Vocabulary dictionary

Kanji dictionary

Grammar dictionary

Sentence lookup

test
 

(Textbook) Diving into Japanese Culture and Society trough food (アニメ と ) > 495 Quiz 2 Kanji
The kanji from the list of fill-in-the-blank-kanji words
Made by かわうそ

Export style
Current page
All pages
Export style
 

Custom export

How to separate words
One term per line

Page: 1 of 2
Select all
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: セン
Stroke count: 17
Radical name: いとへん
Radical
slender, fine, thin kimono
Mnemonics
Via : fine
thread
for the thin kimono worn by
people
+
who employ
armed
guards to protect their slender
leeks
/セン.
Show all mnemonics (4)
I want to be slender and wear fine
threads
to my wedding. I'm following a diet that has me eating
ten
servings of fiber { / せんい} a day. But I'll do it because otherwise I might
not
丿
be able to walk down the
aisle
for the
ceremony
.
rather than a thick, noisy
fabric
, my kimono is made of just
ten
lined-up
threads*, so it's pretty thin and slender

*take , remove the in the middle, add and part of
Written by: emanresU
At the tailor’s studio, we
lined up
{}
ten
kinds of
thread
before selecting the finest one. The tailor used his
halberd
to turn it into a thin kimono
Written by: Spirit_kokoro
The thin kimono was stained
red
and cut into
one
thousand/セン
threads
with a
halberd
Written by: Akagekurage
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ かせん - (noun) {abbr} synthetic fiber, synthetic fibre, chemical fiber, chemical fibre
/ せんい - (noun) fibre, fiber, textile
/ ごうせん - (noun) {abbr} synthetic fiber, synthetic fibre
/ せんさい - (Adjective/-な) dainty, delicate (e.g. fingers), fine, slim; sensitive, delicate (feelings, sense, etc.), subtle
/ ちゅうごくかせんこうぎょうきょうかい - (noun) {organization} China Chemical Fibers Association, CCFA
Kunyomi: こま.か, こま.かい, ほそ.い, ほそ.る
Onyomi: サイ
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: いとへん
Radical
dainty, get thin, taper, slender, narrow, detailed, precise
Mnemonics
This
thread
is very thin compared to an entire
rice field
.
Written by: gillianfaith
Show all mnemonics (16)
You’ve heard of a needle in a haystack? Well, this is a
thread
in a
rice paddy
. It will require a precise, detailed search to find this slender, dainty baby. You might even need a PSYchic→サイ.
(A psychic is someone who uses mysterious powers in their head /シン← /si̯ĕnᴴ/ ← *snɯns … *snɯːls → /sieiᴴ/ →サイ to perform physical tasks. corrupted into sometime after the Han dynasty.)
Sigh{サイ}..You've precisely marked the
field
with that
thread
. But that little hoe's so {ほそ} thin and dainty, I'll slip into a coma{こま} before you finish digging.
Written by: Anonymous123
I used the "hoe so"「HOSO ほそ」much in the
field
that I *got thin* as a *dainty*
thread
. "Sigh"「SAI サイ」!
The
thread
grows thin the further across the
rice field
we go.
Written by: チェイスです
Using a thin, tapered needle and
thread
the woman used needlework to create a detailed image of a
rice paddy
. The end result was both precise and dainty.
If you cut the
cake
with a
thread
its extremely precise.
Written by: Gjfj
Phono-semantic: Phonetic
corrupted to
“サイ” semantic
“thread”

Thread
is very thin and slender it requires a precise tool to use like a needle. These thin objects get easily lost in
fields
.
Written by: フバフバ
I wrap a
thread
around this
rice field
, then pull on it to compress the rice field to be more thin/narrow.
Written by: こガエル
Slender
thread
will become dainty and get thin if used in the
rice field
Written by: Seanyくんです
There is a dainty and thin lil piece of
string
in the middle of the
rice field
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Thin, like a
thread
or the
fontanelles
on a baby’s skull, which are both thin and delicate. The fontanelle part came to be drawn like a rice field over time, but the meaning is unrelated. Think of it as the skull seen from above, with thin lines running across it.
Written by: Biev
After I precisely marked out the rows in the
rice field
I
threaded
a slender irrigation hose ほそ down the side さい of each row. It was hard work and now I’m ready to slip into a coma こま.
Written by: Jules.33
The size {サイ} of this
thread
is thin compared to a
rice field
.
Written by: myopikix
Looking for a
thread
in a
field
requires attention to detail, and will make you thin
Written by: zzeyn
The thin and slender
thread
gets narrower as it goes through the precise center of the
rice field
.
Written by: コエル
What in particular does the narrow
thread
beside the
window
do?
Written by: lightmotif
Related vocabulary
/ こまごま - (adverb) minutely, in detail, with particular attention
かい / こまかいこと - (expression) trifles, minor details
い / ほそながい - (Adjective/-い) long and narrow
/ ほそぼそ - (adverb) poor (living); barely continuing, just scraping along; {adj-f} very narrow
/ さいく - (noun/する verb) work, workmanship, craftsmanship, handiwork; artifice, trick, device, tampering, doctoring
Kunyomi: た.える, た.つ, た.やす
Onyomi: ゼツ
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: いとへん
Radical
discontinue, sever, cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress, be beyond, without match, peerless, unparalleled
Mnemonics
Unfortunately this
colour
of
thread
was discontinued.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (8)
This peerless
thread
is cut off from a robe of another
color
. Via : semantic “silk” + semantic “knife” + phonetic /jié→ゼツ.
When the
thread
of a species turns
pale
and TIRES {たえる}, it is SET SO {ゼツ} extinction is overdue.
Written by: マイケルミラー
This dinosaur species was peerless with respect to its
colorful
plumage. Nonetheless, it became extinct {めつ = ぜつめつ} when its
thread
of fate was severed. Tah-tah {た}, dinosaur!
They discontinued that
thread's
colour
Written by: チェイスです
Store Clerk - "This paricultar
color
of
thread
is discontinued"
Russian Guy - "Zet's too bad"
ぜつ
Written by: Sealingpizza
In order to
dye たえる/color
thread
, you extract/absolutely cut off/sever the color from its original source. (i.e. you take the color out of the berries to dye a cloth.)
Written by: かわうそ
they had to cut off my finger because i tied a
thread
around it and it turned the
color
purple
Written by: Praven
To sever is a
Thread
alongside a
color
.
Written by: Leonardo88
Related vocabulary
see all words
なく / たえまなく - (adverb) incessantly, without a pause
え / いきもたえだえ - (adjective) gasping
る / たえいる - (Godan verb - る (ます = stem+ります)/intransitive) to expire, to die, to draw one's last breath
/ ぜつめつ - (noun/する verb) extinction, extermination; eradication, stamping out, wiping out
/ ぜったい - (Noun/な-adjective) absolutely, definitely, unconditionally; {adj-no} absolute, unconditional, unmistakable; {n} absoluteness
Kunyomi: いただき, いただ.く
Onyomi: チョウ
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: おおがい
Radical
place on the head, receive, top of head, top, summit, peak
Mnemonics
receive
nail
exactly
through top of head
Written by: Karl.Popper
Show all mnemonics (11)
an old guy gives you a map
PAGE
to reach the PEAK/SUMMIT of the
STREET
, so you HUMBLY RECEIVE it.
Written by: ひでのり
To get to the summit, follow the
street
/チョウ to its
head
. There, you can receive a kiss on the top of your head. From the wind.
For a
page
to hang on the wall, it must receive a
nail
through the top.
Written by: AydinHoolia
At the climax of the movie, the
town
hall exploded. The director received
page's
of complaints from the residences.
Written by: チェイスです
When I read the
page
where the guy from my
street
reached the summit of Mt. Everest, I was so touched that I got all choked {チョウ} up. He will receive an award when he gets back to town.
I was walking down the
street
when
one
stick
and some
shellfish
chow{チョウ}der fell on top of my head.
Written by: うらしい
I received this travel guide and on one
page
there is a
way
that leads us to the top of the mountain.
Written by: 50・fuyuko50
When biking along a
street
, you should always wear a helmet on top of your
head
. Otherwise you might receive a concussion, or worse...
Written by: Tealtime
During the PEAK of Autumn, the
streets
are covered in
leaves
. My child likes to PLACE them ON her HEAD.
Written by: Jules.33
During Autumn when the
leaves
change color, kids run up and down the
street
RECEIVING candy for Halloween.
Written by: Jules.33
In this picture, the kanji for
street
is the top piece of
leaf
. The top of a person is the top of head and the top of a mountain is the summit or peak.
Written by: MiT_Epona
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ いただき - (noun) crown (of head), summit (of mountain), spire; easy win for one; something received
/ いただきじょし - (noun) {sl} woman who feigns intimacy with men for money
/ ちょうじょう - (noun) top, summit, peak
/ ちょうだい - (expression) {hum} receiving, getting, accepting, being given; {hum} eating, drinking, having; {exp} {fam} {fem} please (give me; do for me)
/ ちょうてん - (noun) {geom} vertex, apex; top (e.g. of a mountain), summit, peak; top (of a profession, field, etc.), summit; peak (of popularity, a boom, etc.), height (e.g. of prosperity), apex, zenith, climax
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: つき
Radical
period, time, date, term
Mnemonics
That
month
was the time of my life.
Written by: アイセ
Show all mnemonics (13)
There is a period in a
month
where I can eat
sweet
food,
eight
times more than usual.
Written by: ミロ367
That
month
was a KEY {キ} period for me - the time of my life!
Written by: マイケルミラー
Logically, you’d expect to look like ⿰, meaning
that
/キ, ギ← /ki/, /gi/ ← *kɯ, *ɡɯ … *ɡɯ → /gi/ →ゴ period of time . In fact, the earliest bronze scripts do have instead of , but never on the left. is either on the top or on the bottom, indicating the days passing. Eventually it moves to the right and gains a line indicating movement. This moving sun ultimately becomes the radical
moon
.
る/ちぎる pledge—for a fixed period
める/きめるdecide—on the period
In a key {キ} period of my life, I was
also twenty
in August. Note: also twenty = + 廿. August = The
8th
month
.
Written by: Anonymous123
On
that
*date*, near the end of the
month
, is the "key"「KI キ」opportunity for me to "go"「GO ゴ」on a trip for a *period* of *time*.
I lost the game of chess cos my
rook
was on it's •period•. Yes it was that time of
month
Written by: Samurai_Ash
August, the
eighth
month
, is the time when the
ladder
climbing competitions take place.
Written by: 50・fuyuko50
A
crab
left on the
moon
for any period of time will die since it lacks the KI element of air.
Written by: Seraseth
The date is
August
23
. I have a period of a month until my next school term. That's enough time to have some fun.

Note: August is the eight month
+

23 is two tens
+
and 3 ones
Written by: Quixotic
Can I borrow
that ladder
for a period of one
month
?
Written by: Jules.33
That Tardis
can take you to any time, period, date or even
month or moon
. Face it, the Tardis is the key {キ} to go {ゴ) anywhere or anytime!
Written by: GwynneBleidd
That
is the
month
of the wedding. Please keep キ the date and time free. It’s the 20th at 8:00. I hope you can go ゴ.
Written by: Jules.33
I really suck at managing my time in chess, it's almost takes me a full
moon
period to decide how to move
that chess tower
Written by: ケンパチ
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ よき - (noun/する verb) expectation, anticipation, forecast
/ がっき - (noun) school term, semester
/ さいご - (noun) one's last moment, one's death, one's end
/ ごじつ - (noun) fixed date, appointed date, set date; deadline, due date
/ ていき - (noun) fixed period, fixed term; {adj-no} regular, periodic, periodical; {abbr} fixed-term commuter pass; {abbr} fixed-term deposit; {abbr} futures contracts
Kunyomi: おとろ.える
Onyomi: スイ
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: ころも
Radical
decline, wane, weaken
Mnemonics
O TALL ELVES {おとろえる} are on the decline. They put on their best
garments
and
hats
and sail across the water/スイ into the waning
sun
/.
Written by: Akagekurage
Show all mnemonics (4)
After Barbara Allen rejected the boy, his tears ran like water /スイ and his heart was
pierced
by
grief
, leading to his rapid decline and death.
Alternately, Sears analyzes this as tender cloth , which could refer to clothing worn thin.

Secondary readings: サイ mourning; シ shave, reduce, develop a gap.

(*sʰrol)
シ・サイ, スイ← /ʈ͡ʂʰwie̯/, /ʂwi/ ← *sʰrol, *srul
Piercing
a hole through
a
kettle lid
or
the main part
of a
garment
weaken them equally.
Written by: sand_eto
Those
clothes
are getting worn out. In the
*middle, on its side,
is a patch that is declining fast. Maybe it's something in the water {スイ} ? *middle, on its side, = turned 90 degrees
Written by: Anonymous123
What a
pity
. It started with
one stroke
, and now that poor man's health is in DECLINE.
Written by: Overflow0xFFFF
Related vocabulary
see all words
てる / おとろえはてる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/intransitive) to be utterly spent or crushed
/ ろうすい - (noun/する verb) senility, senile decay, infirmity (through age)
/ すいじゃく - (noun/する verb) weakness, debility, breakdown, prostration
退 / すいたい - (noun/する verb) decline, degeneration, decay, waning, ebbing
/ すいたい - (noun/する verb) decline, degeneration, decay, waning, ebbing
退
Kunyomi: しりぞ.く, しりぞ.ける
Onyomi: タイ
Stroke count: 9
Radical name: しんにょう,しんにゅう
Radical
retreat, withdraw, retire, resign, repel, expel, reject
Mnemonics
SHE REASOned {しりぞ} that it's
good
to know when it's TIme {タイ} to retreat down the
road
.
Show all mnemonics (14)
The
way
of retreat seems
good
when you're losing
Written by: Ringotoki
Let's retreat by taking the
road
to the
northeast
.
Written by: espiacent
In a general retreat, even those with strong community TIES→タイ are up-
rooted
and made to
move
.

