAKE.
After Spider-Man is whacked in the head with a I-beam, crimson blood flows from the
1355 紅 crimson wound.
Have you heard about patients who have surgery and the doctor mistakenly leaves a
medical instrument INSIDE the patient’s body and proceeds to stitch up the patient’s
1356 納 settlement incisions with stitching THREAD? Can you say “malpractice SETTLEMENT”?　.
1357 紡 spinning Spiderman can spin his webs in any direction.

It is easy for arguments to get distracted from the main thread by a tendency to part
1358 紛 distract threads (splitting hairs).
1359 紹 introduce Spiderman seduces all the girls he´s introduced to.
The word ‘sutra’ literally means a rope or thread that holds things together. Here we
1360 経 sūtra see that it is a spool that is holding the threads together.
Monkeys are very adept at swinging around trees. But when they met Spiderman, who
1361 紳 sire could swing around even better than they could, they all quickly addressed him as sire.
1362 約 promise He tied a thread around the ladle as a reminder of his promise to do more house work.
1363 細 dainty Dainty women would always rather work with thread than in a field.
When you accumulate knowledge in your brain, neural pathways are constructed. All
those pathways end up like a huge ball of thread tangled together. The more
1364 累 accumulate knowledge you accumulate the more threads you throw into the mix!!
A coaxial cord has a needle-like pin, a crown cap for screwing it in, and insulation
1365 索 cord made of thread.
Spiderman could not achieve general acceptance by the media even after winning the
1366 総 general public´s heart.
Spiderman´s polyethylene suit starts to ride up after a while, so he always looks

1367 綿 cotton forward to the white cotton towels he wears while lounging around his apartment.
Silk threads are coming out of the caterpillar's mouth to cover its flesh while it
1368 絹 silk transforms into a cocoon.
1369 繰 winding Winding thread around wooden goods (paper) to ready them for safe transport.
A poor chinese fisherman could expect to inherit: the thread for his pole, a hook for
catching something to eat, and some rice to live off of. (not concentrating on stroke
1370 継 inherit order, sorry if that throws anyone off). (Adapted from bigloui,12-4-2006).
When you attend a green tea (緑茶=りょくちゃ) ceremony, you can cherish the
threadwork on the kimonos people don, the broom-like whisk (茶筌 =ちゃせん) you
1371 緑 green use to grind up your tea, and the delicious rice cakes you eat with your tea!
There once was a lonely little pig that constantly followed Spiderman, always nuzzling
his leg and oinking tenderly. Spiderman finally caved in and decided to keep the little
pig under one condition: the pig was to take a broom and sweep up all of Spiderman´s
leftover threads after having fought crime. The pig felt such affinity for Spiderman, he
1372 縁 affinity happily accepted—and did a good job too.
Spiderman traps The Rhino under the hood of his famous netting, where even Rhino´s
horns can not break free, in fact if the netting did not dissappear after a few hours
1373 網 netting then Rhino might even perish in there.
Whenever Venom is tense, he loses control of his sex drive and becomes a slave to his
1374 緊 tense crotch.
Stop sitting for so long - or else you'll get those purple threads (veins) on your legs
from bad circulation. [link purple with those huge purple, bulging, crawling, worm-like
1375 紫 purple varicose veins .....].
Spidey received good word that the acupuncturist working down the road was actually
the evil Doctor Octopus! Spidey headed over to the clinic, and trussed the
1376 縛 truss acupuncturist Doc Oc up using the maniac´s own metal limbs!
The tortoise has escaped! We tied it up with a straw rope, but all that´s left of the rope
are some torn threads, and the unbound tortoise is nowhere to be found. (Note that
the right half here is not "eels". This is (in my opinion) a mistake in the RTK book, as we
already decided in waterfall (#537) to refer to the simplified form of dragon as "eels".
1377 縄 straw rope It is much better to call the right half of this character an "unbound tortoise".).
In its infancy, a butterfly is protected by a cocoon, as it doesn´t yet have any power of
1378 幼 infancy its own.
Column of walking legs (caterpillar) getting into a cocoon, about to leave its past self
1379 後 behind behind.
The villagers haven´t the faintest idea that giant coccoons resting in the mountain are
1380 幽 faint soon to hatch.
It is a little awkward when you are at a fiesta and the host serves some rare delicacy,
like moth cocoons, the guests must decide how many it would be polite to eat. You do
the math in your head and it comes out to two cocoons per person. This is why the
horizontal line is a fraction bar with two cocoons on the top, and one person the
1381 幾 how many bottom.
1382 機 mechanism An abacus is a mechanism made of wood used to calculate how many ánythings´.
What could be more mysterious than a cocoon in a top hat trying to sneak in...?
1383 玄 mysterious (Pimitive: GANDALF).
1384 畜 livestock The livestock are disappearing! I´ve placed Gandalf over the rice field to protect them.
One sneaky farmer wanted to amass a large collection of livestock. We all know that
cows like to eat flowers, so he planted lines of flowers leading to his own fields. The
1385 蓄 amass livestock followed the lines, eating the flowers one by one, and amassed in his field.
A magic bow that only Gandalf can yield: there is no bowstring on it, and he uses his
1386 弦 bowstring magic to fire arrows.
A mysterious turkey with human fingers wants to hug me... I will never go to Tokyo
1387 擁 hug Disneyland again!
Water is doubly mysterious. It´s in all our nourishment...and yet, it´s really not
1388 滋 nourishing nourishing at all.
Here we see the DOUBLE-MYSTERIOUS Siamese twins again, at the MERCY of the
machines that pump blood through their veins, since the single HEART they share
1389 慈 mercy won't do the job...
A magnet is a rock with two sides; one that mysteriously pushes and one that pulls;
1390 磁 magnet doubly mysterious. (see astridtops´ story).
1391 系 lineage A single drop of your blood holds the proof of the unbroken thread of your lineage.
Mister T gets a DNA test, and discovers that he was meant to be the person in charge
1392 係 person in charge after all.
1393 孫 grandchild Your grandchild is the child of your DNA.

The prefecture has suspended all DNA research for heart disease because of
1394 懸 suspend corruption. All involved will be suspended by their wrists.
1395 却 instead [instead; on the contrary; rather] Gone is the time for stamps - use e-mail instead.
Shins are the part of the body that one uses instead of one´s eyes, for finding furniture
1396 脚 shins in the dark. (Ouch!).
Wholesale refers to the sale of goods in quantity to retailers for resale. When this kanji
was invented, large loads of goods needed to be transported by horses who left steep
footprints because of the weight they carried. The wholesale goods needed a special
1397 卸 wholesale stamp to indicate that they were legal for resale.
An honorable man will not try to cut in front of the line at the wholesale stamp store.
1398 御 honorable (Imagine just how much honor it takes facing those long lines at the post office!).
It´s customary to cover the flesh with clothing, but some designs are so outrageous
1399 服 clothing they´re not bigger than a stamp that just covers your crotch.
When you´re born, your fate is measured, fitted, and stamped onto your soul. Good
1400 命 fate luck defying it.
(re: dingomick) "These are your orders," declares the general while passing out
documents at the meeting. As everyone started to leave, the general exclaims "Oh
wait! I need to certify these orders!" and went around stamping each paper with his
1401 令 orders personal chop-seal.
1402 零 zero The amount of people that can order the rain to rain.
You know you are fast approaching a ripe old AGE when you get ORDERS from the
1403 齢 age dentist to get new TEETH.
1404 冷 cool To keep your water cool, just order some ice.
Two cowboys are crossing a state limit. One says to him “Did you know that in this
Jurisdiction there are Orders to get your head?”, so he takes out his gun and shoots
1405 領 jurisdiction him. He claims the reward afterwards. (Thanks Fuaburisu).
1406 鈴 small bell Some restaurants have a small gold bell to call someone to take customers´ orders.
I imagined some kind of initiation rite in old China, where every young man has to
1407 勇 courage show his courage. They then receive a chopseal which is a mark of their courage.
I bounce down the road on my pogo stick, easily getting through the dense traffic.
(Note: New primitive: chop-seal + utilize = pogo stick. Because a chop-seal is long and
thin with a rubbery bit at the end. If it were big enough, you could utilize it as a pogo
1408 通 traffic stick). [Edit: pogo stick also appears in 1409, 1690, 2530].
The winner of the long jump competition was disqualified when they found he used a
1409 踊 jump pogo stick tied to his leg to jump further.
(Katsuo) You come at the zoo entrance. ´Here sir, a spoon to feed the animals.´ cool
ánd a dart(gun) in case stuff go wrong´ ....´ please chop-seal (sign) here for in case of
accidents the zoo is not responsible.´ ´lion feeding time is. bla bla´ You are having
1410 疑 doubt serious doubts about if you still want to go into this zoo.
Ask a MIMIC to give an impression of DOUBT, and he will no DOUBT scratch his head
1411 擬 mimic with his FINGER.
1412 凝 congeal I doubt that the jello would congeal sitting on the counter, so I placed it in the icebox.
This pattern made of bamboo is for a new model of car designed to leave as small an
1413 範 pattern ecological fingerprint as possible.
1414 犯 crime Crimes can often be solved using the tools of dogs and fingerprints.
Seeing some finger prints at the edge of a cliff, I wondered who that unlucky person
1415 厄 unlucky was.
1416 危 dangerous If you live a dangerous life, eventually you're bound to get unlucky.
1417 宛 address Your address should be displayed on your house and mailbox.
1418 腕 arm Like in Memento, I tattoo my address on my forearm flesh so I don´t forget it.
1419 苑 garden Japanese "gardens" aren´t anything more than a pot of flowers on top of the mailbox.
I couldn´t drop my grudge against him. So I put a severed pig´s heart in his mailbox. He
1420 怨 grudge got the message.
Having decided to use SIGN OF THE HARE rather than RECEIPT and STAMP my
1421 柳 willow mnemonic goes as follows: The WILLOW is the TREE that droops likes a HARE´s ears.
The Easter Bunny dropped an egg on my desk and got yolk all over my receipts and
1422 卵 egg stamps.
The use of RANSOM NOTE (think of a receipt with a dagger through it on a door) works
great with DETAIN. Here the RANSOM NOTE says that the girl has been DETAINED in
1423 留 detain an undisclosed location. To get her back take the RANSOM to a empty FIELD.
There´s a buyback program where you can trade in your dagger for money. But it´s
quite ineffective, since only registered dagger-owners with the original receipts can
1424 貿 trade participate, and not criminals with illegally-purchased daggers.
1425 印 stamp Before sticky backs, they had to staple stamps to letters.
To me, this looks like a pictograph of a road leading to the big city (see the buildings?)
where there are plenty of places to be entertained. Unfortunately in this city, every
1426 興 entertain store is the same: staples. What tools! [ayoung24].
The sign of the bird on this whiskey bottle is of course the Famous Grouse blended
1427 酉 sign of the bird Scotch.
1428 酒 saké Sake is just watered down whisky.
At the local pub, their bartending practises are unusual. They serve the whiskey by
1429 酌 bartending pouring it from a ladle, like one would from the punch bowl.
1430 酵 fermentation The secrets of fermentation are passed to the son who displays the most filial piety.
1431 酷 cruel It´s cruel to pour alcohol down a cow´s mouth.

Imagine a different kind of tax refund - instead of money, the state repays you with
1432 酬 repay whiskey.
Imagine if at each supermarket you went to, the section for dairy products was next to
the alcohol aisle. so for each wheel of cheese you decide to buy, you get an
1433 酪 dairy products accompanying bottle of wine...perfect for a "wine & cheese" party. :).
1434 酢 vinegar Drinking alcohol that´s turned to vinegar feels like a saw going down your throat.
1435 酔 drunk God you´re drunk! How many whiskeys did you have? 9? 10?
1436 配 distribute To DISTRIBUTE WHISKY during Prohibition you had to be as sneaky as a SNAKE.
The prostitute carries an old whiskey bottle filled with acid to throw at any difficult
1437 酸 acid Johns.
The waver for this kanji means to hesitate. I wavered before going into the bar with a
1438 猶 waver bunch of horned wild dogs drinking whiskey straight out of the bottle.
People don't know this, but ("revered" patriot) Paul Revere had trouble staying awake
during his midnight ride, so he drank Red Bull (horns) and whiskey (a drink invented by
1439 尊 revered his friend Sam Adams) and glued himself DOWN to the saddle. [thanks to akahige].
1440 豆 beans If I eat BEANS, after ONE MOUTHful I fart like some kind of HORNED ANIMAL.
1441 頭 head The head of the family sits at the head of the table.
1442 短 short He is so short so he has to throw darts from the table.
The bountiful feast was so bountiful that it bent the table below it under its weight!
1443 豊 bountiful いただきま〜す！.
Japanese festivals have drums so big, a samurai has to SIT (not stand) on a table to
beat one with a tree branch!
1444 鼓 drum http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~hidafyh/furukawayh/gyouji/image/maturi03.jpg.
The samurai sitting on the drum is on a stage, and the people below him are rejoicing
1445 喜 rejoice with their mouths in unison. It helps me to imagine the placement this way.
The hippies object to trees being cut down for timber. They have glued themselves to
1446 樹 timber-trees the timber-trees and are beating their drums.
1447 皿 dish Three dishes stacked side-by-side in a dishwasher.

Vampire orders blood in one of those posh restaurants. Imagine his shock when all he
gets is a giant white bowl and just a single drop of blood in the centre and a drizzling of
balsamic around the edge. Disgusted he calls the manager over tells him its overpriced
1448 血 blood tosh and bites into his neck with a huge gush of blood spraying everywhere.
1449 盆 basin The part of the kitchen sink in which you wash dishes in is the basin.
In order to form alliances, you should sit down for a meal and eat until your dish is
1450 盟 alliance bright or clear; in other words, get to know people first, before you talk business.
You are so poor you dont know where your next dish will come from all you know is
1451 盗 steal that you will have to steal it.
1452 温 warm If you leave water out in the sun in a dish, naturally it will get warm.
While the slave-buyer is perusing (perusal (#855)) the stack of slaves reclining on the
floor, the slaves' overseer supplies them with dishes of gruel -- don't want the slaves
1453 監 oversee starving to death before they can be sold!
1454 濫 overflow Who´s job is it to oversee the water level on the dam? It´ts overflowing!
1455 鑑 specimen The overseer tags his slaves with gold earrings, just like specimens.
1456 猛 fierce The fierce WILD DOG attacked the CHILD who came near his feeding DISH.
1457 盛 boom Japan´s economic boom turned their empty plates into full ones.
In the old days, salt was a worth alot, so it is not surprising to find someone reclining
1458 塩 salt on the ground, mouth to plate, getting every last grain of that delicious salt.
1459 銀 silver Like gold, silver is a metal.
1460 恨 resentment The athlete´s state of mind is nothing but resentment after getting the silver medal.
1461 根 root Since trees eat through their roots, one could imagine roots as tree silverware.
1462 即 instant He scratches off the silver stamp and discovers that he is an instant winner.
The baron is very suspicious, always looking around with vulture eyes and keeping the
1463 爵 baron silver glued to the table so no one can steal it.
1464 節 node Counting the nodes on bamboo is an instant way to tell its age.
1465 退 retreat If you see silver on the road (eg. gun, armour, sword) => retreat!
He was pushed to the limit at the end of the marathon, climbing on top of the
1466 限 limit Acropolis, but had to settle for the silver medal.
1467 眼 eyeball Be careful putting silverware near your eyes: you could lose an eyeball!
1468 良 good With a drop of silver, the forces of good can vanquish the werewolves.
[Image: ´Moonlight sonata´] The moon has inspired many good composers (like Ludwig
1469 朗 melodious van Beethoven) to write something melodious.
1470 浪 wandering Water is a good thing to have when you´re out wandering.
1471 娘 daughter Your daughter is a good girl......well, let´s hope so... :-).
1472 食 eat That umbrella looks good enough to eat!
1473 飯 meal After I eat a meal, I always have to take an anti-acid.

