ツ(tsu) for つまらない/tsumaranai (boring) as you look down at your feet.

The sheep シ run away from the falling tsunami ツ

シ ticks point horizontally like a running sheep, ツ ticks point down like a crashing wave.

ツand シ are really similar! But for ツ(tsu) the two strokes are pointing down creating an U shape
tsU

"My son's (ソン) Shih Tzu (シツ) has a lot of ticks."

The Shitzu has a lot of ticks (シ + ツ have two ticks each).

The son only has a couple from petting his dog (ソ + ン have one tick each).

The (outer) two in (ソン+シツ) i.e. (ソ+ツ) have more vertical ticks that follow the V pattern. Because when you go to (outer) space you are launched vertically.

The (inner) two in (ソン+シツ) i.e. (ン+シ) have more horizontal ticks that follow the > pattern. Because when you have (inner) peace you lay down horizontally.

the two short strokes look like a pair of eyes looking at you (sounds like tsu)

Smiling "Tsup?" (Sup)

The strokes in シ form the sides of a 'shi'eld. The strokes in ツ form the steam and side of a hot bowl of soup ('tsu'p).

How I tell シ (shi), ツ (tsu), ン (n), and ソ (so) apart. Stroke order here is vital!
シ SHI and ン N go LEFT or counter-clockwise from the top stroke(s) to the lower end of the bottom stroke. ↙️
ツ TSU and ソ SO go RIGHT or clockwise from the top stroke(s) to the higher end of the bottom stroke. ➡️

tsunami with two drop of water 💦🌊

It's like there's TSU (two) eyes looking at you (hope this helps)

She(shi) is a TSUndere looking down in you.

Katakana Smileys:

シ (shi): She smiles back
ツ (tsu): He smiles down to her cause he’s
Tsu•per Tall

"tsu (2)" eyes looking down

Shi +n シ+ン

They go downward like a Tsuuuuting star

It looks like it's facing away, it's not interested because it's bored. So it's つまらない... TSUmaranai... Well. That's how I memorized it.

I see three peanuts growing in the ground

The long stroke of "シ" follows the hook of "し" and goes upwards to the right. Same for "ツ" – the long stroke follows the hook of "つ" and goes downwards to the left.

(for everyone who plays Project sekai) it looks like a smiling face, like Tsukasa-kun from Wonderland x showtime, smiling proudly (TSU-kasa)

ツ is a smiley face usually with eyes straight or nearly bit to the right. シ is a smirk face always with eyes not straight and very inclined to the left

I must remember not to get mixed up with tsu l and shi -.


(OUO)

A TSar looking down at you

If you trace シ you'll get し (ticks are aligned vertically on the left)
If you trace ツ you'll get つ (ticks are placed horizontally on the top)

How to see difference between シ and ツ
Imagine a girl who has weird English accent and she is walking on a sunny day.
シ- She is looking up and she is happy.
ツ- She is looking down because she is Tsunking (thinking) about Tsunami that is coming to her town

Looks like a faucet for (wa)ter to come out of

(；ワ；) it's a mouth saying waa waa

It looks like a glass of wine ( as you pronunce in japanese as ワイン ) WAin
🍷 → ワ

One Piece fans can remember this from Wano (ワノ)

Unlike　フ　it has the teeth of a crocodile (*wa*ni) .

You grab the ウ "u" by the hair and rip it out and it says ワ "wa"

It looks like a mouth that is laughing.
In japanese "To laugh" is = WArau! (^ ワ ^)

It looks like the top of a question mark without it's full stop?

When you ask a question you often begin by asking 'WhAt'????

A pocket for your WAllet

Mouth with baby teeth going WAAAAAAAAAA

WA for crying crocodile tears over WANI-Kani because the kanji isn't sticking and I still can't read katakana WA-WA-WA

Looks like a chaWAn.

Looks a bit like the curve of a WAve, facing left.

It's a mouth saying "wa! I lost my tooth!"

Looks like a WAterfall (Water dropping off a cliff)

It's a glass of WAter

Looks like the right half of わ (its hiragana form)

Looks a bit like an ice WAffle

A one toothed baby mouth crying, WAh!

Looks like a half of a smile laughing "fufufu"

Did you know that on the back side of Mt Fuji there is a secret plateau? It looks just like this フ and sticks right out the back.
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Not really, but you'll remember this kana means "fu" if you think of Mt Fuji's secret plateau.

Looks like the prow of a ship (fune).

ラ for Ramen, but its hot so you need to blow to cool it:

フ Fu, Fu, Fu...

