[人|person]
[乂|sheaf]
[側|side]
[皿|dish]
[拳|fist] 
[隷|slave]
[街|boulevard]
[郭|enclosure]
[欄|column] 
[鳥|bird]
[体|body] 
[脳|brain]
[筋|muscle] 
[指|finger]
[冠|crown]
[鼻|nose] 
[包|wrap]
[馬|horse] 
[寝|lie down] 
[座|sit] 
[卆|90]
[冫|ice]
[花|flower]
[屋|roof]
[家|house]
[風|wind]
[藻|seaweed] 
[丶|drop]
[水|water] 
[地|ground]
[戈|fiesta]
[歩|walk]
[域|range]
[夂|walking legs||@wlegs]
[兌|currency exchange]
[傘|umbrella] 
[剣|saber]
[語|word] 
[頭|head]
[陸|land]
[針|needle]
[一|one] [||One] horizontal line.
[二|two] [||Two] horizontal lines.
[三|three] [||Three] horizontal lines.
[儿|human legs]
[四|four] When you are [] years old, you often put your [儿|legs] in your [口|mouth].
[五|five] [] #TODO
[六|six] [] #TODO
[七|seven] [] looks like a 7 rotated 180 degrees.
[八|eight] "Hachi" ([]) begins with the sound of the katakana "ha", and it's approximately the same character.
[八|animal legs][儿|human legs] As radicals, we define and distinguish between [八|animal legs] and [儿|human legs].
[九|nine] [||Nine] kind of looks like the [八|eight] and the [|one] kanji added together.
[十|ten] [||Ten] in roman numerals (X) rotated 45 degrees.
[口|mouth||@mouth] Looks like a large open [].
[日|day] #TODO []
[月|month] #TODO []
[田|rice field] A [|rice field] divided into four parts.
[田|brain||@brain]
[目|eye] Pictograph of an []: 目_目.
[古|old] Pictograph: [] looks like a [@mouth||gravestone] with a [十|cross] on top.
[吾|I] [|I] perceive the world and my own existence through the [|five] senses, or [|mouth|mouths]
[冒|risk] It is [||risky] for your [|eye] to stare directly into the [日|sun].
[朋|companion] Good [||companions] are like two [|moon|moons] in the sky.
[明|bright] [] like the [|sun] and the [月|moon].
[日|tongue sticking out]
[唱|chant] A [] performed by three [|mouth|mouths], two of which are singing (you can see the [|tongue sticking out|tongues sticking out]).
[晶|sparkle] A [] has at least three times the [|sun]'s intensity.
[品|goods] You can see the three hungry [|mouth|mouths] waiting for the [] to arrive.
[呂|spine] [] looks like two vertebrae.
[昌|prosperous] What could be more [] than having two [|sun|suns] in the sky?
[早|early] [] graphically looks like a [|sun]flower.
[旭|rising sun] The [|sun] is a [] at about [|nine|9] AM.
[世|generation] One [] is approximately 30 years. That is, three [|ten|tens].
[胃|stomach] The [|rice field] is harvested once a [|month] to get food for our [].
[旦|nightbreak] [] is [|sun|Sun] over horizon.
[胆|gall bladder] I work every day of the [|month] starting at [|nightbreak]. My new job conditions really activate my [] (i.e. make me angry).
[亘|span] The completion of [旦|nightbreak] with a line on top to indicate the end marks the [] of one [|day].
[凹|concave] [] is [].
[凸|convex] [] is [].
[丨|walking stick] Pictograph of a [].
[旧|olden times] I didn't have to use a [|walking stick] every [|day] back in the [旧|old days].
[自|oneself] One puts a mark above one's [|eye] in order to tell between other people and [].
[白|white] [] is the color of the [|sun]. 
[百|hundred] My roommate is a smoker, so I've had to repaint the [一|ceiling] [|white] a [] times.
[中|in] Pocky (vertical line) goes [] the [|mouth].
[千|thousand] [|one|One] + T = one [].
[舌|tongue] A [] is spoken by a [|thousand] [|mouth|mouths].
[升|measuring box] Is this worth a [|thousand] or just [|ten]? I'll have to get my [].
[昇|rise up] I use my [升] to measure my salary, which has [||risen up] so much that it reaches into the sky all the way to the [|sun]. Note: this does not mean to "get up" or "awake".
[丸|round] [|nine|Nine] plus a [|drop] [||rounds] it off to ten!
[寸|measurement][寸|glue] [寸|glue|Glue] two sticks together to make the best []. (As a primitive, this is often used as "[|glue]").
[肘|elbow] Sometimes I work so hard my forearm snaps off at the []! When that happens, I simply use a special [月|flesh] [寸|glue] to reattach it.
[専|specialty] If you've worked [|ten] [|rice field|rice fields], that's a good [|measurement] of your [].
[博|Dr.] To become a [] you need [|ten] [|specialty|specialties]. Use the period in "Dr." to remember the extra drop on [|specialty].
[占|fortune-telling] A [||fortune-teller] uses their [卜|wand|magic wand] to learn of the future, and then tells us the result with their [|mouth].
[上|above] A [卜|wand] sticking [] the ground.
[下|below] A [卜|wand] hanging [] the [一|ceiling].
[卓|eminent] The [] wizard gets up [|early] to practice magic with his [卜|wand].
[⿱十早|mist] (Primitive) If you want to see [], you better go out [|early|earlier] than [|ten] o'clock.
[朝|morning] [] is when the [|mist] is clearing up and the [|moon] is becoming less prominent.
[嘲|derision] Showing up with [|morning] breath ([|mouth]) is just asking for [].
[只|only] Imagine an animal with [] a [|mouth] and [|animal legs|legs]. It would probably be the [] one of its kind.
[貝|shellfish] Stare at the [], it looks like an [|eye] with [|animal legs|legs].
[唄|pop song] A [] is something a singer performs with their [|mouth] in order to earn many [貝|money|seashells].
[貞|upright] It would take a [|wand|magic wand] for a [|shellfish] to stand [].
[員|employee] If you're an [] here you better [|shellfish|clam up] (shut your [|mouth]).
[貼|post a bill or affix] A singer will be performing a [|pop song] next week, the [|fortune-telling|fortune-teller] predicted it! By which I mean I saw someone [||post a bill] announcing it.
[見|see] An [|eye] with [|legs|human legs]'s main activity is [||seeing] things.
[児|newborn babe] Back in the [|olden times|old days], [児||newborn babies] came out [|legs] first.
[元|beginning] Bitmap (.BMP) files load from bottom to top. So if you're looking at someone's picture over a slow connection, you'll see their [|legs] in the [] with an empty space (二) above.
[頁|page] [|one|One] [|drop] of ink from a [|shellfish] can fill a whole [].
[頁|head||@head] 
[頑|stubborn] The [] student finally gave in and opened their textbook, but refuses to go past the [|beginning|first] [|page].
[几|wind||@wind]
[@wind||wind (radical)] [] #TODO
[凡|mediocre] Nothing's more [] than a [丶|drop] of piss in the [@wind].
[負|defeat] What best to represent [] than a [勹|bound] [|shellfish]?
[万|ten thousand] I [|bound] [] dollars together and hid it under the [一|floor].
[句|phrase] Some japanese [||phrases] are hard to [勹|wrap] your [|mouth] around.
[肌|texture] When your [|flesh] is exposed to [@wind] it becomes [||textured] as you get goosebumps.
[旬|decameron] A [] is ten [勹|bound|bound-up] [|day|days].
[勺|ladle] A [] is what [勹|bound|binds] [|drop|drops] together.
[的|bull's eye] A [] is a [|white] [|drop] [|bound] to a target.
[首|neck] The V shape is your [] on top of your collar bone, or the straight line. [|oneself|Yourself], or the rest of your body is below that!
[乙|fish guts] You cut a fish in a "Z" shape on the belly to make it easier to open the fish and rip out its [] silly!
[乱|riot] The riot police broke up the [] by dragging the rioters away by their [|tongue|tongues] with [乚|fishhook|fishhooks].
[十|needle||@needle]
[直|straightaway] If you get a [@needle] or a [|fishhook] in your [|eye] you should get that looked at []!
[具|tool] I got tired of people borrowing my [||tools] and not returning them, so I installed a camera shaped like a huge [|eye] above my workbench (the lower part of this kanji).
[真|true][真|truth] A compass is a [@needle||needled] [|tool] that points to the [] north.
[工|craft] The most essential of [||crafts] is construction, which uses [工|I-beam].
[⿻一丿|side||@side]
[左|left] We use the [] [@side] of the brain for creating thinking and the [|craft|crafts].
[右|right] We use our [] ([@side]) hand to eat ([|mouth]).
[有|possess] [||possessed] by Earth's gravity, the [|moon] stays by its [@side].
[賄|to finance] In order [] effectively, your must have many [貝|money|seashells] in your [|possess|possession].
[貢|tribute] Here is a [] to the poor [|shellfish] who got crushed by an [工|I-beam].
[項|paragraph] [||Paragraphs] is what you use to [|craft] a [|page].
[刀|sword] This [] is so sharp, it can cut the top part of 「カ」 off in 「カタナ」.
[刃|blade] This refers specifically to the [] of the [|sword], where a [|drop] of blood often ends up.
[切|cut] This bread is so old, I broke [|seven] [|sword|swords] trying to [] it!
[召|seduce] To [] is to weaponize ([刀||swordify]) your [|mouth].
[昭|shining] [] is the [|sun]'s [|seduce|seduction].
[則|rule] The rich ([貝|money|seashells]) and powerful ([⺉|sword]) make the [|rule|rules].
[畐|rich] (Primitive) [|rich|Richness] is when [|one] [|mouth] eats from an entire [|rice field].
[⺉|saber||@saber]
[副|vice-] The []president is usually [畐|rich] and powerful ([@saber|sword]).
[別|separate] A wise old samurai keeps his hostages (with their [|mouth|mouths] [|bound] up to keep them quiet) in a [] room from his [@saber||sabers]. Putting them together would be a silly mistake.
[丁|street] Two [||streets] make a T-intersection.
[町|village] The [] is so tiny it's just a [|rice field|rice field] on the left and a [|street] on the right.
[可|can] A [|mouth] on the [|street] asking for things: "[||Can] I get some help?! [||Can] I get directions, [||Can] I have some money? [||Can] you please speak English?!".
[頂|place on the head] If I put a [|street] sign on my [@head] what do I get? A []!
[子|child] A pictograph of a [], with arms outstretched for mother.
[孔|cavity] The [|child] has a []. He is now sitting in the dentist's office, afraid of the [乚|hook]-like tools.
[了|complete] The [|child] was born in[] without any arms!
[女|woman] My mother taught me that a [] should always sit with her legs crossed (but the arms can be stretched out). To remember the order of strokes, remember a female ninja is called a "kunoichi". That is, く(hiragana) ノ(katakana) 一(kanji, ichi=one).
[好|fond] A [|woman] is [] of her [|child].
[如|likeness] From a [|woman]'s other [@mouth] comes a baby with a perfect [].
[母|mama] This [] had twins, one [@mouth] for each nipple.
[貫|pierce] Such is the tragic story of [|mama] [|shellfish] who was [||pierced] to make an earring.
[兄|elder brother] My [] eats so much he's basically a [|mouth] on [|legs].
[呪|curse] My troublesome [兄] got himself [||cursed] by a neighbor. (This refers to a spell, not swearing.)
[克|overcome] [|ten] [兄||elder brothers] can [] anything.
[小|little] [] looks like a cute [] penguin.
[少|few] Only a [] people can make an ugly face like that.
[大|large] A man extending his arms and legs trying to look [].
[多|many] I've spent two/too [] [夕||evenings] memorizing kanji.
[夕|evening] The [] is young, the [|moon] is not full.
[氵|water||@water]
[@water||water (radical)] Pictograph: a few drops of [].
[汐|eventide] [] is [@water] in the [|evening].
[外|outside] In the [|evening] I practice magic with my [|wand] [].
[名|name] In the [|evening] it's so dark you can't tell people apart, so instead of your eyes you have to call their [] with your [|mouth]. 
[石|stone] Pictograph: someone took a large [] out of the [|cliff], and [@mouth||this] is what is left behind.
[肖|resemblance] Using DNA matching, a very little bit of [|flesh] can be used to show the [] between family members.
[硝|nitrate] That [|stone] has [肖|spark|sparks] coming out of it! Someone must have poured [] on it.
[砕|smash] To [] a [|stone] you have to hit it [|nine] or [|ten] times.
[砂|sand] [] is good when [|stone|stones] are [|few].
[妬|jealous] The [] [|woman] has a [|stone] in her hand, better start running.
[削|plane] [|spark|sparks] come out when I [] my [|sword].
[光|ray] A [] of light is not a wave but made of [|little] photons with [@hl-legs|human legs].
[太|plump] A [|large] person with a big [|drop] of sweat dripping off of him because he is so [].
[器|utensil] Four hungry [|mouth|mouths] sitting at the table, waiting for their [||utensils].
[自|nose||@nose]
[@nose|nose (primitive)] [] #TODO
[臭|stinking] The [大|St. Bernard dog] sticks up his [@nose] to better sense the [] smell.
[嗅|sniff] The [|stinking] smell is too faint, so the [大|large dog] further opens its nostrils (nose [|mouth]) to [] it.
[妙|exquisite] [] [|woman|women] are [|few].
[省|focus] [||Focus] is to have [|few] things in your [|eye].
[厚|thick] The [|child] was left on the [|cliff] under the midday [|sun] for too long, and so became rather [] mentally speaking.
[奇|strange] Imagine a [|St. Bernard dog], but instead of a keg it is carrying a [|can]. How [].
[川|stream] Pictograph of a [].
[州|state] Three island-[|state|states] separated by [|stream|streams].
[順|obey] When you [] you are following the [|stream] with your [@head].
[水|water] As a chemical substance, [] is very well characterized. We have over '7K' (seven kilobytes) of information about water on record! 
[氷|icicle] An [] is like an elongated [|drop] of [|water].
[永|eternity] It would take an [] to count all the [|drop|drops] of [|water].
[泉|spring] The [] [|water] is so pure it is sparkling [|white].
[腺|gland] A [] is a [月|body part] that makes you [|spring] into action.
[原|meadow] The [|spring] water running down the [厂|cliff] has created a beautiful [] at its base.
[願|petition] Save the [|meadow]! Sign the [|page] of our []!
[泳|swim] If you don't know how to [], you'll spend an [|eternity] in [@water].
[沼|marsh] A [] is where [@water] is [|seduce|seduced] out of the ground.
[沖|open sea] The [] is [@water] in the [中|in the middle] of nowhere.
[汎|pan] Taken individually our [@water] is fairly [|mediocre], but if we work together in some []-continental union, we can make some better water! As if.
[江|creek] A [|creek] is a stream of [@water] you can [|craft] by dragging an [|craft|I-beam] on the ground.
[汰|select] Natural [|select|selection] first began in the [@water], and those that were too [|plump] were [|select|selected] out.
[汁|soup] [||Soup] is so simple to make; it's just [@water] [|ten|plus] [|ten] ingredients!
[沙|grains of sand] Wet sand is simply sand but to see beautiful [], the [@water] must be [|few].
[潮|tide] This is not the [|eventide], but the [@water] of the [|morning] [].
[源|source] The [|meadow] is our [] of clean [@water].
[活|lively] Conversations can become more [] after everyone has had a few drinks. It's because "[@water||watery] [|tongue|tongues]" loosen lips!
[消|extinguish] To [] a [|spark] just use a few [@water|drops of water].
[況|situation] My [|elder brother] simply can't shut up about the right to water, and about how bad the [@water] [] is in some parts of the world.
[河|river] A [] [|can] exist only if there is [@water].
[泊|overnight] Please supply a guest who stays [] with [@water] and [|white] sheets.
[湖|lake] This is my favourite story. Simply associate the sad moment of an [|old] person, standing near the [@water] of the [] and looking at the [|moon] reflected in the lake. The created primitives themselves are put so beautifully, that you will not forget this kanji.
[測|fathom] A [] is the unit you use when making [|rule|rules] about [@water||water]'s depth. Without proper units its depth would be [||unfathomable].
[土|soil] King Arthur pulled the magical sword Excalibur out of the hardened [] to claim his place as king.
[土|ground||@ground]
[土|land||@land]
[土|dirt||@dirt]
[吐|spit] What goes straight from the [|mouth] to the [@ground]? [] obviously.
[圧|pressure] [|pressure|Pressure] is force over area. The force is the weight of the [|cliff], and the area is the [|soil] the cliff is on.
[埼|cape] A [] refers to [@land], not the [|strange] gear superheroes wear.
[垣|hedge] The [] of roses growing from the castle [@ground||grounds] fully [|span|spanned] the castle walls. 
[填|stuff up] In a hole in the ground, the body of the victim was placed. And then the killer [||stuffed it up] with [|soil] so that the [|truth] would not be found out, he hoped.
[圭|squared jewel][圭|ivy] How would you stop someone stealing your biggest []? Bury it deep in the [|soil] underground. Then plant some [|ivy] to mark the spot.
[封|seal] The king used a special [] of [|ivy] leaves [|glue|glued] onto his document.
[涯|horizon] From the [@water], I can see the [|ivy]-clad [|cliff|cliffs] on the [].
[寺|Buddhist temple] To be allowed to join the [], an aspiring monk is asked to stand still in the [|soil] for a few days as a [|measurement] of his resolve.
[時|time] The [] of the [|day] used to be announced by the monks at the [|Buddhist temple].
[均|level] [|soil|Soil] is scooped up into a [|ladle]. The extra [|drop] is brushed off to make it [].
[火|fire] For some reason, the [] kanji reminds me of a person running, her arms (the two [|drop|drops]) raised up, because she caught on fire!
[炎|inflammation] To fight [|fire] with [|fire] would just [||inflame] a situation.
[煩|anxiety] [||Anxiety] feels like [|fire] in the [@head].
[淡|thin] Drink [@water] and [|inflammation|burn twice] as many calories as you eat... you'll definitely get [].
[灯|lamp] An old gas [] is [|fire] in the [|street].
[畑|farm] Many [||farms] are created by first setting [|fire] over the land to clear the land for the [|rice field|fields]!
[災|disaster] What a []! First a [|fire], then on top of it came [巛|flood|floods]!
[灰|ashes] The [|fire] underneath the [|cliff] will eventually turn everything above to [].
[灬|flame||@flame]
[灬|cooking fire||@cooking fire]
[点|spot] I asked the [|fortune-telling|fortune-teller] about the weird [] on my neck, and she just [@flame||cauterized] it right away without commenting.
[照|illuminate] [|shining|Shining] [@flame||flames] []!
[魚|fish] The elements of this kanji are [|bound|bound up], [|rice field] and [@cooking fire]. When I think of bound up cooked rice, it makes me think of sushi, which in turn brings to mind [].
[漁|fishing] If you are confusing this with [|angling] like me, take [] to mean not the act of catching a [|fish] but the act of being a fish (in the [@water]).
[里|old village]
[里|computer||@computer]
[|old village] My parents' house was in an [] in a rural area, so I spent most of my childhood playing in the [|rice field|fields] and having [@dirt] on my clothes.
[黒|black] If you set an [|old village] on fire, eventually it will turn [].
[墨|black ink] There's [|black] on the [@ground]. Most likely someone spilled some [].
[鯉|carp] Japanese [] are massive [|fish] - I once caught one as large as an [|old village]! No, I forgot to take a picture...
[量|quantity] At [|nightbreak] I estimate the [] of work I've done on the [|computer].
[厘|rin] A [@computer] dropped off of a [|cliff] would be worth about 1 [].
[埋|bury] I used [|soil] to [] my [@computer].
[冂|hood||@hood]
[同|same] Imagine monks wandering around the monastery. Covered in their [@hood||hoods] and chanting as if with [|one] [|mouth] they all look the []!
[洞|den] All the animals (alternatively, monks) in the [] share the [|same] [@water].
[胴|trunk] Dead [|flesh] all looks the [|same] when you chop off everything but the [].
[向|yonder] I take this to be an alien's head (a visitor from []) with a large [|mouth] in the centre of their face and a short antenna above their [@hood|helmet].
[尚|esteem][向|yonder] An especially [||esteemed] alien (visitor from [|yonder]) has three antennae on his [|helmet].
[宀|house||@house]
[宀|roof||@roof]
[字|character] [|child|Children] learn kanji [|character|characters] inside their [@house].
[守|guard] How would one [|measurement|measure] the quality of a [@house]? By estimating how [||well-guarded] it is.
[完|perfect] Make the [] impression in the [|beginning] by removing your shoes upon entering a Japanese [@house|home].
[宣|proclaim] You can [] your opinions from the comfort of your [@house] and have them [|span] the entire globe these days via The Internet.
[宵|early evening] Every [@house] lights [肖|candle|candles] in the [] which stay lit until the wee hours.
[安|relax][安|cheap] The [|woman] is [||relaxing] at the [|cheap|cheapest] place available; at [@house|home].
[宴|banquet] Under the [@roof], all [|day] long, the [|woman] prepared for the [] (note the order of the kanji's elements).
[寄|draw near] The [|strange] [@house] has a sign saying "[]" in its window, instead of a 'Beware' sign. Weird.
[富|wealth] Most of the [|rich] person's [|wealth] is stored in their [@house].
[貯|savings] It takes a lot more than one [貝|money|clam] of [] to buy a [@house] on the [|street].
[木|tree] Pictograph of a []. Radical placement hint: for all intents and purposes it is always on the left. More specifically, a single (unaltered) [||tree radical] is almost never on the right of something the same size as the tree radical itself, with the exception of the [@water|water drops] radical.
[林|grove] A [] has at least two [|tree|trees].
[森|forest] Another [|tree] planted within a [|grove] turns it into a [].
[桂|Japanese Judas-tree] A [|tree] covered in poison [|ivy] will quickly betray you, thus the name [].
[柏|oak] [||Oak] [木|wood] is [|white].
[枠|frame] A [] is [|wood] at [|90] degrees.
[梢|treetops] Fractals: the [] [|resemblance|resemble] the [|tree|trees] themselves!
[棚|shelf] A [] is a [|wood|wooden] [|companion] for books.
[杏|apricot] From the [|tree] straight into the [|mouth] is the best way to eat an []!
[桐|paulownia] In Japan, a [] (きり) is known as the "princess tree". It was once a traditional [|tree] planted at the [|same] time as the birth of a daughter. It would grow fast enough that, at the time of her wedding, it could be used to make a dresser as a wedding present for her.
[植|plant] [||Plants] don't become [|tree|trees] [|straightaway].
[椅|chair] To the Japanese, the first time they saw a [], it looked like a [|strange] use of [|wood]! Probably why they still like to sit on the [一|floor]...
[枯|wither] A [|tree] [||withers] away as it gets [|old].
[朴|crude] [|wood|Wooden] [|wand|wands] are the [||crudest]. They are nothing compared to their carbon fibre equivalents.
[村|town] A [] is just a bunch of [|wood] [|glue|glued] together.
[相|inter-] Long ago, before there were telephones, people living far from one another would climb [|tree|trees] to [|eye] each other's aspects and []act for their mutual benefit. Those who did this best became government ministers, with the top person (perhaps the one with the longest [|neck] becoming the prime minister <ruby>首相<rt>しゅ.しょう</rt></ruby>).
[机|desk] My [] is where I'm constantly getting [|wood] and breaking [@wind].
[本|book] The origin of a [] is paper made out of trees. [|one|One] [|tree] can make many [||books].
[札|tag] Botanists like to identify [|tree|trees] by [|hook|hooking] [||tags] on them.
[暦|calendar] Years-Months-Days: It takes many years for a [|cliff] to form or erode. A [|grove] takes many months to grow. But [|day|days] pass by regularly - so in this way, we see the movement of time such as with a [].
[案|plan] I [] to [|relax] on top of that [|tree].
[⿱品木|furniture] (Primitive) A common kind of [品] that are made of [木|wood] is [].
[燥|parch] It's been so [|parch|parched] recently that your [|furniture] suddenly catches [|fire].
[未|not yet][朱|vermilion][末|extremity] The [|tree] does [|not yet] have [|extremity|extremities] of [|vermilion].
[昧|obscure] Something that is [] has [|not yet] been brought before the light of [|day].
[沫|splash] A [] is [|water] that has reached its [|extremity].
[味|flavour] To enjoy a food's [], it must be in one's [|mouth] but [|not yet] swallowed.
[妹|younger sister] My [] is [|not yet] a fully grown [|woman].
[株|stocks] Which [|tree] would you buy [] in - the healthy one on the left, or the one with only one [|vermilion] leaf left on the right?
[艹|flower||@flower] 
[@flower||flower (radical)] [] #TODO
[若|young] The [] little girl held a cute [@flower] in her [|right] hand.
[草|grass] [||Grass] grows in [|early|earlier] than [@flower||flowers].
[苦|suffering] [@flower||Flowers] for the [|old] man [] in the hospital.
[苛|bullying] "How many [@flower||flowers] [|can] I stuff in your nostrils? Well I'm just gonna have to go and see." [||Bullying] at its worst!
[寛|tolerant] To be [] is to [|see] [@flower||flowers] (meaning "beautiful things") in every [@house], instead of looking for issues.
[⿱艹氵|seaweed||@seaweed]
[@seaweed||seaweed (primitive)] (Primitive) Are those [@flower||flowers] in the [@water||seawater]? No, it's just some []. (In this combimation of primitives, the 氵 must be under the 艹 and not to its side.)
[薄|dilute] The [|Dr.] prescribed some [@seaweed] extract, which must be [||diluted] first.
[葉|leaf] On top of the [|leaf|leaves] a [@flower] appears, promising new [|generation|generations] for the old [|tree] below.
[莫|graveyard] (Primitive) Take the [|day] radical to be the gravestone; atop it there are [@flower||flowers], and at its base a [|large dog] is urinating. Such is life in the [].
[模|imitation] If I find out this furniture you're selling me is made of [|imitation] [|wood], I'll put you in the fucking [|graveyard].
[漠|vague] The [@water] in the [|graveyard] has worn away the headstones, so the writing is [].
[墓|grave] A [] is a patch of [|soil] in a [|graveyard].
[暮|livelihood] The gravedigger makes his [] digging in the [|graveyard] all [|day]. Oh the irony.
[膜|membrane] The [||membranes] in your [|flesh] are the first to rot when placed in the [|graveyard].
[苗|seedling] If you plant [||seedlings] in a [|rice field|field] eventually they will [@flower].
[兆|portent]
[兆|turtle||@full-turtle]
[兆|portent] When your wife's [|legs] get huge hairs on them it is surely a bad [] for things to come.
[@full-turtle] (Primitive) Pictograph of a []'s back.
[桃|peach tree] The pits of a [||peach] [|tree]'s fruits look like [@full-turtle||turtles].