退く:
しりぞく draw back
  ひく pull back
  どく move out of the way
  のく get out of the way

退ける:
しりぞける drawn back
  のける get rid of

退る:
しさる step back, walk backwards
すさる うしろへさがる, しりぞく, しさる

退(*n̥ʰuːbs) 退
タイ← /tʰuɑ̆iᴴ/ ← *n̥ʰuːbs
It's appears to be a
good
road to
retreat
by.
Written by: チェイスです
A
good
road
to retreat on
Written by: ロニー88
When you have reached your
limit with no place
left to go, it's time to go back down the
road
you came from and retreat.(Limit with no place → minus
Written by: gillianfaith
Let's Retreat to a
good
road
with no enemies.
Written by: ハンゾウ
Let's
ride
with the
good
in life through retirement.
Written by: タンゴ
Let’s retreat!
Walk
to the
northeast
.
Written by: yarnandmk
you make a retreat to the northeast
using your scooter
Written by: bucktick
To retreat means to
stop
and go back down the
road
you came.
Written by: そら♡
It was a
good
thing the army retreated back down the
road
, because they would have been slaughtered in the battle.
Written by: Jules.33
a
scooter
made from
good roots
will help you retreat in TIme {たい}
Written by: ロールズ
"We'll call it a tie!" {タイ} The youkai said, not
stopping
as he retreated down the
road
.
Written by:
Related vocabulary
see all words
むも退くも / すすむもじごくしりぞくもじごく - (expression) between the devil and the deep blue sea, both advancing and retreating are hell
退 / いんたい - (noun/する verb) retirement
退 / たいくつ - (Noun/な-adjective) tedious, boring, dull, uninteresting, tiresome, monotonous; {vs} {vi} to feel bored, to get bored (with), to get tired (of)
退 / たいいん - (noun/する verb) leaving hospital, discharge from hospital
退 / こうたい - (noun/する verb) retreat, falling back, moving backwards, reversing, backing up (of a vehicle), retrogression, retraction; recession, waning; {comp} backspace (key)
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ホウ
Stroke count: 9
Radical name: にくづき
Radical
placenta, sac, sheath
Mnemonics
Placentas and sacs are
flesh
wrappping
.
Written by: lightmotif
Show all mnemonics (1)
Trillions of new cells {} are produced each
month
, each one
wrapped
in a cell membrane.
Written by: SerialExperimentsDave
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ どうほう - (noun) brethren, brothers, fellow countrymen, fellowman, compatriot
/ ないまくしょうせいのうほう - (noun) endometrial cyst, endometrioma, chocolate cyst
/ しほうどうぶつ - (noun) cnidarian (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria)
ホルモン / らんほうしげきホルモン - (noun) follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH
/ さいぼう - (noun) {biol} cell; cell (in an organization, esp. a communist party)
Kunyomi:
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 3
Radical name: こ
Radical
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Mnemonics
This is a child due to its large head, but small arms and legs.
Written by: Neko_claws
Show all mnemonics (19)
The
*child*
reaches out with her
arms
for her parent because "she"「SHI シ」is "co"dependent「KO こ」.
She likes rats cau-se こ she シ is just a
child
Written by: Wolfenspace
Tuck the
child
into
bed
SHE will SOOn be asleep
Written by: リアンカ
the small child is in the
bundle
with his
head
and
arms
sticking out
Written by: ドみにく
That poor child - SHE has lived a
total
of
one
year.
Written by: Karlla
The child is “ko”ld so they “shi”ver
Written by: Mulligan
Child
hugging
their mother.
Written by: ジョアオ003
The rat was the child that
finished
the race to god's banquet first, and was rewarded the number
one
spot of the zodiac.
Written by: Vee2026
My child loves to eat at す
こ -Sushico, a sushi restaurant.-
Written by: Waedia
It’s a unicorn. Children like unicorns.
Ear
1
, face
2
, line through as the horn
3
.
Written by: Sesamesoup
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
Written by: ShotoLover
Pictogram:
Child
with wrapped legs compare with where the arms are wrapped too. Sometimes it is upside down such as in .
Written by: フバフバ
Imagine a tiny child wearing a hat
top stroke
, stretching their arms down to their body
middle stroke with hook
, and standing on little feet
bottom stroke
. That’s how the kanji becomes a child in three strokes!
Written by: Jjhhhhhh
they have a
total
of
one
child
Written by: weirdkeichan
Look at that
child
! シ「She」likeス「likes」caツ「cats」{cat =「ねこ」}.
Written by: 「 ソフィア 」
It took you {TSU} long to notice the
two barbs
on the
ground
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.
Written by: LeBran
Is it true that SHIITAKE シ SOUP ス with KOMATSUNA こ is the favourite food among Japanese kids
?
A
child
with a
triangular head
.
Written by: AidanRyota
Kids that are from
one
to
three
years old can't KOme here.
Written by: テレサ・Teresa
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ こども - (noun) child, children
/ ぼうし - (noun) hat, cap
/ いす - (noun) chair, seat, stool, bench; post, position, seat, office
/ - (noun, suffix) child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person; (one's) child, offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot; interest; {finc} {abbr} new share; {cards} {mahj} player who is not a dealer; young geisha, young prostitute; {arch} bird egg; {n-suf} -er (often of young women) (after a noun or -masu stem)
/ おやこ - (noun) parent and child
Kunyomi: となり, とな.る
Onyomi: リン
Stroke count: 16
Radical name: こざとへん
Radical
neighboring
Mnemonics
neighboring
villages
celebrate the
rice
harvest together with
dancing
Written by: ドみにく
Show all mnemonics (11)
my neighbour Totoro is a TONARI. we
danced
the entire
evening
over the fields with
rice
. it was
B
eautiful. i'll be remebeRIN that forever.
Written by: ジェン~1984
Phono-semantic: Phonetic “リン” Semantic
“hill”. has the meaning of “will o wisp” or just “ghost” as it depicts a person standing surrounded by spirits.

The
ghost
was spotted at the neighboring
hill
Written by: フバフバ
TONARI no Totoro is
dancing
besides a
mound
while throwing
rice grain
to the air.
Written by:
All neighboring houses in the whole
village
come together to
dance
when the
rice
harvest comes around.
Written by: Person_Guy
In a
village
,
rice
fields lie
side by side
, like neighbors
Written by: Veerdb
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and in a teen’s imagination, the neighboring
village
shines brighter than
phosphorus
/リン.
In the
evening
,
*we
go to the neighboring
village
to buy
rice
. We rinse {リン} it with water to naturally {とな} clean it. *we sounds like old katakana wi ヰ
Written by: Anonymous123
The neighboring people of the
village
eat
rice
and
dance
every
evening
.
Written by: Drezzing
Inside that
building
someone is doing a
rice
dance
. That someone is your neighbor. Your neighbor also happens to be Totoro.. となり no Totoro!
Written by: しまうま
When living in
towns
, if we run out of
rice
we need to
get out
and ask the neighbour who has done
phimosis
"only the right part of this radical"
Written by:
By the hill, there is a hidden
village
{
>
}. In the
evening
, the villagers
dance
to celebrate the
rice
harvest with their neighbors
Written by: バリエル
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ となり - (noun) next (to), adjoining, adjacent; {n} {adj-no} house next door, neighbouring house, next-door neighbour, next-door neighbor
う / となりあう - (Godan verb - う/intransitive) to adjoin each other, to sit side by side
/ ぜんりん - (noun) good neighbour, good neighbor
う / となりあう - (Godan verb - う/intransitive) to adjoin each other, to sit side by side
わせ / となりあわせ - (noun) adjoining each other
Kunyomi: くに
Onyomi: コク
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: くにがまえ
Radical
country
Mnemonics
The
jewels
of the country are kept in a guarded
box
Written by: マイコー
Show all mnemonics (22)
It looks like a
map
of a country with
roads
and a
town hall
.
Written by: Snippykeegan
The
king
hides away in his
house
to drink his
coke
コク and avoid running his country くに
Written by: Wolfenspace
A country is a
box
where the
king
plays with his
jewels
Written by: JM.Ying
The
jade
treasure of this country {kuni} is gaurded in a
vault
so dont try to steal it or you'll be choked {KOKU'd} to death.
Written by: Randomdude567
A country is an
enclosure
containing
jewels
: the people and all its riches.
Written by: アフマヂ
The
king
of this
country
loves drinking
Coku
Written by: リアンカ
The country keeps its
riches
in a
box
Written by: ミコ
He believed that his *country's* greatest
jewels
were not gold and gems in its
coffer
, but were the books of Dean "Koontz"「KUNI くに」 and "Coca"「KOKU コク」Cola.
A country, in very recent human history, was defined by a
border
and a
king
while the populace was just a
dot
in comparison.
Written by:
A country is a
jewel
that is protected by borders like a
box
Written by: フバフバ
I see a map inside the
box
there is a country inside it. I can also see a
stone
and a small
dot
in the country
Written by: ポポスくべ
A
ball
in the middle of a rectangle
, that's the flag of the country Japan 🇯🇵!
Written by: ポクア
The
king
with a
sword
in the
country
Written by: ュリア
The young
king
of your country was playing with the
jewel
you gifted him when he suddenly fell off the
box
he was standing on and hit his head. The
king
's
{KOnKU}ssion wasn't severe so you just had to patch the {KUt-NI}ar his eyebrow.
Written by: LeBran
The country is ruled by a
king
who seats on the
throne
Written by: Blablablabla
Originally, the character in the center of the
enclosure
was a halberd over a city and its territory; this is a place where soldiers will defend the land
Written by: NickKnackSnack
Here lies our
king
keeping his
jewels
safe and sound in a mysterious
box
away from the country
A
box
holds the
jewels
of the country
Written by: ディアロ
Mrs Cooney {くに} keeps her
jewels
in a safe
box
because her country isn't safe.
Written by: ana-san
Imagine we are in UK, the country. There are kings there, right? Imagine this is a
palacy
. Inside there, we have a
king
holding his
crown
Written by: Japaneses cool
The
jewelry
box
and this KNEE-LENGTH くに COCKTAIL DRESS コク are all from my home country.
A
king
is
trapped
his own country holding his
crown
Written by: AlbanyG
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ くに - (noun) country, state; region; national government, central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); {hist} province (of Japan); {arch} land, earth
/ くにびと - (noun) indigenous person, inhabitant of a country; local, native; {hist} local lords and samurai
/ がいこくじん - (noun) foreigner, foreign citizen, foreign national, alien, non-Japanese
/ こくさい - (noun) international; {n} {obs} diplomatic intercourse
/ ちゅうごくご - (noun) Chinese (language)
Kunyomi: さ.ける
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 16
Radical name: しんにょう,しんにゅう
Radical
evade, avoid, avert, ward off, shirk, shun
Mnemonics
The culprit hit the
road
to evade
punishment
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (6)
He{ヒ} evaded punishment for his
crime
by hitting the
road
when he saw {さ} the police.
Written by: Anonymous123
On the
road
there is a
corpse
running around with red stuff around its
mouth
. It probably ate something
spicy
, right? Let's better avoid it, I hate spicy stuff.
Written by: ハシュミナ
He
got quite the scare
さ.ける
when hearing about how he could be
punished
, and that was all it took to ward him off, as he hopped on his
scooter
.
Written by: Cayuga
Let's avoid the
road
with the
wall
.
Written by: Karlla
Let's
go
when the green light turns on to avoid the
punishment
Written by: phuongly
Evade the
stand
in the
way
of
hot Food
ince its false
Written by: Rdelav
Related vocabulary
see all words
けてはれない / さけてはとおれない - (Adjective/-い) cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.), unavoidable, inevitable
けてれない / さけてとおれない - (Adjective/-い) cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.), unavoidable, inevitable
/ ひなん - (noun/する verb) taking refuge, finding shelter, evacuation, escape, seeking safe haven
/ ふかひ - (Adjective/-な) inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable
/ かいひ - (noun/する verb) evasion, avoidance; {law} recusal (of a judge)
Kunyomi: むずか.しい, かた.い
Onyomi: ナン
Stroke count: 18
Radical name: ふるとり
Radical
difficult, impossible, trouble, accident, defect
Mnemonics
Grass
in the
mouth
of your
husband
can only mean one thing. He's having a complicated relationship with that freaking
turkey
!!
Written by: hyperbolic_knight
Show all mnemonics (28)
English
is difficult for
birds
. With their feet, they must practice writing
twice
as much.
Written by: seito
In the
grass
, the big-
mouthed
husband
keeps scaring away the
birds
, making it difficult to catch them. The cow nanny {ナン} moost accompany {むずか} him and cut away {かた} his loud voice.
Written by: quickMaffs44
It's difficult trying to learn
*dry Chinese
history from that
old bird
. I'll get my nan {ナン} to teach me instead. *dry Chinese = -
Written by: Anonymous123
When
China ignores the water
between it and Taiwan, war
birds
will fill the sky, and it will be difficult, nay, impossible to prevent war. That's because China says Taiwan independence is non-negotiable {ナン}.
A
Chinese
turkey
is difficult to find because they are so rare.
Written by: Seraseth
It's too HARD to catch the
bird
, so the
husband
decides to
eat
grass
instead.
Written by: Dan.t.ph
Why does your
husband
eat
grass
and ride a giant
turkey
everywhere? It's because he's trying to make your life as difficult as possible.
Written by: darrenburns
The hard
yellow clay
/カン→ナン makes it difficult for the
birds
to collect nesting material.

Full etymology, from /カン← /xɑnᵡ/, /xɑnᴴ/ ← *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns … *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns → /nɑn/, /nɑnᴴ/ →ナン.
It's quite difficult for a
bird
to write the right part of the
Chinese kanji
!
Written by: -kaze-
It's impossible to feed
grass
into the
mouth
of a
husband
of a
bird
.
Written by: アフマヂ
Yellow
Bird
, Zapdos is
hard
to catch
Written by:
The
Chinese
turkey
is more difficult to manage than others, because whenever you ask it for its name in KATAkana {かた}, it just says "NAN'o'ya {なん} business!"
Written by: ロールズ
My
husband
is impossible to deal with, with his big
mouth
. He must be using that thing to smoke
grass
or something! But at least he's not as hard to handle as my pet
bird
.
Written by: トロン
When my
husband
put the
grass
in his
mouth
, I knew the
poultry
must be difficult to eat.
Written by: ロニー88
Trying to fit an entire
grass fed
turkey
in your
husband's
mouth
is very difficult !
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
My
bird
brain
husband
smoked
grass
and got into an accident. He was difficult for the cops with his big
mouth
. Now he’s in a lot of trouble and it will be impossible to get him out of it.
Written by: Jules.33
My
husband
tries to feed
grass
to a
bird
's
mouth
but it was difficult
Written by: PandaGemoy
Man
screaming
and
huffing
trying to assemble IKEA forniture shaped like the cage of a
bird
Written by: Nads-san
Husband
found
bird
with a
mouth
defect in the
grass
, it was very difficult to nurse it back to health, but we did it!
Written by: Azuraphel
Looks like your childish
husband
took on a difficult / impossible challenge again: Putting the
grass
in his
mouth
before the
turkey
can eat it!
Written by: Robdeprop
That
Bird
species is often hunted in
drier area of china ->
, it's so difficult for them to survive there, and they had faced so much troubles everyday, so they defected to other areas
Written by: コノエ・エル
It is difficult to believe that a
man
lying on the
grass
with his
mouth open
swallowed a
little bird
that flew in by accident.
Written by: アルゼン
A
husband
who puts too many
turkeys
in his
mouth
will grow
large
and will become difficult to satisfy with
grass
Written by: Nynja97
My
bird
got tired of eating
grass
and devoured my husband
. I'm having trouble getting him out of its
mouth
.
Written by: ガムシャラ
It is IMPOSSIBLE or at least DIFFICULT to fit that
old bird
into your
husband
's
mouth
. But I managed once by ACCIDENT.
Written by: Genius1985
Trying to catch a
hen
is so difficult that the
man
, had an accident, and ended with his
mouth
on the
grass
.
Written by: コエル
Two
heroes
found it surprisingly difficult – nigh impossible, even! – to defeat a
large old bird.
Written by:
It's IMPOSSIBLE for a
strong man
running on the
grass
, who is yelling with his
mouth
impatiently, to catch the rare and DEFECTED
bird
in the sky.
Doesn't he see that he's causing it a TROUBLE interrupting the silence, which won't lead him to getting that bird? Such reaction also may get him into an ACCIDENT and he'd hurt himself, as he doesn't pay attention where he's going while following that bird.
Written by: 25
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ きむずかしや - (noun) person who is hard to please, difficult person, grouch, sourpuss
し / せいはかたくしはやすし - (expression) {proverb} living is difficult; dying is easy
/ こんなん - (Noun/な-adjective) difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress; {euph} infeasibility, inability (to carry out)
/ さいなん - (noun) calamity, misfortune, disaster
/ とうなん - (noun) theft, robbery
Kunyomi: たみ
Onyomi: ミン
Stroke count: 5
Radical name: うじ
Radical
people, nation, subjects
Mnemonics
The
R
people are the
ones
that are mean {ミン} ta me {たみ}.
Written by: Anonymous123
Show all mnemonics (8)
Team
R
ocket wants to protect all peoples within our nation.
Written by: ページ
In the past, prisoners of war were stabbed in their left
eyes
by
blades
. The character is later used to portray the lowest class of people, and the people in general.
Written by: non0230
The みん PEOPLE like to make
FLAGS
for their
FAMILY NAMES
out of pride.
Written by: Abnormalise
Eye
stuck with a
needle
to blind a slave, a commoner, an untitled man→ミン. This may be figurative, a way to explain the blindness of the common people towards the faults and shortcomings of the nobility that ruled them. A nation has many /タ such people /ミン = たみ(ん)
The radical is unrelated. See also: and

