New Heisig Kanji's

Front 1

elbow

Back 1

肘

ひじ

Hint 1

Instead of the familiar "grease" we usually associate with the ELBOW of someone hard at work, the kanji gives us a PART OF The BODY that has been GLUED TO its task.

Front 2

derision

(Hohn, Spott)

Back 2

嘲

ちょう

Hint 2

The bad feeling created by words spoken in DERISION often leaves a bad taste in the MOUTH of the one who speaks them, kind of like the foul aftertaste that follows a night before of too much of the wrong stuff - or what we call MORNING MOUTH.

Front 3

pop song

Back 3

唄

うた

Hint 3

There is a lot of money to be made if one's SONGS are POPULAR. This is depicted here as a stream of CLAMS spewing out of the MOUTH of someone performing a POP SONG.

Front 4

post a bill

Back 4

貼

ちょう

Hint 4

The billboard is standing at the exit to a Chinese restaurant displaying the latest alternative to the traditional FORTUNE-TELLING cookies. Look closely and you will see rows of leftover shells of CLAMS with little slips of paper sticking out of them POSTED to the billboard.

Front 5

curse

Back 5

呪

じゅ

Hint 5

For some reason, the inventor of this kanji associtaed a CURSE with the MOUTH of an OLDER BROTHER.

Front 6

jealous

Back 6

妬

と

Hint 6

It should be hard to leap from the key word to the image of a WOMAN who is JEALOUS of the ROCK that another WOMAN is sporting on the third finger of her left hand.

Front 7

sniff

Back 7

嗅

きゅう

Hint 7

You have seen those scratch-'n-SNIFF advertisements for perfumes. This one is for a MOUTHwash that replaces one STINKING odor with another.

Front 8

gland

(Drüse)

Back 8

腺

せん

Hint 8

Dig into your FLESH and pull out a lymph GLAND. Now give it a squeeze and watch a SPRING of lymph spout out of it.

Front 9

pan-

Back 9

汎

はん

Hint 9

Instead of WATER sports event that brings together the best talent, think of a meet of the region's most MEDIOCRE athletes, many of whom cannot even tread WATER. Now try to find a sponsor for the "PAN-MEDIOCRE WATER Sports Competition".

Front 10

cleanse

Back 10

汰

た

Hint 10

Someone who is displeasingly PLUMP going to a skinny spa whose medicinal WATERS promise to CLEANSE him of his unwanted corpulence. Picture him sitting in the spa as the pounds melt away, leaving a greasy scum on top of the WATER.

Front 11

grains of sand

Back 11

沙

さ
すな

Hint 11

A FEW DROPS OF WATER that make for nice sand, here we have a FEW DROPS OF WATER, one for each GRAIN OF SAND - a beach in perfect ecological balance.

Front 12

inlay

Back 12

填

てん

Hint 12

TRUTH being INLAID in the SOIL.

Front 13

chair

Back 13

椅

い

Hint 13

Instead of making a CHAIR out of wood from a TREE, this kanji has us making the whole TREE into a CHAIR, which looks most STRANGE sitting in your living room where the sofa used to be.

Front 14

obscure

Back 14

昧

まい

Hint 14

The most OBSCURE ideas are those that the SUN of reason has NOT YET dawned on.

Front 15

bullying

(Mobbying)

Back 15

苛

か

Hint 15

A nosegay of FLOWERS make a nice gift, but if those flowers are poison oak, they CAN amount to BULLYING

Front 16

spinal column

Back 16

脊

せき

Hint 16

The SPINAL COLUMN has sprouted out of the FLESH of your back into an UMBRELLA that you always have with you, rain or shine. The pair of 2s on each side are the "ribs" of the UMBRELLA.

Front 17

toy

Back 17

玩

おも
がん

Hint 17

If, at some aboriginal level, TOYS R US, then the archetypal BALL must have been there at the BEGINNING, before evolving into beach balls, ping-pong balls, etc.

Front 18

effulgent

(strahlend)

Back 18

旺

おう

Hint 18

The radiant, EFFULGENT splendor of the SUN makes it KING of all the planets and other stars.

Front 19

roast

Back 19

煎

せん

Hint 19

Think of ROASTING the guest of honor at a party - literally, IN FRONT of an OVEN-FIRE.

Front 20

graft

(Bestechung)

Back 20

賂

ろ

Hint 20

To those who believe in the inevitability of GRAFT in government, everything has a price - or as this character has it, to EACH office ist outlay of SHELLS.