[眺|stare] You lost a [||staring] ([|eye|eyeing]) contest with a [|turtle] because you blinked before he did. (The contest wasn't fair, because turtles have nictitating membranes, and don't need to blink so often.)
[犬|dog] For [] picture a [|large dog], [|drop|dripping] drool.
[大|dog||@dog]
[⺦|turtle||@turtle] The "[]" primitive is the left half of "[@full-turtle]".
[状|status quo] It was left to the [@turtle] to make right with the [|dog] and thus maintain the [].
[黙|silence] The [@computer] won't stop beeping, which is making the [|dog|chihuahua] bark, and it's driving me insane. The solution is obviously to throw them both to the [@flame||flames] and finally enjoy the [].
[然|sort of thing] [|flesh|Flesh] of a [|dog] over a [@cooking fire], i.e. "hotdog". There are all [||sorts of things] in hot dogs. Believe me, you don't want to know what [||sort of things]. Visualize the hotdog curling as it cooks, to remember the unusual way the [|flesh] primitive curves in this kanji.
[⺨|wild dog||@wild dog] (Radical) A domestic [|large dog] is nothing but a highly deformed version of a [].
[荻|reed] A [] is a [@flower] that looks like a [|fire|hot] [|wild dog|dog (in the wild)].
[狩|hunt] When [||hunting] it may be a good idea to use a [@wild dog|pack of dogs] as your personal [|guard].
[猫|cat] A [] is actually just a [@wild dog|dog] [|seedling]. Or at least that's what I told the kids when the cat got run over and I bought a dog shortly after.
[牛|cow] Pictograph: head of a [] seen from the front, with a tag attached to its right ear.
[特|special] The Church Lady is traveling through Japan and notices with distaste a sacred [|cow] relieving itself inside a [|Buddhist temple]. "Well, isn't that []".
[告|revelation] The [] makes the [|cow]'s [|mouth] drop open, "Hamburgers are made of what?!".
[先|before] [||Before] you stick it in a [|cow] make sure it has [|human legs].
[洗|wash] You [] things with [@water] to get them back to the clean state they were in [|before].
[介|jammed in] The two strokes at the bottom look like a J and I, which stands for "[]". The two letters seem to have been [||jammed into] something.
[界|world] One Japanese farmer I know is so small minded that he thinks the entire [] is [|jammed in] the borders of his little [|rice field].
[⋏|parasol||@parasol]
[茶|tea] When I drink [@flower|herbal] [] I like to drink it under a [@parasol]. If it's too hot I go "ホ、ホ、ホ！"
[脊|spinal column] A pictograph of a []. The [⋏|umbrella] representing the shoulder blades, the two 二's as the shoulder muscles and the [|body part|part of the body] as the spine itself.
[合|fit] [] #TODO
[塔|pagoda] In order to build a [] in this small Japanese garden everything has to [|fit]: the [|soil] to the left and the [@flower||flowers] in the upper right corner.
[王|king] Being born into nobility is easy, but to become a [] you have to be a real [|craft|crafty] [|one]!
[王|ball||@ball]
[玉|jewel] The [|king] is said to have only one family [] below the belt... and he hangs left (placement of the [|drop])!
[宝|treasure] A [] chest is a bunch of [|jewel|jewels] under a [@roof].
[珠|pearl] [|king|King] [|vermilion|Vermilion] is a little queer and likes to wear [] necklaces. Also, pearls are spherical and therefore [@ball]-shaped.
[現|present] We elected him as the [|king] because he can [|see] clearly the [] state of affairs in the land.
[玩|toy] The [@ball] was the only thing that people at the [|beginning] of time had to use as a []. Poor cavemen.
[狂|lunatic] Oh no! A [|pack of dogs] has bitten the [|king]. He has turned into a rabid []!
[旺|effulgent] The [|sun|Sun] [|king|King] (Louis XIV) was known for his [] reign.
[皇|emperor] Ancient Rome had emperors instead of kings, and they wore white robes. Thus an [|emperor] is a [|king] in [|white]. (Make sure you picture a roman emperor instead of a japanese one and you'll be ok.)
[呈|display] What a pathetic []! The [|king] is sprawled on his throne, head back and [|mouth] wide open, fast asleep. We should never have let him drink so much at that banquet last night.
[全|whole][全|fat king] The fat [|king] takes up the [] space under his [|parasol].
[栓|plug] The [|fat king] under his parasol offers useless advice to the workers. "You'll need to use a [|whole] [|tree] to [] that gap". Imagine a grossly fat, incompetent king under a parasol giving annoying advice to sweating workers who know what they're doing.
[理|logic] The [|king] of [] is the [@computer].
[主|lord] A [] is a little [|drop] down from [|king] in hierarchy. (Note that the [|drop] has the same orientation as in [|jewel].)
[注|pour] Visualize an idiot trying to figure out how to put out a candle. He sees a glass of [@water] and decides to [] it onto the [主|candlestick] to put it out. Water spills everywhere.
[柱|pillar] The main [] in a house should be made of the biggest and strongest [|tree] - the [|lord] of the trees, if you will.
[金|gold||@gold] The [|fat king] taking up the [|whole] space under the parasol actually isn't fat - he just has two big [] bars hidden under his clothes.
[銑|pig iron] [||Pig iron] is basic/crude [@gold|metal], that is, [|before] it has been processed.
[鉢|bowl] This is the [] of an alchemist: see how he mixes [|metal|metals] in his bowl, as he follows the instructions from his [|book]?
[銅|copper] [||Copper] is an excellent conductor. In other words, it's a [|metal] for which the voltage is the [|same] everywhere. That's why it's used for wires.
[釣|angling] All the people that go to the Japanese festivals to catch fish part time are suckers. Me? I'm a pro. I bring a big-ass [|gold|golden] [|ladle]. I'm a true [|angling] professional.
[針|needle] Remember the story of the needle in the haystack. Why would someone even look for a [] if it wasn't a [|gold] [@needle]?
[銘|inscription] A piece of [|metal] with a [|name] on it. Well, this is basically the definition of [].
[鎮|tranquilize] Enough [|gold] can [] the [|truth] in anyone.
[⻌|road]
[道|road-way] When we go out on the [], we often risk our own [|neck|necks] (that's why I take the train, it's safer than the [|road]).
[導|guidance] On the [|road-way] [] is provided by the GPS, an instrument that accurately [|measurement|measures] your position.
[辻|crossing] A [] is also known as a [|cross]-[|road].
[迅|swift] The car went too [||swiftly] through the [|crossing] and was [|hook|hooked] by the cops.
[造|create] [||Creation] is the [|road] to [|revelation]. Or so they'll have you believe.
[迫|urge] When you get the [] to go to [|white|White] Castle, you know it's time to hit the [|road].
[逃|escape] I used my pants to make a rope, which I then used to [] from prison; hence the naked, [兆|hairy legs] running along the [|road]!
[辺|environs] To separate the [], create the [辺|border] by placing [刀|dagger|daggers] on the [|road]. (Caution: this kanji doesn't mean environment; it means "environs; boundary; border; vicinity".)
[巡|patrol] The cops are so lazy they don't even [] anymore - they just [|flood] the [|road].
[車|car] My [] is so fast it can go through [|ten] [|rice field|rice fields] in [|ten] minutes.
[連|take along] When you put your [|car] on the [|road] you should always [] a few friends.
[軌|rut] My [|car] got so stuck in a [] it took [|nine] people pushing to get it out again.
[⿰月⺉|butcher] (Primitive) A [] is someone who makes their living cutting [|flesh] using [@saber|knife|knives].
[兪|butcher's meeting] (Primitive) A [] is a [|meeting] for [|butcher|butchers].
[輸|transport] The [|car] is a cattle-car, used to [] animals for the [|butcher's meeting] - a convention on new butchering techniques. Hear the screams of the animals as it pulls up in front of the convention hall, where the [|butcher|butchers] are waiting with their [@saber|knife|knives] out front.
[喩|metaphor] At the [|butcher's meeting] the speaker's [|mouth] uses all sorts of [||metaphors] to justify the [|butcher|butchering] and eating of animals.
[前|in front] The [|butcher] wears a pair of [丷|horns] on his head as he hacks away at the meat [] of him.
[煎|roast] In many asian restaurants, meat is [||roasted] right [|in front] of you over [@cooking fire||flames].
[@wlegs] (Radical) Pictograph of [].
[各|each] [||Each] and every one of us [@wlegs||walks] and [@mouth|talk|talks] differently.
[格|status] A family with high [] has a backyard so large there's a [|tree] for [|each] member.
[賂|bribe] It might sound simple to [] someone, but then you have to graft the guy above him and the guy below him, and soon you're just giving [|money|shells] to [|each] and everyone!
[略|abbreviation] If you want to write your name on [|each] grain of rice in your [|rice field], you might have to use an [].
[客|guest] [|each|Each] person under my [@roof] is treated as a [].
[額|forehead] In New Zealand, people welcome [|guest|guests] by touching their [@head||heads] together, or their [||foreheads] to be more specific.
[夏|summer] During a hot [] you want to keep [|oneself|yourself] under a [一|ceiling], not out [@wlegs||jogging] around."
[処|dispose] To [] of rubbish you use your [@wlegs] to take it to the bin, not throw it to the [@wind].
[条|twig] Don't confuse with branch - think of snapping twigs. A [] is always the kind of [|wood] that snaps when the hunter's [@wlegs] just barely touch it, making a snapping sound that alerts the prey to the hunter's presence.
[落|fall] Picture a group of Japanese skydivers [||falling] through the sky - suddenly [|each] one opens, instead of a parachute, an enormous sheet of [@seaweed||nori seaweed] to carry them safely down.
[冖|crown||@crown]
[@crown||crown (radical)] (Radical) Pictograph of a [].
[冗|superfluous][冠|crown] The king's [@crown] was blown off by the [@wind]. "Oh well," he said, "it's just a [] symbol." He later realized it was his favourite fancy [冠|crown] (not the usual [@crown||simple crown]) and regretted losing it; "I should have just had the damn thing [|glue|glued] to my head from the [|beginning]," he said.
[冥|Hades] In [] you have to work [|six] [|day|days] a week before [@crown||crowning] it with something vaguely resembling a weekend. Oh wait, that's Japan.
[軍|army] In a monarchy, a [@crown] is the hood ornament on every [] [|car].
[輝|radiance] [||Radiance] is a [|ray] [|army].
[運|carry][|take along] Don't confuse [] with [|take along]. In "take along", there was a regular (civilian) [|car] so you could take along your friends once you found them on the [|road]. In this one, there is an [|army|army chariot] just to [] military supplies (sorry no room for you).
[罒|eye||@h-eye]
[夢|dream] Last night's date with Miss Sweden was like a []. She even laid [@flower||flowers] over my [@h-eye||eyes] to [@crown] the perfect [|evening].
[亢|whirlwind] (Primitive) [@wind||Wind] inside of a [亠|top hat] would move in a circular fashion, forming [].
[坑|pit] A [|whirlwind] digs a hole in the ground throwing out lots of [@dirt] until it ends up with a giant [].
[高|tall] Two little aliens (visitors from [|yonder]) in a trenchcoat and top hat, trying to look [|tall]. The bottom one, in the glass [|helmet], is under the coat. The top one has his [|top hat] pulled down in disguise, so all you can see is his [|mouth].
[享|receive] [|tall|Tall] [|child|children] [] all the attention. They also make great receivers in football; this kanji also means 'catch' (therefore a football receiver is a great image).
[塾|cram school] The [享|tall kids] and the [丸|rotund|rotund kids] don't go to the [] because they're out on the school [@ground||grounds] doing sports and burning off calories.
[熟|mellow] The [|cram school] tortures its students - especially the [|tall kids|tall] and [|rotund|fat] ones who need to grow up - over a [@cooking fire||fire] until they []. (Note that here the keyword 'mellow' only means to mature, ripen, or acquire skill; not the colloquial meaning of 'chill out').
[亭|pavilion] The [|tall|tallest] [] [@crown||crowns] the [|street].
[京|capital] The [] is where the powerful act formal wearing [|top hat|top hats], open their [|mouth|mouths], and get [|little] done.
[涼|refreshing] When you're a tourist in the [|capital] during the heat of summer, finding a [@water] fountain is oh, so [].
[景|scenery] Imaging the [|sun] rising over the [|capital] - classic postcard [].
[鯨|whale] If [|fish] were cities, the [] would surely be the [|capital].
[⿱土口|lidded crock] (Primitive) [|soil|Soil] (clay pottery) over a container's [|mouth] is a [].
[舎|cottage] My [] is so small I'd be better off living in a [|lidded crock] with a [|parasol] on top.
[周|circumference] If my [|lidded crock] has the same [] as my head, I like to use it as a [|helmet].
[週|week] Actually the [] is like a never ending [|road] where we travel in a circle through the same seven days again and again, the [|circumference] is always the same. 週 also means circuit or lap, so that also makes think about the rotations of the moon, sun and the earth - all important for measuring all kinds of time periods.
[士|gentleman][士|samurai] What a handsome []. Standing up so straight, and broad shoulders too! He's like a modern [|samurai]!
[吉|good luck] A true samurai [|gentleman] will always [|mouth], "[||Good luck]" to his opponents before a match.
[壮|robust] [@turtle||Half of a turtle shell] makes for a [] shield for the [士|samurai].
[荘|villa] A [] is fancier (decorated with [@flower||flowers]) and more [|robust] than the average house.
[売|sell] A [|samurai] will never [] his [@crown] (king), even it meant having both his [|legs] chopped off!
[⿱⺍冖|schoolhouse] The [] has a fancier roof than the regular [@house].
[学|study] The [|child|children] [|study] in the [|schoolhouse].
[覚|memorize] How to succeed in the [|schoolhouse]: when you [|see] something on the blackboard, write it down, then [] it! 
[栄|flourish] The [|tree|trees] [] in the [⿱⺍冖|classroom], a little too much perhaps, there's no room for the students any more.
[聿|brush||@brush]
[書|write] The calligrapher had a peculiar habit: when using her [@brush] to [], she would [|tongue sticking out|stick out her tongue], just slightly.
[津|haven] A [@brush] laying in dirty [@water] is a [] for bacteria.
[攵|taskmaster] A rather strict [|woman] sitting down holding a [|drop|long rod] is the [].
[牧|sherpherd] The [|cow] [|taskmaster] is a [].
[攻|aggression] [] is the [|craft] of a [|taskmaster].
[敗|failure][負|defeat] The [|defeat|defeated] [|shellfish] now stands before its [|taskmaster], ashamed of its [].
[枚|sheet of] This [|taskmaster] is the bathroom nazi: he counts how many [||sheets of] toilet paper and tissue you use, and then tells you what percentage of a [|tree] you just killed.
[故|happenstance] Imagine an accidental president - he is an [|old] [|taskmaster] who has managed to win the election by [].
[敬|awe] The [|taskmaster] demands [] and respect. If you don't talk to him in honorifics and [@flower||flowery] [|phrase|phrases] you will be sorry.
[言|say] Pictograph: Sound waves coming out of a [|mouth] is someone [||saying] something.
[言|word||@word]
[警|admonish] To [] is to enforce [|awe] through the use of [言|words].
[計|plot] A [] is a summary that can be given in [|ten] [|words].
[詮|elucidate] Words that [] are [|words] that tell the [|whole] story.
[獄|prison] The [|wild dog] family visits their [|dog|cousin] in []. They exchange [|words] over the interphone at the visiting booth.
[訂|revise] [||Revise, revise, and revise] until you have all the [|words] [丁|nail|nailed] down.
[訃|obituary] An [] are [|words] that you wish you had a [|wand|magic wand] to undo.
[討|chastise] In Colonial New England, people who committed adultery had words glued to them. A famous example is the "A" worn by Hester Prynn for committing adultery (i.e., not being chaste). In this way, [|words] [|glue|glued] to you are supposed to [] you and prevent further breaches of chastity.
[訓|instruction] The best type of Japanese [] is full immersion, which consists of going to Japan and swimming in the [|stream] of [|words] that surrounds you every day.
[詔|imperial edict] An [] is [|words] meant to [|seduce] the masses.
[詰|packed] Fortune cookies are [] with [|words] of [|good luck].
[話|tale] [||Tales] are always spoken, not written, and because of this, [|words] fly out of your [|tongue], rather than your pen.
[詠|recitation] Listening to the [|words] in a [] of Vogon "poetry" is worse than spending an [|eternity] in hell.
[詩|poem] A [] is a [|Buddhist temple|temple] of [|words].
[語|word] The simplest [] to [|say] is [|I].
[読|read] People will [|say] almost anything to make a [|sell|sale]; don't believe everything you [].
[調|tune] To [] an old-fashioned radio, you turn the dial the full range of the [|circumference], until you can hear the [|words] clearly.
[談|discuss] Think of an online [||discussion] group where misunderstanding someone's words leads to [|inflammation|flaming].
[諾|consent] The [|words] of the very [|young] are useless because they can't [].
[諭|rebuke][|in front][|butcher's meeting] I imagine Socrates gate-crashing a [|butcher's meeting] and [||rebuking] them: "You've been killing things again; you have, haven't you?" while the embarrassed [|butcher|butchers] blush and try to hide their [|knife|knives] behind their backs and stand [|in front] of hanging sides of [|flesh|beef].
[弋|arrow] (Radical) Pictograph of a rather short []: the top part is the arrowhead, and hook at the bottom is the stabilizing feathers.
[式|style] Each Indian tribe [|craft|crafts] their [|arrow|arrows] in a certain [].
[試|test] In an essay [], you are judged on both your choice of [|words] and your writing [|style].
[弐|II (two)] If you just fired [|one] [|arrow] and you only have [||two] left, you better start running!
[賊|burglar] After the [|fiesta], we found out that some [] had stolen our [|money], probably breaking in with a lockpick [@needle].
[⿻土戈|Thanksgiving] [] #TODO
[栽|plantation] During [⿻土戈|Thanksgiving], all the [|tree|trees] on the [] celebrate the harvest. It's a good time for them, too.
[載|load] My [|car] was so [||loaded] with supplies for [|Thanksgiving] that there wasn't any room for passengers.
[戊|parade of] The extra vertical stroke turned the [|fiesta] into a veritable [||parade].
[茂|overgrown] The gay [戊|parade] looks astonishing, as if [] with [@flower||flowers].
[成|turn into] It only takes a single stroke of a [|dagger] for a [|parade] to [] a bloodbath (a [|parade of] [|knife|knives]).
[城|castle] With sufficient willpower, [|soil] can [|turn into] a []! Although it's cheaper to use stone.
[誠|sincerity] [||Sincerity] happens when what you [|say] actually [|turn into|turns into] something.
[戍|march of][戍|march] The extra horizontal stroke now turned the [|parade] into a solemn [||march].
[威|intimidate] The [|march of] [|woman|women] against [||intimidation] in the workplace is pretty intimidating in itself!
[滅|destroy] [@water||Water] flows down to [] the [|march of] [|fire].
[減|dwindle] When [@water] cannons started being used against the protestors ([|march of] [|mouth|mouths]), their numbers began to [].
[蔑|revile] The gays were [||reviled] by society, so they put [@flower||flowers] above their [@h-eye||eyes] and [|march|marched] around.
[戋|festival float] You can't have a [|fiesta] without a [] or [|two].
[桟|scaffold] Japanese [|festival float|festival floats] are often so tall they need [|wood] [|scaffold|scaffolds] to be completed.
[銭|coin] Interesting fact: The Japanese one yen coin is the only [|metal] [] in the world that can [戋|float] on water.
[浅|shallow] The [@water] can't be too [] if you expect to [|float].
[止|stop] [] is the pictographic representation of a footprint.
[歩|walk] Having a good [|walk] means making [|few] [|stop|stops].
[渉|ford] A [] is a place where one can [|walk] through the [@water], a place only a [|few] [止|foot|footsteps] deep.
[頻|repeatedly] Are you familiar with the joke about the ditzy secretary who [] [|walk|walked] back and forth forcibly over all the [|page|pages] of her boss' most important letters. When confronted she just says "Well you said they needed to be stamped before they're mailed."
[肯|agreement] A secret [] between a covert gov't agency and aliens states that we will not step [止|foot] on the [|moon] again in return for alien technology.
[企|undertake] To [] a project you first gather the team under a [|parasol] and give them a motivational speech about pulling out all the [|stop|stops] and giving their 110% and so on.
[歴|curriculum] A [] is a [|calendar] that replaces [|day|days] with reasons to [|stop] having fun.
[武|warrior] A true [] won't be [|stop|stopped] by a [|one|single] [|arrow].
[賦|levy] A [] stands guard at a bridge collecting [|money|shells] as a [] for any who want to pass.
[正|correct] If you do it [] on attempt [|one|#1] you can [|stop].
[証|evidence] Your [|words] must be absolutely [|correct] if you plan to use them as [].
[政|politics] Insane political [|correct|correctness] on the left, and facists [|taskmaster|taskmasters] on the right - that's [] in a nutshell right there.
[⿳一卜人|mend||@mend]
[@mend] (Primitive) "⿳一卜人" is what the "[|correct]" kanji looked like before it was [|mend|mended].
[礎|cornerstone][疋|zoo][@mend] A [|zoo] which is still under construction is already full of animals. At the moment, only the [|cornerstone] has been set in place. To temporarily keep the animals from escaping, a closely-packed [|grove] of small trees is planted around the [|stone]. This [|zoo] needs some serious [@mend||mending]! Note that with the hook on the first (top) stroke the radical means [|zoo], and without it it means [|mend].
[定|determine] People who decide to renovate ([@mend]) their [@house||houses] must be very [||determined] DIYers.
[錠|lock] There's no such thing as perfect physical security. You put a [|metal] [] on your valuables so that only a highly [|determine|determined] thief can get to them in the end.
[走|run] If you [] [|ten|10] kilometers, you will need to [@mend] your socks!
[超|transcend] To transcend oneself is to reach a higher plane of reality. A head shaven monk is telling me this. We are in a Tibetan monastery. He was once an athlete, a runner. He used to [|run] everywhere, until one day, he saw a beautiful cheerleader along his path. She tried very hard to [|seduce] him, but he forced himself to [] his urges. He did reach his running goal, and he has became a lonely monk. He wishes now he had just broken down back then and...
[赴|proceed] While [|run|running], my magic [|wand] tells me where to [].
[越|surpass] The [|parade] of [|run|runners] are all trying to [] each other - and they end up running all the way to Vietnam (note that this kanji is also used for the country of Vietnam).
[是|just so] A web developer is spending all [|day] obsessively [@mend||mending] the code so the page looks [].
[題|topic] You spend [|day|all day], [@mend||mending] your socks [|just so]. Then you have a look at the [@head||heading] of the newspaper. The [] - "FREE SOCKS TO BE GIVEN AWAY"!
[堤|dike] Making a [] is all about arranging the [|soil] [|just so].
[廴|stretch] Pictograph: The first stroke is a spring at rest. The second stroke is the same spring, completely [||stretched].
[建|build] To [] something you first draw blueprints using a writing [@brush], and then you [|stretch] your drawing into reality.
[鍵|key] A [] is a [|metal] object you use to gain access to your [|build|building].
[|key][|lock] Don't confuse [|key] and [|lock]!
[延|prolong] [|stretch|Stretching] [|correct|correctly] [||prolongs] your life.
[誕|nativity] "When you are being born ([]), your mother's [|words] are [|prolong|prolonged].
[婿|bridegroom] The only reason anyone talks about a [] is if they're about to or have just gotten married. Of course, then you have to go on your honeymoon. So you take your [|woman] to the [|zoo] for a [|month]. Pretty cool honeymoon.
[衣-亠|scarf||@scarf] 
[衣|garment] The only [||garments] allowed in this club are [|top hat] and [@scarf].
[裁|tailor] The [] worked hard after [|Thanksgiving] to alter [|garment|garments] so they'd fit people who'd eaten too much at their Thanksgiving dinners.
[装|attire] An [] is a kind of formal and [|robust] [|garment].
[裏|back] The [@computer] had carefully dressed up in [|garment|clothes] to look human. It wasn't until I looked at the [] and saw the cables and stuff that I realized what it was.
[哀|pathetic] Someone wearing [@scarf|garment|clothes] meant for far [|tall|taller] people. How [].
[袁|tower] An ancient [] looks a bit like a giant [|lidded crock] with a [@scarf] (the flag) hanging from the top.
[遠|distant] After traveling for a long time, you finally see a [|distant] [|tower] rise above the [|road].
[猿|monkey] The [] climbs up the [|tower] to escape from a [|pack of dogs].
[衤|cloak||@cloak]
[初|first time] It's the [] time I've ever done this kind of [|cloak] and [|dagger] stuff!
[巾|towel] Pictograph of a [].
[布|linen] The first rule of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Universe is "DON'T PANIC!" The second rule, of course, is to always have a [|towel] by your [@side]. Personally, I prefer the [] sort.
[帆|sail] A [|towel] makes for a [|mediocre] [].
[幅|hanging scroll] A [|rich] person uses [||hanging scrolls] as [|towel|towels]!
[帽|cap] If you wear a [|towel] as a [], you are at [|risk] of being seized and searched in U.S. airports.
[幕|curtain] There is a [|graveyard] outside my house that scares me, so I put a huge [|towel] over the window to serve as a [] so I can get a good night's sleep.
[幌|canopy] A [] is a [|towel] to block the [|sun|sun's] [|ray|rays].
[錦|brocade] [||Brocade] is the art of sewing [|gold] on a [|white] [|towel]. It turns out that the fanciest brocade in the world is actually a towel used by a Turkish monarch. It's embroidered with gold and cocaine. Yes, cocaine - what you thought it'd be something else? That is some true art right there. I think a great many people would want to own this towel.
[市|market] My recurring nightmare: Walking through the [], and suddenly realizing that I'm wearing a [|top hat], a [|towel], and nothing else.
[柿|persimmon] Nobody buys [||persimmons] at the [|market], because there's a [|tree] in the middle where you can pick them for free.
[姉|elder sister] Unlike the [妹], who is [|not yet] old enough to date, the [] is officially a [|woman] on the [|market]!
[肺|lungs] [] are a [|body part] that can be found at any meat [|market] or black [|market].
[山|mountain] Pictograph of a [].
[丗|Mt. Fuji] (Primitive) The "number [|one|1]" [|mountain] in Japan is [].
[⿱冖巾|apron] (Primitive) The king wears a special [|apron] made out of the same material as [|towel|towels] with a [@crown] drawn on it. (He likes being able to wipe his wet hands on it.)
[帯|sash] Archaeologists digging under [|Mt. Fuji] (Japan's [|one|#1] [|mountain]) in an ancient royal tomb (they know it's royal because of the [@crown]) discover what looks like a [|towel], but after they clean it up, they see it is actually a splendid royal [] for the king's royal [|apron] (he was a great chef and didn't trust others with his food).
