Person (pa-so) Com (ko-n)
Personal Computer

I have NO power cord (ー) for my PC!

PASOKON, the personal computer (PC) brand.

From Wiktionary:
(Colloquial) Ellipsis of 携帯電話 (けいたいでんわ / portable phone)

The word 持参する (持参) is used when you bring or carry something with you to a specific place or event. It implies that you are intentionally bringing an item for a particular purpose or occasion. For example, if you are going to a friend's house for dinner and you bring a bottle of wine as you would use 持参する. Another example is when you bring your own food or drinks toluck gathering.

On the other hand 携帯する (携帯) is used when you carry something with you for personal use or convenience. It is often associated with carrying small personal items, such as a mobile phone, wallet, or keys. '携' implies that you have these items with you at all times for your own convenience or emergency situations. For example, if you always carry your your pocket or bag, you would use 携帯する. Another example is when you carry a small umbrella in your bag in case it rains.

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At the same time, 携行する (携行) is essentially 携帯 but used mainly in written speech.

Your friend texts "you can decide on lunch for us" and so you respond "k, Thai!"

i'm bringing a businessman his things. i'm *carrying* his CASE (けい), TIE (たい) and *mobile phone*.

You can read the (けいさい) on your (けいたい).

Kanji: On the far left is a selfie stick with a cell phone attached to it, which has a pendant at the bottom. On the right is someone who needs four arms because he is always on his cell phone.

Kay (けい) is tied (たい) to carrying her phone.

I carry a portable 携 CELL PHONE in my pocket near the belt 帯

J from Men in Black is /carrying/ K's tie (けいたい), his (cell phone), and that stick that erases memories. Why can't K carry it all himself?

Tai Kei - sounds like "carry phone/device" in chinese.

There's a japanese company called cateye.
They produce bicycle-lights and accessories.
One of these accessories is a mount for your けいたい。

A device with keys (keyi) you can type (ty) on.

電話をする = to make a phone call
電話をかける= to call someone

Someone's telling someone what to do on the phone. "Then what?" (Denwa), the man replies.

Electric Speech (referring to the kanji)

Pick up the TELEPHONE!! A call's coming from Denver... (でんわ).

"Phone Ed" to remind you but in reverse:
dE-en-oh...Ah!! now i get it what you meant by in revese!
(P switched to Ah)

she lives in でんmark, my わfu (wife), I call her often.

Let's combine electricity 電 and conversation 話.
Then what「でんわ」? We'll get a telephone 電話!

Denwa is talk electronically through a phone call.

Kanji: 電 + 話
(Electricity + Talk)

A photo camera

It sounds like camera when you say it

Looks like somebody Swiping to grab a camera

The kanji is reminiscent of the basic make-up of a car as seen from above: one vertical drive shaft intersected horizontally by two axles front and back, with a passenger compartment (rectangle) consisting of two front and two back "seats" (smaller rectangles) between them.

Ku Roooooooma

Car + Rooooom! " Kuruma!

GTA players know the Japanese Karin kuruma? (くるま) - it's based off a mitsubishi lancer, a Japanese car

The Kanji looks like a top down view of a busy intersection, with a lot of cars.

Looks like the grill of a car coming straight at us

Your mom gets you one of those children’s Car beds for your room. “WOW! What a COOl ROOm, MA!” くるま

A guru (kuru) who is also a magician (ma). His favorite trick? Making a car appear out of thin air!

"Kimchi's Uncle Rates Ugly **Machines** accurately," where KURUMA stands for the striking qualities of Uncle kimchi.

Your mom lives in a car. You come to her and say “cool room, ma!” (くるま)

the kanji looks like the wheel of a car as seen from above♪

Kuroma sounds a lot like a vroom vroom sound

The word くるま (車) is very old and originally referred to wheeled vehicles in general. Over time, what it pointed to changed—in earlier periods it would mean oxcarts (牛車), later rickshaws (人力車), and today it usually means "car".

One common explanation connects くるま to the root くる ("to turn" or "spin", as in くるくる) combined with わ (輪, "wheel"). The exact sound change (わ → ま) isn't completely certain, but the idea reflects how closely the concept of rotation is tied to the word.

Even now, the broader meaning survives in words like 車いす (wheelchair).

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

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

時計: time measure
土圭: earth angle (sundial)

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

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

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

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

時 time とき
計 measuring device けい

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

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

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

A clock goes tick tokei

In kpop slang, it also means fan of a specific group or artist. While Japanese has the word ファン, ペン uses the pronunciation for the word for fan in Korean, 팬.

Sounds like "Pen"

"A pencil" in an accent

Literally “lead brush”. 鉛/えん 筆/ひつ
Although neither a brush nor made of lead, a pencil lead can write like a brush.
(Incidentally, it’s called pencil lead because it’s soft like lead, not because it contains lead. It used to be the case that the yellow paint was made with lead, but that changed quite some time ago. So it’s safe to chew on your pencils now, although still not recommended.)

A pencil is "an pizza".
You eat "an pizza" with a pencil, using it like a chopstick.

You have a nice pencil. I enbi (envy) tsu (you)

For Italians "'npizzu" means near the tip

The speech (えんぜつ) was written in pencil (えんぴつ)

Bob isn’t using the correct Pencil. End Bob’s test now. ENd PETE’S TOO! えんぴつ. Number two pencils only, people! How many times do I have to say it?!

けす (erase) + ゴム (gum/rubber)

Kay (け), she (し) likes gummy (ゴム) erasers.

