Single Kanji #2

Front 1

高

Back 1

Tall, expensive (In this kanji we see two mouths, the top one with a top hat, the bottom mouth with a hood. The man on top is TALL and wears an EXPENSIVE hat, the man below is short and wears a poor hood)

Hint 1

たか

Front 2

京

Back 2

Capital (people with big hats own the CAPITAL city, while the small mouthed people live underneath them)

Hint 2

みやこ

Front 3

週

Back 3

Week (Every WEEK I visit the man in the apartment on the road)

Hint 3

しゅう

Front 4

売

Back 4

Sell (A samurai out of job, goes around SELLING little crowns with human legs that walk around the floor)

Hint 4

う

Front 5

学

Back 5

Study (The child under the school roof - The top part of the kanji should be remembered as a school roof with the free little dots representing a b c or 1 2 3)

Hint 5

がく

Front 6

書

Back 6

Write (think of 聿 radical part of the kanji as a brush. The radical underneath the mouth, imagine it to be a wagging mouth - The scribe is struggling to WRITE down everything his chatting master says)

Hint 6

か

Front 7

言

Back 7

Say (The bottom of the kanji is the mouth and the above lines in the words he is saying. Try to imagine a character speaking and their speech bubble above)

Hint 7

いう

Front 8

計

Back 8

Plot, plan (There was a PLOT, there was a PLAN to get Jesus on that cross)

Hint 8

けい

Front 9

語

Back 9

Word (Two mouths at the bottom of the kanji, the left being an English teacher, the right being a maths teacher. The left teacher argues WORDS are more important, hence the speech bubbles above him. The maths teacher argues numbers are better, hence the 7 above him)

Hint 9

かた

Front 10

読

Back 10

Read (The left is kanji words, the right is the kanji for sell. We sell the words people say, we sell them in the form of books, for us all to READ)

Hint 10

よ

Front 11

試

Back 11

Test (The kanji looks like a talkative samurai TESTING an bow he just bought)

Hint 11

ため

Front 12

成

Back 12

Turn into (A knife fight takes place between two gangs behind a building in Cotmanhay, its TURNING INTO a blood bath - the half square to the left representing a building and its window, the two intercrossing lines representing the 2 knifes striking)

Hint 12

な

Front 13

止

Back 13

Stop (imagine a police man at a crime scene sticking his arm out, telling people to STOP, they can not go past this barrier behind him)

Hint 13

と

Front 14

歩

Back 14

Walk (One compound in this kanji is stop, the other looks like foot prints. Imagine the police officer is telling people to stop, but hes not noticed the foot STEPS below him, where people have already entered)

Hint 14

あるく

Front 15

正

Back 15

Correct, true (The man telling everyone to stop is wearing a big hat! What he says must be TRUE!)

Hint 15

ただ

Front 16

走

Back 16

Running (The kanji compound above soil/earth, the one below looks like running legs. They say RUNNING slowly heals the soil)

Hint 16

はし

Front 17

建

Back 17

Build (The kanji compound to the left is to stretch, the one on the right is a brush. Before you BUILD anything you must draw it and and stretch it out to scale)

Hint 17

たて

Front 18

市

Back 18

Market, city (dressed in nothing but a bath towel and a hat, the man sets off to the MARKET in the CITY)

Hint 18

し

Front 19

巾

Back 19

Towel (Imagine the kanji as a man trying to keep his towel up)

Hint 19

きん

Front 20

姉

Back 20

Elder sister (Here comes my elder sister with her new feller)

Hint 20

あね

Front 21

転

Back 21

Revolve/turn around (the compounds of this kanji are 車 Car and 云 and what looks like a person sitting down. For the wheels of a car to REVOLVE/TURN AROUND, someone must be sitting in the car)

Hint 21

ころ

Front 22

天

Back 22

Heavens (in the HEAVENS is the big man with a big hat!)

Hint 22

てん

Front 23

橋

Back 23

Bridge (The compounds of this kanji are a tree on the left and an angel on the right. This bridge, made of trees, is being held up by angels it seems)

Hint 23

はし

Front 24

立

Back 24

Stand up (The kanji looks like a vase, they say a vase has the perfect posture, a person should always copy a vase when STANDING UP)

Hint 24

りつ

Front 25

北

Back 25

North (The kanji looks like two people sitting back to back. The cold from the North is so strong, people have to huddle together, back to back, in order to keep warm)

Hint 25

きた

Front 26

毎

Back 26

Every (Above the kanji is the radical 𐂉, which represents a person lying down, the first stroke being their head and thr second their body. The radical below represents mother 母. Together this makes a mother lying down. We say behind EVERY great thing, lies a woman, more often than not a mama)

Hint 26

まい

Front 27

海

Back 27

Sea, Ocean (behind each drop of water, comes a whole OCEAN)

Hint 27

うみ

Front 28

吹

Back 28

Blow, breathe (Imagine a head on the left and his body on the right. Looks like a man bending over and taking heavy breaths, like he has just finished a run)

Hint 28

すい

Front 29

歌

Back 29

Song (looks like a DJ standing over a turntable, playing a SONG)

Hint 29

うた

Front 30

音

Back 30

Sound (Looks like vase on the table. Any SOUND from the vase would be worrying, I'd be scared it's been broke!)

