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a pictograph of a . That's how it also gets the Primitive meaning of FIST.

On the unlucky day friday the , a demon possessed me from out of nowhere.

Depicts an /ノ← /nɑ̆iᵡ/ →ナイ→ダイ tracing the path of a . The curve comes from the arm’s motion. That is to say すなわち, the curve is precisely the result of the motion, that and nothing more.

· 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.

nine is able to be divided into

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 !

in sight - identified as suspect no. nine.

Well, you've got the and the , but where's the person's head and arms?

He to-ld ひと me about a with spurs that jing-le ｼﾞン jangle jingle.

"He told"「HITO ひと」me he is a from a family with good "genes"「JIN ジン」.

Its the of a person walking.

When you HIT it Of with another person, you're start JINkling, you want to RIng them every day TO hear their voice and live toghether till you're NINety.

If you think about it, then kinda looks like a walking, or taking a pose to assert their dominance. If I were a lesser man, I'd run in fear.

HE TOld ひと me that a working at NINtendoにん refuses the JEANじん dress code.

A person is walking

A started to walk. HITO JIN's photo and the other, a NINja mask.

Only one person at Nin-tendo /ニン/ complained about the new jean-s /ジン/ policy, and that was you.

it's a , but where did their arms go? oh no! oh deary me! they don't have any!

Profile of a person standing with their arms extended to the left. This is more evident in 亻, the reduced form used as a radical. Like 亻, the first stroke is the and the second stroke is the .

Pictogram: a person’s

Looks like a very simple visualization of a 'stick figure' . The angle of the torso is drawn either vertical or leaning to the right, since people either walk upright or angled forward when running.

It looks like a man standing with legs wide open 🚶🏻‍♂️

In "Hyrule"「HAIRU はい.る」castle, Link *inserted* a in the , and *entered* an "eerie room"「IRERU い.れる」where he found a "new"「NYŪ 二ュウ」sword.

You enter the and notice the roof is high はい on the left

When her ニュウ {new} song came out, Taylor entered the room and said, 🎶 "It's い. はい. {Me. Hi.} I'm the problem." 🎶

In the Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, when you 二ュウ enter the of hyru-le はいる, it's quite eerie いれる.

An up-arrow ⬆️ indicating the place to enter or where to insert something. You write it the same way you write an arrow, to .
The main on’yomi ニュウ is from Middle Chinese /ȵʑi̯əp̚/ by way of Old Japanese にふ. The Proto-Sino-Tibetan root *nup sounds suspiciously like nuptials, from Proto-Indo-European snewbʰ-, but that’s probably a coincidence.
The alternate reading ジュ, used in a few old words relating to courting, is also from にふ, but may have been influenced by a shift in the Mandarin pronunciation, an irregular sound change made for taboo reasons—to avoid homophony with its derived vulgar meaning.

You see that over there? If you enter it you can get a new /ニュウ/ mini teepee that looks just the same.

Inserting a with a is hard.

Your {NYUU} job is to enter at {JYU}st the right moment in a {HAI}dey-hole and insert the {I}ball into the mini

Looks like a tall person leaning back and stepping forward awkwardly to a room with a low doorway.

Enter

with right foot as customary.

If rotate hito kanji then you can another kanji into japanese language

This is a sharp sword .

If you drop a "katana"「KATANA かたな」 , you might cut off your "toe"「TŌ トウ」and be "sorry"「SORI そり」!

If you want to learn more about KATANA かたな swords, you should visit the Japanese Sword Museum in TŌKYŌ トウ.

The way the sword cut the upper part of the KA tana really showed its power.

This was so overcome with shame that he bent over and fell upon his .

Strength is an image of a man 人 flexing his muscles: →

A is just one way to show how strong someone is. He also needs to be named RICKY {りき}, likes ROCKS {りょく} & roll, and CHIcken KARAge {ちから}.

A with big may look *strong*, but may not possess enough *power* to smash a "rock"「RYOKU リョク」. To get that kind of *strength*, you need to eat lots of protein, like "chicken karāge"「CHIKARA ちから」.

