Single Kanji #1

Front 1

口

Back 1

Mouth, opening, hole, entrance

Hint 1

くち

Front 2

日

Back 2

Day, sun

Hint 2

にち

Front 3

月

Back 3

Moon

Hint 3

つき

Front 4

田

Back 4

Rice Paddy

Hint 4

ほんでん

Front 5

古

Back 5

Old (looks like a gravestone - old graves etc.)

Hint 5

ふる

Front 6

冒

Back 6

Risk (components make up eye and sun - it is a RISK to look at the sun)

Hint 6

ぼう

Front 7

明

Back 7

Bright, light (think of the sun and moon)

Hint 7

あか

Front 8

唱

Back 8

Chant, recite

Hint 8

とな

Front 9

品

Back 9

Goods (think of it like stacked boxes full of goods)

Hint 9

しな

Front 10

呂

Back 10

Spine (looks like a spine, between the hips and chest bones)

Hint 10

ろ

Front 11

早

Back 11

Early, fast (looks like a sunflower (sun kanji- Sunflowers always grow early)

Hint 11

はや

Front 12

世

Back 12

Generation (the top part of the kanji, you can see 3 tens 十)

Hint 12

よ

Front 13

自

Back 13

Oneself, myself (think of the tip at the top of the kanji at the ridge of your nose and the lower bit your hand when pointing at your nose, pointing at yourself)

Hint 13

みずから

Front 14

白

Back 14

White (single drop of sun spells white - kanji for sun and a little drop on top)

Hint 14

しろ

Front 15

百

Back 15

Hundred (Japanese refer to a persons 99th birthday as a "white year" because if you take one (一) from hundred you get white (白)

Hint 15

ひゃく

Front 16

中

Back 16

In, middle (Kanji made up of the kanjis mouth and walking stick. Way to remember is it's easier to get medicine IN a kids mouth if you prop it open with a walking stick)

Hint 16

なか

Front 17

千

Back 17

1000 (looking at the kanji, look at the 10 in the kanji and the eye dropper above - imagine the eye dropper dropping two more zeros next to the 10)

Hint 17

ち

Front 18

舌

Back 18

Tongue (the compounds of the kanji are 千 and 口. Think of a 1000 mouths speaking the same language - sharing a common tongue)

Hint 18

した

Front 19

丸

Back 19

Round (the compounds that make us this kanji is 九 and a drop, add a drop to 9 and you get a ROUND number)

Hint 19

がん

Front 20

上

Back 20

Above (the kanji looks like its pointing up)

Hint 20

うえ

Front 21

下

Back 21

Below (looks like the kanji is pointing down)

Hint 21

した

Front 22

朝

Back 22

Morning (we see the moon on the right fading out and the sun rising from the left)

Hint 22

あさ

Front 23

貝

Back 23

Shellfish (picture a big eye on animal legs, the eye like a shell)

Hint 23

かい

Front 24

員

Back 24

Employee (this kanji is made up of shell and mouth; imagine new employees in a company with clams clipped to their mouth to keep them quiet, with new employees being told to listen and not talk)

Hint 24

いん

Front 25

見

Back 25

See (an eye placed on some human legs)

Hint 25

みる

Front 26

元

Back 26

Beginning (Kanji made up of 二 and the radical 儿, in the beginning God gave humans 2 legs)

Hint 26

もと

Front 27

頁

Back 27

Page, leaf (kanji compounds are 一 and 貝 。Imagine a shell with a single PAGE inside)

Hint 27

ページ

Front 28

負

Back 28

Defeat (Imagine the shellfish in the kanji is being gagged and bound by the seaweed (⺈), ultimately being DEFEATED by another seaweed)

Hint 28

まけ

Front 29

万

Back 29

10,000

Hint 29

まん

Front 30

句

Back 30

Phrase (The compounds of this kanji are 勹 (to wrap, to bound) and 口 (mouth). A PHRASE is just a bunch of words wrapped up tightly to fit in your mouth)

Hint 30

く

Front 31

肌

Back 31

Texture, Skin (I wonder what the TEXTURE of the moon would feel against the SKIN on my legs)

