Kanjidamage

one/line radical
ONYOMI: ICHI, ITSU DESCRIPTION:
Number: 1 1 stroke PK, DUH, PN
"Eazy-e's debut album "EAZY duz it" was so good, IT'S going to go to number one on the charts."
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
one thing
( ) ( ) ( )
one more time! (one) + (times) = (one more time!)
together (one) + (together) = (together)
one person, alone ( FP ) (one) + (person) = (one person, alone) One of many many Japanese words for 'normal.' The nuance of is ordinary, non-special - as opposed to a member of a special group of people of things. means, an average person. As in, 'an average person is not allowed in this Yakuza bar.' (generally, commonly) + (motivation / '-al') = (ordinary)
( )
( ) ( )
first day of the month ( FP ) (one) + (sun, day) = (first day of the month)
the best! Number one! ( NEO ) (one) + (number) = (number one!)
USED IN:
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two
ONYOMI: NI as in, "Vince NEIL has two chins."
Number: 2 2 strokes DUH
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
two things
( ) ( )
two people ( FP ) (two) + (person) = (two people)
February ( KANA) (two) + (moon) = (February)
( ) ( )
hangover (literally: 'paying for your drink') ( SARC) (two) + (sun, day) + (drunk) = (hangover)
second day of the month (two) + (sun, day) = (second day of the month)
XXX
(XXX )
PREFIX meaning double, as in "double-chin" or "twin-engine plane." ( PRE) (two) + (heavy / overlap) = (double-xxx)
Number: 3 3 strokes PN, DUH
USED IN:
three
ONYOMI: SAN as in, "SANTA Claus has three wives ." KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
(also sometimes pronounced *) three things. Yes, it's got 2 pronunciations
( )
can you guess?!???

2
(three) + (person) = (can you guess?!???)
( ) ( )
March ( KANA) (three) + (moon) = (March)
triangle (three) + (horn/corner) = (triangle)
USED IN:
Number: 4 2 strokes BETA, PK
total
ONYOMI: RYOU JUKUGO:
as in, "We don't have the total number of parts, so we need to REORDER more." To me it just looks like a broken coat hanger, which is totally useless.
( )
to finish work on a project - an annual report, a re-formatting of the database, etc. ( NP ) (complete) + (total) = (finish)
( )
roger that! ('I got it!') (originally used by military, but now often used when you text, because of its brevity)! (total) + (solve / untie) = (OK, got it.)
( )
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to expire, to come to an end (used about contracts or subscriptions expiring) ( NP ) (end) + (total) = (expire)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the 'one' radical child NO 'one' radical total beforehand katakana MA
Hint
Radical
A child is ONE year old. The complete kanji is complete even WITHOUT the 'one' radical. MAMA was around before baby.
USED IN:
Number: 5
3
child
ONYOMI: SHI
3 strokes PN
(one/line radical) + (total)

That poor child SHE has lived a total of one year! DESCRIPTION: From now on, when you see a kanji with the onyomi of "KO", please use (KOdomo) for the English keyword. KUNYOMI:
child
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
child ( KUNKUN ) (child) + (accompany) = (child)
parents and child together - also the rather cruel name for a traditional dish: boiled chicken served with scrambled eggs. ( KUNKUN , SARC) (parents/kindness) + (child) = (meat and eggs)
( )
the condition something's in. Can be used with a living thing or object. Always used only with or . Usually emphaizes the LONG TERM condition. Although hungover people have been heard to remark, ! (check out) + (child) = (condition)
( )
chair ( FP , 1/2 KANA)
( )
wheelchair ( NEO , KUNKUN ) (car) + (chair) = (wheelchair)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
Number: 6
4
woman
ONYOMI: JO as in, "Jack Off." KUNYOMI:
3 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC
It looks like a lady, tilting her head to one side and crossing her arms as she watches you JACK OFF. She really disapproves of it!!!
JUKUGO:
woman - but don't say it by itself, it's like saying 'That broad.'
( )
girl . Newspapers use it for a female up through junior high, but guys talking about 'chicks,dude' might use it to refer to a 20 year old. (woman) + (child) = (girl)
( )
her. Might also mean 'girlfriend' depending on context. (him) + (woman) = (her / girlfriend)
( ) ( ) ( )
the polite- but not formal - way to say woman (woman) + (person) = (woman)
young girl - usually 5- 15 years old. (a little (amount)) + (woman) = (young girl)
PREFIX used about women from first grade through college. Used to refer to female students as a group: " line up on the left side of the class, (danshi) line up on the right side." BOOBOO: You wouldn't say "She's a joshi." ( PRE) (woman) + (child) = (female xxx / xxx for girls)
( )
female - emphasizes biology, (sex, rather than gender). (woman) + (sex / essential nature) = (female)
( )
high school girl.
female students as a group: " line up on the left side of the class, (danshi) line up on the right side." BOOBOO: You wouldn't say "She's a joshi." ) + (tall) + (life / birth) = (high school girl.) USED IN:
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like
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 7 6 strokes
(child) + (woman)
Your Moms likes exercising her COLON on Youtube. A woman and her child means 'like', huh? Think you can handle the linguistics by yourself, Noam Chomsky?? KUNYOMI: ()
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to like To have a preference for. The noun form of . You often say, 'That's my konomi,' meaning 'That's my favorite kind' . . . but it also implies that you know a lot about that thing.(***)
* *
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
really like (big) + (like) = (really like) literally, 'look' or 'shape,' as in 'He's dressed as a woman' : But usually it means 'coolness:' (cool) or (not).(when used in the figurative, 'cool' sense, it is usually KANA) ( 1/2 KANA) (character, aspect) + (like) = (looks)
( )
this is a rad one. it means "try too hard to be cool". (Literally "manufacturing coolness") ( KANA) (character, aspect) + (like) = (try too hard to be cool)
( )
curiosity BOOBOO: if you want to say you're curious about a specific thing, you'd use ( ) instead. usually means "curiosity-in-general": you have an inquiring personality, or a gaze of curiosity on your face. You'd never say, "Oh, you play in a band? ! (like) + (strange) + (heart) = (curiosity)
rape
(woman)
ONYOMI: KAN Genghis KHAN raped three women.
Number: 8 9 strokes FR, ABU, BETA
DESCRIPTION:By looking at the radicals you can see how Politically Incorrect Ancient China was when they were inventing kanji. You see three women and you'd assume the kanji would mean something positive, like sisterhood or a cheerleader human pyramid. Buuuuuut no. JUKUGO:
( )
rape ( FP ) (burly) + (rape) = (rape)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! - zero stars! - zero stars! -
statuatory rape ( NP ) (law) + (plan) + (rape) = (statuatory rape)
incest ( ABU) (near) + (parents/kindness) + (partner) + (rape) = (incest)
bestiality ( ABU) (beast) + (rape) = (bestiality)
necrophilia ( ABU) (death) + (rape) = (necrophilia)

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mouth/small box radical

ONYOMI: KOU, KU
Number: 9
3 strokes PK, DUH, SYMBOLIC, PN, JERK RADICAL
- as in, "My KUchi on your COLON . " Disgusting? Yes!. . . but try forgetting this ON-yomi now. You can think of this as an open mouth, just yelling at you . Always yelling! Again with the yelling JESUS WOULD YOU SHUT UP ALREADY JUST SHUT UP. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. JUST CALL THE COPS. GREAT! DESCRIPTION: JERK RADICAL ALERT- although the kanji means 'mouth' the radical sometimes means "box". Irritating but not totally a hassle when you consider that it looks more like a box than a mouth, anyway. Also, jukugo with tend to be KUNKUN for some reason.
KUNYOMI:
mouth JUKUGO:
( )
exit. ( KUNKUN ) (pull out / hand over) + (mouth) = (exit.) entrance (often shortened to ) ( NOKURI ) (put/go in) + (mouth) = (entrance)
( ) ( )
talking shit about someone. ( KUNKUN ) (bad) + (mouth) = (talking shit about someone.)
( ) ( ) ( )
bank account (bank) + (mouth) + (sit) = (bank account)
population (person) + (mouth) = (population)
the kind of depressing place where you get a ticket or food from a person in a box with usually a bulletproof plexiglas window between you and them. ( KUNKUN ) (window) + (mouth) = (service window)
( ) ( )
pester someone, usually for sex (mouth) + (explain) = (pester)
a pretext. Like, "I'm studying to be a preacher, but that's just a pretext for me to meet virgin dudes." (mouth) + (truth) = (pretext)
USED IN:
products
ONYOMI: HIN
Number: 10 9 strokes BETA, PN, DUH
(mouth/small box radical)

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Please show HIM the boxes of products. (he's the customer) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
items for sale, merchandise (merchandise) + (products) = (items for sale, merchandise)
artworks. (make) + (products) = (artworks.)
( ) ( )
crude. Like chicks sitting with their legs open or guys picking their nose. (below) + (products) = (crude)
brand new shit - just on the market (new) + (products) = (new items)
( )
can be used of people or things. It means graceful or sophisticated in a quiet or understated way. When it comes to people, is usually used about women, I mean 'ladies.' (above) + (products) = (sophisticated)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
No 'BIG' products instrument BIG
Hint
Radical
A tuba is a BIG instrument.
USED IN:
say
ONYOMI: GEN KUNYOMI: ()
Number: 11 7 strokes SYMBOLIC half the time
(one/line radical) + (three) + (mouth/small box radical)

He used his mouth to say it 4 times already! If he says it AGAIN, I swear I'll stomp that ass.
*
to say
JUKUGO:
( )
ANY word - unlike the related term () can refer to compound words, or onomonopoeia. Also can mean "way of speaking." There are expressions like "watch what you say!" that use this way: (her way of speaking is
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very polite!) or (let's be careful how we speak!) ( FP ) (say) + (leaf) = (any word)
( )
advice (save) + (say) = (advice)
( ) ( )
the language barrier ( NEO ) (say) + (language) + (wall) = (the language barrier )
we say "He speaks broken English".Japanese say, "He speaks katakoto nihongo." ( KUNKUN , FP ) (fragment) + (say) = (broken english / Japanese)
( )
one's choice of words ( KANA) (say) + (leaf) + (apply) = (one's choice of words)
USED IN:
Number: 12 3 strokes PK, DUH
below
ONYOMI: GE, KA
The GAY fella was below your CAR, cutting your brakes (FYI - you're Dr. Laura).
() ()
KUNYOMI:
below
* *
I lower it (1/2 KANA)
it gets lowered
JUKUGO:
( )
subway (area) + (below) + (iron) = (subway)
XXX (XXX ) XXX is untalented, poorly performed, or poorly made. ( FP ) (below) + (hand) = (untalented / poor)
( )
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diarrhea (below) + (diarrhea) = (diarrhea ) USED IN:
un
ONYOMI: FU
Number: 13 4 strokes BETA, PRE
(below) + (one/line radical)

as in, "Doing meth is FUcking unlucky, and really FUcking unwise. " below () + one stroke. You can think of (unlucky) or (unfair) as being below or less than lucky or fair. JUKUGO:
( )
a mystery or unexplainable thing. BOOBOO:NOT a mystery like Sherlock Holmes or "Colonel Mustard, in the drawing room, with the double-headed dildo." A mystery like how fat Americans are, or why Sting is famous. That's a fushigi. (un) + (think) + (discussion) = (mystery)
( ) ( ) ( )
unease (un) + (cheap / safe) = (unease)
inconvenient (un) + (convenient / poop) = (inconvenient)
To not have enough of a physical thing (money, time, nurses, teachers.) Also implies that there is a specific amount that is required, For example - (a dog shortage). There's no particle or verb needed. ( NP ) (un) + (foot/ be enough) = (shortage of)
( )
an affair - cheating (un) + (principles) = (affair)
USED IN:
no
ONYOMI: HI
Number: 14 7 strokes
(un) (Same-ON) + (mouth/small box radical)

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HE said no, when I asked if he'd get a tattoo of me and him holding hands naked. The mouth is un-happy so it says no.
KUNYOMI:
'No'. Usually used by older people. Or pretentious authors, who contradict themselves for rhetorical effect: 'She was a proper woman, No, wait, perhaps I should rather say she was the kind of woman who wanted to be seen as proper, A-ha-ha, I am so clever.'
JUKUGO:
( )
a negative sentence. 'He doesn't , we don't, I can not,' are examples of English negatives. is a good word to know if you want to ask your friends, 'How do you use this word in the negative?' (a negative sentence)
( )
a formal word for 'to deny' (the politician denied the allegations) ( NP ) (no) + (plan) = (a formal word for 'to deny' (the politician denied the allegations))
( )
absolute refusal- unlike (), is always verbal - an exit line. Like if you tell a guy 'no thanks' 10 times and he won't go away, you use . As in, ' Oh no you di'int! ( ABU) (repel) + (no) = (refuse!!!!)
ten
ONYOMI: JUU
Number: 15 2 strokes PK, COUNTER
JEWS gave us the ten commandments, the foundation of Western morality.
KUNYOMI: (also pronounced just )ten things (yes , it has two pronunciations)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
October (
ten yen. (ten) + (yen/circle) = (ten yen.)
FP , KANA)
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(ten) + (moon) = (October)
( )
the tenth day of the month (ten) + (sun, day) = (the tenth day of the month )
( ) ( )
ten months' time (ten) + (moon) + (a period of time) = (ten months' time)
twenty years old - traditionally the age at which Japanese turn into adults and get presents, kimono, etc. So, naturally it has its own special pronunciation that doesn't make any sense, since it SHOULD be called Whatever. Tradition. ( FP , CCW) (two) + (ten) + (years old) = (twenty years old)
( )
- zero stars! -
the ten commandments. ( FP ) (ten) + (admonish / commandment) = (the ten commandments.)
USED IN:
old
ONYOMI: KO
Number: 16 5 strokes PN
(ten) + (mouth/small box radical)

The KOdomo () will grow old someday with ten dentures in her mouth. KUNYOMI:
*
old JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX) ( )
used XXX (books, cars, your dad's condoms) (middle) + (old) = (used XXX ) used clothes - a used clothes store is a () ( KUNKUN ) (old) + (wear / arrive) = (used clothes)
( )
classical, like Shakespeare or Bach or Shunga something. (old) + (classic) + (motivation / '-al') = (classical)
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- zero stars! LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint Radical
early SUN NO SUN old village RICE FIELD
The SUN comes up early, but if there is NO SUN, the day is old. The village is next to a RICE FIELD.
USED IN:
dream come true

ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: ()
Number: 17 5 strokes SOLO
(mouth/small box radical) + (ten)

Please grant my wish to have ten mouths. (That would be awesome. 3 for Cheetos, and 4 for Pringles, and another 3 left over to swallow just fistfuls of MSG and benzene. )
one's dream comes true. Usually used like this: -: my dream comes true!
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
dream come true TEN GROUND puke
Hint
Radical
If I got TEN wishes, I would wish to puke on the GROUND.(that would be like around #8. the first couple would be world peace or something)
measure
(say) + (ten)
ONYOMI: KEI it's OKAYYY to measure your pubic hair.
Number: 18 9 strokes DUPE
Measure SATAN!!!!! (say + ten) He's just huge, dude!!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
measure temprature, height, depth. If you're measuring a chair or your mom's stretch marks, use this one.
( )
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watch or clock ( FP ) (time) + (measure) = (watch or clock )
( ) ( )
total (to suit) + (measure) = (total) Pretty close to () in meaning, but perhaps more elaborate - you'd use to say "I have a plan to get rich!" or to say "I planned out our whole vacation to 3 countries." . . but you wouldn't use ( FP ) (measure) + (a drawing) = (plan)
( )
excessive, uncalled-for, and unnecessary (usually used in the context of ! (!): 'Mind your own business!') (excess) + (measure) = (uncalled-for)
( )
to calculate (measure) + (calculate) = (to calculate)
Number: 19 PK
(right radical)
heel
DESCRIPTION: Because it looks like a heel , and also because it's the katakana "HI"! ()
USED IN:
seven
(heel) +
ONYOMI: SHICHI
Number: 20 2 strokes PK
(one/line radical)
SHE CHEATS seven times. Let's call the 'one' radical a dirty needle, for reasons which shall become clear. You can tell the difference between heel and seven with the following mnemonic: Seven heels get pierced with ONE dirty needle. DESCRIPTION: '4' and '7' are numbers that don't follow the usual pronunciation rules. When counting time or months, usually one uses the KUNs, but with 4 and 7 you use the ONs. KUNYOMI:
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*
JUKUGO:
seven
seven things
( ) ( )
July ( FP , KANA) (seven) + (moon) = (July )
7 o'clock ( FP ) (seven) + (time) = (7 o'clock)
( ) ( )
7,000 yen. (seven) + (thousand) + (yen/circle) = (7,000 yen.)
the seventh day of the month ( FP ) (seven) + (sun, day) = (the seventh day of the month)
( )
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turkey (seven) + (front surface / face) + (bird) = (turkey )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint
seven ONE DIRTY NEEDLE
Radical
Seven heels get pierced with ONE DIRTY NEEDLE.
compare
(heel) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: HI KUNYOMI:
Number: 21 4 strokes SIDEKICK, DUH
HE's comparing the two heels , to see which is better.
*
compare JUKUGO:
( )
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comparatively (BOOBOO: you DON'T use a 'na' at the end, for some reason) ( NP ) rocked the most, but you'd the GDP of developing nations.) + (motivation / 'al') = (comparatively)
( )
a more formal word for 'compare': You'd AC/DC albums to see which one rocked the most, but you'd the GDP of developing nations. ( NP ) (compare) + (evaluate) = (compare)
( )
ratio (compare) + (ratio) = (ratio)
USED IN:
scold
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) +

*
(heel)
Mom's mouth scolded her for wearing high heels, and she 's only 12.
to scold
sun, day
ONYOMI: NICHI, JITSU
Number: 23 4 strokes SYMBOLIC, COCK, PK, COUNTER

Frederich NIETSZHIE spends every day doing ju JITSU. (all "Hiyahh!!!! Ubermench takedown!!" Philosophy was just a side-job; something he did to finance his bid for Ultimate Fightin' Champion.) You shouldn't need a damn story for this, but I am drunk so here goes: Two mouths. One yelling, "Don't look at the sun you idiot." and the other yelling, "Dood it will be awesome, You can see sun men all hanging out in there smoking sun -reefer, I swear to god, man, this dude told me it, go ahead." DESCRIPTION: As a radical, it usually means "bright". COCK: This kanji has not one but two ON-yomis, and as if that wasn't enough, most of the jukugo don't use either of them! This is by far the worst kanji when it comes to not following the rules of pronunciation. Luckily, most of the FP words you'll use every day, right from your first day in Noob Nihongo, so you'll learn 'em without even trying.
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Also, it means "Japan" - a sort of contraction of .
KUNYOMI:
a day
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
yesterday ( FP ) (yesterday) + (sun, day) = (yesterday)
today ( FP ) (now) + (sun, day) = (today)
tomorrow ( FP ) (bright) + (sun, day) = (tomorrow)
xxx
(xxx )
Day of the week (BOOBOO; in practice, most Japanese omit the final ''.So, ( ) becomes simply ()) ( COUNTER , SUF) (day of the week) + (sun, day) = (day of week) add , (which is short for ), to , (which somehow means "America"), and you have a word which means "East-and-West" or "East meets West." Usually seen on cultural exchange-related things. (sun, day) + (rice / America) = (east-and-west)
( )
USED IN:
the gist
(heel) +
ONYOMI: SHI
Number: 24 6 strokes COCK, SOLO
(sun, day)
SHE can't really put her heels over the sun, but the gist is she's tall! DESCRIPTION:This is a COCK because the overwhelming majority of words which use mean "the gist of," but you'll never use those words! The only time you'll see it is in the context of ()which has nothing to do with gists! KUNYOMI:
this is a really good word, meaning 'delicious!' or 'well done!' (1/2 KANA)
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( XXX ) 2 meanings: 1 -write to someone to the effect that xxx. 2: the main purpose or goal. Not so useful, but gives you a good idea of why this is called 'the gist.'
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
insect
ONYOMI: KON
Number: 25 8 strokes BETA
(sun, day) + (compare)

as in, 'The insects are eating a pine CONE' Although the bottom radical is "compare," it might be easier to think of it as two heels. Thus, The sun shines down on the many heels of multi-legged insects scurrying around DESCRIPTION: The normal word for insect is (). is a more formal, scientific term and is not used very much. JUKUGO:
( )
insect, (a more scientific term than '') ( NP ) (insect) + (insizzect) = (insect)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
everyone WHITE SUN insect BAMBOO quality
Hint
Radical
Everyone's heels trample on WHITE people, but the SUN shines on insects that crawl on the high QUALITY bamboo.
USED IN:
chant
ONYOMI: SHOU
(mouth/small box radical) + (sun, day)

as in 'SHOW me a chanting monk on a street corner, I'll SHOW you a guy with his hand out for change. ' The monk's mouth is chanting a hymn to SHOW the infidels his belief that there are two suns;one which illuminates the believers and one which burns the unclean!!! AIIIEEE THE END IS NIGH!!! KUNYOMI:
bunch of people chanting or reciting in unison - also, one person muttering something over and over in a creepy way.
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crystal
(sun, day)
ONYOMI: SHOU JUKUGO:
Number: 27 12 strokes PN, SIDEKICK
SHOW me a crystal as bright as 3 suns put together!!!
( )
liquid crystal display ( NEO ) (liquid) + (crystal) = (liquid crystal display)
former
ONYOMI: KYUU
Number: 28 5 strokes BETA, PRE
(one/line radical) + (sun, day)

One day I will re-unite with my CUTE former girlfriend. DESCRIPTION:PREFIX meaning 'former.' It can be used with lots of different words, but unfortunately none of them are really super-handy. For example . . . JUKUGO:
( )
maiden name (former) + (system) = (maiden name)
( )
- zero stars! -
to resume service (return or re-do) + (former) = (to resume service)
USED IN:
early
ONYOMI: SOU
Number: 29 6 strokes DUPE, JERK, PN
(sun, day) + (ten)

You have to get up SO early tomorrow, ten minutes before sunrise.
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() ()
KUNYOMI:
early, as in, 'get up early.' BOOBOO: this doesn't mean fast! that's the other hayai ()
to reschedule something (an appointment, a deadline) earlier
to be moved or rescheduled earlier in time -to be done in a hasty or premature way.
JUKUGO:
( )
physical speed or agility, but without any advanced kung-fu techniques. A fast bird or lizard. Doing a simple task at the office, but very speedily. (element) + (early) = (agility)
xxx! ( xxx!)
do XXX immediately! ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (early) + (fast) = (do XXX immediately!)
Radical
merely BABY BIRDS

The SUN rises early. The habitat is in a TREE.
SUN early habitat TREE
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Merely has NO TREE because it is MERELY some baby birds.
USED IN:
danna (husband)
(sun, day) + (one/line radical)
ONYOMI: TAN JUKUGO:
Let's think of the line as a prone body. My danna is useless! He just lies down all day under the sun , working on his TAN.
( )
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the more informal, spoken word for husband (your own or other peoples') (BOOBOO: if you're talking about someone else's man, say (more polite!)) ( 1/2 KANA)
xxx ( xxx)
once you've started to do xxx . . . (i.e. once you've gotten married, you can't get divorced! once you've promised, you can't go back on it!) ( KANA) (one) + (danna (husband)) = (once you've started to do xxx . . .)
USED IN:
white
ONYOMI: HAKU
Number: 31 5 strokes STRONG
(sun, day) + (dot)

as in,"HACK up the white people into pieces!!! Dirty swine-eating slave-drivers!" Sun plus a dot, which we'll call, say, a blunt of marijuana, for reasons which shall become clear shortly.
RAY is a white cat, but he talks black. RAY likes to smoke a Dutch. Picture White Ray smoking a dutch (the dot). all day . Thus: KUNYOMI:
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white JUKUGO:
* ( )
interesting, (in a good way) but also can mean funny (as in, laughing at you!) this deliberate ambiguity being a big thing with Japanese Sarcasm. Although in this case, fully half the time people are being serious. ( SARC) (front surface / face) + (white) = * (interesting)
( ) ( )
white people (do the Humpty Hump, they do the humpty hump) ( NEO ) (white) + (person) = (white people)
black-and-white ( KUNKUN ) (white) + (black) = (black-and-white)
USED IN:
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everyone
ONYOMI: KAI KUNYOMI:
(compare) + (white)
I compared everyone's KITES, and I think hers is the most white.
( )
JUKUGO:
(sometimes also pronounced )everyone.
( )
a more formal way to say "everyone." ( F , KUNKUN ) (everyone) + (important person) = (everyone)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
everyone
MONEY agree substitute DAY HEEL
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Two husbands agree about MONEY (i.e. it is awesome) but every DAY they substitute one for the other in a game of wife-swapping. Everyone has a HEEL fetish.
USED IN:
Number: 33 4 strokes SYMBOLIC, PK, PN, MR
water
(left radical radical) MUTANTS: waterleft ONYOMI: SUI
After 4 days in the desert, the water tasted SWEET. The vertical stroke is like a waterfall, with four drops of water splashing out from it.
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KUNYOMI:
water
JUKUGO:
( )
Wednesday (water) + final ''.So, () becomes simply ())) = (Wednesday)
( )
swim-suit ( KUNKUN ) (water) + (wear / arrive) = (swim-suit)
( )
aquarium (water) + (family) + (big hall) = (aquarium)
( )
hostess clubs, host clubs,strip clubs, etc. ( KUN ON) (water) + the clock business, etc.)) = (hostess clubs, host clubs,strip clubs, etc.)
( ) ( ) ( )
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perfume (good smell) + (water) = (perfume) flood (be careful - the is pronounced which is really unusual.) (flood) + (water) = (flood)
a drop of water (water) + (drop) = (drop of water)
( )
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big ditch. who cares. (eliminate) + (water) + (ditch) = (big ditch.)
ONE SNOWFLAKE-DOT ice water NO FLAKES AT ALL forever TWO SNOWFLAKE-DOTS
Radical
Ice has the SNOWFLAKE on top, water doesn't. So you can say, "Water doesn't have a SNOWFLAKE because water is warm." If it has been icy for ever, there are TWO SNOWFLAKES piled up on top of each other!
USED IN:
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spring
ONYOMI: SEN
Number: 34 9 strokes PN, SIDEKICK, DUH
(white) + (water)
as in 'SEND me to the spring, I need to get my soak on!' The pure ,white water poured out of the hot spring.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
spring, as in water popping out of the earth
( )
hot spring baths (although most onsen use artificially heated water from regular wells these days) (hot or warm thing) + (spring) = (hot spring bath)
USED IN:
ice
(water) + (dot)
ONYOMI: HYOU as in, ' HE ONLY eats ice cream' Like water (), but with an extra little dot in the upper left side. We will call this little dot a SNOWFLAKE, floating gently down to the surface of an icy lake in winter.
ice JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
iceberg (ice) + (mountain) = (iceberg)
Radical
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USED IN:
forever
(ice) + (dot)
ONYOMI: EI
Number: 36 5 strokes PN, BETA
"Fonzie" is the keyword for the EI onyomi, because that was his catchphrase on the show. "EYYYY!" Back in '78, that was the most coveted t-shirt: a half-sleeve jersey with The Fonz giving a thumbs-up and reciting EYYYY!! That's right, I'm old. Didn't ever get that shirt, neither! Anyway, mnemonic-wise, we can now say that. . .. Fonzie has been icy cool since forever. consists of ice () plus a dot, which we will, in a blaze of inspiration, call a second snowflake. So now we can say, "It's been icy forever, so we have more than one snowflake. They're piled on top of each other! It's been snowing forever!" JUKUGO:
( )
the poetic 'forever': I'll hate you forever! We shall rule the world forever! (forever) + (far) = (poetic forever)
( )
forever - the science word. (BOOBOO : the poetic word is 'eien'.()) (forever) + (been a long time) = (forever )
Radical
USED IN:
swim
(forever) +
ONYOMI: EI Fonzie can swim in water for a long time!
(waterleft) (Same-ON)
DESCRIPTION: It's easy to tell apart from or - since there's 2 water radicals. Because to swim you need that much water!!!
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*
swim
KUNYOMI:
stay for the night

(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HAKU KUNYOMI: () ()
(white) (Same-ON)
Make the white devils spend the night in a wet puddle. (This inn is Japanese only! )
* *
to stay somewhere overnight
to let your friends crash at your house.