Strength is not the that is displayed outside, yet it is what is controlled in the inside.

It's looks like the katakana's , but bigger. It needs strenght, to de strong and powerful. Because they have this kind of relationship ちら It's like its mother... 力カ{お母さん)

is a powerful sound.

RIKI {りき} the ROCK's {りょく} comes from {から} his blood {ち}.

Who has the most POWER & STRENGTH of anyone? It's the Power Rangers. They are battling their arch enemy Ricky . They defeat him and lock him up, so that he can't hurt anyone ever again.

Looks like a with a little bit sticking out of it, because true power / strength is about more than just having weapons.

“Chi Kara” was a cool Samurai who had a lot of power and strength like a “Rock”. He wield his along his long .

A pictogram of someone trying to lift something. It takes a lot of strength and power to do so!

= bend over body lifting position

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

When used as a component in complex kanji, usually takes on its literal meaning: a hand.

I'll say it *again*... I put my when you were sad because "you"「YŪ ユウ」"matter"「MATA また」to me.

This looks like 夂，who stole money, but 又 keeps on getting caught by the police because of a similar appearance again!

A /ク indicates .
Both ク and く derive from this character.

If you want to someone, . It will take a long time.

When HE SAW {ひさ} that the QUEUE { キュウ} was barely moving, he said, "This is going to take a long time, , joke."

He’s a ひさ . I thought he was really cute キュウ, and I had a crush on him for a [long time), but that’s an [old story).

doesn't it look like the "bold and brash" picture from spongebob? just think "bold and brash" has been famous for a long time; BnB's nose and front leg BnB's back leg

He saw sheee ... and the rest is history. It's the oldest story known to man.

Origin uncertain. According to Wiktionary, there are various possible explanations:
・A child 子 with their mouth 口 open crying.
・The traditional glyph origin given in Shuowen—this is —explains the character to be a pictogram of female genitalia.
・It is possibly a pictogram of an ancient funnel or wash basin. It may be an early form of 匜.
・It was once interchangeable with 它 and may have originated as a simplification: .
・It may have been created to represent the modal particle. In some bronze inscriptions, it appears to be a mouth 口 with a curved line 乙 descending from it to represent air coming out of the mouth.
・It may have signified a big-headed scorpion 萬 with its legs flattened, signifying something very "flat" or "stretched out".

也（*laːlʔ）他 拖 駞 池 灺 鍦 虵 也 忚 髢 杝 肔 馳 阤 施 絁 葹 弛 箷 衪 暆 迆 酏 匜 迤 扡 崺 貤 地

To be legally blind means you cannot . Even a simple can be hard to distinguish

Until "you"「YA ヤ」mentioned it, I had "nary"「NARI なり」a thought of what it might be like *to be* the only left in the .

This is waiting to be .

Despite seeming nothing like it, the character was derived from the appearance of a . It means that thing can go either way.

Shows the over an empty . The deceased is not present. Also interpreted as the cutting edge of a knife—see 芒—or as an abbreviation for blind 盲.

Derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma “not” + Proto-Sino-Tibetan terminative suffix *-ŋ. Cognate with 忘 OC *maŋ, *maŋs, “to forget”, 罔 OC *mlaŋʔ, “to not have”, 荒 OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs, “to waste {land, time}” and 喪 OC *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ, “to lose”.

亡（*maŋ）忙 芒 茫 恾 吂 汒 朚 邙 杗 荒 肓 衁 巟 詤 慌 謊 喪 亡 望 莣 朢 鋩 硭 忘 网 罔 蛧 網 輞 棢 惘 菵 誷 魍 妄 盲 蝱 虻 氓 甿

The deceased are in a ,

The bones ボウ of the deceased were , and after the was closed, it was buried in hallowed ほろ ground. If you hear any knocking なき, run! 🧟‍♂️

The character is a picture of a who is being grabbed by a .

After reaching out to , they queued {キュウ} up to support me.

After being by a demon, his evil reign reached the whole world and caused a lot of trouble.