Hint 30

おん

Front 31

暗

Back 31

Darkness (At the beginning of time, there was no light, only DARKNESS, both the suns were kept in a vase.)

Hint 31

くらい

Front 32

方

Back 32

Direction (one old method of knowing way to go, is spinning a dagger on its hilt on a hat. Whichever DIRECTION the blade points, you go.

Hint 32

かた

Front 33

東

Back 33

East (We see the east as the place of the rising sun. The kanji looks like the sun behind a tree. Looking from the West I can see the sun rising through the trees, that must be the East)

Hint 33

ひがし

Front 34

地

Back 34

Ground (A scorpion on the right and the ground on the left - primitive meaning)

Hint 34

ち

Front 35

池

Back 35

Pond (A scorpion on the right, shooting its venom droplets on the left, into a POND)

Hint 35

いけ

Front 36

風

Back 36

Wind (The kanji looks like a large chested woman hiding from the WIND in a shed, because the wind makes her nipples go pointy)

Hint 36

かぜ

Front 37

起

Back 37

Wake up (Looks like a person running away from a snake. I WOKE UP and ran as I saw a snake!)

Hint 37

おこす

Front 38

記

Back 38

Scribe (You can't always trust a SCRIBE, there words are like a snakes)

Hint 38

しる

Front 39

電

Back 39

Electricity (The top of the kanji is rain and the bottom looks like a solar panel with a wire coming out underneath - When it rains on the solar panels, we get no ELECTRICITY)

Hint 39

でん

Front 40

家

Back 40

House (The radicals that make up this kanji are roof at the top section and what looks like a mangled man. The mangly man lives in that house)

Hint 40

いえ

Front 41

場

Back 41

Location (Its location is below the sun, next to this mud hill and above this weird squid thing)

Hint 41

ば

Front 42

洋

Back 42

Ocean, Western-style (The kanji is made up of the compounds water and sheep. A very WESTERN thing is a sheep standing over the OCEAN being splashed by the waves)

Hint 42

よう

Front 43

誰

Back 43

Who (the radical on the right looks like a turkey, the radical for words is on the right. WHO can speak turkey?

Hint 43

だれ

Front 44

集

Back 44

Gather (Turkeys usually GATHER on top of a tree)

Hint 44

しゅう

Front 45

午

Back 45

Afternoon (The kanji looks like a horse leaning its head forward. Cowboys that ride horses will only have a duel at high NOON)

Hint 45

ご

Front 46

曜

Back 46

Week day (A turkey grows two heads during the week days)

Hint 46

よう

Front 47

習

Back 47

Learn (This kanji is made up of two compounds. The top being feathers and the bottom being white. You will come to LEARN that unfortunately, not at all birds are white.

Hint 47

なら

Front 48

国

Back 48

Country (A COUNTRY is like a shelf, there's a hierarchy tier system, usually kept in a box you can't escape)

Hint 48

くに

Front 49

店

Back 49

Store (looks like a guy standing behind a stall, under a roof)

Hint 49

みせ

Front 50

心

Back 50

Heart (often used in other kanji related to thinking - think of the big line as the heart and the three lines surrounding it the veins/tubes that come out the heart)

Hint 50

こころ

Front 51

思

Back 51

Think (Looks like a heart and brain - which one do you THINK with? Japanese used to THINK you THOUGHT with your heart, not your brain)

Hint 51

おもう

Front 52

意

Back 52

Idea (A brain and a heart is to think, but add a vase on top of that, you get an IDEA.

Hint 52

い

Front 53

手

Back 53

Hand (looks like a hand with an extra finger)

Hint 53

て

Front 54

持

Back 54

Hold (The compounds of this kanji are fingers and Buddhist temple. If you HOLD onto a Buddhist temple with all your fingers and dont let go, you will be sure to be brought good luck)

Hint 54

もつ

Front 55

研

Back 55

Sharpen, study (The kanji looks like a stool and a knife being sharpened on a whetstone. You need to STUDY if you want to be the SHARPEST tool in the shed)

Hint 55

とぐ

Front 56

友

Back 56

Friend (looks like a knife and a crotch. No FRIEND would put a knife near your crotch)

Hint 56

とも

Front 57

払

Back 57

Pay (fingers on the left and a bent elbow on the right. Imagine a man bending his elbow and putting his fingers in his wallet to pay a bill for a meal)

Hint 57

はらう

Front 58

広

Back 58

Wide (The kanji looks like a man sitting in a WIDE cave)

Hint 58

こう

Front 59

去

Back 59

Gone (The top of the kanji is ground, the bottom looks like a man sitting down. You could say, when someone is GONE, they are put underground)

Hint 59

さ

Front 60

会

Back 60

Meeting (Looks like a man having a meeting under a roof)

Hint 60

あう

Front 61

室

Back 61

Room, apartment (The kanji is made up of ground, a man sitting down and a roof. If we put it together, it looks like an apartment building. With the ground floor at the bottom, the man sitting down in his room and then the roof above him).