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JUKUGO:
( )
a COUNTER for the number of nights you stay. You use this when making a reservation at a hotel. Ippaku is , of course, one night. ( COUNTER ) (one) + (stay for the night) = (one night's stay)
( )
to stay somewhere for two nights. (two) + (stay for the night) = (to stay somewhere for two nights.)
( )
the act of staying the night -(kind of formal; you might read it in a hotel guidebook, but you wouldn't say "Let's over there, guys!" ( NP ) (lodge at) + (stay for the night) = (stay the night)
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juice, soup
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: JUU
(ten) (Same-ON)
as in:JEWS are frequently down with a juice called Manichewitz! There's like ten different liquids in this juice. -- lemon, pineapple, apple, and so on.
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KUNYOMI:
SUFFIX which means juice, or soup (as in:; (miso soup)) , . . .also semen (ABU, SUF)
JUKUGO:
( )
fruit juice (fruit / result) + (juice, soup) = (fruit juice)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
juice, soup TEN DRY sweat
Hint
Radical
I drink juices one through TEN, but I sweat until I'm DRY again.
mix
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KON KUNYOMI: ()
(insect) (Same-ON)
Mix the insects in a bowl with water and some pine CONEs, for some free and fun soup!
* * *
I blend the ingredients (BOOBOO: unlike the other (), this word is used for technical stuffscience or cooking.
() () ()
it gets mixed to be crowded (usually in the present perfect: !)
get mixed up in a situation: wrong place, wrong time.
JUKUGO:
( )
What you are experiencing right now while studying Japanese! (mix) + (disorder) = (confusion)
mix lurk
INSECTS HUSBAND
Radical
You mix INSECTS in your bug-shake (mmmm!!) but a lurking HUSBAND steals it from you. Yoink.
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moon/organ
(left radical) ONYOMI: GETSU
Number: 41 4 strokes SYMBOLIC, PK, PN, JERK RADICAL, COUNTER
The United States had to GET TO the moon before the Russians, because whoever got freaky with Moon Bitches first would get so much rep, the other country's game would never recover. DESCRIPTION: JERK RADICAL ALERT: by itself, it means month or moon, but usually as a radical it has an entirely different meaning :"organ of the body." Some dudes will point out that the Radical is actually a MUTANT RADICAL for but who cares? Stop being so pedantic with your pale ass. BOOBOO: when you say the actual proper names of months, you pronounce it GATsu!!!That really is hard to remember. In fact, I still mix the two up 90% of the time. So, for my own benefit as much as your own, here's a mnemonic: You GOT TO leave in January, if you want your rocket to GET TO the moon.
KUNYOMI:
the moon
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
March ( KANA) (three) + (moon) = (March)
last month (earlier/ the tip) + (moon) = (last month)
next month (come/future) + (moon) = (next month)
this month (now) + (moon) = (this month)
( ) ( )
three months' time, three months' duration (three) + (moon) + (a period of time) = (three months' time)
the New Year - (BOOBOO: in Japan, that means not just January first but the whole first week) (correct) + (moon) = (the New Year)
USED IN:
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big lake
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KO
Number: 42 12 strokes SOLO, PN
(old) + (moon/organ)
KOdomos ( ) play by the lake. The old man gets wet in the lake once a month. KUNYOMI:
big lake
bright
ONYOMI: MEI KUNYOMI:
(moon/organ) + (sun, day)

When the sun or the moon is full, it MAY get bright!
* *
JUKUGO:
bright , sunny weather / person with a sunny disposition. ( or ) an obvious, clear difference between two things
( )
Explanation / to explain (explain) + (bright) = (explain)
or ( or )
unknown, unclear. (the body's identity remains unknown / an unknown tribe made these carvings of your mama's ass) ( NP ) (un) + (bright) = (unknown, unclear)
( ! )
USED IN:
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Happy new year! (only noobs say this before Jan 1st. In the last part of December, we say, "!" (!) ( BOOBOO )
animal fat
ONYOMI: SHI
(the gist) (Same-ON) + (moon/organ)

Your Moms got so much animal fat, SHE squirts lipids out of her blow-hole! Animal fat is not an organ, but you get the gist!! KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
animal fat
( ) grease or fat (refers to both the kind used in cooking, AND the kind that makes your mama's neighbors take out earthquake insurance ) (animal fat) + (fatty food) = ( grease or fat)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ORGAN animal fat finger / point at HAND
Hint
Radical
Animal fat is an ORGAN, but fingers are attached to your HAND.
gall bladder / daring

(danna (husband)) + (moon/organ)
ONYOMI: TAN
Number: 45 9 strokes SIDEKICK, JERK
The daring husband went to the moon and came back with a good TAN. DESCRIPTION:No, you won't be saying 'gallbladder' very often, but you still need this kanji to describe daring daytime bank robberies or mad ninja feats: Americans say "That takes balls," but Japanese apparently say, "That takes gallbladders!" JUKUGO:
( )
daring or bold, - not just courageous, but taking risks when you don't need to. Not just a bank-robbery, but a bank robbery at high noon, while wearing Hirohito masks!.
(big) + (gall bladder / daring) = (daring or bold)
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morning
ONYOMI: CHOU KUNYOMI:
(ten) + (early) + (moon/organ)

For Margaret CHO, getting up at ten AM is very early in the morning. She swears that she can still see the moon from the night before.
morning
JUKUGO:
( )
breakfast
( )
rising sun. As in, 'land of the. . .' Also as in Asahi beer. ( KUNKUN ) (morning) + (sun, day) = (rising sun)
( )
USED IN:
morning edition (morning) + (edition) = (morning edition)
fire
MUTANTS: fireleft firebottom ONYOMI: KA
Number: 47 4 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC, MR
(person) + (dot)
as in : 'my CAR caught on fire the other day. (FYI : It was a Pinto. ) ' A person on fire, surrounded by 2 sparks. KUNYOMI:
flame
JUKUGO:
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( )
Tuesday (fire) + ''.So, () becomes simply ())) = (Tuesday)
( )
A fire - not like the fire in your stepdad's crackpipe; like the fire that spreads from his crackpipe and engulfs your whole trailer. (fire) + (action/ incident) = (fire)
( )
fireworks ( KUNKUN ) (flower) + (fire) = (fireworks)
USED IN:
flame
(fire)
ONYOMI: EN as in, 'ENjoy this flame-broiled food!! '
Such a big flame, they had to use two fire kanji to make it! KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
a big fire, but not a harmful one. Like a campfire or bonfire
( )
inflammation, swelling (flame) + (symptom) = (inflammation)
faint
(fire) +
ONYOMI: TAN
(waterleft)
as in,"His TAN faded to pale after so many weeks indoors. " The water pretty much doused the flame, leaving only a faint, pale flickering. KUNYOMI:
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faint color. ( also means faint, but carries the connotation of, it's faint because it's weak or sickly)
consult
ONYOMI: DAN JUKUGO:
(say) + (fire)
You need to consult with Glen DANzig. Say to him, why did he start that flame? (hint: Satan)
( )
a joke - you'll often hear: "! ('I'm not kidding!') ( 1/2 KANA) (joke) + (consult) = (joke)
( )
a consultation - it doesn't have to be formal. If you want to see your teacher after class, that's a soudan. (partner) + (consult) = (consult)
nail
MUTANTS: nailright ONYOMI: CHOU
Number: 51 2 strokes PK, STRONG, BETA, MR
The only time Margaret CHO ever could make me laugh was when she stepped on a rusty nail and had to get tetanus. That was a good bit.
DESCRIPTION: it's important to not confuse the MUTANT RADICAL for NAIL (
)with the "open scissors" (
)radical: Open scissors doesn't have a 'nail-head' protruding from the right-side, and it's got no bendy bit at the bottom. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
a COUNTER for - roughly, 'city block.' 3, 4, etc. You need to know this if you ever want to read an address. ( COUNTER , KUN ON)
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(nail) + (eye) = (city block)
( )
exactly, precisely. Just right. ( 1/2 KANA) (nail) + (times) = (just right)
( ) ( )
polite ( 1/2 KANA)
kitchen knife, cutlery (wrap) + (nail) = (kitchen knife, cutlery)
USED IN:
streetlight
(nail) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(fireleft)
as in, 'The old man walked home drunk and stubbed his TOE on a streetlight. ' The streetlight stood straight like a big nail with a little electric fire on top of it. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
streetlight (shopping district) + (streetlight) = (streetlight)
lamp -(BOOBOO: in practice, everyone just says ) ( NP ) (electricity) + (streetlight) = (lamp -(BOOBOO: in practice, everyone just says ) )
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( )
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flashlight (nostalgia) + (middle) + ) ) = (flashlight)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
streetlight NAIL cook rice LACK
Hint
Radical
A streetlight is on top of a pole or a NAIL, but you LACK water to boil some delicious kale.
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possible
(nailright) +
ONYOMI: KA JUKUGO:
Number: 53 5 strokes BETA, PN, STRONG
It's possible to get a CAR for cheap,if you cram a nail into the mouth of the salesman!
( )
cute! ( 1/2 KANA) (possible) + (love) = (cute!)
or ( or ) ( )
possibility (possible) + (talent) + (sex / essential nature) = (possibility)
permission (allow) + (possible) = (permission)
or ( or ) ( )
not possible (un) + (possible) + (talent) = (not possible)
burnable garbage (possible) + (burn) = (burnable garbage)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
administer HITLER same LINE on both the left and right
possible
Hint
NAIL
Radical
It's possible to NAIL your mouth shut, but HITLER will administer that butt. Same ()looks like administer, but it's symmetrical - it's got the SAME LINE on both the left and right.
USED IN:
stream
(possible) +
ONYOMI: KA
Number: 54 8 strokes DUPE, NUBI, PN
(waterleft)
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It's possible to drive your car into the water of the stream. All it takes is a CAR and some booze. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) xxx-river (proper noun!) (SUF) JUKUGO:
( )
a traditional monster, one you'll still see all the time in illustrations or storefronts. They used to be crazy vicious, jumping up out of the lake and eating your intestines while you're still alive, but now they're more like cute, mischievous mascots -
( KANA) (stream) + (kid) = (the green frog-monster)
revise
ONYOMI: TEI JUKUGO:
(say) + (nail)
I'm saying to the carpenter, TAKE that nail back and revise the construction.
( )
to correct or revise some written thing - lyrics, a report, an article, or even (god forbid) a Kanji book. (revise) + (correct) = ( correct or revise )
rice field
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 56 5 strokes BETA, PK, PN
DESCRIPTION: You'll probably see this more in people's names than you ever will see rice paddies.
Only used in peoples' names: () is the Japanese version of Smith.

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JUKUGO:
( )
the countryside,hicksville ( FP ) (rice field) + (hut) = (countryside)
USED IN:
neighborhood, small town

Number: 57
7 strokes PN, SOLO
(rice field) + (nail) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: CHOU The rice 'hood is next to the nail district. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) a small town - but also a SUFFIX which means xxx-town. Like Levittown or Funkytown. (SUF)
cultivated field
(rice field) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 58 9 strokes SOLO, DUH, SUF
(fireleft)
(SIGH) ok, look: They burn the field to clear it, then they plant crops. Whatever.
( XXX ) SUFFIX meaning, "field of a particular crop". like (field of strawberries) or (field of watermelons). You don't need an article like 'no' or 'na'. .You know what? It's weird that we don't have a word for this in English. (SUF, KUNKUN)
stomach
ONYOMI:
(rice field) + (moon/organ)

When I eat rice from the field, I keep it in the organ called the stomach.
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KUNYOMI:
stomach
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
stomach nose
tatami mat ABE'S HAT
Hint
Radical
ORGAN YOURSELF
ABE'S HAT is as big as a tatami mat! The stomach is an ORGAN. Your nose belongs to YOURSELF.
USED IN:
put/go in
ONYOMI: NYUU KUNYOMI: (/) I put it in (I put the dog in the doghouse) (/) it goes in (The dog goes in the doghouse) JUKUGO:
Unlike the lookalike 'person' kanji (), the top of bends left, so you can say, 'I take my NEW axe and put it in your left side, you bourgeois pig!!!! '
* *
( )
entrance (often shortened to ) ( NOKURI ) (put/go in) + (mouth) = (entrance)
( )
check into the hospital - not for a simple exam, but like you have to stay there at least one night, you're too sick to leave. (put/go in) + (institution) = (check in hospital)
( )
to start school at a new school (put/go in) + (knowledge) = (to start school at a new school)
( )
admission fee ( NP ) (put/go in) + (big hall) + (ingredients / fees) = (admission fee)
LOOKALIKES:
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put/go in TOP FACES LEFT TOP FACES RIGHT person
Meaning
Hint
Radical
The top of 'put in' faces left and - at least in larger fonts - the top little yoink of 'person' faces right. That's because most people are RIGHT-wing bastards, and the bullets of the LEFTIST, glorious people's revolution will enter the LEFT side of their heads. !Viva Mao!
USED IN:
person
MUTANTS: personleft ONYOMI: NIN, JIN
Number: 61 2 strokes PK, MR
NINjas wear JEANS on casual friday. It is kind of awkward at first, but you'll get used to it. DESCRIPTION: In most fonts, the tippy-top leans to the RIGHT, like this :
That's how you tell apart from , which leans to the LEFT. KUNYOMI:
person
JUKUGO:
xxx ( ) ( )
SUFFIX meaning 'person from XXX country.' AmerikaJIN, FranceJIN, etc. ( SUF, KUN ON)
famous - usually used like this: ! (person) + (mood) = (famous)
( ) ( )
human ( FP ) (person) + (a period of time) = (human)
Life, as in someone's entire life, or life in general:. "He lived a quiet life." "Life is a bitch." "Life span." (person) + (life / birth) = (life (in general))
( )
an expert (name, famous) +
(person) =
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(an expert)
( )
adult, as opposed to minor, not as opposed to 'with clothes on.' ( FP ) (big) + (person) = (adult)
( )
population (person) + (mouth) = (population)
( ) xxx ( xxx)
someone who out-ranks you - at work, school, or in society. ( KUNKUN ) (eye) + (above) + (person) = (higher person)
a man-eating XXX. (person) + (eat) = (a man-eating XXX.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put/go in TOP FACES LEFT TOP FACES RIGHT person
Hint
Radical
The top of 'put in' faces left and - at least in larger fonts - the top little yoink of 'person' faces right. That's because most people are RIGHT-wing bastards, and the bullets of the LEFTIST, glorious people's revolution will enter the LEFT side of their heads. !Viva Mao!
USED IN:
what?!?
(personleft) +
KUNYOMI:
(possible) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: KA, but you don't need to learn it. When you say " WHAAT????", you are asking that person if what they just said is really possible.
what
JUKUGO:
( )
what time is it? (what?!?) + (time) = (what time is it?)
xxx ( xxx)
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something like XXX
( ) ( )
THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM??? ( ABU)
geometry (I like this because it seems that even the Chinese sages who made up this word were confused by geometry. It's like 'the science of what the fuck??') ( FR, FP ) (how much?) + (what?!?) + (knowledge) = (geometry)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
what?!?
formal visit / question HITLER
MOUTH
Hint
Radical
You said you were going to pay a formal visit to Herr HITLER. I opened my MOUTH and said "WHAAAAT??"
USED IN:
believe
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHIN KUNYOMI:
(say)
If they've got a SHINy halo, it's safe to believe what that person has to say .
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believe JUKUGO:
( )
self-confidence (my own) + (believe) = (self-confidence)
( ) ( )
signal, i.e. traffic signal (believe) + (number) = (signal)
superstition (perplexed) + (believe) = (superstition)
Number: 64
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transform
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KA The CAR transforms into Optimus Prime.
4 strokes SUF
(heel)
OK, I know he's supposed to be a truck or whatever, but I never liked that show anyway. I was fucking with Papa Smurf and Raydeen and shit. The witch transformed that person into a giant heel. DESCRIPTION: You'll often see as a suffix, meaning "xxx - ization." For instance, ()means "the mechanization of society. The industrial revolution." Most of these words are not worth learning, but there's a LOT of them, so at least learn the suffix meaning. KUNYOMI:
( / ) transform - this is ONLY used in the context of a person changing to a ghost, or a curse transforming a person into a werewolf. In other words, it is not used that often. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
transformation, change (change) + (transform) = (transformation, change)
culture (culture/ sentence) + (transform) = (culture)
evolution (progress) + (transform) = (evolution)
( )
the mechanization of a society or of an industry. activated. A computer is not a , but a robot arm is. ) + (transform) = (mechanization )
USED IN:
Number: 65 7 strokes MR, PN, DUPE
flower
(flowertop) +
MUTANTS: flowertop
(transform) (Same-ON)
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ONYOMI: KA You can think of the top part as the bottom of your nose, with 2 little puffs of pollen going in as you smell the flower. the Wizard transforms your CAR into a flower. (Actually the wizard's kind of a hater.) KUNYOMI:
flower
JUKUGO:
( )
cherry-blossom looking-at-and-getting-bombed parties ( KUNKUN ) (flower) + (look) = (sakura-viewing party)
( )
fireworks ( KUNKUN ) (flower) + (fire) = (fireworks)
flower POLLEN
Radical
death EVENING
For the sake of this mnemonic, let's call the 2 vertical strokes on the flower's top radical . . . 2 spores of pollen. The poison flower has POLLEN that you're breathing, and then it makes you die in the EVENING.
USED IN:
suffer
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KU
(old)
as in, 'My KUCHI ( ) was suffering from too much candy. ' The old flower was suffering : wilting, turning brown, being eaten by aphids. KUNYOMI:
*
()
bitter taste medicine, okra. Can also be used figuratively - the bitter taste of defeat.
adjective describing mental suffering - which is caused BY (physical pain). i.e. 'My throat is so talking or swallowing is
( xxx ) to hurt or suffer from XXX

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JUKUGO:
( )
hardships (suffer) + (labor) = (hardships)
xxx (xxx ) this has 2 meanings. One is "I'm not good at this" and the second is "I don't like this" Clever Japanese! ( KUNKUN ) (suffer) + (hand) = (this is not my thing!)
( )
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a grievance or complaint (suffer) + (emotion) = (a grievance or complaint )
grass
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: SOU KUNYOMI:
(early)
The flowers of the grass bloom SO early in the sun.
grass - tall, uncut grass.(BOOBOO: In practice, though, most people use ())
luggage
(flowertop) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: KA
Number: 68 10 strokes COCK, SIDEKICK
(what?!?)
What kind of idiot puts a flower in the luggage in their CAR??? It'll get crushed for sure! DESCRIPTION: COCK: 99% of the time the onyomi is KA- but the one jukugo that anyone ever fuckin' actually USES, the onyomi is NI. JUKUGO:
( )
luggage or belongings. Also, cargo (if you're a ship's captain). Also, emotional baggage, or a metaphorical burden ( FP ) (luggage) + (animal / thing) = (luggage)
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Number: 69 PK, AMAZING
(big radical)
George Michael's Moustache
DESCRIPTION:
QED, chump.
USED IN:
the inside
(George Michael's Moustache) +
ONYOMI: NAI KUNYOMI:
(person)
It's NICE to be a person trapped inside George Michael's stache?
inside a thing, OR inside of a certain time frame(eat it while it's hot! !) Also, it's a slang term for 'us.'
JUKUGO:
( )
the contents (of a box or a book or whatever) (the inside) + (appearance) = (contents)
( )
a guide - usually in the form of a map, or an information kiosk. Also if a clerk shows you around a store pointing out things you might want to buy, that 's annai. (guide/proposal) + (the inside) = (guide)
xxx
(xxx )
within xxx (as in, "I'll be there within 10 minutes!") (compared to) + (the inside) = (within)
( )
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usually defined as 'confidential,' but that makes it sound more serious than it is - like a spy document or something. Actually, is kind of a kids' word. "Keep this information between us two." ( KIDS ) (the inside) + (together) = (confidential) USED IN:
meat
ONYOMI: NIKU
Number: 71 6 strokes BETA, DUH
(person)
George has got two men's meat trapped in his 'stache. He particularly NEEds COOlio's meat. Of course it might just be easier to think of it as 2 pork chops, but I prefer the more lurid imagery. KUNYOMI:
meat, muscle (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
muscle (muscle) + (meat) = (muscle)
sarcasm OR irony. Japanese DO have a sense of sarcasm,(for example, calling the traditional chicken-and-scrambled-eggs dish "parents and child") but it is so different than the Western say-the-opposite-of-what-you-mean style that Japanese don't have a word for western sarc. So they seem to have taken their word for Irony and pressed it into service for sarcasm as well. ( SARC) (skin) + (meat) = (sarcasm/irony)
( ) ( )
pork ( KUNKUN ) (pig) + (meat) = (pork )
roast meat, usually beef. ( NOKURI ) (roast / grill) + (meat) = (roast meat, usually beef.)
( )
USED IN:
beef (cow) + (meat) = (beef)
Number: 72
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yen/circle
ONYOMI: EN
4 strokes DUPE, JERK, COUNTER
??? (???)
This one consists of George Michael's Moustache, plus 2 boxes, which we'll call his gleaming front teeth. If you ENjoyed George Michael's Moustache, please tip him one yen. In response, he smiles, you can see his two front teeth peeking at you from under the 'stache.
*
yen!
KUNYOMI:
circircular (not used! People use the OTHER () instead)
JUKUGO:
( )
ten yen. (ten) + (yen/circle) = (ten yen.)
( ) ( )
7,000 yen. (seven) + (thousand) + (yen/circle) = (7,000 yen.)
100 yen (hundred) + (yen/circle) = (100 yen)
( )
USED IN:
100,000,000 YEN, AKA what Maneki-neko wants! (one) + (a hundred million) + (yen/circle) = (100,000,000 YEN)
small city/dagger radical

Number: 73 (right radical)
5 strokes BETA, JERK RADICAL

ONYOMI: SHI
(ten)
Since SHE lives in a small city, she carries a dagger for protection. DESCRIPTION: JERK RADICAL ALERT: the kanji means small city, but I have arbitrarily decided that the radical means dagger. Why would I do that? The following math equation should explain my decision with utmost logic:
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= JUKUGO:
>
( ) ( )
mayor (small city) + (long / boss) = (mayor)
citizens of a city (small city) + (folk) = (citizens of a city)
xxx
(xxx )
Suffix meaning, "xxx City" ( SUF)
( )
(stocks)+(marketplace)=the stock market! ( NEO ) public' or 'stock amoritization' and the like) + (small city) + (place) = (stock market)
USED IN:
lung
ONYOMI: HAI
(moon/organ) + (small city/dagger radical)

Will I thrust a dagger into your lung-organs? HAI! DESCRIPTION: basically SOLO unless you are a doctor KUNYOMI:
lung
older sister
(woman) + (small city/dagger radical)

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ONYOMI: SHI SHE's my older sister. My older sister is a woman with a dagger!! (she's kind of a !) KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
my older sister
someone else's older sister.
( )
a disrespectful way for a guy to yell at a lady he doesn't know. Kind of like, 'Hey sweetheart, go make me some tea!' ( ABU)
( )
sisters (older sister) + (little sister) = (sisters)
eye
ONYOMI: MOKU
Number: 76 5 strokes DUH, PK, SYMBOLIC 1/3 of the time
It's MORE COOL if you wear sunglasses over your eyes. DESCRIPTION: This one don't get a mnemonic because:
Winky winky!!!! KUNYOMI:
eye
JUKUGO:
( )
motive, not only for crimes. (eye) + (motivation / '-al') = (motive, not only for crimes.)
( )
to stand out in a crowd. (eye) + (stand up) = (to stand out in a crowd.)
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XXX
YYY (XXX YYY)
this is a term used in counting things in a row. For instance, in English we'd say "Second book from the right" or "Third shelf from the top" in Japanese, they'd say: 2book OR 4shelf. ( COUNTER , KUNKUN ) (number) + (eye) = (thing in a row)
( )
this has so many meanings: useless, bad, 'stop!' or just 'no way!' ( KANA, KUNKUN )
(bad quality) + (eye) = (no way!)
( )
table of contents (eye) + (next) = (table of contents)
( )
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a witness to a crime. ( NP ) (eye) + (charge) + (professional) = (a witness to a crime.)
USED IN:
risk
ONYOMI: BOU
(eye) + (sun, day)

You shouldn't risk going BOWling with Walter. It's risky to look at the sun with your eye. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to risk xxx (grave danger/ your life/ your anal virginity) doing crazy shit JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
adventure (risk) + (steep) = (adventure)
hat
Number: 78 12 strokes SIDEKICK
(small city/dagger radical) + (risk) (Same-ON)

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ONYOMI: BOU I wear a special BOWLing hat which I claim gives me more strikes. Wear a hat to protect yourself from danger such as daggers. JUKUGO:
( )
hat (hat) + (child) = (hat)
my own
(eye) + (dot)
ONYOMI: JI
Number: 79 6 strokes BETA, ILL PAIR
is "eye" plus a dot, which we'll call a splinter. JESUS said, before you make fun of the splinter in my eye, take check out the huge-ass log in YOUR OWN eye. Then he sort of muttered, "Ass!" KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to do something one's own self, in person
( ) ( )
freedom (my own) + (freedom / reason) = (freedom)
one's own (dog, blunt, fungus, etc.) - BOOBOO: sometimes it also is used to mean "you" or "she", as in "She did it herself, as opposed to having others do it for her." (my own) + (understand / divide / minute) = (one's own)
( )
self-confidence (my own) + (believe) = (self-confidence)
( )
Japan's army, in English called the SDF (self-defense forces)
(troop) = (Japan's army)
( )
"I brought this on myself!" (my own) + (business) + (bargain / obtain) = ("I brought this on myself!")
USED IN:
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Number: 80 PK
(top radical)
beret
USED IN:
restaurant
(nail)
(beret) +
ONYOMI: TEI
TAKE me to a restaurant - I'm a DINNER WHORE. The dude with the beret and the stache opens his mouth at the restaurant and bites a big ole nail. Madd lawsuits ensue! JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX, meaning 'name of restaurant' . So you can tell "Joe's" (Joe's diner) apart from "Joe's" (Joe's bookstore) ( SUF)
USED IN:
bring to a halt
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TEI
(restaurant) (Same-ON)
The police person brings a halt to the restaurant because too many people got a damn nail in their sandwitch and what the hell kind of deal is that, anyway? Imagine the pain!! JUKUGO:
( )
bus stop
( )
suspension or stoppage (i.e. they cut my electricity because I didn't pay the bill). This is usually used in official announcements or bills. You wouldn't say to your friend, "I -ed watching TV." ( NP ) (bring to a halt) + (stop) = (suspension or stoppage)
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( )
sure this is a scary and long word, but if you live here, you'll use it everyday: It means "local train" (literally, "stopping at each station train") (each) + (train station) + (bring to a halt) + (car) = (local train)
graduate
(beret) +
ONYOMI: SOTSU
(person) + (ten)
Out of the ten people in class, only two people managed to graduate, and SO-TWO were issued the customary berets. JUKUGO:
( )
to graduate (graduate) + (business) = (to graduate)
direction / method / person

