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Kanji Kentei - 1: Step 9 (20 terms)

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Kunyomi: (none)
Onyomi: タイ
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: やま
Radical
old name for a Chinese mountain, Taishan
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/ たいざん - (noun) great mountain, large mountain
Kunyomi: けわ.しい
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: やま
Radical
lofty
No related vocabulary.
Kunyomi: けわ.しい, たか.い
Onyomi: シュン
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: やまへん
Radical
high, steep
Mnemonics
A person with a
big nose and big legs
and even bigger ego dares to climb the steep
mountain
in
winter
.
Written by: こはく
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You should {シュン} have a a
license
to climb the high steep
mountain
in the
winter
Written by: かなキラ
When climbing a high and steep
mountain
it is important to
pace
/シュン yourself.
しい/けわしい precipitous
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/ けんしゅん - (Adjective/-な) steep, precipitous
/ しゅんげざい - (noun) drastic aperient
/ しゅんべつ - (noun/する verb) rigorous distinction
/ しゅんげん - (Adjective/-な) strict, stern, rigorous, severe
/ しゅんけん - (Adjective/-な) steep, precipitous
Kunyomi: みね
Onyomi: ホウ
Stroke count: 10
Radical name: やま
Radical
peak, summit
Mnemonics
I want to stay in
one
lodge on the
mountain
summit for
three
days this
winter
.
Written by: メイ_ヤミ
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/ みね - (noun) peak, summit, ridge, top; back of a blade
/ おおみねせき - (noun) {geol} ominelite
/ くものみね - (expression) clouds that stand like a mountain peak during the summer
/ れんぽう - (noun) mountain range
/ れいほじょしたんだい - (noun) {organization} Reiho Women's Junior College
Kunyomi: がけ
Onyomi: ガイ
Stroke count: 11
Radical name: やまへん
Radical
cliff, bluff, precipice
Mnemonics
Flip variant of /ガイ:
mountain
bluff
.
No related vocabulary.
Kunyomi: かさ, かさ.む, たか.い
Onyomi: シュウ, スウ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: やま
Radical
be aggravated, grow worse, grow bulky, swell
Mnemonics
If you add a
mountain
on top of something already
tall
it swells and grows bulky
Written by: FoeNyx
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Because my wife, Sue {スウ}, buys so many
expensive
shoes {シュウ}, our bills are piling up as tall as a
mountain
. Our debts are growing worse, and I am becoming aggravated.
Same word as /スウ,シュウ:
mountain
pine is
lofty
. In Japanese, there is a shift in meaning from height to volume かさ, as well as a change in emphasis towards increasing volume かさむ: grow bulky, swell, be aggravated, grow worse.
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る / かさばる - (Godan verb - る (ます = stem+ります)/intransitive) to be bulky, to be unwieldy, to grow voluminous
/ かさ - (noun) bulk, volume, quantity
/ すうこう - (noun) {arch} lofty (of a mountain), tall
げ / かさあげ - (noun/する verb) raising (an embankment, levee, etc.); increasing (a budget, fees, etc.), raising, inflating (figures), padding (an expense account, bill, etc.)
い / かさだかい - (Adjective/-い) bulky, unwieldy; haughty, high-handed
Kunyomi: けわ.しい
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: やま
Radical
high, towering, irregular, rugged
No related vocabulary.
Kunyomi: しま
Onyomi: トウ
Stroke count: 14
Radical name: やまへん
Radical
island
Mnemonics
A piece of
mountainous
terrain, surrounded by the ocean. Only
those who bear wings
could access this land.
Written by: non0230
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/ しま - (noun) island; one's territory (of a sex worker, organized crime gang, etc.), one's turf
/ おおやしまぐに - (noun) {arch} Japan (ancient name appearing in the Kojiki)
/ おおやしまのくに - (noun) {arch} Japan (ancient name appearing in the Kojiki)
Kunyomi: みね
Onyomi: リョウ, レイ
Stroke count: 17
Radical name: やま
Radical
peak, summit
Mnemonics
Everything below the
mountain
peaks was part of my
dominion
during my reign{レイ}. It was all mine{みね}.
