In order to not confuse 妹 and 姉, I like to think that younger sisters could sometimes stumble while running around. Hence way their kanji needs 2 sticks to make sure it doesn't fall. Older sisters don't need that though, so those sticks are transferred up and become arms.
Hope this helps!

your older brother likes to watch ANIme.

My older brother is Anakin from Star Wars. We all call him Annie.

Also written as: 哥

For anyone who enjoys Yakuza movies or games, you’ll most likely be familiar with the term aniki (兄貴), which is a familiar term foot soldiers call their superiors/mentors below the rank of captain.

Aniki basically means honoured older brother, or literally older brother (兄 ) of honour (貴).

Thanos is collecting stones for fun

is (Ta)Tanya studying? (No)No (Shi)(i)She is having fun

My wife is outside working on her (Tan. Oh She) finds it quite enjoyable!

Tan? Oh, she had fun alright

If you are a fan of Japanese rhythm games you might recognize the music label HARDCORE TANO*C which produces *enjoyable* music.

the first kanji looks like someone listening to music with headphones (music, comfort, ease)
She (し い) enjoys music (楽)

Ahsoka TANO is a fun character in Star Wars.

Theres a ton of shii- (tanoshii) to do. What fun!!!

Gee, this sure is a ton o' (たの) fun!

We're going to a beach to (tan)? (O shi)* that's fun

The たの in 楽しい is the same as in 頼む. Historically, たの expressed the feeling of mental ease or comfort that comes from being able to depend on something. From that root, “reliable” and “pleasant” or “joyful” were natural semantic evolutions.

There are also formal forms of numbers that are used in important documents to prevent fraud. Normally the kanji for one 一 could easily be made to look like a few other numbers by simply adding a stroke.

Number - normal kanji - alternative
1 one - 一 - 壱
2 two - 二 - 弐
3 three - 三 - 参
10 ten - 十 - 拾

I've got one(1) itch(いち).

Wiktionary:
Despite 歌, 唄, and 詩 having the same kun-yomi reading of uta: 詩 refers to modern poetry, 歌 to songs and classical Japanese poetry (such as tanka), and 唄 is primarily used in shamisen songs.

The american state of Utah (U-Ta) loves to sing.

Uta is a character in One Piece who sings!

UTAU (歌う) is a celebrated Japanese singing synthesizer. Kasane Teto is an example of the "utauloid".

I think UTAda sings the theme song for Kingdom Hearts 2

Uta from One Piece sings songs (Uta)

Ooh (u) that (ta) was a lovely song

If you've watched or read Tokyo Ghoul -> the character Uta was based off Miyavi, a singer

Also written as: 哥

Also written as 詩 (according to search, don't quote me)

家 can be read two main ways:

いえ is closer to house. Kind of refers more to the building itself
うち is usually translated as home. Includes the deeper connections to family and personal history inside the building.

家 is more about the usual place one lives in and those living in it - the familiar environment.

When talking about family members or other people close to you, using "私/僕/俺の" can sound a bit direct, so うちの can be a softer and more polite phrasing.

Use お家 when talking to someone else about THEIR home. If that person is above your station (like your boss) you should use お宅.

For your own home use うち.

いえ generally means "my house, the building" while "うち" is "my home, where I live".

Ooh Gee (uchi) it's great to be home!

内（ うち ）means inside. When you're home you're inside.

This poultry 🍗 ( 鳥　とり) BBQ shop has no saving grace ( 取り柄　とり.え) 😢; they even charge a penalty 💸 if a cancellation* ( 取り消し とり.けし) is made.

My family ( うちの家族 ) said I'm too shy ( 内気　うち.き) to stand up for myself. They said I should have denied* ( 打ち消す　うち.けす) to pay.

sound like your earth: your う, earth ち, maybe ontop there is also your house, like a sand castle

おととい can be used in any situation, but いっさくじつ is exclusively used in formal contexts.

cf. きのう vs. さくじつ

"OH, TOTO, wE were just in Kansas the day before yesterday!" --Dorothy

It was my younger brother’s (おとうと) birthday the day before yesterday (おととい)

I got my other toy (おととい) the day before yesterday

一昨年 is the year (とし) before last.
一昨日 is the day (ひ) before last.

But we’re gonna shorten this from おととひ to おととい.

Wiktionary:
"The word 一昨日 is an exceptional word to の-particle deaccenting; its Nakadaka pronunciation of おととい becomes flat with の and is then pronounced as:
お/とといの"

大 has the meaning "Big". So in this context, it means that something means alot

大切 and 親切 are easier to understand if you understand 切 like part, aspect, "cutoff" (of a whole). Then, like セヴィ said, 大 mean "Big" and figuratively, "important". So, put together, you get the meaning of "Big/important part/aspect". For 親切, 親 has the meaning "relative", "close", "friendly". So put together, you get the meaning of "friendly/close/relative part/aspect". And that, in context, could refer to diverse aspects of friendship like kind, friendly, considerate, etc.