My experience with Japanese enkais (dinner parties): plenty to drink drink drink, but a
1474 飲 drink severe lack of food, T_T.
The smell of cooked food wafts past you in the wind, making your stomach rumble and
1475 飢 hungry feeling hungry.
All those starving models in Hollywood - they want to eat, but their ego (about their
1476 餓 starve appearance and trim look) makes sure they grin and bear it!
[decorate; ornament; adorn; embellish] We decorate a table before eating, reclining a
1477 飾 decorate towel over it.
This Bldg. is like all the other government buildings - they house bureaucrats who sit
1478 館 Bldg. around sipping wine and eating expensive meals at the taxpayers expense.
A sheep became the foster parent for a wolf pup, feeding it with milk. This story
1479 養 foster cannot end well...
1480 飽 sated My gluttony was only sated after I ate the hamburger AND the wrapper!
Distinguish from formerly (#501). Think of previously as "the previous customer" in a

restaurant. At a cheap sleazy diner, the waitress gives you unwashed silverware that
1481 既 previously was previously used by the previous customer. Yuck.
The police tried to draw a chalk outline around the dead waitress, but it was kinda
1482 概 outline tough with all the tree roots underneath her.
If you don´t leave some silver as a tip, you will rue the day you earned the resentment
1483 慨 rue of your waitress.
There´s an even covering of water lilies on the pond at 金閣寺（きんかくじ） the
1484 平 even Golden Pavilion in Kyoto.
'Budd' - 'weis' - 'er' call the frogs mouths from the liliy pads, working to get you
1485 呼 call hooked on beer.
1486 坪 two-mat area A two-mat area is just about as much ground as you will need for a lily pond.
1487 評 evaluate Good evaluation should always be words of even fairness.

A SABRE is used to cut the stalks of plants being REAPED at harvest. They are then
1488 刈 reap combined into a SHEAF.
I hope this works, you say as you stuff a sheaf of stalks under your blanket but above
1489 希 hope your linens. Your real hope is that your parents don´t find out that you left the house.
Here the villain digs a hole with a shovel and covers it with a sheaf, hoping someone
1490 凶 villain will fall in.
Just think of the heroine's bosom in a movie. The villain ties up the heroine (to the
traintracks or the conveyor belt etc) but her bosom is the body part that is always left
1491 胸 bosom sticking out.
I´ve finally met my arch-rival, the evilest of all villains. Finally, I´m about to fight him.
But what´s this? He´s suspiciously quiet. I move to attack him, and his right arm falls
off at the elbow. Strange. I walk up to him and detach his left arm. Very strange. I undo
1492 離 detach his belt, and take off his top hat... BLAST! It was just a decoy turkey!
1493 殺 kill X marks the spot on the tree where the missile hit. No doubt, it was meant to kill us.
For remembering the primitive earthworm: Drops of rain were falling so I took my
shovel to dig up some earthworms to put them on my fishook..... My story: To have a
genuine fishing line you don't just pick up a stick but you also attach some thread onto
1494 純 genuine it and at the end an earthworm must be hung.
1495 鈍 dull The metal hook is too dull to even pierce an earthworm....
Eating spicy food makes you stand up ten times faster than usual, ćause you just need
1496 辛 spicy to get something to drink!
This guy´s job is tasting the spicy curry at the local Indian Food Factory. He has to
resign from his job before his tongue is rendered completely useless after all the spicy
1497 辞 resign food that he has to try all day long...
The CATALPA is the tree that bears the SPICY Indian bean (NOTE - The Catalpa is also
1498 梓 catalpa known as the "Indian Bean" due to the bean pods that grow from it).
The superintendent of a Japanese school district needs a spicy relationship at home
1499 宰 superintend after watching girls in miniskirts all day.
Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they
1500 壁 wall spattered on the wall?
You can try and evade them, but they´ll ketchup with you on the road... Sorry, couldn´t
1501 避 evade resist it.
Don't confuse left primitive with catalpa (#1498). Every time the farmer cuts down the
peppers from the red pepper plant, he has to use a brand new axe. This is because the
spicy peppers cause the metal to erode very quickly, thereby rendering the axe
1502 新 new completely useless.
1503 薪 firewood New flowers grow in areas of forests which have been chopped down for firewood.
A wise parent lets their kids learn. A kid wants to try to eat the red pepper plant, the
1504 親 parent wise parent says "Try it and see for yourself".
1505 幸 happiness Happiness adds a bit (or ten) of spice to your life.
Tenacious-D is happy band led by a fat man. (It´s Tenacious-D time, ya muthafucka´,
1506 執 tenacious gwaoh!).
Recall the fashion model wearing just a stamp over his crotch (clothing (#1399)). When
1507 報 report he got happy, of course, it ended up in the news report.
There was a man in a village who had a special gift : whenever he shouted and
screamed, his mouth became a cornucopia, overflowing with fruits and food of all
sorts. Many of the locals thought he was a cruel man, always screaming at his wife,
1508 叫 shout until they realised he was in fact very kind, and his gift brought prosperity to his family.
1509 糾 twist A cornucopia is a twisted goat's horn decorated with coloured threads.
Prostitutes can make a veritable cornucopia of income by using their crotches -- they
put the "come" in "income." (A bit lewd perhaps, but effective in keeping this
1510 収 income character distinct from similar keywords like profit (#906) or earnings (#893)).
1511 卑 lowly Lowly people only have a drop of brains and use nothing but 4-letter words.
There is a grave of a lowly man with a tombstone made of a simple, small stone. If you
bow really low you can read the very small inscription engraved on the stone, it says -
1512 碑 tombstone “Now that you bowed so low to read this, you are as lowly as I once was”.
My rice-seedlings have become sentient and will go on a mission. I can only apologise
for the next 6 frames. In the distance, there is a pinnacle, which the newly-awakened
1513 陸 land rice-seedlings who are still stuck in the ground can see. Could it be the Promised Land?
The farmer was never very intimate with his wife. He always kept his eye on his
1514 睦 intimate precious rice seedlings in the soil.
What power makes rice seedlings in the ground grow into well rounded plants? The
1515 勢 forces forces of nature.
Heat up those RICE SEEDLINGS you pulled from the SOIL in a ROUND pan over a low
FLAME. (Note: the hot pan image helps reinforce the idea that this kanji for "atsui"
1516 熱 heat refers to something hot to the touch, as opposed to hot weather).
Some girls want diamonds, but others will be satisfied with just flowers. However if
you think you can win her over with rice seedlings, expect her to get up on her walking
1517 菱 diamond legs and walk on out!
Ancient Japanese built a mausoleum for the "unknown rice farmer". It's on the
pinnacle of Mt. Fuji, and it has a statue of a guy with huge walking legs planting rice
1518 陵 mausoleum seedlings as he goes.
A greedy hog in a top hat who has eaten all of the acorns. He even elbows people out
1519 亥 sign of the hog of the way to get them.
1520 核 nucleus In the nucleus of the acorn, all the DNA is stored -- the building blocks for a new tree.
This famous ninja (I always use ninjas with sabres, distinct from samurai) used to
engrave the kanji for his name onto acorns, and throw the acorns to distract his
enemies. The legend goes that by the time his victims would pick up the acorn and
1521 刻 engrave read the engraved kanji, they were already dead.
I asked my teacher what this strange word meant, and she furiously replied that it was
1522 該 above-stated explained in the above-stated paragraph before throwing an acorn at me!
Censure is the political equivalent of a "strongly worded letter," according to Cornell's

School of Law. It is a flex of muscle by congress against the current president, but it is
a very weak one. Imagine censure as congress flexing as hard as it can, only to have a
1523 劾 censure little acorn-sized bump of muscle pop up suddenly.
Why are the roads leading through the woods so sticky and dirty? Hmm... I think the
1524 述 mention forest ranger mentioned something about excess resin on the roads...
Behold the "BoulevÁrt" : a life-size section of a boulevard cast in a huge block of resin.
1525 術 art Some call it ... art.
Don't mix up with cool (#1404), when the cool boys order each other around. This kind
of cold has to do with weather. When its cold outside, I stay at home and have hot
1526 寒 cold celery soup with chicken legs to keep out the ice. 寒い　＝　さむい　＝cold.
Grass Skirt primitive: Picture some Hawaiian girls, wearing grass skirts and tropical
1527 醸 brew scarfs (or leis), doing a dance. "3, 4, 5, 6 pick up all the celery sticks!".
Speaking complicated words to set her head spinning, the island girl in the grass skirt
1528 譲 defer says demurely "I defer (yield) to your judgment, wise one".
My dream is to buy a small lot on a tropical island and spend the rest of my days
1529 壌 lot relaxing in a grass skirt.
Conversation at a party: A: "Who is that lass?" B: "Which one?" A: "The woman
1530 嬢 lass wearing the grass skirt." B: "Alas, I don´t know".
If you grow up with a mother that drinks and smokes, you can be sure it´s poison in
1531 毒 poison the stuff you get from her breasts.
This kanji has nothing to do with elementary school - it means element, elemental,
basic, bare. Imagine the thread as a thread connecting all life, starting from the basic
1532 素 elementary elements and growing up into everything.
1533 麦 barley BARLEY beverages give GROWN UPs teetering WALKING LEGS.
1534 青 blue The last time I saw a blue moon was in my youth when I was growing up.
1535 精 refined Very refined people in the upper classes have skin as pale as rice and blue blood.
People who try to solicit you to buy things come up to you and just start taking out of
1536 請 solicit the blue
1537 情 feelings Data is feeling blue about not having any feelings ... hey, wait a minute.
1538 晴 clear up Sun and blue sky! Yep, the weather´s cleared up!
1539 清 pure Pure sea water is always a radiant blue.
When someone you know who is normally talkative goes quiet, it´s usually a sign that
1540 静 quiet they are contending with the blues.
1541 責 blame As one grows up, one typically starts to blame all of their problems on money.
Spidey´s exploits are world famous but still The Daily Bugle´s pages blame him for
1542 績 exploits every problem out there.
On many wheat cereal boxes, there is a disclaimer stating that "This package is sold by
weight, not by volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred." well they only
say that because they don´t want to be blamed by people getting really disappointed
1543 積 volume after they see what a small volume of cereal the box really contains.
Bonds are guarnteed by the government so if they fail there is one person you can
1544 債 bond blame - the prime minister!
When pickling you MUST use distilled water! When it doesn´t come out right,
1545 漬 pickling generally it is the water that is to blame.
When I was GROWING UP, the SURFACE of my SCARF was always covered with snot
1546 表 surface from blowing my nose on it.
Superficial people (ie those who are only concerned about the surface) are obsessed
1547 俵 bag with expensive bags.
To ensure she remained undefiled, a young girl growing up in a rough area always kept
1548 潔 undefiled a dagger concealed under her threads, even when she went into the water.
Imagine a totalitarian regime where, while growing up, you have to pledge allegiance
1549 契 pledge to the flag at dagger-point and with St. Bernard guard dogs watching you.
This means eat/drink/smoke. Maybe you make a pledge to stop

1550 喫 consume gutsing/binging/puffing, but your own mouth is tempting you to put something in it.
With kids growing up in your house, you have to keep them from harm of putting
1551 害 harm anything in their mouth, paint chips, bleach, knvies, etc.
The roads are icy, and a whole bunch of cars have spun out of control! Luckily, it was
1552 轄 control just a couple of dents; nobody was harmed.
[proportion; comparatively; divide; cut; separate; split] Hey, don´t take this out of
1553 割 proportion proportion! I did you just a little harm, no need to come over here with a saber...
The constitution is important. At least my parents thought so. In the house where I
grew up, it was framed on the wall. Under the watchful (sideways) eye of my mother,
1554 憲 constitution we had to study it until we knew it by heart.
This is the first CELL of a human, the foundation of its entire LIFE, a small DROP that
1555 生 life will GROW UP to form a complex organism.
1556 星 star The sun is the nearest star to the only planet with life - Earth.
When women marry, they adopt the surname of their husband, signifiying the start of
1557 姓 surname a new life together. (adapted from gorgon).
1558 性 sex Sex is the only state of mind for many men through their whole life.
1559 牲 animal sacrifice Animal sacrifice = taking the life of a cow.
If you were to stand up all the products you have accumulated over the course of your
1560 産 products entire life on top of one another, the result would probably be as tall as a cliff.
You are struggling to the top across the humps, but you suddenly see the pinnacle and
1561 隆 hump you feel new life in your walking legs.
Walking legs over "bushes" needs to have a primitive meaning of its own. It appears in
several kanji, such as 縫 sew (#1563), 逢 tryst (#2417), 蜂 bee (#2687), and 鋒 sword´s
point (#2768), and it is clumsy to work bushes and walking legs into every story.
"Pointy" works fairly well: the walking legs are stuck on top of the pointy part of the
1562 峰 summit bush; and for this character: a summit is the pointy end of a mountain.
1563 縫 sew Pointy primitive; with a pointy needle you sew a road (-------) of threads.
I put my fingers together in worship of the bush that hangs from the ceiling -- that
1564 拝 worship wonderful mistletoe which has gotten me kissed by many a girl.
In an attempt to increase a bush's longevity, an incompitent gardener glues all the

1565 寿 longevity leaves back on that have fallen off. Maybe he should have tried watering it instead.
1566 鋳 casting We take a casting because metal will have much greater longevity than the original.
Japanese father enrolls his student in a well-rounded school: they teach eastern
traditions (the way of the bamboo), western traditions (like Christmas trees), and also
1567 籍 enroll teach literature (once upon a time).
1568 春 springtime In the springtime bonsai get plenty of sun.
The tree of spring. Fact: Camellia are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their
very early flowering, often among the first flowers to appear in the late winter [early
1569 椿 camellia spring?].
If you look into Japanese gardens they seem so peaceful - with their small bonsais and
1570 泰 peaceful the white stones looking like rice grains.
1571 奏 play music When you play music to them, your bonsai will grow like they are in heaven.
Bonsais are grown in a house, away from the harsh reality of the real world where
1572 実 reality they wouldn´t survive.
To join the temple, you have to dedicate yourself to raising bonsai for enlightenment,
1573 奉 dedicate and cornstalks for sustenance.
The stipend is given to the student-PERSON who has come to Japan DEDICATED to
1574 俸 stipend study.
This wooden rod has one very simple dedication engraved on it: "Spare the rod, spoil
1575 棒 rod the child...".
Muttering words of gratitude for a wonderful meal, I discreetly slipped my cabbage
1576 謹 discreet under the table for the dog.
1577 勤 diligence With enough diligence, Koreans can turn ordinary cabbage into powerful kimchi.
Sino- (Chinese) people had to put a lot of sweat/water into learning the kanji. For right-
hand kanji primitive - The dumb Western husband of a Japanese woman buys her
flowers to apologise, after he opened his big mouth and said "kanji are a stupid writing
1578 漢 Sino- system"..
A sigh escapes the mouth of the scarecrow, who laments: "...if I only had a brain, I
1579 嘆 sigh could learn kanji".
1580 難 difficult Learning Kanji is difficult for Turkeys.