[帯|sash] The poor stretched [|apron] wouldn't fit the [|Mt. Fuji]-sized housewife if it weren't for a strong [].
[滞|stagnate] People who have been "[|sash|sashed]" to something for too long become like [@water] that stopped moving: they [].
[制|system][特|special] Why all the gore and violence? How about a samurai [|cow]? He doesn't have to be a violent samurai, either. He only wears the [@saber||sword] because he's part of the bushi []. Actually, he studies ikebana, shodo, and zen. Imagine him sitting cross-legged in a Zen temple (a very [|special] [|Buddhist temple|Zen temple]). The master asks him if a dog has buddha nature and, shifting the [@saber||swords] in his [冂|belt], he calmly replies, "Moo!".
[製|made in...] "[||Made in] china" - a [|system] of exploitation, making [|garment|garments] for nothing.
[転|revolve] The [|revolve|revolving] wheels of the [|car] kicked up [云|rising cloud|rising clouds] of dust.
[芸|technique] Imagine an old Kung-fu movie: "Try my [|rising cloud] [@flower] []!"
[雨|rain] Pictograph: A window with two vertical panes. Outside it's [|rain|raining].
[雲|cloud] Every [|rising cloud] is a potential [|rain] [].
[曇|cloudy weather] [||Cloudy weather] is when a [|cloud] blocks the [|sun] (up above).
[雷|thunder] If it's [|rain|raining] and you're standing in the middle of a [|rice field], you're sure to soon become acquainted with the [] up close and personal.
[霜|frost] [||Frost] is a kind of an [|inter-][雨|weather] phenomenon, something between [|rain], snow and freezing temperatures.
[冬|winter] Don't slip on [冫|ice] and break your [@wlegs||legs] in []; strap two skis to your feet.
[天|heavens] The [一|ceiling] that all [|large dog|large dogs] aspire to go to is known as [||heaven]. After all, All Dogs Go to Heaven.
[妖|bewitched] If you don't want to get [] (and who would?), then avoid any [|woman] you see carrying what might appear to be a [天|sapling]. It's really a wand in disguise, and if you're not aware you might get []!
[沃|fertility] Just because you planted the [|sapling|saplings] in [||fertile] land doesn't mean you shouldn't go [@water] them!
[喬|angel] (Primitive) An [] is a [|tall] visitor from the [|heavens] (where [亠|top hat|top hats] are unfashionable).
[橋|bridge] "Stairway to Heaven" is all based on a false premise; [|heavens|heaven] is actually somewhere on Earth, so a more accurate song title would have been "[|tall] [|wood|wooden] [] to [|heavens|heaven]". Only [|angel|angels] know about it, though.
[嬌|attractive] An [] [|woman] is often said to be [|angel|angelic].
[立|stand up] Pictograph: A [立|vase] that can't [|stand up] won't be a vase for long.
[泣|cry] She [|stand up|stood up] to leave the room when her eyes started to [@water] (so that people wouldn't see her []).
[泣|cry] Guys have two ways of [@water||watering] when they are [|stand up|standing], the less common one is [||crying].
[章|badge] Did you know? In the military, they give you [|badge|badges] for [|stand up|standing up] [|early]!
[競|vie] Two twin [|elder brother|brothers] are competing ([||vying]) for the title of who is the [|elder brother|older brother]. The game is that they must balance a [|vase] on their head, and the one who drops his loses and becomes the younger brother!
[帝|sovereign] The crazy [] [|stand up|stands up] from his throne, wearing nothing but a [@crown] and a [|towel]. That's why they try to keep him locked up in the castle away from the public.
[諦|give up] The [|words] of the [|sovereign|sovereign king] inspire the people: "Never [|give up]! Never surrender!" Okay... maybe it wasn't a king.
[童|juvenile] The epitome of [] behaviour is [|stand up|standing up] on a [@computer].
[瞳|pupil (of the eye)] In Japanese comics, the [|eye|eyes] of [|juvenile|juveniles] all have enormous [||pupils].
[鐘|bell] A [] is a [|metal] device that rings to call the [|juvenile|juveniles] to class.
[商|make a deal] I use what I think is the real etymology for this kanji which is so shocking it sticks. The [|stand up|standing] member at the top is a certain part of the body that all men have and it is approaching the [|mouth|hole] between [|human legs|two legs] with extra marks to show they are fleshy - i.e. a woman's legs. So this shows the oldest [||deal] of all time - prostitution.
[⿱立⿵冂古|antique] (Primitive) Somewhat pictographic: Imagine a fancy and very [|old] [|vase]. What a magnificent [].
[嫡|legitimate wife] Your [] (a [|woman]) is like an [|antique] bong. It's not your favourite but you still hit it sometimes...
[適|suitable] Think of the term from televison "[] for all audiences" to get the sense of the word. What program could be more [] for the whole family than the "[|antique|antiques] [|road]show".
[滴|drip][|antique] You must never let [@water] [] onto [|antique|antiques].
[敵|enemy] Since [|antique|antiquity], people have done things to spite their [|enemy|enemies]. In that sense, [|enemy|enemies] are an [|antique] [|taskmaster].
[匕|spoon] Pictograph: okay this is kinda pushing it, but imagine it's a huge [] and that the diagonal line is a person's arm holding it.
[匕|sit||@sit]
[叱|scold] A kid gets [||scolded] if they don't put the [|spoon] properly into their [|mouth] when eating.
[匂|aroma] "A rich [], [|bound|bound up] in every [|spoon|spoonful]." Sounds like an advertisement.
[頃|about that time] An alarm clock with a unique design: You set it for, say, 7:00 am, and at [|about that time] the clock reaches out with a [|spoon] and hits you on the [@head].
[北|north] In the [], the weather is so cold that people are often seen [@sit||sitting] back to back to preserve warmth.
[北] Warning: The left part of [] is NOT the primitive [@turtle]! The stroke order is different. Sometimes it will look exactly the same but not always depending on the font or style used to draw this character. Be sure to study the difference!
[背|stature] While japanese people are generally small, people in the [|north|northern] countries have taller [] because of all the [|flesh] they eat!
[比|compare] [||Compare] the two [|spoon|spoons]... the one on the left is funny-looking.
[昆|descendants] Grandparent spends all [|day] [|compare|comparing] photos of their [].
[皆|everyone] Picture ku klux klansmen [|compare|comparing] whose skin is [|white|whiter]. Finally, they agree that [] there is [|white].
[楷|block letter] [] #TODO
[諧|orderliness] Someone calling for [] would use [|words] such as "[|everyone]".
[混|mix] The [@water|fluid|fluids] must [] in order to obtain [|descendants].
[⿱日匂|siesta] (Primitive) [] With the [|sun] up high and the [|aroma] of tacos in the air, Jose settled down for his afternoon [].
[渇|thirst] When I wake up from my [|siesta] I am [||thirsty] for some [@water].
[謁|audience] As the [|words|speaker] is quite monotonous, the [] is taking a [|siesta].
[褐|brown] I saw my FedEx deliveryman taking a [|siesta] underneath his [] [|cloak|poncho], using my [] cardboard package as a pillow.
[褐|brown] During his [|siesta], Jose's poncho ([|cloak]) protected his [|brown] skin from the sun.
[喝|hoarse] When I wake up from a [|siesta] and try to use my [|mouth] to say something, I notice that my voice is quite [|hoarse]. I must be [|thirst|thirsty].
[葛|kudzu] He passed the warning signs and decided to hold a [|siesta] in the [] field. The kudzu grew so fast, he was completely covered by it in a few hours and not able to escape. Now, the [] [@flower||flowers] mark his [|grave].
[旨|delicious] [|spoon|Spoon] is reaching for another [] helping of [|sun]dae.
[脂|fat] Every chef will tell you, [] is what make the [|flesh|meat] taste [|delicious].
[詣|visit a shrine] Two fat, effete Japanophiles (cheerily munching on 肉まん in the back of the tour bus) hearing the [|words] of the tour guide "Now we will []" elicits squeals of joy. "Oooooh, how absolutely [|delicious]!"."
[壱|I (one)] I am "the [||one]", says the [|samurai] with the [@crown] around his waist and a [|spoon] up his ass.
[⿰丿一|lie down||@lie down]
[⿰丿一|recline]
[@lie down||lie down (radical)] Pictograph: person [||lying down].
[毋|mother] [] #TODO
[毎|every] [||Every] person in town wants to [@lie down] with yo [|mother|mama].
[敏|cleverness] [||Cleverness] is something [|every] [|taskmaster] must have. [|every|Every] [|taskmaster] has [].
[梅|plum] [||Plums] actually grow on [|every] single [|tree]. What, you didn't know that? They do. Orange trees, apple trees, cantaloupe trees. Plums are simply mutant fruits that have been installed in the root software of every single tree. I hear that some plum-loving scientists are working on a way to hack every tree's genetic code so that every tree will bear nothing <em>but</em> plums.
[海|sea] [|every|Every] [|drops of water|drop of water] will eventually return to the [].
[乞|beg] [@lie down||Lying down], Captain [乙|hook|Hook] is [||begging] to be spared from the ticking crocodile.
[乾|drought] During a [], everything [|beg|begs] for even a [|mist] for relief.
[⿳⿰丿一日夂|double back||@double back] (Primitive) I had to [] to [@lie down] at a small inn, as I was tired after a full [|day] of [@wlegs||walking].
[腹|abdomen] The [] is the only [|body part] that [@double back|double over|doubles over].
[複|duplicate] My girlfriend saw someone wearing the exact same ([]) [@cloak||outfit] at a party, so she [|double back|doubled back] to change!
[欠|lack] Pictograph: looks like a person with two arms and two legs, but who [||lacks] a head.
[欠|yawn] When your body [|lack|lacks] oxygen you [].
[吹|blow] Someone using their [|mouth] to [] chewing gum bubbles because they're [|lack|lacking] attention in class. I guess it's better than [|yawn|yawning].
[炊|cook] Japanese [||cooking] sometimes [|lack|lacks] [|fire], e.g., sashimi.
[歌|song] [|can|Can]-[|can|Can]-ers [|lack] the ability to sing a [], so they just dance.
[軟|soft] [|car|Cars] are rough steel things, [|lack|lacking] [||softness].
[次|next] Is this store [|lack|lacking] [|ice]? Let's try the [] one, then.
[茨|briar] To prevent animals from eating the beautiful [@flower||flowers] in your garden, the best thing to do is to plant [] bushes immediately [|next] to them.
[資|assets] [||Assets] are the [|next] best thing to [|money].
[姿|figure] Whenever I am [|next] to a [|woman], I can't help but take notice of her [].
[諮|consult with] Having a [|words|word] with the [|next] [|mouth] over, like a neighbor, is usually a good way to [] somebody for cheap.
[⿱立口|muzzle] (Primitive) [|stand up|Standing] on someone's [|mouth] is a brutal yet effective of [||muzzling] them.
[賠|compensation] [||Compensation] is a kind of euphemism for hush money here. A [] is [|money|Money] that [|muzzle|muzzles].
[培|cultivate] To [] the [@land] is to tame it, control it. In other words, to [|muzzle] its unruly, chaotic nature.
[剖|divide] [||Divide] (by [|muzzle|muzzling] communications between regions) and conquer (by way of the [@saber|sword]).
[音|sound] If you were [|stand up|standing] on the [|sun], believe me, you'd be making [|sound]!
[暗|darkness] Picture the [|sun] exploding - there would be a gigantic [|sound|noise] and then... nothing. Everything would plunge into [].
[韻|rhyme] What is a [] but some [|sound] that [|employee] say to get them through work.
[戠|kazoo] The [] is the [|sound] of the [|fiesta].
[識|discriminating] I have [] taste. I'd rather listen to the [|words] of a lecture than attend a [|kazoo] concert. (Picture some snobby guy in a tweed jacket turning up his nose at entering a loud raucous kazoo recital).
[竟|mirror||@mirror]
[@mirror||mirror (primitive)] She [|stand up|stands] all [|day] in front of the [], looking at her [|human legs|legs]. 
[鏡|mirror] The idea of a [@mirror||mirroring] surface can be turned into an actual [] by applying a layer of [|metal] on a sheet of glass.
[境|boundary] This is an old trick to keep out migrants. You put a bunch of [|dirt|dirty] [@mirror||mirrors] on the [] of your land and theirs. When they approach the boundary, what they see in the mirror is their own land and someone that looks like themselves, only dirtier, so they figure your country isn't any better than their own and they head back home.
[亡|deceased] The recently [] are said to hang their [|top hat|hats] on a [|hook] by the door to the afterlife.
[盲|blind] [||Blind] = [|deceased] [|eye|eyes].
[妄|delusion] The [||delusional] [|woman] was carrying her [|deceased] husband on her back.
[荒|laid waste] [||Laying waste] is just a euphemism for flushing poop down the toilet. It smells nothing like [@flower||flowers], more like [|deceased] flowers, and it's flushed down into a [|stream] of sewage.
[望|ambition] The [||ambitions] of [|king|kings] often result in [|deceased|dead] [月|bodies].
[方|direction] I heard someone [|drop|dropped] [|ten thousand] dollars! I know what [] I'm walking in.
[妨|disturb] Capt. Jack Sparrow's [方|compass] gets [||disturbed] every time a beautiful [|woman] walks by him.
[坊|boy] Little [||boys] always head in the [|direction] of mud and [|dirt].
[芳|perfumed] She used a [||perfume] so strong, that you can track her by following the [|direction] of the smell of [@flower||flowers].
[肪|obese] [||Obese] = "[|flesh|Flesh] in all [|direction|directions]"
[訪|call on] When you [] someone, you point your [|words] in their [|direction].
[放|set free] When you are [], go in any [|direction] away from your [|taskmaster]. 
[激|violent] [|overnight|Overnight] the slave got [] and was [|set free].
[脱|undress] [|horny teenager|Horny teenagers] love to [] [|flesh].
[鋭|pointed] [||Pointed] is the [|horns|horned] one's [|metal] pitchfork.
[曽|formerly] [||Formerly], [|horns|horned] animals were used to plough the [|rice field], and it took all [|day]. Nowadays it's done by machine.
[増|increase] Prices [||increased] for [@land] that was [|formerly] cheaper. Rather tautological if you ask me.
[贈|presents] [||Presents] represent [|money] that was [|formerly] yours.
[東|east] The [|sun] pierces through the [|tree|trees] as it rises in the [].
[棟|ridgepole] (The ridgepole is a horizontal beam along the ridge of a roof.) The [|sun] rises in the [|east]. Back in those days when people used ([|wood|wooden]) [||ridgepoles] they wanted to align their houses in such a way that they face the rising sun, so they wake up with a bright day, and wake up early with the sun seeping through in a perpendicular manner (as the ridgepole faces the sun in the morning).
[凍|frozen] [|east|Eastern] Siberia is often [] by [|ice]. According to Wikipedia, Yakutsk (in Eastern Siberia) holds the record as the coldest town on Earth.
[壬|porter] A [] is a [|gentleman] wearing a hat leaning on the side.
[妊|pregnancy] A [||pregnant] [|woman] is a [|porter] of her child.
[廷|courts] A [|porter] has run away from his master. His punishment is to be [|stretch|stretched] out on the rack. So say the [] in this barbaric time.
[染|dye] To make [], add [@water] to the bark of [|nine] [|tree|trees].
[燃|burn] With hot enough [|fire], any [|sort of thing] can be made to [|burn].
[賓|V.I.P.] The [] visits your [@house], but your ceiling is too low for his inflated head, which he bumps and hurts. You have to give him your [|few] [|money|shells] as compensation.
[歳|year-end] At the [], everything seems to come to a [|stop]. However, there's still enough time for a [|little] [|march] to celebrate.
[県|prefecture] In Japanese the word for [] is KEN, as in Barbie's boyfriend. He has lovely blue [|eye|eyes], and a girlfriend who is as thin as a [|hook|straightened out fish hook]. But, down where it counts, he has very [|little] to show...
[栃|horse chestnut] There are a bunch of [] [|tree|trees] on top of this [|cliff] above the beach. Chestnuts keep rolling off the cliff and falling on people's heads. So far [|ten thousand] people have been killed by falling chestnuts, and the Japanese government still ain't did shit about it.
[也|scorpion] Pictograph: looks like a [] if you squint the right way.
[地|ground] The [|soil] is littered with [|scorpion|scorpions] everywhere and no ones dares put their foot on the [].
[池|pond] Remember the story of the [|scorpion] that begged the turtle for a ride across the []? Halfway across the [@water], the scorpion stung the turtle on the neck and they both sank to the bottom.
[虫|insect||@insect] Pictograph: I see the bottom of this kanji as an arm, and the top is an [] biting into the arm, sucking some blood.
[蛍|lightning bug] [|insect|Bugs] have to go to [|schoolhouse|school]. Only the brightest among them can become [||lightning bugs].
[蛇|snake] A [] eats [|insect|insects] under the clear sky, while I eat under a [@roof] with a [|spoon].
[虹|rainbow] [||Rainbows] aren't optical illusions. They're in fact [|craft|crafted] by millions of [|insect|insects] flying in unison.
[蝶|butterfly] [||Butterflies] are [|insect|insects] that eat the [@flower||flowers], leaving the [|leaf|leaves] behind.
[独|single] A [|wild dog] with [@insect|bug|bugs] flying around. Such is the social perception of the [] person.
[蚕|silkworm] [||Silkworms] are [|heavens|heavenly] [|insect|insects].
[風|wind] [] is actually caused by flying [|insect|insects] and [|drop|drops] of water (see [@wind||wind (radical)]).
[己|self] When Superman looks at [||himself] in the mirror, this is what he sees on his chest.
[己|snake||@snake]
[起|rouse] Nothing will [] you quite as much as finding a [@snake] in your bed. You will [|run] away like you've never run before!
[妃|queen] While the [] is a [|woman] who thinks highly of [|self|herself], the converse is generally not true.
[改|reformation] This is a Meiji [] [|taskmaster], trying to force usage of the Roman alphabet in Japan in place of kanji. He holds a [@snake] in the shape of the letter S and tries to explain how much simpler this is. Not really.
[記|scribe] You don't need a [] if you can write the [|words] down by your[|self].
[包|wrap] The [@snake] [|bound] up its prey by [||wrapping] his body around it.
[胞|placenta] [||Placenta] is the [|body part|part of the body] [|wrap|wrapped] around the foetus. In other words, a [|flesh] [|wrap].
[砲|cannon] A rather primitive [] has a [|stone] projectile [|wrap|wrapped] by a barrel.
[泡|bubble] A [] is when [@water] [|wrap|wraps] air.
[⿻田乚|eel] [] #TODO
[亀|tortoise] It seems bizarre, but [||tortoises] are a genetic cross with the head of a [|fish] and the tail of an [|eel]. Where the shell comes from, no one knows.
[電|electricity] This kanji was invented by the first Chinaman to discover []. He was so unfortunate, he stepped on an electric [|eel] and got struck by [|rain|lighting] at the same time.
[竜|dragon] Have you ever seen an asian []? it looks like an [|eel], but can [|stand up] because it has legs.
[滝|waterfall] The [@water||Water] [|dragon|Dragon] dwells in the [].
[豕|sow] Pictograph: the top line is a feeding trough, the stroke touching it is the head, the long curved stroke is the body (with a little hook at the end for the curly tail), and the four remaining strokes are the []'s legs.
[豚|pork] [||Pork] comes from the [|flesh] of a [|sow].
[逐|pursue] The [|sow] is on the [|road] [||pursuing] a mate.
[遂|consummate] Having found the one she was [|pursue|pursuing], the [|horns|horny] [|sow] now [||consummates] their relationship.
[家|house] Man, ever heard of cleaning? This [|house] is a [豕|pig] sty with a fancy [@roof].
[嫁|marry into] Traditionally, it was the [|woman|women] who would [] the [|house|households] of their husband's families.
[豪|overpowering] In Orwell's "Animal Farm" the [|pig|pigs] [||overpowered] every other animal. They [@crown||crowned] themselves as rulers of the farm and walked [|tall] on their rear legs, a crime strictly forbidden in the animal republic.
[⿱一勿|piglet] The smaller/abbreviated form of a [|sow] is a [].
[昜|piggy bank] (Primitive) Every [|day] you drop a few pennies into your [] (which is of course shaped like a [|piglet]).
[腸|intestines] [||Intestines] are the [|body part|part of the body] that is taken out of piglets to make [|piggy bank|piggy banks]. Just imagine factory workers scraping out the intestines of real piglets and packaging them up for little children.
[場|location] You've buried your [|piggy bank] in the [|dirt] in your backyard, but you can't remember where. You frantically dig everywhere in a process of [|location] to find your piggy bank.
[湯|hot water] Imagine a [] kettle for your tea, except this one is a pink [|piggy bank] that pours the [@water] from its snout (and squeals when the water is piping hot). Make sure to use a potholder!
[羊|sheep] Pictograph: Picture of a [] run over by a steam roller. Must have been a ram, note the [|horns].
[美|beauty] I guess this kanji proves it's not just the Welsh whose idea of [] is a [|large] [|sheep].
[洋|ocean] [] #TODO
[詳|detailed] Trembling from head to hoof from such a traumatic experience, the [|sheep] gives a very [|detailed] [|words|worded] account to the detective about his wolf attack. "We need more details Mr. Sheep. Tell us exactly where the baaad man touched you."
[鮮|fresh] What should I buy, [|fish] or [|sheep]? Guess I'll go with whichever is [||freshest].
[達|accomplished] The [|dirt|dirty] [|sheep] had come far down this [|road] and had [] many things.
[羨|envious] A very thirsty [|sheep], who always [|lack|lacked] [@water], spends his days watching his fellow sheep (in the farm next door or in another pen) and being very [] of their water.
[⿻羊丿|wool] [] #TODO
[差|distinction] Noob players make no [] between what games they play, whether it's the geniune thing or a bootleg fake copy. The biggest example of course, would be the legit World of Warcraft and the biggest ripoff there is: World of [|wool|Wool]-[|craft]!
[着|don] A pullover is [||donned] by pulling [|wool] over your [|eye|eyes].
[隹|turkey] [] #TODO
[唯|solely] The [|mouth] of a [|turkey] is used [] for saying, "Gobble." Likewise, your [|mouth], full of [|turkey], is [|solely] used to gobble it up.
[堆|piled high] During the Turkey Holocaust (this is what the animal kingdom calls Thanksgiving - they have really short memories and thus don't recall that it actually happens every single year), [|turkey|turkeys] are killed en masse, and their bodies are []. To keep them from tumbling down, a pile of [|dirt] is [] right next to them to keep them standing upright so that they will be fresh when it is time to eat them.
[椎|sweet oak] Why is the [] so sweet? Not sure, but to me it tastes just like [|turkey] (with gravy and cranberry sauce!) Now that is a sweet [|tree].
[誰|who?] You're alone when, suddenly, you think you hear someone speaking. "[||Who]'s there?", you [|say], but there is no answer. Then you find out it was only a [|turkey] gobbling. You feel relieved (and ashamed to tell this story).
[焦|char] [||Char] could be any meat over [@cooking fire]. So why is it a turkey in this kanji? Because charred [|turkey] is what sticks out most in your mind as the thing that ruined Thanksgiving dinner.
[礁|reef] [||Reefs] are often formed from volcanic rock, or "[|stone|rock] that has been [|char|charred]".
[集|gather] [||Gather] the [|turkey|turkeys] for Thanksgiving. [||Gather] the [|tree|trees] for Christmas. In that order.
[准|quasi-] An [|ice|iced] [|turkey] is only []as-good-as fresh turkey.
[進|advance][|escape][|pursue][|accomplished] Animals on the road: [@full-turtle||turtles] [|escape], [|sow|pigs] [|pursue], [|turkey|turkeys] []. And that one [|dirt|dirty] [|sheep] [|accomplished|accomplishes] many things.
[雑|miscellaneous] Newscast: "Among today's [] stories, we have a report on a [九|baseball] team that was chased up a [|tree] by a [|turkey]. Stay tuned for this and more!"
[雌|feminine] To become [] you must [|stop] using a [|spoon] to eat [|turkey] and use a knife and fork like a proper lady.
[準|semi-] The anhinga, or [@water] [|turkey], has a [@needle]-like nose, so really it's only a []turkey.
[奮|stirred up] The [|St. Bernard dog] [] a crowd of [|turkey|turkeys] and caught one. It bit the head, blood spilling onto the [|rice field].
[奪|rob] Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the [|large dog|big dogs] [|rob|robbed] the family of their Christmas [|turkey]? Well, the following year Ralphie's mom [|glue|glued] the holiday bird to the kitchen table, just as a precaution.
[確|assurance] 
[午|noon] [||Noon] is a good time for a [|ten] minute nap ([@lie down||lying down]).
[午|horse||@horse]
[@horse||horse (radical)] Pictograph: [] looks like a horse's head pointing downwards (with the neck on the right).
[許|permit] If [@horse||horses] could [|say|speak], you might have to ask for their [||permission] before mounting them.
[⿸午隹|Pegasus] The [] is a [@horse] that can fly (like a [|turkey]).
[歓|delight] I would be [||delighted] if Japanese [|lack|lacked] the [|Pegasus] kanji.
[権|authority] You need special [] to fly your [|Pegasus] over [|tree|trees]. I flew my [|Pegasus] over my neighbour's [|tree]; he called the [||authorities].
[観|outlook] I used to hate birds. They're loud, stupid and worst of all they shit on your head. Used to think birds were the most vile creatures on earth. Then I encountered a [|Pegasus]. I was just walking down the road, minding my own business when I happened to [|see|look] up. I saw it there, braying noisily, ivory wings outstretched like an angel, back leg raised ever so slightly. It dropped a steaming brown load right on my face. It changed my [|outlook] completely. Birds are the second most vile creatures on earth.
[羽|feathers] Pictograph of two somewhat ruffled [] (hence the bottom diagonal stroke).
[習|learn] Imagine a white bird losing a couple [|white] [|feathers] as it is [||learning] to fly.
[習|learn][学|study] Note that [|study|studying] (memorizing) and actually [|learn|learning] are two different things, which is why the two kanji have nothing to do with each other!
[翌|the following] Your [|feathers] would also [|stand up] if you were a hen in a slaughter house and you heard: "[||The following]!".
[⿱羽隹|futon] (Primitive) My [] is made with [|turkey] [|feathers].
[曜|weekday] On [||weekdays] I hang my [|futon] out in the [|sun].
[濯|laundry] The only time my [|futon] gets [@water] on it is when I'm doing my [].
[曰|sayeth] "Sayeth"?! Who the hell says "[|sayeth]"? Doesn't seem quite right... just like this kanji, which is just like "[|day]" but doesn't seem quite right.
[囗|pent-in||@pent-in]
[囗|enclosure||@enclosure]
[困|quandary] I'm supposed to make an [@enclosure] for my [|tree], but if I use its wood for the enclosure, there won't be anything left to be [|pent-in]. What a []!