Even though it’s easy to remember that books used to be made in the shape of scrolls, and so the counter is for cylindrical/scroll-shaped objects, as a noun 本 refers to flat bound books and NOT scrolls. Odd!

本 is the most common word for books, and can include other types of printed material that English speakers may not consider books.

書籍 also means book but in the more traditional sense of a bound volume. Less common but can also be used in place of 本.

図書 is rarely used alone to mean “book” and is most commonly used in compound words like library, 図書館, or educational books, 教育図書.

本 and 図書 are related to book but, 本 is a more general term used to talk about any kind of individual book while 図書 is more to talk about collections of books, often in the context libraries (as in 図書館), educational collection of books or other types of collections of books.

Also used for counting copies of video games.

Hon your knowledge with a book.

Books are made of paper, which is made of trees (木) that have been chopped down (本).

I HONor books

HON'(ほん), I've got a new BOOK for you!📖😆

I have a TRANSLATION ほんやく of the secret book ほん of the Yakuza やく, and I need help DECODING it. I promise やく to burn やく it afterwards, because it’s bad luck やく.

You have to cut a tree (木) down at the base to make a book (本).

The w(hyou)le (ほん) is full of SPECIMENS & EXAMPLES.

U need a pen ( long and thin )to write on a (本) book
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本=ほん (book)

辞 = words/ term/ expression
書 = write/ written

A dictionary is a collection of written words

字引 seems to be more old fashioned than either 辞書 or 辞典.

When referring to a dictionary in Japanese, 辞書 (jisho) seems to be the most popular and common way of referring to a dictionary. I think you're more likely to hear 辞書 be used in daily conversations, among other similar terms.

辞典 (jiten) I've heard, is said to be refer to a more technical/formal dictionary, one more categorized and comprehensive towards a specific field. You'd probably see this term on the title of published dictionaries. However, DO NOT CONFUSE 辞典 (jiten) with 事典 (also jiten), which is an encyclopedia. Notice the use of 事, which means "thing", so 事典 is about a lot of things, in other words an encyclopedia. 辞, on the other hand, means "words", so 辞典 is about a lot of words, or in other words, a dictionary.

字引 (jibiki) is often said to be the "old-fashioned" term to refer to a dictionary, and the least used of the terms. Really however, 字引 specifically refers to a dictionary to look up or index specific characters like Kanji. Hence, the 字 (character) and the 引 (to pull).

In general, I believe it's okay to just use 辞書, 辞典, and 字引 interchangeably most of the time to refer to a "dictionary", and the point will still come across. The main exception I can think of is 生き字引 (the expression "walking dictionary"), in which you'd only use 字引.

The most known online Japanese dictionary is Jisho.org. If you've ever used it, then you should easily remember this word.

(GEE)z, I'll (SHO)w you the dictionary!

Geez show me the dictionary I can't believe it's spelled that way

The DICTIONARY has many words 辞 written 書 in it

辞 looks like a couple of keys (for locks). So, 辞書 is the keys to writing (書), a dictionary!

Dictionaries (辞書) じしょ are found in small nooks by Librarians (司書) ししょ

The company is quiet-firing me; they tasked me to write 書 a dictionary 辞書. I'm over it; I quit 辞.

Geez じ, they're forcing me to resign?!
Grr, I'll show しょ them: I'll put all the words from the dictionary in my resignation letter.
It'll serve them right!

The kanjis being for resign 辞 + write 書

新　new
聞　hear, listen, ask
Did you hear the latest news? They wrote about it in the newspaper

Have you heard of the newspaper that shines their buns? Yeah, it's called Sheen Bun.

The newspaper is where you find the obituary of people who しね

The first part of the word is "new" like in Atarashii ( 新しい ) and the second part looks like a big paper for the "news" to go on it.

My shins turned into buns (shin-bun). It was so crazy they put it on the newspapers.

Naruto made his (kage)bunshin read the shinbun to him.

In the newspaper there's a lot of SHI..(し) n'(ん) 💥Boom💥(ぶん) (Credit to my high school teacher)

OW! I bang my SHIN 新 on a big BUΝ 聞 dle of newspapers.

kanji: new + hear; tabloids/newspapers are just NEW HEARSAY you're forced to listen to

ZASSHI, What a SASSY article they wrote about her in that magazine.

A journal is a collecting of miscellaneous 雑 documents 誌.

ZASSHI's have a lot of SHASHIN's 📸

Za sheets of paper have the news on them

There are many categories of books in a library. However, magazines and journals don't fit, so they are lumped together as miscellaneous 雑 documents 誌.

She is pictured with her SASH IN the MAGAZINE

GAtta see the TSU SHI in this magazine

名 = name
刺 = calling card

Mei I Shi your business card?

This business card is Meishi (messy)

"Meishi" sounds like "may she".

Imagine someone handing over their business card and saying, "May she give you her card?", as they introduce themselves.

It is believed that めいし were first used in Japan either just before or just after the beginning of the Meiji period (meishi/Meiji).

Name 名 calling card 刺 (name wrapped up on a small cutting of paper made from trees).

My business card is about:
め いn my しgoto.

The person wearing that hat is very ぼうし (bossy)

I ほしい your ぼうし

Her hat had a bow (ぼう), she(し) loved it!

The ball- she! She took it!

The cap (帽) wearing child(子) is named Boshi

Look at my bushy hat!!

Japanese hats are known to stave off ghosts because they have a hidden layer of ぼおしeld integrated in their fabric.
They look like ぼうts you put on your head.