(*min)
ミン← /mi̯ĕn/ ← *min
A nation means {ミン} to me {たみ} having the same
flag
to
lean on
.
Written by: うらしい
Tommy {たみ} is the
one
and only citizen of the
R
nation who is really mean {ミン}. As a whole, they are a warm and welcoming people.
Team
R
ocket is
one
big nuisance to this nation's people
Written by: Quixotic
The Olympic
ceremony
has people from all nations carrying their
flags
.
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ たみ - (noun) people, citizens, subjects, folk
/ たみくさ - (noun) people, populace
/ しみん - (noun) citizen (of a country), citizenry; citizen (of a city), resident, inhabitant, townspeople; bourgeoisie, middle class
/ じゅうみん - (noun) inhabitant, resident, citizen, population
/ のうみん - (noun) farmer, peasant
Kunyomi: はこ.ぶ
Onyomi: ウン
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: しんにょう,しんにゅう
Radical
carry, luck, destiny, fate, lot, transport, progress, advance
Mnemonics
The
road
carries the
army
Written by: Houhi
Show all mnemonics (35)
You ride your
scooter
between the
car
s
with an UNbrella attached to your
forehead
while you carry home your groceries. With luck you'll make it home in one piece!
Written by: Seraseth
This is the
army
radical. If you see it together with the
scooter
part, it might remind you of a tank, which is a type of transport used to carry lucky soldiers. Why are they lucky? Because they don't need to walk around and risk getting HACKed {はこ} up. War is no joke!

For the onyomi reading, this is the transport kanji so it's in the word UNTEN, which means to drive.
Written by: Plum Blossom
Our
ARMY
is on the
ROAD
, CARRYING nothing but LUCK, FORTUNE, DESTINY, and FATE.
Written by: Abnormalise
The
army
carries boxes {はこ} on the
road
, UNder {うん} the radar. Wish them luck, may fate be kind to them.
Written by: BambiIcedTea
Etymology:
to
move
+
military vehicle
> to move military vehicles
 > to advance, to progress
 > to transport military equipment > to transport, to carry
As for meanings associated with fate, there’s an alternative explanation by Howell&Morimoto. See
for details. They suggest
was used to denote circularity, thus
to
move
+
circularity
> to move in circles > the idea of karma, one’s good and bad deeds coming full circle > fate, destiny, luck
A
snail
that can carry a
car
with a
crown
is bound to have luck.
Written by:
I drive my
car
down the
road
and UNder the
bridge
. It carries me to my destiny.
Written by: えらいえら
The
army
will CARRY us UN-der {うん} that BOXed {はこ.ぶ}-in
road
.
Written by: Abunai
It wasn't *luck* that *advanced* my writing career, it was *destiny*! I was no "hack of books"「HAKOBU はこ.ぶ」. My writing *carried* every story, like a
vehicle
, *transporting* my readers on a
journey
through every scene
"under"「UN ウン」
the sun, imaginable and unimaginable.
You hit your
forehead
against a
car
while riding on your
scooter
. Now you have to carry your scooter home. You were unlucky{ウン} but still a Hardcore {はこ} scooter fan to transport your precious scooter home
Written by: GwynneBleidd
I always confuse this kanji with (レン)
So this one, which means destiny, something you can't control, is wearing a
crown
like Sun Wukong to have it under control.
Written by: のラウル
An
army
advancing down the
street
. Also carries the meaning of destiny / fate, in relation to the battle to come.
Written by: Biev
You hit your
forehead
in an accident with a
car
while driving your
scooter
. What a bad luck! Ambulance comes and carries you to the nearest hospital. But the ambulance too has an accident with a van, transoporting はこs. "Is fate trying to tell you something?" This is what the doctor asks you, but you can only answer: "ウン!"
Written by: ManzolinDiFiori
Fate will
lead
you to the
crown
Written by: vandebilt
Queen's
car
has a
crown
on its top, which is moving through
road
, carrying her to destiny
Written by: Rishi (リシ)
This big
army
need a safe
road
to advance
Written by: Baharley
The
army troops
are
walking
to battle, carrying their heavy equipment, making steady progress towards their destiny. I wish them good luck!
Written by: こガエル
A
covered
car
can carry / transport you, as you progress / advance with luck along a
journey
of fate / destiny.
Written by:
In your
car
you carry a box of honkin books {はこぶ} to UN
another place
Written by: あび007
A
car
being
carried
onto a
road
Written by: Sealingpizza
Legend says if you see a
car
carrying a
crown
on the
road
, you’ll have five years of good luck!
Written by: gurabu
The
armored
vehicles
advance on the
road
camouflaged うん under
the cover of night transporting their payload. With luck their fate will be good. The troops
are hardcore はこ.
Written by: Jules.33
You
move
between the
cars
on a scooter as you carry your
helmet
in your head
Written by: Quixotic
Phono-semantic: phonetic
“ウン” semantic
“movement”

carry yourself,
move
and progress with confidence in your destiny like a marching
army
Written by: フバフバ
Try to carry an entire
army
on your
scooter
... Yep, you won't get far!
Written by: ケンパチ
It's a luck to return with the victory and
bring
the flag of your
army
Written by: Agdars
My destiny was it to transport the
weird shaped crown
with the
car
and not by
walking
.
Written by: サマヒラ
Movement
of an
army
depends on the luck of transport
Written by: Erica multiflora
A
car
being carried by a
lift
under the
roof
of a garage is a necessary part of servicing your transport.
Written by: ムアッディブ
Cars
on the
road
carry many things.
Written by: レイん|レナ
In order to carry something it helps to have an
army
to progress fast and a
road
for them to carry it on.
Written by: Nioren
Covered
wagons
are used for transport on the
road
.
Written by:
While riding your
scooter
, you bang your
forehead
on the
car
in front. Your scooter's wrecked, so you have to carry it home. By some twist of destiny, you're lucky enough to transport it home safely!
Written by: しまうま
When you see the
army
coming your way down the
road
, you know your fate is sealed.
Written by: emanresU
If you
walk
with the
army
, you may be lucky enough for them to carry you.
Written by: gillianfaith
Related vocabulary
see all words
げる / はこびあげる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)) to carry or bring (up)
れる / はこびいれる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)) to carry or bring in(to)
/ うんてん - (noun/する verb) operation (of a machine), running, working; driving (a vehicle); use (of capital, funds, etc.), management, investment
/ うんてんしゅ - (noun) driver, chauffeur
ぶ / はこぶ - (Godan verb - ぶ/transitive,intransitive) to carry, to transport, to move, to convey; {hon} to come, to go; to use (a brush, chopsticks, etc.), to move; to carry out, to proceed with, to arrange; to go (well, etc.), to proceed, to progress
Kunyomi: いのち
Onyomi: メイ, ミョウ
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: くち
Radical
fate, command, decree, destiny, life, appoint
Mnemonics
decrees from the commander's
mouth
seals
one
person's
fate for life
Written by: mechan
Show all mnemonics (14)
Each
person
mouth
is
sealed
by fate, when they are born to not say anything about the after life
Written by: Baharley
A
person
may {メイ} only have
one
op
portunity* to have a life, but it depends on the decrees of fate.
*
looks like “o” and “p”
Written by: ゼルダちゃん
The
mouth
of fate
orders
/レイ→メイ,リョウ→ミョウ our life and destiny.
It is fated that
one
mouth
under this
roof
will always be
sealed
.
Written by: Anonymous123
When issuing a command to Ray, I don't say, "You may, Ray {}," I say, "You must, Ray". And that's how
one
person
uses his
mouth
to
seal
the fate of another person for the rest of his life {いのち}.
When life
slaps
people
around its best they go
home
Written by: Harly
He had another look at whether the chosen fate really
suits
his life. Being satisfied, he chose to safely
seal
it.
Written by: つの
This is a tale of
one
person
;
who was destined to be cursed by a witch who
sealed
his
mouth
for being too noisy.
Written by: kuroda
From the
mouth
of fate your
one
life as a
person
is
sealed
Written by: ちゃん
When you are under
my roof
, I expect you to listen, like the
guy on the left
. Don't sit there with your mouth open like the
one on the right
.
Written by: マイコー
one
person
has put a
seal
on their
mouth
in hopes to change their destiny.
Written by: ロニー88
Ngl this kanji kinda looks like 1up 1
up
--
from old school games denoting life.
Written by: SlRlUS
Pei
, no matter what comes out of her
mouth
, is but a single
person
with
one
lifespan.
Written by:
According to mythology, at the time of a
person’s
birth, 3 goddesses foretold that person’s fate. The words that came out of their
mouths
could not be contradicted and
one’s
destiny was
sealed
.
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ いのち - (noun) life, life force; lifetime, lifespan; most important thing, foundation, core; {arch} paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love); {arch} fate, destiny, karma
/ めいれい - (noun/する verb) order, command, decree, directive; {comp} (software) instruction, statement
寿 / じゅみょう - (noun) lifespan, life, lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.), service life, end of an object's (useful) life
じる / めいじる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/transitive) to order, to command; to appoint
ずる / めいずる - (Ichidan verb - ずる/transitive) to order, to command; to appoint
Kunyomi: ひと
Onyomi: ジン, ニン
Stroke count: 2
Radical name: ひと,ひとがしら
Radical
person
Mnemonics
You write kanji from the left moving to the right {so you right-handed people don't smudge your ink}, so see this as a person's
legs and torso
taking a step forward, in contrast with 's handwritten form.
Written by: lightmotif
Show all mnemonics (16)
Well, you've got the
two legs
and the
body
, but where's the person's head and arms?
Written by: マイコー
He to-ld ひと me about a
person
with spurs that jing-le ジン jangle jingle.
Written by: Wolfenspace
"He told"「HITO ひと」me he is a
*person*
from a family with good "genes"「JIN ジン」.
Its the
legs
of a person walking.
Written by: ヂアモレ
HE TOld ひと me that a
person
working at NINtendoにん refuses the JEANじん dress code.
Written by: Frogsssss
When you HIT it Of with another person, you're
legs
start JINkling, you want to RIng them every day TO hear their voice and live toghether till you're NINety.
Written by: ジェン~1984
If you think about it, then
kinda looks like a
person
walking, or taking a pose to assert their dominance. If I were a lesser man, I'd run in fear.
Written by: shw00by
Only one person at Nin-tendo /ニン/ complained about the new jean-s /ジン/ policy, and that
person
was you.
Written by: *Anna*
A person is walking
Written by: ポポスくべ
A
person
started to walk.
One foot
HITO JIN's photo and the other, a NINja mask.
Written by: MayMiazaki
it's a
person
, but where did their arms go? oh no! oh deary me! they don't have any!
Written by: choco!! (チョコ)
Profile of a person standing with their arms extended to the left. This is more evident in , the reduced form used as a radical. Like , the first stroke is the
head and arms
and the second stroke is the
torso and legs
.

(*njin)
ジン, ニン← /ȵʑi̯ĕn/ ← *njin
A person
walking
Written by: zer0___
It looks like a man standing with legs wide open 🚶🏻‍♂️
Written by: Ripunjaya Jakhar
Pictogram: a person’s
head and torso
Written by: フバフバ
Looks like a very simple visualization of a 'stick figure'
person
. The angle of the torso is drawn either vertical or leaning to the right, since people either walk upright or angled forward when running.
Written by:
Related vocabulary
see all words
み / ひとごみ - (noun) crowd of people
/ がいこくじん - (noun) foreigner, foreign citizen, foreign national, alien, non-Japanese
/ ほんにん - (noun) the person in question, the person themselves, said person
/ ごしゅじん - (noun) {hon} your husband, her husband
/ じんこう - (noun) population; common talk
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: シツ, シチ,
Stroke count: 15
Radical name: かい,こがい
Radical
substance, quality, matter, temperament
Mnemonics
We need
two axes
to extract the matter from the
shellfish
Written by: vandebilt
Show all mnemonics (21)
After we hacked open the
shellfish
with
two axes
, we let the Shih Tzu {シツ} eat the substance inside.
Written by: Anonymous123
You need to use an
axe
to get to the quality substance inside a
shellfish
.
Written by:
With
two axes
/シツ→シチ you can harvest higher quality
shellfish
than with just one.
Related Chinese “chopping block” has meaning similar to もと.

