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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 金 | おかね お金 money キン 金 gold きんようび Friday |
| 土 | つち soil, earth どようび Saturday |
| 百 | ヒャク 100 |
| 千 | セン １０００ |
| 万 | マン １００００ |
| 来 | きます come らい next らいげつ next month |
| 線 | セン line (subway) 糸 thread 泉 spring, fountain |
| 暗 | くらい dark 音 sound 立 stand 日 day When “darkness covered the earth” at the beginning of time, there was neither sun nor sound |
| 進 | 進めます すすめます advance, put forward 進みます すすみます advance, go forward 辶 road 隹 turkey / old bird |
| 洗 | 洗います あらいます wash 洗たくします せんたくします do laundry water before 氵先 |
| 薬 | くすり medicine 艹 grass 楽 たのしい fun |
| 白 | しろ white 丶 drop 日 sun white is a mixture of all the primary colors, both for pigments and for light, as we see when a prism breaks up the rays of the sun. Hence, a single drop of sun spells white |
| 門 | モン gate |
| 池 | いけ pond water scorpion (head+pincers+tail fishhook) 氵也 |
| 森 | もり forest 木＋木＋木 = tree + tree + tree = forest |
| 休 | やす rest 人 木 person tree 休みます 休む |
| 友 | とも friend |
| 又 | また again |
| 生 | life うまれます 生まれる to be born いきます 生きます 生きる to live なま 生 raw; uncooked; fresh せい 先生 せんせい |
| 学 | ガク learning; scholarship; study; erudition; knowledge; education 学生 がくせい student 大学 だいがく university 大学生 だいがくせい university student |
| 校 | コウ school tree 木 top hat 亠 father 父 |
| 時 | とき、ジ time そのとき when とき sometimes ときどき o'clock ジ |
| 間 | あいだ between カン じ時 かん間 門 gates 日 day interval |
| 点 | つける つけます 点ける 点けます turn on cook in cauldron |
| 会 | 会 カイ meeting; assembly; party; gathering; conference; athletic meet,society; association; club 会う あう 会います to meet |
| 社 | シャ company; firm; office; association; society |
| 員 | イン employee, member, number, the one in charge mouth 口 shellfish 貝 mouth over a shellfish to mean an employee employeeskeeping mouths shut picturing an office full of white-collar workers scurrying around with clams pinched to their mouths |
| 貸 | かす 貸す lend to someone 代 substitute 貝 shellfish, old form of money |
| 掛 | 掛 to hang かける かけます 掛ける 掛けます 扌hand 圭 jade tablet 卜 divination / fortune teller Imagine a hand hanging a sign on a wall for a fortune-teller who works in a shop built on two layers of earth (圭, with two 土). |
| 借 | か 借 借 to borrow from someone かりる 借ります 亻person 昔 once upon a time Imagine a person (亻) borrowing something from a friend long ago (昔). The person promises to return it after a few days (日, part of 昔), but the debt lingers like an old memory. |
| 返 | 返 かえ 返す 返します to return (something); to restore; to put back ⻌ road or movement 反 opposite / against / anti 厂 cliff / factory 又 again "Returning" involves moving (⻌) in the opposite direction (反) to go back to the starting point. Imagine you |
| 着 | つく 着く 着きます to arrive きる 着る 着ます to wear 羊 sheep + ノ tail = wool 目 eyes putting on clothes as “pulling the wool over one’s eyes. 駅に着く (eki ni tsuku, "arrive at the station")— sheep eyeing the station sign and arriving with tail high |
| 本屋 | ほん 本 book や 屋 seller, roof, house, shop, dealer 尸 roof 至 arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in, climax arriving 至 at bookstore 本屋)under roof 尸 “Ya! This is shop I was looking for”roof protects books & the arrival ties to the shops purpose |
| 午 牛 | 午 ご noon.The kanji 午 looks like a cross 十 w/ a cap and small base, marking the middle of the day 牛 うし cow head ｗ/ horns. top horizontal stroke is the head, the vertical stroke is the face&the slanted bottom-left stroke is a horn or ear |
| 年 | とし ネン year |
| 前 | まえ before ゼン , ごぜん 午前 morning |
| 後 | うしろ behind あと later ご later ごご afternoon |
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