The Queen of England taking a walk round a village: Éxcuse me, I couldn´t help
noticing the splendour of the flowers in your garden. Simply splendid. Ten out of ten.´
The villager gruffly replies: Ńo it áint. It´s all muck. An´ I´m gonna cut it all down and
1581 華 splendor sell it to the farmer for silage.´.
The thousand head of cattle let their heads droop as they devour the silage (animal
1582 垂 droop fodder) that is lying on the floor around them.
1583 睡 drowsy Our eyes droop when we are drowsy.
Wasn´t it a cursed spindle that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on? Therefore the
1584 錘 spindle spindle was the metal that caused her to droop and eventually sleep for 100 years.
It´s a hay ride! You sit on piles of silage and everyone likes to imitate old-time farmers
1585 乗 ride with a piece of wheat sticking out of their mouths.
If you go for a ride and find a saber beside you, perhaps you got into an Army surplus
1586 剰 surplus jeep.
1587 今 now My MEETING is at 7- but that´s NOW!
This clock includes a mouth that will tell you what the time is now. Hearing impaired
1588 含 include people have this kind of watches... now imagine them as a big mouth under the clock.
1589 吟 versify Versify this kanji as follows: Hickery dickery dock, the mouth ran by the clock.
Someone wishing from the bottom of their heart that the clock would stop. A mid-life
1590 念 wish crisis perhaps.
Two kings were fighting over a beautiful koto (harp). So they had a clock built into it
that would measure how long each one played it. That way they could be sure none
1591 琴 harp played it more than othe other.
There are three types of shade: 1. natural (a high pinnacle), 2. man-made buildings (a
1592 陰 shade clock tower), 3. meteorological (a cloud).
Beforehand, this was a halberd but I cut it short so it could be for hand to hand
1593 予 beforehand combat.
1594 序 preface The preface to all human history was written beforehand in caves.
Depositing money into your savings account is something you do beforehand if you
use your head. If you´re in Japan your passbook says 預金機（よきんき）when you
1595 預 deposit make a deposit.
These days we all work in front of computers. Beforehand we all worked out in the
1596 野 plains fields, in the plains.
Our ninja hero, disguised as a gardener with a rake, is suddenly attacked from both left
and right concurrently by bulls with animal horns. Our hero lets out a blood-curdling
scream and tears his rake handle vertically in half, so he now has two wooden staffs
(split rake handle) to fight with. He grips each staff (left side and right side) and rams it
into the horns of the charging bulls. The force of each charging bull causes the tips of
1597 兼 concurrently each staff to split again (split bottom of each rake handle).
Naturally, if you´re dating more than one woman concurrently, they will certainly
1598 嫌 dislike dislike each other!
This is a special sickle with metal blades on both sides. It can cut many things
1599 鎌 sickle concurrently!
When you are self-effacing you use words to concurrently bring yourself down and
1600 謙 self-effacing make yourself look better.
Stores don´t want you to know it, but if you find the secret cave, they run bargains
there concurrently to their regular prices. (Image: pulling a certain level in a store to
1601 廉 bargain find the "bargain cave).
The old west represented by a completely empty whiskey bottle (compare sign of the
1602 西 west bird (#1427) whiskey bottle about one third full).
1603 価 value In the West, people have no value. Only money is important.
1604 要 need (ヨウ) When Clint needs a woman, he likes to be on top.
If you want to get closer to the actual meaning, then I think that 腰(こし) is more like
the hips or the small of the back. After being sat down in the office too long, people
1605 腰 loins often say 腰がいたい！It´s the part of the body that needs massaging.
In the Old West there were no ballot boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the
gunslingers, the ballots were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar
1606 票 ballot instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn´t fight in the church.
In Florida, Bush through Kerry´s ballots into the water, watching them drift away and
1607 漂 drift setting the whole country adrift.
Trees were frequenly used as signposts in those days, indicating where one had to go
1608 標 signpost to cast their ballots.
1609 栗 chestnut Chestnut tree, west nut tree.
Since the days of the Old West, traveling has transitioned from trying not to step on
1610 遷 transition big snakes to driving on big roads.
The U.S.S. Old West has capsized, and all the cowboys on board are trying to restore
1611 覆 capsize her upright.
1612 煙 smoke In the Old West, they used to light fires in the ground to make smoke signals.
1613 南 south South of my belt leads to happiness.
1614 楠 camphor tree We traveled to southern Japan just to see a camphor tree. It´s what we came for.
1615 献 offering A South Korean street vendor is offering chihuahu snacks.
Heisig´s stroke order in the 4th edition (and earlier) is wrong, so be careful -- first is the
left-most vertical stroke, then draw the rest of the "sun" attachment as you would
normally. In fact, if you just wrote it out as two suns with elongated sides, you´ll get
1616 門 gates the stroke order exactly correct.
A mouth on the Gates of Hell says "Answer me these questions three, or thru the
1617 問 question gates ye soon will be".
A little devil at the gates of hell reviews your record to see if you´re evil enough to get
1618 閲 review in.
1619 閥 clique You only get through the gates into that person's fiesta if you are in the same clique.
The interval between star systems (suns) was too large, so the stargates were created
1620 間 interval to travel between them.
[simplicity; brevity] The ししおどし is a bamboo device for scaring birds from the
gates of your garden by clacking against a stone at regular intervals. Its design is
1621 簡 simplicity simplicity itself. (Inspired by PepeSeco).
Sure you can squeeze through these gates by kicking them or pushing them with your
body, but if you want to get them wide open, you need to do that with both your
1622 開 open hands.
1623 閉 closed The gates are too big to be closed by man. Only a genie can. "Close sesame!".
To keep this distinct from other kanji such as "watchtower" and "pagoda", I use the
mnemonic "towering tower". -- In some old 8-bit kung-fu videogame, with a plot
similar as Bruce Lee´s last, unfinished movie, the hero must break through a gate at
each level of the towering tower, fighting with opponents using various styles of kung-
1624 閣 tower fu until he meets the finale at the topmost level of the "towering tower".
Imagine the gates the Garden of Eden, the ultimate land of leisure. You´re not allowed
1625 閑 leisure in, but if you peek through you can see trees.
1626 聞 hear Press your ear to the gates and see if you can hear what is going on inside.
Forgetting about the moat, the king stepped out of his gate and landed in the water.
1627 潤 wet Needless to say he got wet.
[column; handrail; blank; space] I think about oriental (eastern) Torii gates: they have
1628 欄 column two supporting columns made of wood.
During the saloon brawl, one guy got glued to a table and was tossed out through the
saloon gates. But he really wanted to fight, so he ran back through those gates (with
the table still glued to his back) only to be tossed out again. Imagine him repeatedly
1629 闘 fight running in and being tossed back out.
A godown is a dockside warehouse. This is actually a meeting of large doors and
mouths. The stroke order is the same as door, not gates, just with the top stroke
1630 倉 godown moved down into the now larger door.
Back in the day the people were so excited to get hold of the Sega genesis they looted
1631 創 genesis the godown with sabers.
This looks like a pictogram of 3 fingers from each hand trying to open up a crack in a
wall. That´s an un-believable way to escape from prison OR the UN- have a prison in
1632 非 un- the Hague.
1633 俳 haiku I pity the fool/ Who put me in this jail cell/ I pity the fool. (Credit taijuando).
When ordered to go to the jail cell, the defendant gave the judge the finger and said
he repudiated all that the legal system stood for if they were going to send an
1634 排 repudiate innocent man like him to jail.
Saddness is like having your heart captured and jailed because of some sad or terrible
event, etc. Here the sad heart waits for someone to come and un-lock their jail cell
1635 悲 sad and set them free again.
Guilty under the eyes of the law, therefore sentenced to jail. [note: ÚNDER the eye of
1636 罪 guilt the law´ works in penalty (#833) as well.].
Some man jailed in Russia, is freed by his comrade (from the Communist party
1637 輩 comrade perhaps), who crashes into the jail cell with a vehicle.
The only way out of a jail cell is to serve your time and walk out the front door. There
1638 扉 front door are no other doors.
1639 侯 marquis Marquis Keydartee (make-believe french name, Key+dart+T).

The marquis has absolutely no interest in issuses of climate change. He´s old and near
1640 候 climate death. [Don´t forget the walking stick to symbolize his old age.].
Decide! "Decide?! Death by drowning in polluted water or death by guillotine. How
1641 決 decide can I decide?" I asked.
A large crowd in a cheerful state of mind applaude each criminal as they become
1642 快 cheerful victims of the guillotine.
1643 偉 admirable LOCKETs often carry inside them a picture of a PERSON we find ADMIRABLE.
You lose your precious locket on the road to somewhere. You ask people if they´ve
seen it, but no luck. "Just buy another one," someone says. "I mean, what´s the
difference?" Then of course you say "Well, it makes a huge difference!! Since it has
1644 違 difference sentimental value, I don´t want a different one! " Then of course they understand.
The thread that holds the locket around my neck is choker-length so it stays
1645 緯 horizontal horizontal.
[defense; protection] For "defense against the dark arts" class, you go the magical
1646 衛 defense boulevard and buy an enchanted locket.
There´s a young Korean male actor, Yon-sama, famous amongst middle-aged Japanese
women. Extremely famous. Read about his affect on Japan/Korean relations on
Everything2.com. In any case, women just flipped over this guy, traveled to Korea to
see his home, started taking Korean language classes, etc. So, imagine here the misty
eyes of the Japanese women as they clutch their lockets with Yon-sama´s picture
1647 韓 Korea inside watching his Korean romantic mini series called "Winter Sonata".
1648 干 dry Dry one item in ten minutes on the clothesline.

Well you all know that the liver is the part of the body that would be quite grateful if
1649 肝 liver you led a dry lifestyle (i.e. no alcohol).
The newspaper pages are hung on the clotheseline to dry and then cut down with a
1650 刊 publish sabre to be published.
The way sweat is supposed to work: it gets your skin wet, and then as it
1651 汗 sweat evaporates/dries, it cools you off.
Flats in the city are crowded. You get a space for your car in front, and a clothesline
1652 軒 flats out back. Nothing else.
At the base of mountain cliffs, there is usually a beach. You often can see people lying
1653 岸 beach there, drying off after a swim.
A fine mist is falling, and so everyone gathers around near the tree-trunk, effectively
1654 幹 tree trunk using the rest of the tree as an umbrella in order to keep dry.
If your potatos are growing flowers and those little hooked roots, you should either
1655 芋 potato buy less or eat them faster.
1656 宇 eaves Under the eaves of the house the poor family has potate plants.
You hang an umbrella upside-down on a hook of the scales and fill it with little
1657 余 too much potatoes. No luck: it weights too much.
You won´t make it unless you exclude something. The climb to the pinacle cannot be
completed if you are carrying too much. You just have to decide what you can afford
1658 除 exclude to exclude.
You can´t expect weight loss to happen overnight. You should limit going to the scale
to weigh yourself to once a day or once a week, in order to observe the anticipated
1659 徐 gradually weight loss gradually.
Amazed at the weight of his crotch, they conferred every honor upon him. (Image: guy
with his junk on a scale getting a medal pinned to his chest/around his neck/being
1660 叙 confer knighted, etc.).
1661 途 route On this route, all trucks have to check in at the scales before they can get on the road.
The main bar of an old-fashioned scale(balance) will be very diagonal if you place a
1662 斜 diagonal giant measuring cup on one side.
1663 塗 paint If you add too much water to the paint it will drip onto the ground.
Mnemonic: Bundle of joy. Here I see the proverbial stork with a baby hanging from its
1664 束 bundle mouth fly straight into a tree. Painful, but he doesn´t drop the bundle.
When you trust in something, you've got your head 頁 all bundled 束 up (wrapped up)
1665 頼 trust in it.
1666 瀬 rapids You need complete trust in your water guide to attempt Class 5 rapids.
This is an imperial order for pizza. To deliver the huge bundle of pizzas to the emperor,
1667 勅 imperial order the pizza boy needs huge muscles.
[True story] In Osaka the homeless (the alienated) live in large numbers around the
city zoo. Picture them in winter all bundled up in rags trying to keep warm, alienated
from the society, living literally worst than the animals in the zoo who at least are
1668 疎 alienate bundled in their natural furs and have pens to live in sheltered from the elements.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the bundled sticks in the middle of the
1669 速 quick road. (dingomick).
Recycling in Japan, you have to make sure all your bundles are organized correctly
1670 整 organize otherwise the taskmasters won´t accept them.
If it helps, make the awl primitive ice pick instead. They´re basically the same thing.
1671 剣 saber This kanji is an easy David vs. Goliath story of the icepick vs. the saber...
The rock climber trying to get up to the pinnacle is dangling from a precipitous edge,
1672 険 precipitous hanging only one with his icepick.
After intense cross-examination from the prosecutor, the tree confessed to murdering
the wood-pecker with an awl... "He just kept at it, he kept poking at me with that
beak, so I thought I'd see how HE liked it!!" The autopsy examination revealed at least
1673 検 examination a dozen puncture wounds, what a brutal case.
Mr. T is as frugal as they come. He uses his one ice pick for everything: to eat, pick his
1674 倹 frugal teeth, clean his toilet, kill people, cook, etc.
1675 重 heavy The first computer in the world was as heavy as thousand computers are now.
Even though the furniture is heavy, it´ll be easy to move with all the muscles that he
1676 動 move has.
1677 勲 meritorious deed A meritorious deed? Like moving a damsel in distress out of a fire, maybe.
1678 働 work A person who moves something is doing work, physically speaking.
1679 種 species Our species has a wheat heavy diet...