Written by: Anonymous123
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Minnie
みね
and Rey
レイ
rose
リョウ
to the summit, allowing them to begin their
reign
on the
mountain
peak.
Written by: Cayuga
リョウ of +
That
mountain
peak is not the
president’s domain
, it’s MINE.
Written by: Akagekurage
Mountain
peaks in a ridge that encircles their
dominion
/レイlike a collar. Used especially for the Wuling aka Nanling mountains in southern China. The historical kun’yomi ね became みね by incorporating the honorific prefix .
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/ みね - (noun) peak, summit, ridge, top; back of a blade
/ ふじのみね - (noun) ring name of a sumo wrestler (name)
/ ちゅうおうかいれい - (noun) mid-ocean ridge, midocean ridge
/ かんれい - (noun) the Hakone Mountains
/ みねざくら - (noun) Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica)
Kunyomi: いわ, いわお, がけ, けわ.しい
Onyomi: ガン
Stroke count: 20
Radical name: やま
Radical
rock, crag, boulder
Mnemonics
You have to be
Stern
faced and
Daring
to climb a Crag on a
Mountain
or a tall Boulder
Written by: Somic
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The
mountain
crag is
severe
/ガン and foreboding, strewn with rocks and boulders.
The rock that fell from
shining
mountain
cliff
caused a
tragic
accident
Written by: ラビオリ
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/ いわ - (noun) rock, boulder; crag
/ いわお - (noun) {poet} huge rock, massive boulder
/ きがん - (noun) steep, towering rock
/ いわかげ - (noun) shade of a rock
/ きがん - (noun) strangely shaped large rock, large rock of unusual shape
Kunyomi:
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 3
Radical name: おのれ
Radical
sign of the snake or serpent, 9-11AM, sixth sign of Chinese zodiac
Mnemonics
She{シ} told me{み} that if you take things too far*, you will soon find your
self
becoming a snake. *alluding to the last stroke of the kanji
Written by: Anonymous123
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Originally depicted a fetus or swaddled
baby
/シ. Confounded with
comma design
, aka “huge snake,” to become the sign of the snake, the sixth zodiac sign. Beware the radical , which is neither a component, a semantic hint, nor a guide to pronunciation.
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/ - (noun) the Snake (sixth sign of the Chinese zodiac), the Serpent; {obs} hour of the Snake (around 10am, 9-11am, or 10am-12 noon); {obs} south-southeast; {obs} fourth month of the lunar calendar
/ はつみ - (noun) first Serpent day of the year
/ ていし - (noun) Fire Snake (54th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1917, 1977, 2037)
/ じょうし - (noun) Doll's Festival (March 3), Girls' Festival, Peach Festival
/ いこみき - (expression) all the same (from the similarity of the characters)
Kunyomi: うずまき, ともえ
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 4
Radical name: おのれ
Radical
comma-design
Mnemonics
ともえ is a
comma-design
with one, two, or three commas swirling around in a circle. Three is most common, but this kanji only has room for two dots {open squares at the top of the kanji} representing comma heads.
Written by: こはく
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ハ、the
comma design
looks like a nice, cozy bed.
zzz...
Written by: choco!! (チョコ)
He is so infatuated with "two moe"「TOMOE ともえ」girls that he goes
bugeyed
and
slack jawed
whenever he sees them. His gaping mouth looks like a "spiral = うずまき"「UZUMAKI うずまき」*comma-design*. It always makes me laugh, "ha-ha-ha"「HA ハ」!
The emblems were comma shaped and the
color had no shark fin pigment*
. *color had no shark fin pigment = color - finク
Written by: Anonymous123
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/ ともえ - (noun) tomoe, heraldic design composed of two or more interlocked comma-shaped figures
コーポレーション / ともえコーポレーション - (noun) {organization} Tomoe Corporation
/ はじん - (noun) uneducated bumpkin, resident of ancient Sichuan
/ はたんきょう - (noun) plum, almond
/ ヨーロッパ - (noun) Europe
Kunyomi: ちまた
Onyomi: コウ
Stroke count: 9
Radical name: おのれ
Radical
fork in road, scene, arena, theater
Mnemonics
In a dramatic scene, the main characters are at a fork in the road and must choose whether to stay
together
or split up and continue by them
selves
.