(*tids , *tjid)
チ ← /ȶiᴴ/ ← *tids
シツ← /t͡ɕi̯ĕt̚/ ← *tjid
He generally has a good *character*, but sometimes I *question* his actions. Once, to get to the edible *substance* inside some
shellfish
, he used a "long sword = たち"「TACHI たち」to pry them open. Another time, he flung
two hand axes
at a tree, terrifying his "shih tzu"「SHITSU シツ」dog!
シツ asked "Why do you have have
two axes
Mr.
Shell fish
?
Written by: チェイスです
Compound Ideogram/ Phono-semantic: The “axes”
phonetically “シツ” might indicate a unit of weight, while “shellfish”
represent money. Therefore:

“The
price
is fixed by
weight
for this substance or quality
Written by: フバフバ
Use two
axes
on the
shellfish
to get all of its quality substance. Give the rest to the shih tzu.
Written by: moolsu
Look
at these
axes
and notice their qualities
Written by: エマリーポップ
I take my two
axes
and
shellfish
and give it to my *shitsu* dog because he's made of the right substance
Written by: Samurai_Ash
Looks like
two large blades
crunching down on a
shellfish
to extract the quality substance that is the fleshy matter inside.
Written by:
I have a quality magic trick for you. It involves a Shih Tzu シツ in a
box
and
two axes
…Ta da ただ! She cheated シチ death. The axes didn’t touch たち her. And for her next trick, she’s going to ride a motorcycle もと.
Written by: Jules.33
You have to use two
axes
to open this
shellfish
. That seems like overkill, but it is necessary. This particular shellfish is of very high quality meaning it won't open so easily.
Written by: リゼッテ
You can tell that
crab
🦀 is some top QUALITY shellfish
by its feisty TEMPERAMENT.
Written by: Jules.33
This
shellfish
wielding
two axes
has the substance/quality of a warrior. He's made of warrior matter.
Written by: こガエル
He uses his
2 eyes
to decide the quality and substance of the
seashells
Written by: アシュです
At least
two axes
are required to extract the innermost substance from a huge house-sized
shellfish
.
Written by: Nil Hunter
Our/watashiTACHI MOTO/motto is to
see
the good in others, no matter what.
Written by: レイん|レナ
This substance of this
shellfish
is of such high quality that attacking it with dual
axes
doesn't even put a scratch on it
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Quality is not easy to hide. It is carved with two
axes
and a human
eye
can see it even eight miles away.
Written by: LilyJ
Some say that
lobsters
with large
claws
and an aggressive temperament have the highest quality meat. I don't know if there is any substance to this claim, I didn't look much into this matter.
You can buy
quality
axes
here.
SEE
,
TWO swings
can break hard substance like
shellfiSH
TO pieces.
Written by: ヒァン
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ しつもん - (noun/する verb) question, inquiry, enquiry
/ しちや - (noun) pawnshop
/ げんち - (noun) commitment, pledge, promise
/ ぶっしつ - (noun) material, substance; {physics} matter
/ せいしつ - (noun) nature (of a person), disposition, temperament, character; quality, inherent characteristic, property, nature, (chemical) behavior
Kunyomi: つ.ぐ
Onyomi: ケイ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: いとへん
Radical
inherit, succeed, continue, patch, graft (tree)
Mnemonics
He was proud to inherit his families'
rice
business. The initials K {ケイ} and
L
, for Kao Ltd., was sewn in
thread
onto every bag. He was prepared to sue {つ} anybody that infringed on their trademark.
Written by: Anonymous123
Show all mnemonics (7)
The inherit goes down the
line
of the successors that are represented by
seeds
Written by: Rdelav
I took over this business of
measuring
rice
with
thread
.
Written by: Karlla
when I take the
L
my
rice
and
threads
will be inherited.
Written by: ロニー88
This
bento box
L, has been
inherited
down our family
line
for generations and generations
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Via : Each
thread
/ケイ-making silkworm inherits the traits of both the
father
and
his parents
as well as the
mother
and
her parents
, but belongings continue to go to whoever succeeds the previous generation, even if they are not blood-relatives.
Ito
L
imited, the famous
rice
company, will soon be inherited by the CEO's first son Kei.
Written by: そら♡
This is the
PATCH
I
stitched
onto my clothing with
thread
, so that I can CONTINUE to wear the clothing I INHERITED
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ つぎめ - (noun) joint, seam, joining point
/ なかつぎとうしゅ - (noun) {baseb} middle relief pitcher, middle reliever
/ けいぞく - (noun/する verb) continuation, continuance, going on
/ ちゅうけい - (noun/する verb) relay, hook-up; {abbr} relay broadcasting
/ なまちゅうけい - (noun/する verb) live broadcast (radio, TV), live coverage
Kunyomi: つづ.く, つづ.ける
Onyomi: ゾク
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: いとへん
Radical
continue, series, sequel
Mnemonics
Let's continue to
sell
thread
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (13)
On this episode of the series, the protagonist continues the
thread
selling
. But on the to-do {つづ} list, they must soak {ぞく} the threads.
Written by: quickMaffs44
Via : Our
thread
of record
sales
continues. Let’s make the sequel to this series even better!
Etymology ←𧶠←/イク← /i̯uk̚/ ← *luɡ … *ljoɡ → /zi̯wok̚/ →ゾク→ショク
You have to
sell
thread
if you want to continue to eat.
Written by: Seraseth
She *continues*
selling
thread
in a *series* of MLM ventures, so "soaking"「ZOKU ゾク」her friends is always on her "to-do"「TSUDZU つづ」list.
After teasing an important plot
thread
, the final episode of this series... ended with "TO BE CONTINUE"

...this is clearly a ploy to
sell
the sequel!
Written by: コノエ・エル
And so the
sale
of
thread
continues.
Written by: yarnandmk
I'm
selling
virtual tokens of dubious value! Buy now so you don't miss out! Continued below, a
🧵
... 1/47
Written by: アレックス833
A
scholar
can calculate the circumference of a circle using the series of numbers called
pi
, or he can measure it with a piece of
thread
. The numbers in Pi continue infinitely.
Written by: Jules.33
Sequel after sequel, this book series about finding the
thread
of a mystery, continues to
sell
.
Spiderman
's series continue to be
sold
. There are even sequels
Written by: ケンパチ
ZOey and YoKU have a shop where they
sell
thread
. Their child, ZOKU {ゾク} is expected to continue the family business after they retire.
A
thread
that continues to
sell
will keep us fed and in business.
Written by: あいりー
You must
sell
thread
to continue paying your bills
Written by: ロニー88
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ じんじそしょうてつづきほう - (noun) {law} Personal Status Actions Procedure Law (e.g. divorce actions)
きをる / てつづきをへる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)) to go through formalities
/ そうぞく - (noun/する verb) succession; inheritance
く / つづく - (Godan verb - く/intransitive) to continue, to last, to go on; to continue (without a break), to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to, to connect to, to adjoin; to come after, to follow, to succeed, to rank next to; to hold out, to keep, to last
き / つづき - (noun) continuation, rest (of the story, work, etc.), next installment, sequel; flow (e.g. of a piece of writing), pacing (of a story); {n-suf} succession (of), sequence, series, spell, stretch, streak, run
Kunyomi: う.える
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: しょくへん
Radical
hungry, starve
Mnemonics
Put
food
on the
table
, I’m hungry!
Written by: Vague
Show all mnemonics (7)
Goku: "Keep {キ} the
food
coming to the
table
. I'm starving!"
Farmer: "I can't grow {える=うえる} enough food to satisfy you!"
I'm so hungry that I could
eat
a
table
Written by: ゼーレ
No
food
on the
table
/キ, the table is bare. You’re hungry. You may starve.
You starve when there's an
empty table
with nothing to
eat
.
Written by: こはく
There is no
food
inside the
empty stomach
, I'm hungry
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
If there’s no
food
including きsh {quiche} on うえ the
table
, you starve
Written by: Spirit_kokoro
The smell of the
food
blown by the
wind
made me hungry
Written by: ケンパチ
Related vocabulary
see all words
に / うえじに - (noun/する verb) {sens} (death from) starvation, starving to death
えたるれず / うえたるいぬはぼうをおそれず - (expression) {proverb} a starved dog does not fear the rod
/ ききん - (noun) famine, crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
/ きが - (noun) starvation, famine, hunger
/ だいききん - (noun) great famine, severe famine
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 15
Radical name: しょくへん
Radical
starve, hungry, thirst
Mnemonics
Without
food
for the
ego
one will starve.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (5)
He
selfishly
gobbled {ガ} up all the
food
because if people were going to starve he wanted to make sure it was you {う} who went hungry, and not him.
Don't try to change the subject{ガ}. You{う} have
food
that you've been
selfishly
hoarding, while we are all starving.
Written by: Anonymous123
I
was STARVING and THIRSTY, so I stole some
food
. Now I have
no
hands
, because I was punished with a
halberd
.
Written by: Jules.33
If you are STARVING, you need to take matters into your own
hands
and use your
halberd
to get
food
.
Written by: Jules.33
Just for
ego
pictures like showing your abs on social media, people are nowadays not
eating
food and letting themselves starve.
Written by: ケンパチ
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ きが - (noun) starvation, famine, hunger
/ きが - (noun) starvation, famine, hunger
/ がし - (noun/する verb) (death from) starvation, starving to death
/ かわせがき - (noun) Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river, offering to suffering spirits at the river
/ わるがき - (noun) brat
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: セイ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: みみ
Radical
holy, saint, sage, master, priest
Mnemonics
The holy priest had his
mouth
*right* at the
ear
of the
king
.
Written by: lightmotif
Show all mnemonics (9)
The priest
hears
and
says
the word of
The Lord
.
Written by: Hexador
The saint’s
ear
was on
display
as a holy relic.

(*hljeŋs) = =
セイ←ショウ←しやう← /ɕi̯ɛŋᴴ/ ← *hljeŋs
They SEI/say that if his
ears
are listening or his
mouth
is speaking, the
king
is concerned with holy things.
Written by: chancetenacity
The
king
MASTERED
listening
and
speaking
so well that people deemed him a SAINT.
Written by: Jules.33
The new
king
listened
to the priest carefully and took an holy
oath
in his coronation ceremony.
Written by: エミネ
I put my
ear
to the
mouth
of the
Lord
and listened to His holy words.
Written by: Neos7m
They say{セイ} the
ears
of the holy saint hears the words directly from the
mouth
of the
king
of kings.
Written by: Anonymous123
The head priest, who is a holy saint, and seen as a wise sage, uses his position at the
king's
right hand to
whisper
into his master's
ear
Written by:
That country believes what goes out of the
mouth
and into the
ears
of their
king
is holy.
Written by: ハデクヨン
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ しんせい - (Adjective/-な) holiness, sacredness, sanctity, dignity
/ せいしょ - (noun) {Christn} Bible, the Scriptures, Holy Writing
/ きせい - (noun) great master of go, great master of shogi
/ せいち - (noun) sacred place, holy ground, the Holy Land; {sl} real-life location used as a setting in a novel, film, anime, etc.
/ せいいき - (noun) sacred precincts, sanctuary, consecrated ground, holy ground; issue that is regarded as being off-limits, matter that is not up for discussion
Kunyomi: みやこ
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: おおざと
Radical
metropolis, capital, all, everything
Mnemonics
A metropolis is like a
large village
where many
people
gather.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (10)
Someone
decided to build a bunch of
buildings
and turn them into a metropolis. You don't know who they are, but now an absolute ton of other someones you don't know also live here in these buildings and work in this busy metropolis.
Written by: Darkchan
Some
people
like to visit the *capital* of Japan, the *metropolitan* city of "Tokyo"「TO ト」, where *everything* can be had by *all*, but others prefer to visit the
villages
of the "Miyako"「MIYAKO みやこ」Islands for rest and relaxation.
Someone
/シャ←/t͡ɕiaᵡ/← *tjaːʔ…*taː →/tuo/→ツ,ト turned the miserable little
village
of Edo into the all-consuming, everything-to-everybody, modern metropolis of Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
A metropolis is filled with
people
and
Buildings
.
Written by: Jules.33
A metropolis is like a large
village
where many
people
all gather together
Written by: Quixotic
people
in the
building
form a TSUper metropolis
Written by: bozoduty
Many many
people
in what was once just a
village
: a meTOpolis like , a convenient place {がいい}
Written by: Spirit_kokoro
the place with many
people
and
buildings
is the metropolis. It's a wonderous, horrible place where you can find 2{つ} toes {と} lying about just as easily as m' yack{みやこ}.
Written by: ロールズ
people
built the
buildings
in that metropolis
Written by: weirdkeichan
To honor
Tanjirō
, the people declared his home
town
as the new capital.
Written by: 50・fuyuko50
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ みやこ - (noun) capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital), seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.), city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
/ つごう - (noun/transitive) circumstances, condition, convenience; arranging, managing; lending money, raising money; {adv} in all, in total, all told
/ きょうと - (noun) Kyoto (city, prefecture)
/ とかい - (noun) city; {abbr} Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
/ とし - (noun) town, city, municipal, urban
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: タイ, ツイ
Stroke count: 7
Radical name: すん
Radical
vis-a-vis, opposite, even, equal, versus, anti-, compare
Mnemonics
Use
measured
words
to state an opposite view.
Written by: ドみにく
Show all mnemonics (10)
The
sentences
of the opposite side were equally
measured
, so there was a tie タイ
Written by: yuppie
Via :
tool for digging
in the
dirt
with the
thumb and forefinger
. Borrowed for sound to mean reply TO → /tuʌiᴴ/ →ツイ→タイ one’s opposite. Remember with the Latin phrase
mens
et
manu
, two ideals of equal importance that confront each other vis‑à‑vis every day.
Your
literacy
is
measured
when you express an opposite view during a debate.
Written by: Perwoll
The businessman, in his "coat"「KOTA こた」and "tie"「TAI タイ」, moved *towards* the gathering of party guests and *compared* himself to the
literary
artist in t-shirt and jeans. Far from *equal*, they were *opposites* when
measured
in style. He felt the artist was a "mook" 「MUKA」*vis~à~vis* the professional setting.
On the opposite side of the
lid
of that Thai {タイ}
treasure
chest there is a
sundial
.
Written by: Anonymous123
A
sentence
and a
measurement
are totally opposite things.
Written by:
When I compare
texts
I
measure
the words. Some are equal, some are the opposite.
Written by: 50・fuyuko50
If I take a
measurement
of something and it is equal to "X", then I multiply "X" to its
inverse
, the product is equal to one. Mathematical functions also have corresponding inverse functions that undo whatever the original function did, so you could say that the inverse is the opposite of the original function. However when you compare the two functions, you can also say that the original function is the inverse of the inverse function. The one is the anti- of the other.
Your
words
measure
how well you compare to your opposite.
Written by: あいりー
Keep a tight タイ
lid
on where the
treasure
is buried until we can
measure
it and divide it into equal parts. We all deserve an even share of the sweet ツイprize.
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ はんたい - (Noun/な-adjective) opposition, resistance, antagonism, hostility, objection, dissent; reverse, opposite, inverse, contrary
/ ぜったい - (Noun/な-adjective) absolutely, definitely, unconditionally; {adj-no} absolute, unconditional, unmistakable; {n} absoluteness
/ つい - (noun) pair, couple, set; antithesis; {ctr} counter for items that come in pairs; {ctr} counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
/ ふついでんし - (noun) unpaired electron
/ たいしょう - (noun) target, object (of worship, study, etc.), subject (of taxation, etc.), coverage
Kunyomi: き.まる, き.める
Onyomi: ケツ
Stroke count: 7
Radical name: さんずい
Radical
decide, fix, agree upon, appoint
Mnemonics
man
has decided to go to the
sea
removing his
coat
.
Written by: Javed
Show all mnemonics (22)
That
person
splashed
ketsup {ケツ} on the left side of his
bowler hat
, so he decided to remove that side and keep {き} the rest.
Written by: Anonymous123
Moving
water
suggests unsettled matters that need to be
determined
/ケツ before stakeholders can decide and agree upon a policy and whom to appoint to implement it.