Two heavy trucks in a game of chicken collide while racing toward each other on the
1680 衝 collide boulevard.
Do you know how they make those FRAGRANT air fresheners? Well you take some
FLOWERS, compress them with a HEAVY weight, and put them on an OVEN FIRE for a
1681 薫 fragrant while... (cmp perfume (#493)).
Caveman got ill after flying third class. The cabin air and food got to him. (Primitive:
1682 病 ill these all got MUCH easier when using CAVEMAN instead. ).
1683 痴 stupid Of course caveman is stupid. He doesn´t know anything. He´s a caveman!
1684 痘 pox Caveman has horrible pox. They look like edamame beans oozing bight green paste.
1685 症 symptoms Once you have all the symptoms right, you have correctly identified the sickness.
I picture a sick caveman, and two people rapidly blowing darts at him. One is blowing
poison darts, the other is blowing antidote darts. Will the sick caveman live or die?
1686 疾 rapidly Depends on how rapidly they fire.
For a country full of pay-per-use public toilets, sudden diarrhea is certainly the most
1687 痢 diarrhea profitable sickness!
1688 疲 tired I picture an exhausted sick caveman snuggling up in a comfy pelt blanket.
Sickness-missiles are being engineered by bio-terrorists to spread epidemics all over

the world. Imagine seeing footage of a place where those sickness-missiles are built :
rows after rows of missiles, and if you look closely on each is inscribed in tiny letters
1689 疫 epidemic the name of different sickness such as "flu", "plague", etc.
Think of the phrase pain in the xxx. Then think of a pogostick up your xxx. That's
1690 痛 pain painful, right? The real question is why a pogostick is up your xxx. That's sick, dude.
Caveman has a bad mannerism of putting ketchup on everything he eats. I guess that´s
1691 癖 mannerism ok since raw mammoth can´t be too good...
Young kids likes to hide in cardboard boxes. (Primitive: CARDBOARD BOX, especially
1692 匿 hide kids playing with them.).
Hint: Artisan/Ax Def: An artisan is a skilled manual worker; a craftsperson. Here we see
1693 匠 artisan his tools represented by the artisan's ax stored in his toolbox.
Easily confused: Dr. (#47), doctor (#1694), examination (#1673), check-up (#1724),
medicine (#1736). To avoid confusion I renamed this medic, and picture the medic
from Team Fortress 2 returning to his box of darts in the supply cupboard every time
1694 医 doctor his syringe gun is empty.
This kanji is used commonly as a counter for small animals. This is a pictograph of a
SMALL ANIMAL´S view from inside a CARDBOARD BOX looking out at his masters
HUMAN LEGS. He´s probably hiding so the master does not COUNT him with the other
animals which will probably be eaten (thus he avoids everyones EQUAL fate on the
1695 匹 equal farm: the kitchen table).
In the homeless ward of the city you see people sleeping in CARDBOARD BOXES using
1696 区 ward a SHEAF as a pillow.
Make sure you install the hinge the right way. If it opens treeward (= tree ward), you
1697 枢 hinge won't be able to get the fence open, make sure it opens houseward.
The biggest assault on Japan during WW2 is when the wards in Hiroshima and
1698 殴 assault Nagasaki were wiped out by nuclear missiles.
Do japanese consider Europe like just a ward, boring enough to make them yawn??
1699 欧 Europe This kanji is offensive!
They would repress dissents by cutting off their fingers and mailing them to relatives
1700 抑 repress in small boxes (of course including stamps for proper postage).
Mr T with the post package at the post office: ´these stamps don´t stick to the box,
1701 仰 faceup foo´ Postguy:´ Try it again but this time with the stamp, face-up.´.
Welcome home daddy! Is that box for me? You were on the road a long time! I
collected all the stamps from the letters you wrote me　:-)
1702 迎 welcome ...　　RTK2:　ゲイ　歓迎　かんげい(welcome).
When an American Indian warrior dies, his body is placed on a TABLE inside a TEEPEE,
and a ritualistic ceremony is held to encourage his spirit to ASCEND to that big buffalo
1703 登 ascend hunting ground in the sky.
Scuba divers know that when you ascend in the water, your lucidity increases (For non-
divers, the deeper you go, the more you become mentally impaired by nitrogen
narcosis, every 50 feet is like drinking one martini). Scuba divers also know that as you
1704 澄 lucidity ascend in the water, the lucidity of the water improves, too.
Two pairs of human legs poking out of a teepee: you know there´ll be a discharge
soon, be it sexual, violent (husband returns home with a weapon), or dishonourable
1705 発 discharge (soldier caught molesting a native), or perhaps all of the above.
Slaves have been discharged from the caves where they were kept thanks to the
1706 廃 abolish abolition of slavery.
A colleague implies someone that you share work with, such as in your company or
profession, etc. Here your colleague helps you to erect your pup tent during a
company outing. Note: Heisig's warning to keep this distinct from other similiar kanji
such as companion (#19), friend (#704), consort (#1203) and comrade (#1637). That is
why I chose to have the person element pictured as someone (the colleague in this
1707 僚 colleague case) helping with the work of building the pup tent.
1708 寮 dormitory A dormitory is right in the middle between living in a house and living in a pup tent.
On the battlefield, the only place to heal from your sickness is inside the medic's pup
1709 療 heal tent. Think of M.A.S.H.
1710 彫 carve A lathe is used to carve a shape with circumference into wood or metal.
Everyone in the kindergarten came up with fun and interesting shapes made out of
Play-Doh, except for the kid with the amputated arm. Seems like you really need both
1711 形 shape hands.
1712 影 shadow The sun over the capital cast a shadow with the same shape.
Cedar is an evergreen tree that keeps its SHAPE all year long. That is, it doesn´t loose
1713 杉 cedar its needles/leaves in the winter.
In Sydney we occasionally get exotic birds. You first notice a colouring in a tree. You
look more carefully and you make out the shape of a bird (here represented by its
1714 彩 coloring claws).
1715 彰 patent The shape of a sheriff´s badge makes it patent who he is.
A lad standing on the top of a cliff, looking into the far, and thinking how to shape his
1716 彦 lad future.
1717 顔 face A lad's head still has a baby's face.

1718 須 ought Why, I OUGHT to RESHAPE your HEAD...
This kanji does not mean swell as in a inflammation. There is a different kanji for that
meaning (腫れる). This kanji means swell as in, a tire swelling/expanding, your income
swelling/expanding, dough swelling/expanding, etc. Johnskb's story is best b/c it does
not involve swelling in the sense of inflammation, just general expansion of the
stomach. STORY: "If a PART OF your BODY begins to SWELL/EXPAND and resembles
1719 膨 swell the SHAPE of a bass DRUM, you’re either pregnant or in desperate need of a diet.".
I´m going to visit my grandpa in the hospital. He broke his elbow, and it became really
1720 参 visit big and contorted into a weird shape. I hope he will be all right!
Whenever I have to visit the relatives... that puts me in one hell of a wretched state of
1721 惨 wretched mind.
Mr. T is a harsh taskmaster who will discipline you (beat you into shape) with his
1722 修 discipline walking stick.
It's rare to see the king carrying his own parasol - typically he gets one of his
attendants to do it for him (thanks to Katsuo for umbrella + shape = parasol and to
1723 珍 rare Peppi for the story idea).
At my last check-up, the doctor said to me: "Start carrying a parasol, or you might get
1724 診 checkup skin cancer. You've been tanning too much!" [Umbrella over shape = parasol].
A twist on greenapple: The teacher puts a tophat on all pupils with gramatically
1725 文 sentence correct sentences, while the rest are left with a big red X on their homework.
1726 対 vis-à-vis When sitting vis-a-vis, Scots will glue their kilt down to avoid embaressment.
1727 紋 family crest The Scottish weave their family crests with thread on plaid fabric.
1728 蚊 mosquito The mosquito (an insect) knows only one sentence: Bzzzzz.
The Scotsman goalkeeper adjusted himself. He reached down and adjusted the two
1729 斉 adjusted things between his skinny fencepost legs.
When my medicine dose is way too large, I adjust it by cutting it into smaller pieces
1730 剤 dose with my saber.
1731 済 finish When the goalkeeper finishes the game, he drinks a lot of water and adjusts himself.
Purification? I think of Japanese during new year's eve praying(saying sentences) in
front of Itsukushima's shrine torii(fenceposts) and its altar. They expect to enter the
1732 斎 purification new year totally purified.
Even though it´s a maddening task, the monks stay solemn as they rake rice between
1733 粛 solemn the fenceposts.
1734 塁 bases Playing baseball in a rice field with sparklers stuck into the ground to act as bases.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The white sparkly thing is Navi. She´s hovering/dancing
1735 楽 music around a tree to the legendary Lost Woods music.
New-age medicine involves using things like music and flowers (aromatherapy) as
1736 薬 medicine treatment.
It´s quite mysterious how each sparkler gives of sparkles at a precise ratio of ten to
one. Physicists have been studying this effect for decades, known as the Sparkler
1737 率 ratio Effect, and using it to explain why stars look like sparklers in the night sky.
I think that Heisig meant this as the "slightly bitter but fresh" meaning that it can have
to describe foods like lemons (しぶい). So imagine a guy trying a cocktail (water),
feeling like he´s been kicked in the face (footprint) and sparks are flying from his
1738 渋 astringent tongue. ´How did it taste?´. ´Hmm, yes, slightly bitter, but fresh".
Now that I´m a responsible adult, I have to get my vicarious thrills from watching
1739 摂 vicarious stupid people put sparklers up to their ears and burn their fingers.
1740 央 center Youve got the st bernard dead centre in your sights (the box).
1741 英 England The original great seal of the king of England had a very ornate flower in the center.
In the solar system, the Sun is the central source of all light, everything else just
1742 映 reflect reflects it.
1743 赤 red He was stabbed with a dagger, and little drops of red blood dropped onto the ground.
The student blushed until his face was red, so the schoolmaster decided to pardon
1744 赦 pardon him.
It´s quite unusual and abnormal to see an apple with walking legs running away from
1745 変 unusual the person who wants to eat it!
1746 跡 tracks Pirate pokes the tip of his wooden leg into an apple to disguise his tracks.
The barbarian picks an apple from above and eats it even though there is a worm
1747 蛮 barbarian (insect) in it.
The romance between Snow White and Prince Charming started when Snow White
1748 恋 romance took a bite of poison apple and her heart stopped.
In his most daring feat, William tell used his bow to shoot an apple off the head of his
1749 湾 gulf son across the water of the gulf.
The salad did not look very appetizing... The sprouts were yellow and there were
1750 黄 yellow animal legs sticking out of it.
1751 横 sideways A tree went all yellow. It died and fell down, ending up sideways.
Japanese censorship laws require pornos to use a mosaic screen, so you can´t see
1752 把 grasp what the porno chick is grasping with her fingers (but you can assume, neetch).
Ever look closely at mosaics? They contain a bunch of images bound up into a larger
one. It seems amazing until you realize that the only quality of the smaller images that
1753 色 color really matters is their colour.
1754 絶 discontinue I can't finish my sewing project because the thread color I was using was discontinued.
1755 艶 glossy To print something with bountiful colour, they use glossy paper.
PART OF YOUR BODY excretes something that is commonly used for FERTILIZER.
1756 肥 fertilizer Sometimes this process is slow, so you solve a RUBIK´S CUBE while you sit and wait.
Little red riding hood is carrying around a wicker basket filled with sweet baked
1757 甘 sweet cookies for granny.
Thanks raulir - As many Japanese perverts know, navy blue threads conceal school girl
1758 紺 navy blue sweetness underneath.
I had the same idea as fuabrisu. A generic person is described here as having body sort
1759 某 so-and-so of like a tree trunk and head sort of like a wicker basket.
I imagine a clique of catty girls conspiring against a another girl...they are exchanging
lots of words, chatting about how so-and-so girl is now up to such-and-such (gasp!),
1760 謀 conspire and how they will spread the word about it.
The woman 女 hoped her friend would act as mediator to set her up with the guy she
liked. She didn't mention his name, just referred to him as "A certain unnamed person -
1761 媒 mediator - I'll call him 'Mr. So-and-So 某' ...."
He escaped using deceit. That is, he ran past while the guard was yawning and hid in
1762 欺 deceit the bushel basket.
Tree + Bushel Bucket: Chess pieces carved from trees were tossed into a bushel bucket
1763 棋 chess piece for sorting into sets.
The national flag of Croatia. It's a banner with the Croatian coat of arms, commonly
referred to as the Chessboard
1764 旗 national flag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Croatia).
1765 期 period The slowest remote chess game ever: a one month period between every move.
1766 碁 Go Go is chess played with stones.

1767 基 fundamentals Fundamentals of chess: use the rooks to protect your ground.
It´s a tremendous match between the two chess-players. They are clearly eachother´s
1768 甚 tremendously equal.
1769 勘 intuition Intuition is a tremendously powerful resource of the mind.

Because I hid myself behind a huge dirt barrier I dug, I was able to withstand the
1770 堪 withstand tremendous nuclear blast.
Inside your purse is all of your money and your keys (き) etc. All of your precious
1771 貴 precious valuables.
Bequeath is an odd old word, isn´t it? Basically, it just deals with how I want my
precious possessions dealt out, after I die, later down the road. "Being of sound, but
1772 遺 bequeath antiquated, mind, I bequeath this to you!".
Bond has stolen a lady spy's purse while she was asleep after their evening together.
When she discovers it's gone, she dispatches some henchmen on the road after him to
1773 遣 dispatch dispatch him, but Bond evades them and escapes with the purse.
The yakuza boss reclines in the oaken bathtub wearing his shades while his personal
1774 舞 dance harem dances naked for him.
When I enter the wooden tub heated by flames in the onsen, I can let all my worries
1775 無 nothingness slip away and be submerged into nothingness.
A common thread associates the knick-knacks on your knick-knack shelf. Souveneirs
1776 組 association from Spain on one, from Japan on the other.
Japanese carpenters don't use sandpaper, they use rice-paper(rice glued on to some
paper). Here the carpenter is using the coarse paper to smooth out the shelf he's
1777 粗 coarse making.
The EU and US impose such high tariffs on food imports that third world wheat (the
1778 租 tariff most basic of staples) never reaches first world supermarket shelves.
The ancestor worship is so common in Daoist and buddhist countries that you can buy
1779 祖 ancestor tiny altars to put on the shelves, one for each deceased family member.
Keeping porn on the pinnacle of a bookshelf can thwart snooping kids (thanks
1780 阻 thwart bodhisamaya).
Like the "ero inquiry" that had been partially swept under the rug (see inquire
1781 査 investigate (#1145)), this kanji depicts the investigation into the forestry scandal being shelved.
HELP! Someone´s pinned under this bookshelf and it´s gonna take a lot of muscle to lift
1782 助 help it off!
It seems like every time my Japanese friends send me their best regards, they
accompany them with a gift. Over time, I´ve gotten so many that I had to buy a second
house which contains nothing but several fancy shelves. Each shelf is dedicated to a
1783 宜 best regards certain friend of mine and contains every last one of their presents.
The king is peacefully sleeping on his new tatami mat when all of a sudden a shelf falls
over and kills him. You can see his crown poking out and the brains splatter out the
1784 畳 tatami mat top of his head from all the pressure.
1785 並 row This is a simplification of 竝, a ideogram of two people standing in a row.

