He told you one thing to stop being itchy

= one / ichi

When is used as a number, it sounds like "ichi"「ICHI イチ」. When used as a generic counter, it sounds like "hitotsu"「HITOTSU ひと.つ」.

You are only one step away from the finish line

All you need is one step over this line.

HITS ひと.つ an

The easiest way to memorize this kanji is to start with the kanji for recommend and remove its irrelevant parts: shoot a times with a , and it together with the , which leaves you alone

Kinda looks like a plate. plate, and nothing more.

"I got one bug bite and now my arm is itchy イチ!"

Looks like a 1 that fell over -hypothetically in grass- now the one is "Itchy *ichi*"

They look like steps and you put your FOOT on the second step

Who ta-ught ふた you count? I nee-d に to know!

Two is double

= two. Two in Japanese is "ni"and this kanji also looks exactly like the katakana character ni !

is two, don't need to look "further" ふた

One line plus another line equals lines. Think of all the things you have two of. What is the most important? The eyes, the ears? I would say the knee /ニ/ because if you didn't have them, it'd be really hard to go up stairs.

Two , looks like and pronounced ニ. Alternate pronunciation ジ borrowed from cognate 次.

, , !

The kanji for is "san"「SAN サン」and also "mi"「MI み」, and it looks like the katakana mi ミ as well!

plus make three.

There is three parts to a SANdwich サン, two bread and the stuff in the middle, like MEat み

broke into three

My new MITSUbishiみっつ car has THREE driving options , the i like the most is SANdサン driving mode.

Three is triple

plus is three. Three is the number of chances you get with Santa-san /サン/. He has a "naughty list" and if you get three strikes you're out.

Since there are only three strokes to this kanji, it is easy to remember it means three.

To remember the pronunciations, I like to picture what it would look like to see MEみ eating a SANサンdwich. The top and bottom lines represent the two slices of and the middle one represents a layer of

She used to look out the , until she was four.

Originally, four was written 亖, but 四 was introduced to prevent confusion with 二 and 三 in vertical writing. The choice of and 八 , meaning a “dispersal of breath” 呬/シ, was probably phonetic.

*Four* is "shi"「SHI シ」or "yon"「YON よん」, but shi is often avoided because it sounds like 死 {death}. The kanji looks like dangling in a ... did someone get snatched up into the attic by Kayako {from Ju-On}?! I hope they don't die.

This kanji looks like a with four and a .

The is chosen to represent four cardinal directions, north, east, south, and west. With inside to remind you of the ordinal directions, NW, NE, SW, and SE.

In the of the there is a four.

four is not an odd number if you put four into two and divide it evenly

Everyone's Dropped when they saw the through the four sided window

People’s legs in a enclosure

Four need a .

the contains
kunyomi: yo よ
onyomi: shi シ

ITSU almost time, we'll GO out in five minutes.

It's いつ five, time to go ゴ.

Kinda looks like a "5" with a couple extra lines

GO ゴ number 5! Who's number 5? IT'S YOU! いつ

Five GOes {ゴ} {いつ} and .

itsu nice trait of the human body that we have

five

fingers, so that they can go around to make gestures.

"It's 「ITSU いつ」o'clock. We'll "go"「GO ゴ」out in minutes.

are cleared to go 5 more times

This can be seen as 10 inside of 2, which looks like a hydraulic press. So we can say that 10 is being split in 2 , which becomes 五 5 .

Visually similar to five tally marks 正, but derived from /ゴ with added on the top and bottom. ㄨ is half of 十, and looks like 十 fallen on its side. Sometimes “one step” 㐄 /kʰˠuaᵡ/ is redrawn 五 when used as a component in larger characters.

Originally written 𠄡, from the kanji getting , it is used to outline the five fingers of the hand.

+ = five

Go! Its Itsu five chasing you!

Have you seen the Quintessential Quintuplets? Itsuki is the best girl, she was born fifth

The number five racing the number seven racing the number two

Whoever wins , , , wins a *six* pack of "Mutsu"「MUTTSU むっ.つ」apple juice!