Another interpretation is river water that splits into two streams, requiring the captain to decide which way to go.
This kanji resembles a
person
wiping
sweat
from their forehead after deciding something difficult.
Written by: Rokkuu
In anime and other media, it's common for characters to settle on an important matter by
deciding
it while being next to
water
.
Written by: Kuromi
A
person
decided to splash
water
on
you
Written by: lMKYl
the
man
pulling
the bowstring decided to aim the
arrow
towards the
water
Written by: ドみにく
Water
damaged the
projector
. We need to decide on how to fix it.
Written by: Löwenzahn
A
large
man
thinks
and decides to return to the
sea
. Loosing his boat key may ruin きめる his chances though. If he doesn't leave now, his past will catch up ケツ with him.
Written by: Wolfenspace
KIM AND RUUD きまる
decided
to GET SOME けつ
large
water
tanks and fix a swimming pool for the hot summers.
Written by: ジェン~1984
The
person
made a
big
decicion that day, they decided to aim the
arrow
at the
water
Written by: じゅ
A
person
is lost at
sea
, and decides to sail
right rather than left
. No real reason for it, but the kanji is "closed" on the right and "open" on the left.
Written by: エドアード
We agreed that the man with the
biggest
biceps
had to fix the
leak
.
Written by: Jules.33
to make hard decisions and also reach the best solution, it require
great
strength
, and also
sweats and tears
Written by: コノエ・エル
Phono-semantic: Phonetic
“ケツ” Semantic
“water”.

You must decide how to cross the
water
and be
certain
.
Written by: フバフバ
A
person
deciding
on one of
three objects
by
pointing
at their decision.
Written by: RTRN
Gatsby
decided
while standing by the
water
that he would not give up on Daisy.
Written by: アンタイネ
That
man's
coat
got so wet, he decided to throw it on the trash! He really hates
water
!
Written by: ルイス
You need to decide what weapon you will use to assassinate this
person
. Will it be a
tsunami
, or will it be a
hook
. If you take the tsunami, then make sure it’s a ketsup {ケツ} tsunami. The key {き} is to make the decision!
Written by: GwynneBleidd
A
person
may decide to put on a
coat
when there is
rain
Written by: ロニー88
We are
determined
in our decision to go to the
sea
. Everyone agrees!
Written by: Robdeprop
It looks like
Light Yagami
breaking a
sweat
writing in the Death Note to fix the world that has decided to appoint him as a villain.
Written by: GD_V
The
big/huge
KIMERa decided not to eat me because it doesn't want to go in the
water
.
Written by: レイん|レナ
Related vocabulary
see all words
まりい / きまりわるい - (Adjective/-い) embarrassed, ashamed
ける / きめつける - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/transitive) to fix upon (one-sidedly), to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold, to take (a person) to task
/ かいけつ - (noun/する verb) settlement, solution, resolution
める / きめる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/transitive) to decide, to choose, to determine, to make up one's mind, to resolve, to set one's heart on, to settle, to arrange, to set, to appoint, to fix; to clinch (a victory), to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing, to go through with; to always do, to have made a habit of; to take for granted, to assume; to dress up, to dress to kill, to dress to the nines; to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.), to succeed in doing; {MA} {sumo} to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.); to eat or drink something, to take illegal drugs
まり / きまり - (noun) rule, regulation; settlement, conclusion, end, agreement, arrangement; habit, custom, habitual way; countenance in front of another person, face; {arch} love relationship between a customer and a prostitute
Kunyomi: うご.かす, うご.く
Onyomi: ドウ
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: ちから
Radical
move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake
Mnemonics
Something
heavy
moved with
force
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (36)
A giant DOUnut is very
heavy
and takes a lot of
power
to move it
Written by: Seraseth
To move a
heavy
DOUghnut {ドウ} requires a lot of
power
. The crowd syke you up by cheering UGO UGO UGO {うご) DOUGHNUT MAN!
Written by: Plum Blossom
If you go {うご} around moving
heavy
things using electric
power
, you can make a lot of dough {ドウ}.
If YOU GO {うご} to move
heavy
things, it DOes {どう} take a lot of
strength
.
Written by: BambiIcedTea
You need lots of
power
to move something
heavy
Written by: .オレオ
YOU GO {うご} MOVE that
strong
,
heavy
DOOR {ドウ}!
Written by: Abunai
When you have to move something
heavy
/ジュウ←ぢゆう← /ɖɨoŋᵡ/ ← *doŋ … *doːŋʔ →ドウ, remember the heavier it is, the more
power
you need to set it in motion and to change its momentum.
Linear momentum should not be confused with angular momentum or moment of inertia, which is what prevents a gyroscope from shifting its axis of rotation even when shaken.
One day, there was a
strong
man who wish to move a
thousand
villages
. He shakes them and shifts them but the villages stay still. In the end, the villagers give him a giant DOUghnut. There is confusion in his eyes as he has no idea what to do with this delicious pastry. But they just motion their heads and chant "UGO chaka UGO UGO, UGO chaka UGO UGO"
Written by: Justps2
"Hugo"「UGO うご」is a boy who stays
strong
caring for a
heavy
clock that looks like the one at Gare "d'Orsay"「DŌドウ」train station in Paris. His efforts ensure the clock stays in *motion*, as the time *changes* when the hands *move*.
YOU GO {ugo}, get the bullDOUzer {dou}. It looks like a
car with scoops
. It’s got the
power
to move things.
Written by: SaltyCogs
A
heavy
car needs some
power
to move/to go {UGO}, DOUn’t you think so?
Written by: I_like_natto
Do-n't ドウ try to move those
heavy
boxes by yourself, you're not
strong
enough and you go-nna うご hurt yourself.
Written by: Wolfenspace
YOU GO GIRL! うごく DO どう the locomotion. Even if you feel you're too
heavy
you're
strong
, powerfull and most of all beautiful. 🌺
Written by: ジェン~1984
There are
ten
thousand
people in a
village
. Truth be told that the men there are
strong
enough to move mountains!
Written by: ウインク
Somebody uses his
strength
to move something
heavy
. It can be a person pulling a chariot since looks like a chariot
top view
and looks like the legs of a person pulling something with the body tilted forward with one leg stretched behind and another one flexed forward.
Written by: OneiricDiver
You're gonna need
power
,
respect
, and a lotta dough {ドウ} if you wanna change the world.
Written by:
DOU {ドウ} you want to make a drastic change in your life? Then
strength
is
important
. You'll also be adored by many. Win-win, amirite?
Written by: ニムエ
This furniture is
heavy
. We need some
strong
people if we are going to move it. Lets call うごく and ドウ
Written by: チェイスです
use
force
to move the
heavy
DOUr and see what is inside
Written by: greenbeens
You are moving a
heavy
rock with all your
power
.
Written by: Chris551
You need
strength
to move something
heavy
. But when things are in motion , the cargo can shift and shake. This causes confusion and upon receiving the shaken cargo the client will ask "DOU natta"ドウ "what happened?".
Written by: Azadeh
It takes great
power
to move
1000
villages
Written by: Quixotic
Acceleration =
Force
/
Mass
Acceleration, a core component of motion is about change / shift in speed, which determines how quickly something will move.
Written by:
You need a lot of
power
to move something so
heavy
to the DOUjo.
Written by: レイん|レナ
Wow! A
heavy
piece of wood just fell, but the men's
strength
moved it back to its position!
Written by: ルイス
Something very
heavy
is being moved with
strength
.
Written by: Emmyちゅ
Thousand
years ago there was a
village
that was so
strong
but it moved places and no one knows were it is now
Written by: Zienp123
Don’t ドウ let the weight of the world shake you. You are
strong
and
powerful
and you command
respect
. You go うご move mountains and change the world
Written by: Jules.33
It takes
power
to move something
heavy
.
Written by: Biev
You gotta have a lot of
strength
to move something
heavy
! If you want to make a pizza you need to shake and shift the DOUghドウ with a powerful motion!
Written by: Yauriki
heavy and important
things require
strength and power
to move, change, or shake -- ones foundation
Written by:
there are a
thousand
people in the local weight lifting
league
and they are
strong
enough to lift without shaking at all!
Written by: weirdkeichan
Phono-semantic: phonetic
“ドウ” semantic
“strength”. The phonetic element contributes the meaning of heavy bag.

You can move a
heavy
bag with
strength
Written by: フバフバ
One
thousand
rice paddies
with all their
dirt
would need a lot of
power
to be moved.
Written by: サマヒラ
The
power
of a
thousand
villages
is quite moving.
Written by: トロン
The
heavy
cars
power
made you drop your DOUGHnut due to the intense motion
Written by: くろ3
Related vocabulary
see all words
す / うごきだす - (す verb/intransitive) to start to move, to get going, to come alive
かざることし / うごかざることやまのごとし - (expression) in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu), being imperturbable, immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)
/ どうぶつ - (noun) animal
/ どうぶつえん - (noun) zoo, zoological gardens
/ じどうしゃ - (noun) car, automobile, motorcar, motor vehicle, auto
Kunyomi: ゆ.さぶる, ゆ.すぶる, ゆ.する, ゆ.らぐ, ゆ.る, ゆ.るぐ, ゆ.れる
Onyomi: ヨウ
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: てへん
Radical
swing, shake, sway, rock, tremble, vibrate
Mnemonics
If you shake a
can
of soda with your
hand
the contents will
spray out
Written by: MuMe
Show all mnemonics (6)
The expensive
vase
trembled in my hand
hands
. I was afraid that I might drop it.
Written by: espiacent
Yo {ヨウ}! You {ゆ} don't even want to give that
ladder
one
try
on a
dry mountain
. It shakes too much.
Written by: Anonymous123
If you {ゆ} shake a
can
of soda with your
hand
the contents will
spray out
,
but as long as you hold the lid on tight, if you shake a carton of yogurt {ヨウ} nothing much happens. {Hat tip to MuMe}
Yo
, you
can shake the
can
with your
hand
and use
claws
to open it.
Written by: ラビオリ
Not just my
hand
, but
two
mountains
started to shake!
Written by: crabcrabcat
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but the
hand
that shakes will catch
no
tsu
can
.
Written by: lightmotif
Related vocabulary
see all words
れる / ゆれる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/intransitive) to shake, to sway, to rock, to swing, to tremble, to jolt, to pitch, to roll, to flicker; to become unstable, to become unsettled, to be shaken, to waver
/ どうよう - (noun/する verb) shaking, trembling, pitching, rolling, oscillation; disturbance, unrest, agitation, excitement, commotion, turmoil, discomposure, feeling shaken
/ ようどう - (noun/する verb) titubation, shaking, swinging
/ ようえい - (noun/する verb) flutter, linger
/ ようらんき - (noun) infancy, in cradle
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ジョウ
Stroke count: 7
Radical name: き
Radical
article, clause, item, stripe, streak
Mnemonics
This clause in the contract to buy this
winter
tree
is no JOUke/joke.
Written by: chancetenacity
Show all mnemonics (11)
Via : In the
winter
,
when the Christmas
trees
begin to appear, you know that Santa Clause is near. He will streak around the globe, delivering specially CHOSEN→チョウ articles to good children of every stripe. Every child is an item on his list.

Note: items on a list are like branches on a tree, especially if they are sublists. Which makes it useful to be able to
walk
a
tree
, segment(すじ)by segment.
ARTICLE One of the Reforestation Act: No
WALKING LEGS
may crush a
TREE
.
Written by: Abnormalise
The
winter
tree
clause prevents farmer JOU from chopping it down
Written by: Seraseth
Article/Clause1: You can never cut
trees
late
at night
Written by: Quixotic
Joe's {ジョウ} insurance policy had a clause that covered him if he
skied
into a
tree
.
Written by: Anonymous123
They wrote an article about the joker {ジョウ} who pulled down Santa Clause's beard as he posed for photos with the kiddies by the Christmas
tree
in
winter
.
There is a clause regarding the conservation of
trees
in
winter
.
Written by: アルゼン
Gepetto made
WALKING LEGS
for his litle Pinhoccio from two TWIGS of a
TREE
, giving him a set of "twiggy" shanks".
*From RTK6E Frame 319
Written by: elbit
The clause didn't make it clear whether the rule also applied to the Santa Claus on his speedy JOURNEY ジョウ over the
winter
trees
. 🎅🏻
Did you see the news article where it said
winter
was standing on top of a
tree
Written by: Afrina0987
According to this clause in the contract,
winter
trees
cannot be planted here.
Written by: そら♡
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ じょうけん - (noun) condition, term, requirement, qualification, prerequisite
/ じょうやく - (noun) treaty, pact, convention, agreement
き / かじょうがき - (noun) itemized form, itemised form, itemization, itemisation
/ ふじょうり - (Adjective/-な) absurd, irrational, unreasonable, illogical; {n} {phil} absurdity
/ しんじょう - (noun) creed, belief, conviction, article of faith
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ケン
Stroke count: 6
Radical name: にんべん
Radical
affair, case, matter, item
Mnemonics
The
man's
cow
has a matter to discuss with <
ケン
Ken>.
Written by: alex2069
Show all mnemonics (18)
I heard that this
guy
named "Ken" is having an affair with a
cow
. Seriously, what's the matter with him?
The case that happened to the
man's
cow
is an important matter.
Written by: Xerosse
The
man
and the
cow
are an item. No, they aren’t having an affair! Come on, KEN→ケン, this is a serious matter. Don’t make a Federal Case out of くだん the aforementioned.