Written by: gillianfaith
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A fork in the road is a scene where other hands come
together
/コウ to interact with the
self
in a kind of street theater.

ちまた may refer to /Qi of the 5 dynasties and the battle arena of the immediate area around its capital Fengxiang in Shaanxi.
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/ しゅらのちまた - (noun) scene of carnage
/ ちまたでわだい - (expression) much-talked-about, recently popular, in vogue
/ こうせつ - (noun) gossip, talk about town
/ こうだん - (noun) rumour, rumor, gossip
/ こうかん - (noun) on the street, around town, the world, the public
Kunyomi: たつみ
Onyomi: ソン
Stroke count: 12
Radical name: おのれ
Radical
southeast
Mnemonics
Two odd-looking
selves
can't decide whether to go south or west, so they go southwest
together
.
Written by: こはく
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Via : two people
kneeling
together
at a table laden with lots of food.

Name of the trigram ☴/xùn→ソン, the Gentle first daughter of the ground, who rides the wind through the air to the wood in the southeast /たつみ, midway between the dragon and snake .

Do not confuse with /セン.
(*sqʰuːns)
A
Snake Couple
is living
Together
in the SOUTHEAST
Written by: ハンゾウ
Two hungry
snakes
went East on a
path
together
by themselves
and read a
sign
of a restaurant southeast, which they reached in eight
minutes on a
road
.
Written by: vRaphy
Related vocabulary
/ たつみ - (noun) southeast
/ そん - (noun) xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)
/ そんい - (noun) southeast
Kunyomi: かきもの
Onyomi: ジョウ, チョウ
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: はばへん,きんべん
Radical
quire (of paper), bundle of seaweed, counter for screens, notebook
Mnemonics
The
fortune-telling
said to get a bundle of seaweed to receive a free
towel
.
Written by: メイ_ヤミ
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/ じょう - (noun) folding book; {ctr} counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); {ctr} counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; {ctr} counter for pairs (of curtains); {ctr} counter for tatami mats
/ ほうじょう - (noun) copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy
/ てちょう - (noun) notebook, memo pad, (pocket) diary; {abbr} certificate; {abbr} identification card
/ しゃせいちょう - (noun) sketchbook
ネタ / ネタちょう - (noun) idea notebook (e.g. used by a comedian); notebook recording the day's performances (kept in an entertainment hall's backstage to prevent repeated stories)
Kunyomi: ほろ
Onyomi: コウ
Stroke count: 13
Radical name: はばへん,きんべん
Radical
canopy, awning, hood, curtain
Mnemonics
An awning is
cloth
that mimics a
clear
/コウ sunny day by keeping the rain from falling under its canopy.
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A
cloth
to block the
sun
light
is a canopy
Written by: ロニー88
My co-worker's{コウ} horoscope{ほろ} said to avoid the
sun's
rays
in Sapporo. So he used a
towel
as a canopy.
Written by: Anonymous123
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/ ほろべつこう - (noun) {geol} horobetsuite
/ ほろまんこう - (noun) {geol} horomanite
/ ほろばしゃ - (noun) covered wagon, prairie schooner
/ ほろ - (noun) canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it), awning, top (of a convertible), hood; helmet cape, cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle
/ ほろがや - (noun) tent-shaped mosquito net (often used to protect infants)
Kunyomi: はた
Onyomi: ハン, ホン, マン
Stroke count: 15
Radical name: はばへん,きんべん
Radical
flag
Mnemonics
Turn
this
towel
on the other side and you'll have a flag.
Take eight of them and you'll summon a Hachiman {Japanese God of War}.
Written by: Ringotoki
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A flag is a
banner
carried in battle to keep the troops
in order
/バン→マン.