Number: 84
4 strokes JERK, STRONG
(beret) +
ONYOMI: HOU
(katakana 'ku')
You go in that direction of a a fine-looking HOE who is wearin' a beret! DESCRIPTION: a big JERK - it also means METHOD and PERSON. Although, not so bad if you look at the equivalent English: When you want to learn how to use your new toy, you do what? Read the DIRECTIONS. KUNYOMI:
two meanings: 1) method. 2) a somewhat formal, polite term for person (i.e. means 'a person from Japan') (F)
JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX meaning, 'way to do.' for instance, ; means 'to play the guitar.' so,; means 'the way to play the guitar.' ( SUF)
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( ) ( )
method (direction / method / person) + (law) = (method )
way to do something. (Most often used in the negative: 'Shikata ga nai.' as in, 'fuck it.' ) (work) + (direction / method / person) = (way to do something. (Most often used in the negative: 'Shikata ga nai.' as in, 'fuck it.' ))
( )
direction (direction / method / person) + (turn to face) = (direction)
( )
one-sided, one-way. Often used in the phrase : xxx ! (meaning, more and more xxx - i.e. "more and more hot", "more and more popular," etc.) (one) + (direction / method / person) = (one-sided)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
direction / method / person HEAD EVEN ON TOP 10000
Hint
Radical
means 'person', so naturally it has a little 'head' stiking up on top - you can think of that as the person's beret! is a number, so naturally it has NO HEAD. It's EVEN on top - which makes sense because 10,000 is an even number.
USED IN:
10000
ONYOMI: MAN
Number: 85 3 strokes COUNTER
(one/line radical) + (katakana 'ku')

You can think of this as the katakana KU () plus the number one over it. A MAN touches your KUchie with ONE finger. ten thousand times!! DESCRIPTION:Japanese count big money in units of 10,000. They don't for instance, have a word for 'million.' - a million is actually called 100. Which would be logical if it were written with -sized commas: 100,0000 . . . but it's written with rest-of-the-planet commas, like this: 1,000,000. I'm sure some asshole thought he was doing the rest of the world a favor with this compromise, but actually that just makes it more confusing for everyone. Probably it was the same motherless douche who decided to import all the on-yomi from China and get them all wrong. Anyway. KUNYOMI: ()
10,000 (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
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just in case (literally, 'on the one-in-10,000 chance that something goes wrong') ( NP ) (10000) + (one) = (just in case)
( ! )
Fuckin' banzai, man!!!! (literally '10,000 years', meaning, 'May the Emperor live 10,000 years!' is what you shout as you charge into battle) ( 1/2 KANA) (10000) + (years old) = (banzai!)
( )
shoplift. ( SARC) (10000) + (pull) = (shoplift.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
direction / method / person HEAD EVEN ON TOP 10000
Hint
Radical
means 'person', so naturally it has a little 'head' stiking up on top - you can think of that as the person's beret! is a number, so naturally it has NO HEAD. It's EVEN on top - which makes sense because 10,000 is an even number.
USED IN:
formal visit
ONYOMI: HOU
(say) + (direction / method / person) (Same-ON)

Go in the direction of the HOE to talk to her and visit her.
KUNYOMI:
, (*)
JUKUGO:
an important person visits another important person (an official state visit, visit the pope, etc.)
same as above, used more in newspapers and so on
( )
same as ,(), but it's a noun. ( NP ) (formal visit) + (question, problem) = (a formal visit)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
GIRL prevent formal visit TALK boy / monk GROUND
Hint
Radical
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release ward off
DIRECTOR TOWN
You prevent the GIRL to go, From visiting and TALKING to her beau. (because you're jealous) The boy stands on the GROUND Until the DIRECTOR releases the hounds. and then he's warded away from that TOWN.
prevent
ONYOMI: BOU
(woman) + (direction / method / person) (Same-ON)

The stern woman prevents you from going in the direction of the BOWLing alley.
KUNYOMI:
obstruct / hamper. Unlike the related words (habamu) and (fusegu), carries the nuance of 'interrupt' or 'disrupt', like 'The guys at the next table are hampering our conversation,' or 'The corporate extortionist kept interrupting the shareholders' meeting.'
JUKUGO:
( )
obstacle (prevent) + (damage) = (obstacle)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
release
GIRL prevent formal visit TALK boy / monk GROUND DIRECTOR TOWN ward off
Hint
Radical
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fatty food
ONYOMI: BOU
SIDEKICK
(moon/organ) + (direction / method / person) (Same-ON)

Yo Mama's so fat, BOwling balls are pulled in the direction of her meat by gravity. DESCRIPTION: actually refers to the fat in food, not as in fat person. JUKUGO:
( ) grease or fat (refers to both the kind used in cooking, AND the kind that makes your mama's neighbors take out earthquake insurance ) (animal fat) + (fatty food) = ( grease or fat)
again/crotch radical
(right radical) ONYOMI:
Number: 89 2 strokes PK, SOLO, JERK RADICAL
The official meaning is "again" but, come on. It is clearly a crotch of someone sitting Indian-style. Anyway, how about a mnemonic which combines both the meaning and the keyword? "Can you show me your crotch again? That would be awesome." KUNYOMI:
again
( xxx ) ( yyy ) 2 meanings: a) in other words. b) either XXX or YYY. (XXX YYY)
USED IN:
pair
ONYOMI: SOU
(again/crotch radical)
You guys look SO alike, you could be a pair of twins! it looks like a pair of crotches.
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QED, ne? DESCRIPTION: This one's a CLASSIC cock because there's a lot of jukugo which use the reading: (: (both sides) (twin roll casting), Z (bilinear Z-transform), and so on) . .but the only word you'll ever encounter is the one word that DOESN'T use the reading! JUKUGO:
( )
twins ( FP , KUNKUN ) (pair) + (child) = (twins)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
servant / dood WOMAN 2 CROTCHES pair
Hint
Radical
The WOMAN is the slave to fashion, but a a pair of CROTCHES can smoosh with passion. Uncomfortable!
servant / dood
ONYOMI: DO A: Only if she got fI' dollas. KUNYOMI:
Number: 91 5 strokes FR, JERK
(woman) + (again/crotch radical)

Q: I am so obsessed with that woman's crotch. DO I want to be her servant?
dood, homeboy, (can also be rude if he's not actually your homeboy and he hears you) - also an informal term for 'thing,' kind of like the spanish "ese." ("Pass me that thing, ese!") (KANA, ABU)
JUKUGO:
( )
slave
( )
"Those dudes." One of the only plurals in Japanese! ( KUNKUN ) (servant / dood) + (equal /etc./plural) = (Those dudes)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
servant / dood WOMAN 2 CROTCHES pair
Hint
Radical
The WOMAN is the slave to fashion, but a a pair of CROTCHES can smoosh with passion. Uncomfortable!
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USED IN:
culture/ sentence
(beret) +
Number: 92 4 strokes JERK, BETA
ONYOMI: BUN, MON I've never seen a cultured BUNny that could hold a MONocle whilst playing bridge. Culture is, like a beret on a crotch, a way to dress up humanity's essentially vulgar nature. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
culture (culture/ sentence) + (transform) = (culture)
a letter- whether kana, kanji, or alphabet. ( FP ) (culture/ sentence) + (letter) = (a letter)
( )
to order an item - both in a store and by mail. Also, if you ask your friend to do an annoying and detailed favor, like, "Could you do the laundry again with this other kind of soap!", that's chuumon. (pour / be careful) + (culture/ sentence) = (order)
( )
literature (culture/ sentence) + (knowledge) = (literature)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
combine dad
culture/ sentence CROTCH BERET NO BERET
Hint
Radical
You write a sentence about CROTCHES. I combine a BERET with crutches, to make the fashion hit of the season. Dad has NO BERET, because he's not French.
USED IN:
unison
Number: 93 8 strokes PN, SIDEKICK, STRONG
(culture/ sentence) + ??? (???)

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ONYOMI: SEI Let's call that weird bit below "sentence" a ladder - it kind of looks like a ladder. So. . . If you SAY the same thing in unison with everyone else, you can move up the ladder of culture. DESCRIPTION: STRONG RADICAL for ZAI or SAI. JUKUGO:
xxx ( xxx)
together, in unison (one) + (unison) = (together, in unison)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
economy / to be over WET CULTURE unison SWORD type of medicine
Hint
Radical
The economy is all WET. Our CULTURE cries out in unison for some medicine in the form of a SWORD to cut deficits.
USED IN:
economy / to be over
Number: 94
11 strokes JERK
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(unison)
Alan Greenspan played the economy like a XYLOPHONE. Water moving in unison can be harnessed by electric dams to power the economy. Boring! DESCRIPTION: JERK - the SOLO meaning is 'to be over,' but the jukugo usually have to do with the economy. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
to get through doing something (usually a chore or homework); to finally pay off debts. Sometimes used like this: xxx ('Finish your xxx!')
()
something is finally over, something is finally finished (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
the economy (()= economics) (experience) + (economy / to be over) = (the economy (( )= economics))
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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Number: 95 PK
(right radical)
numeral 4
DESCRIPTION: I have nothing to add.
USED IN:
get
(numeral4) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
Four crotches get kicked with SHOES!!! (On a DVD available here!) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to get, obtain (a good grade, success, a victory)
( ) ( )
receipt (territory) + (get) + (write) = (receipt)
all income (job pay as well as 401k, stocks, allowance, etc.) (get) + (put/go in) = (income)
( )
absorb (suck) + (get) = (absorb)
shout MOUTH CROTCHes get
Radical
4 mouths shout "Hey, nice ass!" and 4 CROTCHES get kicked.
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shout
ONYOMI: KYOU KUNYOMI: ()

*
(numeral4)
Today(=KYOU), I shouted with my mouth 4 times!
to exclaim! If you're surprised and go AAAAAA or HOLY COW WHAT THE HELL MAN, that's Unlike the related word () is not always out of anger -you can use this for shouting slogans or screaming your friend's name.
JUKUGO:
( )
to scream. usually from enjoyment - think, roller coaster. (extinct) + (shout) = (to scream)
shout MOUTH CROTCHes get
Radical
4 mouths shout "Hey, nice ass!" and 4 CROTCHES get kicked.
heart
(heart)
MUTANTS: leftheart
Number: 98 4 strokes SYMBOLIC, PK, MR
bottomheart ONYOMI: SHIN Imagine the SHINING sacred heart() in all those Mexican pictures:
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DESCRIPTION: There are TWO separate mutant radicals. All 3 radicals are SYMBOLIC for 'emotions.' KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
heart, metaphorically. 'All my heart' and that kind of good shit.
( ) ( ) ( )
worry (heart) + (distribute) = (worry)
heart (heart) + (internal organ) = (heart)
a feeling of relief (cheap / safe) + (heart) = (a feeling of relief)
( )
patriotism (love) + (country) + (heart) = (patriotism)
USED IN:
surely
ONYOMI: HITSU KUNYOMI:
(heart) + (one/line radical)

is basically "heart" plus a line crossing it. He's crossing his heart and swearing to surely never do HITS of acid again.
*
JUKUGO:
always, certainly
( )
super important (surely) + (important) = (super important)

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( )
USED IN:
desperately, as if one's life depended on it. (surely) + (death) = (desperately, as if one's life depended on it.)
get mad
(servant / dood) +
ONYOMI: DO KUNYOMI:
(bottomheart)
DOn't get mad at your servant if they stab your heart - it serves you right, you caste-system, Pharaoh, decadent slave-driving douche!
* *
JUKUGO:
to get mad anger, wrath (slightly more formal than - dropping a hammer on your foot is , but getting mad about politics is )
( )
to tear someone a new one. ( KUN ON) (get mad) + (animal cry) = (to tear someone a new one.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WOMAN get mad CRAFTY dread make an effort STRENGTH
Hint
Radical
The WOMAN gets mad, but I dread a CRAFTY man. Making an effort takes all your STRENGTH.
son / breath
(my own) +
ONYOMI: SOKU
Number: 101 10 strokes JERK
(bottomheart)
I bought my son SOCKS for his birthday. I am a lame dad! My own son is as dear to me as my own heart!
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DESCRIPTION: JERK. - it has 3 different meanings, AND the most commonly used meaning has a fucked-up unorthodox pronunciation (sigh)!!
KUNYOMI:
breath
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
son ( FP ) (son / breath) + (child) = (son)
interest on a loan, bank account, CD or a bond.(BOOBOO: but not a stock! Stocks pay dividends, or ()) (handy) + (son / breath) = (interest)
USED IN:
think
(rice field) +
ONYOMI: SHI KUNYOMI: ()
(bottomheart)
SHE's so into rice, when she thinks about a paddy, her heart starts racing.
To think (BOOBOO: should not be confused with the other 'think' ( ()). is like, "I think your Moms is the source of the fungus." "I think the theater is over there." is more like thinking to solve a problem: thinking about physics or math.
JUKUGO:
( )
to remember something This word uses the particle (even though plain ole' uses !!)
(BOOBOO: don't do like me and spend 3 years confusing with which means 'to memorize.') (think) + (pull out / hand over) = (remember)
( )
a specific memory (BOOBOO : GENERAL memory - as in, "I'm losing my memory!" is a different word : ()) (think) + (pull out / hand over) = (a memory)
( )
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I don't remember (think) + (pull out / hand over) = (I don't remember) USED IN:
Number: 103
L loser
(left radical)
PK, SYMBOLIC
DESCRIPTION:I'm calling it "loser" rather than other "L" words (llama, labia, Luftwaffe, etc.) for a reason! Most of the kanji which use "L" have something to do with loss and death.
USED IN:
dying
(beret) +
ONYOMI: BOU
L (loser)
The loser died from losing a game of BOWLing with the Devil . . .and was buried with his beret on. KUNYOMI: ()
a polite way of saying die, like the English phrase "pass on."
JUKUGO:
( )
the downfall of a civilization or the dying-out of a certain ethnic group. But it doesn't have 'downfall's moral judgement. (annihilate) + (dying) = (downfall)
( )
widow.I'm not including this because it's useful, but because it's one of the most spectacularly non-PC words: the literal translation is:'not yet dead person'! ( FR) (not yet) + (dying) + (person) = (widow)
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
busy
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: BOU
(dying) (Same-ON)
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I'm too busy to go BOWLing with my compadres, so my heart is dying inside.
*
KUNYOMI:
busy (1/2 KANA)
busy NO TIME LEFT forget BOTTOM OF YOUR HEART
Radical
Both kanji are"heart + dying," but, in busy (). . .the heart is on the LEFT, because you're so busy you have no time LEFT. With forget(), the heart is on the bottom, because you are apologizing to your boss FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR heart for forgetting to bring the report to the big meeting.
forget
ONYOMI: BOU KUNYOMI:
(dying) (Same-ON) +
* *
JUKUGO: forget
(bottomheart)
If you forget to turn on your pacemaker, your heart will die.
describes someone's personality: absent minded, someone who always leaves their umbrella on the train.
( )
an end-of-the-year party. Sort of like new year's eve parties, but they happen all throughout the last half of December. (forget) + (year) + (big meeting) = (end-of-the-year party)
( )
stuff you left behind,lost or forgotten things. (forget) + (animal / thing) = (stuff you left behind,lost or forgotten things. )
busy NO TIME LEFT forget BOTTOM OF YOUR HEART
Radical
Both kanji are"heart + dying," but, in busy (). . .the heart is on the LEFT, because you're so busy you have no time LEFT.
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With forget(), the heart is on the bottom, because you are apologizing to your boss FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR heart for forgetting to bring the report to the big meeting.
blind, ignorant
(dying) + (eye)
ONYOMI: MOU MOMAR Kadaffi is an ignorant dictator. KUNYOMI:
Number: 107 8 strokes FR, SIDEKICK
JUKUGO:
( don't use! it's a term of prejudice used against blind people) (ABU)
- zero stars! -
( )
a blind spot, a loophole (blind, ignorant) + (point) = (a blind spot, a loophole )
without reason or permission

Number: 108
6 strokes BETA
(dying) + (woman)
ONYOMI: MOU JUKUGO:
If that woman does that any MO without permission, she's going to be dying.
( )
A delusion - something impossible: "I am currently dating Michael Jackson!" "Jewish aliens are following me in an invisible robot!" (without reason or permission) + (idea/imagination) = (A delusion)
( )
paranoia! Although most Japanese will say in casual conversation. ( NEO , NP )
and crimes. ) + Michael Jackson!" "Jewish aliens are following me in an invisible robot!") = (paranoia!)
- zero stars! -
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Number: 109 PK
(top radical)
net
DESCRIPTION: Imagine a net stretched out, all waiting to catch something.
USED IN:
neglect/ egotistic
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: MAN
Number: 110 14 strokes BETA, COCK, JERK
(sun, day) +
(net) +
The egotistical MAN neglected his heart and let the sun shine on his crotch instead. DESCRIPTION:COCK: 90% of the words using this kanji mean egotistical, neglectful OR even chronic (for example, ,meaning negligence, dereliction ) But of course since this is Japanese, the one exception - '' (meaning 'patience') is used 90% of the time!! JUKUGO:
( )
to endure, to bear something. Often translated as 'patience,' but that is not quite right. You have patience if you can do data entry on a fucking kanji dictionary for 5 hours straight, but you gaman with your overtime or while taking final exams with a burst appendix. Masochists tend to gaman when they're fed worms while tied up. Sometimes the concept of gaman DOES overlap with the English idea of patience, though: Little kids have to gaman if they find out that Disneyland is still 4 hours away. One possible way to make GAMAN fit with the theme of 'neglect' is to remember that the 'ga' part means 'self.' So GAMAN means 'neglect yourself,' or, more poetically, 'Stop feeling the pain of your body and mind, and concentrate on the task at hand.' ( CCW, 1/2 KANA) (we) + (neglect/ egotistic) = (persevere)
( )
to brag (my own) + (neglect/ egotistic) = (to brag)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
neglect/ egotistic HEART WET manga
Hint
Radical
You neglect your lover with your cheating HEART, but it takes WET ink to make manga art.
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manga
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: MAN
(sun, day) +
(net) +
The main difference between this and the other " kanji () is that the left-hand radical of is WATER. So picture a MAN using a net to haul old manga out of the water and dry them in the sun so he can read them. JUKUGO:
( )
what's that??? ( 1/2 KANA) (manga) + (a drawing) = (manga)
( )
manga artist (what's that??? ) + (home) = (manga artist)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
neglect/ egotistic HEART WET manga
Hint
Radical
You neglect your lover with your cheating HEART, but it takes WET ink to make manga art.
sub(net) +
ONYOMI: A As for the shape, I got nothing!
Number: 112 7 strokes PRE, PK
??? (???)
Well. . . there's a net and what looks like a roman numeral II. So if you're an ancient Roman, you have your regular net which you use to catch your prey, and if that breaks, then you have your #II net, a sub-net, which you keep in reserve. DESCRIPTION: BOOBOO: people think this means "ASIA," but it doesn't. A while ago, just as a pun, some Japanese decided to spell the word "ASIA" phonetically, using kanji, like so: :: but this custom never caught on. And besides, the kanji was only chosen for its sound, not for its meaning. is used in a lot of names of elements, like chalk or zinc, but unless you're a research chemist or terrorist, this doesn't concern you. :: subspecies :: subtropical region See what I mean?
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USED IN:
bad
(sub-) +
ONYOMI: AKU
(bottomheart)
You can remember the Onyomi because the Japanese word for "demon" is AKUma! A heart that is sub-normal is bad. KUNYOMI: ()
*
bad
JUKUGO:
( )
has two meanings: If you say it about yourself, it means you feel terrible. If you say it about someone/thing else, it means,"That's gross and pathetic." (mood) + (hold) + (bad) = (pathetic / gross)
XXX ( XXX) ( )
the worst XXX EVAR. (most) + (bad) = (the worst XXX EVAR.)
(say hi to) the Bad Guy
(bad) + (person) = ((say hi to) the Bad Guy
( )
talking shit about someone. ( KUNKUN ) (bad) + (mouth) = (talking shit about someone.)
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evening
ONYOMI: TA KUNYOMI:
Number: 114 3 strokes BETA, ILL PAIR, PK, COCK
That's right - it is the katakana "ta" character ! Unfortunately, it's pronounced "YUU." How's that for a contradiction? Anyway. When the Japanese come home in the evening after work they say TA-daima! to YOUUU.
evening (see below!) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
last night (BOOBOO: it's NOT pronounced "tabe!!", even though it looks like it!) ( KUNKUN , FP )
( )
evening ( KUNKUN ) (evening) + (direction / method / person) = (evening)
( ) ( )
sunset (evening) + (roast / grill) = (sunset)
evening edition (evening) + (edition) = (evening edition)
USED IN:
many
ONYOMI: TA KUNYOMI:
(evening) (Same-ON)
Many evenings, we visited the glory hole in the restroom at Sears.
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many
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JUKUGO:
( )
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maybe ( 1/2 KANA) (many) + (understand / divide / minute) = (maybe)
xxx ( xxx) ( )
USED IN:
a big number of XXX (many) + (number, to count) = (a big number of XXX)
too damn many. Too damn many gaijin if you ask me. Always doing crimes. They need to just buy our products and get out.
dream
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: MU
(net) +
(evening)
Last evening I had this dream: a MOOING flower was caught inside a net. Perfectly clear, eh?
KUNYOMI:
dream
JUKUGO:
or ( or )
to be totally crazy about or obsessed with or rapturous about something/someone. (literally: lost in a dream) (dream) + (middle) = (crazy about something/one)
( )
nightmare (bad) + (dream) = (nightmare)
late night
(beret) +
ONYOMI: YA Late at night, I start to YAWN.
Number: 117 8 strokes ILL PAIR
(personleft) +
(evening)
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If YA see a person wearing a beret late at night, you should definitely go home . He's Jack the Ripper!!! (the extra stroke on the evening radical ? His blade!!! Eeieeieieieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!)
KUNYOMI:
night
JUKUGO:
( )
tonight (now) + (late night) = (tonight)
( )
dinner
( )
in the middle of the night. (deep) + (late night) = (in the middle of the night. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
late night BERET USED IN:
fall,drop
FLOWERS
Hint
Radical
FLOWERS fall on me when I wear my BERET at night .
liquid
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: EKI
(late night)
Late at night, I stepped in a mysterious liquid on the platform of the EKI (train station). I hope it was water, but. . . JUKUGO:
( )
liquid (liquid) + (body) = (liquid)
( ) ( )
blood type ( KUNKUN ) (blood) + (liquid) + (type / proper way) = (blood type)
liquid crystal display ( NEO ) (liquid) + (crystal) = (liquid crystal display)

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name, famous
ONYOMI: MEI
(evening) + (mouth/small box radical)

You MAY know my name because I am so famous. In the evening at the show, the rapper's mouth made him famous JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
famous (exist) + (name, famous) = (famous)
name ( KUNKUN ) (name, famous) + (before) = (name)
( ) ( )
an expert (name, famous) + (person) = (an expert)
business card - AKA "name card" () in Japanese-English. (name, famous) + (stab / buisness card) = (business card) one's last name - like , but is a spoken word, as well as written. ( FP ) (name, famous) + (letter) = (family name)
( )
death
(evening) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(heel) +
(one/line radical)
Evening, plus heel, plus one line on top- which we'll consider a GIRDER for the purposes of this mnemonic! SHE died last evening from having her heel crushed under a falling girder. KUNYOMI:
to die
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
corpse (death) + (body) = (corpse)
death penalty (death) + (penalty) = (death penalty)
( ) ( )
god of death - the Grim Reaper ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (death) + (GOD kanji) = (god of death - the Grim Reaper)
necrophilia ( ABU) (death) + (rape) = (necrophilia)

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flower POLLEN
Radical
death EVENING
For the sake of this mnemonic, let's call the 2 vertical strokes on the flower's top radical . . . 2 spores of pollen. The poison flower has POLLEN that you're breathing, and then it makes you die in the EVENING.
USED IN:
Number: 121 PK
(top/right radical)
katakana toe
DESCRIPTION: Yes, this is the katakana 'to'( ). SO we, for simplicity's sake pretend it's an actual toe. BUT I'm already using 'toe' as the keyword for the "TOU" onyomi. To keep things from getting (more) confusing, I'll call this radical 'katakana toe.'
USED IN:
outside
(evening) +
ONYOMI: GAI
(katakana toe)
The GUY stuck his TOE outside of his pants in the evening.
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KUNYOMI:
outside
to be literally apart from something (miss the target by 3 cm= 3cm)(the cloth was 3 cm over the limit, and stuck out of the arm-holes) (to be off the mark, out of line, etc.)
( or ) to be cut off, to be outside. A door is off its hinges. A person is ostracized. Something is so incredible you can't even believe it. JUKUGO:
( )
foreigner (the more formal term is (), but plain old is not neccesairly rude. It all depends on the tone) (outside) + (person) = (foreigner)
xxx
(xxx )
other than xxx / except for xxx. (compared to) + (outside) = (other than xxx)
( )
an exception to a rule (example) + (outside) = (exception)
or ( or ) ( )
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more/less/weirder than you expected. (guide/proposal) + (outside) = (more than one expected)
out of season. (season) + (season / joint) + (outside) = (out of season.)
above
(katakana toe) +
ONYOMI: JOU
Number: 123 3 strokes PN, DUH, DUPE
(one/line radical)
JOE Stalin was at the top , above the Soviet government. Think of the as being a line, and there's a toe poking above the line.
( or )
()
KUNYOMI:
*
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above
() ()
* *
something gets raised, lifted, promoted
to literally raise (your hands, and wave them from side to side; the roof)
rise up : Sometimes literal (climb a ladder, go up hill) , but usually figuragive ( To rise to stardom, a cost that runs as high as a billion annually).
( xxx ) SUFFIX meaning, 'in terms of.' For example, (he's big on the internet, but not really anywhere else) or (historically) (SUF) JUKUGO:
( )
2 meanings. usually said when you finish ordering something (food, copies, condoms) ; 'That'll be all.' It also means, "on top of all that" or "more than" (used like xxx or sometimes also xxx) ( JERK) (compared to) + (above) = (more than / that's all)
( )
skillfully done! Usually used to praise one's friends' efforts (at art, music, cooking, etc.) ( FP ) (above) + (hand) = (skilllfully done!)
( )
advanced level. When you finish this book, you'll still be a beginner of kanji but you'll have advanced level skills at making people aware of problems in life that their Moms might face. (above) + (level) = (advanced-level)
( )
someone who out-ranks you - at work, school, or in society. ( KUNKUN ) (eye) + (above) + (person) = (higher person)
USED IN:
dinner table
(katakana toe) +
ONYOMI: TAKU
(early)
as in, TALK TO your family at the dinner table! He would show up early at the dinner table and eat TOEs until the appetizers arrived. JUKUGO:
( )
calculator (electricity) + (dinner table) = (calculator)