666 can be associated to most もっつ rock ロク and roll music む, むい

It is derived from the picture of an , which has six sides, namely, the roof, the floor, and all four walls.

A person or object under pressure is not able to perform 100%. Therefore, when you apply on it becomes less than 100% of itself, which is six.

Possibly depicts the and of a shed 廬/ロ, which approximates the sound ロク, meaning six. Alternatively, 六 could be the remnants of a system of tally marks or a corrupted polygon 💢. Do not confuse with 穴.

It takes legs to hold up this six kilo

I was in a bad MOOd {む} after the {ロク} launch got delayed for the 6th time.

are on the table, but two are knocked off. Now there are six.

But I only needed 6

There are six and kettles, surprisingly.

minus is six.

the was very

We need a new for this . This other one is six times small!

They built a {む.つ} on top of the ROCKy {ロク} , it's 6 miles high!

six have stains.

There are 5 corners, 3 from and 2 from , which is before 6.

An upside down seven.

Nana なな, Nana Sue ななつ! she chea-ted シチ on number seven! Na-na know-s なの.

weighs seven pounds

Depicts a bisected by a , originally meaning cut. See 切. Borrowed for sound to mean seven. You can remember this from the tale of the brave little tailor, who bragged that he had killed seven in one blow.

It looks like the katakana se and se is the first two letters of seven

It looks like an upsidedown . When I first learned Japanese numbers, I was told seven was"shichi"「SHICHI シチ」. But later I learned it could also be "nana"「NANA なな」.

A .

Dang, my fell on the floor. It's upside down and everything! Oh well, 7-second rule!

It is a pictogram for getting cut in the middle by a . It was later borrowed for sound to mean seven and a knife radical was added for the character cut, becoming .

Seven is a lucky number, usually, but imagine getting percent on a test. Nana /なな/ my friend, she cheat-ed /シチ/ on the test. Nobody noticed and she still didn't do well on the exam.

"SHE CHEated シチ and got seven points" to which the girl responds, "NANA なな, it wasn't me!"

six plus is seven and six is a of three

" is enough.", said seven.

If virtue is a cross, the seven sins would be , . Na na, don't go there.

I have eight yachts やっつ, you よう wanna see? They're just behind that . Ha, see ﾊチ? You didn't believe me!

A person 人 could split into two ハ from sneezing

At o'clock, I will have "hot tea"「HACHI ハチ」on "your"「YŌ よう」"yacht"「YATTSU やっ.つ」.

Eight

is supposed to represent the ordinal directions, NW, NE, SW, and SE, but the upper part is ripped off. Combining with the cardinal directions, they make up exactly eight compass points.

Represents the eight points of the compass ✳. Early versions resemble a broken X pointing and . See also 分, 尚, 兑, and 丷.

I thought the four eight the , but they're fine!

There are many funny looking creatures in the oceans. A friend of mine, who works on a boat, once caught a fish with eight . He put it in a hatch /ハチ/ then took a picture of it to send it to me. I still see that in my nighmares.

This girl sneezed eight times in a row like "HACHI!!!" ハチ

Four of these dashes will make eight.

So what eight things do you have? You have eight yachts . Go ahead and count them. They're beautiful. Also, be sure not to be confused by this particular reading mnemonic. It includes the つ, even though the つ is outside the reading you need to learn . Since you can see the つ outside, it shouldn't be too difficult for you.

· Onyomi
Kyuu, ku = Cucumber
· Kunyomi
Kokono = Coconuts

9 cucumber and 9 coconuts

Koko know-s ここの that having nine strange types of on a cou-ld ク help her catch more cu-te キュウ fish.

line for your ? Don't worry, I got nine

At the supermarket, was holding *nine* "coconuts"「KOKONO ここの」while standing in the "queue"「KYŪ キュウ」. I one, and it rolled across the floor.