Front 21

Hades

Back 21

冥

めい

Hint 21

Since no one knows precisely when its part of the cosmos was finished, we may imagine it as the CROWNing deed of DAY SIX of the creation.

Front 22

elucidate

Back 22

詮

せん

Hint 22

Think of ELUCIDATING as presenting something in WHOLE WORDS, as distinct from broken, fragmented sentences.

Front 23

obituary

(Nachruf)

Back 23

訃

ふ

Hint 23

The WORDS of this OBITUARY work like a MAGIC WAND, conjuring up the deceased.

Front 24

relatives

Back 24

戚

せき

Hint 24

If you think of a PARADE of particularly disagreeable RELATIVES, it should not be hard to imagine them as large bodies with LITTLE pea-brains ABOVE.

Front 25

revile

(beschimpfen)

Back 25

蔑

べつ

Hint 25

The verbal abuse involved in REVILING those who do not deserve it can be compared to a MARCH of FLOWERS in full bloom having an EYEBALL of nastiness cast over them (literally, of course).

Front 26

key

Back 26

鍵

かぎ

Hint 26

The GOLDEN KEY you have been presented by the mayor gives you access to all the BUILDings in the city.

Front 27

towel

Back 27

巾

はば

Hint 27

This character depicts a bolt of cloth wrapped around a pole. From there it gets its meaning of a towel.

Front 28

persimmon

Back 28

柿

かき

Hint 28

Imagine a village MARKET with stalls set up around an immense PERSIMMON TREE with watermelon-sized fruit. If it weren't for the fact that the TREE is sacred to the village, people would get impatient as the PERSIMMONS fall from the TREE and wreak havoc on buyers and sellers alike.

Front 29

bewitched

Back 29

妖

よう

Hint 29

You are BEWITCHED by a WOMAN who is, of course, a WITCH.

Front 30

irrigate

Back 30

沃

よう

Hint 30

Suffering from a drought, the farmers call on a WITCH who conjures up WATER to IRRIGATE their corps.

Front 31

renunciation

（Abkehr）

Back 31

諦

てい

たい

Hint 31

The key word RENUNCIATION has to do with the wisdom and clarity of mind in knowing when to "let go". This is what makes the WORDS of acquiescence SOVEREIGN.

Front 32

aroma

Back 32

匂

こ

におい

Hint 32

You will have to imagine "capturing" a favorite AROMA by having it gagged and BOUND UP in a SPOON.

Front 33

about that time

Back 33

頃

ころ

Hint 33

When Uncle Bob starts his comic routine of sticking SPOONs on his HEAD, you know it is ABOUT THAT TIME to come up with a reason to excuse yourself.

Front 34

kudzu

Pfeilwurz (arrowroot)

Back 34

葛

くず

Hint 34

KUDZU is a word taken over from the Japanese to name the crawling vines that creep up and completely take over trees. Seeing it as its worst in the Georgia countryside makes it easy to understand why it has a reputation as the "plague of the South". From there it should not be hard to arrange the primitives, FLOWERS and SIESTA into a memorable image.

Front 35

visit a shrine

Back 35

詣

けい

Hint 35

Here you "savor your WORDS" as something DELICIOUS when you describe your recent VISIT TO A SHRINE or pilgrimage site.

Front 36

orderliness

Ordentlichkeit

Back 36

諧

かい

Hint 36

The harmony of "a place for everything and everything in its place" is applied here to the ORDERLINESS of ALL the WORDS one speak.

Front 37

piled high

Back 37

堆

たい

Hint 37

SOIL TURKEY

Front 38

sweet oak

Back 38

椎

しい

Hint 38

TREE TURKEY

Front 39

who

Back 39

誰

だれ

Hint 39

WORDS TURKEY

Front 40

windpipe

(Luftröhre)

Back 40

咽

Hint 40

MOUTH CAUSE

Front 41

selfish

Back 41

恣

Hint 41

SECOND HEART

Front 42

wick

(Docht)

Back 42

芯

Hint 42

FLOWERS HEART

Front 43

cowardice

(Feigheit)

Back 43

臆

Hint 43

FLESH IDEA

Front 44

disquieting

(beunruhigend)

Back 44

惧

Hint 44

STATE OF MIND, TOOL

Front 45

yearn

(nachsehnen)

Back 45

憧

Hint 45

STATE OF MIND, JUVENILE

Front 46

hanker

(nach etw. sehnen)

Back 46

憬

Hint 46

STATE OF MIND, SCENERY

Front 47

weld

(Schweiss-) Naht

Back 47

錮

Hint 47

METAL HARDEN