Hint 31

はだ

Front 32

首

Back 32

Neck (the kanji looks like a moose head hanging on the wall, with its antlers at the top, it's long face and nose - we cut the moose's head off by the NECK)

Hint 32

くび

Front 33

直

Back 33

Straightaway (within the compound of this kanji there is an eye and what looks to be a straightened out fishing hook below it - if you get a needle in your eye, you need to take it out STRAIGHT AWAY)

Hint 33

なお

Front 34

具

Back 34

Tool (looks like a table with a box of TOOLS on top, one which someone has their eye on)

Hint 34

ぐ

Front 35

真

Back 35

True (In the kanji is the kanji for tools and the kanji for 10 - they say you need at least 10 tools to be a TRUE builder)

Hint 35

しん

Front 36

工

Back 36

Craft (The kanji looks an I beam, often used on heavy CONSTRUCTION and CRAFT work)

Hint 36

こう

Front 37

左

Back 37

Left (The kanji is made up off two compounds, craft and a radical that represents a finger being pointed down. A construction manager is point for the metal beam to place down on the LEFT)

Hint 37

ひだり

Front 38

右

Back 38

Right (Imagine a little mouth on your side, pointing at the RIGHT thing to do)

Hint 38

みぎ

Front 39

有

Back 39

Possess, have, exist (The moon EXISTS and in POSSESSION by God, all because he put the moon down between his fingers)

Hint 39

ゆう

Front 40

刀

Back 40

Sword (resembles a sword)

Hint 40

かたな

Front 41

切

Back 41

Cut (This sword CUT 7 samurai)

Hint 41

きる

Front 42

丁

Back 42

Street (Looks like a street sign)

Hint 42

ちょう

Front 43

町

Back 43

Village (A rice paddy next to a street sign is very typical for a Japanese village)

Hint 43

まち

Front 44

子

Back 44

Child (Think of a child in a papoose, the top line being the baby's small head poking out, the line across being their arms trying to hold onto the mothers neck)

Hint 44

こ

Front 45

女

Back 45

Woman (looks like a squatting woman)

Hint 45

おんな

Front 46

好

Back 46

Fond (Women are generally FOND of children)

Hint 46

す

Front 47

兄

Back 47

Older brother (My older brother is so loud he might as well be a mouth on legs)

Hint 47

あに

Front 48

小

Back 48

Small (a man with little arms)

Hint 48

ちい

Front 49

少

Back 49

Few (a man with small and few legs)

Hint 49

すこ

Front 50

大

Back 50

Big (a man stretching out wide)

Hint 50

おお

Front 51

多

Back 51

Many (made up of the radical for sunset 夕. I love evening time, you can never have too MANY drinks at the evening!)

Hint 51

おお

Front 52

夕

Back 52

Evening (looks like the moon, with a cloud going through it)

Hint 52

ゆう

Front 53

外

Back 53

Outside (evening on the left and what looks like a magic wand on the right. Every wizard knows when you take your wand OUTSIDE during the evening your magic is more powerful)

Hint 53

そと

Front 54

名

Back 54

Name (most parents in Japan have a ritual where they choose their new borns NAME depending on the shape of their mouth in the evening)

Hint 54

な

Front 55

光

Back 55

Ray, light (the components of this kanji are little and legs. Try to imagine the specks of dust you see in the RAYS of light through your window as little legs floating around)

Hint 55

ひか

Front 56

太

Back 56

Fat (a big person sitting down on a sofa makes a big plop sound, almost like a drop of water going into a fish ball, hence the drop under the person in the kanji)

Hint 56

ふと

Front 57

川

Back 57

Stream, river (looks like a stream/river)

Hint 57

かわ

Front 58

水

Back 58

Water (looks like water splashing out)

Hint 58

みず

Front 59

泉

Back 59

Spring, fountain (the components of this kanji is 白 on top, and 水 below) when watching a water FOUNTAIN you will notice how at the top of the water is the white foam)

Hint 59

いずみ

Front 60

原

Back 60

Meadow (little springs bubbling beneath a cliff, that shows you are in a meadow)

Hint 60

はら

Front 61

泳

Back 61

Swim (the radicals in this kanji are the water on the left and eternity on the right. Can you imagine an eternity SWIMMING??)