Hint 61

むろ

Front 62

出

Back 62

Exit (the kanji is made up off two mountains. The only EXIT is through those two mountains.)

Hint 62

で

Front 63

山

Back 63

Mountain (looks like a mountain)

Hint 63

やま

Front 64

入

Back 64

Enter, insert (looks like a pair of legs with a penis, about to INSERT)

Hint 64

にゅう

Front 65

分

Back 65

Part

Hint 65

ぶん (a dagger being taken a-PART)

Front 66

公

Back 66

Public (A man sitting down with two birds above him in the sky. Why this must be in a PUBLIC park)

Hint 66

おおやけ

Front 67

堂

Back 67

Hall (A king (looks like a man in a crown) Sitting in his royal HALL)

Hint 67

どう

Front 68

死

Back 68

Death (Imagine the kanji as bones, under a coffin lid)

Hint 68

し

Front 69

耳

Back 69

Ear (looks like an ear, visualize it as an ear)

Hint 69

みみ

Front 70

買

Back 70

Buy (Imagine the top of the kanji being a note, underneath coins and at the bottom legs. The money has grown legs and is running out of the purse to BUY the product)

Hint 70

ばい

Front 71

力

Back 71

Power (Think of Uncle Kevin's tattoo how STRONG he is, how much POWER he has)

Hint 71

ちから

Front 72

男

Back 72

Man (a real MAN is strong and owns a farm)

Hint 72

おこと

Front 73

行

Back 73

Going (The kanji looks like a roller coaster. The top two lines look like the track and you know how fast rollar coasters GO)

Hint 73

い

Front 74

待

Back 74

Waiting (A samurai carrying a flag (the extra line on the left. Is waiting for the rest of his army to show up)

Hint 74

まつ

Front 75

秋

Back 75

Autumn (What looks like a tree on the left and fire on the right. AUTUMN definitely has the colours of fire)

Hint 75

あき

Front 76

私

Back 76

Private, I, Me (A man sitting down under a tree for some PRIVATE time. What we see when we type わたし)

Hint 76

わたし

Front 77

米

Back 77

Rice (Grains of RICE, placed on the plate to make a star shape. RICE is the star of every meal in Japan after all)

Hint 77

こめ

Front 78

代

Back 78

Etc. (Looks like a bow and arrow - in a store of items and goods, you'll find the bows and arrows in the ETC. Aisle)

Hint 78

だい

Front 79

人

Back 79

Person (looks like PERSONS pair of legs standing there)

Hint 79

ひと

Front 80

体

Back 80

Body (Look at that person, with their book on BODIES)

Hint 80

からだ

Front 81

休

Back 81

Rest (Man standing next to a tree for a rest)

Hint 81

やす

Front 82

五

Back 82

5 (Looks like 35, look at the right with the 5)

Hint 82

うつ

Front 83

九

Back 83

9 (9 is known to be the age where you grow all your muscles (looks like the kanji for strength)

Hint 83

きゅう

Front 84

円

Back 84

Circle (Same symbol as Yen, Yen coins are round like circles)

Hint 84

えん

Front 85

七

Back 85

7 (Looks like an upside down 7)

Hint 85

ななつ

Front 86

半

Back 86

Half, middle (the two lines are pointing down the MIDDLE on the kanji, wanting to split it in HALF)

Hint 86

はん

Front 87

何

Back 87

What (You've seen this one plenty of times)

Hint 87

なに

Front 88

食

Back 88

Eat (looks like a man in a hat with this mouth/beak open)

Hint 88

たべ

Front 89

社

Back 89

Company (ネ for neko and the kanji for ground means a cat poop COMPANY)

Hint 89

かいしゃ

Front 90

安

Back 90

Cheap (A woman with a CHEAP hat)

Hint 90

やすい

Front 91

足

Back 91

Leg (looks like a man sticking his LEG out, like hes going "oooh aaaahhhh"

Hint 91

あし

Front 92

昼

Back 92

Afternoon (At NOON the sun is so low that you can practically jump over it)

Hint 92

ひる

Front 93

図

Back 93

Map (Looks like a map, square with the writing inside)

Hint 93

ず

Front 94

知

Back 94

Know, wisdom (Looks like a man holding a book - the man with the bible KNOWS all and has all the WISDOM)

Hint 94

しる

Front 95

思

Back 95

Think (Top looks like a brain, the bottom is the kanji for heart. Japanese used to think you THOUGHT with your heart)

Hint 95

おもう

Front 96

四

Back 96

4 (In the top right of the kanji you can see a 4)

Hint 96

よん

Front 97

間

Back 97

Space (The two tall guys, wont give the smaller guy any space - very common on a Japanese train between men and women)

Hint 97

かん

Front 98

来

Back 98

Come (All the lines within the kanji are COMING to the centre)

Hint 98

くる

Front 99

今

Back 99

Now (NOW I live under a roof luckily)

Hint 99

いま

Front 100

八

Back 100

8 (One you just gotta learn)

Hint 100

はち

Front 101

六

Back 101

6 (almost a full stick man if it had 6 parts rather than 4)

Hint 101

ろく