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.

This kanji looks like a with four and a .

*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.

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.

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

itsu nice trait of the human body that we have

five

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

Five GOes {ゴ} {いつ} and .

"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.

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!

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.

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

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

" 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 !

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...

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

This has ten jewels "じゅう" in it!

100 sideways

When it’s 100 degrees, even the needs an to protect itself from the sunlight. {From an even bigger sun?!?!?!}

""Hiya cook"「HYAKU ヒャク」! Did you get the "peaches = もも"「MOMO もも」for the pies?" "I did, but the bushel with all and everywhere!"

/ヒャク, where 白 “white” is a homonym for hundred. Readings: Modern ヒャク and archaic ほ/ぼ/ぽ/-お both derive from Old Chinese, by different routes. Compounds using -お include 五百/いお and 八百/やお. もも is a reduplicative of ぼ, with the meaning of “hundreds.”

light bulb emits 100% of the spectrum and looks .

Once upon a time, stumbled upon a hidden hyaku-hack, revealing a overflowing with precious hundred dollar bills.

That over there is worth a hundred points.

Turn the sideways and you have a 1. Turn the under the one sideways then you get two zeroes and connect them to get 100. The helps attach the 1 to the 00.

You thought my age was 18, which was and , but I am actually older than 100 years old.

Looks like the Arabic numerals for one hundred rotated 90 degrees to the right.

handful of consists of a hundred grains

One makes Day

In Spirited Away, "Chihiro's"「CHI ち」name means '*thousand* questions' 千尋 . Yubaba removes the second kanji from her name, leaving only the kanji for *thousand*, "Sen"「SEN セン」. That is why her name changes when she starts working in the bathhouse, where people wear in the bath. Sen rhymes with .

housand is housand, however you asSEMble {セン} it.

I heard they store over

one thousand

pounds of chee-se ち underground, I wish they would sen-d セン me some!

puts on a giant to look like his big brother Thousand . Hundred looks too different from him to even bother.

to the power of three strokes - the first one done with a - makes one thousand.

/ニン← /ȵiɪn/ →ジン→ /t͡sʰen/ →セン with conviction is worth a thousand slackers.

With their sensei's guidance, the students delved into the realm of , embarking on a thousand-fold journey of learning and growth.

have three syllables and to the power of 3 equals one thousand

Just so you {no}, meters is a thousand centimeters セン チ {sen chi}

There are 3 lines. to the third power is 1000

If you cut the with a . You can get 4 pieces. A thoundsand has 4 digits.

We have at the top and if you turn the kanji 90 degrees you will see a which means it has four zeros in front of it!

This looks like a {まん} running towards the 10000.

The running with $10,000 he stole from the bank バン

Once, a

had 10,000 dreams, however he realized achieving just required unwavering dedication.

Via 萬: myriad of or .

According to an urban legend which is probably untrue, the resemblance of 万 to 🏃 is the origin of the guideline to walk 10,000 steps every day.

Your rows よろず of

ten thousand

mon-sters マン share a bon-d バン like no other.

The kanji looks like Naruto running, and Naruto can become 10 000 clones!

It looks like a thumbs up: Man マン, even though I got ten thousand Likes on this post, I still got the バン ban-hammer.

An itchy { } ma {マン} - Ichiman {一万} - is literally only worth ten thousand yen.

*10,000* "Maniacs"「 MAN マン」made *countless* songs I can to. I always listen to them when I visit the "Yoro Zoo"「YOROZU よろず」!

I TEN THOUSAND dollars
together and hid it Under the .

An hour at the each

You put two keys -TOKI- on the to how many hours it will take for the to dry them. Jeez -JI-! It's taking a long time!

When the rises above the , it is time to pray

I have to between the and the to ke-ep とき the time every hour? Jeez ｼﾞ! That's so much work!

To tell the time without a clock, you on the with a sundial.

The hours of the where people labour at the . { originally meant moving hands and feet to work.}

In the game bunny bunny, you say TOKI TOKI TOKI TOKI which sounds like とき. In that game, the TIME between claps gets shorter and shorter! Aw GEE! ジ

The use the to time

Long ago, *time* was by how the rays affected shadows on the . If you look the word up in the "dictionary = じしょ"「JI ジ」, you'll find that "tokidoki"「TOKI とき、DOKI どき」means some*times*.

ジ, that clock sure does go ticky-とき pretty loudly as it tells the time.

At that time of , the looked bit cold.

If you want {TOKI}ll time, You need to waste an hour {JI}mping on the in the . Make sure you dont the time, just let it fly by.

The is rising up over the horizon, and people went to . And someone checked the time .

When Link went to the of Time, he had to use a dial to open the door. Gee, {ジ} that’s a lot of work!

Time is effectively and historically the of the angle between the and

The person sneaked into the and the went down to tell the time.

I know it was 6 O clock, in the morning, 日 as i hear the bell ringing in the 寺.

People time on the basis of 's rotation with respect to the .

A sundial {time} on the .

Every , we stay some time at the .

The time I went to the was a great .

shining on a showing the time

ジ, that clock at the temple sure does go tik-toki -とき at the end of the day

The clock that shows the time goes tick TOCKIとき

”ジ” ”じ” Ji（gee) look at the time, I'll go stub my toe on the key. TOE KEY "とき” To-ki

There's a famous cat on YouTube named "Maru"「MARU まる」who is as *round* as a "*yen*"「EN エン」coin, and will climb any !

From Middle Chinese 圓/ziuᴇn, ɦˠiuᴇn/, with the original sense of "circle, roundness".

The yen sense came much later in the Meiji period, from Chinese 圓/yuán, itself from 銀圓/yínyuán, “round silver object, especially a piece of eight”. Compare Chinese 元/yuán, and Korean 원/won.

The yen became the official currency of Japan in 1871, succeeding the 両 and the 文 .

Two in an are usually worth one yen.

I opened my , there's only one yen inside

My round are エン. Probably because I bought them for one yen.

Looks like a sideways and a below it = en.

The circle in your hand is part of the compensation your friend has shipped to you in a {MARO}on . You were really {MADO} at him for accidentally {MARU}ning you at sea when he didn't turn around to check if you were still there, but now you're livid. Did he really think you'd be happy hav{EN} to count this many yen coins?? You're gonna beat him with your next time you see him.

These cost 1000000000 yen. It's too expensive to buy. Let's find new glasses.

A in your

These glasses are I wanted round ones!