A row of suns is actually a normal, plain, and ordinary occurrence in an infinitely large
1786 普 universal and expanding universe. FUtsuu.
1787 譜 musical score Musical scores are in a universal language.
You first wash you clothes with water and wring them until they are just damp before
hanging them in a row under the sun to dry. If you don´t wring them damp first they
1788 湿 damp will take days to dry!
1789 顕 appear Somebody's head appears from behind the laundry in a row drying under the sun
At the end of Thanksgiving it's tradition for everyone to stand in a row and measure
1790 繊 slender their waist with a strip of thread. Whoever is the most slender wins the leftovers.
After raining for two days in a row, you plead with the SPIRITS for some relief.
1791 霊 spirits (Adapted from johnskb,21-5-2006).
The oldest profession: prostitution. I was once in a brothel in Amsterdam where the
working girls had a group of businessmen blindfolded and hanging upside down in a
1792 業 profession row, not yet spanked and whipped, but waiting eagerly.
After a row husbands take their wives upsides down over the knee and slap them with
1793 撲 slap their fingers on the bottom (if that doesn´t get me banned…).
Mr. T also finds himself as one of the HUSBANDs, whose wives have had them hung
UPSIDE DOWN IN A ROW. But when his wife comes up to punish him, he pleads, “It’s
1794 僕 me ME, Baby. I wasn’t behaving badly like these other foo’s.”.
The character for deluge (#1799) gave me the idea to use together as a primitive for
Noah´s Ark. Noah kept plenty of salad on board to entice the animals with their animal
1795 共 together legs to scurry on board together, two by two.
1796 供 submit You have to SUBMIT all required documents together, in person!
1797 異 uncommon Brains together with beauty is an uncommon combination.
The thing about feathers is that they usually cover the entire bird. A creature with
1798 翼 wing feathers only on its wings would be very uncommon.
1799 洪 deluge Lots of water coming together is called a deluge.
1800 港 harbor During a deluge, all the poor snakes get washed into the harbour.
If you think of it as of outburst of an atomic bomb (which will also prove useful in the
next frame), then imagining thousands of suns blasting in one single outburst of rage
1801 暴 outburst and turning people into rice grains is not that hard.
1802 爆 bomb Actually means explosion, like an outburst of fire.
1803 恭 respect If you wanna stay together you have to show your valentine respect.
Isn't this how the US presedential election works? You are given a choice between two
snakes. Their politics are actually strung together but you get to feel as though you
chose which one you want to lead you down the political road for the next four years.
1804 選 elect So which snake are you going to elect?
Mr. President in his palace, ordering missiles to be fired at a harmless enemy in order
1805 殿 Mr. to unite us together under the flag.
I nearly died by falling in a well. Actually, on two separate occasions. I´m glad to see
1806 井 well they´ve added these fence posts. Now the well will be much safer.
1807 囲 surround The village surrounded the well with a wall so kids wouldn´t fall in.
1808 耕 till If you just grow your christmas tree in a well, there will be no need to till the soil.
In Asian countries, people use II chopsticks to get things into their mouths. Just
1809 亜 Asia imagine someone shoving a piece of sushi into their mouths with chopsticks.
Because Asian people started to eat Western food, their hearts became bad and they
1810 悪 bad started having heart attacks.
1811 円 circle The shape of a Yen coin.

A museum display of two walking sticks bound together under a glass canopy, showing
1812 角 angle the first device used to measure an angle.
For insects to get in contact with each other, they need to place their antennae at just
1813 触 contact the right angle.
Did you know that you can unravel a cow? If you stick the dagger in at exactly the
1814 解 unravel correct angle, the whole cow will just unravel.
The king has eaten too much and has to get a new belt again. See his fat rolls hanging
1815 再 again over?
I have a funnel attached to my laptop that takes my prof´s lecture and puts the words
into a text file. The bigger the funnel, the more accurate the conversion, so picture a
1816 講 lecture bunch of laptops with large, unwieldy funnels attached to the USB port.
Subscription is like a money funnel, because the receiving end is small (just one
1817 購 subscription company) and the other end is wide (the whole country).
1818 構 posture Ideal posture is standing tall like a tree and having a V shape like a funnel
1819 溝 gutter A gutter funnels water.

Right part: academic conference (a meeting, some of the attendees making notes in
scrapbooks during presentation). Argument at academic conferences is naturally
1820 論 argument carried out using words.
Mr. T talks about ethics at the academic conference. "I pity the fool who gets caught
1821 倫 ethics plagarizing someone else´s stuff!".
During a talk at the academic conference, speaker shows an introductory slide

1822 輪 wheel depicting the structure of car, and then moves on to the more narrow topic of wheels.
Mr. T is partial to konbini hentai. He reads them for hours every day after work at his
local konbini. (Primitive: KONBINI HENTAI, all the magazines(scrapbooks) by every
1823 偏 partial konbini door in Japan).
Go down the road in Japan and you will find comics EVERYWHERE, newpaper stands, 7-
1824 遍 everywhere 11, Tsutaya, even the supermarket. Comics are everywhere here along the road.
Raulir has a good idea. I prefer to think of the manga compilations as the individual
comics (serials from the anthologies) bound together with a coarse thread down the
spine, produced quickly and put on the market. Good way to recycle those pulpy
1825 編 compilation manga, and since when has the consumer not gotten screwed in Japan? ;-).
Pictograph. I think of that Harry Potter spell book that had to be bound shut coz it
1826 冊 tome wanted to eat you.
1827 典 code Coding is a tool which you can use to bend the computer to your will.
1828 氏 family name Looks a bit like Ft => Family title => Family name.
1829 紙 paper All that threads you to your family name is a piece of paper. (birth certificate).
1830 婚 marriage Marriage is the day in this woman´s life where she gets a new family name.
1831 低 lower A person bows low when presenting his business card.
Japan business etiquette tip: When someone hands you a business card, resist the
impulse to fiddle around with it with your fingers, and by all means resist the urge to
use the card to pick gunk from under your fingernails. Just examine it carefully, ask
politely about the (few by now) kanji that you don´t know, and put it away carefully in
1832 抵 resist a location that shows your counterparts how important they are to you.
1833 底 bottom I put all those useless business cards at the bottom of a cave.
1834 民 people All the people of the world with all their family names shouting with their big mouths.
1835 眠 sleep In an Orwellian sense, the eye watching the people never sleeps.
I was retreating from the battlefield. In the chaos, my friend threw his dogtags at me
to give to his family. I managed to catch them with my fingers as the chopper was
1836 捕 catch lifting off.
1837 浦 bay The water of the bay washes all the dog tags up after the battle.
Bulrush was the flower that you could see near almost all bays in japan before the
japanese started putting concrete everywhere. Just check how many percent of
1838 蒲 bullrush Japan´s coastline that is concretised... you´ll be surprised.
1839 舗 shop A shop in an impoverished country is just a cottage with a dog tag identifying it.
I usually hear supplement in "dietry supplement". So you´re given a cloak for extra
fibre and dogtags for extra iron. Keeps you regular and stops you feeling tired and run-
1840 補 supplement down.
The business card says his residence is just to the left of the city walls. Can you find it?
1841 邸 residence Yep, got it.
The city finally received the enclosure that it desperately needed, city walls to protect
1842 郭 enclosure it against attacks from the tall kids.
The old boy had never been outside of his own county because he couldn't get over
1843 郡 county the city walls.
The country folk and and the city folk mingle at the outskirts of town, just past the city
1844 郊 outskirts walls.
1845 部 section Within the city walls, this section of town was so noisy that we had to muzzle them up.
In a metropolis people are just puppets inside city walls, there is no individuality if you
1846 都 metropolis live so close together.
The drooping citywalls was generating a lot of angry mail for the city officials. Hint:
1847 郵 mail think "hate mail" and you will remember this one. [thx CharleyGarrett].
He reminisced about his home country: "Ah, back in my home country, the bushes
1848 邦 home country grew so high that they covered the city walls!".
Your hometown is where you broke out of your cocoon (born), and where you left
1849 郷 hometown when your hair was silver (died), your whole life was spent inside the city walls.
People´s voices are like echoes of sounds from their hometowns....you can always tell
1850 響 echo where they´re from by how they talk.
The daughter is a good girl that grows up to be a woman. The son is a good boy that
1851 郎 son grows up to defend the city walls.
1852 廊 corridor Your son plays in the corridor pretending he´s exploring a cave.
You paint 10 huge eyes on your shield to scare the enemy, but consequently your
1853 盾 shield shield is so big and heavy that you have to drag it.
This is mostly used in the word 循環, "circulation" (of buses through their routes, of
blood, etc). So I think of a column of little Roman soldiers with their shields marching
sequentially through the veins of a person, as an anthropomorphization of the
1854 循 sequential immune system.
Drag + rag gave me trouble until I came up with zombie for it. The zombie population
became more diverse, separating into different factions. One of them being the water
1855 派 faction Zombies.
The vein is the part of the body most lusted after by the flesh hungry zombies (drag &
1856 脈 vein rag - see revenantkioku frame 1855).
1857 衆 masses Masses of zombies, splattered with blood. (any zombie movie).
Picture a crude drag-sled - in this case, made from cornstalks that have been belted
together - filled with parcels, that the postman drags along behind him down the road
1858 逓 parcel post along his delivery route.
1859 段 grade This is a military-grade staple gun! It can be loaded with real missiles.
As a discriminating metalsmith, I use the highest grade metals when forging such
1860 鍛 forge precision devices as staple guns and missiles.
The empress is cruel. Normally she´ll violently pull her servants by the ear when
they´ve failed to follow orders. But one time she dragged this one guy around the
palace by the mouth. She must have been really angry—ever since that moment, he´s
1861 后 empress never been seen again.
After the play, The Phantasm of the Opera hangs up his cape on a clothes hanger and
1862 幻 phantasm returns to his cocoon to sleep.
The porn director has one big mouth. "Don´t bother putting your clothes on a hanger,
1863 司 director just get started.".
1864 伺 pay respects That person, being the director, is someone you need to pay your respects to.
Parts of speech act as word directors, giving it meaning and indicating its correct
1865 詞 parts of speech placement and usage in grammar.
1866 飼 domesticate When you DOMESTICATE a animal, you are the DIRECTOR of it´s life and what it EATS.
The lawyer called all the heirs into a meeting. Everybody else received cars, property,
and the like. When it got to be my turn the lawyer informed me I would be receiving a
scrapbook. My mouth dropped open. A scrapbook?! No Ferrari, no mansion,
...scrapbook?! Turns out the scrapbook was of my great uncle's company, and I had
been named the new director of the multi-million dollar business. My mouth literally
1867 嗣 heir hit the scrapbook when I learned I'd be director.
I see this kanji as a pictograph of a two story boat seen from the front. The glass
canopy is the body of the boat. The drop on top is the chimney. The horizontal line is
the ceiling/floor between the the 1st/2nd floor. Finally, the two drops in the middle
1868 舟 boat are the lights on the decks.
The most famous LINER is the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sunk. Just imagine
1869 舶 liner that huge LINER strucking an even huger mass of white ice.
1870 航 navigate To navigate a "boat" through a "whirlwind" takes a skilled navigator.

Carrier?! This means "general" (as in the general public or generally). OK.. Carriers, i.e.
1871 般 carrier boats with missiles, are not available to the general public.
1872 盤 tray What do you call a "CARRIER" of DISHes? A TRAY.

When workers neglect workplace safety, their fingers get cut off and carried away by
1873 搬 conveyor the conveyor belt, which looks like a ´finger carrier´ in that case.
1874 船 ship A boy floats his toy boat in a gully and imagines it as an immense ship.
The warship towers over the smaller benign boats, overseeing their safe path from
1875 艦 warship port to port.
1876 艇 rowboat Rowboats are a classic way to court (go on a date with) someone...
何これ???? ok, sorry to be crude... if you claw at a girls melons, she is gonna give you
1877 瓜 melon the elbow.
When you use a bow to shoot a melon, the arc varies depending on how far away you
1878 弧 arc are.
1879 孤 orphan An orphan will never know the joys on sucking on his mother´s melons........
This is a simple two-column manga showing the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a
cocoon. First, the caterpillar gets under a large flower (bees tend to hang around
flowers, which scare away other predators). Then, in the first frame, we see the
caterpillar (insect). Then, a bar separating this frame from the next frame (remember
that Japanese manga run the other way!), in which we see the insect covered with
1880 繭 cocoon thread, making a beautiful cocoon.
The benefit of having sharp horns and fast legs is that an animal can get to the food
1881 益 benefit dish first.
Some jackass-like people have way too much spare time. You can find video´s of them
all over the internet, if you like such things, you can watch it all day. You see them
stapling their mouths shut, or throwing eachother upside down in boxes or kicking
1882 暇 spare time each other in the crotch.
Instead of being glued to one specialty (#46) 専, I decided to spread my attention in
1883 敷 spread many directions 方, and be a taskmaster at none.
1884 来 come You horny bastard, don´t come, at least not yet!
You´re reclining on the floor trying to hook a sheaf with a small hook through the
cracks. That you´ve been doing this for seven hours without success shows your
1885 気 spirit burning spirit.
1886 汽 vapor Water vapor almost looks like a spirit but has no soul.
Hooks with small wings attached look like hummingbirds with a long beak. Two
hummingbirds are trying to fly away with our little measuring box. What do they want
1887 飛 fly it for?
(thx geezer) The maimed waitress (no head and arms just her legs and trunk) is
dropped into the water with a cement crown to make sure she sinks. She shouldn´t
1888 沈 sink have been so nosy about her yakuza-boyfriend´s schemes.
Ten rakes woman. your wife digs her fingernails into you and it feels like 10 rakes
1889 妻 wife when she finds you ontop of another woman.
If you thought that the dude in 哀 was pathetic, you haven´t seen him after his
decline. Here he is carrying a stick around in his mouth like a dog, begging people to
throw it for him. Note that the mouth is closed only after the stick goes in, as is only
1890 衰 decline logical.
The guy from pathetic (#401) shared his inmost feelings with a girl and she rammed a
1891 衷 inmost walking stick down his throat. It ruptured his inmost organs.
If you´re wearing a mask, a hundred eyes can look at you but none of them will know
1892 面 mask who you are.
I asked the street vendor the price of the LEATHER jacket. He said TWENTY, but with
1893 革 leather my MOUTH, I talked him down to TEN. (correct stroke order).
1894 靴 shoes Leather shoes are nice because they change shape to fit your foot.
In the old west, animal skins were made into leather and their flesh was eaten, thus
using the whole animal, which viewed from the animal side could be taken as humans
1895 覇 hegemony asserting complete hegemony over them. All your base are belong to us.
1896 声 voice Having lost his voice, the samurai comunicated to his troops with a striped flag.
Picture of a person facing you. 口 is the head. His right arm is raised (your left), to give
you something from a tray 一. His legs ハ are below the tray. 呉れる、くれる, to
give: 伯父がこの時計を呉れました, "My uncle gave me this watch." Following -て
form of another verb, means "to do the favor of": 窓を開けて呉れませんか, "Won't
you open the window [do the favor of opening/kindly open the window]?" Usu.
1897 呉 give written in hiragana.
1898 娯 recreation A woman gives up her recreation time in order to raise a family.
1899 誤 mistake You must give words of apology when you make a mistake.
Think of a picture of someone steaming vegetables. On top you see the flowers of
cauliflower or something else that is being steamed. Underneath, the pan is
completely full of water. Below the pan is a floor - that's the hotplate - and under that
the oven fire. Caution: don't confuse with boil (#1257), or the steam radical in spirit
1900 蒸 steam (#1885).
To get someone to completely acquiesce it takes 3 dunks in the water before they
1901 承 acquiesce give.
Damn racoons ill show them. I put a snare in the bin as well as a few phosphorous
1902 函 bin sparklers so as to scare the shit out of the buggers as they rummage through my bin.
Can simplify this using decay (#1243). Then: The expedition to the poles is bad for your
health, and the decay that started in your mouth spreads to your crotch – at which
1903 極 poles point you fall to the floor.
The kanji looks like an elephant with tusks. the box is the elephant´s eye. The final
1904 牙 tusk stroke is the tusk.
1905 芽 bud Buds while they´re still small tend to be tusk-shaped.
1906 邪 wicked The wicked queen builds her city walls out of menacing tusks.
Goodness gracious! Such an elegant turkey with a tusk. This mnemonic is meant to
join RtK´s keyword with a better proposition. Heisig could have used "elegant" here,
which is not confounded so easily with graceful (#721), and accurately represents the
character´s meaning (it is also the chosen keyword in Kodansha´s Kanji Learner´s
1907 雅 gracious Dictionary).
Animal track primitive: As expected, animal tracks were left in place of the trail of rice
I´d purposely dropped the night before. EDIT - also try the footprint for a primitive
meaning, the classic symbol of detective films. STORY: This shakuhachi player is so
talented, he can do interpretations of animal noises too. They´re so realistic he soon
1908 釈 interpretation has animal tracks leading straight to wherever he´s playing.
1909 番 turn The famers take it in turns to watch out for any animal tracks on their rice field.
At your divorce hearing the judge tells you to roll dice to see who keeps the house. ("I
1910 審 hearing can´t believe what I´m hearing!" you say).
Flipping the bird: After finding out the dice is crooked, you kindly present the middle
1911 翻 flip feather to the dealer.
This character refers to feudal clans that were abolished in 1871 (Meiji 4) in favor of
prefectures (廃藩置県), and thus were predecessors of the modern prefectures. As
we know from 落, flowers and water drops each have their own way of falling. This
character says that clans´ location was decided in the way flowers, water drops and
dice fall: at random. See
1912 藩 clan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28country_subdivision%29.
I´ve heard of people having hair on the back of their hands, but this is ridiculous!
1913 毛 fur That´s not hair, that´s fur!
The amount of "fur" (needles) on a Christmas tree decreases, until it doesn´t look all
1914 耗 decrease that good.
1915 尾 tail A dog waves its furry tail like a flag.