It's used for things which are to be treated as if they can't be replaced, or a state where something should be valued and given heed to, (...) but I believe that 大切 is more about the 心 /sentimental/emotional sense and is more subjective and 大事 more about being fundamentally important/valuable and is more objective.
Source:
[www.japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/11262/what-is-the-difference-between-%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%8B-daiji-and-%E5%A4%A7%E5%88%87-taisetsu]

重要 - important for a certain purpose (objective)

大切 - emotional importance (subjective)

大事 - very similar to 大切 but more obejctive

It's IMPORTANT that my VALUABLE ties are in sets.

My most valuable thing are my tie sets

The most VALUABLE sword in your collection is the one that makes the large 大 cuts 切. It must have been owned by an IMPORTANT person before.

Rock Lee cannot do ninjutsu or genjutsu, only taijutsu, which is important and valuable to him. Taisetsu is similar sounding to taijutsu.

It's important because tai set su (I said so)!

IMPORTANT. If seven big swords (大切) cut Sue, be sure to tie (たい) and set Sue (せつ) wounds.

Something important to you is a big 大 'cut' 切 of who you are; to lose it is to lose a big peice of yourself.

You need a tie (“tai”), maybe even a tie set for an important event.

It's a little known fact that THAI SETSUmas are actually an *important, significant* part of the Thai economy.

To distinguish 大切 from 親切:
THAI (たい = 大) people are *important* and CHINese (しん = 親) people are *kind*. But they both *cut* the lines. Et puis C'EST TOUT ! (せつ = 切)

Tie and suit shows important. ta i se tsu

You wear your best たい (tie) and せつt (suit) for a very (important) meeting.

Because this is so IMPORTANT, it is たい-me (time) せつ-tive (sensitive).

The second kanji reminds me of carrying a baby on your back in one of those baby carriers or a young child riding piggy back. So you have 2 people and their most important, most valuable and most precious child. You can also add tie Seth (baby) to Sue (mom) for Taisetsu.

Its important to remember that 切 as a kanji has many more senses than “cut” it can also mean “urgency or eagerness” among other things. Which is why the compound makes sense.

Note: When you turn 高い into the noun 高さ, it practically never means "expensive" by itself.

With 高い, the adjective carries multiple senses (high / tall / expensive), and context disambiguates.
With 高さ, that ambiguity is gone: the noun just means "degree / level / height", and the semantic load shifts to the noun it attaches to.
To express "expensiveness", you therefore need something like 値段の高さ (値段 = "price").

For example, このシャツの高さ refers to the shirt's physical measurements, not its price.

You can confirm this by checking the dictionary definition of 高さ, its example sentences, and most importantly—how natives actually use it.

This is the very tall kai

高 looks like a building, which tend to be tall

高 looks like a tall house with a big garage. You bought this expensive house so people would TALK HIGH (Takai) about you.

I'll have tall KAI tea to go. $15?? It's expensive!

TAKAEV (the president of Kazakhstan) is tall.

TAAAA kaiiii
Tall Kai

Sounds similar to “too high”. As in: a structure or person = tall. A price = expensive. A sound = shrill. The image reminds me of several different things: 1. a tall building. 2. a rock cairn that won’t balance if it’s too high. 3. A pot with a lid that won’t close because the items in the pot are too high, which also reminds me of “put a lid on it.” (for something that is too high pitched or shrill).

It sounds somewhat like Spanish.
E(い) ta (た) ca(かい)ro.

Means both "tall" and "expensive"?
Well, prices are steep.

A tall building.

Can sometimes contextually refer to a table

To be displayed, the picture (え) must first arrive (つく) on the desk.

I make (tsukuru) things at my desk (tsukue).

desukue -> tsukue

They took away (tsukue) my video games so now I have to study at my desk :c

At school eh? Sit down at your tsukue.

You like to (tsu) cool (ku) your eggs (e) on your desk. Why? I don’t know. Come up with a reason on why you like to cool your eggs on your desk.

I walked into the classroom and arrived (tsuku) at my desk (tsukue)

You have to make (作る) the desk (机) before you can use (使う) it.
Or: if you can remember that angel also uses this Kanji (天使), think "angels live in the つかい (sky)."

My desk is a squere (square) (つくえ) shape

Hey! Who took away (tsukue) my assignment from my desk?

My desk is tsucool, eh?

It’s a nice desk (de-つく), eh (え)?

