| For each kanji character, write a Markdown‐formatted mnemonic that uses its keyword and the keyword of all its components. | |
| Kanji: 欠 (lack of) | |
| Components: 𠂊 (hook claw), 人 (person) | |
| Mnemonic: This **person** is a pirate. He lost his hand to a crocodile many years ago. Nowadays, the ***lack of*** a hand does not bother him too much. In fact, the **hook claw** that replaces it is the mark of a true pirate, so he is quite proud of it! | |
| Kanji: 類 (kind (of something)) | |
| Components: 米 (rice), 大 (large), 頁 (page) | |
| Mnemonic: The waiter at a Chinese restaurant hands you a **large** menu. Each **page** has all ***kinds*** of **rice** on offer! | |
| Kanji: 燃 (burn) | |
| Components: 火 (fire), 然 (sort of thing) | |
| Mnemonic: ***Burning*** things up with **fire** is just my **sort of thing**. (Spoken like a true pyromaniac.) | |
| Kanji: 頂 (top of) | |
| Components: 丁 (street), 頁 (page) | |
| Mnemonic: To be at the ***top of*** your game, you need both practical knowledge (**street** smarts) and theoretical knowledge (having read many **pages**). | |
| Kanji: 険 (risky and steep) | |
| Components: 阝 (small village), 㑒 (consensus) | |
| Mnemonic: Everyone agrees (there is **consensus**) that the path to the **small village** is ***risky and steep***. | |
| Kanji: 困 (distressed) | |
| Components: 囗 (closed box), 木 (tree) | |
| Mnemonic: You would feel ***distressed*** too if you were a **tree** trapped in a **closed box**! I have no place to grow! | |
| Kanji: 頭 (head) | |
| Components: 豆 (bean), 頁 (page) | |
| Mnemonic: What do you have in that ***head*** of yours? A **bean** for a brain? Go read more **pages** and become more knowledgeable about the world! | |
| Kanji: 確 (certain) | |
| Components: 石 (stone), 冖 (roof without a chimney), 隹 (old bird) | |
| Mnemonic: An **old bird** has made a nest on your **roof**. What do you do? You call Misaka from a <cite>A ***Certain*** Scientific Railgun</cite> to get rid of it, of course! But she doesn’t really want to vaporize the poor thing, so she just throws a **stone** to scare it away. (What was the point of calling her, then‽) | |
| Kanji: 魚 (fish) | |
| Components: 𠂊 (hook claw), 田 (rice field), 灬 (fire sparks) | |
| Mnemonic: Catch ***fish*** with a **hook**, collect rice from the **rice field**, cook them with **fire**… And my meal is ready! | |
| Kanji: 警 (to police (something)) | |
| Components: 敬 (respect), 言 (say) | |
| Mnemonic: ***To police something*** is to make people **respect** what the law **says**. | |
| Kanji: 筆 (writing brush) | |
| Components: 竹 (bamboo), 聿 (brush) | |
| Mnemonic: A traditional ***writing brush*** is a **brush** made of **bamboo**. | |
| Kanji: 獄 (prison) | |
| Components: 犭 (animal), 言 (say), 犬 (dog) | |
| Mnemonic: In ***prison***, like in the **animal** kingdom, only the toughest survive. You have to watch what you **say**. It’s a **dog**‐eat‐dog world. | |
| Kanji: 新 (new) | |
| Components: 立 (standing up), 木 (tree), 斤 (axe) | |
| Mnemonic: In order for a ***new*** construction to be made, an empty lot is needed. If there are any **trees** **standing up**, they must be cut down with an **axe**. | |
| Kanji: 怪 (suspicious) | |
| Components: 忄 (weak heart), 圣 (sacred) | |
| Mnemonic: That painting of the **Sacred** **Heart** of Jesus looks ***suspicious***. I think it might be a forgery. | |
| Kanji: 温 (warm (to the touch)) | |
| Components: 氵 (water drops), 日 (sun), 皿 (dish) | |
| Mnemonic: If you leave **water** on a **dish** in the **sun**, it will get ***warm***. | |
| Kanji: 階 (floor (of a building)) | |
| Components: 阝 (small village), 皆 (all) | |
| Mnemonic: It might be a **small village**, but, despite that, **all** of its buildings have many ***floors***. It’s a village of skyscrapers! | |
| Kanji: 多 (many) | |
| Components: 夕 (evening (before sunset)), 夕 (evening (before sunset)) | |
| Mnemonic: Two **evenings** in a day would be one too ***many***. | |
| Kanji: 別 (separate) | |
| Components: 口 (mouth), 万 (ten thousand), 刂 (knife) | |
| Mnemonic: Tom Six is at it again. For his next flick, he wants to stitch together **ten thousand** people, **mouth**‐to‐anus. One of the most graphic and disturbing scenes will feature one of the victims using a **knife** to ***separate*** perself. | |
| Kanji: 並 (line up) | |
| Components: 䒑 (antlers on a wall), 业 (runway) | |
| Mnemonic: In order to land a plane you have to ***line up*** properly with the **runway**. The things that look like **antlers** at the end of the runway are the control towers; you should follow their instructions. | |
| Kanji: 姿 (figure) | |
| Components: 次 (next), 女 (woman) | |
| Mnemonic: The **next** **woman** that I date will have a perfect **figure**. Because I’m done with 3D women—it will *literally* be an anime figure! | |
| Kanji: 実 (real) | |
| Components: 宀 (roof with a chimney), 𡗗 (three people) | |
| Mnemonic: Living under a **roof with a chimney** with **three people** (a wife and two children)—a happy family life—is not something I could have ever imagined. It does not feel ***real***. | |
| Kanji: 謝 (apologize) | |
| Components: 言 (say), 射 (shoot) | |
| Mnemonic: **Shot** first, ***apologize*** (**say** you are sorry) later. | |
| Kanji: 提 (propose) | |
| Components: 扌 (left hand), 是 (go with) | |
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