This kanji is, of course, pronounced "taku", and it seems the owner of this home is a
little bit otaku himself. He has hung up locks of hair suruptitiously obtained from
various females all over his house. A veritable hair fetishist, and certainly someone
1916 宅 home whose home you wouldn´t want to visit.
When you consign a matter to someone, you get their word and a lock of their hair (to
1917 託 consign be used in a voodoo ritual if they don´t keep their word).
In this kanji, you can see 3 katakana characters: ソ, ユ, and then ユ again followed by
TAIL FEATHERS. STORY: "So (ソ) you (ユ) wanna DO it?" "Only if you (ユ) do" says the
1918 為 do female bird as she raises her TAIL FEATHERS.
A person who claims he didn't do something while he actually did, is telling a
1919 偽 falsehood falsehood.
1920 長 long The Geisha with long hair uses an ornate lacquered hairpin to bundle it all up.
1921 張 lengthen The longbow is follows the design of a standard bow, only it has been lengthened.
In ancient China books were rolled-up scrolls of paper. So notebooks were nothing
1922 帳 notebook more than long towels.
1923 脹 dilate Taking Viagra let´s your blood vessels dilate...resulting in a body part getting long.
Japanese teenage girls consider the style of the hair of the head very important. If a
particular style is trendy, soon they all want their own hair in the same shape as that
1924 髪 hair of the head of their friends.
1925 展 unfold Unfold flag, take out the salad, pin the flag down with hairpins and have a picnic.
I miss my parents dearly. Here they lay, under a big cross, their mouths side by side. I
stick hairpins in their graves. CAREFUL: the stroke order/primitive order is: ten, L
1926 喪 miss mouth, R mouth, hairpin. "Soil" is not drawn in its stroke order.
1927 巣 nest The nest atop of a tree contains the fruit of the owl: its offspring.
Owls are smart...for this owl everything is simple coz his brain is ten times more
1928 単 simple powerful than mine.
1929 戦 war George W. Bush´s plans for war were so SIMPLE. To him, its all just a big FIESTA.
Knowing ZEN’s emphasis on “nothingness,” it’s not hard to envision a ZEN ALTAR being
1930 禅 Zen quite clean and SIMPLE.
Hunting with a bow is too complicated. I´m switching to something simpler--using a
1931 弾 bullet bullet.
I was taking a picture of my girlfriend under the cherry tree during 花見, when an owl
happened to poop on her at the exact moment the shutter snapped. It´s really my
1932 桜 cherry tree favorite picture , just don´t tell her that.
The owl looks for its prey in the rice field. It sees so many potential animals to eat but
since it only has one mouth, it decides that the tasty looking chihuahua will be its meal
1933 獣 animal for tonight. (adapted from Copycatken,1-9-2006).
The brain is the part of the body that can give you the wisdom of the owl... or the
1934 脳 brain wickedness of the villain.
When I am in trouble, my state of mind is on two sides: 1. The wise part of me (owl) 2.
The villain part of me (villain) Think of the devil and the angel on your shoulders in a
1935 悩 trouble troubled situation.
This represents a stern looking owl, perched up on a cliff. This cliff is quite famous for
daring individuals to cliff dive off of, but is any of them daring enough to threaten the
1936 厳 stern owl?
1937 鎖 chain The chain on this chainsaw is made of little metal shells.
The owl was asked to raise his hand if he needed anything, but he had a wing, not a
hand! So he made a tool that looked like a hand which he used when he needed to
1938 挙 raise raise his hand. For raiseing, owl has a tool hand.
This owl´s reputation skyrocketed after he created a tool in order to speak human
1939 誉 reputation words.
[game-hunting; shooting; game; bag] According to unicode.org and wwwjdic, 鼡 and
鼠 (mouse (#2065)) are variants. So, for 鼡 (which I´ll call rat) I have: an owl, flying in
the wind, can easily spot a rat even if it´s hiding in the cornstalks. Now 猟 is easy: wild
1940 猟 game hunting dogs are having fun by game-hunting rats.
1941 鳥 bird There is only one bird with such beautiful white tail feathers: the albino peakcock.
1942 鳴 chirp A chirp is quite simply the sound that comes from the mouth of birds.
Do you know how cranes came to be? Well, they used to keep the poor bird cooped all
the time. But the crane really wanted to be free, so it would always streatch its head
1943 鶴 crane and neck out of the coop trying to be free.
The book´s story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting:
As crows are all black, it´s hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke
1944 烏 crow is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be.
In the jungle there is a flowery vine called hedera rhombea that attracts humming
1945 蔦 vine birds by the dozens. They scoot around the flowers sucking up nectar off the vine.
Feed one pigeon and nine more birds will be swarming you
1946 鳩 pigeon immediately…　RTK2:　On list of rare or no official Chinese reading.
There are two types of birds often compared to husbands. Yes there are a few vultures
out there, but most husbands are CHICKENS. 鶏【にわとり】 (n) (domestic) chicken,
1947 鶏 chicken (P) 鶏肉【けいにく】 (n) chicken meat, (P).
This island is the home of the terrible mythical bird Roc. It sits mighty atop the
1948 島 island mountain waiting for the next hapless ship to pass by.
Note: Just confirming Heisig has confused these two characters. This is used primarily
1949 暖 warmth for weather and climate (and colours).
You want to know about a beautiful woman? There´s a woman that´s so beautiful, the
1950 媛 beautiful woman birds migrate to her instead of the sun!
1951 援 abet You abet the escape of migrating ducks by pointing them the way.
[slacken; loosen; relax; lessen; be moderate; ease] The thread in this story is a cable
line, something like a power or phone line. The thread was tense with all the migrating
ducks perched on it, but got back to being slackened when the entire flock flew away.
1952 緩 slacken (darg_sama-modified,2-11-2005).
These bugs BELONG TO an extremist group promoting insect independence. They are
parading the FLAG of their group, the Nationalist GNATS, and wearing explosives
1953 属 belong BELTS for their planned terrorist war.
Entrust is to confer trust in someone else. My mouth belongs to you and your secret is
1954 嘱 entrust safely entrusted with me.
Mr. T accidentially stepped on Jiminy Cricket (a brainy insect, with a belt sort of sash to
1955 偶 accidentally hold his "conscience" badge).
On the road to my interview I accidentally bump into Jiminy Cricket who gives me
1956 遇 interview some good advice.
Don´t be foolish! says Jiminy Cricket as he lashes you with his belt. Follow logic, like
1957 愚 foolish me, not your heart.
If you behave badly at THE PINNACLE, JIMINY CRICKET will send you to sit in the
1958 隅 corner corner.
There´s a road that´s been inverted- it´s gone from horizontal to directly vertical! The
1959 逆 inverted only beast that could possibly climb it is a mountain goat of course.
This guy is such a gifted sculptor. He can model a MOUNTAIN GOAT and a MOON with
1960 塑 model just SOIL mold.
White mount , Fuji mount , olympus mount whatever ....The choice is yours but
wherever you go they sell those snowglobe souvenir : under a GLASS HOOD you can
see the mount with a MOUTAIN GOAT standing on top of it .... So kitsch you just can´t
1961 岡 Mount forget it .
1962 鋼 steel Mount Fuji is completely made up of a metal known as steel.
1963 綱 hawser A sturdy thread is equally obviously hawser (heavy rope). (see previous frame).
Mount everest is very sturdy, you can hit it all day with a saber and it wont even
1964 剛 sturdy wobble.
Horses kept in the mountains have a unique savory taste. At least so the text on this
1965 缶 tin can tin can would have us believe, which contains 100% authentic mountain horse.
Pottery is used for food preservation, the pinnacle of which today is food bound up in
1966 陶 pottery tin cans.
Primitive: A condor is like a vulture but twice the size and lives in mountainous regions
(+1 Elphalpo). Story: I swing my fingers back and forth, trying to fend off the attacking
1967 揺 swing condor.
Noh chanting?!? I meant "NO CHANTING!" Now all you, just shut up! Not another
word! Don´t you know that chanting can provoke attacks from the local condor? So, no
1968 謡 Noh chanting chanting, and especially no Noh chanting.
In the capital they have been having hearings concerning bioethics and bioengineering
1969 就 concerning they call as their first witness a chihuahua with one human leg.
The skunk here is Pepe LePew of Looney Tunes fame. He´s a very sociable skunk, as far
as skunks go, but instead of having a "heart of gold" he has a heart of silver (since he
1970 懇 sociable always finishes second in the game of love).
It was the groundbreaking of the new farm, but there was an uninvited guest to the
ceremony. It was a famous skunk, the one with the familiar silver stripe. The feet of
the crowd rushing from the ceremony site churned up the soil very nicely. The
1971 墾 groundbreaking ceremony was ruined but the groundbreaking was a great success.
Obviously this is the rabbit from Alice, excusing himself and rushing away on his legs,
as he has a binding day schedule. This is at the same time an image, with bound=ears,
1972 免 excuse day=head and legs are just legs. The image is used in rabbit (#2093).
Word play to differentiate elude/evade: elude ~= e-lewd. Alice is following Mr. Rabbit
on the road. Mr. Rabbit flashes her in a lewd way and disappears, completely eluding
1973 逸 elude her.
1974 晩 nightfall At nightfall the sun excuses itself and goes to sleep.
1975 勉 exertion When RABBITS hop around, they EXERT tremendous force using their MUSCULAR legs.
1976 象 elephant An elephant has huge ears, like a rabbit, and a big, fat body, like a sow.
1977 像 statue Statues of people are made the same size as statues of elephants.
Turkey with the drops at the top removed and tail feathers added (this matches stroke
order and there are the tail feathers already, why not have the whole bird). If you take
the two drops of 隹 as wings, then horses are like turkeys, but have no wings and have
1978 馬 horse more prominent tail "feathers". Both are actually supposed to be pictographs, though.
1979 駒 pony The new My Little Ponies show is all about magic horses who utter cute catch phrases.
We just verification that there are indeed no soldiers in the belly of this trojan horse.
1980 験 verification We´re just gonna stab it in the belly with this awl to check.
1981 騎 equestrian Equestrian events are where you get horses to do strange things.
In the olden days you had to park your horse next to a candlestick, a primitive parking
1982 駐 parking meter that you start by lighting a fire and tracks the time by burning down.
You have to be craaazzzzyy to drive a buggy led by a team of horses through a ward of
1983 駆 drive Tokyo!
Anyone living in Japan knows that train stations play little melodies when the train is
about to arrive. In Ye Olden Days, when horses and carriages were used for transport,
the carriage driver would play a little melody on his shakuhachi to let the passengers
1984 駅 station know the carriage was arriving at the next station.
Or more precisely: the team of horses are getting boisterous because one of them got
bitten in the crotch by a horse fly. The kanji also means to roar, make up noise, to kick
1985 騒 boisterous up a fuss and to make merry. Perhaps it is exactly the etymology behind this kanji.
1986 駄 burdensome If a passenger is too plump and heavy, its too burdensome for the horse.
1987 驚 wonder You stand in AWE at the 8th WONDER of the world, a huge TROJAN HORSE.
A fervent horse doesnt need to be whipped with a bamboo stick during a race, it will
1988 篤 fervent go fast by itself.
Flesh+quarter=McDonald´s quarter pounder. Due to inflation, McDonald´s has had to
1989 騰 inflation start making quarter pounders out of horse meat.
Magic wand + first two strokes of pelt (皮) + diced + human legs. A wizard who turns
people he doesn´t like into newts with his magic wand goes for variety - he has always
wanted a tiger pelt - but things go awry when the tiger promptly dices and eats him,
1990 虎 tiger leaving only a pair of legs. (a fitting end for a wicked wizard).
Captive men are thrown to the tigers. I think you can imagine something else is done
1991 虜 captive to captive women...
1992 膚 skin Ending up in a tiger´s stomach is not good for your skin, as it´s full of stomach acids.
In Japanese folklore there is no hell, but there is the void. There, a row of tigers waits
1993 虚 void in the blackness to devour those souls who have failed in their spiritual life.
This is a story about the end of the universe. The universe is turning into a featureless
void. There´s nothing we can do about it except for throw a fiesta and frolic a little bit
1994 戯 frolic before it´s all over.
1995 虞 uneasiness I feel a sense of uneasiness about giving this HUGE tiger a steak.
Real meaning: "to ponder". You have to think with prudence (ponder carefully) about
1996 慮 prudence approaching a tiger, as is evident from 虎.
There would be a lot of drama if a tiger tried to eat a sow but then the sow attacked it
1997 劇 drama with a saber.
Here we see the evil tyrannizing tiger. What is on his chest? A giant E, for EVIL, of
1998 虐 tyrannize course.
Bambi wanders into a cave and sees a side order of salad and 2 spoons...but what´s
1999 鹿 deer the main course?
Customer in restaurant asks you (waiter) what you recommend: "I recommend ze deer
or ze 'eadless chicken. And I recommend you garnish it wiz some flowers." (let last six
2000 薦 recommend strokes = headless chicken).
The hunter experienced jubilation when the deer with melancholy walked up to him
2001 慶 jubilation and said, "just shoot me, whats the point in running. Everyone dies someday..."
The anthropologist made an exact deer painting from the cave ceiling on the ceiling of
2002 麗 lovely his house. Too bad they´re both mediocre. All his wife could say was, "How...lovely.".
Most don´t know it, but bears have the ability to walk on fire. They´re invincible
2003 熊 bear creatures!
This man may have the dis-ability of no flesh below the elbows, but he can eat with 2
2004 能 ability spoons, on in each foot.
2005 態 attitude This guy has an attitude problem – lots of ability, but his heart´s not in it.
I don't know why but when I read sign of the tiger I get the "eye of the tiger song"
stuck in my head. So I see rocky training in his house. Hes hitting the ceiling (no
punching bag) eating brussel sprouts to keep in good health and running with only the
2006 寅 sign of the tiger animal legs his dog.
Studies have shown that Rocky's PERFORMANCE increases if he downs WATER mixed
2007 演 performance with gatorade while in a match.
I'm going with the Mortal Kombat Symbol, as it's the closest thing to a sign of the
dragon I know. In that game, there's a place called the pit to which you can throw your
2008 辰 sign of the dragon opponent on round two, but only with a hairpin punch.
If you get too close to a fire-breathing dragon, your skin can turn red from the burn.
When someone is embarrassed, it's as though they have this sign of the dragon stuck
2009 辱 embarrass to their face.
An earthquake is a sign that a dragon is awakening after a heavy rain... It is angry for
2010 震 quake having been woken up and it makes the earth thunder and quake above it.
2011 振 shake Your mother shakes herfinger violently - no, no, no - no Mortal Kombat today!
2012 娠 with child A woman who is with child can't be sacrificed to the dragon; virgins only need apply.
Sign of the Dragon + Mouth: Lips need chapstick during the wintertime so they don't
2013 唇 lips look like the sign of the dragon who kissed you on the mouth.
Imagine if you could bend a dragon to your will. Helpful in war, yes, but also a boon for
agriculture. The dragon could use its sharp claws to plough the ground, and use its
firey breath to clear the land. But first you'd have to bend the dragon to your will -- not
2014 農 agriculture an easy task.
The agriculture of Florida is concentrated on making concentrated orange juice. Just

