Friday, June 17, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Kanji #223: Young

The young prefer to hold flowers with their right hand.

Kanji #222: Stock

Trees with a healthy vermilion glow would make a good stock.

Kanji #221: Vermilion

I honestly don't understand why Heisig chose to name this character as such, so I simply chose to remember this as it is.

Kanji #220: Younger sister

A younger sister is a woman who in popular culture usually has not yet reached maturity.

Kanji #219: Flavor

A new flavor is not yet established until the mouth discerns it to be so.

Kanji #218: Splash

Water splashing against rocks, at times stirring fear in those who dwell beside the sea who has seen tides reach a horrifying extremity.

Kanji #217: Extremity

Compared to the previous Kanji, this one has an extra long horizontal stroke to give a feel of something that is beyond a certain bound. 

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Kanji #216: Not yet

A shorter horizontal stroke to indicate "not yet".

Kanji #215: Parch

To parch a parchment made of "wood-goods" by exposure to fire.

Kanji #214: Banquet

A woman spending her time at the house all day to prepare a banquet.

Kanji #213: Calendar

By the cliff watching the trees change colors as the days go by marking the changes in a calendar.

Kanji #212: Tag

Trees are tagged with signs on fishhooks

Kanji #211: Book

This too is one of the most familiar Kanjis I've seen so I just memorize this as it is.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Kanji #210: Desk

Wind blowing papers away from wooden desk.

Kanji #209: Inter-

Tree-eye.

Kanji #208: Town

A town bounded by trees that look glued together.

Kanji #207: Crude

A crude magician's wand crafted from a tree.

Kanji #206: Wither

When a tree grows old, its bark starts to wither.

Kanji #205: Plant

A tree plant should be straightened out right away (straightaway).

Kanji #204: Paulownia

A tree named after monk Paul, paulownia.

Kanji #203: Apricot

Eating apricots the lazy way is to lie under a tree with one's mouth wide open.

Kanji #202: Shelf

The shelf crafted from a tree is a fitting companion to a row of books.

Kanji #201: Tree tops

Candles on trees to warn aircraft of the treetops.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Kanji #200: Frame

A frame made of wood from trees, making 9 x 10 angles at each corner.

Kanji #199: Oak

An oak tree's white body beneath the bark.

Kanji #198: Judas tree

Ivy vines clinging to the tree, perhaps like the rope used by Judas.

Kanji #197: Forest

More trees make a forest.

Kanji #196: Grove

Trees make a grove.

Kanji #195: Tree

I just remember this Kanji as it is. :)

Kanji #194: Savings

Keeping one's money in the house and hanging it by the nail is a peculiar way to amass savings.

Kanji #193: Wealth

Keeping one's wealth inside the house.

Kanji #192: Draw near

A house using its strangeness for people to draw near it.

Kanji #191: Banquet

It would take all day for a woman to prepare a banquet in her house.

Kanji #190: Relax

A woman inside a house is always mistakenly thought to just relax all day.

Kanji #189: Wee hours

Seeing candles lighted inside the house in the wee hours.

Kanji #188: Proclaim

To proclaim the news one must span many houses.

Kanji #187: Perfect

To have a sturdy house, one must have a perfect plan from the beginning.

Kanji #186: Guard

When one guards one's house, one sometimes feels that he is glued to it.

Kanji #185: Character

A child must develop his character while inside his house.

Kanji #184: Esteem

To put an ancestor's memory in high esteem by placing candles on top of its mummified head.

Kanji #183: Yonder

An alien-like presence yonder, with a helmet on.

Kanji #182: Trunk

A trunk is taken from the same "flesh".

Kanji #181: Den

Monks coming to their den in their watering hole.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Kanji #180: Same

This too is somewhat very commonplace, so I choose to just remember it as it is. 

Kanji #179: Bury

To dispose of a computer, one can only bury it in landfills where soil will be put on top of it.

Kanji #178: Rin

A rin is a quantity that is smaller than a ri. A computer thrown off a cliff will definitely lower its value to almost zilch too.

Kanji #177: Quantity

The amount of time and size represented by the nightbreak and ri, respectively, connotes quantity.

Kanji #176: Carp

Carp grown in a small cage for fish the size of a ri.