Per Wiktionary, “a stylized , with bent wrist/forearm—hence the stroke at lower right. Earlier forms resemble 手, 寸. The original meaning of the glyph was “elbow”, which is now written 肘/チュウ←OC *tkuʔ→キュウ.

“After the meaning “elbow” was forgotten, 九 was taken to symbolize a fist tightening to bump up against something; thus, there is a metaphorical bumping up of nine against ten, which is the last number when counting on one's fingers.”

Or, as Henshall puts it, “less than perfect ten: worth only nine.” Thus, 乙 is the radical because 九 is an example of something less than perfect.

It is first a pictogram of a with reached to catch stuff, and was later borrowed for 9.

When I was nine my favorite foods were coo-kies /ク/ and cu-cumbers /キュウ/. A weird combo, but I was just nine at the time. Nine, with a big !

nine is able to be divided into

in sight - identified as suspect no. nine.

I have toe-s とお that fit into my shoe-s ｼﾞュウ.

I wear "jewelry"「JŪ ジュウ」on my "toes"「TŌ とお」.

for ten but rotated 45 degrees.

It's the T in

One represents ten. See also: twenty, thirty, and fourty

ジュウ can count とお ten , too!

10 is the first whole number that countains two digits and 十 only countains two strokes.

Depicts a needle, later written 針/シン← /t͡ɕi̯əm/ ← *kjum … *ɡjub → /ʑi̯əp̚/ →ジッ, borrowed for sound. Originally drawn simply as a or with a dot in the middle. In later forms the dot extends to become a .

I have this christian friend, who loves to talk about the Ten Commandments. She gave me this beautiful jew-eled /ジュウ/ pendant.

You're {TOO} {JI}ttery to properly carry all these fragil {TO} the {JYU}piter wing in only ten minutes. You feel like {JYUU}niper would have been a better fit for the job...

This has ten jewels "じゅう" in it!

Ten people want JUice ジュウ in JUne ジュウ to cool down

1 9 = 10
2 8 = 10
3 7 = 10
4 6 = 10
5 5 = 10

These numbers all up to ten!

has ten things

To be honest, I thought of an English slang word similar to くち, but I'd rather shut my

When I play peek a boo or "coochie-coo"「KUCHI くち、KU ク」with my baby sister, she gives me a "coy"「KŌ コウ」smile, or opens her and laughs!

Looks like an open

I like KOUcaine said the

Depicts an open , possibly with upturned corners. Also used to depict a generic object, square or round.
コウ is a later borrowing, ク is earlier, both from MC /khuwᵡ/. くち is from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kutui; it is not derived from /khuwᵡ/, but they may share a common ancestor.

"He can be"「HI ひ、KA か、BI -び」late every *day* because the makes his .

Just like all the other countries, I see the sun rising every day through a , in Japan too.

Every day I see the sun through my , and each 二チ time I ca-n か hea-r ひ the bustle of the city where I live in Japan, it's too ジツ loud!

Depicts the sun . Each sun means one day when used as a counter for days. Japan is the land of the rising sun.

You see the sun/day through what? A !

Every day I watch the sun rise through the .

This kanji looks like a calendar to see days

day, someone said: “Japan is the land of the rising sun”.

From the shape of the ☀️, it bears the direct meaning of sun, the sunrise land, Japan, and the indirect meaning of day, which is the time between sunrise and sunset.

ひ かn't look at the sun, ニチ can I, but we can see the days passing from the .

Ouch! My に is hurt! Now my whole にち is RUINED!!!

On the day of May, my is burning.

This is the sun with a straight cloud passing through it

A is wearing cool to go to Japan.

The sun is a that you should 🚫 look at.

This doesn't have a doorknob.

The moon shines through the

As a Werewolf, every month the full moon really gets げつ to your guts がつ

Every *month*, werewolves are changed by the full . It really "gets"「GETSU ゲツ」their "guts"「GATSU ガツ」craving raw meat. I would use "two keys"「TSUKI つき」to lock them up, not one!