"The addition of a final stroke transforms this character from
the primitive for a into the kanji for REACH OUT,
much as a can often turn anger into acceptance.

As a primitive, this shall stand for outstretched hands."
RTK, Heisig

If you know know how to swim {およぐ} then you know how to exercise and reach land: およぶ

CUte {キュウ} reached out and said they caused the OIL {およ} spill.

a 人 must reach out to claim things as their 乃

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

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.

I like KOUcaine said the

Pictogram: An open . Can be literal or figurative or serve as a container of sorts.

This belongs to つち、and ド. They were buried together, six feet in the ground

Do-n't ド search つち in the soil in the under the , you might find toe-s ト!

I get "touchy"「TSUCHI つち」about on hallowed *ground*. Please "don't"「DOド」walk on the where people are buried, either in *Turkey* or anywhere on *Earth*.

If a tree falls on the ground and there's no one to hear it, DOes it make a sound?

You know who likes to dig in the soil? Dogs . They dig to find two cheeses . How will those dogs ever find those two cheeses?

Supposedly a lump of on a . Its texture is like DOUGH →ド.
Very similar to ♁, the Unicode symbol for earth つち.
The association with Turkey is from 土耳古, ateji for Portuguese turco “Turk”

土 looks like larger than a placed in it; the ground / soil / earth is wider to symbolize its importance over what is placed in it.
{Meanwhile, 士 looks like ground smaller than a person standing on it; the arms of the person are wider than the ground to symbolize the command that scholars / gentlemen / samurai have over the world around them.}

An pointing upwars from the

Hands in the soil, nurturing the

ground

,
Cultivating life, where the are found.

Jane Doe is buried in a in the ground with Stanley Tucci

flowers are sitting on the

ground

.

I struck the into the

ground

, which made a loud 'DO'.

growing in the .

The that is on the is soil.

Depicts a moon rising early in the evening . The cross can be interpreted as a barrier 関/セキ such as a hill or building partially obscuring the rising moon, or as one of the lines of the pocked surface visible on a clear evening.

In the I try my best to remember the ,,, day

da! This is the character for evening. I bet yuu ゆう were surprised, huh? Seeing this character for the sekiセキ-nd time.

is that ゆう? What are you doing this evening?

In the *evening*, I relax in a "seat = せき"「SEKI セキ」that and has . "You"「YŪ ゆ」should try it!

The character was made from the appearance of , with shining from it. The appearance of Venus signifies evening.

When sun is setting in evening you can see only

Pictogram: The , which appears in the evening

, and I will take a TAxi later in the evening .

Oooh おお, his neck is so that if he tightens his tie タイ, he could die ダイ!

Etymology:
Pictogram of a man spreading his arms to denote something big.

Mnemonic:
OOh {おお}, that shirt is too big! The TIE {タイ} DYEd {ダイ} are cool though.

The big is standing with to see if his shirt fits.

A big man is coming to hug you! Oo I'm jealous

A to look big.

The asked me to "tie dye"「TAI タイ、DAI ダイ」their *big* shirt "orange"「Ō おお」.

Pictogram: A spreading his arms, “This big”

A is holding big table

ooki! that man named tai is

Ooh おお, I thought I'd die ダイ fighting this big . Surprisingly, it was a tie タイ

Ooh /おお/, hey, do you see that big with the big Tai Dai /タイ, ダイ/ on?

Arms outstretched in a big reveal - おお - in a tie dye shirt - タイ、ダイ-

A sitting with a on her おんな lap

My friend "Jona"「JO ジョ、ONNA おんな」was a very strange *woman*. Any time she met someone new, she would stretch out her and , as if she was meeting royalty!

The is going to a show ｼﾞョ with a hat on her おんあ head.

A woman with a baby in her .

A woman who has flexible and straight to do the work.

This Jo Anne /ジョ/, the owne-r /おんな/ of this shop is a really tough looking person. But she really is a sweatheart. She makes female clothing with another woman, her sister.