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( )
dining table ( NP ) (eat) + (dinner table) = (dining table)
fortune teller/ occupy

Number: 125
5 strokes JERK
(katakana toe) +
ONYOMI: SEN
SEND for a fortune teller, whose mouth will tell the future of my toe. KUNYOMI:
* *
fortune-telling
to occupy or seize. I'm sitting in this seat so you can't sit in this seat. Or, to account for, as in: "When asked if they prefer Frankenstein as president,the "YESes" accounted for 45% of the answers.")
JUKUGO:
( )
monopoly (solitary) + (fortune teller/ occupy) = (monopoly)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
fortune teller/ occupy MOUTH SHELL chastity PERSON detective
Hint
Radical
She tells the fortune with her MOUTH. The sea SHELL was chaste - it reproduced asexually. A detective is a PERSON you hire to check the chastity of your daughter or spouse.
USED IN:
point
ONYOMI: TEN
(fortune teller/ occupy) +
(firebottom)
My fortune teller says that by staring into TEN flames, she can see any point in the future.
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KUNYOMI:
a point, a dot. This is used in 2 ways; a) a dot like the decimal point. . . .actually the 4 dots at the bottom of this kanji are referred to as tens. b) a point of conversation, as in "That's not the point and you know it!" (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
traffic intersection (combine) + (discriminate) + (point) = (intersection)
( ) ( )
common point (between two things or people) (with) + (pass) + (point) = (common point)
the important point which I'm trying to make (important) + (point) = (the point)
Number: 127
(top radical)
crown
(beret) +
(dot)
DESCRIPTION: like a beret but bigger, deeper, more eye-catching. . . because the king ain't playing that "regular hat" shit.
USED IN:
residence
(crown) +
ONYOMI: TAKU
(heel) +
(one/line radical)
as in, "I TALKED TO the homeless guy about what kind of residence he would like. " They say that A man's residence is his castle." So that explains why I put on a crown and kick up my heels when I get home from work. DESCRIPTION: yeah, this is the taku from "otaku." (BOOBOO: In fact, that "otaku" is 99% of the time written as , so you don't get to use the kanji.) JUKUGO:
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( ) ( )
go home. (a little formal) (go back home) + (residence) = (go home. (a little formal)) a slightly formal word for one's own home (BOOBOO: most people just say !) (my own) + (residence) = (one's own home )
( )
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home-delivery service (pizza, sex) (residence) + (urgent) + (convenient / poop) = (home-delivery)
cheap / safe
(crown) +
ONYOMI: AN
Number: 129 6 strokes FR, JERK
(woman)
If you got the crown, you can fuck a woman named ANN Coulter really cheaply. (she has a thing for authority) DESCRIPTION: Fucked Roots - women are cheap?? Also, a JERK. (By itself it means cheap, but in a jukugo it means safe)
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cheap JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( ) ( ) ( )
safety (cheap / safe) + (all) = (safety)
unease (un) + (cheap / safe) = (unease)
a feeling of relief (cheap / safe) + (heart) = (a feeling of relief)
( )
the Korean 'comfort women' enslaved during the war, which Japan still won't make amends to. ( ABU) (console) + (cheap / safe) + (housewife) = ("comfort women")
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cheap / safe BERET USED IN:
compromise WOMAN CROTCH receive
Hint
Radical
The WOMAN compromised. She recieved a CROTCH, but she keeps it under her BERET for safety.
letter
(crown) +
ONYOMI: JI JUKUGO:
(child)
As a child, JESUS Christ wrote lots of letters on his tiny crown. Mostly, he wrote "Who is my Daddy?"
( ) ( )
of course (Chinese) + (letter) = (kanji)
a letter- whether kana, kanji, or alphabet. ( FP ) (culture/ sentence) + (letter) = (a letter)
( ) ( )
western, Roman letters. A,b,c,d,y,o,m,a,m,a () + (letter) = (western, Roman letters. A,b,c,d,y,o,m,a,m,a)
a numeral - 1,2,3, etc. (number, to count) + (letter) = (a numeral - 1,2,3, etc.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
knowledge MOHICAN
letter cosmos
CHILD THOUSAND
Hint
Radical
The CHILD can only write one letter. There's a THOUSAND cosmoses in string theory. The MOHICAN punker has a knowledge of @narchy.

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announce
(crown) +
ONYOMI: SEN JUKUGO:
BETA
(danna (husband))
She was SENDing an announcement that her husband had just been crowned king. . . of Latveria!
( )
propaganda, or announcement (announce) + (transmit) = (propaganda)
( ) ( )
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proclaim ( NP ) (announce) + (say) = (proclaim)
declaration of war. (announce) + (fight) = (declaration of war.)
USED IN:
fight or quarrel
ONYOMI: KEN
(mouth/small box radical) + (announce)

DESCRIPTION: Here's the time you'll mostly see this: (kenka), meaning "a fight". is an interesting jukugo, because BOTH kanji are SIDEKICKS; they are normally only encountered with each other. It makes sense to study this as one big kanji. Sure, its a a complicated mess of lines, but check it out: both kanji have the mouth radical on the left side. S far as I know ,there ARE NO OTHER jukugo where that is true. So dont even learn the rest of the kenka radicals! Concentrate on the mouths: think of two people fighting, both with their mouths open and yelling like some Springer shit. Youll be ok.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
annoying because noisy or loud - can be used of a person OR place.
( )
to fight or argue ( KANA)
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eight
ONYOMI: HACHI
When you gave her eight HATS, SHE was happy.
* /
eight things JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( ) ( )
August ( KANA) (eight) + (moon) = (August)
eighth day of the month ( FP ) (eight) + (sun, day) = (eighth day of the month)
( )
the gnarled, wish-I-had-braces teeth that Japanese are famous for. Lots of Japanese find it cute, in fact. ( FP ) (eight) + (heavy / overlap) + (tooth) = (gnarly teeth)
USED IN:
hole
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KETSU
(eight)
Pour the KETCHUP down the hole. Of your throat!! There are eight holes in your crown.
KUNYOMI:
hole
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
nostril (nose) + (hole) = (nostril)
good place known to few ( KUNKUN )

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(hole) + (place) = (good place known to few)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint Radical
six
BERETS CROWN
hole
I'd rather have six BERETS than one CROWN with a hole in it.
USED IN:
six
(beret) +
ONYOMI: ROKU
(eight)
as in: Some ROCK band all making devil horns and yelling 666. Your half-elf ranger has 8 hit points. I hit him with my chain-mail beret until he only has 6 left. Stupid halfelf!! Failed your saving throw against big-ass berets again! KUNYOMI:
* / *
6 things JUKUGO:
( )
sixth day of the month ( FP ) (six) + (sun, day) = (sixth day of the month)
( )
June ( KANA) (six) + (moon) = (June)
six
Radical
BERETS CROWN
hole
I'd rather have six BERETS than one CROWN with a hole in it.
USED IN:
run parallel to
(waterleft) +
(eight) + (mouth/small box radical)

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ONYOMI: EN I ENJOY walking on the road parallel to the river. The mouths of eight thirsty people are lined up in parallel on the water's edge. DESCRIPTION: BOOBOO: This doesn't mean parallel lines, which are (). KUNYOMI: ()
run parallel to, like a trail parallel to the edge of a lake, or a line of houses running alongside the train tracks.
( xxx ) ( YYY ) (a more figurative idiom): in accordance with XXX, we will do YYY. (NP) LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
bathe
PEAKED ROOF
run parallel to NO ROOF

So you bathe under a PEAKED ROOF for privacy. Outdoors (i.e. where there is NO ROOF), you run parallel to the river.
moocow public
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 137 PK
DESCRIPTION: From, of course, the Katakana character for MU.
USED IN:
(eight) + (moocow)
There are eight moo-cows , voiding their COLONS in the public square.( no one dares to disturb them because it's India!) DESCRIPTION: Also - and I just now realized this - this kanji can be read as the katakana for (ham). Silly, ham comes from pigs!!
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
public, official, openly, officially, publicly (NP)

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( )
a public park
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(public) + (public park) = (park)
( ) ( )
USED IN:
open to the public (public) + (open) = (open to the public)
public, as in "public toilet" or "public telephone" (public) + (with) = (public)
lawsuit
(say) + (public)
You sue to say to the public and SHOW all the bad things done to you.
( )
lawsuit (accuse) + (lawsuit) = (lawsuit)
big thing counter

(moocow)
ONYOMI: DAI / TAI DESCRIPTION: This is the counter for cars. JUKUGO:
Number: 140 5 strokes COUNTER, BETA
I TIE you to your car and the big cow eats you with its mouth and you both DIE.
( ) ( )
Taiwan (big thing counter) + (bay) = (Taiwan ) one big thing, well, bigger than () anyway... is used for apples, marbles, maybe a melon. is used for anything from a TV set on up to a car! ( COUNTER ) (one) + (big thing counter) = (one big thing)
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( )
taiphoon (big thing counter) + (wind / the flu / style) = (taiphoon)
( )
kitchen! ( KUNKUN ) (big thing counter) + (area / attribute) = (kitchen!)
USED IN:
cure
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: CHI or JI KUNYOMI: ()
(big thing counter)
JESUS cured the big thing by giving it water and magic CHEese.
* *
I cure a disease or health problem (BOOBOO: if you want to fix an object, use the OTHER kanji : )
() ()
it gets cured (ditto!)
to rule over someone, to govern something (THIS one, you CAN'T use !)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
politics. (FR:literally "administer and cure",which is a bit of a laugh) ( FR) (politics) + (cure) = (politics)
healing in general : (the healing process / an unhealed wound / taking too long to heal) (cure) + (cure) = (healing)
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( )
medical therapy - for instance, cancer would be chemo. Unlike the related term () refers to ongoing, repeated-once-a-day/week processes for specific illnesses) (cure) + (medical therapy) = (therapy)
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begin
ONYOMI: SHI KUNYOMI: ()
DUPE, SOLO
(woman) + (big thing counter)

I've just begun to date a car-sized woman, and SHE is amazing.
I begin to (take apart your lego portrait of Pee Wee Herman)
( ) something has begun
( )
in the beginning. . . first of all. . .
lazy
ONYOMI: TAI KUNYOMI:
(big thing counter) (Same-ON) +
(bottomheart)
THAI people are not lazy, they have big hearts - the size of TVs! Or even cars!
() ()
* *
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to be lazy, to flop around and not do shit with your sorry stoner-ass life.
to neglect something - like you were cooking, then you got all stoked on playing Mario and now your pie burned to a crisp.
JUKUGO:
( )
sloth - a lazy person, as well as a fairly lazy transliteration for "sloth, the animal." ( NEO ) (lazy) + (professional) = (sloth )
window HOLE MOUTH lazy
Radical
A window is a HOLE in the side of a house. A lazy person just sits around shoveling food in your MOUTH.
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talent
ONYOMI: NOU JUKUGO:
(moocow) + (moon/organ) + (compare)

Compared to the other moo-cows' performance last month, your moocow has NO talent.
( ) ( )
showbiz (art) + (talent) + (the world) = (showbiz) capability (of a machine) i.e. "The new iphone has more than a regular keitai." (sex / essential nature) + (talent) = (capability)
/ ( / )
talent, skill of a person (skill) + (talent) = (talent)
( )
USED IN:
capability (i.e. this computer has the capability to burn DVDs) (talent) + (strong) = (capability)
bear
(talent) +
ONYOMI:
(firebottom)
His talent is to light bears on fire. (Really there is no other way to describe it: He is the fucking Van Gogh of ursine immolation.)
KUNYOMI:
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a bear
JUKUGO:
( )
lit. 'bear tribe' - a gay man who's kind of chubby and furry and lumberjacklooking ( NEO ) (bear) + (group, tribe) = (gay-ass bear)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
FIRE bear looks like HEART
Hint
Radical
The bear is ON FIRE, but you look like my HEART's desire.
looks like
(talent) +
ONYOMI: TAI JUKUGO:
(bottomheart)
The THAI prostitute looks like she has a lot of talent and a heart of gold. (FYI: Not. Stupid farang!)
( )
What your brother and sister call you when they catch you peeking in the bathroom while they're doing it in the toilet. (change) + (looks like) = (perv)
( )
an attitude/manner (defiant, peaceful, etc.) or stance (anti-trade, pro-shinto, anticorporate). When it comes to the first meaning, is something you can tell just by looking at the person - they might not be doing it intentionally. (looks like) + (times) = (attitude/ stance)
( )
the state or status of something: water is the liquid state of h20, but ice is the solid state. State of shock. Pristine state. Also can mean the state of affairs : good, bad, deadlocked, deteroriorating, improving. (circumstance) + (looks like) = (state)
( )
is a very Japanese concept - a sound effect for something that doesn't make noise - usually emotional states. The only English example of I can think of is ' bling.' ( 1/2 KANA)
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(sham) + (looks like) + (language) = (emotional sound-effect)

FIRE bear looks like HEART
The bear is ON FIRE, but you look like my HEART's desire.
Buddha
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BUTSU
(moocow)
Buddha pulls his BOOTS UP and walks off to enlighten the world. Buddha is a person having a very deep theological argument with a Hindu Sacred Cow : "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "moo." "Fuck! I thought I had him . . ." KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
Buddha
( ) ( )
Buddhism (Buddha) + (teach) = (Buddhism)
giant-ass statue of buddha. ( KUNKUN ) (big) + (Buddha) = (giant-ass statue of buddha.)
( )
- zero stars! LOOKALIKES: Meaning
adam's apple- literally "throat buddha"! ( FR, SARC)
me / private WHEAT enlarge pay WIDE HAND
Buddha
PERSON
Hint
Radical
Buddha is a PERSON.
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I myself cut the WHEAT. You enlarge something by making it WIDER. I use my HAND to pay.
Number: 148 PK
(bottom radical)
standing worms
DESCRIPTION: Two worms, standing up from a horizontal line, representing the ground.
USED IN:
stand up
(beret) +
ONYOMI: RITSU
(standing worms)
Stand up and get me some RITZ crackers, you lazy sod. OK. it looks like a pot. With a lid. Everybody says that. But it means "stand up," so deal. Here is a way to make this marginally acceptable: Two worms stand up from the ground, holding the beret aloft. KUNYOMI: () ()
I stand up
Something stands up; something is set up.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to be useful, to work like it's supposed to (used about things, not humans) (role) + (stand up) = (to work like it's supposed to)
get mad (entrails) + (stand up) = (get mad )

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( ) ( )
to stand out in a crowd. (eye) + (stand up) = (to stand out in a crowd.)
sometimes translated as 'independence' is more an attitude of self-reliance. A kid who gets a job, moves out of her parents' house, who does things for herself. (my own) + (stand up) = (independence)
( )
prefectural (hospital, capital, etc.) (prefecture) + (stand up) = (prefectural)
USED IN:
spicy / painful
(stand up) + (ten)
ONYOMI: SHIN
Number: 150 7 strokes STRONG, JERK
When you eat the spicy peppers, your upper lip gets SHINY with sweat. This spicy sauce is hotter than ten peppers standing end to end. KUNYOMI:
* *
spicy hot, not fresh-from-the-oven hot (BOOBOO)
something is tremendously difficult or painful to do - (the life of a coal miner is hard!). Not only does have nothing to do with , but they both LOOK the same: . - so there's no way to tell which is which! (although usually is written in hiragana, and is written with kanji ) (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
spices - not just hot ones. This is the only word you'll ever need the onyomi for. Sorry. (good smell) + (spicy / painful) + (ingredients / fees) = (spices)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
manager
spicy / painful NO TEN luck, happiness TEN CROWN
Hint
Radical
Luck has a TEN on top, spicy does NOT. So you can say, Good luck will bring you TEN TIMES AS MUCH happiness as good spices . The man with the CROWN manages the country.
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USED IN:
luck, happiness
(spicy / painful) + (ten)
ONYOMI: KOU KUNYOMI:
spicy )+ one more line on top, forming the kanji for TEN.() So you could say, "COcaine brings ten times as much happiness as hot spices."
( xxx )
fortunately, XXX JUKUGO:
happiness (KANA)
( ) ( )
luckily, xxxx. Or, 'good luck' (good luck learning all these bastards!) (luck, happiness) + (carry / luck) = (good luck)
bad luck; unfortunately (un) + (luck, happiness) = (bad luck; unfortunately)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
manager
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
manager
(spicy / painful) +
ONYOMI: SAI the manager SIGHed as the employees stole.
(crown)
The manager of the Indian restaurant wore a crown made entirely out of spices!!
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JUKUGO:
( )
preside over, or head something temporary. (not a corporation or university, but maybe an event or comittee that a corporation or university would hold) ( NP ) (master/mainly) + (manager) = (preside over)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
manager
Hint
Radical
cry
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KYUU KUNYOMI:
(stand up)
The CUTE girl was stood up by a dude, and cried big wet tears.
*
JUKUGO:
to cry
( )
crybaby (cry) + (insizzect) = (crybaby)
rank
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: I
(stand up)
as in, "Because of all the dick jokes in this book, I got the worst rank in the "nihongo textbook competition." The person stands in line according to their rank- top ranked people in front, losers in back.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
rank or position
( ) ( )
how much, how many, for how long? ( KANA)
first-ranked (one) + (rank) = (first-ranked)
( )
be located at a certain spot (as in, the 7-11 is located north of the mountains but south of the sea) (rank) + (put down on table) = (geographic location)
( )
denomination or unit (college credit, but also centimeter or pound) (merely) + (rank) = (unit)
sound
ONYOMI: ON KUNYOMI:
(stand up) + (sun, day)

A dude makes a loud sound, if he's standing ON top of the sun . It goes like AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
sound
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
music! (sound) + (enjoy) = (music!)
pronunciation of a word (launch) + (sound) = (pronunciation of a word)
( )
yep. (sound) + (read) = (The kanji pronunciation one uses in compound words.)
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( )
Onomatopoeia!!!! Sound-effect words. in English, that means words like 'slap' 'smack' or 'splash.' ( 1/2 KANA) (sham) + (sound) + (language) = (Onomatopoeia!)
USED IN:
emblem / chapter
(stand up) + (early)
ONYOMI: SHOU Stand up fast and SHOW me your badge.
Number: 156 11 strokes JERK, PN, BETA
DESCRIPTION: JERK (it literally means 'badge or emblem' but usually is used in the context of 'sentence' or 'chapter.') JUKUGO:
( )
sentence (culture/ sentence) + (emblem / chapter) = (sentence)
7 ( ) ( )
chapter 7 (rank or number in series) + (emblem / chapter) = 7 (chapter 7)
armband. Anytime you see an unemployed grand-dad with an armband, you can be sure he will poke his nose in someone's business and try to wreck their fun:"No smoking!" "No bicycle parking!" "No hammocks!" (arm / skill) + (emblem / chapter) = (armband)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
VILLAGE kid emblem / chapter EARLY
Hint
Radical
The kid is from the VILLAGE, so he got his badge EARLY. (it's the village where they make the badges, I guess. Who knows at this point)
USED IN:
dark
(sun, day) + (sound)
99
ONYOMI: AN ANN Coulter with the sunny blonde hair, can't stand the sounds made by the darker ethnic groups. KUNYOMI:
*
dark JUKUGO:
( )
memorize (dark) + (diary) = (memorize)
( )
assassination (dark) + (kill) = (assassination)
( )
your secret PIN number you use when you go to the ATM. This is different from a password you use on the internet - that's (dark) + (proof) + phone number or apartment number, or ZIP code number.) = (secret code number)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STAND dark weather get good now MASTER
Hint
Radical
Ghosts STAND UP in the dark and start to move. But MASTER commands the weather to improve
meaning
(sound) +
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
(bottomheart)
I believe that the sound of my heart means I am alive.
( )
meaning (meaning) + (flavor) = (meaning)
( )
opinion (meaning) + (look) = (opinion)

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( )
be careful! caution! (when used as a 'suru' verb, it means, 'to warn') (pour / be careful) + (meaning) = (be careful!)
( )
to have an awareness or be conscious of something- women are conscious of potential rapists in an everyday, peripheral way that men are not. Hippies are environmentally conscious. That's ishiki. (meaning) + (be conscious) = (awareness)
USED IN:
a hundred million
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: OKU 100,000,00 ORCS marched against a hobbit.
Number: 159 15 strokes SOLO, COUNTER
(meaning)
That lying-ass person has like 100,000,000 meanings whenever he talks. KUNYOMI:
100,000,000
JUKUGO:
( )
100,000,000 YEN, AKA what Maneki-neko wants! (one) + (a hundred million) + (yen/circle) = (100,000,000 YEN)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEART recollect a hundred million PERSON
Hint
Radical
I recollect every time I got my HEART broken. Every PERSON wants a hundred million bucks.
recollect
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: OKU
(meaning)
101
My heart will always recollect the meaning of my romance with some ORCS. JUKUGO:
( )
memory. Not a specific one, but like, "My memory is shot from too much drugs." (diary) + (recollect) = (memory)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEART recollect a hundred million PERSON
Hint
Radical
I recollect every time I got my HEART broken. Every PERSON wants a hundred million bucks.
gate
ONYOMI: MON KUNYOMI:
Buddhist MONKS hang out under the temple gate, shooting dice and cussing.
gate (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
a specialty (specialty) + (gate) = (a specialty)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
DAY a period of time question, problem MOUTH

Gate has NOTHING IN THE CENTER, IT'S OPEN - so you can walk through it. There is an interval of one DAY between things, and you ask a question with your MOUTH.
gate
Hint
Radical
OPEN
USED IN:
pitch-black darkness
(gate) + (sound)
102
ONYOMI: It's pitch black so you'll have to use your bat-like echolocation and find the gate using sound. KUNYOMI:
absolute darkness
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
BEANS struggle pitch-black darkness SOUND PERSON clique
Hint
Radical
BEANS make you struggle with farts, and you hear the SOUND even in a pitch-black room. Cliques are made of a PERSON or people!
a period of time
(gate) + (sun, day)
ONYOMI: KAN
Number: 163 12 strokes SUF
It CAN take a period of time of up to a day to go from one gate () to the other.
KUNYOMI:
an interval of time - the time between event A and event B.
gate - never used by itself, though. Only in jukugo - sort of like a second ONyomi. (see below!) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
time (time) + (a period of time) = (time)
( ) (xxx )
a mistake ( 1/2 KANA) (a period of time) + (different and therefore wrong) = (a mistake)
xxx
xxx amount of time. You can't just say "one year" like in English. You have to add 'kan', the equivalent of saying, in English, 'one year's time.' for instance: ():one year's time (): three weeks' time
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With months, it gets even more complex: you have to add at the end AND (pronounced 'ka') in the middle, like this: (): three months' time ( SUF)
( )
human ( FP ) (person) + (a period of time) = (human)
( )
to make it in time - catching your train or not being late for class (this is the main time you use the "MA" pronunciation) (a period of time) + (to suit) = (make it in time)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning

gate
Hint
Radical
OPEN
USED IN:
question, problem
ONYOMI: MON KUNYOMI:
(gate) (Same-ON) + (mouth/small box radical)

The MONK, standing at the temple gate, asks you a question : (a Zen koan) with his mouth. If you answer wrong, you can't get in.
*
JUKUGO:
to ask (BOOBOO: only used in a formal situation, where the wrong answer spells trouble: - the police questioned the suspect, the situation calls his authority into question) (F)
( )
a question - usually used in a structured setting: interview, trial, test. BOOBOO: in casual conversation, people will say or instead of . (quality) + (question, problem) = (question)
( )
problem - as in "environmental pollution", also as in "homework problem" (question, problem) + (topic) = (problem)
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( )
a doubt (= I have doubts about it.) (doubt) + (question, problem) = (a doubt )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning

gate
Hint
Radical
OPEN
sword
MUTANTS: leftsword rightsword ONYOMI:
Number: 165 2 strokes PK, SOLO, SYMBOLIC, ILL PAIR, MR
DESCRIPTION: is SYMBOLIC about 33% of the time - not just meaning "sword" but 'divide' too. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
samurai sword
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
a razor ( FP , 1/2 KANA)
NO HEAD sword HEAD strong the number 9 HOOK ON BOTTOM
Hint
Radical
"I got the STRENGTH to lift the sword UP OVER MY HEAD ." She hung suspended from 9 HOOKS in her back.
USED IN:
105
cut / important
(heel) +
ONYOMI: SETSU
Number: 166 4 strokes DUPE, JERK
(sword)
The samurai SAID TO me, "I'm fin to cut your heel with this here sword if you don't bow down to the feudal system." DESCRIPTION: JERK : by itself it means "sword," but in jukugo, it tends to mean "important' or "especially". KUNYOMI: () ()
I cut the paper
something is cut off, something breaks. To get your electricity cut off.
JUKUGO:
( )
important (big) + (cut / important) = (important)
( )
sold out (sell) + (cut / important) = (sold out) backstabbing (verb form: !) (backside) + (cut / important) = (backstab)
( )
( )
traitor ( KUN ON) (backside) + (cut / important) + (professional) = (traitor )
summon
ONYOMI: SHOU
(sword) + (mouth/small box radical)

When you summon a demon, you yell, "SHOW yourself!!!" I will raise my sword and open my mouth to summon the troops: "Chaaaarggeee!!" KUNYOMI:
summon (never used by itself! But you need it to say the following jukugo:) (NUBI)
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JUKUGO:
( )
Very polite way to say, "let's eat" to a superior person. This sounds like you don't need it, but when you go to a restaurant, YOU, believe it or not, are a superior person, and so you'll need to know this word to understand what the waiter is saying to you. ( F ) (summon) + (above) = (let's eat)
USED IN:
shining / Showa era

(sun, day) + (summon) (Same-ON)
The sun summons the shine of the Showa era of WWII, the brightest point in Japanese history!! (SARC)
( )
Showa Era: (In Japan, a new (era) begins every time a new Emperor is crowned, and lasts until the next one is crowned. The Japanese - like Pol Pot - start counting from Year One every time they enter a new era. The era doesn't use the Emperor's real name, but his official nickname, which seems a bit informal, but try being logical with an emperor-lover and see where it gets you. Anyway, the Showa era, according to wikipedia, was from 1926-1989. ( CCW) (shining / Showa era) + (peace/ Japan) = (Showa Era)
( )
nickname of Emperor Hirohito - from which the Era got its name. ( CCW) (shining / Showa era) + (peace/ Japan) = (Hirohito's nickname)
USED IN:
contrast
ONYOMI: SHOU KUNYOMI: ()
(shining / Showa era) (Same-ON) +