A month is longer than a 日

This month starts with a new moon: I can observe it through my at night.

From the shape of the 🌙, it took on the direct meaning of the moon, and the indirect meaning of month, which is the time it takes for the moon to finish its circumnavigation around the earth.

Pictograph: Simply a waxing .

Note: when in radical form this can mean 'moon' or 'part of the body'.

I like すき the

つき, I drive at night each month to see it. I guess ゲツ I need gas ガツ.

It is the kanji for 'sun' 日 but with two rays of light bouncing off of it, to show how is just reflected sun / sunlight.

In the anime a silent voice, the deaf character wanted to say すく, but said つき instead and her love interest though she was complimenting the moon

Every when the is full we ited up and down the mountain.

The kanji for moon looks like a

This kanji looks like a spaceship to the moon

every determines the end of days and beginning of months

Ta た beautiful and gar-den デン

the rice field has got four little

A , or *rice paddy*, is like a "garden"「DEN デン」for rice. One time, I "talked"「TA た」to an old Japanese woman about how she planted rice seedlings in in the muddy water.

Rice field crossed by

Yet another beautifully constructed kanji. Simple and meaningful. I think we can all agree that this is a , right?

Looks like a window where then {デン} you can look at the {た} rice fields.

Looks like a with going between each rice paddy.

There are four areas of the rice field, separated by a cross, which looks like the character for , which is . The outside part of the character is a .

Foxes make their dens デン in Tanaka's た rice field.

I walked through the , thinking about how I needed a DENTAl {でん・た} plan ...

Hard work on the means I need waTA {た}, and I crawl into my DEN {デン} to rest. waTA - water

Depicts an field stretching and , full of golDEN→デン grain. The topography and climate of Japan are far more suitable to growing rice than wheat, so in Japanese 田（た）came to mean a rice paddy, a wet field with raised walkways 塍.
田（*l'iːŋ）田 佃 畋 畇 鈿 沺 甸

たt rice from my neighbour's rice paddy, it's so delicious! Every time i stuff my with /デン spoonfuls before i swallow it.

Having a square and a square is not that special. It's just MMEEHH... {め}. But my MA {ま} always says, "Don't you worry about those who MOCK {もく} your square eye. I'll kick them with this square foot! We are the Square family!"

Look ME {め} in the

eyes

and MOCK {もく} me again, I dare you!

I'm looking at a .

If you turn your head 90 degrees, you could see a

eye

with a .

Looks like an with a . Eyes are used to look at things, make insights, and acrue experiences.

Look ME in the eyes baby!

I use ME eyes to look out the for MOKUingbirds!

My dog died too old, so I put a on top of the .

Only an old fool ふる the same co-rny コ story times.

My grandfather is so *old* that the same "foolish"「FURUI ふる.い」story will come from his times, and he won't remember. I can't "cope"「KO コ」!

Ancient samples of 古 look a lot like 由 from same period. You could think of 古 as an old lamp that burned out. Mouth 口 is the radical by analogy with bitter 苦.
Phonetic series 古: （*kaːʔ） 箇 個 居 橭 嫴 姑 辜 酤 蛄 鴣 沽 盬 古 罟 估 鈷 詁 牯 故 固 稒 痼 錮 鯝 棝 凅 枯 軲 跍 骷 苦 葫 餬 瑚 湖 鶘 猢 醐 糊 箶 蝴 胡 瓳 怙 祜 岵 婟 楛 据 裾 琚 椐 鶋 蜛 崌 涺 腒 鋸 倨 踞 涸

An old story in one that has passed through at least - I’m so FULL {ふる} of such stories that I can’t COpe {こ}!

So old, they already have a made for their

Old People are burried in a under the

An old shield graphic depicting

I once saw an squatting old man shove pieces of sushi into this at once.

The KOdomo will grow OLD someday with dentures in her

Looks like a stick figure with the kind of big chubby that old men often get.

old are great bonds.