Etymology unavailable. May be a simplification of , but reading is unrelated.
ケン← /gi̯ɛnᵡ/ ← *ɡranʔ
The matter of when
I
reincarnated as a
cow
.
It has been adapted into an anime called tensei shitara ushi datta ken {ケン}.
Written by: こガエル
"Ken"「KEN ケン」investigated the *case* of the missing
cow
. The disappearance was a strange *affair*, and the *matter* needed another
person
to help investigate. He asked himself, ""Could an"「KUDANくだん」important *item* have been overlooked?"
In the case of the missing
cow
could an くだん animal have done it, or can ケン we assume it was a
person
?
Written by: Jules.33
When a
person
has an affair with a
cow
, it becomes a matter for conversation. An item to be milked for all it's worth, until it kicks the bucket.
Written by: lightmotif
The worst case scenario came true,
Ken
has affair with the
cow
.
Written by: kires27
A
man
being crushed by a
cow
is a serious matter
Written by: Quixotic
Ken you solve this matter with
him
and the
cow
?
Written by: GAOリア
The
leader
of the
cow
tribe leaves the small matters and affairs to his subordinate, KEN
Written by: Seraseth
Current Affair headline:
Mr. T
has an affair with a
cow
called KEN
Written by: Samurai_Ash
The
person
who has the flying
cow
case is named ケン.
Written by: チェイスです
This is the Case of 1
cow
named KEN
Written by: Noryland
The
Human
Cow
case was the last straw. I'm seriously considering running away and restarting my life in faraway KENYA ケン.
Matter, case, affair: The mysterious case of the
person
who turned into a
cow
.
Written by: Biev
It's a confusing affair when a
person
says they had a chicken {ケン} one day and a
cow
the next. You can sell both eggs and milk, so I couldn't {くだん} say if it really matters.
Written by: Kembriel
I
am working on the case of Ken's {ケン}
cow
.
Written by: Anonymous123
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ じけん - (noun) event, affair, incident, case, plot, trouble, scandal
/ じょうけん - (noun) condition, term, requirement, qualification, prerequisite
/ ようけん - (noun) business, thing to be done, something that should be performed, information that should be conveyed
/ じんけんひ - (noun) personnel expenses, labor cost, labour cost; indirect labour costs, indirect labor costs
/ けんすう - (noun) number of cases, incidents, items, messages, accounts, etc.
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: キョ,
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: とらがしら,とらかんむり
Radical
void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
Mnemonics
The
tiger
is hiding in the
bush
. The character paints the picture of unpreparedness and emptiness.
Written by: non0230
Show all mnemonics (6)
There's a KYOld/cold void guarded by a
tiger
. I threw four
sticks
down it, but it is
one
deep hole.
Written by: chancetenacity
The roman soldiers in little Kyoto {キョ} were unprepared for the attack. Out of
*their line up
, the flying V in row one ended up in the void of the
tigers
stomach. *their line up = line up - top flying V - top one
Written by: Anonymous123
Via
:
Tiger
/コ→キョ
Hill
towers over the void in this Gibsonesque dystopia.
The
north
is void of
tigers
.
Written by: nexx
The townsfolk put
spikes
on the ground thinking then the beast won't come close. Meanwhile the
tiger
stays afar, studying them with empty eyes, searching for a fissure to slip through.
Written by: 【サラ☆】
The
tigers
are sucked into a
vortex
, leaving just an empty void of space
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ けんきょ - (Adjective/-な) modest, humble
/ はいきょ - (noun) ruins (of a building, town, etc.), remains
/ こけざる - (noun) foolish monkey
/ こむそう - (noun) begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
/ くうきょ - (Adjective/-な) emptiness, hollowness, vacancy, void; inanity, pointlessness, meaninglessness
Kunyomi: な.い
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: れんが,れっか
Radical
nothingness, none, ain't, nothing, nil, not
Mnemonics
the
dead person
lying on the
stack of wood
will be burned by
fire
to nothingness
Written by: ドみにく
Show all mnemonics (11)
I fired the
arrow
over the
forty
fires
like it was nothing, and then it went boom {ブム=ブ + ム}.
Written by: Anonymous123
Original form of dance /ム, ブ: borrowed for sound. A
person
𠂉
twirling
forty
times like their feet are
one
with
fire
. The dance is all there is; there is nothing but the dance, only nothingness; not even a partner; there are no partners, none, nil, zip, nada.

(*ma)
ム← /mi̯u/ ← *ma
Clouds
block out the sun over your
farm
, and by nigh-t ない, boom ブ,ム your
crops
are dead and you are left with nothing.
Written by: Wolfenspace
Originally depicted a rain-invoking ritual, implying that it had not rained in a long time, which was a big deal. The meaning extends to anything that is lacking or nonexistent. To remember how the kanji is drawn nowadays, I like to visualize the ritual as
four people linking hands
around a
fire
, and sending their
prayer
, or chant if you prefer, up into the sky.
Written by: Biev
NAthing is left when a fire goes BU-MU.
Pictogram: A
dancer
holding
ox tails
praying to receive rain, the idea is having no rain
Written by: フバフバ
empty boxes
of a salesperson - nothing is left!
The
money
they got below it.
Written by: Löwenzahn
The man’s dog jumped over the large
fence
, as it ran fast on its 4
legs
leaving a small wag with its
tail
, he followed him to an alley, only to see nothing!
None
. Nothing left but the
fence
and its
shadow
.
Written by: moolsu
This Kanji
is very similar to
kanji which means BLACK .
And Black is also very similar to Nothingness.
Written by: ワィワェク
I lost my
needle
in the
haystack
and then put it on
fire
.
Now nothing of it can ever be found anymore.
Written by: Xilmi
Related vocabulary
see all words
いとけない / ないといけない - (expression) have to (verb), must (verb) (after negative base of verb); is indispensable, absolutely necessary
/ ぶじ - (Adjective/-な) safety, security, peace, quiet; safely, without incident, successfully; good health; {obs} inaction, ennui
/ むりょう - (noun) free (of charge), gratuitous
くす / なくす - (す verb/transitive) to lose (something); to get rid of, to eliminate, to remove, to eradicate, to abolish
くなる / なくなる - (Godan verb - る (ます = stem+ります)/intransitive) to be lost (e.g. luggage), to be missing; to be used up, to be run out, to be exhausted, to be consumed, to be reduced to zero, to not occur any more; to disappear (e.g. pain), to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ショウ
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: ごんべん
Radical
evidence, proof, certificate
Mnemonics
I
say
it's
true
because there's proof
Written by: Nicolas2
Show all mnemonics (8)
I'll show {ショウ} you proof that what I'm
saying
is
correct
. I brought evidence.
Written by: Anonymous123
A cashier {あかし} showed {ショウ} evidence that what I
said
was
true
. I didn't steal the money!
Written by: quickMaffs44
In court, evidence shows that one's
words
are
correct
.
If the
WORDS
that you SAY are indeed
CORRECT
then we could use your
Testimony as EVIDENCE.
Written by: Abnormalise
He
said
there is evidence that A CASHIer {あかし} has been embezzling money from the store and needs to be brought to
justice
. He added that he could SHOW {ショウ} me proof.
Correct
Sayings
can be used as EVIDENCE
Written by: ハンゾウ
“Stop right there!”
The detective shouted. “This is a murder scene. Show me proof that you’re allowed to be here.” I paused, not daring to let a
word
slip from my
mouth
, or I may be brought to
justice
…As I was killer.
Written by: gurabu
Stop!
. I need
one
form of PROOF that you are who you
say
you are. It can be a birth CERTIFICATE or some other form of EVIDENCE.
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ ほしょう - (noun/する verb) guarantee (e.g. on goods), security, assurance, pledge, warranty
/ しょうめい - (noun/する verb) proof, testimony, demonstration, verification, certification
/ しょうにん - (noun) witness
/ しょうこ - (noun) evidence, proof
/ しょうげん - (noun/する verb) testimony, (verbal) evidence
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ソウ,
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: こころ
Radical
concept, think, idea, thought
Mnemonics
Think about the
wooden
target until you can
see
it with your
heart
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (19)
The concept comes from my
heart
. To make it visible to the
eye
, I construct a
wooden
model.
Written by: espiacent
ソウ,
Together
we used our
minds
to think of an idea!
Written by: チェイスです
Newton
looked
at the apple
tree
and
thought up
gravity.
Written by: アレックス833
Plato’s “pure ideas” are nonentities until put
together
/ソウ with a
mind
. A thought without a mind to think it is a nonsensical concept. Take away the mind and all you are left with is each other .
The CONCEPT of IMAGINATION
INTER-CONNECTS
reality with your
MIND
and your
HEART
.
Written by: Abnormalise
When I
saw
the Japanese exhibit, I *thought* of a project *idea*. I put my
heart
and "soul"「SŌ ソウ」into making my *concept* for "a more"「OMŌ おも.う」beautiful
wood
puzzle box.
The
mind
puts the concepts
together
.
Written by: nexx
At
heart
,
thinking {おも.う} involves the
mutual
interplay of of ideas in my mind. And when I get it right, someone will say 「そう そう そう」.
The character is a ideogram, from an
eye
looking at the
tree
, signifying target. When you think of an idea, you are using your
heart
looking straight at a target idea you are thinking of.
Written by: non0230
Eye
love this
tree
so ソウ much, that the thought of it being cut down breaks my
heart
.
Written by: Jules.33
I can
see
that the concept of a
heart
made out of
wood
is a good thought/idea.
Written by: BrightlyShine
Look
, I was thinking of you, so ソウ I carved a
heart
in the
tree
.
Written by: Jules.33
When you can conceptualize a
tree
you can picture it in your
mind’s
eye
.
Written by: Jules.33
"omou"tions flow through my
heart
just like thoughts through my head, "so" ideas grow like
trees
in front of my
eyes
.
Written by: Sophie-chan
When you examine THOUGHTS in your
mind
with your inner
eye
, they
branch
out into larger IDEAS and CONCEPTS. We call that THINKING.
Written by: Jules.33
A
tree
with
eyes
and a
heart
is nothing more than an idea in your head.
Written by: ハデクヨン
The only way someone can conceive any concept is by thinking of the
aspects
of it with the
heart
.
Written by: Kuromi
I thought of a neat idea - the concept that a
tree
can have both
eyes
and a
heart
.
Written by: coin
This concept is a
mutual
idea that is dear to our
hearts
and SOULS {ソウ}.
Written by: catzi
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ かんそう - (noun/する verb) impressions, thoughts, feelings, reactions
/ しそう - (noun) thought, idea, ideology
/ あいそ - (noun) amiability, friendliness, affability, sociability; fondness (of someone), affection, liking; compliments, civilities, courtesies, flattery; hospitality, special treatment, entertainment; bill (at a restaurant), check
かし / あいそづかし - (noun/する verb) no longer being fond of someone, spiteful words or acts showing that one is disgusted with someone
/ そうぞう - (noun/する verb) imagination, supposition, guess
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ゾウ
Stroke count: 14
Radical name: にんべん
Radical
statue, picture, image, figure, portrait
Mnemonics
The statue of a
person
leaning against an
elephant
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (6)
Statues are stone
images
of
people
.
There was a statue of a
man
next to an
elephant
at the zoo{ぞう}
Written by:
That
person
took a picture of me with an
elephant
statue
Written by: Lafvalis
A statue is a
man-made
structure that is big like an
elephant
.
Written by: non0230
We made a STATUE of the
elephant
man
. to add to our house of horrors. Next we’re making zombie ゾウ portraits to hang on the walls.
Written by: Jules.33
when a
person
see the big figure of
elephant
, they can either go still like dumbstruck statue, or they can be smart and take pictures
Written by: コノエ・エル
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ ぞう - (noun) image, figure, statue, picture, portrait; figure, form, shape, appearance; {physics} {math} image
/ そうぞう - (noun/する verb) imagination, supposition, guess
/ ぶつぞう - (noun) statue of Buddha, image of Buddha, Buddhist statue, Buddhist image
/ えいぞう - (noun) image (on a screen), picture (e.g. on a TV); video, film, footage; reflection; image (in one's mind), mental picture
/ げんぞう - (noun/する verb) development (of film), photographic processing
Kunyomi: くさ.らす, くさ.る, くさ.れる
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 14
Radical name: にく
Radical
rot, decay, sour
Mnemonics
I swear {フ} there is something rotten at that
government office
, and it's not the
meat
!
Written by: Anonymous123
Show all mnemonics (8)
The
meat
*squashed under* the
government office
has rotted.
Written by: lightmotif
There are signs of rot
attached
to the
meat
... let's throw it off the
cliff
广
.
Written by: アルゼン
Nothing as rotten as the
meat
heads that run our
government
.
Written by: MuMe
I swear {フ} that something rotten is stinking { = くさ} up that
government office
, and it's not the
meat
!