We
separate
the
fields
with
cloth
flags
Written by: ロニー88
There’s a
cloth
FLAG hanging
over
丿
the
rice
paddy
Written by: Jules.33
Phono-semantic: Phonetic
“マン、ハン、バン、ホン” Semantic
“cloth”

In an army the flags are hanging
cloth
which appear in a
series
Written by: フバフバ
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/ はた - (noun) flag; {Buddh} pataka (banner)
/ やはただいがく - (noun) {organization} Yahata University
/ はちまんぐう - (noun) Shrine of the God of War
/ はちまん - (adverb) {abbr} Hachiman (God of War); {abbr} Hachiman shrine; {adv} {arch} certainly
/ はちまんだいぼさつ - (noun) Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)
Kunyomi: いなか, むらざと
Onyomi: ショウ, ソウ
Stroke count: 6
Radical name: まだれ
Radical
广
level, in the country, manor, village, hamlet
Mnemonics
So {ソウ / ソ} I can escape the
pressure
of city life, I like to spend a
bit
of time at my manorin the country. And I often show {ショウ} up at my local pub to unwind with my neighbors in the village.
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That tiny
speck
you can see on top of the
cliff
is a manor overlooking all the
grounds
in the countryside.
Written by: こはく
In the country, there's a village on the
ground
level under the
cliff
广
Written by: Robdeprop
Via /ショウ: a manor is a
house
广
in the country where you can commune with the
earth
.
A shou was an administrative district in Taiwan when it was under Japanese rule. The level meaning may be borrowed from the homograph .
Villages are basically a bunch of
houses
广
and roads, which are basically pieces of
dirt
.
Written by: non0230
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/ しょうえん - (noun) manor, demesne
/ しょうかん - (noun) {hist} administrator of a manor; {hist} village headman (Edo period)
/ そう - (noun, suffix) manor, villa
/ しょうや - (noun) {hist} village headman (esp. in the Kansai region)
/ しょうやけん - (noun) shōya-ken, kitsune-ken, game similar to rock, paper, scissors, played with hand gestures representing a fox, hunter and village headman
Kunyomi: かば.う, ひさし
Onyomi:
Stroke count: 7
Radical name: まだれ
Radical
广
protect, shield, defend, eaves, canopy, penthouse, visor
Mnemonics
An
overhang
广
ひさし protects かばう
those
/ヒ who hide おおう to seek shelter beneath.
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A cover, or
a cave?
かばうs
two people
. I think of かばう as to cover, as in to take a hit to protect someone. Don't ask if its etymological, not sure yet.
Written by: Harly
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/ かばいて - (noun) {sumo} rule allowing the clear winner of a bout to touch down first to avoid injury
/ ひさしがみ - (noun) {rare} classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle
/ ひいん - (noun) {obs} protection, shield; {obs} shadow of eaves (orig. meaning)
う / かばう - (Godan verb - う/transitive) to protect (someone), to look after (e.g. an injured leg), to defend, to cover for, to stand up for, to stick up for
/ ひご - (noun/する verb) patronage, protection
Kunyomi: かのえ
Onyomi: コウ
Stroke count: 8
Radical name: まだれ
Radical
广
7th, 7th calendar sign
Mnemonics
Depicts a flail or threshing device in the 7th heavenly
house
广
wielded
/ケイ→コウ against a
person
. Think of a punishment of seven lashes to remember this.

The 7th heavenly stem was tied to the evening star and has the modern meaning of a person’s age. It is also associated with the yang /え aspect of elemental metal /か, yielding かのえ. As the seventh point on the twelve-point compass, it is directly opposite the first point in the East, with the corresponding cardinal direction being the West 西.
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/ かのえ - (noun) 7th in rank, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar
/ かのえね - (noun) Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
/ どうこう - (noun) {arch} same age
/ こうしんづか - (noun) roadside standing stone dedicated to the Buddhist deity Shōmen Kongō (usu. also engraved with the three wise monkeys)
ち / こうしんまち - (noun) {Buddh} {hist} kōshin-machi, staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle to prevent the three worms that were said to inhabit the human gut from reporting one's wrongdoings to the gods; a tradition that began among nobility in the Heian period and became widespread during the Edo period
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