Jumping off a cliff looks like FUn but it's actually really scary

Looks like a cat ear. Touch them and they get FUrious

Looks like the right half of a bowl of food (FUd).

FUji but on its side

Hirigana fu looks like a nose with a fu manchu on either side of it. Katakana fu looks like a different nose, without the mustache.

Half a fruit bowl

FUlag

It looks like the tip toe of Genie's FOOtwear.
or an Arabic FOOtwear.

A smile on your face when you have (fu)n.

Mouth eats food

"Two people on a see-saw"
katakana sa サ looks like the mirror image of the hiragana for se せ.

SAddle of a horse

A person crying because they're SAd

"Skewer of a Sandwich"
It looks like the two vertical strokes are slices of bread skewered by a horizontal skewer.

A guy holding a sack

”saw" Picture the straight line straight line as a saw going through two tree trunks, one tree trunk is longer

A SAber tooth tiger. The two lines look like unequal SAber teeth.

Sa-rdine and a Sa-lmon on a skewer

SAspicious man in a hat.

It reminds me of the hand trap from the second Saw (sa) film

I remembered hiragana Sa さ as a monkey (Saru) in sunglassess with a nose and a smile, and you can kind of see it here too (if you look from the right)

It looks like ri (リ) got サwed in half

Reminds me of a SAmurai holding a sword over their head

Uncle SAm with his top hat

Letter H is for H&M. Buying a surplus clothes at H&M.

Surplus = SaH•plus = Saサ•plus

SAvavaged with a sword

Teeth of a SAlivating vampire

telephone pole

テ/te for テーブル/table, a table with a book on it.

It looks lie a T but if you were to draw a third horizontal line at the bottom it would look like a E

Looks like a tennis table! "テnnis table"!

It looks like a *te*mple with a もこし roof.

A jumping "T"

I speak French also, so I say that テ has a hat on his head or on his "TÊte" which sounds like テ！

It looks like a TV anTEnna!

The Te(テ) reminds the Ra(ラ) but the bottom line is on the middle

Take your book off that テーブル because it looks like it only has one leg!

Te (hand) look at your right palm it looks like the one in the symbol

TElephone on a table (TE-ble)

Te•sla logo with the sky above.

Jar of TEa with lid

It looks like a T, but also like the circuit symbol for Earth

Sitting person waving his hand, saying 'Hi!'

ヒ looks like a heel ('hi'l)

ヒ for HIza(knee) there's a knee with a cut in it - I guess we need some bandages

Guy with a creepy smile going "Hi..hi..hi..." Or a friend saying "Hi!"

He(ヒ) pointed

It is HI(ヒ) who sits atop the throne (it looks like a person sitting down)

In the ひ"hi"-heated moment, (he) hints Simone to get him a dagger ヒ.

If you connect the lines on the right, it looks like the thumbs up hand sign that a HI-tchhiker uses to flag down a car.

hi(ヒ) ís a HIgher to(と)

Looks like yo (よ) in Hiragana and both hi and yo are used to greet someone

HE (the letter "E") lost HIs top-bar.

Someone giving to you a hinto/ヒント　(hint)

Looks like a road and road in French sounds like ru

Someone explaining the RUles

あるく is to walk
The ル looks like a pair of legs taking a walk

Two legs "ru"nning

The left stroke is the "r" and on the right is "u"

Looks like RU-ts (roots) of a tree

There are 2 types of ppl in the world, those who follow the RUles, and those who bend the RUles

The Justice League (JL) has RUles (ru)! The symbol for "ru" looks like "JL."

I keep drawing curvy lines. What I need is a RUler straight down the middle!

Another person trying to lean against someone. RUde!

Looks like the base of a tree trunk on a slope, only held up by its strong (RU)roots!

RUle (ル) No. (ノ) 1: REspect (レ)
ル = ノ+ レ

Follow the RUles! The left one didn't follow the rules so it gets a slash, but the right one did so it gets a check mark

Looks like someone holding their hands together praying to their (RU)ler

A pair of legs RUnning

Just like how る is superior over ろ, having the extra curl, ル is this time superior over レ, having the extra stroke (ru is superior 🔥)

It looks like two peoples arms.
Touching is against the RUles

Looks like the re in レもん except- oh no! It's gone bad! It's RUined. Better make sure NO (ノ) one eats it.

(Sorry if confusing. Basically, Ru ル looks like the characters No ノ and Re レ put together. So just remember this REmon is NO good, or RUined!

It looks like a branching road, and road is pronounced Lu (pronounced similarly to ru) in Chinese.

Looks like someone is RUnning