ふるい is , but he "I'm scared of becoming old"

A phrase I've heard from at least : "The older I get, the less gladly I suffer ふる -s"

Head is place where our senses are channeled through 5 types of towards "the I"

The only fingers that I wouldn't find gross putting in my are my own

So, imagine in a time piece sort of vibe, horizontals at the top and bottom. That was the ancient chinese 5. The idea is either you back from 5 to 10 when counting on one hand, or the cross represents 5 elements/positions between heaven and earth 水 N, 木 E, S 火, W 金 and Centre 土. Its seemingly debated.

Then the crossing of one's words coming from their mouth , is I or the Ego

Original form of hat /ボウ, a piece of protective gear worn the head/ . Now means to defy the weather, to dare being outside, and to attack or inflict damage while doing so, at the risk to one’s reputation or health by getting wet, possibly under an assumed name.
Do not confuse with “prosperous” 昌/ショウ!

When you put the above the
you run in to the RISK of burning your .

When you shoot your bow{ボウ}, if you dare to look directly at the you risk damaging your . I learned that in Oka{おか}.

If you look directly at the for extended periods of time, you risk damaging your .

I ventured, towards the

Bo , stop. Looking at the is risky, because you could damage your .

Having a friend is like two joining together, fulfilling each other, like a good friend would.

Originally two pieces of jade on a string.

Etymology:
Originally depicted , which were used as coins, strung on .
This meaning, objects spread in alignment, persists when used as a component in complex kanji.
objects equally distributed on a string > string of travelers, one following another at equal distance > travel companion > friend

Look at these - Friends who "hou" out together, stay together.

Although 朋 looks like two buddies, it originally depicted two strings of shell money side by side, looking sort of like 班, wrapped 勹/ホウ in a wallet of some kind. The meaning evolved from a specific amount of money to ganging up, to joining together with a companion or friend.

Originally , two identical strings of cowries, jewellery, for companions.
Etymologically unrelated to both 肉 and 月 moon. Maybe you could say the cowrie strings shine like the moon.

Brightness from the comes from the 's light.

The and the are shining at the same time. MAY {めい} I please close the curtain? When it's too bright, everything I have will turn to Ash {あ}. I don't want Ash CAR {あか}, Ash KEY {あき}, Ash SAW {あさ}, ASH TAcos {あした}, or ASH SUshi {あす}, thank you.

The *light* from the and is *bright*. But sometimes the moon "may"「MEI メイ」 turn dark and red "red=あか"「AKA あか」when there's a blood moon.

In the Autumn {あき}, when the and are full and red {あか}, it MAY {めい} get bright.

the is holding a

The cannot have light without the

The shines light unto the in front of it.

Literally the and the combined. For all the brightness in the world.

When the lights up the fully, you know, your night will be bright

"May" メイ the light be with you. When the 日 and the 月 will rise, the world turns bright, and you have to be “accurate” あかるい.

2 bright celestial bodies, a and a

A ca-r's あか headlights are still not as bright as the or the .

Double da power { and } , double the brightness

The is so bright that even the reflections of it off the can provide us with light.

The and together is very bright.

When do things start to get bright outside? I'd say when things start getting sunny, and that is the month of May .

The and cast light every of every

When the isn't here, the is coming to light the night!

Since the kanji means "tomorrow" in 明日, this may be useful: after a and a .

Bright, light: the illuminating the .

Even though it’s not very bright during a solar eclipse, when the is in front of the , it’s not safe to look directly at it. Make sure to wear special glasses so the light doesn’t damage your eyes!

A chants to call for a /ショウ outcome.

I'll show {ショウ} you that the or the depending on the tone {とな} of the chant that comes from my

The is making two kids sing a CHANT
but they are only in their mouths. HA!

{speaking} = chanting

He performs a chant by for

**Dona** opens her chants to the two saying "**SHOW** ME THE LIGHT"

The sparkles through each corner of the crystal prism.

are used to mean something is sparkling with flickering lights.