2015 濃 concentrated add water! Imagine a can of FCOJ, dumping it into a pitcher and adding water.
The St Bernard with devilish animal horns must be non other than Cerberus, guard dog
of the netherworld. In this frame Cerberus is seen along the road to hell, escorting
2016 送 send off those who have been sent off to join Hades in his realm.
At the airport, the woolly mammoth was too big. When he tried to go through his
2017 関 connection flight's gate he got stuck and missed his connecting flight.
The mouth of the wooly mammoth was so big and furry that plants would actually
2018 咲 blossom grow and blossom there.
鬼(おに) is not a ghost. An ogre or a troll would be a more fitting translation. Such a
thing has but a drop of brains and uses its legs and elbows as deadly weapons (a
2019 鬼 ghost concept which should be familiar from the license (#765) to kill). I'll use "ogre" for this.
2020 醜 ugly The ugly oni can´t get a date so he drinks sake by himself at the bar.
When you die, your SOUL either goes to the RISING CLOUDS (heaven) or to the ONI
2021 魂 soul (hell, the devil).
This modern version of the witch lives in some hippie community. She smokes a lot of
hemp, and spends the day talking to ghosts, which not surprisingly appears only to
2022 魔 witch her.
Ghosts have not yet left the world, they must still have a deep fascination with their
2023 魅 fascination past life on Earth.
Without any weapons, our only defense was to throw clods of dirt at the advancing oni
horde. (Adapted from dingomick because zombie was used as a primitive for
2024 塊 clod drag+rag).
The top 16 strokes are the chinese radical for "dragon". Joining up both meanings of
the radical we can name the top part of this kanji "imperial dragon". Two-headed
snakes do exist as biological curiosities, and they look a bit like a slingshot (with the
heads splitting at a junction). Our imperial dragon here, the pet of a Chinese emperor,
is a rare "three-headed slingshot-snake" kept in a vase and fed with meat. When the
2025 襲 attack emperor attacked neighbours, his army wore the imperial dragon garment.
To upbraid someone, you criticize them in a menacing way. In other words, you jaw at
2026 嚇 upbraid them with your MOUTH until both sides of their face turn RED (hence the double-red).
The queen is not happy. "We (majestic plural) are not amused that the hunger for the
flesh of the wooly mammoth has caused it's extinction. Poor Charles is particularly
2027 朕 majestic plural upset.
The part of the sky that is responsible for weather and rain is known as the
2028 雰 atmosphere atmosphere. It only occupies part of the sky though.
Dragon Quest - You find a hardened bamboo stick, perfect for a weapon, but you can´t
2029 箇 item pick it up because your items are full.
In the East, especially Japan ...there are masters of tempering metal to great
strength....on the Spring of Trivia show in Japan I saw how a Japanese sword ...actually
2030 錬 tempering split flying bullets...all because of special Eastern tempering techniques.
You must abide by the revered rules of the road! No devil´s brew and stay glued to
2031 遵 abide by your lane in the road!
2032 罷 quit Hey, screw you! Don´t you look down on me! I have the ability to quit anytime I want!
2033 屯 barracks The game characters from Worms sleep in their barracks at night.
Moreover is a literary term to shelve what you had just been talking about, to come
2034 且 moreover back to it later.
Goods + wood = paper. You know how nori, ie: seaweed, comes in sheets for putting in
your ramen or for your sushi? Well that's because it's water paper! Seaweed is also a
2035 藻 seaweed sea flower of sorts, so it all just works out.
In an attempt to free them from being slaves to their desires, the samurai stands
behind the altar likening a clear mind to a sieve that lets only the purest thoughts
2036 隷 slave through.
(Think rpg!) We were in dire need of healing. Our party was fighting the cavemen, but
we didn't fare too well. It was more like a butcher's meeting than a fight... just as they
were about to pierce my heart, luckily a priest came along and used his healing spell in
2037 癒 healing the nick of time (#2433).
How about a rusty cinnabar colored dilapidated boat, found abandoned somewhere.
2038 丹 cinnabar The smoke-stack and the keel have fallen off...
Right part: mortar bound up over oven fire, comprising boiling cauldron. Lagoon is a
2039 潟 lagoon shallow pond, thus easily warmed by sun, large-scale equivalent of a boiling cauldron.
Pictograph of a stanchion, which includes two vertical posts to restrain cows so they
can be milked, with a horizontal stroke showing the number of cows per stanchion:
one. A stanchion is a great symbol for the SIGN OF THE COW, since modern,
2040 丑 sign of the cow domesticated cows are often stanchioned in barns.
You know how missing childrens´ pictures often appear on milk cartons? Well here we
have a missing hare. His concerned family is having his picture printed on the backs of
2041 卯 sign of the hare receipts and even on stamps. So far, however, there has been no SIGN OF THE HARE.
2042 巳 sign of the snake The 巳nd! Thanks all.

Michael Jackson is the king of pop, wearing his crystal rhinestone glove (see detach
2043 璃 crystal (#1492).
I did it all by myself! Mr T stands there proud as holding a moray eel in his hand. He´s
brought down terrorist organisations, drug syndicates, but gets all worked up when
2044 俺 myself catching a fish... what a guy.
I removed all the back to back staples and grinded them in a mortar to create metal
2045 臼 mortar dust.
To "break the soil" is to make a symbolic gesture that indicates the beginning of
construction. Like when a politician in a hardhat gets a shovel and lifts a piece of dirt.
This particular project is behind schedule, so to speed things up, they blow it up with
2046 毀 break mortar and an air-to-ground missile.
Look, says the teacher in biology class. "The spinal column holds your flesh together,
just like the metal rod of this umbrella (he demonstrates this with an umbrella covered
2047 脊 spinal column in I-Ching symbols) holds the umbrella together".
The imperial seal is usually an impressive mark made with a jewel. However when the
letter arrives it has been raining on it and you see that the drops of rain have been
2048 璽 imperial seal transformed into little x’s where some animal legs have run over it.
If you don´t want to get bewitched (and who would?), then avoid any woman you see
carrying what might appear to be a sapling. It´s really a wand in disguise, and if you´re
2049 妖 bewitched not aware you might get bewitched.
2050 沃 irrigate You use water to irrigate your saplings.
2051 稽 training After a hard day of training, wheat is understandably delicious.

You ever wondered why this appeared as a primitive in so many RTK1 kanji? Well, you
should know that once a vulture grabs hold of a tree, he can never let go. Even Heisig
2052 采 grab couldn´t shake him loose.
A "chop shop" is a place where stolen cars are taken, and parts chopped off with an
2053 斬 chop off axe, to be sold.
If it looks like a towel, speaks like a towel and walks like a towel... I wonder why Heisig
2054 巾 towel didn´t include this one (as an actual kanji) in RtK 1.
To a big guy like Mr. T, eating a whole cabbage at once is nothing. "What? a cabbage?
2055 僅 trifle That's just a trifle, foo, where's the meat?".
Mr. T don´t take a partner, especially one with no spine. "I pity da foo got no spine",
2056 侶 partner he says.
Mr T is dancing and singing and all that, but he´s doing it on a branch. All that talent
2057 伎 performing artist and can still still keep his balance? That´s a real performing artist.
2058 凄 nifty His wife has a nifty way of making all types of ice cream in her home freezer.
The secrets of metallurgy and smithing: get your redhot metal and bang it against the
2059 冶 metallurgy pedestal as an anvil. Then cool it quickly with lots of ice.
The kendo artist takes a brief moment to practice his skills: he throws sheafs over the
2060 刹 moment tree and tries to cut them with his saber when they come down again.
2061 剥・剝 peel off Peel off the outside of the broom that sweeps up rice grains to reveal a saber.
2062 匂 aroma The muchacho sits down bound up to enjoy his own aroma.
2063 勾 hooked Your elbow is bound up so that your biceps will stay flexed.
When I wake up, I am always late, so I hurry to work. With a bad case of perpetual
2064 嘲 derision morning breath, I am the subject of derision at my office whenever I open my mouth.
You can´t breathe very well, so the doc looks inside your mouth to find the cause. "Oh,
2065 咽 windpipe I see the cause of your windpipe blockage. There´s a St Bernard penned up in there!".
I think of "clearing your throat". Some stuffy guy opens his mouth to clear his throat so
2066 喉 throat the marquis can speak.
2067 唾 saliva When some people are sleeping, their mouths droop open, and saliva drips out.
Caution: this means a spell, not to swear. I put a curse on my elder brother so that he
2068 呪 curse can never open his mouth.
The new generation of pop songs have no depth. They just mouth empty lyrics to get
2069 唄 pop song money. Not like the pop songs of my day.
2070 叱 scold A kid gets scolded if they don´t put the spoon properly into their mouth when eating.
After our pre-Thanksgiving massacre, we piled high all the turkey corpses atop the soil
2071 堆 piled high of the farmyard.
In a hole in the ground, the body of the victim was placed. And then the killer stuffed it
2072 填・塡 inlay up so that the truth would not be found out, he hoped.
2073 妬 jealous The jealous woman bashed the brains in of the guy who betrayed her, with a stone.
2074 嫉 envy If you go through women rapidly you will be the object of envy.
The A/C wasn´t making the house cold because the filters had been blocked up with
2075 塞 block up dirt.
The baseball team stick flags in their buttocks and wave them at the opposing team to
2076 尻 buttocks put them off.
Standing at the base of the bluffs I announce, "I´m going to climb those ivy-covered
cliffs, and then the mountain on top of them." My friends don´t believe me, "He
2077 崖 bluffs bluffs!" they say.
The bow dug more and more into the small of his back as he reclined on it. Will
2078 弥 more and more someone please tell the idiot to get up?
In the busy pub, one of the dart players shoved his dart into my elbow by accident
2079 挨 shove when it nearly slipped out of his fingers.
Ever try WRENCHING a bolt with just your FINGERS? Trust me, you´ll WISH you had a
2080 捻 wrench wrench for WRENCHING to save your FINGERS.
2081 拭 wipe Why carry a handkerchief? I wipe my nose finger-style.
2082 捉 nab I felt a finger on my leg as someone tried to nab my wallet.
The old lady said that there was a flood imminent, because her fingers hurt in the
2083 拶 imminent evening.
Come on people, the only way to make headway in this business is to let your fingers
do the walking! bust out the yellow pages and dial as many numbers as possible,
2084 捗 make headway surely someone is a sucker for a cold call sell.
2085 憧 yearn A paedophile´s state of mind is to yearn for juveniles.

The courageous man who went into the water to save a drowning victim couldn´t be
2086 湧 bubble up seen, except by the air that bubbled up.
2087 沙 grains of sand Wet sand is simply sand but to see beautiful grains of sand, the water must be few.
The vulture is on top of the porter and appears to be commiting a lewd act, so I throw
2088 淫 lewd water over the pair of them.
It´s a widespread belief that they cannot find fingerprints on a body that has been
2089 氾 widespread deposited in the water.
Weak people placed in the water start drowning. Get some strength in those arms and
2090 溺 drowning learn how to swim!
I couldn´t find any reference to this kanji as meaning cleanse. It seems to be most
often used in the following compound 沙汰（さた）to mean affair. The other
meanings seem to be closer to ´select´ so maybe Heisig meant cleanse in the ethnic
sense here.. I´m going to use the keyword "selection", as in natural selection. Story:
natural selection first began in the water, and those that were too plump were
2091 汰 cleanse selected out.
Man continues to defile precious water and it may prove to be his downfall (Think of
2092 潰 defile Exxon, BP, etc.).
Yeah, all our water is fairly mediocre, but if we work together in some pan-continental
2093 汎 pan- union, we can make some better water! As if.
2094 釜 cauldron Your father uses his legs to stop himself from being put in a metal cauldron.
When her home was invaded by a pack of dogs, the little girl climbed on the shelf and
2095 狙 aim at aimed various items at the dogs below.
Oh, the committee´s in for a surprise: I put some nightshades into their drinks. They´ll
2096 萎 numb be numb for sure, probably worse.
2097 蔽 cover over You cover over the shredder with flowers when the FBI comes a-knockin´.
My favorite are heart shaped candles that smell like sweet flowers. The trick is to find
2098 芯 wick one with a thick wick, they give off the most flower scent (but burn the quickest).
2099 藍 indigo Indigo flowers have to be overseen because they are often picked for their beauty.
How many flowers can I stuff in your nostrils? Well I´m just gonna have to go and see.
2100 苛 bullying Bullying at its worst!
The lid of this dish is gone! Now the whole room smells of the flowers that were used
2101 蓋 lid in the cooking.
They gays were reviled by society, so they put flowers above their eyes and marched
2102 蔑 revile around.
Flower, siesta: The muchacho was not careful. He passed the warning signs and
decided to hold a siesta in the kudzu field. The kudzu grew so fast, he was completely
covered by it in a few hours and not able to escape. Now, the kudzu flowers mark his
2103 葛 kudzu grave.
My parents aren´t at all modest about their grandchildren, at every opportunity they
2104 遜 modest take them on the road showing them off to their friends!
There was only one chink in his plan. Even standing atop the highest pinnacle, standing
2105 隙 chink above even the sun, the little man was still just as little as when he was under the sun.
2106 曖 unclear The sun´s love is equivocal: it warms yet burns us.
2107 昧 obscure Something that is obscure has not yet been brought before the light of day.
2108 旺 effulgent The Sun King (Louis XIV) was known for his effulgent reign.
When the sex slave misbehaves, threaten to sell his body parts starting with his
2109 腎 kidney kidney.
2110 股 thigh Where´s my flesh missile? Between my thighs, naturally...