Since tofu is usually sold in blocks, the counter for it is 丁 (ちょう). The counter may change depending on shape and size.

Pronunciation とけい comes from former spelling 土圭, in reference to a medieval type of sundial used in China.

This clock has been programmed to be very agreeable. So instead of tick-tock it says tick-T-OKAY.

時計: time measure
土圭: earth angle (sundial)

Use a watch (とけい) to measure the time (とき)

Tok ku tek ku ... The clock is working non stop.

With this clock, you can make sure your plans 計 go ahead on time 時

Look at your とけい (clock) to check the とき (time)

They added a clock と けいtais so if you have a mobile phone you don't need a separate clock,

"The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalí depicts melting ( 溶ける/とける ) clocks ( 時計/とけい ).

時 time とき
計 measuring device けい

A clock measures time.
But there is no time for ときけい so we’ll just say とけい instead.

Similar to 大変 (たいへん) but lacking the meaning of "tough, hard", and more casual. Can also be used to express excitement as in "so (...)!" or とっても "sooo (...)!"

According to: [jpyokoso.com]

TOTEMs are really pretty

*𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵* is "totally more"「TOTEMO とても」than *𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹*!

Sounds like TO TE lly (totally or very)

Totem(o)s are usually used to enhance, exceed something(power), in games especially

Your toe demo is awfully/very smelly! 🤢

Also possible to make a small pause (とっても) to emphasize, I see a lot of Japanese people type it like that when they think something is very ____

ついたち is derived from 月立ち (tsukitachi) meaning the rise of a new moon. Which usually meant the start of a new month

first MOON TOUCH (tsuki tachi)

1日 (ついたち) come from the word 朔日(ついたち) which itself come from the word.... 月立ち (つきたち) which is just 月 (moon and... month?) + 立ち (more or less rising here). It's related to the ancient lunar calendar based on the cycle of the moon where the first day of the month was the moment where the moon rise... again. The first kanji of 朔日 is also composed of the part 屰 (go against, reverse) and 月 (moon/month). So... you could say that ついたち is also the "Day of the reversal of the moon (month)" *dramatic noise in the background*. Aka... when the moon "reverse" to it initial state, the "new moon". Or the first day of the month.

Anyway, now you know why 1日 is different and even why 月 mean both moon and... month =p
Hope that help!

The *natsu* (summer) is a-tsui! (hot)

I love summer. I'm just nuts-u about it!

Exploring NATure is easy in SUmmer.

There's lots of gnats (なつ) in summer!

I like eating nuts (na-tsu) during summer. Cashews and the like.

Natural (nat) sunlight (su) in the summer for that Vitamin-D.

July the 7th month is in summer (なつ), which helps me remember ななつ

The anime Nanatsu no Taizai: The SEVEN Deadly Sins

I eat seven bananas (なな) per week, that's one banana a day

I always have 7 bowls of なな's つ (Nana's soup)

なん~ as prefix:many

Cannot be followed by the particle wa. Instead you must use the particle ga.

There are a few exceptions to the rule that 何 can't be followed by は, mostly set expressions where it doesn't function as a question word, e.g. 何はともあれ, 何はさておき.

I love ( 愛 /あい) meat ( 肉 /にく), unfortunately* 合憎 /あいにく, my girlfriend is a veggie.

"Need to cook → meat"
Meat isn’t ready until you need to cook it. Sounds like niku.

(kanji mnemonic) The kanji looks a bit like a square shaped steak with grill lines. 肉

Or, alternatively, two people (人人) inside a room (冂), gathering for dinner, to eat meat, one of them is called nick (にく). 肉

NIco KUks (cooks) meat.

cat; shamisen; geisha;
Abbrev: wheelbarrow 猫車;
Colloq: bottom (sex) antonym: タチ;

I always remember the kanji because it almost looks like a cat reaching up to swat something off the top of a table.

Cat loves petting her NECK and it goes OOO (NECK-O)

Kind of looks like a wicked witch on the left carrying a cat carrier so she can bring her familiar to the vet. 🧙🧺🐈‍⬛

愛猫 = "beloved pet cat" (especially in writing)

On the 7th day of christmas, my true love gave to me... a nano-car?

This word does not operate exactly the same way as it's English counterpart, as it is used more accurately to confirm what someone said is correct, as opposed to correcting someone that a statement is true.

For instance, in English if someone asked; will you be going? They would say yes, but if they asked; so you won't be going? They would say no.

In Japanese however, in both instances, they would respond はい.

うん meaning yes (mhm) and ううん meaning no (hmm...). The longer the sound, the less certain the speaker is. Both are for casual conversation only and はい / いいえ should be used in professional settings.