*
107
(firebottom)
The shine of the fire SHOWS shadows on the wall of the cave in bright contrast.
()
to illuminate, literally, or in the (figurative) sense of comparing 2 things.
to be self-conscious; as opposed to regular embarrassment or shyness.
JUKUGO:
( )
contrast (against) + (contrast) = (contrast)
understand / divide / minute

Number: 170
4 strokes JERK
(eight) + (sword)
ONYOMI: FUN, BUN KUNYOMI: ()
It only takes a minute to bake a baby BUNNY in the oven, plus it's FUN. After it's well done, use your sword to divide it into 8 pieces!
* *
understand. (BOOBOO - Not 'understand' like 'I know the capital of Australia", but more like, "Oh! NOW I get it! DON'T call them skanks! ')
() ()
I divide it (in 2)
it was divided; it branched into 2 sections.
JUKUGO:
( )
one minute of time. (2 minutes = () 3 minutes = (), etc.) ( COUNTER ) (one) + (understand / divide / minute) = (one minute)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
one half (half) + (understand / divide / minute) = (one half)
maybe ( 1/2 KANA) (many) + (understand / divide / minute) = (maybe)
a part or piece. (section) + (understand / divide / minute) = (a part or piece. )
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one's mood (mood) + (understand / divide / minute) = (one's mood) USED IN:
type of medicine
(unison) (Same-ON) + (sword)
ONYOMI: ZAI
Number: 171 10 strokes BETA, SUF
take this pill to improve your performance of "IRON MAN" on the ZAIlophone. This type of medicine is like 1,000 microscopic swords all attacking germs in unison! JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
although means medicine in general, XXX means, 'XXX kind of medicine.'
For example, and you don't need to remember these: (): anti-fever medicine, or (): a laxative medicine ( SUF)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
punishment
(net) +
ONYOMI: BATSU
(say) + (sword)
I'll have to punish BATSU maru for being a naughty penguin!
If someone says something bad, catch them with a net and punish them with a sword! KUNYOMI:
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( )
JUKUGO:
punishment / to punish (LAZY)
( ) ( )
a truth-or-dare kind of "penalty game." (punishment) + () = (penalty game.)
a fine (punishment) + (gold) = (a fine)
blade
ONYOMI: JIN
(sword) + (dot)
Don't fuck with blades when you are twisted on GIN. is basically sword, which is bisecting a little line, which we'll think of as a FINGER for the purposes of the following mnemonic: My sword blade is cutting a finger in half. What did I just say about too much gin? KUNYOMI:
BOOBOO: not a knife or sword - the BLADE or the SHARP EDGE of one. Remember, swords don't kill people, s kill people.
JUKUGO:
( )
edged weapon.or kitchen cutlery ( KUNKUN ) (blade) + (animal / thing) = (edged weapon.or kitchen cutlery )
blade SWORD round HOOK
Radical
Blade comes from the SWORD radical, which makes sense. 'Round' comes from 9, which has a HOOK on the right side. (the right side of blade turns outwards). So you can say, "I can hang nine round donuts on the HOOK."
USED IN:
hide / endure
Number: 174 7 strokes JERK, PN

110
(blade) +
ONYOMI: NIN KUNYOMI:
(bottomheart)
The NINJA has to hide well and endure discomfort with a steady heart , in order to successfully stab his target with his blade.
A very old word - from feudal times - not used anymore. It means "to endure or bear," but is usually used only in the context of bearing shame or disgrace. The ninja connection of this kanji lies in the SECOND meaning , which is restricted to this one idiom: (), meaning, to do secretly , or to do without being seen.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
it's a -- Quick, look behind you!!!!!!!!!!!!! (hide / endure) + (professional) = (NINJA!!!) patience, forbearance -basically it is a more formal version of (). However, can be used in the active sense of "keep doing what you're doing, keep rolling that rock up the hill, don't quit." Whereas, has more a passive nuance "Continue doing nothing, fight the urge to counter-attack or snap back." ( NP ) (hide / endure) + (withstand) = (forbear, endure)
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
admit
ONYOMI: NIN KUNYOMI:
(say) + (hide / endure) (Same-ON)

Say the truth, admit your crime, and endure the consequences.
*
JUKUGO:
to admit or acknowledge something
( )
to double-check something. (make certain) + (admit) = (double-check)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NINJA admit magazine SAMURAI
Hint
Radical
The NINJA had to admit that the magazine is about SAMURAI.

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strong
(sword)
ONYOMI: RYOKU
Number: 176 2 strokes PK, PN, SYMBOLIC
My REOCCURING dream is so strong, I wake up screaming. With a boner. is basically like sword ), but the vertical line goes UP OVER THE TOP, making a kind of little 'head'. So, here's how to tell sword apart from strong: "I got the STRENGTH to lift the sword UP OVER MY HEAD ." KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
strength, power, force
( ) ( )
violence of person against person. (rampage) + (strong) = (violence)
really grueling effort (make an effort) + (strong) = (really grueling effort)
( )
cooperation (cooperate) + (strong) = (cooperation)
( )
Yakuza. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the official term for Yakuza. ( NP )
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
add
112
(strong) + (mouth/small box radical)

ONYOMI: KA as in, "Add a CAR to my garage. " The rapper's strong mouth added power to the struggling music label. KUNYOMI:
*
to add JUKUGO:
( )
to join a group, or participate in something (admit defeat / visit) + (add) = (join)
( )
unfounded or groundless. Not a lie exactly, but someone who is just bullshitting, talking without saying anything meaningful or definite. Also means, working in a haphazard, hit-or-miss fashion. ( CCW) (add) + (decrease) = (unfounded, pointless) ( ) an increase ( NP ) (increase) + (add) = (an increase)
cooperate
(ten) + (strong)
ONYOMI: KYOU We cooperated TODAY (= KYOU)
There's THREE 'strong' radicals, so you can say: Three strong people cooperating have the strength of ten people working alone. JUKUGO:
( )
cooperation (cooperate) + (strong) = (cooperation)
( ) ( )
compromise (compromise) + (cooperate) = (compromise)
a society or association (cooperate) + (big meeting) = (a society or association)

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threaten
ONYOMI: KYOU KUNYOMI:
(strong) + (moon/organ)
TODAY (= KYOU) , three strong guys threatened my vital organs.
*
JUKUGO:
threaten
to try and suprise and / or scare someone. Kids jump out of the bushes playing ninja. Or parents saying, "If you don't eat your vegetables, ghosts are going to come get you!" (KIDS)
( ) more formal than . Not just to threaten, but to be intimidating. ( NP ) (threaten) + (press upon) = (intimidate)
make an effort
ONYOMI: DO
(servant / dood) (Same-ON) + (strong)

The servant has to DO a strong effort, or face the lash!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
make an effort (at improving your French, at quitting smoking, to be nice to your friend's douche boyfriend, etc.) , - Actualy, this is more in common with than with the other two s.( and ) (NP)
( )
really grueling effort (make an effort) + (strong) = (really grueling effort)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get mad dread
Hint
WOMAN CRAFTY
Radical
114
make an effort STRENGTH

man
ONYOMI: DAN
(rice field) + (strong)

Glen DANzig uses his manly strength to harvest the rice in the field. While listening to DANzig. KUNYOMI:
man JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
the more polite way to say it. (man) + (person) = (the more polite way to say it.)
boy (man) + (child) = (boy)
male (man) + (sex / essential nature) = (male)
( ) ( )
sexism (literally, and I love this; 'men - esteem - women - despise') (man) + (esteem) + (woman) + (despicable) = (sexism)
firstborn son ( FP ) (long / boss) + (man) = (firstborn son)
USED IN:
the number 9
(strong)
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ONYOMI: KYUU, KU You've got 9 cute teeth in your KUchi (=mouth) like strong (), but the right side does that little hook - curlicue thing. So you can say, To prove her STRENGTH , she hung suspended from 9 HOOKS in her back.
*
9 things JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
9 o'clock ( KANA) (the number 9) + (time) = (9 o'clock)
( )
September ( KANA) (the number 9) + (moon) = (September)
( )
9th day of the month ( FP ) (the number 9) + (sun, day) = (9th day of the month )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
research
ONYOMI: KYUU
(hole) + (the number 9) (Same-ON)

I am NOT watching gay porn!! I am, um, researching the holes of nine CUTE adult actors!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to investigate until you are a master of something
( )
research (polish, sharpen) + (research) = (research)

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( )
- zero stars! Hint
the ultimate, definitive, comprehensive something-or-other (research) + (extreme) = (ultimate, definitive)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
research NINE BIG thrust
Radical
You research NINE topics, but you thrust a BIG sword in the hole.
round
ONYOMI: GAN
(the number 9) + (one/line radical)

GHANDI had round glasses. This is basically 9 () plus one stroke. Nine plus one equals ten, which is a round number. Sorry, that's the best I could do. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
circle
circular
( ) ( )
the Japanese flag. (sun, day) + (round) = (the Japanese flag.)
bullet (bullet / play guitar / bounce) + (round) = (bullet)
blade SWORD round HOOK
Radical
Blade comes from the SWORD radical, which makes sense. 'Round' comes from 9, which has a HOOK on the right side. (the right side of blade turns outwards). So you can say, "I can hang nine round donuts on the HOOK."
USED IN:
Number: 185
117
get good at
(beret) + (firebottom)
ONYOMI: JUKU
15 strokes ILL PAIR
(mouth/small box radical) + (child) + (round) +
You are getting good at picking out non-lame songs on the JUKEBOX. The child with the beret got really good at opening her mouth wide round and emitting fire from it.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to ripen (used of plants or fruits)(which are plants).

- zero stars! -
( )
YEAHHH!! At last, the kanji for "compound word." (get good at) + (language) = (compound word)
( )
not yet good at something. (not yet) + (get good at) = (not yet good at something.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cram school EARTH get good at BURNING
Hint
Radical
LOOKALIKES: The cram school is built on EARTH, but you get good at BURNING it down.
to hella do
ONYOMI: SHUU
(luck, happiness) + (round)

It makes me hella happy to walk around in my new SHOES.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to assume command of something, to take control of something, to spearhead some shit, and randomly - to take up your pen and write some shit (which presumably the shit is a manifesto or expose or will start shit).
- zero stars! -
( )
to be attached obsessed with or persistent in doing something. (to hella do) + (wear / arrive) = (persistent / obsessed)
118
- zero stars! -
half
ONYOMI: HAN
Number: 187 5 strokes PK, STRONG, PRE
(dry out) + (dot)

HAN solo was half of the crew of the Millennium Falcon. HALF the dots are on the left side of , and HALF are on the right side! DESCRIPTION: PREFIX - you can't use this willy-nilly, but if you see it before a noun, you know it means 'half of that noun.'
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
in the middle, halfway (mid-30s, middle of June, mid-century) (KANA)
2 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
2:30 (time) + (half) = 2 (2:30)
one half (half) + (understand / divide / minute) = (one half)
half a year. ( KUN ON) (half) + (year) = (half a year.)
half-price, half the amount. (half) + (amount of money / forehead) = (half-price)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD half equal / level top is LEVEL
Hint
Radical
only (half) has a litle 'head' poking up. So say to yourself, The samurai cuts your head in HALF. There IS no head poking up the top of "level." . . I guess you could say the top is LEVEL.
USED IN:
equal / level

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(half)
ONYOMI: HEI Racists HATE equality. it might seem to be a cheap shot to make fun of racists in 2010, but seriously fuck these people. Unlike , the top of is flat, or level, and it means 'level.' So, that's how you remember it. KUNYOMI:
* ( )
flat JUKUGO:
( )
it's ok with me. Usually phrased as a question, as in, "Is that ok with you?" This is only used by young people - more often young women. ( KIDS ) (equal / level) + (mood) = (ok?)
( )
peace (equal / level) + (peace/ Japan) = (peace)
( ) ( )
weekday (equal / level) + (sun, day) = (weekday) fairness (opp. :) (public) + (equal / level) = (fairness (opp. :))
( )
impartial, even-steven. (to cut the cake into equal pieces, to treat your adopted kids and your biological kids equally) ( FP ) (equal / level) + (equal /etc./plural) = (impartial, even)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD half equal / level top is LEVEL
Hint
Radical
only (half) has a litle 'head' poking up. So say to yourself, The samurai cuts your head in HALF. There IS no head poking up the top of "level." . . I guess you could say the top is LEVEL.
USED IN:
seal / stamp
ONYOMI: HAN
(half) (Same-ON) + (sword)

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HAN Solo seals half a sword inside a box of carbonite. DESCRIPTION: This means, "seal, stamp with the official stamp that makes it official." KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
A lot of dictionaries still say is a synonym of . Not really. Don't bother learning .
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( )
to judge, to deliver a verdict - but also judge like 'I wouldn't wear that skirt if I was her.' (seal / stamp) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (judge)
( )
criticism, like "I call bullshit on the government!" or "I call bullshit on your opinion of an athlete!" (call bullshit on) + (seal / stamp) = (criticism)
( )
reputation (art or literary criticism) + (seal / stamp) = (reputation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
accompany PERSON seal / stamp SWORD
Hint
Radical
The PERSON accompanies you because he's your buddy. I say you owe me fi' dollas, and my SWORD makes it official.
art or literary criticism

Number: 190
12 strokes BETA
(say) + (equal / level)

ONYOMI: HYOU
"HE'S YOUR worst enemy." is a kind of criticism of him. Art criticism is saying if you think the artwork is equal to the classics of the genre. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
estimate the price of something, jewels, comic books, etc. (art or literary criticism) + (value) = (price estimate)
critique of an entire genre. More often literary (novels, plays, poems) Usually used as a noun. Art Critic: () ( NP ) (art or literary criticism) + (make a case for) = (critique)
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( )
review of one specific performance (showbiz event, exhibition, play, etc.) More commonly used as a verb. ( NP ) (call bullshit on) + (art or literary criticism) = (review )
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accompany
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: HAN / BAN
(half) (Same-ON)
HAN Solo has been BANNED from accompanying wookies into the men's room. Half the people accompany the other half. KUNYOMI:
( ) accompany, in both literal and figurative sense: Bill accompanies Doug. But also, rain accompanies high winds at this time of year (notice how it doesn't care about cause and effect) JUKUGO:
( )
Accompany. This is like ()but a) limited to people , not situations. b) it's more formal than . You'll see on signs like, "Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a parent to this film," and things like that. ( NP ) (same) + (accompany) = (accompany)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
accompany PERSON seal / stamp SWORD
Hint
Radical
The PERSON accompanies you because he's your buddy. I say you owe me fi' dollas, and my SWORD makes it official.
call to someone
ONYOMI: KO
(mouth/small box radical) + (equal / level)

I call KODOMOs (= KO ) with my mouth and they call me back equally loudly.
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KUNYOMI:
( or ) to call to your friends, on the street. Also, calling the police or ambulance. ()
To be named, or to be called . If your Pops is sometimes called Twana, you'd say,'Twana ' (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
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Doctors' word for breathing. (most people just say ()) ( NP ) (call to someone) + (suck) = (respiration)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
bloom
Hint
Radical
call to someone EQUAL

When flowers bloom, it means they are HORNY (pollen and all that), but I call my EQUALS 'homey.'
HORNY
small size
ONYOMI: SHOU KUNYOMI:
Number: 193 3 strokes ILL PAIR, PK, PN, COCK
SHOW me a small animal because I'm scared of big ones. DESCRIPTION: is a COCK because it's got a kunyomi of . But you never use that kunyomi by itself - you use instead. You only use in certain jukugo. Basically it's like there are 2 onyomi, but one onyomi is only used in KUNKUN jukugo. Fuck!
* * ( )
small tiny (means the same as but is more cute-sounding) (KIDS)
tiny (cock version) (NUBI)

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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
elementary school (small size) + (school) = (elementary school)
novel (small size) + (explain) = (novel)

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( ) ( )
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the wee (Doctor's word) ( NP ) (small size) + (convenient / poop) = (the wee)
flour ( KUNKUN ) (small size) + (barley) + (powder) = (flour)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NO SMILING small size a little (amount) SMILING
Hint
Radical
Chisai ()can be thought of as a dude with droopy sad eyes and a big nose. He's sad because he's so small. The ladies, they do not choose him so much. Sukoshi is the same guy, but he's smiling a little bit(). He's a little bit happy. Because your dad sent him flowers.
USED IN:
a little (amount)
(small size) + (one/line radical)
ONYOMI: SHOU SHOW me a little smile!
Number: 194 4 strokes ILL PAIR, PK, SYMBOLIC
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO TELL AND APART-- Chisai ()can be thought of as a dude with droopy sad eyes and a big nose. He's sad because he's so short. The ladies, they do not choose him so much. Sukoshi is the same guy, but he's smiling A SMALL AMOUNT(). He's a small amount of happy. Because your dad sent him flowers. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
just a little - not enough. (Not necessarily a bad meaning: "The risks are negligible.")
( ) ( ) ( )
young girl - usually 5- 15 years old. (a little (amount)) + (woman) = (young girl)
young boy- usually 5- 15 years old. (a little (amount)) + (year) = (young boy)
minority (a little (amount)) + (number, to count) = (minority)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NO SMILING small size a little (amount) SMILING
Hint
Radical
Chisai ()can be thought of as a dude with droopy sad eyes and a big nose. He's sad because he's so small. The ladies, they do not choose him so much. Sukoshi is the same guy, but he's smiling a little bit(). He's a little bit happy. Because your dad sent him flowers.
USED IN:
inferiority
ONYOMI: RETSU
(a little (amount)) + (strong)

LET'S get an inferiority complex! It's fun! The inferior dude - he only has a little strength. KUNYOMI:
( or ) be inferior to JUKUGO:
( )
to degrade or deteriorate (inferiority) + (transform) = (to degrade or deteriorate)
( )
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inferiority complex ( NP ) (inferiority) + (equal /etc./plural) + (feeling) = (inferiority complex)
odd
ONYOMI: MYOU
(woman) + (a little (amount))

The cat uttered an odd little MEOW. Woman, a little, and odd? I'm not going to touch this mnemonic with a ten-foot pole.
( )
KUNYOMI:
An unusual (but not enchanted or scary or supernatural) situation. (LAZY)

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( )
JUKUGO:
stangely, oddly. (LAZY)

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a nice way of saying, 'meh.' also means "subtle, delicate." "How did you like the play?" "Bimyou." (teeny) + (odd) = (meh!)
( )
weird - but more broad than the related term . means unusual and absurd - a street-person wearing a duck as a hat is . (strange) + (odd) = (weird)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
odd sand
one second WHEAT
Hint
Radical
WOMAN STONE
Every second I eat WHEAT. Sand is a small STONE, but WOMAN is mysterious.
ministry / cut down on

Number: 197
9 strokes DUPE, JERK
(a little (amount)) + (eye)

Cut down on your flirting - only SHOW me your eyes just a little.
*
JUKUGO:
omit or skip (skip the red tape, skip a step in the process, skip the rest of the kanji and go to bed , cut out unneccesary expenses ) to look back on - Unlike the OTHER (), is pretty much only used in the sense of soul-searching or thinking about past misdeeds. (DUPE)
( )
to abbreviate , omit, but also contraction. ( contractions like 'ain't' are ) (ministry / cut down on) + (abbreviation) = (abbreviate or leave out)
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( )
soul-searching, self-reflection : "Where did I go wrong?" (maybe when you started writing a kanji dictionary thinking that it would be less than 900 A4 pages?) (anti) + (ministry / cut down on) = (soul-searching)
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX meaning, "the Ministry of XXX" (usually shortened to just xxx) ( SUF) (perform a task) + (ministry / cut down on) = (Ministry of XXX)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ministry / cut down on A LITTLE YOUR OWN (one's own) flesh
Hint
Radical
Cut down on smoking a LITTLE, and save your OWN flesh.
capital
(beret) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
Number: 198 8 strokes BETA, PN
(mouth/small box radical) + (small size)
TODAY (= KYOU) I am going to the capital. The fashion in the capital city is, to wear a beret, with a tiny soul patch below your mouth. DESCRIPTION:BOOBOO:This means 'capital city of Japan,' As opposed to '' which means 'capital city' in the sense of 'Hollywood is the film capital' or 'Paris is the art capital' or 'San Francisco is the bear capital.' JUKUGO:
( )
Tokyo (east) + (capital) = (Tokyo)
( )
Tokyo -to. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, so it has "-to" on the end of it. Most cities have a () instead. And most prefectures have a () instead. If you think that's confusing, look at Washington DC - it's not a state, but it's not a city. It's a "district." Huh? (Tokyo) + (major city) = (capital city)
( )
USED IN:
Kyoto (the former capital!) (capital) + (major city) = (Kyoto (the former capital!))
Number: 199
127
cool place
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: RYOU
11 strokes PN, SOLO, ILL PAIR
(capital)
as in : "REORDER more coats; it is getting cool. " It's cool in the capital city when the rain (water) falls. KUNYOMI:
*
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
to be cool (there's a feeling of relief about this - usually said after a hot day or a hot summer)
to freeze
Hint
Radical
cool place WATER
CHILL radical
Freezing things are CHILLY, but after a long hike you want to cool down with WATER.
scene
ONYOMI: KEI
(sun, day) + (capital)

it's OK to stop and stare open-mouthed at the scene. When the sun shines on the capital city it is hella scenic. JUKUGO:
( )
background (both in the sense of the background of a photo, and the background context of a story) (stature / small of the back) + (scene) = (background)
( )
A nice view - of nature or even the big crosswalk at Shibuya. ( FP ) (scene) + (color) = (nice view)
( )
USED IN:
a spectacle (shining) + (scene) = (a spectacle)

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show/altar radical
(two) + (small size) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: JI (bottom radical) KUNYOMI:
SYMBOLIC, JERK RADICAL
JESUS shows us his two tiny disciples. (Although most of them just call them "nads.")
to show or indicate.But you can't say 'I'll show you my wang.' Why? One, in that case , you're supposed to use 'miseru' instead, and two, you don't have a wang, you lost it in the war. is more like "Studies indicate a link between yo mama and trench-mouth." Or "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man."
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
an exhibition or trade-show (International Plumbing Equipment Expo 2010!) (exhibit) + (show) + (big meeting) = (trade-show) instructions not like instructions from your boss, but like the instruction manual you get with your new vacuum cleaner. (finger / point at) + (show) = (instructions )
USED IN:
religion
(crown) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(show/altar radical)
Don't wear your SHOES in the religious temple!! God will get dirty! Religion shows you that God is the king with the crown JUKUGO:
( )
religion (religion) + (teach) = (religion)
( )
new religion, (a polite way of saying 'cult'.) (new) + (interest) + (religion) = (cult)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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ALTAR religion complete GENKI

My religion sacrifices you on the ALTAR, and it makes us completely GENKI.
religion CROWN excess PEAKED ROOF
Meaning
Hint
Radical
I got so many CROWNS from starting my own religion . . . I have to store the excess in a warehouse with a PEAKED ROOF. (BTW, seminars start at 40,000 yen!)
lonely
(crown) +
ONYOMI: JAKU
Number: 203 11 strokes DUPE, SOLO
(above) + (small size) + (again/crotch radical)
When michael JACKSON is lonely, kids run for cover. The lonely man pretended to drop his crown, and when he bent over to pick it UP, he looked up skirts to see the small crotches inside. KUNYOMI:
lonely (BOOBOO: even though it's written saBIshii, most people pronounce it "saMIIshii!") (1/2 KANA)
supervisor
ONYOMI: TOKU
(above) + (small size) + (again/crotch radical) + (eye)

They supervise you at school to make sure you don't TOKE between classes. The supervisor's eye looks up at the small crotch of the attractive temp worker. Asshole! JUKUGO:
( )
movie director/ construction foreman / coach. (oversee) + (supervisor) = (director)
130
Number: 205 PK
(left radical)
Eazy
DESCRIPTION: . ... Because it looks like a capital "E."
USED IN:
childhood
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: YOU
(strong)
Children YODEL at inappropriate times (e.g. funerals, supermarkets, etc.) Eazy was a very strong child, starting his own rap empire even as a teen. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
childish, very young- cute if applied to a child, rude if applied to an immature adult.
( )
kindergarten
Want to come see?") + (public park) = (kindergarten)
( )
childish, immature, puerile. "Hey i wrote POOP on a picture of the president! Want to come see?" (childhood) + (childish) = (childish, immature)
( )
child (more a newspaper word: child abuse, child-rearing, etc.) ( NP ) (childhood) + (baby) = (child)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
illusion
childhood STRONGER SCISSORS
Hint
Radical
You were STRONGER as a child, but hallucinations of SCISSORS are wild.
Number: 207
131
entryway / mysterious / brown rice

(beret) +
ONYOMI: GEN Eazy-E, attempting to act mysterious, donned a beret AGAIN. JUKUGO:
5 strokes BETA, JERK
(Eazy)
( ) ( ) ( )
brown rice (entryway / mysterious / brown rice) + (rice / America) = (brown rice)
entryway of an apartment or building (entryway / mysterious / brown rice) + (connected to) = (entryway)
occult! Mysterious! Old guy on a mountain wearing a Tengu-skin thong chanting and drawing Lovecraft symbols on a cave wall as he fondles ancient manuscripts! A calf is born with 3 heads - AND IT'S YOUR HALF-SISTER! (occult) + (entryway / mysterious / brown rice) = (occult)
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USED IN:
raising of domestic animals

Number: 208
10 strokes BETA
(entryway / mysterious / brown rice) + (rice field)

ONYOMI: CHIKU They raise mysterious CHICKS in their occult rice field. JUKUGO:
( )
comes from a word for beast, but in practice, it's used just like "You asshole!" (also, you can use it as a simple "Damn it!" if you hit your thumb with a hammer) ( 1/2 KANA, ABU) (raising of domestic animals) + (life / birth) = (asshole!)
( )
USED IN:
livestock, a farm animal (home) + (raising of domestic animals) = (livestock)

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store or put aside

(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: CHIKU Store the CHICKS in the hen-house.
(raising of domestic animals) (Same-ON)
The farmers set aside both their flower crop and their domestic animal crop for the winter.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
setting stuff aside for a rainy day. Used about good stuff.
) All savings, especially investments such as stocks, gold and gems.Or anything else you're hoarding. (save up) + (store or put aside) = (savings)
( )
accumulate. Used about bad things mostly - bills or stress piles up. Similar to () or () But can also can be good, like the compound interest or accumulated knowledge. (store or put aside) + (pile up) = (accumulate.)
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string
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI:
Number: 210 6 strokes SYMBOLIC, SOLO
(small size)
Eazy has a small string, which he likes to play with when he's down. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC - most of the kanji that use this, have to do with connections between things. As if a metaphorical string was binding them.
KUNYOMI:
string
USED IN:
Number: 211
aquaint
11 strokes SIDEKICK
133
(string) + (summon)
ONYOMI: SHOU as in :"Your boyfriend is hella hot. Aquaint us so I can SHOW him this porno I did. " If I summon someone and make you their aquaintance, you two are now connected by a social string JUKUGO:
( )
introduce (someone or something to somebody else) (aquaint) + (introduce / intervene) = (introduce )
( )
) + yourself to a group.)
introduce yourself to a group.
line
ONYOMI: SEN
(string) + (spring) (Same-ON)