Hint 61

およ

Front 62

汁

Back 62

Soup (looks like water being splashed at the cross, like holy water. They say soup is similar to holy water, how it warms the soul)

Hint 62

しる

Front 63

活

Back 63

Lively (a LIVELY party will make you wanna speak, you'll have water droplets coming out your mouth, because you'll speak so much)

Hint 63

かつ

Front 64

消

Back 64

Extinguish, turn-off, cancel (in this kanji the moon looks like it's on fire and drops of water are being thrown at it) The moon is on fire! We need to throw drops of water on it to EXTINGUISH it!)

Hint 64

きえる

Front 65

土

Back 65

Soil, earth, ground

Hint 65

つち

Front 66

時

Back 66

Time (The components in this kanji are the Sun on the left 日 and a Buddhist temple on the right 寺. To sum it up, time is just the sun rising over a Buddhist temple in Japan.)

Hint 66

とき

Front 67

寺

Back 67

Buddhist Temple (The top of the kanji in the earth and soil, while below the kanji is tunnels used by the monks that commonly live underneath a Buddhist temple)

Hint 67

てら

Front 68

火

Back 68

Fire (looks like fire)

Hint 68

ひ

Front 69

魚

Back 69

Fish (the kanji looks like a fish being cooked in a pot over a fire)

Hint 69

さかな

Front 70

黒

Back 70

Black (looks like a computer on a desk that caught fire underneath, imagine how black it will be once the fire has gone out)

Hint 70

くろ

Front 71

同

Back 71

Same (this kanji is built up the radicals mouth, one and a hood around both of them. Monks always wear the SAME one hood)

Hint 71

おな

Front 72

字

Back 72

Character (A child born under a roof is given a name with a variety of different CHARACTERS)

Hint 72

あざ

Front 73

木

Back 73

Tree (looks like a tree)

Hint 73

き

Front 74

森

Back 74

Forest (multiple trees make a forest)

Hint 74

もり

Front 75

椅

Back 75

Chair (The components of this kanji are tree, big and same. You may have made it into a CHAIR, but it's still a big tree all the same Dave)

Hint 75

い

Front 76

本

Back 76

Book (made out of a tree, to create a pages, hence the little line at the bottom)

Hint 76

ほん

Front 77

味

Back 77

Flavour (To the left on the kanji is a mouth and on the right a tree baring fruit. The taster on the left TASTES the fruit to see if its FLAVOUR is good enough to be used in his jam)

Hint 77

あじ

Front 78

妹

Back 78

Younger sister (young girls like to climb up trees too)

Hint 78

いもうと

Front 79

犬

Back 79

Dog (big man carrying a dog (the flick) on his shoulder)

Hint 79

いぬ

Front 80

猫

Back 80

Cat (imagine a pack of dogs around a rice field where they have planted cat plants, so they can grow cats to chase)

Hint 80

ねこ

Front 81

牛

Back 81

Cow (imagine a cow that has been run over by a steamroller. Its head on the left and 4 legs and the next two strokes the legs)

Hint 81

うし

Front 82

先

Back 82

Before (looking at this kanji, notice the cow at the top of the kanji, and the human legs at the bottom. If you have human legs on a cow, it must be one of those cow costumes. I always thought I'd prefer to be the one standing before, rather than stand at the rear and be the butt at everyone's laughter)

Hint 82

さき

Front 83

洗

Back 83

Wash (WASH before (先) you get into the cow costume!)