[固|harden] As a person gets [|old], they often become isolated and [|pent-in]. As a result, they [|harden].
[錮|weld] [||Welding] is convenient because the [|metal] joint [|harden|hardens] right away (unlike glue).
[国|country] Just think of Japan, a [] which is like a [|jewel] but historically very [@enclosure||enclosed].
[団|group] At its worst, being in a social [|group] can feel like being [|pent-in] and [|glue|glued] in place with other members.
[因|cause] Why is there poop on the kitchen floor? Oh, the [] is that you kept the [|large dog|dog] [|pent-in] the house all day. Next time remember to walk him.
[姻|matrimony] [||Matrimony] is the state in which the woman has got you [|pent-in] like a [|large dog|dog] so that you cannot go after other bitches.
[咽|windpipe] You can't breathe very well, so the doc looks inside your [|mouth] to find the cause. "Oh, I see the cause of your [] blockage. There's a [|St. Bernard dog|St. Bernard] [|pent-in|pent up in] there!"
[園|park] The Eiffel [|tower] is [|pent-in] by a [].
[回|-times] Write [|mouth] two[].
[壇|podium] A man on the [] announces the rules for the contest: You must fill a [|top hat] with [|dirt] as many [|-times|times] as you can by [|nightbreak].
[广|cave]
[店|store] The [|fortune-telling|fortuneteller] has a [] in a [|cave].
[庫|warehouse] Thanks to automation, we can easily turn a [|cave] into an unmanned [] by just adding some self-driving [|car|forklifts].
[庭|courtyard] Back in caveman days, [|courts] were held in [|cave|caves]. When too many people showed up to watch, they spilled out into the [] (the yard outside the cave court).
[庁|government office] Some bureaucrats at a [] decided that the tunnels of [|cave|caves] need to get [|street|street signs], which are then [|nail|nailed] to the walls of the cave.
[床|bed] The two safest places to sleep in the wilderness are in a tree and in a cave. So to be on the safe side it is best to put a [|tree] in a [|cave] and use it as a [|bed].
[麻|hemp] Batman nurtures a [|grove] of [|hemp] in a corner of his [|cave], to unwind after a long day of fighting crime.
[磨|grind] Using a [|stone], you [] the [|hemp] into a fine powder (so you can get stoned quicker).
[心|heart] The [|heart] needs at least three [|drop|drops] of blood to work.
[忘|forget] To [] means that something/someone [|deceased|perishes] from your [|heart].
[恣|selfish] To be [] is to not take into consideration the [|heart] of the person [|next] to you.
[忍|endure] A ninja must be able to [|endure] the pain of clinging to a ceiling, motionless, for hours at a time, waiting for just the right moment to drop down and thrust the [|blade] of his sword into the [|heart|hearts] of his enemies. (By the way, this character is used in the compound 忍者 (ninja) which is why I choose to use ninja as its primitive meaning.)
[認|acknowledge] I never read the "[||acknowledgements]" section of books or theses, because they are mostly just boring [|words] that I must [|endure] reading before getting to the interesting part.
[忌|mourning] You are [] the death of a relative, and it feels as if a [@snake] had bitten into your [|heart]. 
[志|intention] A [|samurai]'s [||intentions] always come from the [|heart].
[誌|document] This is quite simple: a [] is a set of [|words] describing your [|intention|intentions].
[芯|wick] Giving a girl [@flower||flowers] is like lighting the [] to her [|heart].
[忠|loyalty] True [] exists [|in the middle] of the [|heart|heart].
[串|shish kebab] Pictograph of []: two chunks of meat on a skewer.
[患|afflicted] If you are [] with severe heartburn, eating a spicy [|shish kebab] will feel only slightly less painful than having it jammed straight into your [|heart].
[思|think] To [] is to use your [@brain] over your [|heart].
[恩|grace] Wherever [|heart] is the [|cause], [] is the consequence.
[応|apply] To apply for the job as a (replacement) Batman, you have to make it to the [|heart] of the [|cave] past all the traps he set up to test you. There, you see a table with the [||application] form on it. Now that you think about it, the ad in the paper did say "Those who don't make it to the [|heart] of the [|cave] need not []."
[意|idea] When you get a really good [] you get excited and all you can hear is the [|sound] of your [|heart], it's pounding so hard.
[臆|cowardice] [||Cowardice] is when you are not willing to sacrifice your [|flesh] for your [|idea|ideas].
[想|concept] [|concept|Concepts] exist as a way of transferring ideas [|inter-][|heart|hearts].
[息|breath] [||Breathing] in oxygen through your [@nose] is what you do to keep your [|heart] going.
[憩|recess] Ah []; [|tongue|tongues] slandering, [@nose||noses] being turned up, and beneath it all, young [|heart|hearts] being broken. Dominant in playgrounds is the noise of tongues, which helps me remember that in this kanji [|tongue] comes first.
[恵|favour] One [] is worth [|ten] [思|thought|thoughts].
[恐|fear] My deepest darkest [] at the bottom of my [|heart] is that I am [|mediocre] at my [|craft].
[惑|beguile] She was [||beguiled]/misled by his charm: at the [|fiesta|party] he kissed her on the [|mouth], they did it on the [一|floor] and thus he stole her [|heart]. Poor girl!
[感|emotion] [] is a [|march] of [|mouth|mouths] in your [|heart] telling you how to feel.
[感|emotion][|beguile][|range] After she was [|beguile|beguiled], she sat down on the [@ground] and went through a whole [|range] of [||emotions].
[憂|melancholy] [||Melancholy] makes me think of Hamlet cause he was so 'emo'. In order to play up his feelings he bares his [@head] and holds his [@crown] over his [|heart] then walks (on [@wlegs]) around the palace making everyone see how [] he is. What a wuss.
[寡|widow] The new [] sits in the [@roof||house], her [@head] in her lap (the extended stroke), her [|dagger] in her husband (with two drops of blood on the sides).
[忙|busy] [||Busy] (as in "occupied") means a [忄|state of mind] where all other thoughts are [|deceased|perished].
[悦|ecstasy] [||Ecstasy] is the [|state of mind] that [兌|horny teenager|horny teenagers] are looking for.
[恒|constancy] [||Constancy] is achieved when your [|state of mind] stays the same throughout the [|span] of one day.
[悼|lament] When the world's most [|eminent] magician died, everyone's [|state of mind] became that of [||lamentation]. He was buried with his famous [|eminent|sun-flower wand] in his hand.
[悟|enlightenment] [||Enlightenment] is a [|state of mind] that goes beyond the [吾|five senses].
[怖|dreadful] Someone in a [] [|state of mind] has crawled into his bed and is hiding under the sheets ([|linen|linens]).
[慌|disconcerted] The [|state of mind] of the people of New Orleans as they examined their city's concert hall [|laid waste] can best described as [].
[悔|repent] When you [], you improve your [|state of mind] by going over [|every] thing you regret doing.
[憎|hate] [|formerly|Formerly] your [|state of mind] was that of [|hate|hatred], but you let it go before it [|increase|increased] too much.
[慣|accustomed] When you get [|pierce|piercings], the [|state of mind] you quickly wish to attain is "[]".
[愉|pleasure] At the [|butcher's meeting], in their narrow [|state of mind], they throw lame jokes around like, "Oh hello, it's a pleasure to [|flesh|meat] you", and find this rather [||pleasing].
[惰|lazy] When I am in a [] [|state of mind] I use my [|left] hand to play with my [|flesh|meat]... it feels like someone else is doing it, which is good cause I'm to [] to get a date.
[慎|humility] [||Humility] is the [|state of mind] of accepting the [|truth] about yourself - both favourable and unfavourable. 
[憾|remorse] [||Remorse] is the [|state of mind] where I feel bad for what I did while I was tired and [|emotion|emotional]!
[|remorse][|resentment][|remorse] If you are confusing [|remorse] with [|repent] or [|resentment], then note that [|remorse|rEMOrse] contains [|emotion|EMOtion].
[憶|recollection] [||Recollection] is loading an [|idea] into your [|state of mind].
[惧|disquieting] I find the giant [|eye] floating above the workbench (watching over the [具||tools]) quite []. (My [|state of mind] is [||disquieted].)
[憧|yearn] A [|juvenile]'s [|state of mind] tends to go apeshit when they see something they [] for. Usually involving jumping up and down, tantrums, and other bullshit.
[憬|hanker] Living in a rural area, my [|state of mind] is that of a [] for [|capital|big city] [|scenery].
[⺗|heart||@heart]
[慕|pining] [||Pining] for someone without ever telling them? You might as well just take your [@heart] to the [|graveyard] and bury it.
[添|annexed] Hawaii is a little drop of [|heavens|heaven] nestled in the [@water|waters] of the Pacific, most often visited by honeymooners and [@heart||valentines]. It was [] to the U.S.A. in 1959 (and more recently to Japan as well albeit only unofficially, through private commercial holdings).
[必|invariably] For this kanji I [] got the stroke order wrong. I nearly lost [|heart], but decided to stick (pun) to it. Then I noticed the order is 1) katakana ソ (altered slightly); 2) fishhook; 3) two drops. Now I [] get it right.
[泌|ooze] When you pierce a [|heart] with a stake, it [|invariably] [||oozes] [@water||blood].
[手|hand] Pictograph: this actually really works if you look at it as a [] with fingers spread and middle finger pointing down. see the very top stroke as the edge of a shirt cuff, and it will all come together.
[摩|chafe][磨|grind] Your [|hemp] [|grind|grinding] [|stone] is out of service, so you use your [|hand] instead and quickly end up [|chafe|chafing] it terribly.
[看|watch over] It's a hot day of summer with a clear sky, you're sitting outside a cafe (or maybe on a reclining chair in the garden), and you [] the kids with a [|hand] covering your [|eye|eyes] from the sunlight (next time, don't forget the sunglasses).
[我|ego] Someone with a huge [] is too good for any romantic partner and as such has nothing but personal "[|hand] [|fiesta|fiestas]" with himself every night.
[義|righteousness] [||Righteous] Christians are [|sheep] with [|ego|egos].
[議|deliberation] At the worst of times, a jury's [] descends into a war of [|words] between competing self-[|righteousness|righteous], power-tripping bastards.
[犠|sacrifice] [|cow|Cows] are truly [|righteousness|righteous] animals. They [] their milk so that we can have some. And if they don't have any left, they give a [|sheep] a [|hand] [|fiesta] (good lord this is going too far) and give us that instead. What [|righteousness|righteous] [|cow|cows].
[扌|finger||@finger]
[@finger||finger (radical)] Pictograph of a [], with the vertical lines representing joints.
[抹|rub] When you're cold, you [] your [@finger||fingers] over your [|extremity|extremities] vigorously to warm up a bit. I'd still rather go in for a warm fire and some hot cocoa, though.
[拭|wipe] If you are going to [] your nose with your [@finger||fingers], better do it in a grand [|style].
[拉|yank] Your child is pushing on a [|vase] with their [@finger], and it's about to fall. You [] it just in time.
[抱|embrace] [||Embracing] a small animal involves [|wrap|wrapping] your [@finger||fingers] around it.
[搭|board] "Now [||boarding] the [|pagoda] ride. Please keep your [@finger||fingers] inside at all times..."
[抄|extract] Thanks to the advances of technology, you can [] juice out of fruit using very [|few] [@finger||fingers]; just press the appropriate button on the blender.
[抗|confront] Imagine a thumb war. A [||confrontation] of [@finger||fingers] in a [|whirlwind].
[批|criticism] My [] earned me the [@finger] when I [|compare] her cooking to my mother's.
[招|beckon] To [] someone is to [|seduce] someone with one's index [@finger].
[拓|clear the land] I imagine [||clearing the land] in order to set up your tent after a long day of backpacking. Using your [@finger||fingers], you pick up all of the [|stone|rocks] and get them out of the way so that you can get a comfortable night sleep.
[拍|clap] The most snooty prim and proper English Lord with [|white] gloves [||clapping] only with his [@finger||fingers]. "Oh bravo old chap. Bravo..."
[打|strike] When using a hammer, you either [] your [@finger||fingers] or the [|nail].
[拘|arrest] How to [] someone: You approach the thief from behind, stick your [@finger] at his back to fake a gun, and say the [|phrase] "You're under []".
[捨|discard] Someone stuck their [@finger||fingers] in my [|cottage] cheese! I'm going to have to [] the whole lot!
[拐|kidnap][招|beckon] After you've [|beckon|beckoned] someone by [|seduce|seducing] them, you [|kidnap] them and hang them upside down (the reversed positions of [|sword] and [|mouth] in [|seduce]).
[摘|pinch] My grandma always [||pinched] me with her [@finger||fingers] when I was playing with her [|antique|antiques]. Imagine her [@finger||fingers], also quite [|antique], thin, bony and hard, [||pinching] at your hand. "Keep your [@finger||fingers] away from my [|antique|antiques]!"
[挑|challenge] You are sure to take up a [] because your victory was portended. So you stand self-confident before your foe, point a [@finger] at him and say "I will prevail, as was long [|portent|portended]!"
[指|finger] []: [@finger] lickin' [|delicious].
[持|hold] In Kyaiktiyo, there is rocking stone which sits on the edge of a cliff, and there is a [|Buddhist temple] built on the top of it. You can rock the stone by pushing it with your [@finger], but it still [||holds] in place.
[拶|imminent] The old lady said that there was a [|flood] [|imminent], because her [@finger||fingers] hurt in the [|evening].
[括|fasten] Teacher was always telling us to [] our lips by pulling a zipper shut with our [@finger||fingers]. It always frightened me because I imagined getting my [|tongue] stuck in the zipper.
[揮|brandish] Think of the movie Gladiator but instead Maximus is [||brandishing] a giant foam [@finger] like you see at a baseball game. He's riding in an [|army] chariot using the foam [@finger] to kill his enemy.
[推|conjecture] In mathematics, a conjecture is a mathematical statement which has been proposed as a true statement, but which no one has yet been able to prove or disprove. Have you heard of the [@finger||Finger]-[|turkey|Turkey] []? It states that if turkeys had fingers, they would be able to count. Be sure to imagine a turkey with fingers at the tip of its wings, counting from one to ten.
[揚|hoist] "[||HOIST] THE SAILS!" Blackbeard cried. "I'LL GET ME [@finger||FINGERS] ON THAT [|piggy bank|PIGGY BANK] YET"
[提|propose] I tried to [] to my girlfriend, but the ring was too small to fit her [@finger]. Instead of saying yes, she just uttered an annoyed sigh. So I rushed to the jeweler where he made it bigger. But now it was too big, so I rushed back to make it smaller. This spiel kept going on until the ring was finally [|just so]. Her eyes lit up and she said yes.
[損|damage] Boss yells, "Who [||damaged] the Xerox machine?!". [@finger||Fingers] of [|employee|employees] point at one another.
[拾|pick up] To successfully [] a bowling ball, your [@finger||fingers] must [|fit].
[担|shouldering] One of the classic stories of [] a heavy burden is that of the kid who had to stick his [@finger] on a dam until [|nightbreak] to prevent it from breaking down.
[拠|foothold] Once you have a good [], you can [|dispose] of your [@finger||fingerhold].
[描|sketch] I'm bad at drawing, so when I try to [] the kanji for [|cat], you can sort of recognize it, but I don't get the curve of the "[|wild dog|wild dogs]" just right.
[操|maneuver] Japanese floors are so squeaky clean and flat that using only one [|finger] you can [] your [|furniture] around the room.
[接|touch] A [|vase] and a [|woman] are similar in that if you use your [@finger] to [] either of them you are probably going to get in trouble.
[掲|put up a notice] A muchacho [||puts up a notice] that says “NO [@finger||FINGER] SNAPPING ALLOWED. MUCHACHOS ON [|siesta|SIESTA]”. The muchachos are sleeping soundly, completely oblivious to the sound of dogs barking, guitar playing and even gun shots. Now imagine one tourist passing by and snapping his fingers and waking up all the muchachos at once.
[掛|hang] Three ways you could [] something: 1) the normal way, with your [@finger] putting something on a hook or whatever, 2) hanging from a [|ivy|vine] the natural way, or 3) by means of the magic of the [|wand].
[捗|make headway] Thing from the Addams Family has difficulties in [||making headway] because, well, he has no head. Only [|walk|walking] [@finger||fingers].
[幵|two hands]
[研|polish] You use [|two hands] to [] a [|stone]: one to hold it and the other to rub it.
[戒|commandment] When Moses received the ten [||commandments] with [|two hands], he went back down the mountain and threw a [|fiesta] with the jews, celebrating the arrival of the commandments.
[弄|tinker with] You don't have to be a [|king] to [] your electronics; all you need is [|two hands]!
[械|contraption] The ten [|commandment|commandments] were heavy. So to help carry them, Moses made a [|wood|wooden] []; the ark of the covenant.
[鼻|nose] An Egyptian embalmer reaching [|two hands|both hands] into the dead pharaoh's [@nose]/[] and yanking out handfuls of [@brain].
[刑|punish] This kanji is for severe [||punishment]. A man has his shackled [|two hands|hands] placed on a wood block and they're chopped off with a [@saber]. So said the courts in this barbaric time.
[型|mould] A famous ninja once pressed his [|two hands] and [@saber] into the [|soil] of his temple, before going on a mission from which he never came back. Think of some sort of signature that he left behind him. The [] of his [|two hands] and [@saber] has since become a popular attraction in the area.
[才|genius] A [|ten] year old had a stroke of [] and wrote this joke: 何歳ですか？　。。。天才です！
[財|property] If you're a [|money] [|genius], you can afford a lot of [].
[材|lumber] A [|tree] [|genius] is a [] jack. Duh.
[⿻一亻|genie in a bottle] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[存|suppose] How do you [|suppose] they manage to cram a [|genie in a bottle|genie] inside a bottle? Well, I [|suppose] they put him in there while he's still a little [|child]...
[在|exist] [|genie in a bottle|Genie in a bottle] does [|exist] but you need to dig deep into the [|soil] to find one.
[乃|from]
[乃|fist||@fist]
[乃|from] You see a tired traveler doing a thumbs up gesture with their [@fist] (pictograph), so you stop your car and pick them up. "Where are you coming [乃|from], my friend?"
[携|portable] Because they have no [@finger||fingers], [|turkey|turkeys] must use their [@fist||fists] when dialing on a [] phone.
[及|reach out] [] #TODO
[吸|suck] The baby [|reach out|reaches out] with his [|mouth] for the "[|mouth]" of his mom's breast to [|suck] out some milk.
[扱|handle] What is the thing your [@finger||fingers] [|reach out] most often for? Door [||handles] of course. 
[丈|length] [] #TODO 
[史|history] History students usually going to school with a history book [乂|tuck under|tucked under] their arm. But now instead of a book, you have a small talking [|mouth] that tell you about []. "When I was young, I used to walk 5 miles everyday..."
[吏|officer] [|one|One] [], namely Napoleon, changed the course of [|history].
[更|grow late] At [|nightbreak] the sun rises above the [一|floor], so it is logical that when it is [||growing late], the sun would rise to the [一|ceiling]. Time to pack up your things and take your belongings [|tuck under|under] your arm.
[硬|stiff] A [] drink on the [|stone|rocks] after it [|grow late|grows late] is a way to unwind after a long day...
[又|or again] After her boyfriend's [又|crotch] has been satisfied, a woman might suggest they cuddle. The boyfriend, on the other hand, might say, "[||Or again], we could fool around..."
[双|pair] [|crotch|Crotch] to [|crotch] is how many [||pairs] spend their private time together...
[桑|mulberry] Imagine kids all over the top of a [] [|tree], sitting astride limbs so that their weight is on their [|crotch|crotches]. (Mulberry trees have big sprawling limbs that run horizontally or at shallow angles making them easy to climb and sit in. I have an old mulberry in my yard, and my kids are in it constantly.)
[隻|vessels] Pictograph of a [||vessel]'s cross-section, sort of.
[⿱艹隻|flower vessel] (Primitive) Think of the [||flower-vessel] as the Greenpeace [隻||vessel] "Arctic Sunrise", only instead of a rainbow there is a big [@flower] painted on the hull. Think of "flower-power" and of the "peace" in "Greenpeace" and it will make some sense hopefully.
[護|safeguard] In this kanji, we see an inauguration [|words|speech] being given before the Greenpeace [|flower vessel] is set afloat and sent to [] our planet.
[獲|seize] A pack of genetically-modified [|wild dog|wild dogs] is [||seized] by a group of Greenpeace activists and taken onboard the Greenpeace [|flower vessel]
[奴|guy] That [] stole my [|woman] so I kicked him in the [|crotch]. (This story helps keep the word "[]" as someone you hold in contempt).
[怒|angry] [|woman|Women] get very [] over the thought that [|guy|guys] are more interested in their [|crotch|crotches] than their [|heart|hearts].
[友|friend] A good [] is always at your [@side]. I teach at a Japanese High School, and I often see chummy male students grabbing each other's [|crotch|crotches] in a joking manner. It's still weird to me, but apparently reaching to your side and grabbing you neighbor's crotch is a great way to express friendship.
[抜|slip out] Don't let good [|friend|friends] [] between your [@finger||fingers].
[殳|missile] (Primitive) A [] is a rather [|crotch|phallic] object which propels itself by pushing "[@wind]" downwards.
[投|throw] Using your [@finger||fingers] you can turn any object into a [|missile] by [||throwing] it.
[没|disappear underwater] A nuclear torpedo ([@water] [|missile]) hits its target, which sinks and [||disappears underwater].
[股|thigh] Where's my [|flesh] [|missile]? Between my [||thighs], naturally...
[設|establishment] When you attack the [] with [|words], it fights back with [|missile|missiles].
[撃|beat] Think 3 methods of attack all combined into 1 kanji: 1. [|car|Vehicle] to transport troops 2. Once troops have disembarked they have their [|missile|missiles] 3. If they run out of missiles they resort to [|hand] to hand combat to [|beat] the enemy.
[殻|husk] A traditional [|samurai]'s [|husk]/shell/armour is rather [|superfluous] considering [|missile] attacks.
[支|branch] Picture sliding down the [] of a tree (in this case a pine tree or any tree with needles) and getting a bunch of [@needle||needles] stuck in your [|crotch]—ouch!
[技|skill] Balancing a [|branch] on your [@finger] is the prototypical example of a [] that is nothing more than a skill (i.e., it is completely useless).
[枝|bough] The [|tree]'s primary [|branch] is known as the [|bough].
[枝|bough][支|branch] Differentiate between [|bough] and [|branch]: '[|branch]' is smaller, and can also refer to the branch of a store (支店), which has nothing to do with a tree. But a [|bough] is a main part of a tree, perhaps where the trunk splits into several large boughs, and so it logically utilizes the [木|tree] radical.
[肢|limb] [||Limbs] are [|flesh] [|branch|branches].
[圣|soiled crotch] [|soil|Soil] plus [|crotch] makes []. Easy.
[圣|toilet paper][圣|spool] [|toilet paper|Toilet paper] is used to clean one's [|soiled crotch], and it usually comes on a [|spool].
[茎|stalk] The environmentalists were right! We've run out of trees, so we're making [|toilet paper] out of [@flower] [||stalks].
[怪|suspicious] Imagine a loud farting sound. Everyone's [|state of mind] turns to [||suspicion] as they look around trying to find who did it. The most [] person is of course the one with the [|soiled crotch].
[軽|lightly] This kanji is used to denote a certain class of vehicles in Japan whose engines are under a certain size (less than 750cc I think) and are called [||light] vehicles here. Imagine a so-called [||light] [|car|vehicle] or a light-truck with a load of [|toilet paper] [|spool|spools] driving down a road ever so [], careful not to let any of the spools roll out onto the street.
[叔|uncle] The [] is that creepy guy towering [|above] a [|little] one's [又|crotch].
[叔|uncle][督|coach][寂|loneliness][淑|graceful] Your [|uncle] was full of [|loneliness], and he lived by himself in his big [@house]. He was naturally [|graceful] in the [@water], and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he [|eye|watched over] you carefully as [|coach]. It was uncomfortable, though, how your [|uncle] often touched you just a [|little] [|above] the [|crotch] when coaching...
[戚|relatives] Your [|uncle|half-uncle] organizes a [|parade of] all your [], which he himself is only half in because he's busy taking pictures of it.
[反|anti-] Many cultures are so []sex you'd think they just want people to throw their [|crotch|crotches] over a [|cliff].
[坂|slope] This kanji depicts a classic environmental problem: erosion. Erosion occurs when all of the [|soil] washes of the side of the [|cliff], eventually causing the cliff to disappear, leaving a [] (an [|anti-]cliff if you will) in its place.
[板|plank] [|tree|Trees] are naturally opposed to, or [|anti-|anti], the making of [||planks].
[返|return] To [] is to turn back on the [|road] you're on and go the [反|opposite] way.
[販|marketing] The goal of [] is to get people who are naturally [|anti-]buying to spend their [|money].
[爪|claw] Pictograph of an [⺤|vulture]'s [||claws].
[⺤|vulture||@vulture]
[⺤|claw||@claw]
[妥|gentle] An [|vulture|eagle] must be extra [] to pick up a dainty [|woman] in its sharp [@claw||claws].
[乳|milk] Drinking [] not only reduces [|cavity|cavities] but also strengthens nails ([@claw||claws]).
[孚|fledgling] (Primitive) The [|vulture]'s [|child|children] are [||fledglings].
[浮|floating] A nest of [|fledgling|fledglings] somehow fell into the [@water] (maybe it was perched on a tree bending over the river), but they are safe for now as the nest is []. The fledglings are enjoying the cruise but they are soon coming to a great waterfall...
[淫|lewd] [@claw||Claw] marks across the [|porter]'s back from engaging in [] acts in the [@water||shower]. He is tipped well for carrying the lady's bags to her room.
[将|leader] The [] in this race is the [@turtle]! It appears he has covered the [|vulture]'s feet in [|glue], so that the vulture cannot get off the starting block.
[奨|exhort] Here we have a [|St. Bernard dog|St. Bernard] [||exhorting] the [|vulture] to become the [|leader] in the race against the [@turtle], but he can't because of the [|glue].
[采|grab] Once a [|vulture] [|grab|grabs] hold of a [|tree], he can never let go.
[採|pick] You [] cherries with your [@finger||fingers], then along comes a giant [|vulture] and [|grab|grabs] the whole [|tree] with its [@claw||claws].
[菜|vegetable] A vegetarian [|vulture] is munching on a [@flower], perched on a [|tree], patiently waiting for a patch of [||vegetables] to grow.
[⿱⺤冖|birdhouse||@birdhouse] The [] is a [@house] for [@claw|bird|birds].
[受|accept] The "[@birdhouse|brothel|birdhouse]" is a whorehouse that will [] any [|crotch], even those with STDs.