{Hat tip to Anonymous123}
The thing that
meat
and the
government
have in common is that they can both rot and become corrupted.
Written by: WildAtelier
Who left this
meat
rotting in the
government office
?!
Written by: kuroda
The
meat
under the
government office
will rot and decay
Written by: ロニー88
I
took
measure
of the
meat
, and determined it was rotten so I threw it off the
cliff
广
where it’ll decay in nature.
Written by: Jules.33
Related vocabulary
see all words
った / おんなのくさったよう - (noun) {derog} unmanly, weak, irresolute, sissy, acting like a woman
/ めくされがね - (noun) pittance
っても / くさってもたい - (expression) {proverb} a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond, quality is quality, an old eagle is better than a young crow, even if it's rotten, it's still sea bream
/ とうふ - (noun) tofu, bean curd, beancurd
/ ふはい - (noun/する verb) decomposition, putrefaction, putrescence, spoilage; corruption, degeneracy, decay, depravity
Kunyomi: うみ
Onyomi: カイ
Stroke count: 9
Radical name: さんずい
Radical
sea, ocean
Mnemonics
At sea you can see
water
in
every
direction.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (20)
I think it'd be nice to live by the sea... Imagine, just you and me {うみ} on a kayak {カイ}, out on the beautiful ocean
water
every
day. (UwU) *.✧・゚:
Written by: quickMaffs44
You will find
water
in
every
ocean.
Written by: gillianfaith
The sea/ ocean is the
mother
of all the
water
on earth and
no
丿
one
can deny that.
Written by: Mystery4869
Kai カイ goes to the sea
every
day to
splash
around. Uuuう, why won't he invite me み?
Written by: スミ☆
Every
drop of
water
will eventually return to the sea.
Written by: Samurai_Ash
If you and me
うみ
look at this kanji when rotating it towards the right
looks like a Rice field, the stick beside it is like a scarecrow, and
looks like raindrops. And rain comes
カイ
from the process of Water Cycle which starts at the Sea
The sea is a collection of
every
water
Written by: mala nya
It seems
every
person around me loves the *sea*, but I'm scared I'll see an "umi"「UMI うみ」bōzu {an aquatic "yōkai"「KAI カイ」} in the
water
!
At Sea,
every
where you see is
water
Written by: オニヴェル
The
mother
of all
water
is Ocean
Written by: オニヴェル
Every
drop of water
at some point was part of the sea / ocean.
Written by:
Every
time I'm at the sea, I fill my
water gun
and splash every_one
Written by: ケンパチ
Water
everywhere
means sea
Written by: Veerdb
You and me together in a
beach house
with the
waves
coming near
Written by: Vidhita
In sea
water
is
everywhere
!
Written by: maycircle
I like to go to the beach
every
day to splash everyone with
water
!
Written by: ルイス
Every
drop of water
flows to the sea.
Written by: Emmyちゅ
The
water
is in
every
sea.
almost
everything
liquid in the ocean is
water
Written by: weirdkeichan
With each
splash
, Oh, me!{umi} echoed joyfully from
every
child at the water's edge.
Written by: なないで
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ うみ - (noun) sea, ocean, waters; beach
べ / うみべ - (noun) beach, seashore, seaside, coast
/ ほっかいどう - (noun) Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
/ かいがい - (noun) foreign, abroad, overseas
/ かいがん - (noun) coast, beach
Kunyomi: す.い
Onyomi: サン
Stroke count: 14
Radical name: とりへん
Radical
acid, bitterness, sour, tart
Mnemonics
that
sake
was so sour that
I flew out
of my
chair
!
Written by: ndki
Show all mnemonics (9)
Sake
License
to make
Winter
sake which is SOUR
Written by: ハンゾウ
The wine in this
bottle
has turned sour from all the
pacing
/シュン→サン and jostling.
I was too
late
in uncorking the
western alcohol
known as "wine". I grew bitter after realizing it had turned into an acidic vinegar. I wanted to sue {す} the vineyard, but I knew it was
my
fault for keeping my wine in a sauna {サンa}.
I had to have three{サン} shots of
sake
before Sue{す} would
permit
me to go
skiing
. They tasted acidic and sour.
Written by: Anonymous123
I drank what I thought was
sake
, but then questioned
myself
because of the odd taste; then I got even more worried when my
legs
fell off. Much
later
, I thought to look at the label, and it said "ACID - warning: tastes sour and bitter and tart". That explained it.
{Note: this mnemonic takes place in a universe where drinking acid causes your legs to fall off}
Written by: emanresU
You need a
license
to operate a
late
-night sake shop in
Spain
, known for its diverse flavors and varying degrees of sourness.
Written by: エミネ
I was too
late
to collect my
liquor
licence
and now they won't hand it to me. All I feel is the bitterness aftertaste, and I haven't even been drinking yet. It's already been 3 サン days. I think I'll sue す.い them.
Written by: ケンパチ
Walking
west
makes my
private
legs
bring an acid
winter
.
Written by: hyperbolic_knight
I
am ready to go to
Spain
西
on my
legs
at
late
night to taste
one
of these Spanish pear tarts.
Written by: イマンちゃん。
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ - (noun) vinegar
/ すもも - (noun) Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), Chinese plum
/ さんそ - (noun) oxygen (O)
/ さんせい - (noun) {chem} acidity; {adj-no} {chem} acidic
/ さんか - (noun/する verb) {chem} oxidation, oxidization
Kunyomi: みずうみ
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: さんずい
Radical
lake
Mnemonics
There are many
old
stories about this lake when the full
moon
shined on the
water
.
Written by: rtega
Show all mnemonics (12)
The
water
of the lake gets
older
every
month
.
Written by: Karlla
The
water
in the
old
*lake* reflects the
moon
light. A *lake* has less "water = みず" than an "ocean = うみ"「MIZŪMI みずうみ」, and it is "cold"「KO コ」.
Unlike the rivers, which are populated by Kappa, the
water
in the lake is home to a
foreign
/コ monster called Nessie.
The lake
water
of
old
has reflected the
moon
.
Written by: lightmotif
The
barbarians
always get their
water
from the same lake.
Written by: nexx
A lake is an
old
body of
water
sometimes affected by the tide of the
moon
Written by: Seanyくんです
There are many
old
stories about this lake when the full
moon
shined on the
water
. A smaller amount of water than the ocean is a lake mizu + umi みずうみ
Written by: [:ミルキー
It took many
moons
for this
old
lake to get its
water
Written by: ヌルくん
The lake's
water
gets drank by
ten
mouths
every
month
.
Written by: ルイス
The Lady of the Lake resides in bodies of
water
and is an
ancient
moon
goddess.
Written by: そら♡
There are alot of
old
fossil and
dead bodies
in this
lake
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
A lake is filled with
water
that is
old
because it first comes from a river when the
moon
brings in the tide.
Written by: MiT_Epona
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ みずうみ - (noun) lake
/ はくちょうのみずうみ - (noun) {work} Swan Lake (ballet)
/ こしょう - (noun) lake, marsh, wetland, inland waters
/ こはん - (noun) lake shore
/ じんこうこ - (noun) artificial lake, man-made lake, reservoir
Kunyomi: ほろ.びる, ほろ.ぼす
Onyomi: メツ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: さんずい
Radical
destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
Mnemonics
There are many ways a village can be destroyed. A
fire
can leave it in ruins, it can perish from a
flood
or a landslide from the nearby
cliffs
. Or even be overtrown by
armed
forces.
Written by: MuMe
Show all mnemonics (10)
A
tsunami
of
destruction
/ケツ← /xi̯wɛt̚/ ← *hmed … *med → /mi̯ɛt̚/ →メツ brings ruin to all in its path, many of whom will perish.
After they
splashed
gasoline under the
cliff
,
one
fiery
halberd
destroyed everything, including my Mets {メツ} pennant. Oh the horror {ほろ}!
Written by: Anonymous123
During the
MARCH
,
ONE
FIESTA TENT
caught in
FLAMES
, and needed to be extinguished
with
WATER
canons, resulting in
its complete DESTRUCTION.
Written by: Abnormalise
Water
type
Dog
pokemon can DESTROY
Fire
.

Note: Suicune making the fire small
Written by: ハンゾウ
One
of my
halberds
was ruined by the
fire
, so I threw it down the
cliff
and it fell right into the
water
stream.
Written by: ニムエ
Picture a
march
of
flames
demonstrating against the Fire Department for their right to destroy but being doused with
water
by the police riot squads.
*From RTK6E Frame 390
Written by: elbit
water
and
fire
can destroy everything like
one
army yielding
halberds
Written by: kanasbirro
There's a saying in ancient Chinese "
"
The element
fire
is born in the first month, is strong in the fifth month, and dies in the
ninth month
. With just a tiny bit of
water
and that dying fire is ruined.
Written by: non0230
To destroy the
water
's
wild goose
, you need
one
fire
to
float
the goat.
The
Fire-Men
will never perish to the
tsunami
whose waves are destroyed by the
cliff
. Yet it only took
one
horrible {ほろびる} monster with a
halberd
attacking from behind for the Fire-Men to have met {メツ} their ruin.
Written by: アズリネ
Related vocabulary
see all words
く / ほろびゆく - (adjective) perishing, disappearing, dying
/ ぜつめつ - (noun/する verb) extinction, extermination; eradication, stamping out, wiping out
に / めったに - (adverb) rarely, seldom (with neg. verb)
/ めった - (Adjective/-な) thoughtless, reckless, careless, rash; ordinary, usual, common (usu. with a neg. sentence); {pref} excessive, indiscriminate
/ しんとうめっきゃく - (noun) {yoji} clearing one's mind of all mundane thoughts
Kunyomi: みち
Onyomi: ドウ, トウ
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: しんにょう,しんにゅう
Radical
road-way, street, district, journey, course, moral, teachings
Mnemonics
You'll break your
Neck
if your ride one of those
Scooters
in the Street
Written by: Xason
Show all mnemonics (25)
you'll break your
neck
if you eat a DOUnut while riding your
scooter
down a busy road
Written by: Seraseth
When I joined the *street* race, I
walked

along another *road-way* to cut across to the final stretch. "Doh"「DŌ ドウ」! Someone saw me! If someone accuses "me" of "cheating"「MICHI みち」, my mom will break my
neck
for ignoring her *moral* and ethical *teachings*!
Sado is the way of tea, shodo is the way of the brush, and judo is the way of putting your
foot
on someone’s
neck
/シュ← /ɕi̯ə̯uᵡ/ ← *hljuʔ … *l'uːʔ → /dʱɑuᵡ/ →だう, たう→ドウ, トウ.
Looks like a
building
with
antenna
on the
roof
and a
road / street
around it. Symbolizes a district of buildings & a path to journey around.
Written by:
When we go on the
ROAD
-WAY
, we risk our
NECKs
.
Written by: Abnormalise
If you are
walking
with your
neck
stuck out in the road, you're going to get hit!
Written by: マイコー
There is a teaching that says “When you open the DOOR {どう} and
walk
on to the road, you risk your
neck
Written by: BambiIcedTea
I DOUn't have to
walk
this road all by
myself
.
Written by: レイん|レナ
The
neck
is the street where food and air
move
Written by: エマリーポップ
Phono-semantic: phonetic
“ドウ” semantic
”road”.

Put your
head
on a swivel before crossing a
road
.
Written by: フバフバ
I’m
riding down |ドウ| the street on my journey to |トウ| my district, with my
scooter
and
horned helmet
.
Written by: crabcrabcat
A leader's
head
guides the
road
along the path
path
.
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
With a long stride, I
walk
{ > } into the dark road with my
eyes
covered by a grass
cloth. A chill ran DOwn {ドウ} my
neck
as I go, but I believe I'm on the right course
Written by: バリエル
When walking on the
road
, you have to walk with your
neck
stretched out like a
giraffe
.
Written by: ブダ
Teach your child "turn your
neck
and look both ways before you
walk
to cross the street" so they'll be able to journey by
themselves
Written by: マリナ ❊
keep your
EYE
on the road while being
ESCORTED
Written by: アリシャ313
While driving my
scooter
, I hit the pavement on the street, fell and broke my
neck
Written by: ケンパチ
The Michi {みち} Cat Café is down the street. It's the building with the
cat ears
on top. Let's
walk
over there.
Written by: Plegberb
If you don't know where the
road
is, follow the red
neck
s. The road is where they spend most of their time.
Written by: Xilmi
Is your
neck
on a
walk
? Then that must mean you're on a road!
Written by:
Aim the
scooter's
neck
at the road! Scooters are only meant for driving on streets and paths, and if you go the wrong way, you'll probably break your own neck!
Written by: しまうま
A
neck
going forward
along the road.
Written by: Emmyちゅ
The dead
neck
is in a
road
A doeドウ was hit on the road-way while
walking
across the street and people were
rubbernecking
toトウ
see
what happened.
Written by: Jules.33
If you keep your
head
high, every
road
will lead to correct path
Written by: Veerdb
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ みち - (noun) road, path, street, lane, passage; route, way; distance, journey; road (e.g. to victory), course; way (of living, proper conduct, etc.), moral principles; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist), dogma; field (e.g. of medicine), subject, speciality; means, way, method
/ どうろ - (noun) road, highway
/ しんとう - (noun) Shinto, Shintoism
/ ほっかいどう - (noun) Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
/ じゅうどう - (noun) judo
Kunyomi: ば.かす, ば.ける
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 4
Radical name: ひ
Radical
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
Mnemonics
Magicians are
people
who can change the shape of
spoons
.
Written by:
Show all mnemonics (21)
and
are drawn so similarly that one can transform into the other if you change the position of the strokes.
Written by: gillianfaith
The monster/bakemono {ば、ケ} changed and took the form of a
person
. Scared for my life, I started running for my car {カ}, but he/ヒ enchanted it into a
spoon
.
Written by: quickMaffs44
A person can change from
upright
to
upside down
𠤎
/カ. Compare .

Beware!
𠤎 = か
= ひ

Note that ふける and ばける are both written ける.

ける/ふける to age visibly
ける/ばける to change appearance

Note that the radical is phonetic: is not the radical, despite being in reduced form, because is about change, not people. 𠤎 may have a possible derived term in , thus literally “that which has been transformed through fire”.

(*hŋʷraːls)
カ←くわ← /xwaᴴ/ ← *hŋʷraːls
In the "Matrix", a little boy explained to Neo how a
person
could change the shape of a
spoon
just by changing the way they perceived it.
ヒs magic transformed that
person
into a
spoon
Written by: チェイスです
BAKA U ばける you changed the form all the
spoons
now they all have the form of
forks
. This way you KAn か not KEt け any soup on it.
Written by: ジェン~1984
Pinocchio was a wooden
puppet, sitting
on a shelf. He wanted to *take the form of* a real
person
. A fairy came one night from the "bakery"「BAKERU ば.ける」next door and said, ""Okay"「KĒ ケ」, I "can"「KA カ」*enchant* you and *change* you into a real boy!"
Capital
T
is converted into small
t
.
Written by: ブダ
A
standing human
worker CHANGEs a
spoon
into a shape of Katakana's "hi".
Written by: EmeraldSui
You can't keep
spoonfeeding
someone
expecting them to change. Change comes from within.
Written by: BaldingEagle
There's a
person
claiming to be a magician who's waving around a
spoon
, using it as some kind of wand to enchant
people.
Written by: くん
As they
spoon
feed it to
people
,
advertising influences, enchants and deludes us to be baka {ば.か - idiot} and buy their caca. {カ、ケ - garbage}
Written by: マイケルミラー
A stupid-ば, カ
person
CHANGES the
spoon
shape and runs away yelling Kay-ケ
Written by: ishnini
Humans
are fickle and changeable creatures, sometime, they might even lost part of their humanity, becoming less
human
ト as result

likewise, some smart monster -ばけ- もの can disguise or transform -ばける- them self into human
, because human
ト are imperfect creatures not unlike them
Written by: コノエ・エル
Ideogram: 2
people
the change or influence or even enchantment speaks of the fact one of the two is
upside down
.
Written by: フバフバ
Mr. T
reaches into his wallet for some spare change but it has all changed into
spoons
and toy KArs.
Written by: Samurai_Ash
Bakers are
people
who transform uninteresting ingredients with
spoonfuls
of sugar into addictive CALORIE カ traps in a BAKERY ばける.
When a
person
mixes CA-KE {か,け} batter with a
spoon
and BA-KEs {ば.け} it, it changes from a liquid to a solid.
A
person
can change the flavour of a stew with a
spoonful
of spice.
Written by: AidanRyota
Only your
leader
can bend the
spoon
and change it into something completely different.
Written by: しまうま
"
イヒ
!” is an old Asahi Kasei { is short for chemical industry} jingle in ads available on Youtube: " イヒ"
Written by: Nicolas2
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ ばけもの - (noun) goblin, apparition, monster, ghost, phantom, spectre, specter
はない / げことばけものはない - (expression) {proverb} {rare} everyone drinks at least a little bit, ghosts and non-drinkers do not exist
/ ぶんか - (noun) culture, civilization, civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
/ けしょう - (noun/する verb) make-up, makeup, cosmetics; decoration, dressing, veneer
/ きょうか - (noun/する verb) strengthening, intensifying, reinforcement, enhancement, solidification; {psych} reinforcement
Kunyomi: やま
Onyomi: サン
Stroke count: 3
Radical name: やま
Radical
mountain
Mnemonics
a mountain with three
サン
peaks
Written by: soren
Show all mnemonics (11)
Ya ma やま, your son サン sen-ds セン his love from the
mountain
.
Written by: Wolfenspace
Link the peaks and a
mountain
will appear
Written by: スキス イス
The kanji for *mountain* looks like
three peaks
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
mountains
. Pretty simple, right?
Written by: non0230
Have you ever imagined
mountain
s
talking, like how wuld two mountains greet eachother?
"Hello, Everest-san /サン/."
"Oh hi, Fuji-san /サン/."
Written by: *Anna*
A tiny explorer climbs the first small peak
left stroke
, then struggles up the tallest peak in the middle
middle stroke
, and finally slides down the last little peak on the right
right stroke
. Together, the three peaks form a mini mountain range — .
Written by: Jjhhhhhh
Pictograph of a
mountain
.

As a phonetic bushu: セン、サン。
Written by: フバフバ
Works better for Spanish speakers, but: llamas 【やま】live in the three 【サン】
mountains
Written by: ebosques
やま
せん
.せい {} had us climb the mountain during training
Written by:
Looks like a mountain
with
three
peaks
for the sloping shape.
Written by:
Stick-figure reduction of three /サン
mountain peaks
, originally three triangles.