SEND a line made of string from here to the spring. (it is some engineers at work)
KUNYOMI:
a literal line, like what you'd draw. (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX meaning, 'train line.' In NYC they got the A train, B train, etc. Japanese would call it AB etc ( SUF)
( )
bullet train (new) + (trunk) + (line) = (bullet train)
cotton

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(string) + (white) + (small city/dagger radical)

ONYOMI: MEN MEN wear cotton cloth made from white string. Dagger? Who cares. DESCRIPTION: Why bother?
KUNYOMI:
cotton plants
JUKUGO:
( )
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firm tofu. (the wimpy kind is called silk) (tree) + (cotton) + (tofu!) = (firm tofu)
slender
ONYOMI: SAI
(string) + (rice field)

I SIGH because I can't get any more slender. Wrap the string once round the whole rice field and just contract it until the field gets slender. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
slender (1/2 KANA)
detailed , small, delicate
( )
a cell, like an amoeba or a brain cell. (slender) + (cell) = (cell) ( ) small, in the sense of petty or trifling, insignificant. Don't sweat the small stuff. Don't bother me with such trivial complaints. Here's a good phrase to learn: " ! ()= Don't worry about such trivial things!
( )
the details or particulars of a thing (expert) + (slender) = (details)
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general / total
ONYOMI: SOU JUKUGO:
(heart) + (string) + (public)

I'll give SO much string to the general public , I'm sure to win their hearts.
( ) integrated, overall, total, general thing (not just a movie theater, but a whole entertainment complex: video games, a bar, karaoke, etc.)(general car service - not just fixing the engine but also fixing tires, detailing the paint job, etc.) (general / total) + (to suit) = (overall/ integrated)
( )
the Prime Minister (of Japan or any other country that still has one) (general / total) + (reason) = (prime minister)
( )
synthetic
entertainment complex: video games, a bar, karaoke, etc.)(general car service - not just fixing the engine but also fixing tires, detailing the paint job, etc.)) + (motivation / '-al') = (synthetic)
xxx ( xxx)
PREFIX meaning, "total amount of xxx" (total score, total cholesterol, number of users) ( PRE)
XXX ( XXX)
as a whole, XXX. In general .. . XXX (general / total) + (body) + (motivation / '-al') = (as a whole, XXX. In general .. . XXX)
look up
(ten) +
ONYOMI: SAKU
(string)
Rob Halford gets out his phone book, looking up some SAC to teabag with. I'll look up ten Moustaches, tied together with string. JUKUGO:
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( ) ( )
internet search (investigate) + (look up) = (internet search)
index (look up) + (pull) = (index)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
TEN look up take measures BAMBOO
Hint
Radical
You look up TEN ways to take measures against the BAMBOO growing in your lawn.
to supply
ONYOMI: NOU KUNYOMI: ()
(the inside) + (string)

NO, I won't supply string inside your butt! You gotta come to the string store like everyone else. And wear pants!
* *
to be delivered
a really narrow, yet weird word: to pay taxes/school fees/bribes; or to place something in the place it's supposed to be: swords in scabbards, mummies in tombs.
()
JUKUGO:
( )
storage - similar to the word (), but is in the same building: the broom closet at your fast food restaurant is , but the shack in your backyard is . (get) + (to supply) = (storage)
or ( or ) to pay, supply or deliver - more formal than () ( NP ) (to supply) + (put/go in) = (deliver/pay)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
to supply STRING WOODEN pattern
Hint
Radical
I'll supply you with STRING so you can weave a WOODEN pattern with it.
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ambiguous
ONYOMI: FUN
(string) + (understand / divide / minute)

To Japanese, it's FUN to give ambiguous answers to foreigners!!! String theory is too ambiguous to understand.
*
ambiguous ()
KUNYOMI:
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to mistake something for a similar thing, to get diverted off the main point, to be distracted, to . . . (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
to divert one's attention from one's troubles (mood) + (ambiguous) = (divert attention)
silk
ONYOMI: KEN
(string) + (mouth/small box radical) + (moon/organ)

KENNY's puffy orange jacket is made out of silk. Silk is a string that comes out of the organs in a worm's mouth. Actually, it comes out the worm's butt, so if you want to picture the mouth rad as a butt hole that is ok, Mister Science. KUNYOMI:
silk
JUKUGO:
( )
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the soft tofu (AKA the wrong kind) (silk) + (bean) + (rot) = (wack tofu)
Number: 220
138
group, tribe
ONYOMI: KEI
7 strokes BETA
(one/line radical) + (string)

It's ok to like 'visual KEI' if you are member of that tribe. Everyone in the tribe is tied together with ONE string, making them ONE tribe. JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning, belonging to the tribe of XXX. like 'visual kei' uses this kanji. Other common tribes, akiba-kei, furugi-kei (vintage clothes fanatics), and elvis-kei. I mean, probably. ( PRE)
( ) ( )
solar system (the fucking sun!) + (group, tribe) = (solar system)
'of Japanese descent'. Nikkei American is Japanese American. But you can be nikkei Brazilian or nikkei Azerbaijani too! (sun, day) + (group, tribe) = (of Japanese descent)
( )
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systematic, and logical,like how dungeons and dragons takes all human attributes and assigns them a number. (body) + (group, tribe) + (motivation / '-al') = (systematic)
USED IN:
grandchild
ONYOMI: SON KUNYOMI:
(child) + (group, tribe)

My grandSON is a child of our tribe.
grandchild
JUKUGO:
( )
descendant (child) + (grandchild) = (descendant)
LOOKALIKES:
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be involved with PERSON CHILD grandchild
Meaning
Hint
Radical
The grandchild is a CHILD, douchebag! But you are involved with a PERSON.
be involved with
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KEI That person is involved with that tribe. KUNYOMI: ()
(group, tribe) (Same-ON)
It's OK to be involved with Death Row Records, providing that you like prison food.
to be involved with, to get caught up in,(usually in a bad thing)
JUKUGO:
( )
related to - a sysadmin job is (connected to) + (be involved with) = (related to)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
be involved with PERSON CHILD grandchild
Hint
Radical
The grandchild is a CHILD, douchebag! But you are involved with a PERSON.
dry out
ONYOMI: KAN
Number: 223 3 strokes STRONG, DUH, PK
It looks like a damn telephone pole, don't it? So. . . . if you are tired of hentai salarimen sniffing your panties when you hang them in your backyard, you "KAN" HANG YOUR DAMN WET DRAWERS OUT TO DRY ON THE TOP OF THE PHONE POLE.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to dry, but only in the narrow sense of hanging laundry out to dry.
( )
140
interfere or meddle. (dry out) + (interfere) = (interfere or meddle.)
( )
pickled plums! Oddly, they don't use the kanji for pickle.(). that would make too much sense. ( KUNKUN ) (plum) + (dry out) = (pickled plums)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
thousand TILTY FLAT dry out
Hint
Radical
'thousand' and 'dry out' look the same . ..except the top of thousand is tilted. So you can recite this fresh rhyme to jog your memory: 'I wear a thousand TILTY hats, but I got to dry them out on a surface that is FLAT. '
USED IN:
edition
(dry out) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(rightsword)
Genghis KHAN published a weekly edition on how to dry out your sword. It was astonishingly dull. DESCRIPTION: This a suffix which you can append to ANY time-related word (morning, night,day,month, week, year, etc). It means "this is how often this periodical is published" JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
morning edition (morning) + (edition) = (morning edition)
monthly (moon) + (edition) = (monthly)
evening edition (evening) + (edition) = (evening edition)
Number: 225
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utilize
ONYOMI: YOU
5 strokes
(dry out)
If you want to communicate between Alpine peaks, you should utilize YODELING. George Michael utilized a blowdryer to dry out his moustache. DESCRIPTION: literally means "utilize", but it has a more sinister meaning: 'only'. As in, men only or Japanese only.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
To use. (More formal/scientific than ) As in, "Please use this pencil to complete the test. (NP)
( )
errands, chores, stuff to do. "I'd love to come to see your performance piece, buttttt I've got (utilize) + (action/ incident) = (errands)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning, only XXX can use this water fountain. ( SUF)
( )
'get set' - basically it means the same as , but the nuance is a bit more abstract. : If youre getting prepared mentally , thats () . If youre arranging stuff over the phone, use . The Get set! in Get ready! Get set! Go! is . (utilize) + (meaning) = (get set!!)
( )
to utilize. Usually used in the sense of, 'Only students/Japanese/Scientologists can utilize this swimming pool.' (handy) + (utilize) = (utilize)
USED IN:
liver
ONYOMI: KAN
(moon/organ) + (dry out) (Same-ON)

Genghis KHAN likes to dry out your liver organ before he eats it.
KUNYOMI:
chutzpah, courage, pluck. (Westerners of either sex believe that their daring and courage live in their balls. Japanese believe it lives in the liver/gallbladder area!)
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JUKUGO:
( )
liver (liver) + (internal organ) = (liver)
potato
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(dry out)
I dry out the potato flowers so make up your own damn mnemonic.
potato (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
fried potatoes, a common thing sold at outdoor food carts. ( KANA) (roast / grill) + (potato) = (fried potatoes)
( )
sweet potato!
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sweat
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(dry out) (Same-ON)
you don't need to learn the onyomi. After a long day of pillage, Genghis KHAN sweat so much he lost water and became dried out.
KUNYOMI: sweat - (to sweat = )
JUKUGO:
( )
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to be stank because you sweat. (sweat) + (SUFFIX meaning 'XXX and therefore dumb.' () is one example (so out of fashion that it is stinking) , also ' ()' - meaning like 'stoopid redneck.' ) = (to be stank because you sweat.)
juice, soup TEN DRY sweat
Hint
Radical
I drink juices one through TEN, but I sweat until I'm DRY again.
cosmos
(crown) +
ONYOMI: U
(dry out)
The big bang that started the cosmos was really UUUUURUSAI! If you go out in the cosmos, make sure to wear a crown (helmet) otherwise you will dry out (as your blood boils and sprays out of your skull). JUKUGO:
( )
alien
(outer space) + (person) = (alien)
( )
outer space (cosmos) + (space) = (outer space)
( )
space ship ( NEO ) (outer space) + (ship) = (space ship)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
knowledge MOHICAN
letter cosmos
CHILD THOUSAND
Hint
Radical
Number: 230
144
thousand
ONYOMI: SEN
3 strokes PN, COUNTER
(ten) + (one/line radical)

as in, SEND me a thousand yen. " 'thousand' () and 'dry out'() look the same . ..except the top of thousand is tilted, but the top of dry out is FLAT. So you can recite this fresh rhyme to jog your memory: 'I wear a THOUSAND tilty HATS, but I got to dry them out on a surface that is FLAT. ' JUKUGO:
( )
any money in paper form is a 'satsu' - a ten dollar bill is a $10 satsu, etc. ( COUNTER ) (thousand) + (yen/circle) + (card / label / bill) = (1,000 yen bill)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
thousand TILTY FLAT dry out
Hint
Radical
'thousand' and 'dry out' look the same . ..except the top of thousand is tilted. So you can recite this fresh rhyme to jog your memory: 'I wear a thousand TILTY hats, but I got to dry them out on a surface that is FLAT. '
USED IN:
tongue
ONYOMI: ZETSU KUNYOMI:
(thousand) + (mouth/small box radical)

A thousand mouths speak with one tongue, and they all say:"Led ZEP'S TOO old-fashioned. Let's listen to something more cool, like Oasis." Okay, maybe not a thousand. Maybe, like three.
tongue
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
someone who don't like spicy food. ( KUNKUN ) (cat) + (tongue) = (someone who don't like spicy food.)
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'poison tongue' - in English, we'd say a sharp tongue (poison/ addict) + (tongue) = (sharp-tongued) USED IN:
conversation
(say) + (tongue)
ONYOMI: WA KUNYOMI: ()
Christopher WALKEN has a conversation with you using his tongue to pronounce words that he says.
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JUKUGO:
to chat (BOOBOO; If you want to ask someone if they speak Japanese, Don't ever say "nihongo hanaseru?"- that's strictly NOOB. say "Nihongo SHABERU?" instead)
a story. as in, 'Here's a little story I've got to tell. . . !'

Watch video
( ) ( )
telephone (electricity) + (conversation) = (telephone)
conversation (big meeting) + (conversation) = (conversation)
( )
an English conversation school where nobody learns. Also, a place for housewives to meet shameless Australians. (heroic) + (conversation) = (English conversation school)
( )
a theme (of a book or show) topic (of conversation) (conversation) + (topic) = (theme)
vivid, lively
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KATSU
(tongue)
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Let thirsty CATS lick water with their tongue and they will become lively. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
lifestyle (life / birth) + (vivid, lively) = (lifestyle)
activity - like 'Gang activity has increased in this area,' or, 'Her band's been really active this year,' etc. (vivid, lively) + (movement) = (activity )
( )
used in business or showbiz - to be doing a lot of things which are getting the notice of one's peer group. To suceed in making a name for one's self. To be going places. . (vivid, lively) + (jump) = (active career)
quit
ONYOMI: JI
(tongue) + (spicy / painful)

JESUS, my tongue is burning! Quit feeding me spicy food! DESCRIPTION: JERK- this means quit, retire, bow, flatter, and . .. um . . dictionary?? As usual, the one word most different from the others is the one word that is most often used. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
to quit (1/2 KANA)
( )
dictionary (quit) + (write) = (dictionary)
( )
flattery (society) + (quit) = (flattery)
TONGUE quit clothes MONTH FUN data
Radical
Wack MCs should quit talking with their TONGUE,

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but wearing a uniform once a month can be FUN. We're all HAPPY with the data about your MUM (she isn't pregnant).
break at work
(tongue) + (son / breath)
ONYOMI: KEI
it's OK to take a break if you've been working for over 3 minutes. A break at work is when you catch your breath and talk to co-workers with your tongue. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
place for recreation and relaxation - 99% used in the following one expression: (ikoi no basho).
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( )
break at work OR break from studying/training. Just long enough to eat some food and stretch - usually 15 minutes to an hour. . (rest) + (break at work) = (break-time)
earth
ONYOMI: DO DON'T pollute the earth. KUNYOMI:
the ground, the soil
JUKUGO:
( )
Saturday (earth) + final ''.So, () becomes simply ())) = (Saturday)
( )
souvenir ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (earth) + (childbirth, production of things) = (souvenir )
LOOKALIKES:
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BOTTOM LINE LONGER earth samurai radical TOP LINE LONGER
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Earth ( ) basically represents across planted on the ground. The bottom stroke is longer, because it is the horizon, extending a million miles in each direction. Whereas, in Samurai,() the top stroke is longer, because he's angry and has both arms ethe top stroke is longer, because he's angry and has both arms extended to cut you with his swords, because you rose up against the unjust feudal system. Or whatever. I just am not feeling those guys.
USED IN:
Number: 237 7 strokes PN, SOLO
village
ONYOMI: RI
(rice field) + (earth)

In the village , we keep it REAL. We built our village on the earth right next to the rice field . Short commute time, "If you lived here you'd be home right now," and etc.
KUNYOMI:
refers to small villages in general, as in "Country life is more peaceful than city life." (BOOBOO: if you want to talk about a particular village, generally you'd say ()) also has the nuance of being the village where you are from (used when nostalgic). Also, you use when a wife leaves her husband "She went back to the sato."
Radical
USED IN:
quantity
ONYOMI: RYOU
(danna (husband)) + (village)

as in,'We gotta REORDER the merchandise, the present quantity is insufficient. ' The quantity of husbands in the lesbian village is quite small.
KUNYOMI:
to measure an amount - used mostly about weight, but also quantity or volume.
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JUKUGO:
quantity (LAZY)
( )
a huge amount, a big-ass quantity (big) + (quantity) = (a huge amount)
black
(village) +
ONYOMI: KOKU KUNYOMI:
(firebottom)
After we burn the village in a COKE -freebasing accident, nothing remains but blackened ash.
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JUKUGO:
black color
( ) ( )
Black person ( NEO ) (black) + (person) = (Black person)
black-and-white ( KUNKUN ) (white) + (black) = (black-and-white)
kid
ONYOMI: DOU
(stand up) + (village)

Kids say DOH when they miss their cartoons. "It takes a village to raise a child" ...In this case, the village is literally raising the kid above it. Perhaps there is a trampoline. Who knows? Villagers with their crazy customs nowadays. KUNYOMI:
an archaic, literary/poetic word for child. Usually seen on CDs for childrens' songs:
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JUKUGO:
( )
a childrens' story or fairy tale (kid) + (conversation) = (a childrens' story or fairy tale)
( )
male virgin. BOOBOO: You'd think that female virgin would also use this kanji, but no. A lady with a hymen is a - 'managed woman.' Oh snapppppz!!! (kid) + (chastity) = (male virgin)
( )
children - usually this word is found on signs like "children's room of the library" or "child services" or "daycare room" ( NP ) (baby) + (kid) = (children)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
VILLAGE kid emblem / chapter EARLY
Hint
Radical
The kid is from the VILLAGE, so he got his badge EARLY. (it's the village where they make the badges, I guess. Who knows at this point)
USED IN:
yearn for
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: My heart yearns for my kid. KUNYOMI:
(kid)
long for, yearn for (world domination, a soul-mate, revenge) (but usually a soul-mate)
bury
ONYOMI: MAI
(earth) + (village)
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I bury MY family in the earth of the same village where we were born. KUNYOMI: () ()
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I bury it.
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It got buried.
JUKUGO:
( )
to compensate for, as in, "He got a SUV to compensate for having a small cock." (used like this: xxx yyy!) (bury) + (to suit) = (compensate for,)
reason king earth bury
Radical
The KING is the reason that I'm buried in the EARTH. (I fucked his wizard)
boy / monk
ONYOMI: BOU
(earth) + (direction / method / person) (Same-ON)

That boy can BOWL, he must have God on his side! The young priest turned in the direction of the earth to pray. KUNYOMI: ()
( )
a casual way to refer to a monk
JUKUGO:
( )
baby (red) + (boy / monk) = (baby)
( ) ( )
sleep late, oversleep ( KUN ON) (go to bed) + (boy / monk) = (sleep late, oversleep)
kind of a disrespectful word for a Buddhist priest - like calling a catholic Father, "Hey, Pops!" . . . but for a young boy whose real name you don't know, it's a totally appropriate nickname. Weeeird. ( ABU) (boy / monk) + (master/mainly) = (Buddhist priest)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
release
Hint
Radical
puke
ONYOMI: TO KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + (earth)

Your mouth pukes up half-digested ramen onto the earth and you have to Take Off your pants and wash them.
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JUKUGO:
puke (or, emit - as in, "The flaming building emitted gouts of smoke.")
( )
nausea ( FP ) (puke) + (mood) = (nausea)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
dream come true TEN GROUND puke
Hint
Radical
If I got TEN wishes, I would wish to puke on the GROUND.(that would be like around #8. the first couple would be world peace or something)
cram school
Number: 245 14 strokes ILL PAIR, SOLO
153
(beret) +
ONYOMI: JUKU
(mouth/small box radical) + (child) + (round) + (earth)
All the kids at cram school have to wear berets and open their mouths round so the teachers can cram dirt inside. That's all it's good for - the 'education' is nothing but dirt, useless crap that deprives them of a useful childhood. Fuck The Man! KUNYOMI:
after-school cram school
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cram school EARTH get good at BURNING
Hint
Radical
LOOKALIKES: The cram school is built on EARTH, but you get good at BURNING it down.
(samurai radical)
samurai radical
(earth)
ONYOMI: SHI
Number: 246 3 strokes PK, SUF, BETA, STRONG
SHE's harrier than most male samurai. Ironic? Maybe. Sexy, you bet. This is basically earth (), but instead of the bottom stroke being long, the top stroke is long. You can think of it like this: The bottom stroke of earth ( ) is longer, because the bottom stroke represents the horizon, extending a million miles in each direction. Whereas, in Samurai,() the top stroke is longer, because he's angry and has both arms extended to cut you with his swords, because you rose up against the unjust feudal system. Or whatever. I just am not feeling those guys. DESCRIPTION: The actual kanji for 'samurai' is '.' But in school, all the teachers tell you that means samurai, so what the fuck. So, this is the 'samurai radical'. It is never used by itself, but it means "violent or socially respected job." JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
infantryman, low-ranking soldier (soldier) + (samurai radical) = (infantryman, low-ranking soldier) White kids say 'samurai', but real Japanese usually say . It can also be used to refer to the whole social class, as in ( = samruai spirit) or ( = the honor-code of the samurai) (military) + (samurai radical) = (samurai)
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( )
Sumo rassler ( FP ) (strong) + (samurai radical) = (Sumo rassler)
( )
firefighter (erase) + (ward off) + (samurai radical) = (firefighter)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
BOTTOM LINE LONGER earth samurai radical TOP LINE LONGER
Hint
Radical
Earth ( ) basically represents across planted on the ground. The bottom stroke is longer, because it is the horizon, extending a million miles in each direction. Whereas, in Samurai,() the top stroke is longer, because he's angry and has both arms ethe top stroke is longer, because he's angry and has both arms extended to cut you with his swords, because you rose up against the unjust feudal system. Or whatever. I just am not feeling those guys.
USED IN:
work
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHI JUKUGO:
(samurai radical) (Same-ON)
SHE is a person who works as a samurai.
( ) ( )
one's job, one's work. ( KUN ON) (work) + (action/ incident) = (one's job, one's work. )
way to do something. (Most often used in the negative: 'Shikata ga nai.' as in, 'fuck it.' ) (work) + (direction / method / person) = (way to do something. (Most often used in the negative: 'Shikata ga nai.' as in, 'fuck it.' ))
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
PERSON work company NECROPHILIAC
Hint
Radical
The PERSON works, but the company makes porn for NECROPHILIAC jerks.
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intention, volition
(samurai radical) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: SHI KUNYOMI:
(bottomheart)
SHE's got the intention to win the heart of a samurai. (FYI she watches too much anime)
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JUKUGO:
an ambition or intention
( )
will or volition (as in, willpower, against his will, etc.) (meaning) + (intention, volition) = (will or volition)
( )
fightin' spirit, pluck, moxie, NUTZ (struggle) + (intention, volition) = (fightin' spirit)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ORIGINATES kindness intention, volition SAMURAI

You do a favor to Wile E. Coyote by giving him a TNT PLUNGER, But kindness ORIGINATES in the heart. She has the intention of becoming a SAMURAI.
do a favor
Hint
Radical
TNT plunger
USED IN:
good omen
ONYOMI: KITSU KUNYOMI:
(samurai radical) + (mouth/small box radical)

It's considered good omen if a samurai kisses a FOX (in Japanese: KITSUne) on the mouth.
90% of the time this is only used in fortune-telling. Usually used like this: ((good omen) or ()bad omen (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
inauspicious, dark, ill-omened
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(un) + (good omen) = (inauspicious, dark, ill-omened)

inform
good omen SAMURAI THROW LEGS overcome
Seeing a SAMURAI is a good omen, but you THROW information to your friends - 'Hey I just saw a damn samurai!' Steve Austin overcame the loss of his LEGS and went on to fight crime as the six million dollar man.
USED IN:
cram in
ONYOMI: KITSU
(say) + (good omen) (Same-ON)

We crammed the fox (KITSUne) into the bag. It's a good omen if a rapper can cram in a lot of sayings in 16 bars. KUNYOMI: () ()
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I cram stuff in.
to be crammed full. Usually said of closets, suitcases or stuffy noses.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
stuffy nose (literally, 'crammed nose'!) (nose) + (cram in) = (stuffy nose)
to cram, jam, pack. (cram in) + (get crowded) = (to cram, jam, pack. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
magazine HEARTS MOUTH cram in STRING bind
Hint
Radical
You write a romance magazine about HEARTS, but you cram stuff in your MOUTH. You bind with STRING
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bind
ONYOMI: KETSU
(string) + (good omen)

It's a good omen to bind KETCHUP with string - it means you can't spill your ketchup!
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
tie a knot. tie your shoelaces.
( )
in the end, or "after all" (bind) + (department) = (in the end, or "after all")
( ) ( )
to marry (to be married to xxx-san = xxx ) (bind) + (marriage) = (to marry)
result (bind) + (fruit / result) = (result)
( )
1)literally, "OK."
this has 3 meanings, each used just as often as the others .
2) "No thank you" (just like American women, Japanese people use 'That's ok' to mean 'No.'!) 3) "Very much" : You often hear people saying, "Kekkou atsui ne!" ("It's very hot today, eh?") ( 1/2 KANA, JERK) (bind) + (set up / care about) = (ok / no thanks / very)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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magazine
ONYOMI: SHI JUKUGO:
(say) + (intention, volition) (Same-ON)

SHE's got the intention to say her opinions in a magazine column.
( )
magazine (miscellaneous , random) + (magazine) = (magazine)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NINJA admit magazine SAMURAI
Hint
Radical
The NINJA had to admit that the magazine is about SAMURAI.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 253
(top radical)
dizzy
(earth) + (one/line radical)

DESCRIPTION: Because it's like the "ground" radical ()but the ground is all spinning: One minute it's straight, the next minute it is tilted. It must be DRUUUUGGSS
USED IN:
get old
(dizzy) +
ONYOMI: ROU
(heel)
159
A bunch of old people in a ROW, (waiting for the Social Security office to open. ) The old man was so senile he got dizzy while walking and fell on his heel. KUNYOMI:
( ) to get old, a somewhat perjorative term: Danny Glover saying 'I'm too old for this shit!' - "Dumbledore's getting old, he makes mistakes."Also means "To be a kid but look older than you are." ()
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another word for 'to get old, to age', but without the perjorative connotation of
JUKUGO:
( )
old person.Not rude. (get old) + (person) = (old person.Not rude.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get old
Hint
Radical
HEEL
consider PIRATE HOOK

Getting old is my Achilles' HEEL, but I'm considering getting a PIRATE HOOK.
filial piety
(dizzy) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(child)
Out of filial piety, the child does the COCAINE his parents offer him, and he gets dizzy. That is a family with problems. DESCRIPTION:Sometimes this is used in people's names - which is pretty optimistic, if you ask me, naming your own child "filial piety." That's like naming your daughter "You're Not Leaving This House With That On Smith" or something. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
filial piety! ( KUN ON, CCW) (parents/kindness) + (filial piety) + (go) = (filial piety! )
un-filial child! (un) + (filial piety) + (animal / thing) = (un-filial child!)