[授|impart] "Please [|accept] this [@finger]," you say, [||imparting] it to your yakuza boss.
[愛|love] The man is about to enter the "[|brothel|birdhouse]" (brothel) when he remembers his true [] at home, and, following his [|heart], uses his [@wlegs] to go straight home.
[曖|equivocal] The [|sun]'s [|love] is []: it warms yet burns us.
[厶|elbow||@elbow]
[@elbow||elbow (radical)] Pictograph of an arm bent at the [].
[払|pay] You are walking out of the restaurant when the waiter uses his [@finger] to grab you at the [@elbow] and says, "Excuse me sir, didn't you forget to []?".
[広|wide] The [广|Batcave] is very [] and has a lot of [@elbow] room for Batman to do his yoga.
[勾|flexed] My [@elbow] was [|bound] up in a cast, making it impossible to keep it [].
[拡|broaden] The [|Batcave] isn't [|wide] enough after all, a fact which Batman painfully discovers while doing yoga. Frustrated, he begins to [|broaden] it with his bare [@finger||fingers].
[鉱|mineral] Elbonium: a new [] found in [|wide] caves shaped like [@elbow||elbows] and made of [|metal].
[弁|valve] Opening a stuck [] requires [|two hands] and a lot of [@elbow] grease.
[雄|masculine] To be [|masculine], you must eat your [|turkey] with your [@elbow||elbows] by your [@side||sides].
[|masculine][|feminine] Gender is all about how you consume [|turkey]; see "[|masculine]" and "[|feminine]".
[台|pedestal] When someone's [@elbow] is above your [@mouth] he/she is probably standing on a [].
[怠|neglect] Someone you put on a [|pedestal] will [] your [|heart].
[治|reign] Build a [@water||moat] around your [|pedestal] to protect your [] of power.
[冶|metallurgy] The secrets of [] and smithing: get your redhot metal and bang it against the [|pedestal] as an anvil. Then cool it quickly with lots of [|ice].
[始|commence] Many men, before they [] their relationship with the [|woman] of their desires, place her on something of a [|pedestal], which often leads to disappointment later on.
[胎|womb] If any [|body part] deserves to be put on a [|pedestal], it is the [] from which new life springs forth.
[窓|window] Love scene: through the [] of a [@house] (from a distance), you see a pair of [|human legs], then [@elbow||elbows], and then some pink [|heart|hearts] floating up like in a cartoon.
[窓|window] Murder scene: peering through the [] of a [@house], you see a gruesome murder scene. [|human legs|Human legs] dangling from a ceiling fan, an [@elbow] sticking out of a wall, and a [|heart] still beating on the carpet.
[去|gone] "Going, going, [||GONE]!", said the gravedigger as he shoveled [|soil] onto the body's protruding [@elbow] (the last bit left to cover)."
[法|legal method] Using a very outdated [||judicial method], the people of Salem dunked accused witches in the [@water] until they were all [|gone]."
[会|meeting] The only thing created in most [||meetings] is a lot of hot air. Imagine a [|rising cloud|cloud] of it rising to the [@parasol|roof].
[⿱一厶|wall||@wall]
[@wall] (Radical) [] #TODO
[至|climax] Sexual [||climaxes] don't always happen on the bed; they sometimes happen against a [@wall] or on the [@ground]!
[室|room] You book a [] in a love hotel called "[|climax|Climax] [@house||House]".
[到|arrival] Just as we were about to [|climax] her father [||arrived] with a [@saber].
[致|doth] This character is used in two very high-frequency words: "you are welcome" (どう<ruby>致<rt>いた</rt></ruby>しまして) and the honorific form of onegaishimasu (お<ruby>願<rt>ねがい</rt></ruby>い<ruby>致<rt>いた</rt></ruby>します). Can't you just picture this ridiculously polite S&amp;M picture? A businessman, who [] the bidding of his [|taskmaster|taskmistress], is [|climax|climaxing] and yelling out "お願い致します" while she whips and says "どう致しまして". (This kanji also means "to bring about" and "do humbly", which is perfect for this image.)
[互|mutually] The 69 position allows both parties to [] give themselves pleasure.
[⿱亠厶|infant] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[棄|abandon] Now we see the [] of an [|infant] on top of [|Mt. Fuji] well above the [|tree] line to die of exposure.
[育|bring up] [||Bringing up] your offspring means raising them from [|infant] until they are [|flesh|meat] ready to be harvested. What, cannibalism is in poor taste? Forget I ever brought it up. But [|bring up] will forever be [|infant] [|flesh|meat] to me. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs!
[撤|remove] A terrible yakuza [|taskmaster] is [|bring up|bringing up] his [|infant]. Every time the infant does something wrong... well, you know what happens to yakuzas when they do something wrong ([@finger] [||removal]).
[充|allot] Scene at the baby factory: Manager: "Good news! Your [|infant] has been [||allotted] [|human legs]". Parent to be: "Thanks [||alot]!".
[銃|gun] "Everyone is [|allot|allotted] a [|metal] [|gun]" (US constitution according to the NRA)
[㐬|infant diarrhea] (Primitive) The [|infant] is producing a [|stream] of [].  
[硫|sulphur] [||Sulphur] is like a [|stone|rock], but it can stink like [|infant diarrhea].
[流|current] At the end of an episode of [|infant diarrhea], the best way to clean up is to dunk everything into the [@water] of the closest [|current].
[允|license] In some Asian kung-fu version of James Bond, the main protagonist has a "[||License] To Kill" with his deadly [@elbow||elbows] and [|human legs].
[夋|legal prostitute] (Primitive) [|license|Licensed] [@wlegs||walker] is a [].
[唆|tempt] A [|legal prostitute] is [||tempting] a man with her [@mouth].
[出|exit] Suddenly, a [出|cactus] comes out of the ground with a sign that reads: []. Now you can leave the desert!
[拙|bungling] With [@finger||fingers] fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could [|exit], the [] husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress.
[岩|boulder] A [|mountain]-sized [|stone] is known as a [|boulder].
[炭|charcoal] You get [|charcoal] from volcano ("fire mountain", <ruby>火山<rt>か.ざん</rt></ruby>) ashes.
[岐|branch off] On the left, there are three [|mountain|mountains]. The road [||branches off] to each of them. Note: This kanji is mostly used for [|branch|branches] in the road.
[峠|mountain pass] A [] is just [|below] the mountain [|above|top].
[崩|crumble] "[]": September 11. The [|mountain] looks like an airplane seen from below, going towards the [|companion|twin] towers.
[密|secrecy] To maintain [], secret societies [|invariably] have to [@house] themselves on top of the [|mountain|mountains].
[蜜|honey] When I think of [|honey], I think of a bee hive, which is a [@house] that [|invariably] has [|insect|insects].
[嵐|storm] [|wind|Winds] are gathering at the base of the [|mountain], going up, and turning into a huge [|mountain] [|storm].
[崎|promontory] A [] is a small, [|strange] [|mountain] that juts out into the sea.
[崖|bluffs] Standing at the base of the [] I announce, "I'm going to climb those [|ivy]-covered [|cliff|cliffs], and then the [|mountain] on top of them." My friends don't believe me, "He []!" they say.
[入|enter] [] #TODO
[込|crowded] Everybody tries to [|enter] the [|road] during rush hour. That's why it's so [|crowded].
[分|part] When something is [|enter|entered] by a [|dagger], it ends up being cut in several [|part|parts].
[貧|poverty] In the case of true [], not having [|money] is only [|part] of the problem. There are other components as well, like lack of education, class structuring, etc., but that doesn't really matter. Just remember that the [|money] is only [|part] of it, not the whole.
[頒|partition] The last time I tried to [] a hard drive under Linux, I got a [|part|splitting] [@head]ache.
[公|public] "[]": I always [|enter] the [公|public restroom|restrooms] using my [@elbow||elbows] because I don't want to touch the door with my hands.
[松|pine tree] [|public restroom|Public restrooms] always reek of [||pine] [|tree] scented disinfectant.
[翁|venerable old man] The [] is using the [|public restroom] in the park where he feeds the pigeons. But, alas, there is no toilet paper! So, he's caught a pigeon and is using it to wipe his arse. (Note the feathers on the bottom of the kanji, this helps remember placement). Can you see the [|feathers] flying everywhere?
[訟|sue] When you [|sue] someone, your [|words] [|public] record.
[谷|valley] [] #TODO
[浴|bathe] The mountain man uses the [@water] from the [|valley] to [].
[|bathe] Now, imagine you are at a <ruby>混浴<rt>こん.よく</rt></ruby> <ruby>温泉<rt>おん.せん</rt></ruby>, and you are watching a woman []. Just picture the [@water] dripping down her cleavage (that [|valley] in between her breasts). Note: cleavage in Japanese is <ruby>谷間<rt>たに.ま</rt></ruby>.
[容|contain] Imagine a [@house] big enough to [] an entire [|valley]. Might want to live there. And now imagine cleaning it... Maybe not...
[溶|melt] An ice cube is [||melting], losing the [@water] it [|contain|contained].
[欲|longing] Guess what? Japanese has dirty words too! (In fact, a lot of them.) A sexual story is NOT inappropriate here, as this kanji is very sexual, such as in <ruby>性欲<rt>せい.よく</rt></ruby> (lust). As for the story: the [|lack] of contact with a woman's [|valley] will leave a man [] for love.
[裕|abundant] Again using the fact that cleavage in Japanese is called "valley of the chest": a woman with [|abundant] cleavage tightly wraps up her bosom in a form-fitting [|cloak], but leaving her [|valley] exposed.
[㕣|gully] [] #TODO
[鉛|lead (metal)] Picture the molten [||lead] (the heavy [|metal]) being discreetly drained out of the factory into a [|gully] behind.
[沿|run alongside] [@water|Water] in a [|gully] [||runs alongside] the path.
[尚|outhouse||@outhouse] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[賞|prize] Some foodstuffs (cereals come to mind) sometimes have [||prizes] mixed in them. Well, in this case, the [|prize] was a [|shellfish|shell] (worth a lot of [|money]) and you only notice in the [|outhouse]...
[党|party] Every major political [], if personified, would look like a giant [|outhouse] walking around with [|human legs] spewing out a constant stream of bullshit.
[堂|public chamber] The [] is located under[@ground] below the [|outhouse].
[常|usual] In the [|outhouse] toilet you'd [||usually] hope to find toilet paper to wipe your arse. If it's already gone, which is [||usually] the case, simply use the [|towel].
[裳|skirt] Compared to pants, a [] is <em>the</em> [|garment] to be wearing when you want to use one of those Japanese toilets. It makes it so much easier: you just walk in the [|outhouse], hike it up, and do your business.
[掌|manipulate] In the [|outhouse] you use your [|hand] to [] your phone.
[皮|pelt] [] #TODO
[波|waves] [||Waves] are the ocean's [@water||watery] [|pelt] (skin).
[婆|old woman] An [] is seen here as a [|woman] with [|waves] (i.e. wrinkles, creases).
[披|expose] You [] security holes in the "[|pelt]" (attack surface) of an application by typing source code and commands with your [@finger||fingers]. (The sense of the kanji here is to reveal something that was hidden, to make known, to open your heart (thus revealing it, exposing it to others), express your opinion, etc.)
[破|rend] [||Rend] is a violent, primitive kind of word. Image: cavemen rending [|pelt|pelts] right off live animals with [|stone] tools.
[被|incur] If you wear a [@cloak|coat] of fur ([|pelt]) you are sure to [] the wrath of animal rights extremists.
[歹|bone] (Radical) [] #TODO
[残|remainder] The people building the [|wood|wooden] [|scaffold] (for their [|festival float]) ran out of [|wood], so they used [|bone|bones] instead for the [] of the scaffolding.
[殉|martyrdom] Think of the early Christian martyrs who suffered [] because of their faith. Once caught, the treatment was so brutal they were reduced to [|bone|bare bones] in just [|decameron|10 days].
[殊|particularly] A t-[|bone] steak is [|vermilion] - [] if served rare.
[殖|augment] Advertisement for Breast Implants: Tired of nights all alone? Want to get [|bone|boned] [|straightaway]? [||Augment] your breasts and all your troubles will be solved!
[列|file] A line of [列|skeleton warriors] (made up of [|bone|bones]) walking in single [], all armed with [@saber||sabers].
[裂|split] They tried issuing the [|skeleton warriors] with proper [|garment|garments] to wear, but they kept getting [] by the sharp [|bone|bones] or by their [@saber||sabers]. In the end, it was decided they look scarier naked anyway.
[烈|ardent] The [|skeleton warriors], marching [|file|single file], prove how [] they are be walking across a field of [@flame||flames]. (Fun fact, ardent used to mean to burn.)
[死|death] OK, this is where knowing some Eastern culture comes in handy! In Japanese society, when someone [||dies] they cremate the body and pick out the remaining [|bone|bones] with special chopsticks. In this case, they're out of chopsticks so they decide to use (gasp!) a [|spoon] instead.
[葬|interment] During the [] ceremony, the grandchildren placed [@flower||flowers] over the [|death|dead] body while the widow sat praying with [|two hands].
[舛|sunglasses] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[瞬|wink] What a dilemma, you wore [|sunglasses] over your [|eye|eyes] when you went to the [@birdhouse|brothel|birdhouse] so you wouldn't be recognized - but now you can't [] at the girl you want!
[耳|ear] Pictograph of an [] (sort of). #TODO
[取|take] You put your [|ear] next to your lover's [|crotch]... and somehow, from it, you hear the words "[||Take] me...".
[趣|gist] The [] of it is this: We [|take] the money and [|run]!
[最|utmost] Do your [] - seize([|take]) the [|day].
[撮|snapshot] Take the [|utmost] care that you don't have your [@finger] in the way when you take a [].
[恥|shame] Vincent van Gogh's greatest [|shame] was cutting off his [|ear] to win the [|heart] of a woman.
[職|post|post (job)] Worst [] in history: quality checker at the [|kazoo] factory. Imagine the toll on your [|ear|ears]!
[聖|holy] A [] man hears with his [|ear|ears] before he speaks with his [|mouth], which places him higher than a [|king] in people's esteem.
[敢|daring] See that [|ear] [|nail|nailed] over there? It's the ear of the last person who was too [|daring] with the [|taskmaster|taskmistress].
[聴|listen] How to truly [|listen]. The words enter through the [|ear]. One must then allow the words to pierce (like a [@needle]) through the mind's [@h-eye] and reach deep into the [|heart].
[懐|pocket] When you are in New York City you have to be alert, i.e. in the "New York [|state of mind|State of Mind]": you need [|ten] [@h-eye||eyes] to make sure no one will go through your [|garment|garments] and pick your [||pockets].
[壊|demolition] A few years ago I saw my beloved pet run into a [] site just as the bomb timer was running out; there was nothing I could do. I still keep some [|dirt] from the site in my old jacket's [|pocket] as a memento.
[曼|mandala] A [] is a graphic representation of the universe, here split in 3 planes of existence; the [|sun] representing the cosmos, the [@h-eye] represents the human observer, the [|crotch] represents the animal instincts.
[漫|loose][慢|ridicule] One obscure Tibetan sect--the Otaku cult--has an unusually [|loose] interpretation of [|mandala] drawing practice. Instead of traditional mandalas they draw mangas (<ruby>漫画<rt>まん.が</rt></ruby>). They then pour [@water] on the image to wash it away, and begin anew. This has earned them the [|ridicule] of other sects, which sometimes enters their [|state of mind].
[買|buy] Rules to [||Buying]: 1. You've had your [@h-eye] on it for a while. 2. You have enough [|money|shells] to afford it.
[置|placement] Stores often optimize their product [] so that customers entering the store [@h-eye] the product [|straightaway].
[罰|penalty] For the Japanese, when the [@h-eye||mind's eye] feels guilty for something bad that the body has done, there are two [||penalties] to choose from. One, you can [|say] "I'm sorry". Two, you can commit suicide by [@saber]. Why, oh why, do so many Japanese executives commit suicide at the first sign of scandal when all the have to do is say "I'm sorry" to get off the hook.
[寧|rather] Think of elegant old housewives with English accents dining together at a [@house] party. The hostess brings out a dish of hors d'oeuvres: a [|nail|spike] of metal with an [@h-eye||eyeball] and a [|heart] skewered on it. Upon being offered this treat, one of the housewives says in her English accent, "I'd [] not.".
[濁|voiced] Pour [@water] over the [@h-eye||eyes] of a [|bound|bound up] [|insect] if you want to hear a pitiful buzz that is very similar to a [] consonant.
[環|ring][還|send back] When I tried to give her the [|jewel] [|ring], she [@h-eye||eyed] me, threw it to the [|floor], opened her [|mouth] and tried to speak, she said nothing. She grabbed her [@scarf] and left. So I'm on the [|road] going to [|send back] the [|ring] minus the [|jewel], the hit to the floor knocked it out.
[夫|husband] [] #TODO
[扶|aid] [||Husband] came crying to look for a first [] kit. He'd [|strike|struck] his [@finger] while nailing something.
[渓|mountain stream] A [|husband] who went fishing at the [|mountain stream] to feed his family, fell in the rapids (we'll assume this is a large mountain stream). He is saved from the waters by a great [|vulture|eagle]. He comes back home with nothing to feed the family, his clothes still dripping [@water||wet] as he tells his wife of how he was saved by a great eagle, and of course she does not believe him.
[規|standard] In the male-dominated world of yesterday, the [|husband]'s way of [|see|seeing] things was considered the [] point of view. Women who dared to disagree were frowned upon.
[替|exchange] A show like "Trading Spouses" called "[||exchanging] [|husband|husbands]" where 2 husbands are exchanged for one [|day].
[賛|approve] Out of two potential [|husband]s, which would you [] of? Well, the one with [|money] of course!!!
[潜|submerge] The two [|husband|husbands] [|exchange] for a [|day] on the reality TV show finally goes underway. One of the two husband's first job is to fix the [@water] faucet in his new family's apartment. Unfortunately, he isn't very good at fixing things and after a few failed attempts the entire apartment is [||submerged] in water.
[失|lose] The [|drop] falling here is the [|husband]'s toupee; he's already [||lost] his hair once, now he's [||losing] it again. Such is life, I suppose.
[鉄|iron][|pig iron] Compare with [|pig iron]. In moving from [|pig iron] to [], some of the [|metal]'s maleability is [|lose|lost]. (The only difference between the two kanji is that [] has knee-less, unbending legs, while [|pig iron] has very supple, bendable legs.)
[迭|alternate] When you [|lose] your way on the [|road], you can always try to tell the wife that you merely took an [] road. "To save time you know. I'm not [|lose|lost], I'm just taking an [] [|road]. Ahem."
[臣|retainer] A [] is a [@slave] (for the purposes of this kanji). This is a pictograph of a slave collar with two handcuffs dangling from it.
[臣|slave||@slave]
[姫|princess] A [] is a [|woman] constantly accompanied by her [|retainer|retainers].
[蔵|storehouse] The [] is [|overgrown] with [@slave||slaves]. The slaves are to be sold in the store, to differentiate from a [|warehouse], which doesn't have the word "store" in it.
[臓|entrails] Again with the Pyramids, each Pharaoh had their [] taken out and put into little jars that were shaped in the forms of their Gods and entombed along with the preserved body. So, the entrails are the [|body part|parts of the body] that are placed in the [|storehouse] along with the Pharaoh!
[賢|intelligent] An [] man is neither [@slave] to his [|crotch] nor to [|money].
[|intelligent] An [] [@slave] will know how to use his/her [|crotch] to make [|money].
[腎|kidney] If you have a weak [], you'll become a [@slave] to your [|crotch]'s need to pee. Oh well, it's just a weakness of the [|flesh].
[堅|strict] The [] parent thinks adolescent kids are "[@slave||slaves] to their [|crotch]" (can't control their hormones), so he [@ground||grounds] them. Permanently!
[臨|look to] The [@slave] is [||looking to] the future; "one day" he thinks "I will be able to [|recline] with all my [|goods], a TV, stereo and washing machine, and when that day comes I shall be truly happy," he sighs.
[覧|perusal] The [@slave] [|recline|reclines] on the [|floor] at night to [|see|watch] the stars. Since that's the only thing the slave is allowed to "read", he does so very thoroughly and diligently, hence [].
[巨|gigantic] The letter "E", with a [] middle stroke.
[拒|repel] The best thing about having [|gigantic] [@finger||fingers] is the ability to [] insects effortlessly!
[力|power] The first mora in a []ful "kamehameha" wave is "カ" (in katakana).
[力|muscle||@muscle]
[男|male] Typically [|male] workers were sent to work in the [|rice field] because of their [|power].
[労|labour] Those jocks who always tried to show their [@muscle||muscles] in the [|schoolhouse] instead of studying are now the ones out there doing manual [] jobs while we sit here and learn Japanese. Ha!
[募|recruit] [||Recruiting] poster. "WANTED: hardworking [|graveyard] diggers. Must have 6 months experience with [|power|powerful] muscles as will be working in South Africa burying deceased elephants."
[劣|inferiority] Even muscular men have [] if they have [|few] brain cells above their [@muscle||muscles].
[功|achievement] Humanity's greatest [||achievements] were achieved through [|craft|craftiness] and [|power].
[勧|persuade] It would take a [|power|powerful] argument to [] me [|Pegasus] was real.
[努|toil] [|guy|GUY] [|power|POWER]! Body builders [||toiling] in the gym all day.
[勃|erection] The [] is the [@crown||crowned] [@needle] that's got the [|power] to make [|child|children].
[励|encourage] [|ten thousand|10,000] Persians are at the base of the [|cliff], but the leader of the 300 Spartans just flexes his huge muscles and [||encourages] his men by shouting that they have the [|power] to fight them all.
[加|add] If you eat anymore, you will be [||adding] more カロries (katakana karo).
[賀|congratulations] [||Congratulations] are so much better when you [|add] [|money] to them.
[架|erect] You play jenga by taking [|wood|wooden] pieces from the middle of a wooden tower and [|add|adding] them to the top. In this way you [] a very unstable structure.
[脇|armpit] What [|body part|part of the body] has a very, very, very [|power|powerful] smell emanating from the side? The [], of course!
[脅|threaten][|armpit] Compare the primitive positions of [|armpit] and [|threaten]. When your [@muscle||triceps] rest alongside your body, they fit snugly against your [|armpit]. When you hold them above your [月|body|body], however, your posture becomes quite [||threatening].
[協|co-] Co-operation: 3 persons can have the [|power] of [|ten] if they [||co-operate].
[行|going] [] #TODO
[彳|going||@going]
[彳|column||@column]
[行|boulevard||@boulevard]
[@going||going (radical)] (Radical) The right part of "[|going]" is used as the primitive "[@going]".
[@column||column (radical)] (Radical) Pictograph of a [].
[律|rhythm] The calligrapher's [@brush] is [@going] down a [@column] of a script, in [] with his meditation.
[復|restore] The [@column] of soldiers has to [|double back] to [] the peace in the village they just left.
[得|gain] Imagine fat people; they avoid [@going] outside to exercise and stay [|glue|glued] to their TV set until [|nightbreak]... so of course they [] weight.
[従|accompany] The [@column] of viking soldiers is always [||accompanied] by a [|horns|horn] [@mend||mending] specialist.
[徒|junior] [||Junior] is [@going] to [|run] the family business one day...
[待|wait] A long [@column] of people queued up [||waiting] outside the [|Buddhist temple], [||waiting] to see the shrine on New Year's Day.
[侍|waiter][|wait] Remember the kanji for [|wait]? Well, after [|wait|waiting] around for too long the [] dropped a dish (hence the missing stroke).
[往|journey][|dwell] The [|lord]'s [|dwell|dwelling] is far away, so [@going] to see him was a pretty long []. The extra stroke on [] is because the [|dwell|dwelling] is so far away that mirage doubled the image.
[征|subjugate] America seeks to [@going||go] and [|correct] other nations. But really what they do is [] them.
[径|diameter] Don't have a tape measure? Then you can measure the [] of a [@column] using a roll of [|toilet paper].
[彼|he] What's the main difference between a [] and a she? The [] has a [@column] covered in a [|pelt] (i.e. a penis).
[役|duty] Japanese kamikaze pilots (and the American from Dr. Strangelove) are so devoted to their [] that they [@going||go] with their [|missile|missiles].
[徳|benevolence][|listen] [||Benevolence] is a good [|listen|listener] who is willing to [@going||go] the distance to help.
[徹|penetrate][|remove] What was the specific transgression that caused the yakuza [|taskmaster] to [|remove] the [@finger] of the child he was [|bring up|bringing up]? Well turns out his dear child had [||penetrated] the maid with his "[@column]"...
[徴|indications] If you see a [@column] of [|king|kings] being marched up the [|mountain] under a [|taskmaster]'s whip... [] are, there has been a coup.
[懲|penal] [||Penal] servitude is served until [|indications] show that one has had a change of [|heart] (learned one's lesson).
[懲|penal][|punish][|penalty] "[|penal|Penal]" is easily confused with [|punish] and [|penalty]. Concentrate on the reasons behind the penal system ("changing people's [|heart|hearts]" here), instead of the penalty itself or the punishment (revenge) aspect. It may help to note that there's no [@saber||sword], but a [|heart].
[兀|legs||@hl-legs]
[微|delicate] Telling your [|taskmaster|taskmistress] (wife) why you are [@going] [|mountain] climbing without her is a [] situation... "For one thing you have such beautiful [@hl-legs] and I don't want to risk injuring them, honey."
[街|boulevard] [||Boulevard]. Specifically, [|ivy] [@boulevard]; think Hollywood [@boulevard||Boulevard] &amp; [|ivy|Vine] Street.
[桁|girder] [||Girders] are support beams that are nowadays mostly made out of steel. But in the ancient houses near the [@boulevard] the girders will be made out of [|wood].
[衡|equilibrium] To maintain the social [] in a future dystopian society, the [@brain||brains] of citizens are [|bound] up (hypnotized). The government is using mental wave emitting statues shaped like [|St. Bernard dog|St. Bernard dogs] put alongside the [@boulevard||boulevards].
[禾|wheat] (Radical) [] #TODO
[稿|draft] The first [] of "catcher in the rye" was actually called "catcher in the [|tall] [|wheat]"... good thing they changed it.
[稼|earnings] Your [] are what allow you to buy [|wheat] (food) and pay your [|house] rent.
[程|extent] The [] to which some people will go to create "[|wheat] [|display|displays]", or as some call them "crop circles", is truly amazing.
[兌|devil]
[税|tax] Nobody likes the [] man, so here it is only fitting that the person who comes over to take some of your [|wheat] is depicted here as a [|devil]. Keep in mind that in feudal societies there was no kind of money to speak of, so [||taxes] were paid by serfs in [|wheat] to the [|devil|devils] who came over to keep them poor.
[稚|immature] "I can't believe I brought you to the fanciest restaurant in town and you asked for [|turkey] on [|wheat]... how [|immature] is that?!"