Cowardice is the situation where you get the thought that maybe running away and
2111 臆 cowardice saving your flesh is a good idea.
Before lacquer (#932) was made with water, it was made by draining this body part of
2112 膝 knee fluid: the knee!
Sometimes I get carried away and do elbow curls until the point where my forearm
snaps off! When that happens I simply pull out the glue and re-attach the elbow to my
2113 肘 elbow flesh.
2114 腺 gland A body part that acts like a spring for hormones is a gland.
2115 腫 tumor A tumor is a useless body part that is nothing but heavy.
Some people insist that the serving maids who bring in the dining trays are especially
2116 膳 dining tray virtuous and never let any man touch their flesh.
The guy who was thrown into the river to sink was given one last request. "If I´m
gonna be sleeping with the fishes," he said, "can I at least have a pillow? I´m real
sensitive." The mafia bosses laughed. "Look, my doctor said I can only use wooden
pillows, I have a real serious condition. Can I at least die comfortable-like?" The mafia
dudes said fine, and let him have his pillow. They tossed him the river and drove
2117 枕 pillow off...and after a minute, he bobbed to the top, thanks to his floating wood pillow.
To the Japanese, the first time they saw a chair, it looked like a strange use of wood!
2118 椅 chair Probably why they still like to sit on the floor...
Nobody buys persimmons at the market, because there´s a tree in the middle where
2119 柿 persimmon you can pick them for free.
Girders are support beams that are nowadays mostly made out of steel. But in the
2120 桁 girder ancient houses that are placed at the boulevard the girders will be made out of wood.
I learned this one from the movie Evil Dead, but when it grows late, trees change
2121 梗 spiny shape and become spiny creatures! Lesson: don´t go out at night.
Why is the sweet oak so sweet? Not sure, but to me it tastes just like turkey (with
2122 椎 sweet oak gravy and cranberry sauce!) Now that is sweet.
A palisade is a "fence of stakes especially for defense," usually the stakes are very
strong, set closely together, and pointed on top. Tome can be seen as a pictograph of
2123 柵 palisade several close-set wooden stakes, braced by one horizontal bar.
2124 煎 roast In many asian restaurants, meat is roasted right in front of you over flames.
“The king has been detained by some marines!” “How do you know they were
2125 瑠 marine blue marines?” “Because they were wearing marine blue.”.
2126 斑 speckled Speckled is a pattern, like plaid, but with lots of little balls all over the place.
2127 弄 tinker with The king used both hands to tinker with himself in his spare time.
The ball was the only thing that people at the beginning of time had to use as a toy.
2128 玩 toy Poor cavemen.
The girl was apprehensive about going home, having lost her precious hairpin in the
2129 畏 apprehensive paddy field. But then, it wasn't like she'd lost both, just ONE...
The most horrific way to lose weight is from that devastating sickness that came from
2130 痩 lose weight a monkey's crotch.
I suffer from silver-sickness, that is, if anything made of silver even touches my skin it
2131 痕 scar leaves a scar.
2132 瞭 obvious Open your eyes, it's obvious that not all of us can fit into that small puptent!
2133 眉 eyebrow The eyebrows hover over the eyes like a divided flag.
After Osama blew a hole in NY, the counterreaction forced him to yield and retreat
2134 窟 cavern into caverns.
Something is residing in the hem of your cloak. Maybe you should consider cleaning it?
2135 裾 hem キョコすそ cuff; hem; foot of mountain.
2136 篭・籠 basket The only cage that can keep a dragon is made of bamboo.
Bamboo, lovedoll: At dinner, my lovedoll decided to eat her meal the Japanese way
using chopsticks. But well, what a problems she had getting those bamboo shoots into
2137 箸 chopsticks her mouth (which should not be that difficult, I would say!).
Even though his costume is coming apart at the seams as he chases the bad guys,
2138 綻 come apart at the seams Spiderman is still determined to catch them.
The gunwale is perhaps the most mysterious part of a boat for it is neither a gun nor a
2139 舷 gunwale whale.
2140 蜂 bee A bee is an insect with a pointy (see summit (#1562)) stinger.
In ancient Japan, the most grievous insult was to poke a rival´s horse in the eye
(consider how rare an expensive a steed was in those days). It was the final step in
2141 罵 insult preparation for a duel to the death.
At Thanksgiving, it’s uncommon for people to accept humbly the food: most people
2142 戴 accept humbly just dig in.
2143 謎 riddle Words meant to lead you astray are those of a riddle.
Do you remember that song where they say "Who let the turkeys out!? Gobble..
2144 誰 who gobble.. gobble"?
To fat, effete Japanophiles (cheerily munching on 肉まん in the back of the tour bus)
hearing the words of the tour guide "Now we will visit a shrine" elicits squeals of joy.
2145 詣 visit a shrine "Oooooh, how absolutely delicious!".
The words of the sovereign king inspire the people: never give up! Never surrender!
2146 諦 renunciation Okay...maybe it wasn´t a king.
2147 詮 elucidate Words that tell you the results of the whole story really elucidate.
Anyone who watched a looney tunes cartoon know those kind of scene : pepe
embraces a poor kitty mistaken for a SKUNK and the smell of pepe make the
unfortunate girl loose all countenance : she turns WHITE then runs as fast as her LEGS
2148 貌 countenance can carry her . So much for cat s dignity and countenance.
Fortune teller writes your fortune on a piece of paper and tells you to affix it to a shell
and throw into the ocean for it to come true. Picture licking the back of the shell like a
2149 貼 post a bill stamp and affixing it to the fortune.
It might sound simple to bribe someone, but then you have to graft the guy above him
2150 賂 graft and the guy below him, and soon you´re just giving shells to each and everyone!
2151 蹴 kick The soccer player was concerned that his peg leg would affect his ability to kick.
While the keyword is "hooch", this usually means 焼酎. It has similar effect as whiskey
2152 酎 hooch and sniffing glue has: you get intoxicated.
On awakening the first thing I notice is a (nearly empty) whiskey bottle by my bed.
Then I see the stars are still shining. “I think I’ll go back to sleep and try awakening
2153 醒 awakening again later.”.
2154 麺 noodles #NAME?

A gruesome kind of cauldron that Snape might have used is a metal pot in the shape of
2155 鍋 pot a skull.
2156 鍵 key The metal thing you need in order to enter things you build is a key.
I like to think of a horror movie where the protagonists enter a graveyard when
suddenly their flashlights go out and it becomes pitch dark, whereupon they hear the
2157 闇 pitch dark sound of the gate creaking shut behind them.
Ever chopped the head off an earthworm? Notice how it will grow back immediately!
2158 頓 immediate Beware the killer earthworms...
An alarm clock with a unique design: You set it for, say, 7:00 am, and at about that
2159 頃 about that time time the clock reaches out with a spoon and hits you on the head.
2160 頬・頰 cheek Your cheeks contain your jawbones, which are known as the "scissors of the head.".
Your chin is the part of your head under your nostrils that forms the double snare that
2161 顎 chin is your jaw.
2162 餌 feed Food made of ears is animal feed.
Call your friend and he answers the phone "Mochi, mochi!" whatever he is eating sure
is making it hard to understand. I will puzzle over the content of our conversation for
2163 餅 mochi some time to come.
2164 麓 foot of a mountain Many deer can be found in the grove at the foot of a mountain.
2165 冥 Hades The beast of hades one day will wear a crown, and the number of the beast is 666.
2166 挫 sprain I sprained my fingers when I sat in meditation (by sitting in a strange position).
You decide to go salmon fishing, so you ride a mountain goat to the top of the road.
2167 遡 go upstream Under the light of the moon, as it's illegal, you catch the salmon going upstream.
2168 爽 bracing The St Bernard is bracing itself for an operation requiring four stitches.
2169 勃 uprising An erection can shoot like a needle from its crown and has the power to make a child.
The remains consisted of a skeleton which had the remains of some acorns in its
2170 骸 remains stomach area. Whether it died from eating the acorns remains to be seen.
Your half-uncle is leading a parade of your relatives. (Note: 上 + 小 makes up part of
2171 戚 relatives "uncle" 叔, so I´ve called it "half-uncle".).
A little one is eating a domburi while standing over, looking down into, a WELL. He
drops it, and it falls down & down until it looks like nothing more than a DROP, landing
2172 丼 donburi at the bottom of the well!
2173 畿 capital suburbs People aside, I wonder how many rice fields there are in the capital suburbs.
1) I hold a roll of quarters in my hand when I make a fist. 2) I hold a quarter in my hand
2174 拳 fist as I prepare to play the Iron Fist Tournament: 鉄拳（てっけん） at the arcade.
The maestro lives on top of a large hill so that he can play music at over ten decibels
2175 阜 large hill without anyone giving a damn.
If you arrive with two swords at the city walls, expect some interrogatives before
2176 那 interrogative they´ll let you in.
Note: the spelling should be stationery (= paper, office supplies), not stationary (= not
2177 箋・䇳 stationery moving). The error is in the original book.
People who read the glossary are mutually exclusive (exclude the top line of mutually
2178 彙 glossary (#757) ) from those who eat crowned fruit イはりねずみ same kind 語彙.
2179 嗅 sniff Your mouth stinks: you need to sniff your breath.
Metaphorically speaking, all the equipment in your mouth is basically just a meeting of
2180 喩・喻 metaphor butchers, designed to pulverize whatever meat you put in there.
Obituary. As a famous man lay dying, the media were already preparing the words of
his obituary until a magician, with a wave of his wand, restored the man back to
2181 訃 obituary health.
Block letters (as opposed to cursive) are rigid and lifeless like wood; they're all the
2182 楷 block letters same size so that all can read them.
2183 諧 orderliness To have orderliness, your words must be in all the right places.
2184 錮 weld You weld metal in the knowledge that it will harden again.
2185 恣 selfish A selfish person doesn't care about the next person's heart, only their own.
2186 惧 disquieting My mind found the tool disquieting.
2187 憬 hanker My mind hankers for sunrise over the capital.
He quickly yanked his fingers out of the vase. Maybe no one noticed the attempt to
2188 拉 yank steal the cookies...
2189 傲 arrogance He showed his arrogance as he poured dirt on those who tried to emulate him.
2190 踪 trail A trail of destruction is left by pirates and religion invaders.
THREAD, DOTH. fine THREADS DOTH make fine cloth. Think of a Shakespearean
character stating this to someone else. Picture fine threads on one side of the picture
2191 緻 fine and an aftershot of a fine cloth.
Even more valuable and perfect (完璧) than a holed gem is a delicious meatball (ball =
2192 璧 holed gem たま = 玉) with ketchup. Yum!
When you clasp something you tenaciously 執 hold on to it with your hand 手, te.
2193 摯 clasp 真摯、しんし, sincerity, earnestness.
Whatever you covet at the moment (now), can be bought with money. Well, _almost_
2194 貪 covet anything....
Shudder. If chestnut trees were sentient, shudder would be their state of mind as the
tree shaker approaches. Note: Tree shakers are used commercially to harvest nuts and
2195 慄 shudder cider apples. A tree shaker makes a tree shudder causing all the ripe chestnuts to fall.
The bitter taste was so awful that I put whole bundle of spice in my mouth to get rid of
2196 辣 bitter it.
His sickness caused numerous carbuncles, which when emptied by the doctors also
2197 瘍 carbuncle emptied his piggy bank.
The scaredy-cat soldier puts his dog tags in his mouth and suckles them nervously. It
2198 哺 suckle sounds like he's a suckling infant.
The pixie, wearing a tin can crown, watches from the middle of the grove, the
sparkling villain approach. She sits down in gloom wondering if she belongs amongst
2199 鬱 gloom the trees, for she has never seen such a beautiful shape.
The sheep had his coat shaven in the winter and a sign of th cow branded on him. How
2200 羞 humiliate humiliating.

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# kanji keyword koohiiStory1

1 一 one One down, 2041 to go. ;).

11 口 mouth Looks like a huge open mouth.

12 日 day Open the window, new day.

14 田 rice field A rice field divided into four parts.

20 明 bright The sun makes the moon bright.

24 呂 spine Spine connects head and body.

28 世 generation 3 tens = generation.

32 亘 span The sun spans from horizon to horizon in a day.

33 凹 concave The letter "U" is concavely written.

39 中 in Pocky goes in the mouth.

40 千 thousand It takes many drops of ten to get to a thousand.

42 升 measuring box It is a thousand or ten? I need my measuring box.

44 丸 round Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten!

48 占 fortune-telling Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod.

50 下 below Roots are below the ground.

52 朝 morning There is mist as the moon fades away in the morning.

54 貝 shellfish Eye thought I saw a shellfish legging it down the beach!

60 頁 page A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head.

63 負 defeat Tied up, the shellfish had to accept defeat!

86 召 seduce A man is easily seduced by a mouth to his "sword.".

87 昭 shining Shining is the sun´s seduction.

99 好 fond A woman is fond of her child.

101 母 mama The two breasts of a momma who breastfeeds.

104 克 overcome Ten elder brothers can overcome anything.

109 夕 evening The evening is young, the moon is not full.

123 妙 exquisite Exquisite women are few and far between.

144 消 extinguish To extinguish a SPARK, you need WATER.

146 河 river A river CAN exist only if there is WATER.

172 漁 fishing You need WATER and FISH for fishing.

185 字 character CHILDren learn Kanji characters underneath a HOUSE.

200 枠 frame wood at 90 (9 * 10) degrees.

I believe a better version of that by mameha1977: [Cheat] Remember these as a set:

231 墓 grave The soil under a graveyard is full of graves.

255 王 king To be king you have to be a real crafty one !

262 呈 display The mouth of the king is displaying his bling.

265 理 logic The king of LOGIC is the computer.

266 主 lord A lord is a little drop down from King in hierarchy.

276 鎮 tranquillize Tranquilize - using a metal syringe to get the truth.

279 辻 crossing Cross-road.

294 客 guest Each person under my roof is treated as a guest.

336 警 admonish To admonish is to enforce awe by means of words.

348 読 read Read the WORDS used to SELL things.

411 錦 brocade Brocade is the art of sewing gold on a white towel.

489 望 ambition You´re dead meat, buddy, my ambition is to be king.

494 肪 obese Flesh in all directions = obese.

498 脱 undress HORNY TEENAGERS love to UNDRESS FLESH.

510 燃 burn Any sort of thing can burn in the fire.

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538 豚 pork Pork comes from the flesh of a sow.

555 着 don A pullover is donned by pulling wool over your eyes.

Newscast: "Among today´s miscellaneous stories, we have a report on a baseball team

586 回 #NAME? Write mouth two -times.

600 志 intention A samurai´s intentions always come from the heart.

632 憶 recollection Recollection is about bringing ideas back to your mind.

642 議 deliberation Careful deliberation produces words of righteousness.

659 指 finger Finger lickin´ delicious.

A muchacho puts up a notice that says “NO FINGER SNAPPING ALLOWED.

A pack of genetically-modified wild dogs is seized by a group of Greenpeace activists

710 殻 husk Samurai´s husk/shell/armour is superflous to missile attacks 甲殻 卵殻 貝殻.

(Adapted from darg_sama´s) Balancing a branch on your finger is the prototypical

730 浮 floating Floating rubber ducky!!!

755 到 arrival Http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7731/karatesd3.jpg Just look at this image...

803 波 waves Waves are the ocean´s pelt (skin).

710 殻 husk Samurai´s husk/shell/armour is superflous to missile attacks 甲殻　卵殻　貝殻.