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professional
(dizzy) +
ONYOMI: SHA The professional SHALL work all day until they get dizzy!
COCK, STRONG
(sun, day)
DESCRIPTION: COCK - when it's used with the ON-yomi, it means 'professional', but when it's used with the KUN-yomi, it just means 'person.' What makes it even more fucked: there's no way to guess which is which. Because they're grammatically identical! (both are suffixes) Even more fucked: the pronunciation of the 'person' meaning of is the same as the word for 'thing.' () This kanji is just incredibly retarded. STRONG RADICAL: almost all kanji which incorporate this radical are pronounced SHO. Even though its own kunyomi is SHA!!! Just keeps getting worse, don't it?!? KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) person (SUF) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
young person - example of the kunyomi () suffix ( KUNKUN ) (young) + (professional) = (young person)
reporter (diary) + (professional) = (reporter)
( )
dumb person - example of the kunyomi () suffix. ( KUNKUN )
( ) ( )
scientist (science) + (professional) = (scientist)
what Asian chicks in college get mad about (art) + (professional) = (geisha)
USED IN:
author
161
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: CHO
(professional)
I CHOKED an author once, because he didn't like my Condi Rice / Miss Piggy fan-fiction. The professional author wrote a book on flowers.
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KUNYOMI:
remarkable, notable (a striking mismatch between two things, a marked decline in white blood cells, a significant effect on the disease, a glaring weakness, a marked success)
JUKUGO:
( )
the way pretentious authors refer to themselves in the book: "As this author has said before, blah blah blah." (author) + (professional) = ("this author")
( )
copyright (author) + (make) + (rights) = (copyright)
together
ONYOMI: SHO
(string) + (professional) (Same-ON)

SEE HER OCELOTS play together. The professional rappers Wu-Tang Clan wrote a string of hits together. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
together (one) + (together) = (together)
usually defined as 'confidential,' but that makes it sound more serious than it is - like a spy document or something. Actually, is kind of a kids' word. "Keep this information between us two." ( KIDS ) (the inside) + (together) = (confidential)

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various
ONYOMI: SHO
(say) + (professional) (Same-ON)

s.h.o. stands for :SEE HER various OCELOTS. Go talk to various professionals about doing the job. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
xxx ( xxx)
all kinds of xxx.
( )
Gentlemen! My friends! (Usually used by an upper person addressing a crowd of lower people, like a speech situation) ( F ) (various) + (buddy) = (Gentlemen!)
XXX ( XXX)
PREFIX meaning 'various XXX' (usually used with countries, opinions, factions, problems ,etc.) (pretty much the same as the '' kanji) ( PRE)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hot place various
government office NETS TALK
TWO SUNS
Hint
Radical
The place is hot because it has TWO SUNS. The govt office is a beureacratic NET. We TALK about various things.
government office
(net) +
ONYOMI: SHO I SAW HER OCELOTS at the government office.
(professional) (Same-ON)
The government office is a net where professional bureaucrats are caught for the day. JUKUGO:
( )
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police station (police) + (government office) = (police station)
( ) ( )
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fire station (erase) + (ward off) + (government office) = (fire station)
to sign an official document.(this sounds useless, but if you go to do any paperwork with the immigration people, they'll give you a form with this word on it) ( NP ) (government office) + (name, famous) = (sign an official document)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hot place various
TWO SUNS
Hint
Radical
hot place
ONYOMI: SHO KUNYOMI:
(sun, day) + (professional) (Same-ON)

Hot sunshine roasts the professional.
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JUKUGO:
hot weather, a place with a hot climate
( ) ( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
humid (humid) + (hot place) = (humid)
sensitive to hot weather.
hot place various
TWO SUNS
Hint
Radical
164
simmer/stew
(professional) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: SHA KUNYOMI: () ()
(firebottom)
The professional cook SHALL always stew food using fire, not a damn microwave.
boil (potato) or simmer (a sauce or stew or onabe)
it gets boiled or cooked
JUKUGO:
( )
boiled food ( KUNKUN ) (simmer/stew) + (animal / thing) = (boiled food)

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Number: 263 PK
turkey
DESCRIPTION: I swear, that is what all the books say! This is much more complex than most radicals. On the good side, though, it is so common that you can't NOT learn it.
USED IN:
char / scorch
(turkey) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(firebottom)
Don't SHOW off your cooking, that roast turkey is pretty clearly scorched in the fire. KUNYOMI:
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()
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to char or scortch. Like char-broiled beef. Also, often used with hot, passionate emotions: burning with the fiiiire of looooooveeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
() ()
it gets scorched
to be in a hurry, impatient (KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NO HEAD without char / scorch HEAD
Hint
Radical
OK,without () is basically like the "scorch" kanji ( ) but WITHOUT the little line that sticks up in the center. As usual, we'll call the sticky-uppy line a 'head'. So you can say, The top of WITHOUT is flat, because it's WITHOUT a 'HEAD'. Or, alternatively, "You're scorching my HEAD!!!"
without
(turkey) +
ONYOMI: MU you can't say MOO without a cow!
Number: 265 12 strokes PRE, SUF
(firebottom)
OK, this is basically like "scorch" kanji ( ) but WITHOUT the little 'head' in the center: The top of is flat, WITHOUT a 'head'. DESCRIPTION: This is the kanji for , although it is seldom used anymore. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) SUFFIX which turns the previous word into a negative. =money = no money. (KANA) JUKUGO:
( )
free (not like Martin Luther King, I mean free like a free magazine full of articles on how to become a stripper) (without) + (ingredients / fees) = (free)
( )
impossible (without) + (reason) = (impossible)
( )
to ignore or snub someone or something.

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(without) + (peer at) = (to ignore or snub someone or something.)

xxx (xxx ) a waste of something (time, money) ( 1/2 KANA) (without) + (bad quality) = (waste )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NO HEAD without char / scorch HEAD
Hint
Radical
OK,without () is basically like the "scorch" kanji ( ) but WITHOUT the little line that sticks up in the center. As usual, we'll call the sticky-uppy line a 'head'. So you can say, The top of WITHOUT is flat, because it's WITHOUT a 'HEAD'. Or, alternatively, "You're scorching my HEAD!!!"
USED IN:
upkeep
(string) +
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
(turkey)
I am responsible for the upkeep of this turkey, so I always keep a string tied around his neck so he can't run away.
( )
to maintain or sustain something (the quality of our products, our 10% lead in the polls, maintaining the giant robot takes 3 hours a day) (upkeep) + (hold) = (maintain or sustain )
( )
maintenance costs. ( NP ) the polls, maintaining the giant robot takes 3 hours a day) ) + (expenses) = (maintenance costs.)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
childish upkeep
HAND infer sole or only MOUTH WHEAT STRING
Hint
Radical
Detectives infer the crook's identity based on his HAND-prints.

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You got only one MOUTH. Farmers pick the most childish of WHEAT: the seeds. STRING helps me keep the turkey in the yard.
sole or only
ONYOMI: YUI JUKUGO:

XXX ( XXX)
(turkey)
HUEY Newton is the sole Black Panther to french-kiss a turkey with his mouth.
the only, the sole XXX (sole or only) + (one) = (the only, the sole XXX)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
childish upkeep
Hint
Radical
Detectives infer the crook's identity based on his HAND-prints. You got only one MOUTH. Farmers pick the most childish of WHEAT: the seeds. STRING helps me keep the turkey in the yard.
who??
(say) +
ONYOMI: Who said that was my turkey?
(turkey)
KUNYOMI:
who???
JUKUGO:
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( )
someone (related word: = Old What's-His-Face)
prepare / criteria
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: JUN
(turkey) +
(ten)
In JUNE, I prepare ten turkeys by washing them with water JUKUGO:
( )
this is the main word you'll use with this kanji: prepare (packing for a vacation, getting the restaurant ready to open for the day, and putting on makeup are all junbi). (prepare / criteria) + (furnish) = (get ready)
( )
criterion - the basis for judging a sex partner, potential job applicant, which songs to buy, etc. Also 'standard' ; standard wages, standard price, standard medical ethics. (basis) + (prepare / criteria) = (a standard )
( )
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a criterion (criteria) + (prepare / criteria) = (a criterion)
defend
(say) +
ONYOMI: GO
(flowertop) +
(turkey) +
He's so crooked he needed FIVE (=, pronounced GO) lawyers to defend him! Defend the flower from the turkey's crotch by talking to it (the pervert turkey) politely but firmly. JUKUGO:
( )
( )
nurse - whether male or female (observe/guard) + (defend) + (master, teacher) = (nurse)

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Defense attorney (BOOBOO: it's often translated as 'lawyer,' but usually handle criminal cases - murder, arson, etc. Lawsuits or legal procedures related to your visa are either handled by a sort of freelance bureaucrat/notary or by the mob. )
(dialect) + (defend) + (samurai radical) = (Defense attorney)
( )
conserve, protect - only used in the literal sense. (BOOBOO: conservative person is () ) (guarantee/maintain ) + (defend) = (conserve, protect)
( )
a bodyguard, an escort (defend) + (defense) = (a bodyguard, an escort)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SPEECH defend prey on / get CAT steal by force BIG
Hint
Radical
The lawyer defends clients with her SPEECH, but the CAT preys on food. She steals a BIG mouse by force.
horse
(turkey) +
ONYOMI: BA
(dot)
Get a BARBER to shave your horse. One thing I can't effing stand, it's a hairy horse. This is turkey + 4 dots (usually this is the 'flame' radical, but in this case, let's make an exception and call them 'hooves.') So, you can say . . . A horse is basically a giant turkey with 4 hooves . KUNYOMI:
HORSE
JUKUGO:
( )
stupiiiid ( KANA)
( )
horse racing (
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FP (contest) + (horse) = (horse racing)

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USED IN:
Number: 272 4 strokes DUPE, PK, STRONG
stop
ONYOMI: SHI SHE stopped you from having a good time.
Picture your foot, with her spiked heel stomping on your instep - you can't walk. You been STOPPED.
KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I stop it
it gets stopped
JUKUGO:
( )
(temporarily) stopped or (permanently) canceled. This is a word you'd hear in an announcement. You wouldn't say to your friend, "I'm going to watching TV for a week." ( NP ) (middle) + (stop) = (stop/cancel) pain-killer, like aspirin. (BOOBOO: not anaesthetic, which is () ) (hurts!!!) + (stop) = (pain-killer,)
( )
USED IN:
your Moms
(stop) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: SHI
Number: 273 14 strokes PRE
(heel) +
(turkey)
SHE stopped a female turkey by kicking it with her heel.

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JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX) ( )
PREFIX meaning 'female animal.' For example, () female dog - which does NOT mean 'beyatch' in the English sexist sense. ( PRE)
female pig - oddly, THIS is the one that means "Biiiitch!" ( KUN ON) (your Moms) + (pig) = (female pig)
consent
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
(stop) + (moon/organ)
Once a month I consent to stop doing COCAINE and rest.
( )
to admit to, or affirm something. (opp: ()meaning, to deny) ( NP ) (consent) + (plan) = (affirm)
walk
ONYOMI: HO
(stop) + (a little (amount))

I walked across the street to avoid the Hairy Obese. When you go for a walk, stop a little to enjoy the view.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to walk
( )
sidewalk (walk) + (street) = (sidewalk)
( )
a stroll, to walk with no particular destination

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(scatter) + (walk) = (a stroll)
( )
USED IN:
pedestrian (walk) + (go) + (professional) = (pedestrian)
interfere
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(walk)
if you interfere with my business, I'll SHOW you the door. All this water interferes with my walking across the ocean. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
interfere or meddle. (dry out) + (interfere) = (interfere or meddle.)
negotiate (combine) + (interfere) = (negotiate )
purple
(stop) (Same-ON) +
purple
(heel) +
(string)
SHE won't stop wearing a purple string on her heel! (I have asked)
foot/ be enough
Number: 278 7 strokes JERK, STRONG, SYMBOLIC

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(mouth/small box radical) + (stop)

ONYOMI: SOKU A mouth yelling "Stop right now and put a damn SOCK on your foot!!! You'll catch cold running around like that!! Do you know what kind of germs are on the ground?? do you know what kind of people have been here????!" DESCRIPTION: JERK - It means both foot and "to be enough". . . maybe a foot-fetishist made this one up?? Also, jukugo of tend to be KUNKUN, rather than ON-ON. KUNYOMI: ()
to be enough. Often used in the negative. XXX!
means foot AND leg. Oops. They don't have a separate word.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to be totally satisfied. (full) + (foot/ be enough) = (to be totally satisfied.)
To not have enough of a physical thing (money, time, nurses, teachers.) Also implies that there is a specific amount that is required, For example - (a dog shortage). There's no particle or verb needed. ( NP ) (un) + (foot/ be enough) = (shortage of)
( )
ankle ( KUNKUN ) (foot/ be enough) + (neck) = (ankle)
USED IN:
peer pressure
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SOKU KUNYOMI:
(foot/ be enough) (Same-ON)
Peer pressure is when you make a person wear the same SOCKS on their feet that you do.
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JUKUGO:
to press or encouarge someone to do something. Could be good, as in "Get up and dance! It's a party! Have some fun!" or bad, as in, "Work faster! If there's time to lean, there's time to clean!"
( )
to repeat and repeat a demand. Can be used about corporations (This is your 3d
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notice of overdue library book) or between frends, ('I keep asking you to repay that $5 I lent you') (sponsor) + (peer pressure) = (repeatedly request)
tread on
ONYOMI: TOU Don't tread on my TOEs!
(foot/ be enough) +
(waterleft) +
(sun, day)
A foot treads on a water puddle, shattering its reflection of the sun. DESCRIPTION: There's a bunch of jukugo, but I can't find any that are useful.
KUNYOMI:
tread on
correct
ONYOMI: SEI, SHOU
(stop) + (one/line radical)

Don't just SAY that you'll act correct, you gotta SHOW me. Stop using ONE pair of underpants all week. Act correct with your hygiene! KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
correct, in BOTH senses : literally , as in a correct answer. (Implies that there is ONLY ONE correct one). And figuratively: something that is morally correct or just.
( )
very honest person, very loyal. Person with integrity. Also means, "To tell you the truth. . . xxxx" (correct) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (honest / loyal)
( )
correct answer (correct) + (solve / untie) = (correct answer)
( )
accurate, precise (used about machines, not people)

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(correct) + (make certain) = (precise)

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USED IN:
fer shure
ONYOMI: ZE JUKUGO:
(sun, day) + (correct)

Fer shure, THEY will do it correctly every day! (they are down like that)
( )
this has 2 meanings: 1) in casual conversation, starting a sentence with 'zehi' means, 'Absolutely!' 'I'll get it done by hook or by crook!' - also, you'll hear '!' a lot, which means 'Thanks in advance for this favor.' . . . . 2) the propriety or morality of a certain course of action ( the kanji themselves translate to 'right + injustice'). ( 1/2 KANA) (fer shure) + (injustice / mistake) = (absolutely!)
USED IN:
plan
(crown) +
ONYOMI: TEI KUNYOMI:
(correct)
If you are going to be a king, you have to plan to TAKE the correct crown.
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JUKUGO:
to ordain or determine (either a rule, a plan, or a time and place for something).
( )
an informal plan (like to meet your friends for a movie) (beforehand) + (plan) = (an informal plan)
( )
to establish a regulation or rule - also it is often seen on the 'setup' or 'preferences' menus of software when you install it. (establish) + (plan) = (establish)
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( )
to make a real serious decision; like, "I know I'm always saying I'm going to lose 12 pounds but this time I really mean it." (decide) + (plan) = (make a serious decision)
( )
a definition (hey! recursion!) (plan) + (righteousness) = (definition)
proof
ONYOMI: SHOU
(say) + (correct)
SHOW me the PROOF !
The cop said, "If you can talk to me and show me correct proof , you're good to go. "
KUNYOMI:
evidence, testimony . . .: somewhere in between (: proof) and (: phsyical evidence). You'd typically use when you're talking about evidence of god such as miracles. Or you'd challenge someone "You say you're honest and give to charity, but do you have any evidence of this?" Unlike does not have to be physical, it can be verbal.
JUKUGO:
( )
driver's license (drive a vehicle) + something. (i.e. driver's license: ( )) + (proof) = (driver's license)
( )
physical evidence, such as a footprint, or "This green tap-water is evidence of pollution." Also this is the word one uses about evidence at trials, not . ( FP , NP ) (proof) + (evidence which is the basis for a judgment) = (physical evidence)
( )
a legal document certifying something: that you're married, that you have a job, that you paid tax, that you ... (proof) + (bright) + (write) = (legal certification)
Number: 285
177
9 strokes
distort
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: ()
SOLO
(un) + (correct)
When something is distorted, it turns into an un-correct shape.
distort or deform.
run
ONYOMI: SO KUNYOMI:
(earth) + (correct)
Some One runs because it's more correct for the earth than driving. Which is cool and all, but Some One doesn't have to be all preachy about it.
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run JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
Japanese bikers. (rampage) + (run) + (family) = (Japanese bikers. )
the more literal word for race: racing cars, sprinting, marathons, etc. (contest) + (run) = (race)
USED IN:
exceed/ go over
(summon) + (run)
ONYOMI: CHOU
Number: 287 12 strokes DUPE, ILL PAIR
Margaret CHOU goes over a tall wall in search of a Snickers. Summon the courage to run farther than you have ever run before, go over the hills and mountains! DESCRIPTION: This means 'exceed a numerical value'. Not like exceed one's patience or my band exceeds your band.
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KUNYOMI: ()
to exceed or go over a certain limit (the cook heated the oven to over 100 degrees, the dude passed 100 years old, the man bet over 40,000 dollars, etc.)
( also ) exceed, to go past (a city, a river , etc) also go past in time (survive the winter) or surpass something (wins surpass losses, profits surpass debts). JUKUGO:
xxx ( xxx)
PREFIX meaning hella ( PRE, 1/2 KANA)
( )
supernatural (exceed/ go over) + (my own) + (nature) + (motivation / '-al') = (supernatural)
R for ROCK
STRONG RADICAL for "TAKU" or "YAKU"
Number: 288 PK, OBSOLETE, STRONG, PN
DESCRIPTION: This OBSOLETE kanji is almost never used as a word anymore, but as a radical you will see it often. That's why I gave it a new meaning. ROCK. because it looks like an "R"
USED IN:
train station
ONYOMI: EKI
(horse) + (R for ROCK)

Ride your horse to the train station to hear some rock music played by buskers outside.
KUNYOMI:
station (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
train station staff. (train station) + (clerk) = (train station staff. )
( )
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sure this is a scary and long word, but if you live here, you'll use it everyday: It means "local train" (literally, "stopping at each station train") (each) + (train station) + (bring to a halt) + (car) = (local train)
noon
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(R for ROCK) + (danna (husband))

My husband eats rocks for lunch at noon.
noon
JUKUGO:
( )
lunch
( ) ( )
a nap ( KUNKUN ) (noon) + (go to bed) = (a nap)
lunch-break (at work, school, etc.) (noon) + (rest) = (lunch-break )
reason / translation
(say) + (R for ROCK)
ONYOMI: YAKU KUNYOMI:
Please give me a reason to translate what the YAK is saying into a rock song.
the reason for something This is not used by itself, only used in expressions, such as "XXX!!" (so THAT"S the reason!)or XX X! (It can't effing be!!!) (KANA, NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
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excuse, as in, 'But my mom's not fat, she's just big-boned.' (actually, she IS, often, but not in the way you meant it) (say) + (reason / translation) = (excuse)
( )
translate. sometimes shortened to (yakusu)
( ) ( )
really really really sorry. That your mom got big-boned. ( F ) (humbly say) + (reason / translation) = (sorry'n shit)
language interpretation, like at the United Nations.- where they listen in one language and talk into a microphone in another language, translating in real-time ( KUNKUN ) (pass) + (reason / translation) = (simultaneous translation)
swamp / bling
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: TAKU
Number: 292 7 strokes PN, JERK
(R for ROCK)
TALK TO Ozzy about performing at the swamp! We are gonna have a wet rock show in the swamp. DESCRIPTION: Probably the most ridiculous jerk kanji after which means 'strike down / discuss.'
KUNYOMI:
swamp
JUKUGO:
( )
hell of many. ( KANA) (swamp / bling) + (mountain) = (hell of many. )
( )
extravagant (luxurious in a bad way) ( 1/2 KANA)
hand
MUTANTS:
Number: 293 4 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC, MR
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handleft ONYOMI: SHU He used his hand to Show His Underpants. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC for 'things you do with your hand,' but this category is so broad as to be useless. Just like this entry. KUNYOMI:
hand
JUKUGO:
XXX (XXX ) XXX is untalented, poorly performed, or poorly made. ( FP ) (below) + (hand) = (untalented / poor)
( )
skillfully done! Usually used to praise one's friends' efforts (at art, music, cooking, etc.) ( FP ) (above) + (hand) = (skilllfully done!)
( )
to do like a dick. I mean, to do something selfishly without asking, like you're the only one on the planet. I ate MY cake, but then I ate your cake too, and just look at you like, "What?" (****) ( KUNKUN ) (win) + (hand) = (to do without asking)
xxx (xxx ) this has 2 meanings. One is "I'm not good at this" and the second is "I don't like this" Clever Japanese! ( KUNKUN ) (suffer) + (hand) = (this is not my thing!)
( )
one's partner (in conversation, tennis, or anything else however temporary) ( KUNKUN ) (partner) + (hand) = (partner)
( )
handmade ( NEO ) (hand) + (make) = (handmade)
or XXX ( or XXX)
to do xxx one-handed. ( KUNKUN ) (fragment) + (hand) = (one-handed)
hand fur
Radical
bottom swings LEFT bottom swings RIGHT

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The bottom of hand bends to the left, because the leper LEFT his hand back at the motel. Much to the surprise of your mother, the maid. The bottom of fur bends more considerably to the RIGHT, because you have to wear the RIGHT fur if you are going to impress people at the pimp show/opera.
USED IN:
select
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TAKU
(R for ROCK)
I only TALK to selected people. Vanna white on Wheel of Fortune reaches out her hand and selects the glowing R". JUKUGO:
( )
choice- somewhat more formal than - you'd a bagel but a President. ( F )
(choose) + (select) = (to choose)
infer
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SUI
(turkey)
Judging from how much sugar the recipe calls for, I can infer that it will be SWEET. Even blindfolded, I can use my hands to infer that you are a turkey -- feeling your wattle especially gives me a weird thrill. JUKUGO:
( )
a guess, an estimate (i.e. estimate the price of a repair) ( NP ) (infer) + (plan) = (estimate)
( )
speculate. Kind of formal: "It's too early to speculate about the economy." "Scientists speculate that..." ( NP ) (infer) + (scientific measurment) = (speculate.)
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( )
deductive reasoning, inference. (infer) + (reason) = (deductive reasoning, inference.)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
childish upkeep
Hint
Radical
depict
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: BYOU
(flowertop) +
(rice field)
Sketch sort of wavy lines coming off of the bum, to depict his B.O. Flies also help. Use your hand to depict a flower growing in the middle of the rice field . KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
to sketch - a picture, as opposed to the other () which means to write words
( )
a depiction or representation of something (literally, as in 'this film contains graphic depictions of violence' or figuratively, as in 'Describe his personality to me.') ( NP ) (depict) + (copy) = (depiction )
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CLAW cat depict HAND
Radical
The cat has a CLAW. You draw with your HAND.

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submit a proposal
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TEI Fer shure I will TAKE your proposal in my hand all the way to the president! DESCRIPTION: also means "make an offering" JUKUGO:
BETA
(fer shure)
( ) ( )
a proposal - not just in business but also in everyday life : "Let's go to this movie!" (submit a proposal) + (guide/proposal) = (proposal)
to physically present or submit (a report, a document) (submit a proposal) + (pull out / hand over) = (hand over / present)
pay
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(moocow)
I use my hand to pay for the moocow.
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pay JUKUGO:
( )
drunk (literally, 'paying for one's drink'!) ( SARC) (drunk) + (pay) = (drunk)
( )
give me my money back, you shystey douchetool. (pay) + (return) = (refund)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Buddha
PERSON
Hint
Radical
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Buddha is a PERSON. I myself cut the WHEAT.
You enlarge something by making it WIDER. I use my HAND to pay.
call bullshit on
(compare) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: HI HE called bullshit on me.
(handleft)
I compared my kanji dictionary to yours, and then said bullshit and flipped you the finger! JUKUGO:
( )
criticism, like "I call bullshit on the government!" or "I call bullshit on your opinion of an athlete!" (call bullshit on) + (seal / stamp) = (criticism)
( )
review of one specific performance (showbiz event, exhibition, play, etc.) More commonly used as a verb. ( NP ) (call bullshit on) + (art or literary criticism) = (review )
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finger / point at
(handleft) +
(the gist) (Same-ON)
SHE points with her hand to emphasize the gist of her argument.
finger
literally point at. Figuratively, point to (i.e. these economic indicators point to a recession) Also means aim for. (the title belt).
JUKUGO:
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( )
To point out a shortcoming - You can use it about your friends. Or "The critic pointed out the shortcomings of the play." (finger / point at) + (pluck) = (To point out a shortcoming)
( ) ( )
index finger (literally, "the people-pointing finger") (person) + (discriminate) + (finger / point at) = (index finger) instructions not like instructions from your boss, but like the instruction manual you get with your new vacuum cleaner. (finger / point at) + (show) = (instructions )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ORGAN animal fat finger / point at HAND
Hint
Radical
Animal fat is an ORGAN, but fingers are attached to your HAND.
pound
(handleft) +
ONYOMI:
Number: 301 5 strokes DUPE, DUH, SOLO
(nail)
I pound a nail with my hand. DESCRIPTION: most of the jukugo using this have to do with baseball, which is so stupid I won't even list them.
KUNYOMI:
to pound or strike with a tool (not your hands).
beckon
(handleft) +
(summon) (Same-ON)
SHOW me how to summon a demon by beckoning with my bare hands
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JUKUGO:
invite, summon (a person, or, more frequently, luck - usually bad, like the English prhase 'tempting fate'))
( )
the little cat in all the shop windows. It's kind of a weird phenomenon if you think about it: One paw is up, beckoning customers to come in, like "Come on in, guy! I like your style!" But the other paw clutches a gold coin, usually marked 10,000,000 yen. Like "OK, J/K about valuing you. I just want your money." ( CCW) (beckon) + (cat) = (shop-window cat)
( )
invite (beckon) + (wait) = (invite)
kidnap SWORD UNDER MOUTH beckon SWORD OVER HEAD
Radical
The kidnapper's hand holds a sword UNDER YOUR MOUTH( at your jugular vein) to keep you from escaping. Your friend beckons you by waving her SWORD over her head and hence, OVER HER MOUTH, all, "hey over here!" style.
kidnap
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(mouth/small box radical) + (sword)
The kidnapper stole the child and flew away on a KITE. The kidnapper's hand held a sword, up to the mouth of the victim. JUKUGO:
( )
kidnapping (invite / entice) + (kidnap) = (kidnapping)
kidnap SWORD UNDER MOUTH beckon SWORD OVER HEAD
Radical
The kidnapper's hand holds a sword UNDER YOUR MOUTH( at your jugular vein) to keep you from escaping. Your friend beckons you by waving her SWORD over her head and hence, OVER HER MOUTH, all, "hey over here!" style.
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carry on your back