[和|harmony] The first step to [] is having enough [|wheat] to feed every [|mouth] in the world.
[移|shift] Picture the [|wheat] field, filled with [|many], [|many] stalks of wheat. Notice how they [] like waves in the slightest breeze. They really need to be [|many] for the effect to be noticeable.
[秒|second] Divide the energy per grain of [|wheat] by the total daily energy intake and convert that to [||seconds] per grain of [|wheat]. If you were eating all the time uniformly, that's how [|few] [||seconds] you would spend between eating consecutive [|wheat] grains.
[秋|autumn] In [], the [|wheat] looks the colour of [|fire], meaning it's time to harvest it.
[愁|distress] The farmer experiences great [] in his [|heart] if his [|wheat] catches [|fire], especially if it's in [|autumn] right before the harvest.
[私|private] I already know this as watashi, or "I". In order to associate the keyword of "private", I'll think of this one as "[||Private] I", like a detective.
[秩|regularity] Think of regularity in terms of bowel movements. Eating plenty of [|wheat] will improve [] and help you [|lose] weight.
[秘|secret] The prize at the bottom of a [|wheat] cereal box is [|invariably] a [] decoder ring.
[称|appellation] [||Wheat] that is [|recline|reclining] and [|little] (small) can't get the [] "quality wheat".
[利|profit] In the Middle Ages there where only two ways for peasantry to make a []: by being a [|wheat] farmer, or by being a mercenary and live by the way of the [@saber||sword].
[梨|pear tree] The Japanese [] is the most [|profit|profitable] [|tree] in the world, because it produces its fruit in pairs (sorry for the awful pun).
[穫|harvest] The [] of genetically-modified [|wheat] is taken aboard [|flower vessel] for distribution in poor starving countries.
[穂|ear of a plant] The "[]" is the seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn. In other words, it is the part which feeds us. Thus, the [] is the [|favour] of the [|wheat].
[稲|rice plant] The [] is common in Japan because all the [|wheat] was eaten by [|vulture|vultures] in the [|olden times].
[香|incense] If you focus the [|sun]'s light though a magnifying glass on to the bottom of a stalk of [|wheat] it will start to smoulder and burn like a stick of [|incense]. The weird thing is that it burns from the bottom upwards, hanging in the air as if my magic. Try it and see!
[季|seasons] There's a [||season] for planting [|wheat] and there's mating [||season] for having [|child|children].
[委|committee] Female wheat farmers decide to create a committee, which they fittingly name "The [|wheat|Wheaty] [|woman|Women] [||Committee]".
[秀|excel] You spend three hours putting all of your [|wheat] sale transaction records into Microsoft [||Excel], when suddenly it crashes, so you put your [@fist] through the monitor.
[透|transparent] If you want to [|excel] at driving in the [|road|roadway], it's better if your windows and windshield are []. Picture the drivers with opaque windshields all wrecked on the side of the road.
[誘|entice] [|words|Word] and [|excel|Excel] somehow manage to [] people to use them, despite their plethora of bugs.
[尤|understandably] (Primitive) If you saw a [|dog] with [|human legs], you would be [] frightened.
[稽|training] After a hard day of [], [|wheat] is [|understandably] [|delicious].
[穀|cereals] There are different [] in different parts of the world. Japan has [|samurai] cereal. Great Britain has [@crown|Crowned] [|wheat|Wheat]. The United States and Russia have [|missile|Missile] [||Cereals].
[菌|germ] (Refers to microorganisms) Imagine the [|wheat] [|pent-in|pent in] your fridge growing [|germ] cultures to the point where they resemble [@flower||flowers].
[萎|numb] The [|committee] just spent the last two hours discussing the [@flower] arrangements. I feel utterly [].
[米|rice] Stroke order: I like to think of the first two strokes as "chop sticks" with which one eats the [|rice]. The rest then is the "[|tree]" meaning "plant" in this context.
[粉|flour] [|part|Parts] of parts of parts of parts of [|rice]... is [].
[粘|sticky] You want to [|post a bill or affix|post a bill] but you've run out of glue, so instead you use some [|sticky] [|rice] to do the job. 
[粒|grains] A sage is using [|rice] to fill up a [|vase], but as an exercise in patience, he's doing it [|grains|grain by grain].
[粧|cosmetics] Modern [] are just the descendants of the old [|rice] flour and [|cave] [|dirt] (for dark tones) used in the past.
[迷|astray] You're on the [|road] delivering [|rice], but you went [|astray] and you end up eating the [|rice] to survive.
[粋|chic] In extremely [] restaurants, you have to pay [|90] bucks for a simple bowl of [|rice].
[謎|riddle] [|words|Words] meant to lead you [|astray] are those of a [|riddle].
[糧|provisions] Imagine Japanese army [] like obentou boxes, always containing the same [|rice] [|quantity].
[菊|chrysanthemum] [||Chrysanthemum] [@flower] consists of many tiny petals, just like many [|rice] grains [|bound] up together.
[奥|core] "<ruby>奥<rt>おく</rt></ruby>さん" is a common way to say "wife". In the innermost [|core] of the [@house], the bored [|pent-in|pent up] housewife drops her chores and consumes so much [|rice] she becomes a very [|large] housewife.
[数|number] [|woman|Women] toil in the rice fields carrying heavy sacks of [|rice] to be [||numbered] and counted by the [|taskmaster].
[楼|watchtower] The [|taskmaster] uses a [|tree] as a [] to get a better view of his [|rice]-carrying [|woman|women] as he [|number|counts] them. "I can see you! One! Two! Three!"
[類|variety] "What [||sort] of [|rice] would you like with your [|large dog|dog] [@head]?"
[氺|rice grains||@rice grains] [] #TODO
[漆|lacquer] You built a [|wood|wooden] shack to keep your [@rice grains] safe and dry, but its roof won't be an effective [|parasol|umbrella] against [@water] unless you apply [].
[膝|knee] Back in ancient Japan, people didn't have [] pads for things like rollerblading and such (what, come on. Ninjas on rollerblades. Ultimate 90s flashback). Instead, they would simply dip their knees in [|lacquer], and wait until it dried (hence the [|flesh], and the absence of any [@water||drops of water]). Unfortunately, this meant that you would have to wait about 30 minutes after deciding to go rollerblade until you could actually do it (took some time to dry) - and removing it was a serious (and literal) pain.
[様|-sama] This is ~<ruby>様<rt>さま</rt></ruby>, a generic high term of respect for someone in an unusual profession. If you met a [@person] that created a [|wood|wooden] [|sheep] that was squeezing a single [@rice grains||grain of rice] out of its ass, you'd definitely call that person []. Because that is impressive.
[求|request] Enemy: "Any final [||requests]?" MacGyver: "Just an [|arrow|arrowhead] and some [@rice grains||grains of rice]." MacGyver then throws the grains of rice at the enemy and uses the arrowhead to cut his hands free from the rope.)
[球|ball] The [|king] [|request|requests] your presence at the []... game.
[救|salvation] For [] you have to [|request] forgiveness from this horrible [|taskmaster].
[竹|bamboo] [] #TODO
[⺮|bamboo||@bamboo]
[笑|laugh] When the people tried to build a tower of [@bamboo] to reach the [|heavens], the gods just [||laughed] and laughed.
[笠|bamboo hat] The [@bamboo] [|vase] was beautifully crafted, but the tourist didn't know what it was and wore it as a little [].
[笹|bamboo grass] The [@bamboo] [|generation] smokes [].
[箋|stationery] A friend went abroad to attend the [@bamboo||Bamboo] [|fiesta|Fiestas] and sent me a letter on [] celebrating the event.
[筋|muscle] [||Muscle] is [|body part|part of the body] that gives physical [|power], and can be both supple and tense like [@bamboo].
[箱|box] The best kind of [] is made from [@bamboo] sticks that are [|inter-]laced to make it airtight.
[筆|writing brush] [@bamboo||Bamboo] would make an excellent [] as the ink could flow through the hollow center like an ink pen.
[筒|cylinder] Seriously, all [@bamboo] sticks look the [|same], just long [||cylinders].
[等|etc.] The [@bamboo||Bamboo] [|Buddhist temple|Buddhist Temple] has bamboo buddhas, bamboo buildings, bamboo benches, bamboo beds, bamboo bowls, [] etc. etc.
[算|calculate] Before the time of digital calculators, people used old school [||calculators] made of [@bamboo] (abacus). It's not as easy as a calculator, but you don't need any batteries either. All you need are your [|eye|eyes] and your [|two hands].
[答|solution] The [] to this puzzle is, like the matchstick game, to make the [@bamboo] pieces [|fit] together.
[簿|register||register (noun)] [|Dr.|Doctors] who use [|dilute|diluted] [@bamboo] in place of [@seaweed] as medicine for his patients are put on a special [||Register] of [|Dr.|Doctors] Who Use [@water||Watery] [@bamboo||Bamboo] Medicine.
[刺|thorn] Self-conscious [|tree|trees] use [|belt|belts] to hold [@saber||sabers] on and call them [||thorns].
[策|scheme][築|fabricate][刺|thorn][梗|spiny] A [] by the Secret [@bamboo||Bamboo] Producers Council consists of tying [|belt|belts] around [|tree|trees] to make them grow [@saber]-like [|thorn|thorns]; eventually such [|tree|trees] become permanently [|spiny] as it [|grow late|grows late]. What is their goal you ask? The council wants people to think that when they want to [|fabricate] something, they're better off using [@bamboo] [|craft] despite it being a [|mediocre] substitute for [|wood] (which according to the council's lies/[|fabricate|fabrications] they'd have people believe is [|thorn|thorny], [|spiny], and therefore dangerous to handle!).
[篭|cage] A [@bamboo] [] won't hold a [|dragon]!
[人|person] [] #TODO
[亻|person||@person]
[亻|person|person (primitive)] [] #TODO
[亻|Mr. T] Behold [] (of "A-Team" fame)! I chose Mr. T because he's sure to make amusing stories. He is a very versatile character since he's both the big, tough guy and a rather "moralistic" [|person], telling kids not "to do drugs or alcohol". He is easy to imagine, the heavy gold chains are probably the most prominent feature of the character. And last but not least you can always pepper your story with the famous line "I pity da foo!" Fittingly, this radical looks like a "T".
[佐|assistant] [|Mr. T]'s [|assistant] is on his [|left]. Why? Because Mr. T has this bad habit of suddenly extending his right arm (what with all the boxing that he did), and his assistant got inadvertently punched in the face more than once (ouch). So now his assistant is always to his left side, much safer - "Stay on my left, foo!".
[人|Mr. T||@Mr. T]
[侶|partner] You need a [|spine] to ask out the [@person] you like if you want any hope of them becoming your [|partner].
[但|however] [||However] drunk [|Mr. T] is when he comes back to his place, he always get up at [|nightbreak]. “I pity da foo who gets up after nightbreak!”
[住|dwell] 
[位|rank] A person's [] is a [@person]'s [|stand up|standing].
[仲|go-between] The [] is the [@person] [|in the middle].
[体|body] [|Mr. T] works out his [] ([]-building), using two piles of [|book|books] (i.e. an exercise that can be done at home with two chairs, similar to push-ups but working mostly the shoulders, trapezius and triceps).
[悠|remote] [|Mr. T] ventured out with his [|walking stick] into a [] area to visit his wise, old [|taskmaster] who originally gave Mr. T the [|heart] to fight crime for the good of the community.
[件|affair] (Note: this kanji refers to event or case.) Current [||Affair] headline: [|Mr. T] has [|affair] with [|cow]. "It's only animal 'man' enough for me", he declared.
[仕|attend] Back in the day, a [@person] who stands beside a [|samurai] is usually [||attending] to them or working for them. Here we instead see a [|samurai] [||attending] to [|Mr. T].
[他|other] It's one or the []: fight [|Mr. T], or be thrown into the [|scorpion] pit.
[伏|prostrated] [||Prostration] is when a [@person] puts themselves in a low position like a [|dog], as an extreme gesture of humility.
[伝|transmit] [|Mr. T] [||transmits] a message with [|rising cloud|rising clouds] (smoke) signals, to a nearby American Indian tribe. The smoke signals spell : "I p-i-t-y y-o-u f-o-o !"
[仏|Buddha] [] is a [@person] who always seems to have his [@elbow||elbows] bent.
[休|rest] A [@person] [||resting] by a [|tree].
[仮|provisional] When a politician says some measure is only [], it's usually not in the interest of the common person; such a [] measure is maybe even [|anti-][@person].
[伎|performing artist] The [] is a [@person] doing <ruby>歌舞伎<rt>か.ぶ.き</rt></ruby> theater and dancing around with a [|branch] in his hand.
[伯|chief] The [@person] dressed all in [|white] is the [|chief] (their clothes remain white because they're not doing any work!).
[俗|vulgar] You can tell when a [@person] is from the [|valley] by noticing how [] their speech is.
[信|faith] [||Faith] is believing that a [@person] will be true to his [@word].
[佳|excellent] You can expect that a [@person] with [圭||ivy] league education to be [].
[依|reliant] [|Mr. T] is [] (depends on) on his [|garment] (the gold chains).
[例|example] [|Mr. T] shows the [] to the kids, and stays in the [|file] (e.g., at supermarket). "I pity da foo who does not follow my example!"
[例|example] When [|Mr. T] wants to make an [] out of a group of people (perhaps the people who didn't stay in [|file] at the supermarket), he lines them up all single [|file] and knocks them all out with one punch!
[個|individual] People are generally easily pushed around, but an [] is a [@person] who has [|harden|hardened] (so much that they are indivisible).
[健|healthy] How does [|Mr. T] stay []? By body[|build|building], and by [|build|building] and eating a food pyramid every morning.
[側|side] [|Mr. T]'s one [|rule] is simple; just stay by his [].
[停|halt] "[||Halt] fool" - [|Mr. T] acting as a bouncer at the [|pavilion].
[値|price] "Just tell me the [] [|straightaway]!" says [|Mr. T] impatiently at the used car lot.
[倣|emulate] The black slave who was [|set free] decides to [] [|Mr. T], his role model. He uses his compass to head to Cali to start anew.
[傲|arrogance] In Japanese society, if you don't [|emulate] the [|soil] you will come off as [||arrogant].
[倒|overthrow] The A-Team are planning to [] the government. However, they can't do a damn thing until [|Mr. T] [|arrival|arrives].
[偵|spy] [|Mr. T] is a terrible [|spy]. He walks around [|upright]. "Why should I hide?! I've got nothing to be ashamed of!"
[僧|Buddhist priest] [|Mr. T] becomes a [], and in doing so becomes "the [@person] [|formerly] know as Mr. T".
[億|hundred million] [|Mr. T]'s bright [|idea] is to get a [] kids to vow not to use drugs. "C'mon, foo! Sign the paper!"
[儀|ceremony] [|Mr. T] is the master of [||ceremonies] because he is a [|righteousness|righteous] dude.
[償|reparation] [|Mr. T] says, "This ain't no [|prize], foo! This is [||reparations] for slavery!"
[仙|hermit] A [] is a [@person] who lives in the [|mountain|mountains].
[催|sponsor] Who is the [@person] who brought [|turkey|turkeys] for roasting at the base of the [|mountain]? The [] of the event of course!
[仁|humanity] The [|beginning] of [] required at least [|two] [@person||people].
[侮|scorn] [@person||People] full of [] tend to have scorn for [|every] [@person] (including themselves).
[使|use] [|Mr. T] [||uses] the [|officer] as a punching bag.
[便|convenience] [|Mr. T] loves the [] of the new コンビニ ([] store). Not only does it stay open even if it [|grow late|grows late], they have brand new toilets, and a Post Office!
[倍|double] [|Mr. T] keeps his [] [|muzzle|muzzled]; he wants all the glory.
[優|tenderness] The A-Team is on a mission to help Hamlet. With uncharacteristic [], [|Mr. T] consoles the [|melancholy] Hamlet. "No, I really <em>do</em> pity the poor foo. There, there, little guy... take my hanky."
[伐|fell] A [@person] at the [|fiesta] [] over drunk.
[宿|inn] The Toyoko [||Inn] can house [|hundred|100] people, or 1 [|Mr. T].
[傷|wound] [|Mr. T] cannot believe the [|recline|reclining] [|piggy bank] won't give up. He has cut off its legs one by one until it cannot stand, yet, despite being rendered almost completely useless it won't surrender. “'Tis but a flesh []!” the reclining piggy bank yells.
[呆|dumbfounded] You wake up on top of a [|tree]; your [|mouth] agape, you sit and ponder [].
[保|protect] [|Mr. T] is [|dumbfounded] when told to [] the [|tree|trees] rather than fight the bad guys.
[褒|praise] [|Mr. T] is [||praised] for his [|protect|protecting] of the [|tree|trees] by being given a [|top hat] and [@scarf] which he wears over his mohawk and chains, respectively.
[傑|greatness] The [] of a [@person] does not come from wearing [|sunglasses|shades], but from planting [|tree|trees] to shade everyone.
[付|adhere] A [@person] doesn't [|glue] to a rule or directive, that's silly; instead you say that a person [||adheres] to it.
[符|token] I dropped my [] down the drain, so I [|adhere|adhered] some chewing gum on a piece of [@bamboo] to retrieve it.
[府|municipality] Even if a [] is in a [|cave], you have to [|adhere] to its policies.
[任|responsibility][|pregnancy] In [|pregnancy], the [|woman] was the [|porter] for the first nine months. Now, as a new father, [|Mr. T] is assuming all the [] that comes with it. Can't you just see him here as the new [|porter], wearing a harness with his little dude (who already has a little matching mohawk)?
[賃|fare] It's your own [|responsibility] to pay the bus [] with the correct number of [|money|shells/money].
[代|substitute] [|Mr. T] [||substitutes] an [|arrow] for a toothpick.
[代|substitute] Note: The keyword meaning of [] is to replace something with something else, to act for another, to represent. It's best to stick to the first meaning, because the last two are very close to "[|mediator]". The idea here is that the [|arrow] is not a toothpick, neither it is changed into one, but it can [] for one.
[袋|sack] A [] is an easy [|substitute] for a [|garment].
[貸|lend] [||Lending] is a poor [|substitute] for [|money].
[化|change] [|Mr. T] reaches into his wallet for some spare [|change] but it has all changed into [|spoon|spoons].
[花|flower] The flower is the essence of transience. So, the conceptual [] involves both the concept of [@flower] plus [|change].
[貨|freight][|fare] [||Freight] is the [|money|shells] paid to [|change] the location of something big. Don't confuse with [|fare] where we have an actual [@person] (rider), whose [|responsibility] it is to pay for their own [|fare].
[傾|lean] To [] is to [|change] the position of your [@head].
[何|what] [||What] [|can|can't] [|Mr. T] not do?
[荷|baggage] Your girlfriend arrives at the airport. You give her [@flower||flowers], but she brushes you off and says "here, carry my []". Dumbfounded at her rudeness, you reply "[|what]?!".
[俊|sagacious] The entire town wants to get rid of [|legal prostitute|legal prostitutes], but the [] [|Mr. T] realizes that they are a benefit to the economy and society. So he lets the sa-geishas stay.
[傍|bystander] In Japan, the emperor is a [] - he [|stand up|stands] on his [@crown] but can't really affect the [|direction] of the country (any more than a regular [@person]).
[俺|myself] "I did it all by []!" [|Mr. T] stands there proud, holding a (very [|large]) moray [|eel] in his hand. He's brought down terrorist organisations, drug syndicates, but gets all worked up when catching a fish... what a guy.
[久|long time] This is a picture of a [|person] bowing "[] no see!"
[久|long time] Note: this is the 「ひさ」 in <ruby>久<rt>ひさ</rt></ruby>しぶり ("[] no see!").
[畝|furrow] Using a [|top hat] to make [||furrows] in the [|rice field] takes a [|long time]!
[囚|captured] A [|person] [@pent-in] is obviously [].
[内|inside] [@Mr. T]'s new [|belt] is huge! When he's [] it, his feet no longer touch the ground!
[丙|third class] [@Mr. T] boards an airplane and puts on his [|belt|seatbelt]. But [|third class] is so small that his head hits the [|ceiling].
[柄|design|design (noun)] This is a "[]" as in a "pattern", not a verb as in "to design". Now for the story: The [|tree] grain [|design] was too expensive for the [|third class] airline to use for the paneling; they just painted it instead.
[肉|meat] Here we are looking at an x-ray of a cannibal whose [|inside|insides] are full off [|person|people]-[|meat].
[腐|rot] The [||rotting] [|meat] [|adhere|adheres] to the [|cave] walls.
[坐|sitting together||@@sit]
[坐|sitting together|sitting together (primitive)] (Primitive) Here we have [从|two people] just [|sitting together] on the [@ground].
[座|sit] It's tea break time! The [|two people|workers] in the coal mine ([|cave]) are [|sitting together] or squatting on the [@ground||dirt floor]. Feels good to finally [||sit down] for a bit.
[挫|sprain] I [||sprained] my [@finger] doing a complicated mudra as we were [|sitting together] in meditation.
[卒|graduate] When you [], the students wear [|top hat|hats] while [|two people|parents] [|sitting together|sit together] on pins and [@needle||needles] because it will take [|ten] years to pay off those loans.
[傘|umbrella] Four [|person|people] can fit under this [] (or [@parasol]) if they are thin as a [@needle].
[⿱⼁⼃|plow] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[以|by means of] A [|person|man] earns his living [] the [|plow] and the [|drop|sweat] of his brow. I imagine a sweating man dragging a bronze-age "ard" behind him as he plows his field himself, too poor to afford an ox.
[似|similar] [|Mr. T] finds that living [|by means of] dragging a [|plow] is [] to slavery.
[并|puzzle] Pictograph: [|two hands] (each holding one piece) putting together a [].
[併|join][并|puzzle] [|Mr. T] furiously tries to [] together the pieces of a [|puzzle] in an attempt to [] Mensa, the high-IQ society.
[瓦|tile] (True stroke order) First draw "T" for [||Tile], which then becomes "I". Then draw an "L" fish hook with a dash in the middle to make a mediocre "e" that few can see.
[瓶|flower pot] A [] that has been dropped on the floor is like a [|puzzle] of ceramic [|tile|tiles] to glue together.
[宮|Shinto shrine] This [] is a [@house] built with human [|spine|spines]. Have you ever seen the ossuary in Sedlec, near Kutna Hora in Czech Republic? It is a small church entirely decorated with human bones. Do a web search for "sedlec ossuary", it's quite a sight.
[営|occupation] During a military [|occupation], the adults are off fighting in the resistance so the only people left with a [|spine|backbone] are the students in the [|schoolhouse].
[善|virtuous] Imagine a priest's teaching: "To achieve [||virtue] one must first submit himself as a [|sheep] to God's flock, rejecting the [|horns] of Satan and resisting the [|mouth] of Hell.
[膳|dining tray] The [|virtuous] vegan will not touch this [] because it has had a piece of [|flesh|meat] on it.
[年|year] A [@horse] wears a pair of [|sunglasses] with one lens popped out after a particularly raucous celebration to ring in the New [||Year].
[夜|night] The kanji for [|night] is [|evening] plus an extra long stroke representing the tuxedo tails to match the [|top hat] which [|Mr. T] is wearing out on the town...
[液|liquid] A wet dream is [@water||watery] [] that comes out at [|night].
[塚|hillock] There's already King of the Hill. This is Queen of the [||Hillock]. It's Ms. [|pig|Piggy] sitting on top of a mound of [|soil] with her [@crown].
[敝|shredder] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[幣|cash] In order to create some [], first you feed a [|towel] through a [|shredder] to get the raw materials; "paper" money isn't plain paper; it's mostly linen.
[蔽|cover over] You [] the [|shredder] with [@flower||flowers] when the FBI comes a-knockin'.
[弊|abuse] You’ve heard of Edward Scissor hands? Well, this is Medward [|shredder|Shredder] Hands. Instead of nicely trimming your shrubs, he uses his [|shredder]-equipped [|two hands] to [] your plants by shredding them into wood chips.
[奐|four dogs bound together] (Radical) [] represents [|four] [|large dog|large dogs] [|bound] together.
[|four dogs bound together||@4dogs]
[喚|yell] I think of the sounds that would come from the mouths of the [@4dogs]. I'm imagining lots of [||yelping].
[換|interchange] After months of practice, you finally managed to teach a nice trick to your sled-pulling [@4dogs||four bound up St. Bernard dogs]: one snap of your [@finger|fingers] and they [] their positions.
[鬲|old camera] This is an []. From the subject's point of view, the light is captured by [|one] [|mouth] (the lens). The photographer is under a big [|hood], we only see his [|human legs|legs], and he is holding a [T|spike] in his right hand, which is the shutter release.
[融|dissolve] Now, at the time the photographer takes the photo with his [|old camera], a little [@insect] is flying near the flash. The flash is so powerful that the insect is burnt and [||dissolves] in the air.
[⿰方⿰丿一|banner] What gives people [|direction|directions] best when [@lie down||lying down] on its side? A [] of course!
[施|alms] Under their [|banner], volunteers are requesting [] for [|scorpion] sting victims.
[旋|rotation] Think of [|rotation] as a rotation of animals in the [|zoo] - some are on display (in rotation), some are in cages in the back (out of rotation). The ones currently in [|rotation] (on display) are advertised with a large [|banner].
[遊|play] There is always a stupid "slow children at play" [|banner] talking about [|child|children] at [|play] near the [|road]. They mean "drive slowly", but it sounds like it's slow (stupid) children that are at play.
[⿻亻く|rag] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[旅|trip] The ship starts to leave on its [] across the Atlantic. Underneath a huge [|banner] that spans the width of the ship and says "Bon Voyage", the people wave their [|rag|rags] signalling a safe journey for all on board the Titanic.
[勿|not] This kanji is [||NOT] a [|piglet].
[物|thing] A [|cow] is [|not] a []. It's an animal. If you study japanese you know that living beings and things are discerned from each other with the verbs いる and ある.
[易|easy] Under the [|sun], it is [|easy] to untie a knot. Under a pitch-dark sky, it is [|not|(k)not] so easy.
[賜|grant] A [] is [|easy] [|money].
[尸|flag] (Primitive) Pictograph of a [] (seriously).
[尿|urine] Animals use their [] to mark their territory. So for them, their body [|water] works as a [|flag] denoting their "country".
[尼|nun] Red cross [||nuns] [@sit] in a tent under the red cross [|flag], [|spoon|spooning] out food to the hungry.
[尻|buttocks] The [|baseball] team stick [|flag|flags] in their [] and wave them at the opposing team to put them off.
[泥|mud] Water monks live in a [|den], but [@water] [||nuns] live in the [].
[塀|fence] A [] separates one [|soil] from the other. On a large scale, large pieces of soils in the world have a virtual fence called nation. Picture a world map where all countries have their [|soil] with one color, their national [|flag] as the legend and a [] on the borders... don't you think it looks like a giant [|puzzle]?