Crystals sparkle when the bounces off from many different directions {imagine the three sun radicals as sunlight bouncing off of three different facets of a crystal}.

, far away, as stars, sparkle

Those are full of HINdu products

of goods piled up together

She NAgged me and said those are full of HINdu goods.

In niHON 🇯🇵 and SHINA 🇨🇳 ppl make goods with dignity for traditions. These traditions get passed on . It's only HINdrence is the Western influence, that even acounts for meals, which become increasingly less healthy.

I’ve already told HIM {ひん}! These are full of various goods, but mostly SNACKS {しな}!

Please show HIM the of goods.

The goods can feed many .

HINata sent me these goods from SHINA

The labels on these gives a *hin*t {ヒン} on what goods could be inside it.

Several . Can't know for sure which is which, but that's certainly goods.

I store goods/articles here in/HIN on an island/SHImA.

Looks like two in the spine

A spine consists of a ROW {ロ} of that are .

The in the big bathhouses as in Spirited away,
are connected with strong, thick metal
connecting the basins from up to down.

2 pouches of roe are located on the fish's .

The rising bright in the clear ocean, to SHOW→ショウ forth a prosperous day to come.
Note: do not confuse with “risk” 冒/ボウ!

The character paints the picture of the real and the sun’s in the ocean. It means to be prosperous.

The two SHOWn over the crop field, bringing a prosperous yield that year.

The is bright today and even brighter tomorrow as shown {ショウ} by the increase in its size. And prosperity {栄 / さか} is figuratively captured by the saying that the future is so bright that I ought to wear sunglasses.

Waking with the above , is a prosperous sign. Assumedly the waggers woke you up because the town is busy, idk.

Supposedly, etymologically, it was actually mouth down the bottom in the ancient Chinese characters. Then it was currupted to 日, in the warring states period.

A: There's still minutes left for the to rise!
B: SOOO? {そう}
A: HYAH {はや} ... come on, let me sleep!

The will quickly the horizon when it is early.

Hiya はや! You're up so ソウ early, the won't be out for another minutes.

Get up early and be fast if you want to watch the at .

The above the early in the day; to see it rising, you need to wake up and get ready fast.

If you're up before the reaches o'clock, you're up early.

"Hiya"「HAYA はや」, *early* bird! You got up "so"「SO ソウ」*fast*, the won't be out for another minutes!

The is just rising over the , early in the day

So, there's an ancient chinese character for grass/plant that I'm not going to try to put in here. Basically on 艹--> 十 in the early day or whatever.

To go Fast and arrive Early the driver wears his and reaches for the

Ai-yai!/はやい！It's soo/そうearly! I get up before the and do fast jumping jacks.

This kanji looks like a spinning top that spins early, fast for straight

HEY, YA【はや】gotta think fast in o-block; get up soon as the 's in the sky, at least before .
SOSA【ソウ、サッ】taught me that.

A wearing quickly opened his arms to protect his friend.

Isn't o'kyoku in the morning a bit late in the to be talking about the rising sun?

By o'clock, the morning sun is well out for the

The morning sun is the that has just risen from behind the .

Above cliffs I can see
the Japanese RISING

SUN

日

.

Supposedly originally, an , lifting the , the rising sun

The rising seems to emit /ク← *kuʔ … *qʰʷoɡ →キョク rays of light. The half sunburst of the sun rising in the east is a nationalist symbol of the country 国/コク→キョク.

If you put people in a they would make their own society in their own little world

The young *generation* in the *world* today , ""Yo"「YO よ」! Boomers are turning *society* !"

Via 丗: Depicts leaves on a , representing successive foliages, or generations, of a tree. Compare 葉, セ, and せ.

In the past, years were counted as one generation. Add below connecting all the years and you will get this kanji for generation

One of the common readings of this kanji is せ/se. Does it have anything to do with how it looks like a せ? I dunno, ask the Japanese society or go back in time to ask whichever generation invented this thing

They SAY {せい・せ} that there are only around per generation. What a world we live in, YO {よ}.