Hint 83

あら

Front 84

界

Back 84

World (The WORLD really is just farms on top of houses when you look at it from a planes view)

Hint 84

かい

Front 85

茶

Back 85

Tea (at the top of the tea house is a Buddhist temple poles, then an an umbrella and a tea tree underneath that)

Hint 85

ちゃ

Front 86

合

Back 86

Fit, meeting (the kanji looks like a mouth under a roof, describing a meeting in a building)

Hint 86

あう

Front 87

主

Back 87

Lord (looks like a solid brass candle stick, with the flame being the flick at the top. A good candle stick would be in every lord's manor)

Hint 87

ぬし

Front 88

注

Back 88

Pour (POURING the wax out of a lit candle)

Hint 88

そそ

Front 89

金

Back 89

Gold (imagine an umbrella at the top of the kanji, protecting all the kings shelfs that hold his GOLD bullion)

Hint 89

かね

Front 90

丼

Back 90

Bowl of food (imagine the lines are chargrill marks on some meat)

Hint 90

どん

Front 91

人

Back 91

Person (looks like a pair of legs)

Hint 91

ひと

Front 92

長

Back 92

Leader, long (a head chef should always wear a LONG hat to show that they are in charge of the kitchen, that they are the LEADER)

Hint 92

なが

Front 93

国

Back 93

Country (Each COUNTRY keeps their royal candle holder in a special protected box)

Hint 93

くに

Front 94

出

Back 94

Exit (The only EXIT is through the mountains)

Hint 94

で

Front 95

前

Back 95

In front (a ninja always kills in the night, the say the moon is IN FRONT of their knife, so no one will find out)

Hint 95

まえ

Front 96

道

Back 96

Road-way (the kanji is made up of the components road and neck. It's easy to imagine, that walking on to a ROAD WAY is really to put your neck on the line)

Hint 96

みち

Front 97

辻

Back 97

Crossing (The kanji looks like a man CROSSING the road 辶)

Hint 97

つじ

Front 98

車

Back 98

Car (imagine the top and bottom line to be the cars wheels and the middle to be the seat section of the car)

Hint 98

くるま

Front 99

連

Back 99

Take along (this kanji is made up of car 車 and road 辶, together they make take along. You TAKE ALONG your friends in the car when driving on the road)

Hint 99

れん

Front 100

運

Back 100

Transport, Carry (the kanji include road, car and a roof on top. Imagine a car driving on the road with a big roof on top, like most of public TRANSPORT CARRYING the public)

Hint 100

はこぶ

Front 101

攵

Back 101

Whip (This a commonly used radical in Kanji, so it's a good one to remember - kinda looks like a whip hitting someones head (the line on the left being the whip)

Hint 101

のぶん

Front 102

文

Back 102

Sentence (Looks like a person with no head. Their head was cut off before they could finish their sentence)

Hint 102

ふみ

Front 103

重

Back 103

Heavy (looks like a lot of HEAVY weights all stacked on top of each other)

Hint 103

おもい

Front 104

近

Back 104

Near (looks like someone walking NEAR the road. "Oi! Stop walking NEAR the road!)

Hint 104

ちかい

Front 105

考

Back 105

Consider (On top of the kanji is soil, on the bottom is 5. CONSIDER dividing these to remember this kanji)

Hint 105

かんが

Front 106

画

Back 106

Brush-stroke (looks like a desk with a piece of paper in the middle - a desk to practice your BRUSH-STROKE)

Hint 106

が

Front 107

集

Back 107

Gather (Looks like a tree with a tree-house on top. "Let's all GATHER to the tree-house after school today!"

Hint 107

あつ

Front 108

別

Back 108

Seperate (On the left looks like a baby, the right looks like scissors or a knife. The Jewish babies foreskin is SEPARATED)

Hint 108

わかれる

Front 109

物

Back 109

Thing (We always see this one, so should know it, we're always like "oh God, what is that thing?? A kanji??"

Hint 109

もの

Front 110

使

Back 110

Use (Looks like a skinny person on the left and a big-boobed futa girl on the right. And we all know futa girls just USE skinny people for sex)

Hint 110

つかう

Front 111

特

Back 111

Special (A samurai with a SPECIAL weapon)

Hint 111

とく

Front 112

始

Back 112

Begin, commence (Woman on the left and another woman sitting over a cup. Time to BEGIN the video! Two Girls One Cup 🤢)

Hint 112

はじ

Front 113

終

Back 113

End (The radical on the left looks like a tree, the one on the right is the kanji for Winter. As you know, Winter is the END for trees)

Hint 113

しゅう