[履|put on footgear] You are asleep in camp when you are woken up with news that the [|flag] has fallen to the enemy. You quickly [||put on your footgear] and run off to [|restore] the [|flag].
[屋|roof] The [|flag] is at the [|climax] (highest point) of a castle [].
[握|grip] "[@finger||Fingers] [||gripping] the [|roof] as you're about to fall to your death." This is how hard you've been [||gripping] the sushi <ruby>握<rt>にぎ</rt>り</ruby>, and the chef is very displeased!
[屈|yield] When [||yielding], soldiers raise the white [|flag] before [|exit|exiting] from the trenches.
[掘|dig] If you [] with your [@finger||fingers] hard enough, the soil eventually [|yield|yields] (note the [|soil] primitive is absent in this kanji to emphasize the hard-at-work digging fingers).
[堀|ditch] When [|soil] finally [|yield|yielded] thanks to your [|dig|digging] efforts, what you have is a [].
[居|reside] A humongous American [|flag] in Florida marks the place where all the [|old] people [].
[据|set] With your [@finger||fingers] you [] a [|flag] on the place on the map where you wish to [|reside].
[裾|hem] Something is [|reside|residing] in the [] of your [@cloak]. Maybe you should consider cleaning it?
[層|stratum] Archaeologists at a dig site place small [|flag|flags] marking layers or [||strata] of rock. Each of these layers was [|formerly] the top layer.
[局|bureau] The Federal [||Bureau] of Investigation has email scanners that [|flag] certain [|phrase|phrases].
[遅|slow] The [|accomplished] [|sheep] started off as a crossing guard whose job consisted of waving a "[|slow|SLOW!]" [|flag] for his fellow sheep crossing the [|road].
[漏|leak] [@water||Water] always [||leaked] from the spot where the [|flag] was planted in the roof everytime it [|rain|rained]. Picture a hole left in the ceiling from a flag, now leaking water.
[刷|printing] We [||printed] a japanese [|flag] on his white [|towel] by stabbing him with a [@saber] while he was wearing it.
[尺|shaku] One [] is a unit of length equal to 0.3030 m. The [] kanji looks like the letter R which I think of as standing for <b>R</b>uler. Other meanings include: rule, measure, length. Note: [] is also slang for "blowjob" through the word [尺|shakuhachi]/<ruby>尺八<rt>しゃく.はち</rt></ruby> (which normally refers to an end-blown fippleless bamboo flute).
[尽|exhaust] [||Exhausted] after spending all day playing the [|shakuhachi], you [|ice] your jaw.
[沢|swamp] You're hiding from the enemy underwater in a []. To breathe, you have your [|shakuhachi] flute poking up through the surface of the [@water].
[訳|translate] A modem's job is to [] between your [|words] and the [|shakuhachi]-like tones that get sent down the (telephone) wire.
[択|choose] Depending on where you [] to put your [@finger||fingers], the [|shakuhachi] will produce a different note.
[昼|daytime] Roosters in Japan are very civilized, they play the [|shakuhachi] at [|nightbreak] to signify the beginning of [].
[戸|door] Traditional Japanese storefront [||doors] have several [|flag|flags], known as "noren," hanging down from a (horizontal) curtain [一|rod] in front of them.
[肩|shoulder] The [] is the best [|body part|part of the body] to bash a [|door] open with. (Don't ever try this. Use your foot.)
[房|tassel] When you graduate from a school, after they gave you your [], they shove you to the [|door] and give you a [|compass] saying "Sayonara &amp; Good Luck out there!"
[扇|fan] It's insanely hot today! I'm standing in the [|door|doorway], [||fanning] myself with [|feathers].
[炉|hearth] This [] is equipped with a [|fire]-proof [|door]. On the kanji you can see somewhat pictographically the fire-proof door keeping the fire behind, and nothing comes under the door primitive, where you would have expected to see another primitive.
[戻|re-][涙|tears] Think about Hachiko, the [|dog] waiting at the [|door] of the station, waiting for his master to [|re-]turn, and [|tears] will come to your eyes.
[雇|employ] Our company has no standards. We'll [] any [|turkey] who walks in the [|door].
[顧|look back] The people we [|employ] are always turning their [@head||heads] to []. They don't want to be caught playing solitare on company time.
[啓|disclose] Behind closed [|door|doors], the [|taskmaster] tortures to get prisoners to open their [|mouth|mouths] and [] information.
[示|show] A boy made an [示|altar], but he's afraid to [] it to God because he thinks it's [|two|two(too)] [|little].
[礻|altar||@altar]
[礻|altar] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[礼|salutation] You should [|fishhook] (bend/bow) your body before an [@altar] as a form of [] to God/gods.
[祥|auspicious] On this [||ewe-spicious] occasion, you sacrifice a [|sheep] at the [@altar]. —— Sorry, but I really need more than generic altar sacrifices to connect keywords to stories. Sometimes an egregious pun is the only way.
[祝|celebrate] It's a Bar Mitzvah [||celebration]. At the [@altar], the teenager is singing in his awful, mid-puberty voice. We'll all [] when that part is over!
[福|blessing] [||Blessings] are the exclusive [|rich|richness] people come to the [@altar] for.
[祉|welfare] Religious Republicans regularly go to the [@altar] to pray for a [|stop] to [].
[社|company] When you enter a Japanese [] it's like you join a cult; your workdesk becomes your [@altar] and you worship the very [|soil] the office is built on.
[視|inspection] The bureaucracy in Japan is such that even [@altar||altars] need to be [] approved. A little man with glasses comes once a year to give the altar a "[|see|visual once over]" as he calls it (perhaps checking for unauthorised symbology?).
[奈|Nara] [] (<ruby>奈良<rt>なら</rt></ruby>) is just a [|large|big] [|show] of [|good|goodness] for tourists.
[尉|military officer] Of course it had to be the []'s idea to [|glue] a national [|flag] to the [|altar] he's stationed at.
[慰|consolation] A [|military officer] must offer [] to the [|heart|hearts] of the families of his fallen men.
[款|goodwill] The [|samurai] is on the [|altar], preaching about []. The audience just [|yawn|yawns] however, they want to see the man fight!
[禁|prohibition] A [|grove] of [||prohibited] plants (weed) is being burned upon an [|altar].
[襟|collar] A [] is the part of your [@cloak] that, if tightened too much, will [|prohibition|prohibit] breathing.
[宗|religion] [||Religion] is a worldwide [@house] of [|altar|altars].
[崇|adore] I would [] the [|religion|religious] people if they just went and threw themselves off a [|mountain] top.
[祭|ritual] A [] such as a circumcision: a small piece of [|flesh] from the [|crotch] is left on the [|altar].
[祭|festival][|ritual] Note that the [] kanji is also the 「まつり」 in <ruby>夏<rt>なつ</rt></ruby><ruby>祭<rt>まつり</rt></ruby>.
[察|guess] It's anyone's [] whose [@house] she will wake up in the morning after the [|festival].
[擦|grate] Ouch! [|guess|Guess] what I just [||grated] in the grater? ...my [@finger]!
[由|reason|reason (noun)][由|sprout] The most common thought which [|sprout|sprouts] from my [@brain] is "Why?"; the eternal search for a [].
[抽|pluck][押|push][挿|insert] With your [@finger||fingers] you [] a [由|Brussels sprout] from the garden as the chef asked you. Oops, that's not the kind they wanted, so you hurriedly [|push] it back in the wrong way. The chef later finds out of course, and makes you [|insert] a [|thousand] plants as punishment (that is, [|insert|inserting] the [|thousand] plants the right way, rather than just [|push|pushing] them in).
[油|oil] In a rather surprising scientific breakthrough, genetically modified [|Brussels sprout|Brussels sprouts] (which have become extremely absorbative), are thrown in the [@water] to suck up [|oil] spills.
[袖|sleeve] The bad magician says, "As you can see, there's nothing up my [||sleeves]!" Then he trips over his [@cloak] and [|Brussels sprout|Brussels sprouts] fall everywhere.
[宙|mid-air] The image of walking into a [@house] and finding a single [|Brussels sprout] floating [] is enough for me to remember. Maybe there's a magician in the kitchen shouting a reassuring "Don't mind the sprout!".
[届|deliver] In the US, when the mail is [||delivered], a [|flag] [|sprout|sprouts] up on your mailbox.
[笛|flute] You pick up your [@bamboo] [], and recoil in shock as out comes not the dulcet melody you had hoped to play, but rather a [|Brussels sprout]! You play again, and again a Brussels sprout. A bamboo flute that plays sprouts! Fabulous! Puts that golden egg laying goose in its place.
[軸|axis] Absurd but memorable image. Imagine a [|car] going across a plain at a fast speed. Suddenly a single [|Brussels sprout] (the only one to be seen) gets stuck to the car's wheels, causing the car to fly around its [].
[|rotation][|axis][|revolve] Don't confuse [|rotation] with [|axis] or [|revolve]!
[甲|armour] Pictograph: [] looks like a bird's eye view of a tank (modern [||armoured] vehicle).
[岬|headland] A [|headland] is a mountain surrounded on 3 sides by water (just like your head is a mountain surrounded by air on 3 sides). Headlands are natural forts; in fact, once men build castles on them, they become [|armour|armoured] [|mountain|mountains]. (Gibraltar, for example, is basically an armoured mountain.)
[申|speaketh] "[]" is the kanji used in <ruby>申<rt>も</rt></ruby>し<ruby>申<rt>も</rt></ruby>し that is used when answering the phone, similar to the way an American would say "hello, this is X speaking". You can picture it as being a [|mouth] with a [|cross|crosshair] that indicates that that specific mouth is indeed speaking.
[申|monkey||@monkey]
[伸|expand] [|Mr. T] wants to show you the incredible expanding [@monkey] trick. He grabs a monkey by the tail and neck, stretches him out a few times, then blows him up like a balloon. The monkey [||expands] until it pops. Haha, sucka monkey, I pity you foo.
[神|gods] Hinduism has many [], not just one God. One of the most famous of these gods is Hanuman the [@monkey]. Many [@altar||altars] are dedicated to him.
[捜|search] The [@monkey] [||searches] around with his [@finger||fingers] for his [|crotch].
[果|fruit] Eve ate [] from the [|tree] and knowledge filled her [@brain].
[菓|candy] [||Candy] is coloured like [@flower||flowers] and flavoured like [|fruit].
[課|chapter] Words signify the written [|words] in a book. The fruit represents something whole, complete. A chapter in a book often offers a complete idea, setting, or account. Imagine eating a [|fruit] at the end of each [] of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" to reward yourself. (If you ate a fruit at the end of each [|paragraph], you'd very quickly run out of fruit.)
[裸|naked] Here we have Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden [|fruit] and realizing they were [], and so clothing themselves in a [@cloak].
[斤|ax] The [||axe]-wielding maniac [|nail|nails] a poor victim, right under a [|cliff]. Blood everywhere!
[析|analyze] Use an [|ax] to [析|chop] down a [|tree] and [] its rings.
[所|place] A place for everything and everything in its place. To the right of the [|door] is the standard [|place] for the [|ax|axe].
[|location][|place] Don't confuse [|location] with [|place]. Think of location not as a single fixed spot, but as the act of locating.
[祈|pray] Religious freedom has not always been respected throughout history, and nobody knew how to force religion on an indigenous people like the Spanish missionaries. They posted conquistadors at either side of the [@altar||altars] at the local missions, and if anybody refused to [|pray], they would get the [|ax|axe].
[近|near] Two points A and B are separated by a long road. To make A and B [|near], take an [|ax], cut a big chunk of [|road], and the work is done.
[折|fold] It's the latest Japanese game show: フォルド! Contestants are given a sheet of paper and are told to [] it into a complex [折|origami] (<ruby>折<rt>お</rt></ruby>り<ruby>紙<rt>がみ</rt></ruby>) shape. If they're not done in 60 seconds, a huge [|ax|axe] descends from the ceiling and chops their work in half. Contestants know to recoil their hands from the falling axe, but some have been so absorbed in folding, they ignore the buzzer and get their [@finger||fingers] chopped off.
[哲|philosophy] A two-hour lesson of [] in high school. All the students, bored to death, are [|fold|folding] sheets of paper into planes, [|origami], or whatever, while the [|mouth] of the teacher is talking about Platon, Kierkegaard and many other notorious philosophers.
[逝|departed] One of the dearest of Japan's dearly [|departed] is Sasaki Sadako, who developed Leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima, and became famous for folding more than a thousand paper cranes, never giving up hope. To this day, people in Hiroshima still fold [|origami] cranes in her memory. For this character, let us imagine a parade in her honor, the entire [|road] lined with [|fold|folded] cranes.
[誓|vow] A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with [|origami] cranes with their [||vows] ([|words]) on the bottom.
[斬|chop off] A "chop shop" is a place where stolen [|car|cars] are taken, and parts [||chopped off] with an [|ax|axe], to be sold. 
[漸|steadily][暫|temporarily] The [] rising [@water] was filling the [|car], but the firefighters were working [] to save me: they used their [|ax|axe] to [|chop off] part of my car, getting me out. Needless to say, I was [|temporarily] out of a car for a few [|day|days].
[⿺乚米|rice on a fishhook] (Primitive) [] is [|rice] on a [|fishhook] (presumably being used as bait).
[断|severance] A man puts some [|rice on a fishhook] as bait, but catches a fish so strong, he needs to take out his [|ax|axe] and [||sever] the line lest he be dragged into the depths.
[質|quality] You're at a local [|ax] dealer and you have two axes which you are testing for [] by trying to split [|shellfish|clams] right down the opening. Picture yourself succeeding with one [|ax] and then some weird [質|substance] comes out of the shell... eww.
[斥|reject] The kids at school used to [] me. Made me feel really bad till I brought my [|ax|axe] to school. See the [|drop] of blood on it?
[訴|accusation] An [] is [|words] that make you feel [|reject|rejected].
[乍|saw] Pictograph of a []; the horizontal lines on the right are the teeth.
[昨|yesterday] One can use a simple word play to remember this character - the [|day] that I [|saw] before today was [].
[詐|lie] Her [||lies] are [|words] that cut not like a knife, no not cleanly, but savagely like a [|saw].
[作|make] A [@person] with a [|saw] is about to use it to cut some wood to [] something.
[⺕|broom] (Primitive) Pictograph of the working end of a [].
[雪|snow] [] is a kind of [|rain] that you sweep away with a [|broom].
[⿱⺕氺|rice broom] The [] is a small [|broom] I use exclusively for sweeping [|rice grains]. (After all you wouldn't use your bathroom broom for that!)
[剥|peel off][録|recording] "The [|rice broom]! It cleans, it sweeps, it hits! In fact, [|peel off] the mahogany exterior to uncover a [@saber]! It slices, it dices, it kills!" said the [|rice broom] infomercial, with a [|metal] music [|recording] playing in the background (quite fittingly).
[尋|inquire] The police [||inquired] into the erotica (エロ) scandal. They tried to sweep away the evidence (with a metaphorical [|broom]), but some of it stuck (like [|glue]).
[急|hurry] She was always [|bound] to a [|broom], her [|heart] pounding in a [] to finish before she was punished for being slow.
[穏|calm] This whole kanji is a picture of [||calmness]. The [|wheat] has been harvested and even the [@vulture||vultures] sit calmly watching the humans [|broom|sweep] and clean-up after the harvest is over. [|heart|Hearts] are peaceful and [|calm] at this time of the year. Even the days are calm without storm.
[⿳⺕冖又|French maid] (Primitive) A [] with a little [|broom], a dainty [@crown||tiara], and a sinfully short skirt showing her knickers ([|crotch])!
[侵|encroach][浸|immersed] This is an evil maid attack; while you're [|immersed] in your bath at the hotel, the [|French maid] installs malware on your (powered-down) laptop, [||encroaching] upon your [@person||personal] privacy.
[寝|lie down] After work, the [|French maid] goes [@house||home] and [||lies down] with a [@turtle]. Turtle? Well, he's sloooow and always hard...
[帚|broom and apron] (Primitive) [|broom] + [|apron] = []
[婦|lady] In high society, a [] is a [|woman] who never touches [|broom and apron|a broom or an apron].
[掃|sweep] Whether I [] something away with my [@finger] or my [|broom], I should always wear my [|apron]. ("[|broom and apron]")
[当|hit] Here is a weird carnival game where you hold a [|broom] like a javelin and throw it, trying to hit the center of a very [|little|small] target. The target is so small, in fact, that if someone does manage to [|hit] it, the operator turns in surprise and says, "Whoa, really?!" (<ruby>本<rt>ほん</rt></ruby><ruby>当<rt>と</rt></ruby>？！).
[彙|glossary] People who read the [] are [|mutually] exclusive (exclude the top line of "mutually") from those who eat [@crown||crowned] [|fruit].
[⿻⺕亅|rake] (Primitive) A [] is like a [|broom], but with a stronger thicker [亅|handle] (so much that it is visible).
[争|contend] This can be seen as a Retiarius, a Roman gladiator. The Retiarius always fought with a net to [|bound] up his opponents, and with a trident ([|rake]), which was able to pierce enemies after tying them. They were terrific [||contenders], so they were only paired with gladiators specially equipped to fight them.
[浄|clean] Most [||cleaning] solutions have to [|contend] with [@water], the cheapest and most common [||cleaning] agent.
[事|matter] Just [|one] word about this [] from your [|mouth] and you will find this [|rake] across it.
[唐|T'ang] Screw it, the [] character refers to the drink. The powdery orange substance is actually found on the floor of tropical [|cave|caves], where trained aboriginal peoples use wooden [|rake|rakes] to rake the Tang into a pile before putting a bit of it in their [|mouth|mouths] to see if it's tasty or not.
[糖|sugar] [||Sugar] made from [|rice] has a [唐|tangy] flavour.
[隶|sieve] (Primitive) If you're in a spot and you need a [] for your [@rice grains], you can use a [|broom].
[康|sane] A psychiatric hospital is located in a [|cave]. To determine, which patients are [] and can be released, they are given a [|sieve] and asked to empty a bathtub (the [] ones take out the plug and get the water out with ease).
[逮|apprehend] Think police roadblocks. They act like [|road] [|sieve|sieves], letting good people through but [||apprehending] criminals.
[尹|mop] (Primitive) A [] is like a [|rake] except a lot more bendy!
[伊|Italy] The "boot" of [] has gotten Europe all muddy. Who else could [|mop] it up but [|Mr. T]?
[君|old boy] There's a tendancy in Japan to make the younger members (<ruby>後輩<rt>こう.はい</rt></ruby>) clean up after the older members (<ruby>先輩<rt>せん.ぱい</rt></ruby>) of a group, which results in a lot of grumbling and whining. "Well []," a senpai might say, "If you did as much work with the [|mop] as you do with your [|mouth], you would have been done an hour ago".
[群|flock] Good [|old boy|ol' boys] are like [|sheep]; they tend to [] together.
[而|comb] Pictograph of a rather fancy [].
[耐|-proof] My [|comb] is rust-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof. But unfortunately it is not idiot[]--and I [|glue|glued] it to myself.
[需|demand] Supply and [] is a simple concept: when it [|rain|rains], the demand for [|comb|combs] goes up to deal with wet hair.
[儒|Confucian] One day, [|Mr. T] started reading the little proverbs he found in fortune cookies, and with this newfound wisdom he became a [] scholar. He was suddenly in high [|demand] as people came from all over to ask for his sage advice, immensely satisfied with suggestions such as, "You will find happiness with a new love".
[端|edge] When you [|stand up|stand] a [|comb] on its [], it looks like the [|mountain] kanji.
[両|both] [||Both] effective ways to commit suicide, hang yourself from the [|ceiling] with your [|belt] or jump off a [|mountain].
[満|full] Add [@water] then the [@flower||flowers]. With [|both] the vase will be [].
[凵|shovel] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[画|brush stroke] You decide one day to paint a kanji on your [|ceiling]. Unfortunately, you don’t have a brush, so, being innovative, you use a [|sprout]. Knowing it could be messy, you search for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a [|shovel] down on the floor to catch any drips resulting from the [||brush strokes].
[歯|tooth] My dentist used his [|foot] and a [|shovel] to dislodge the [|rice] stuck between my [||teeth].
[噛|chew] Stop [||chewing] with your [|mouth] open, I can see your [|tooth|teeth]!
[曲|bend] (Pictograph) This is the mouth of [曲|Bender] the robot (from Matt Groening's animated series Futurama), whose specialty is (of course) [||bending].
[曹|cadet] [|Bender] lasted just [|one] [|day] in the space [||cadets].
[遭|encounter] [曹|Bender the cadet] had an "[] of the third kind" on the [|road].
[漕|rowing] [|Bender the cadet] is [], during some army exercise, and he's very afraid of [@water] (Bender is a robot).
[槽|vat] Also as part of some army survival exercise, the [|cadet|cadets] (including [|Bender the cadet|Bender]) are sent into the [|wood|woods] to build a [] (for collecting water for example).
[斗|Big Dipper] Since the meaning of "[|Big Dipper]" is rather specific and the sense of measurement seems to be a more common usage, I concentrate on the primitive meaning of [斗|measuring cup]. This is a pictograph, with the first two strokes representing the measuring ticks on the side of the cup.
[料|fee] When buying [|rice], the [] is calculated by the cup. Naturally we don't just use any cup; it has to be a proper [|measuring cup].
[科|department] The national [] of [|wheat|wheats] and [|measuring cup|measures] (said someone who misheard "dept. of weights and measures").
[図|map] This is a pictograph of a treasure [].
[用|utilize] To avoid confusing with [|use]; "[|utilize]" has an artificial, business-speak connotation; you only utilize "utilize" when you're trying to puff up what you're saying and sound important. So: "BioTools Inc introduces the FG2000 screwdriver, utilizing our latest FleshGrip(tm) technology!" I'm seeing this as a picture of a stubby [用|screwdriver] with a handle made of [|flesh], a short [丨|rod|shaft], and prongs to hold a screw in place until you drive it.
[庸|comfortable] To live a [] life, single men need only a [|cave] for living, a [|rake] for cleaning and a [|screwdriver] for fixing.
[備|equip] [|Mr. T] wants to climb up and pick the [@flower|flowers] at the top of the [|cliff]. He [||equips] himself with [|screwdriver|screwdrivers] to use as climbing spikes to reach the top of the cliff. Imagine a large ammo belt full of Philips screwdrivers instead of bullets.
[⿱艹一|salad||@salad]
[@salad] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[昔|once upon a time] For those who don't know the expression, "[@salad] [|day|days]" means the time of one's youth (originally from Shakespeare's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_days">Antony and Cleopatra</a>), or "[]" when one gets sufficiently old.
[借|borrow][措|set aside][惜|pity] This is the story of [|Mr. T] [|borrow|borrowing] my [昔|salad bowl] and not returning it. People keep saying [|Mr. T] is such a great guy, but he visited my place once; as soon as he saw my [|salad bowl] he [|set aside|set it aside] with his [@finger||fingers] and said he's going to [|borrow] it. Well, it took months of asking back for it before I guess his [|state of mind] turned to [|pity] and he finally gave it back with no explanation.
[錯|confused] I'm still [] as to why [|Mr. T] would fixate on [|borrow|borrowing] that bowl specifically, but my best guess is that it was a nice [|metal] [|salad bowl] (unlike all the plastic ones).
[散|scatter] The [|taskmaster] is dissatisfied with the meal she's served, and [||scatters] the [|salad] and [|flesh|meat] across the floor for the servants to clean up.
[廿|twenty] A [|generation] is 30, one stroke less is [].
[庶|commoner] If you are so poor that you are a [], you will have to live [|twenty] commoners to a [|cave|cavern], with only one [@flame||fire] for everyone to share.
[遮|intercept] If don't want your secret message to be [||intercepted], make sure your deliveryman is dressed as a [|commoner] while traveling on the [|road].
[席|seat] The only thing the [|commoner|commoners] had for a [] was some old [|towel|toweling] (while their lords could recline on luxurious couches).
[度|degrees] The [|cave|cavern] refugees are so poor that they can't afford thermometers. So, the menfolk expose their [|crotch|crotches] inside the cavern, and approximate the temperature in [] from how shrivelled everything looks downstairs...
[渡|transit] This particular form of [] is a ferry (one of the actual meanings of this character). Naturally it can only cross the [@water] if it's not frozen, so the temperature must be above 0 [|degrees].
[卉|haystack] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[奔|bustle] Hustle and [|bustle]: a big [|St. Bernard dog] frisking about in a [|haystack], knocking it down and spreading the hay about, after the field hands just stacked it up.
[賁|farmers and fishermen] (Primitive) In this primitive we see farmers collecting [|haystack|haystacks] in the fields and the fishermen catching [|shellfish] on the coast; hence [].
[噴|erupt][墳|tomb][憤|aroused] History of Pompei: An unexpected [||eruption] and from the [|mouth] of the volcano come lava that threatens the unexpecting farmers collecting [|haystack|haystacks] in the fields and the fishermen catching [|shellfish] on the coast ([|farmers and fishermen]). The [|soil] became their [|tomb|tombs]. Every time I think about those poor [|farmers and fishermen] my [|state of mind] becomes [|aroused|aroused/indignant].
[尭|strawman] (Primitive) The [] is a [|haystack] with [@hl-legs|human legs].
[焼|bake] Ah, there's no better way to [] a pizza than an oven [|fire] fueled by a burning [|strawman]. And if you listen carefully, there are stifled strawman screams coming from the kitchen.
[暁|daybreak] The first person to see the [|sun] at [] is of course the [|strawman] who stands outside all [|day].
[半|half] Pictograph: there are three boards to cut, the first one is already in [] and there are still two more to go.
[伴|consort] Your [] is the [|person] who is your other [|half].
[畔|paddy ridge] A [] divides the [|rice field] in [|half].
[判|judgment] In the bible, King Solomon's [] was admired not by saying to cut the baby in [|half] with the [@saber], but that it revealed who the true mother was.
[𠔉|quarter] [||Quarter] is [|half] even further split into two (see how the vertical line splits).
[拳|fist] If you have a roll of [|quarter|quarters] in your [|hand], your [] will deliver a much more effective punch.
[券|ticket] Entering the movie, the dude asks for your [], so he can tear it in half. He looks at you funny when you hand him a ticket already torn in half. He quietly tears the stub into [|quarter|quarters] after you show him your [|dagger] with a smile.
[巻|scroll] How to make snake <ruby>巻<rt>ま</rt></ruby>き: Take a [@snake]. Roll it up in rice and nori (seaweed paper) like a []. Cut into [|quarter|quarters] and serve on a wooden geta with ginger and wasabi.
[圏|sphere] You're fighting a powerful enemy. Your mage uses a [巻|quartersnake scroll] of protection, and he's [@pent-in||pent in] a [] of protection.