(*sreːn)
サン,セン← /ʂăn/ ← *sreːn
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ やま - (noun) mountain, hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap, pile; crown (of a hat), thread (of a screw), tread (of a tire), protruding part of an object, high part; climax, peak, critical point; guess, speculation, gamble; {sl} criminal case, crime; mountain climbing, mountaineering; festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd); deck (of playing cards on table, face down, from which cards are drawn), stack; {mahj} wall, wall tile; {arch} temple, temple grounds; {n-pref} wild
さん / やまださん - (noun) Mr./Mrs./Ms. Yamada
/ たくさん - (Pre-noun adjective) a lot, lots, plenty, many, a large number, much, a great deal, a good deal; enough, sufficient; {n-suf} enough, too many, too much
/ ふじさん - (noun) Mount Fuji, Mt. Fuji, Fujiyama, Fuji-san
/ とざん - (noun/する verb) mountain climbing, ascending a mountain, ascent
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ミャク
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: にくづき
Radical
vein, pulse, hope
Mnemonics
Inside the
meat
of your body, you have at least
three veins
𠂢
.
Written by: gillianfaith
Show all mnemonics (5)
A
month
ago he fell into the
*bent river
and sliced open some veins. He had a weak pulse, but we hoped for a miracle {ミヤク}, and he survived. *bent river = with the tops of the lines bent to the right
Written by: Anonymous123
See : One of the
body’s
tributary
𠂢
/ハイ← /pʰaiᴴ/ ← *m̥ʰreːɡs … *mreːɡ → /mæk̚/ →ミャク systems is the veins that send blood back to the heart. You can feel your pulse on a vein as the pressure changes, and as long as your cardiograph looks like a mountain range, there’s reason すじ to hope for your heart.
I HOPE my 6
month
check-up is alright. So far the nurse has taken my PULSE, and now she’s looking for a good
VEIN
to stick.
Written by: Jules.33
The doctor said I have strong PULSES, but he HOPES that placing stents in
3 VEINS
in a
month
will reduce the swelling in my legs.
Written by: Jules.33
On the surface of the
moon
, we can clearly see many features like craters and long
rays
running like veins.
Written by: Sadaharu_3
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ ぶんみゃく - (noun) context (of a passage), line of thought; context (of a matter, event, etc.), circumstances, background
/ みゃく - (noun) pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
/ さんみゃく - (noun) mountain range, mountain belt
/ ふせいみゃく - (noun) {med} irregular pulse, arrhythmia
/ じんみゃく - (noun) personal connections
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: クツ
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: かばね,しかばね,しかばねかんむり
Radical
yield, bend, flinch, submit
Mnemonics
In order to
exit
the battlefield you must raise the white
flag
to indicate that you yield. You may want to do it before someone cuts u {クツ}
Written by: Anonymous123
Show all mnemonics (6)
We yield and submit to our opponents by
raising our hands
and waving the
white flag
Written by: ドみにく
Yield or you will
leave
as a
corpse
.
Written by: nexx
Tall people bend their neck forward when
coming out
from under an
awning
.
Written by: アルゼン
I put on my KUTSU to
leave
for the
mountains
, but as I bend I flinch for I suddenly see a man standing behind me. His face looks like that of a
corpse
and his hand is resting on my shoulder. My legs yield from underneath me as I am filled with fear. "KAn we play a GAMe? U and i...", he whispers....
Written by: ジェン~1984
Originally meaning bend. Picture dogs that bend to chase their
tail
until they have to
leave
/シュツ← /t͡ɕʰi̯uĕt̚/, /t͡ɕʰwiᴴ/ ← *kʰljuds, *kʰljud … *klud, *kʰlud → ki̯uət̚, kʰi̯uət̚ →クツ. Flinch, submit, and yield follow from bend.
くぐまる, こごまる and かがまる are different pronunciations of the same word. かがむ also has the variants くぐむ and こごむ.
During the war, they were told not to
get out
of of the trench, but it was hard not to yield and wave the white
flag
. All they could do was look at their shoes クツ
Written by: ケンパチ
Related vocabulary
see all words
退 / たいくつ - (Noun/な-adjective) tedious, boring, dull, uninteresting, tiresome, monotonous; {vs} {vi} to feel bored, to get bored (with), to get tired (of)
/ りくつ - (noun) theory, reason, logic; (unreasonable) argument, strained logic, excuse, pretext
/ きゅうくつ - (Adjective/-な) narrow, tight, cramped; formal, stiff, strict, ceremonious, rigid; constrained, uncomfortable; tight (e.g. finances)
/ くつじょく - (noun) disgrace, humiliation
/ ふくつ - (Adjective/-な) persistence, fortitude, indomitability
Kunyomi: と.ぶ, は.ねる
Onyomi: チョウ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: あしへん
Radical
hop, leap up, spring, jerk, prance, buck, splash, sputter, snap
Mnemonics
If his
mouth
ever
stops
moving, it's an
omen
that he has chosen{チョウ} to leap up out of his chair.
Written by: Anonymous123
Show all mnemonics (3)
The
foot
𧾷
does a
mega
/チョウ jerk when you leap up,
If you feel that your
legs
are restless, it's a
sign
that you should jump around!
Written by: フロラ
When I saw him flex his
legs
, I took that as a
sign
{チョウ} that he was about to leap upwards.
Related vocabulary
see all words
がる / とびあがる - (Godan verb - る (ます = stem+ります)/intransitive) to jump up, to leap up, to spring up
がり / はねあがり - (noun) jumping, jump (e.g. in prices); rashness, rash person
/ ちょうやく - (noun/する verb) jump, leap, skip, bound
ねる / はねる - (Ichidan verb (ます = stem+ます)/intransitive) to jump, to leap, to prance, to spring up, to bound, to hop; to break up, to close, to come to an end; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
ね / どろはね - (noun) splash of mud, mud spatter
Kunyomi: こ.む, こ.める
Onyomi: (none)
Stroke count: 5
Radical name: しんにょう,しんにゅう
Radical
crowded, mixture, in bulk, included, (kokuji)
Mnemonics
A large crowd of people
enter
the
street
every day.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (8)
A crowd of people
entered
the
street
and mixed together. Where did they all co-me こめる, こむ from?
Written by: Wolfenspace
When a lot of people
ENTER
the
ROAD
it gets quite CROWDED, and quickly CONGESTED.
Written by: Abnormalise
I have social anxiety, so I don't know how I'll cope {こp} with the crowd of people
entering
the
street
right now.
Many
people
on the
road
means it's crowded.
Written by: レイん|レナ
A man in a crowd from far said: "Come こ.む to see the comet! こ.める"
I jumped on my
scooter
and
entered
the crowded area to go in front
Written by: ケンパチ
A crowd of people
walked
into /
entered
the room.
Written by: エモ Kamyk
As I
entered
the
street
, I got included in the こむcommu-nity of people who pick up trash ゴミ、 み/ひとごみ - crowd of people
Written by: おおの
A huge crowd of people COME {こむ}
enter
the
yoga
studio everyday, so it gets crowded quickly.
Written by: ロールズ
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ もうしこみしょ - (noun) (written) application, application form
/ しこみづえ - (noun) swordstick, sword cane, loaded cane
/ しこみおけ - (noun) vat for making rice wine
/ きりこみたん - (noun) run-of-the-mine coal
む / こむ - (Godan verb - む/intransitive) to be crowded, to be packed, to be congested, to be thronged (with); to be complex, to be intricate; {suf} to go into, to go in, to put into (after -masu stem of verb); {suf} to become (completely) (after -masu stem of verb); {suf} to do thoroughly, to do sufficiently (after -masu stem of verb); {suf} to remain (silent, seated, etc.), to stay ... (after -masu stem of verb)
Kunyomi: さ.ます, さ.める, つめ.たい, ひ.える, ひ.や, ひ.やかす, ひ.やす
Onyomi: レイ
Stroke count: 7
Radical name: にすい
Radical
cool, cold (beer, person), chill
Mnemonics
The
law
says that beer has to be
ice
cold.
Written by: nexx
Show all mnemonics (17)
A
good
water
is a cold water
Written by: スキス イス
In
order
to cool down I drank two glasses of
water
.
Written by: espiacent
The
shaved
ice
is produced by
these blades
; it is a cold dessert trendy in summer {つめ}.
Written by: san-77
Phono-semantic: phonetic
“レイ” semantic
“ice”.

Ice
is cool by natural
law
.
Written by: フバフバ
"
Ice
will be レイnted from here on after" - this emperor's
decree
was for the sole purpose of assuring his cold lemonade every day.
Written by: hyperbolic_knight
It's
chilly
weather outside while
me
and my
ma
are warm
under a roof.
Written by: ソーサーペン
The
law
says that when it's hot, you should give some
ice
"to me" {つめ}. This helps keep me cool.
Written by: シニミニ
To keep your
water
cool, just
order
some *ice*.
Written by: Samurai_Ash
We're going out for
ice
cold drinks! Boss's
orders
Written by: BaldingEagle
The cold
water
is necessary in summer. That's my
law
!
Written by: ルイス
Let's
order
two
ice
cold beers
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Ha solo was
ordered
by Jabba the hut to be chilled and frozen in
ice
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
Those who give
orders
are as cold as
ice
Written by: Rilain
order
ice
to cool
Written by: コエル
The coming つ-nami め-y wash away all
laws
with its
cold
water.
Written by: mumei_
My
Ma
was speaking in a weird
accent
with a cold looking
person
while serving him a mug of overnight chilled beer with
ice
.
Written by: Mystery4869
{Rei} from NGE is always getting
orders
from higher-ups, so that’s why she’s so
cold
. Some teens think that’s cool, I guess… but that sort of person just gives me the chills!
Written by: しまうま
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ れいぞうこ - (noun) refrigerator, fridge
/ れいぼう - (noun/する verb) air conditioning, air cooling
/ れいせい - (Adjective/-な) calmness, composure, coolness, serenity, presence of mind
/ れいとう - (noun/する verb) freezing, cold storage, refrigeration
/ れいたん - (Adjective/-な) cool, indifferent, apathetic, half-hearted; cold, cold-hearted, heartless, unkind
Kunyomi: くら
Onyomi: ゾウ
Stroke count: 15
Radical name: くさかんむり
Radical
storehouse, hide, own, have, possess
Mnemonics
This storehouse is a
reed
coverd
shed
where the
retainers
store their
halberds
.
Written by: Karlla
Show all mnemonics (11)
I hide my
grass
in a cramped {くら} storehouse under the
cliff
where a
retainer
with a
halberd
guards it against Zorro {ゾウ}
Written by: Anonymous123
Via : overgrown
weeds
hide a secret cache /ソウ→ゾウ where
deadly
/ゾウ arms are kept under the eye of loyal
retainers
.
Homophone godown /ソウ.
As a not-so-loyal
retainer
, I sell weapons on the side. I possess a vast collection of
halberds
which I hide under an overhanging
cliff
. I conceal the entrance to this storehouse with tall
grass
. I've laid traps around the ZOne {ゾウ} of my storehouse to secure my weapons cache.
The
retainer
hides his
halberd
under the
grass
covered
cliff
in the storehouse he owns
Written by: ロニー88
Phono-semantic: phonetic “ソウ/ゾウ” semantic
“grass”. Additionally, the meaning is extrapolated to be a watchful retainer with a halberd hiding under the grass. Related to “granary” in etymology.

What is stored in a storehouse is hidden under
grass
under the watchful
eye
of an
armed
retainer
Written by: フバフバ
The storehouse is
overgrown
with
slaves
.
Written by: ジューリ
All of the millionaire’s valuables that he possesses are hidden in Osaka おさ in a storehouse under a
grassy
cliff
behind a
brick wall
so ソウ
no
丿
crime くら bosses can get their
hooks
into his money. Oops, I think he dropped a
coin
.
Written by: Jules.33
flower
Halberd
's
are kept in the storehouse and given to
retainers
when war starts.
Written by: チェイスです
Zou has a
grass
storehouse near a
cliff
on
retainer
to hide her
halberd
Written by: クリス
Underneath the
grassy
cliff
lies a secret store house where the reclusive billionaire keeps his
slaves
and weapons, including a rare and expensive collection of
halberds
Written by: tsubame.gaeshi
My own possessions have been hidden in a storehouse under the
grass
y
cliff
, secured by
halberd
and a
retainer
.
Written by: コエル
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ くら - (noun) warehouse, storehouse, cellar, magazine, granary, godown, depository, treasury, elevator
/ おおくら - (noun) Ministry of Finance
/ れいぞうこ - (noun) refrigerator, fridge
/ ちょぞう - (noun/する verb) storage, preservation
/ れいぞう - (noun/する verb) cold storage, refrigeration
Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: ,
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: まだれ
Radical
广
warehouse, storehouse
Mnemonics
A warehouse is where a
car
is safely stored under a
roof
广
Written by: Sviat
Show all mnemonics (8)
There's a cool {ク}, old {コ}
car
under a
canopy
广
in this warehouse.
Written by: Anonymous123
Everyone wants a WAREHOUSE as Batman does. Huge
CAVE
广
, where you can GARAGE your Bat
MOBILE
and STORE other cool things.
Written by: Abnormalise
This
one
warehouse on a
cliff
stores
cars
like a refrigerator. Its temperature settings go from cool {ク}, cold {コ}, and cooler {クラ}.
Written by: quickMaffs44
The *warehouse* under the
cliff
广
stores
cars
in the "cold"「KO コ」. Its temperature ranges from "cool"「KU ク」to "cooler"「KURA クラ」.
A warehouse is big enough to store
cars
under its
roof
广
.
Written by: non0230
A
canopy
广
is over your
car
because your car is in storage in a large storehouse.
Written by: しまうま
Compound phono-semantic ideogram: phonetic
广
“ク/コ” semantic
“carriage”. Is a cart stopped in a building.

Carts
are stopped at the warehouse
building
广
to unload.
Written by: フバフバ
The warehouse is a distribution center as well as a storehouse, a
building
广
frequented by haul
vehicles
/シャ, キョ← /t͡ɕʰi̯a/, /ki̯wo/ ← *kʰlja, *kla … *kʰaːs → /kʰuoᴴ/ →ク,コ.

is the only character that utilizes the secondary reading of , so it has often been misanalyzed. Shuowen incorrectly interprets it as an ideogrammic compound. Other authors have tried to make the radical a phonetic component.)
Related vocabulary
see all words
/ れいぞうこ - (noun) refrigerator, fridge
/ きんこ - (noun) safe, strongbox, cashbox, vault, strongroom; depository, cash office, treasury, provider of funds
/ くどう - (noun) {Buddh} temple kitchen
/ くり - (noun) {Buddh} temple kitchen, monastery kitchen; {Buddh} quarters of a head priest (and his family)
/ そうこ - (noun) storehouse, warehouse, godown
Loading the list




Loading the list
Lv.

Sorry, there was an error on renshuu! If it's OK, please describe what you were doing. This will help us fix the issue.

Characters to show:





Use your mouse or finger to write characters in the box.
■ Katakana ■ Hiragana