「おんな」means “she” in Polish. “She” refers to a woman or female.

It looks like a with and

The reaches out with her for her parent because "she"「SHI シ」is "co"dependent「KO こ」.

She likes rats cau-se こ she シ is just a

Tuck the into SHE will SOOn be asleep

the small child is in the with his and sticking out

That poor child - SHE has lived a of year.

The child is “ko”ld so they “shi”ver

Child their mother.

they have a of child

Look at that ! シ「She」likeス「likes」caツ「cats」{cat =「ねこ」}.

Looks like a child from the side view. You can only see her nose, mouth, and chin...along with her tongue SHE is sticking out at the rat she sees in the COrner

Is it true that SHIITAKE シ SOUP ス with KOMATSUNA こ is the favourite food among Japanese kids ?

It took you {TSU} long to notice the on the when you were chasing the {SHI}p around their pen. You {SU}wear you've {NE}ver felt pain like this in all your child years. You shouldn't have gone to play between 11pm - 1am, it was too dark, but you knew you {KO}uldn't play during the day, not with the sign of the rat watching your every move from the mural on the wall.

A with a .

With even a small sun {スン} dial we can make a time measurement. When the hits the it casts a .

was originally constructed using an image of a that is being at the wrist to measure the pulse. It is also used as unit of measurement tenth of a shaku.

Pictograph: Imagine this is and MEASURING a small

The math test is ending "soon"「SUN スン」so I take a quick *measurement* of the and mark it with a *small* .

A スン is an old type of small measurment, equalling about a of a .

I put the first measurement on the . It's very small, just 1 sun, an old size unit about 3.03 cm

of a shaku is an old form of measurement

It looks like a measuring caliper.

He has small ちい on either si-de さいof his , he likes to show ショウ them off.

The kanji is derived from the picture of three sand grains written as three straight lines. To differentiate between this and , it is written this way instead.

Scrape a piece of into .

The tried to "show"「SHO ショ」how *small* he could make himself by pinning his down at his sides. He made himself even smaller than his *little* friend "Chisa"「CHISAI ちい.さい」!

Show /しょう me a little cheese! *sigh* /ちいさい. I love cheese. :)

It looks like a small chiiken , with 2 and between them its

You can see as a person SHOwing {ショウ} the size of SO-mething {sa さ-} with their arms. small is a with their , as to say "Oh- {お-}! It's THIS small!". If the object was bigger, the arms and the legs would be more stretched out {that's how you get }.

CHEE SIGHED , I am so SMALL , it SHO isn't fun being this Little

The kanji looks a bit like a sai weapon pointing down. Imagine that sai with a piece of cheese on it, and a small mouse eating the cheese. It's a CHEEse SAI.

In contrast to the big kanji , this has his down by his side, not stretched out big and wide.

Ya ma やま, your son サン sen-ds セン his love from the .

Link the peaks and a will appear

The kanji for *mountain* looks like rising from the ground. In Japanese, three is "san"「SAN サン」. Mount Fuji is known both as Fujisan and "Fujiyama"「YAMA やま」.

Three . Pretty simple, right?

Have you ever imagined s talking, like how wuld two mountains greet eachother?
"Hello, Everest-san /サン/."
"Oh hi, Fuji-san /サン/."

Pictograph of a

Looks like a mountain for the sloping shape.

The Khan {カン} said he wouldn't interfere with any parties as long as over in of his soldiers remained dry.

Dry out logs for the . If they're wet, it can/カン interfere with the wires.

The farmer must "hoe soon"「HOSU ほ.す」around the while it's still *dry*, he "can"「KAN カン」not wait for the rain to *recede*.

This radical looked like a dry scarecrow. Here look! There's the hat ; There's the body .

Originally a grabbing a meaning to interfere, it also took on another more popular meaning of dry.

When the sea receded, the dried up and the land became parched.
Note: it looks similar to the kanji for “ground” 土 upside down.

While there were men present, only hero ひろ interceded to save the parched horsey ほしfrom dehydration. Because you can カン not ride a dead horse ほす.