[勝|victory] After your [] cut your enemy's [|flesh] into [|quarter|quarters] to show your [|power].
[藤|wisteria] The [] is a type of hanging vine covered with [@flower||flowers]. By the light of the [|quarter] [|moon], the flowers look like clusters of [|rice grains].
[謄|facsimilie] Sending a [] to the [|moon] can be problematic; only a [|quarter] of the [|words] actually get there.
[片|one-sided] I see [] as a pictograph of a man kneeling and presenting the ring to his future wife. Unfortunately, his feelings are [] (<ruby>片思<rt>かた.おも</rt></ruby>い, or unrequited love).
[版|printing block] Before the advent of printers in Japan, typewriters couldn't be built as they were in the west due to how many kanji there are. Lots of small [] had to be used instead. [片|one side|One side] of the printing block would have a mirrored ([|anti-]) image of the kanji. This is true.
[之|of] [|of|Of] all the kanji, this is the only one 之orro can write (while wearing the Mask [|of] Zorro).
[乏|destitution] Children in complete [] have no hope of ever getting toys to play with, so when they find even a tiny [|drop] of a [之|building block] they are overjoyed.
[芝|turf] Artificial [] made easy: [@flower||flowers] stuck on top of [|building block|building blocks] that you can place anywhere.
[不|negative] [|one|One] [|below] zero is a [] number.
[否|negate] To distinguish between [|negate], and [|negative], note that [|negate] contains a [|mouth], which is a kind of gate.
[杯|cupfuls] The maple [|tree] is very [|negative] about it, but the farmer still collects [] of maple syrup from it.
[矢|dart] Zeus ran out of lightning bolts and has to [|drop] [||darts] from the [|heavens].
[矯|rectify] [|angel|Angels] have now been given a powerful tool to [] human behaviour instantly, without delay - they have been allowed to drop [|dart|darts] on those who misbehave... spare the dart and spoil the man...
[族|tribe] With a [|banner] declaring "Keep Out!" and blow[|dart|darts] to back it up, the Amazon [|tribe] is not that friendly.
[知|know] I should [|know]. After all, I did graduate from [|dart|Dart][|mouth]!
[智|wisdom] [||Wisdom] is [|know|knowing] everything <em>over</em> the [|sun] (fools assume it's everything <em>under</em>).
[挨|shove] Your [@finger||fingers] slip when someone's [|elbow] [||shoves] you, causing you to drop the [|dart] you were about to throw. But as you can see, their [|elbow] is very small, so you decide they're too weak to [|shove] back.
[矛|halberd] マオ Zedong always carried a [].
[柔|tender] Use a [|halberd] to [||tenderize] a [|tree]: halberds can chop, poke, and slash, so it's all good!
[務|task] It is with the [|halberd] he holds that the [|taskmaster] exerts his [|power] over those actually performing the [].
[霧|fog] This [] is the perfect [|weather] for us to perform our [|task] undetected.
[⿰丨丿|spear] Pictographic: looks like the point of a [].
[班|squad] The Royal [||Squad] is a rather embarrassing: two [|king|kings] bickering over who gets the one [|spear].
[帰|homecoming] A female warrior returns home from battle. Her husband takes away her [|spear] to symbolize the end of fighting and gives her a [|broom and apron]. “Boy, this is some kind of []”, thinks the veteran.
[弓|bow] Pictograph of a [] (sans the bowstring).
[引|pull] [|bow|Bow] and [丨|arrow]. What do you do to use it? [||Pull].
[弔|condolences] If your [|bow] and [丨|arrow] look like this, [] to your family.
[弘|vast] If you pull the [|bow] back with your [@elbow], you can shoot a [] distance (or break the bow).
[強|strong] An [|insect] who can fly [|vast] distances must be [|strong].
[弥|more and more] By [|recline|reclining] a [|little], I can pull my [|bow] open [].
[弱|weak] [|bow|Bows] with [|ice] on them are brittle and [].
[溺|drowning] [|weak|Weak] people placed in the [@water] start [].
[弗|dollar sign] [] looks roughly like an old-style dollar sign with two vertical lines going through the "S".
[沸|seethe] When his daughter used a lot of [@water] for her shower, the father could practically see the [|dollar sign|dollar signs], so he was [||seething] with anger.
[費|expense] An [] is an expense, whether you put it in [|dollar sign|dollars] or in [|money|seashells].
[第|No.] [@bamboo||Bamboo] [|dollar sign|bling] is the newest Asian Rapper, [] 1 on the charts right now.
[弟|younger brother] [||Younger brothers] are always more prone to mischief. Mine, you can almost see the little [|horns] on him and the [|dollar sign|dollar signs] on his eyes when he comes up with a money-making scheme.
[丂|snare] [] #TODO
[巧|adroit] It takes an [] (dextrous) person to [|craft] [|snare|snares] (traps) without falling in them.
[号|nickname] When a certain [] [|snare|snares] to people's [|mouth|mouths], they will call you that way forever.
[朽|decay] A [|wood|wooden] [|snare] [||decays] quickly (unlike a sturdier metal one).
[誇|boast] The hunter's []: I [|say], it was a "[|large|big] [|one]", but the [|snare] broke and it got away.
[顎|chin] The left part "咢" is a face with an oversized [] (so large you notice it before the rest of the [@head].
[汚|dirty] The hunter takes care of his used [|snare|snares] by submerging them in [@water] (the extra horizontal line) because they are [].
[与|bestow] 
[写|copy] 
[身|somebody] 
[射|shoot] 
[謝|apologize] 
[老|old man] 
[考|consider] 
[孝|filial piety] 
[教|teach] 
[拷|torture] 
[者|someone] 
[煮|boil] 
[著|renowned] 
[箸|chopsticks] 
[署|signature] 
[暑|sultry] 
[諸|various] 
[猪|boar] 
[渚|strand] 
[賭|gamble] 
[峡|gorge] 
[狭|cramped] 
[挟|sandwiched] 
[頬|cheek] 
[追|chase] 
[阜|large hill] 
[師|expert] 
[帥|commander] 
[官|bureaucrat] 
[棺|coffin] 
[管|pipe] 
[父|father] 
[釜|cauldron] 
[交|mingle] 
[効|merit] 
[較|contrast] 
[校|exam] 
[足|leg] 
[促|stimulate] 
[捉|nab] 
[距|long-distance] 
[路|path] 
[露|dew] 
[跳|hop] 
[躍|leap] 
[践|tread] 
[踏|step] 
[踪|trail] 
[骨|skeleton] 
[滑|slippery] 
[髄|marrow] 
[禍|calamity] 
[渦|whirlpool] 
[鍋|pot] 
[過|overdo] 
[阪|Heights] 
[阿|Africa] 
[際|occasion] 
[障|hinder] 
[隙|chink] 
[随|follow] 
[陪|auxiliary] 
[陽|sunshine] 
[陳|line up] 
[防|ward off] 
[附|affixed] 
[院|Inst.] 
[陣|camp] 
[隊|regiment] 
[墜|crash] 
[降|descend] 
[階|story] 
[陛|highness] 
[隣|neighboring] 
[隔|isolate] 
[隠|conceal] 
[堕|degenerate] 
[陥|collapse] 
[穴|hole] 
[空|empty] 
[控|withdraw] 
[突|stab] 
[究|research] 
[窒|plug up] 
[窃|stealth] 
[窟|cavern] 
[窪|depression] 
[搾|squeeze] 
[窯|kiln] 
[窮|hard up] 
[探|grope] 
[深|deep] 
[丘|hill] 
[岳|Point] 
[兵|soldier] 
[浜|seacoast] 
[糸|thread] 
[織|weave] 
[繕|darning] 
[縮|shrink] 
[繁|luxuriant] 
[縦|vertical] 
[緻|fine|fine (opposite of coarse)] With such a high [|thread] count, this mattress cover [|doth] look [|fine] (not coarse).
[線|line] 
[綻|come apart at the seams] 
[締|tighten] 
[維|fiber] 
[羅|gauze] 
[練|practice] 
[緒|thong] 
[続|continue] 
[絵|picture] 
[統|overall] 
[絞|strangle] 
[給|salary] 
[絡|entwine] 
[結|tie] 
[終|end] 
[級|class] 
[紀|chronicle] 
[紅|crimson] 
[納|settlement] 
[紡|spinning] 
[紛|distract] 
[紹|introduce] 
[経|sutra] 
[紳|sire] 
[約|promise] 
[細|dainty] 
[累|accumulate] 
[索|cord] 
[総|general] 
[綿|cotton] 
[絹|silk] 
[繰|winding] 
[継|inherit] 
[緑|green] Tie [] [|thread] around the [|rice broom] (that you use only for sweeping up [|rice grains|grains of rice]) to distinguish it from the other colour threaded [|broom|brooms] that you might use elsewhere (e.g. in the bathroom, in the garage).
[縁|affinity] 
[網|netting] 
[緊|tense] 
[紫|purple] 
[縛|truss] 
[縄|straw rope] 
[幼|infancy] 
[後|behind] 
[幽|faint] 
[幾|how many] 
[機|mechanism] 
[畿|capital suburbs] 
[玄|mysterious] 
[畜|livestock] 
[蓄|amass] 
[弦|bowstring] 
[擁|hug] 
[滋|nourishing] 
[慈|mercy] 
[磁|magnet] 
[系|lineage] 
[係|person in charge] 
[孫|grandchild] 
[懸|suspend] 
[遜|modest] 
[却|instead] 
[脚|shins] 
[卸|wholesale] 
[御|honorable] 
[服|clothing] 
[命|fate] 
[令|orders] 
[零|zero] 
[齢|age] 
[冷|cool] 
[領|jurisdiction] 
[鈴|small bell] 
[勇|courage] 
[湧|bubble up] 
[通|traffic] 
[踊|jump] 
[疑|doubt] 
[擬|mimic] 
[凝|congeal] 
[範|pattern] 
[犯|crime] 
[氾|widespread] 
[厄|unlucky] 
[危|dangerous] 
[宛|address] 
[腕|arm] 
[苑|garden] 
[怨|grudge] 
[柳|willow] 
[卵|egg] 
[留|detain] 
[瑠|marine blue] 
[貿|trade] 
[印|stamp] 
[臼|mortar] 
[毀|break] 
[興|entertain] 
[酉|sign of the bird] 
[酒|sake] 
[酌|bartending] 
[酎|hooch] 
[酵|fermentation] 
[酷|cruel] 
[酬|repay] 
[酪|dairy products] 
[酢|vinegar] 
[酔|drunk] 
[配|distribute] 
[酸|acid] 
[猶|waver] 
[尊|revered] 
[豆|beans] 
[頭|head] 
[短|short] 
[豊|bountiful] 
[鼓|drum] 
[喜|rejoice] 
[樹|timber-trees] 
[皿|dish] 
[血|blood] 
[盆|basin] 
[盟|alliance] 
[盗|steal] 
[温|warm] 
[蓋|lid] 
[監|oversee] 
[濫|overflow] 
[鑑|specimen] 
[藍|indigo] 
[猛|fierce] 
[盛|boom] 
[塩|salt] 
[銀|silver] 
[恨|resentment] 
[根|root] 
[即|instant] 
[爵|baron] 
[節|node] 
[退|retreat] 
[限|limit] 
[眼|eyeball] 
[良|good] 
[朗|melodious] 
[浪|wandering] 
[娘|daughter] 
[食|eat] 
[飯|meal] 
[飲|drink] 
[飢|hungry] 
[餓|starve] 
[飾|decorate] 
[餌|feed] 
[館|Bldg.] 
[餅|mochi] 
[養|foster] 
[飽|sated] 
[既|previously] 
[概|outline] 
[慨|rue] 
[平|even] 
[呼|call] 
[坪|two-mat area] 
[評|evaluate] 
[乂|sheaf] (Primitive) [] #TODO
[刈|reap] After [||reaping] the wheat with [@saber||sabers], make sure to pack it into [|sheaf|sheaves]. Otherwise it'll get mouldy and you won't [] the benefits of your work!
[匁|monme] "You shouldn't make [|sheaf|sheaves] too thick or else they won't dry properly." This one guy took my advice to the letter, so he's [|bound|binding] [|sheaf|sheaves] no heavier than one [] (that is, 3.75 g).
[刹|Moment Temple] In the [||Temple of Moment], the monks carry around [@saber||sabers] made of [|wood|wooden] [|sheaf|shaves].
[希|hope] "I [] this works", you say as you stuff a [|sheaf] of stalks under your blanket but above your [|linen|linens]. Your real [] is that your parents don't find out that you left the house.
[凶|villain] 
[胸|bosom] 
[離|detach] 
[璃|crystal] 
[殺|kill] 
[爽|bracing] 
[純|genuine] 
[頓|immediate] 
[鈍|dull] 
[辛|spicy] 
[辞|resign] 
[梓|catalpa] 
[宰|superintend] 
[壁|wall] 
[璧|holed gem] 
[避|evade] 
[新|new] 
[薪|firewood] 
[親|parent] 
[幸|happiness] 
[執|tenacious] 
[摯|clasp] 
[報|report] 
[叫|shout]
[喚|yell][叫|shout] Think 'yelp' when you hear '[|yell]' to help dinstinguish it from [|shout].
[糾|twist] 
[収|income] 
[卑|lowly] 
[碑|tombstone] 
[陸|land] 
[睦|intimate] 
[勢|forces] 
[熱|heat] 
[菱|diamond] 
[陵|mausoleum] 
[亥|sign of the hog] 
[核|nucleus] 
[刻|engrave] 
[該|above-stated] 
[骸|remains] 
[劾|censure] 
[述|mention] 
[術|art] 
[寒|cold] 
[塞|block up] 
[醸|brew] 
[譲|defer] 
[壌|lot] 
[嬢|lass] 
[毒|poison] 
[素|elementary] 
[麦|barley] 
[青|blue] 
[精|refined] 
[請|solicit] 
[情|feelings] 
[晴|clear up] 
[清|pure] 
[静|quiet] 
[責|blame] 
[績|exploits] 
[積|volume] 
[債|bond] 
[漬|pickling] 
[表|surface] 
[俵|bag] 
[潔|undefiled] 
[契|pledge] 
[喫|consume] 
[害|harm] 
[轄|control] 
[割|proportion] 
[憲|constitution] 
[生|life] 
[星|star] 
[醒|awakening] 
[姓|surname] 
[性|sex] 
[牲|animal sacrifice] 
[産|products] 
[隆|hump] 
[峰|summit] 
[蜂|bee] 
[縫|sew] 
[拝|worship] 
[寿|longevity] 
[鋳|casting] 
[籍|enroll] 
[春|springtime] 
[椿|camellia] 
[泰|peaceful] 
[奏|play music] 
[実|reality] 
[奉|dedicate] 
[俸|stipend] 
[棒|rod] 
[謹|discreet] 
[僅|trifle] 
[勤|diligence] 
[漢|Sino-] 
[嘆|sigh] 
[難|difficult] 
[華|splendor] 
[垂|droop] 
[唾|saliva] 
[睡|drowsy] 
[錘|spindle] 
[乗|ride] 
[剰|surplus] 
[今|now] 
[含|include] 
[貪|covet] 
[吟|versify] 
[念|wish] 
[捻|wrenching] 
[琴|harp] 
[陰|shade] 
[予|beforehand] 
[序|preface] 
[預|deposit] 
[野|plains] 
[兼|concurrently] 
[嫌|dislike] 
[鎌|sickle] 
[謙|self-effacing] 
[廉|bargain] 
[西|west] 
[価|value] 
[要|need] 
[腰|loins] 
[票|ballot] 
[漂|drift] 
[標|signpost] 
[栗|chestnut] 
[慄|shudder] 
[遷|transition] 
[覆|capsize] 
[煙|smoke] 
[南|south] 
[楠|camphor tree] 
[献|offering] 
[門|gates] 
[問|question] 
[閲|review] 
[閥|clique] 
[間|interval] 
[闇|pitch dark] 
[簡|simplicity] 
[開|open] 
[閉|closed] 
[閣|cabinet] 
[閑|leisure] 
[聞|hear] 
[潤|wet] 
[欄|column] A [|gates|gate], at the very minimum, is made up of two [||columns] and a [|ridgepole] (horizontal beam).
[闘|fight] 
[倉|godown] 
[創|genesis] 
[非|un-] 
[俳|haiku] 
[排|repudiate] 
[悲|sad] 
[罪|guilt] 
[輩|comrade] 
[扉|front door] 
[侯|marquis] 
[喉|throat] 
[候|climate] 
[決|decide] 
[快|cheerful] 
[偉|admirable] 
[違|difference] 
[緯|horizontal] 
[衛|defense] 
[韓|Korea] 
[干|dry] 
[肝|liver] 
[刊|publish] 
[汗|sweat] 
[軒|flats] 
[岸|beach] 
[幹|tree trunk] 
[芋|potato] 
[宇|eaves] 
[余|too much] 
[除|exclude] 
[徐|gradually] 
[叙|confer] 
[途|route] 
[斜|diagonal] 
[塗|paint] 
[束|bundle] 
[頼|trust] 
[瀬|rapids] 
[勅|imperial order] 
[疎|alienate] 
[辣|bitter] 
[速|quick] 
[整|organize] 
[剣|saber] 
[険|precipitous] 
[検|examination] 
[倹|frugal] 
[重|heavy] 
[動|move] 
[腫|tumor] 
[勲|meritorious deed] 
[働|work] 
[種|species] 
[衝|collide] 
[薫|fragrant] 
[病|ill] 
[痴|stupid] 
[痘|pox] 
[症|symptoms] 
[瘍|carbuncle] 
[痩|lose weight] 
[疾|rapidly] 
[嫉|envy] 
[痢|diarrhea] 
[痕|scar] 
[疲|tired] 
[疫|epidemic] 
[痛|pain] 
[癖|mannerism] 
[匿|hide] 
[匠|artisan] 
[医|doctor] 
[匹|equal] 
[区|ward] 
[枢|hinge] 
[殴|assault] 
[欧|Europe] 
[抑|repress] 
[仰|faceup] 
[迎|welcome] 
[登|ascend] 
[澄|lucidity] 
[発|discharge] 
[廃|abolish] 
[僚|colleague] 
[瞭|obvious] 
[寮|dormitory] 
[療|heal] 
[彫|carve] 
[形|shape] 
[影|shadow] 
[杉|cedar] 
[彩|coloring] 
[彰|patent] 
[彦|lad] 
[顔|face] 
[須|ought] 
[膨|swell] 
[参|visit] 
[惨|wretched] 
[修|discipline] 
[珍|rare] 
[診|checkup] 
[文|sentence] 
[対|vis-a-vis] 
[紋|family crest] 
[蚊|mosquito] 
[斑|speckled] 
[斉|adjusted] 
[剤|dose] 
[済|finish] 
[斎|purification] 
[粛|solemn] 
[塁|bases] 
[楽|music] 
[薬|medicine] 
[率|ratio] 
[渋|astringent] 
[摂|vicarious] 
[央|center] 
[英|England] 
[映|reflect] 
[赤|red] 
[赦|pardon] 
[変|unusual] 
[跡|tracks] 
[蛮|barbarian] 
[恋|romance] 
[湾|gulf] 
[黄|yellow] 
[横|sideways] 
[把|grasp] 
[色|color] 
[絶|discontinue] 
[艶|glossy] 
[肥|fertilizer] 
[甘|sweet] 
[紺|navy blue] 
[某|so-and-so] 
[謀|conspire] 
[媒|mediator] 
[欺|deceit] 
[棋|chess piece] 
[旗|national flag] 
[期|period] 
[碁|Go] 
[基|fundamentals] 
[甚|tremendously] 
[勘|intuition] 
[堪|withstand] 
[貴|precious] 
[遺|bequeath] 
[遣|dispatch] 
[潰|defile] 
[舞|dance] 
[無|nothingness] 
[組|association] 
[粗|coarse] 
[租|tariff] 
[狙|aim at] 
[祖|ancestor] 
[阻|thwart] 
[査|investigate] 
[助|help] 
[宜|best regards] 
[畳|tatami mat] 
[並|row] 
[普|universal] 
[譜|musical score] 
[湿|damp] 
[顕|appear] 
[繊|slender] 
[霊|spirits] 
[業|profession] 
[撲|slap] 
[僕|me] 
[共|together] 
[供|submit] 
[異|uncommon] 
[翼|wing] 
[戴|accept humbly] 
[洪|deluge] 
[港|harbor] 
[暴|outburst] 
[爆|bomb] 
[恭|respect] 
[選|elect] 
[殿|Mr.] 
[井|well] 
[丼|domburi] 
[囲|surround] 
[耕|till] 
[亜|Asia] 
[悪|bad] 
[円|circle] 
[角|angle] 
[触|contact] 
[解|unravel] 
[再|again] 
[講|lecture] 
[購|subscription] 
[構|posture] 
[溝|gutter] 
[論|argument] 
[倫|ethics] 
[輪|wheel] 
[偏|partial] 
[遍|everywhere] 
[編|compilation] 
[冊|tome] 
[柵|palisade] 
[典|code] 
[氏|family name] 
[紙|paper] 
[婚|marriage] 
[低|lower] 
[抵|resist] 
[底|bottom] 
[民|people] 
[眠|sleep] 
[捕|catch] 
[哺|suckle] 
[浦|bay] 
[蒲|bullrush] 
[舗|shop] 
[補|supplement] 
[邸|residence] 
[郭|enclosure] 
[郡|county] 
[郊|outskirts] 
[部|section] 
[都|metropolis] 
[郵|mail] 
[邦|home country] 
[那|interrogative] 
[郷|hometown] 
[響|echo] 
[郎|son] 
[廊|corridor] 
[盾|shield] 
[循|sequential] 
[派|faction] 
[脈|vein] 
[衆|masses] 
[逓|parcel post] 
[段|grade] 
[鍛|forge] 
[后|empress] 
[幻|phantasm] 
[司|director] 
[伺|pay respects] 
[詞|parts of speech] 
[飼|domesticate] 
[嗣|heir] 
[舟|boat] 
[舶|liner] 
[航|navigate] 
[舷|gunwale] 
[般|carrier] 
[盤|tray] 
[搬|conveyor] 
[船|ship] 
[艦|warship] 
[艇|rowboat] 
[瓜|melon] 
[弧|arc] 
[孤|orphan] 
[繭|cocoon] 
[益|benefit] 
[暇|spare time] 
[敷|spread] 
[来|come] 
[気|spirit] 
[汽|vapor] 
[飛|fly] 
[沈|sink] 
[枕|pillow] 
[妻|wife] 
[凄|nifty] 
[衰|decline] 
[衷|inmost] 
[面|mask] 
[麺|noodles] 
[革|leather] 
[靴|shoes] 
[覇|hegemony] 
[声|voice] 
[眉|eyebrow] 
[呉|give] 
[娯|recreation] 
[誤|mistake] 
[蒸|steam] 
[承|acquiesce] 
[函|bin] 
[極|poles] 
[牙|tusk] 
[芽|bud] 
[邪|wicked] 
[雅|gracious] 
[揖|interpretation]
[釆|animal tracks|animal tracks (radical)]
[釈|explanation] 
[番|turn] 
[審|hearing]
[|listen][|hearing] [||Listening] to others is different from simply [|hearing]. Example: A married man while reading his newspaper as his wife is talking to him; she suddenly says, "You're not listening to me, are you?" He replies, "I heard every word you said. You said..." "Yes, but you're not listening."
[翻|flip] 
[藩|clan] 
[毛|fur] 
[耗|decrease] 
[尾|tail] 
[宅|home] 
[託|consign] 
[為|do] 
[偽|falsehood] 
[畏|apprehensive] 
[長|long] 
[張|lengthen] 
[帳|notebook] 
[脹|dilate] 
[髪|hair of the head] 
[展|unfold] 
[喪|miss] 
[巣|nest] 
[単|simple] 
[戦|war] 
[禅|Zen] 
[弾|bullet] 
[桜|cherry tree] 
[獣|animal] 
[脳|brain] 
[悩|trouble] 
[厳|stern] 
[鎖|chain] 
[挙|raise] 
[誉|reputation] 
[猟|game hunting] 
[鳥|bird] 
[鳴|chirp] 
[鶴|crane] 
[烏|crow] 
[蔦|vine] 
[鳩|pigeon] 
[鶏|chicken] 
[島|island] 
[暖|warmth] 
[媛|beautiful woman] 
[援|abet] 
[緩|slacken] 
[属|belong] 
[嘱|entrust] 
[偶|accidentally] 
[遇|interview] 
[愚|foolish] 
[隅|corner] 
[逆|inverted] 
[塑|model] 
[遡|go upstream] 
[岡|Mount] 
[鋼|steel] 
[綱|hawser] 
[剛|sturdy] 
[缶|tin can] 
[陶|pottery] 
[揺|swing] 
[謡|Noh chanting] 
[鬱|gloom] 
[就|concerning] 
[蹴|kick] 
[懇|sociable] 
[墾|groundbreaking] 
[貌|countenance] 
[免|excuse] 
[逸|elude] 
[晩|nightfall] 
[勉|exertion] 
[象|elephant] 
[像|statue] 
[馬|horse] 
[駒|pony] 
[験|verification] 
[騎|equestrian] 
[駐|parking] 
[駆|drive] 
[駅|station] 
[騒|boisterous] 
[駄|burdensome] 
[驚|wonder] 
[篤|fervent] 
[罵|insult] 
[騰|inflation] 
[虎|tiger] 
[虜|captive] 
[膚|skin] 
[虚|void] 
[戯|frolic] 
[虞|uneasiness] 
[慮|prudence] 
[劇|drama] 
[虐|tyrannize] 
[鹿|deer] 
[麓|foot of a mountain] 
[薦|recommend] 
[慶|jubilation] 
[麗|lovely] 
[熊|bear] 
[能|ability] 
[態|attitude] 
[寅|sign of the tiger] 
[演|performance] 
[辰|sign of the dragon] 
[辱|embarrass] 
[震|quake] 
[振|shake] 
[娠|with child] 
[唇|lips] 
[農|agriculture] 
[濃|concentrated] 
[送|send off] 
[関|connection] 
[咲|blossom] 
[鬼|ghost] 
[醜|ugly] 
[魂|soul] 
[魔|witch] 
[魅|fascination] 
[塊|clod] 
[襲|attack] 
[嚇|upbraid] 
[朕|majestic plural] 
[雰|atmosphere] 
[箇|item] 
[錬|tempering] 
[遵|abide by] 
[罷|quit] 
[屯|barracks] 
[且|moreover] 
[藻|seaweed] 
[隷|slave] 
[癒|healing] 
[璽|imperial seal] 
[潟|lagoon] 
[丹|cinnabar] 
[丑|sign of the cow] 
[羞|humiliate] 
[卯|sign of the hare] 
[巳|sign of the snake]