(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TAN
(sun, day)
I know technically the right-side is husband (), but it's much easier to remember the kanji if you just ignore the bottom line. Thus, You get a bad TAN from using your hands to carry the sun on your back. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
figurative : to carry or assume responsibility or burden.
literal :to carry, specifically on your shoulders - like a backpack or a rifle (KANA)
( ) ( )
to be in charge of; to be responsible for (carry on your back) + (hit the target) = (be responsible for)
a responsibility, usually financial, which is declared by a system. "If a guest falls off the hotel roof, it's the hotel's responsibility." "The parent is responsible for paying for the child's lunch at boarding school." (lose) + (carry on your back) = (financial responsibility)
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directly contact
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SETSU
(stand up) + (woman)
She SAID TO me directly, "Stand up and put your hands directly on this woman!" She had mistaken me for someone else, obviously! JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( )
directly (not just direct communication, but direct anything) (adjective form:) (correct a probem / direct contact) + (directly contact) = (direct.)
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indirect, as in the Japanese famous for communicating indirectly. ( CCW) (a period of time) + (directly contact) = (indirect) xxx (xxx ) interview with xxx (usually a job interview, not a celebrity interview) (front surface / face) + (directly contact) = (interview with xxx (usually a job interview, not a celebrity interview))
clap
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: HAKU, HYOU JUKUGO:
(white) (Same-ON)
White people clap their hands every time we see a kitten HACKed to pieces. HE'S YOUR kitten!
( ) ( )
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applaud (clap) + (hand) = (applaud)
a meter, or time signature. (i.e. a rock song which is in 4, a waltz in3, or some prog tune in 11/7) (clap) + (child) = (a meter)
insert
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SOU KUNYOMI:
(thousand) + (rice field)
To harvest SO much grain, a thousand farmers had to insert their hands into a rice field.
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JUKUGO:
insert
( )
to insert . . . .in your Dad. Ha-! You thought I was going to say your Mom. Nope, it's your dad. Gotcha! But seriously, he's taking a pounding. But its not always a dirty
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word. Insert a cd into the disk drive. That uses also. (insert) + (put/go in) = (to insert)
observe/guard
(hand) + (eye)
ONYOMI: KAN JUKUGO:
Genghis KHAN observes you with his eyes and, if you try to escape, his hands.
( )
store sign, signboard, billboard (observe/guard) + (board) = (store sign)
( ) ( )
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nurse - whether male or female (observe/guard) + (defend) + (master, teacher) = (nurse)
prison guard (observe/guard) + (protect) = (prison guard)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wear / arrive EYES CRAFT discriminate observe/guard HANDS
Hint
Radical
You look with your EYES on what people wear, but you discriminate based on the CRAFT of their clothing. You guard the prisoners with your HANDS.
ear
ONYOMI:
Number: 309 6 strokes SOLO, PK
This one looks like eye () but with a bunch of lines sticking out from it. Right? OK, so let's try to remember it like this: The ear is a sense organ like the eye, and the lines sticking out are way too many piercings.
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KUNYOMI:
ear
JUKUGO:
( )
earplugs ( KUNKUN )
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
hard of hearing (ear) + (far) = (hard of hearing)
tinnitus (ear) + (animal cry) = (tinnitus)
USED IN:
take
KUNYOMI:
(ear) + (again/crotch radical)

ONYOMI: SHU. You won't use this. The pervert cameraman only takes close-ups of ears and crotches, especially when he can See Her Underpants.
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JUKUGO:
To take a picture. Also, to pick something up off a table or shelf, pick up a small thing like glasses or a plate. Also means to get something (good marks on a test, a prize, etc,).
( ) ( )
to exchange (take) + (substitute) = (to exchange)
to cancel an order, to withdraw. (take) + (erase) = (to cancel an order, to withdraw. ) Treatment - but unlike , is ONLY used for objects or cases. i.e. The police
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( )
are handling the racial hate-crime very carefully. (take) + (treatment) = (management)
( )
USED IN:
a crackdown, a regulation of something that was unregulated (take) + (tighten) = (crackdown)
most
ONYOMI:
(sun, day) + (take)

SIGH most of the time, because you have depression, plus you are the guy that sucks. The sun takes up most of the sky.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
the most (the biggest, the best, the ugliest, etc.)
( ) ( )
first of all. . . (most) + (first time) = (first of all. . .)
last (most) + (afterwards / behind) = (last)
( ! ) ( )
the best (most) + (tall) = (the best)
recently (most) + (near) = (recently)
( )
the lowest - both in the moral sense of "He's the lowest kind of sexual predator" and in the mathematical sense of "Crime rates are the lowest in 30 years," or "Do this for a minimum of 5 minutes per day." (most) + (low) = (lowest, worst)
XXX ( XXX)
the worst XXX EVAR. (most) + (bad) = (the worst XXX EVAR.)
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( )
USED IN:
at first (most) + (first time) = (at first)
photo-shoot
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SATSU I SAW TWO cameras at the shoot.
(most)
At the photo-shoot, most of the pictures were of the model's hands. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
to take a picture (only used in the context of , or pro-style photoshoots)
( ) ( )
a photoshoot or movie shoot. (photo-shoot) + (shadow) = (a photoshoot or movie shoot.)
take a sneak picture, usually of a woman dropping a deuce in a public restroom. Also known as 'ninjashotting.' (steal by stealth) + (photo-shoot) = (hidden camera)
( )
no photos! ( NP ) (a photoshoot or movie shoot.) + smoking outdoors, parking your bike here, opening this door, busking on the street, breathing on a grandpa.) = (no photos!)
hobby
ONYOMI: SHU
(run) + (take) (Same-ON)

My hobby is Seeing His Underpants. His hobbies are running and taking pictures. Actually, it's more like one hobby - since he likes to take pictures of Yakuza.
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KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
the general vibe of something (a performance, a place) (this is a poetic or literary word) (F)
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( )
hobby (hobby) + (flavor) = (hobby)
( )
bad habit (bad) + (hobby) = (bad habit)
disgrace
(ear) + (heart)
ONYOMI: CHI
I got embarrassed when I cut the CHEESE in front of Lemmy. When the ear hears the disgraceful story, the heart feels embarrassment.
KUNYOMI:
embarrassed! (or, this being Japan, pretending to be embarrassed!) a disgrace! (usually used like ) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
someone who gets embarrassed easily. (disgrace) + (store) = (someone who gets embarrassed easily.)
shameless (literally, "Not knowing the meaning of shame") (disgrace) + (know) = (shameless)
to embarrass one's self. (You can't say this about yourself, in the manner of, "OH! I fucked up!" But you can say ! to someone else, like a mother scolding a child who doesn't know it's impolite to yell "POOOPY POOOPY!")
Number: 315
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14 strokes
listen
ONYOMI: BUN KUNYOMI: ()
SOLO, DUPE
(gate) + (ear)
Use your ear to listen to BUNNIES hopping through the gate.
to ask someone a question, (Q:"Where's the vd clinic?"A: "Ask your moms "())or to hear a sound (whether intentionally or not)
()
be able to hear something.
JUKUGO:
( )
newspaper (new) + (listen) = (newspaper )
( )
to eavesdrop (steal by stealth) + (listen) = (to eavesdrop)
axe
(right radical)
Number: 316 PK
USED IN:
fold
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SETSU
(axe)
The origami master SAID TO the novice, "Use your hands to fold it in the shape of an axe - then you can give them fools madd paper cuts!"
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
fold
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something which someone has taken the trouble to do for you. Like a rhubarb pie that you have to eat even though you are allergic to fucking rhubarb. ( 1/2 KANA) (fold) + (horn/corner) = (something which someone has taken the trouble to do)
( )
origami (fold) + (paper) = (origami)
( )
break a bone- fracture. (bone) + (fold) = (break a bone)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
pray fold decision/judgement/refuse analyze
NECROPHILIAC HAND RICE TREE
Radical
You pray for a NECROPHILIAC mortician, but you fold origami with your HAND. The RICE refused . . .to analyze the TREE.
USED IN:
hill
ONYOMI: KYUU
(axe) + (one/line radical)

He said my buttocks are like CUTE little hills of flesh. This kanji is axe + one line (which we'll call the surface of the earth) So we can say . . . I'm standing on top of the earth of the hill holding my axe! KUNYOMI:
hill
JUKUGO:
( )
sand dune ( NEO ) (sand) + (hill) = (sand dune)
USED IN:
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philosophy
ONYOMI: TETSU JUKUGO:
(fold) + (mouth/small box radical)

The philosophy that comes from Confucius' mouth is powerful enough to bend IRON (, pronounced 'tetsu')
( )
philosophy (adj.: ) (philosophy) + (knowledge) = (philosophy)
( )
philosopher
(philosopher)
vow
ONYOMI: SEI
(fold) + (say)
Bend over and say a vow to your god.
KUNYOMI:
a vow. More strong than . The first time you got caught cheating, you'd make a to not cheat, But the second time you get caught, you have to!!! (KANA)
accuse
ONYOMI: SO
(say) + (axe)
I accuse Some One - I say they swiped me with an axe!
KUNYOMI:
to accuse of wrongdoing OR to file a lawsuit.

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a lawsuit JUKUGO:
( )
an accusation, a charge (inform) + (accuse) = (an accusation, a charge)
( )
lawsuit (accuse) + (lawsuit) = (lawsuit)
expert SHEEP COW allow accuse AXE
Radical
The SHEEP is an expert on wool. I allow the COW to fuck the bull. I accuse the AXE of splitting my skull.
bamboo
(axe)
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 322 6 strokes PK, PN, SOLO
resembles two axes () together. . . .but you can tell them apart because bamboo is pronounced ta-KE. And the bamboo kanji is the same as the katakana KE : .
bamboo
JUKUGO:
( )
a bamboo shoot, also a famous harajuku fashion shop (bamboo) + (child) = (bamboo shoot)
USED IN:
muscle
(bamboo) + (moon/organ) +
(strong)
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ONYOMI: KIN KUNYOMI:
My KINfolk like to eat bamboo for strong, muscular organs.
tendon
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JUKUGO:
( )
muscle (muscle) + (meat) = (muscle)
( )
single-mindedly, intently ( KUNKUN ) (one) + (muscle) = (single-mindedly, intently)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
box WOOD season / joint GOOD ticket PERSON muscle ORGAN
Hint
Radical
Boxes are made of WOOD. For crops, seasons are GOOD PEOPLE buy tickets for seats, to see the ORGANS of muscular athletes.
simplicity
ONYOMI: KAN JUKUGO:
(bamboo) + (a period of time)

To grow bamboo is so simple even Genghis KHAN can do it in a very small period of time. And he is no mental genius when it comes to non-killing.
( )
simple or easy, but in a good way (simplicity) + (merely) = (simple)
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Number: 325 STRONG
(right radical)
key
(axe) + (one/line radical)

DESCRIPTION: Like axe (), plus two horizontal lines, which are (in this story) the teeth of the key.
(down here are the horizontal lines! the teeth of the key!) strong RADICAL for SAKU
USED IN:
make
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SAKU
(key)
The person makes a key to open up a locked SACK. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
make (usually refers to handmade things )
( ) : ( )
artworks. (make) + (products) = (artworks.)
author (make) + (home) = : (author)
( )
any strategy for succeeding - in war, business, school, etc. (make) + (fight) = (strategy)
( )
handmade ( NEO ) (hand) + (make) = (handmade)
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yesterday
(sun, day) +
ONYOMI: SAKU
(key) (Same-ON)
Yesterday I made a key and stuck it in my SACK. DESCRIPTION: COCK - this is another one of those triflin' kanji. . . the kind where almost every jukugo is pronounced one way, but the ONE JUKUGO that is pronounced the 'wrong way'. . .that's the only one anyone uses! JUKUGO:
( )
yesterday ( FP ) (yesterday) + (sun, day) = (yesterday)
Number: 328 SYMBOLIC, PK
(lower left radical) DESCRIPTION:
motion
USED IN:
VERY VERY SYMBOLIC RADICAL. -- almost all kanji which use this , have to do with motion in some way.
near
(motion) +
(axe)
If you move near my KINfolk I got an axe for you!!
near - both physically, in time, and metaphorically, as in 'Your left boob is so stretched, it's nearly a banana.'
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JUKUGO:
close to
( ) ( )
recently (most) + (near) = (recently) in this neighborhood, around here- (BOOBOO: is strictly relative to where you are standing at the time. You can't say 'Shibuya is a neighborhood in tokyo,' - in that case, you have to use MACHI()) (near) + (area / attribute) = (around here)
or ( or ) to draw close to a physical destination or a goal. ( 1/2 KANA) (near) + (stick to) = (get close to destination)
( )
to get close to, to approach.(usually used in the negative, on warning signs: danger! keep out! danger! high voltage! !) (near) + (get close) = (get close to)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
AXE near around here/around that time SWORD
Hint
Radical
He came near with an AXE, but at that time I had a SWORD to counter-attack.
around here/around that time

Number: 330
5 strokes PN, SOLO, ILL PAIR
(motion) +
ONYOMI: HEN
(sword)
I saw a HEN moving around here with a sword!! (it was making Human MacNuggets!) DESCRIPTION: COCK - because it is really 3 words, all of which mean the same exact same thing but are pronounced differently, and have different grammar. (Actually, the different grammar is a blessing in disguise, because it cues you which pronunciation to use).
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( )
KUNYOMI:
this neighborhood, the vicinity (as opposed to far away or another 'hood)
( )
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one thing which is around here somewhere!! ( xxx ) () BE is a SUFFIX, which can be put after any noun, meaning 'in the vicinity of': the ocean, the university, the table, etc. You can tell 'be' and 'hen' (above) apart because 'be' always comes after a proper nounit's a SUFFIX. (SUF) LOOKALIKES: Meaning
AXE near around here/around that time SWORD
Hint
Radical
He came near with an AXE, but at that time I had a SWORD to counter-attack.
press upon
(motion) +
ONYOMI: HAKU KUNYOMI:
(white) (Same-ON)
I move towards the white guy and press on him. It is not my fault - I have a fetish!!
( or ) two meanings:
1) :To urge someone in a coercive or threataning manner. To peer-pressure. Also you can say that something is pressing on you, like a deadline. 2) : something bad is looming or immanent. (KANA) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
pressure ( = overpowering) (pressure) + (press upon) = (pressure)
persecution of a minority group (political word) (press upon) + (damage) = (persecution)
get crowded
(motion) +
(put/go in)
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ONYOMI: When a lot of people move and go in a place it gets . . . .. KUNYOMI: ()
I put something (usually feelings or emotions or passion, strength) into something (a present, an effort). Or I just put bullets into a fuckin' gun. Seriously, my J-dictionary uses both examples.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
an application (for a loan or to go to college, etc) (humbly say) + (get crowded) = (application)
a crowd of people- (BOOBOO : not necessarily all people doing the same thing(i.e. 'the crowd at the Sinatra show'). It means 'crowds in general,' as in, 'It gets crowded after 4 PM.' ) (person) + (get crowded) = (crowd of people)
( )
to cram, jam, pack. (cram in) + (get crowded) = (to cram, jam, pack. )
plural/delivery
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TATSU/ TACHI
Number: 333 12 strokes SUF, BETA, JERK
(luck, happiness)
I was TAUGHT TO use plurals correctly, therefore I am TOUCHY when people fuck them up. It's considered happy to move in pairs because you have a friend. DESCRIPTION: JERK: Normally, this means "the delivery arrives" but half the time means "plural." There is no easy way to tell which it means. JUKUGO:
( )
friend (friend) + (plural/delivery) = (friend)
( ) (XXX )
us ( 1/2 KANA) (me / private) + (plural/delivery) = (us)
XXX
SUFFIX, meaning "more than one of XXX."But unlike English, you can't pluralize just any word.
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In fact 90% of the time you'll see , it's in one of these 3 situations: 1) : : the group of friends. 2) :: people, and 3) :: the children. ( SUF)
( )
to deliver. Used about business - used when money changes hands. Deliver by truck or UPS or FEDEX. (distribute) + (plural/delivery) = (deliver)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HAPPY plural/delivery SOLDIERS carry / luck take with / inform of CAR
Hint
Radical
I'm HAPPY to have plural friends. I need to carry SOLDIERS to the battle, So I'll take them with me in my CAR.
progress
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SHIN
(turkey)
The turkey moved progressively towards the SHINing light. KUNYOMI: ()
I advance, proceed, make progress (in writing a novel, moving towards a goal)
( or ) something advances or makes progress JUKUGO:
( )
evolution (progress) + (transform) = (evolution)
refer to
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(motion) +
ONYOMI: JUTSU
(katakana 'ho') + (dot)
The label "infidel enemy of Allah" refers to athiests, christians, and JEWS, TOO! is made of motion, plus the katakana 'HO' plus a dot. So you could say, While moving towards the hoe, he made a statement about the dot on her lip.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to relate a story of... Describes the speaker's own actions: ('Please allow me to mention or state something') (usually used in a business or formal setting: opening remarks, proposals, extending a warm welcome, all that glad-handing bullshit)
( ) ( )
the aforesaid, the aforementioned ( NP ) (before) + (refer to) = (the aforesaid, the aforementioned)
to describe, to give an in-depth account of. Generally means an entire chapter, if not a whole book. (diary) + (refer to) = (give an in-depth account of)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
perplexed RICE (2 dots!!) ONE DOT refer to
Hint
Radical
You get perplexed by RICE, so you refer to ONE DOT to comparison: "OK, if it's bigger than this dot, then it must not be rice."
tree
ONYOMI: MOKU
Number: 336 4 strokes PK, PN, DUH, SYMBOLIC
Smoking trees is MORE COOL than smoking cigarettes. The VERTICAL line is the tree trunk. The other four lines are big branches. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC: If you see an unknown kanji that has tree in it, chances are around 33% that it actually has something to do with wood! That's right, I counted. Welcome to my life. KUNYOMI:
tree
JUKUGO:
( )
Thursday
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(tree) +
''.So, () becomes simply ())) = (Thursday )
( ) ( )
wooden (tree) + (produce) = (wooden)
made from wood. (tree) + (mass production) = (made from wood. )
USED IN:
grove
(tree)
KUNYOMI: ONYOMI: RIN
In the middle of a small forest grove, I found a RING between two trees.
JUKUGO:
small woods; a grove
( )
rain forest ( NEO ) (rain) + (grove) = (rain forest)
USED IN:
forest
(tree)
KUNYOMI: ONYOMI: SHIN
In the middle of the forest, there is a SHINING pond.
forest : often goes after the name of a specific forest, i.e. "the black forest" would be (PN)
JUKUGO:
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( )
forests in general. (forest ecology, forest creatures, forestry) (forest) + (grove) = (forests)
book / the real

(tree) + (one/line radical)
ONYOMI: HON
Number: 339 5 strokes PN, JERK, SYMBOLIC
is tree () plus one line. You can think of that extra line as the real, uh. . .hold on. . .. uh, the ground! The real estate the tree is growing in! Or, you can think of the line as a page of a book (made from a tree). Or you can just go home and take a bath. I don't care. DESCRIPTION: JERK RADICAL: by itself, it means 'book', but most of the jukugo with the kanji have to do with 'foundation.'
KUNYOMI:
book (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) (xxx )
for realz. (book / the real) + (hit the target) = (for realz.)
xxx
used for counting. Ippon is one book. Psyche! ISSATSU () is one book, ippon is one cylindrical object. Makes sense if you imagine that back when Chinese sages were inventing kanji, books were written on scrolls and shit Pronounced like this: 1: 2: 3: etc. ( COUNTER )
( )
one's real feelings, as opposed to (). You know, the 2 faces that only Japanese people have, as if no one else in the world would dream of being so false, and all that bullshit. ( FP , CCW) (book / the real) + (sound) = (one's real feelings)
( ) ( )
the real thing, not a counterfeit. ( KUNKUN ) (book / the real) + (animal / thing) = (the real thing, not a counterfeit.)
originally, essentially , primairly Emphasizes the historical roots. Originally the EPA was supposed to protect the environment, but nowadays it's protecting the polluters!
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(book / the real) + (come/future) = (originally)
xxx ( xxx)
PREFIX meaning, 'the real xxx.' For example, means 'in person' (I saw Billy Idol in person at the Costco!). ( PRE)
USED IN:
body
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TAI
(book / the real)
TIE up the body and take it to the morgue. The body is the real bits of a person.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
the body
( )
liquid (liquid) + (body) = (liquid)
or ( or ) ( )
concrete, literal, in practice . . as opposed to abstract, in theory (tool) + (body) + (motivation / '-al') = (concrete/ in practice)
corpse (death) + (body) = (corpse)
( ) ( ) ( )
your mama's weight (450kilos?) (body) + (heavy / overlap) = (your mama's weight (450kilos?))
entire,the whole thing. (all) + (body) = (entire,the whole thing.)
P.E. class (body) + (grow up / be raised) = (P.E. class)

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LOOKALIKES:
body rest
Meaning Hint
FUNDAMENTAL TREE
Radical
A person's body is FUNDAMENTAL to them, but they take a rest under a TREE.
rest
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KYUU KUNYOMI:
(tree)
The CUTE person rests against a tree.
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JUKUGO:
a break (a day off=)
relax, to take a day off
! ( ! )
Good night! (BOOBOO: You don't say this when you leave your friend's dinner party or when you leave your date standing on the curb weeping outside the restaurant, you only say it when you live in the same house: it's more like "sleep tight!", I guess.)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
summer vacation (summer) + (rest) = (summer vacation)
lunch-break (at work, school, etc.) (noon) + (rest) = (lunch-break )
winter break. (winter) + (rest) = (winter break. )
A holiday - Christmas, Arbor Day, etc. (rest) + (sun, day) = (A holiday)
body rest
FUNDAMENTAL TREE
Radical
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A person's body is FUNDAMENTAL to them, but they take a rest under a TREE.
frame / limit
ONYOMI:
(tree) + (the number 9) + (ten)

I made a picture frame out of 90 trees (it was a big picture).
KUNYOMI:
literally, a frame. Figuratively, a numerical limit: you can use this library card 3 times a month. You can only bring 5 friends with you to the pool. Etc.
analyze
ONYOMI: SEKI
(tree) + (axe)
I sometimes lie awake at night, analyzing the reasons why your mom is so SEXY. We cut up the tree with axes to analyze the inside of it. JUKUGO:
( )
analyze (understand / divide / minute) + (analyze) = (analyze)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 344
take measures
12 strokes NP
212
(bamboo) + (tree) +
ONYOMI: SAKU
(George Michael's Moustache)
Q: Why are you hiding behind a tree and covered in bamboo? A: I'm taking measures to keep George Michael away from my SAC.
KUNYOMI:
a plan, scheme, step, measure (LAZY, NP)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
counter-plan / counter-measure (against) + (take measures) = (counter-plan / counter-measure)
a policy ( NP ) (politics) + (take measures) = (a policy)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
TEN look up take measures BAMBOO
Hint
Radical
You look up TEN ways to take measures against the BAMBOO growing in your lawn.
stab / buisness card

(tree) +
ONYOMI: SHI KUNYOMI: () ()
(sword)
SHE takes her sword and stabs it at the tree's Moustache. After all, you can't be too careful.
pierce or poke. LIke a mosquito stings you. Also, to stab with a knife.
to be stuck in (a thumbtack stuck in my shoe, your moms got a whole ham stuck in her throat)
JUKUGO:
( )
business card - AKA "name card" () in Japanese-English.

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(name, famous) + (stab / buisness card) = (business card)
( )
stimulate something - a chemical reaction, a clitoris, whatever. (v) ;a stimulus (n) (stab / buisness card) + (intense) = (stimulate)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
stab / buisness card TREE DAGGER system
Hint
Radical
You stab at the TREE and watch it sway. The system has a DAGGER (middle left) to stab people who don't obey!
new
(stand up) + (tree) + (axe)

I stood up and chopped down the tree with my SHINY new axe.
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new JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
Shinjuku ward (new) + (lodge at) + (ward) = (Shinjuku ward)
f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ffffffreshhhhh! (new) + (fresh) = (f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ffffffreshhhhh!)
brand new shit - just on the market (new) + (products) = (new items)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
parents/kindness LOOKING AXE new
Hint
Radical
I'm LOOKING for my parents, to show them my new AXE.
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collect
(turkey) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(tree)
The pervert collects junior - high girls' SHOES. Turkeys collect in the top of the tree. It's where the nests are. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I amass a bunch of things
things like bugs all swarm together or collect in a spot.
JUKUGO:
( )
you'll see this sign a lot. It means 'now hiring!' (recruit) + (collect) + (middle) = (now hiring)
( ) ( )
to concentrate (collect) + (pour / be careful) = (to concentrate)
to edit. (editor: ()) (knit) + (collect) = (to edit. )
shelf
ONYOMI:
(tree) + (moon/organ)
I keep two organs on my wooden shelves. (FYI: I'm Ed Gein)
KUNYOMI:
shelf or rack
JUKUGO:
( )
a whole bookcase (BOOBOO: 'tana' () by itself means an individual shelf of a hondana) ( KUNKUN ) (book / the real) + (shelf) = (bookcase )
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( )
cupboard ( KUNKUN ) (door) + (shelf) = (cupboard)

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pine
ONYOMI:
(tree) + (public)
Show me a public pine tree and I will show you an awesome place for a picnic.
KUNYOMI:
pine tree
wither
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: () ()
(tree) + (old)
The old tree withered away.
* *
I, personally, desiccate or dry up something
the flower is withering.
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
breakdown, accident DIRECTOR
wither
Hint
TREE
Radical
The DIRECTOR got in an accident when he hit the withered TREE.
partner
(tree) + (eye)
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ONYOMI: SOU
He's got SO many partners. If your partner has a tree splinter in their eye, you have to take it out even if it is really gross. And vice versa. KUNYOMI:
partner (only used in , see below!) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
a consultation - it doesn't have to be formal. If you want to see your teacher after class, that's a soudan. (partner) + (consult) = (consult)
( )
one's partner (in conversation, tennis, or anything else however temporary) ( KUNKUN ) (partner) + (hand) = (partner)
( )
A somewhat newspaper-ish word for Prime Minister (BOOBOO: actually, most people say instead) ( FP , NP ) (neck) + (partner) = (Prime Minister)
( )
Sumo. I've seen a bunch of of straight porn featuring 'sexy sumo wrestler girls,' but I've been unable to find a single gay sumo porn. Which either means, a) gay dudes think sumo are trolls, b) gay dudes have too much respect for the manliness of Sumo to do a x-rated parody, or c) gay dudes just jerk it to regular sumo on the tube for free. ( FP , CCW) (partner) + (eradicate) = (Sumo)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hamper
Hint
one's team ancestor partner rough texture / bad quality
STRING NECROPHILIA TREE RICE TOWN
Radical
Team spirit is the STRING that binds us into a unit. We do NECROPHILIA with our ancestors. The TREE is our partner in the oxygen/co2 cycle. My RICE is bad quality so everyone in TOWN hampered me from selling it!
USED IN:
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box
ONYOMI:
(bamboo) + (partner)
My partner gave me this lovely bamboo box!
KUNYOMI:
box
JUKUGO:
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
garbage pail, bin
Hint
Radical
idea/imagination
(partner) +
ONYOMI: SOU JUKUGO:
(bottomheart)
Imagine a partner whose heart was the same as yours! it is SO romantic!
( ) ( )
imagine. (imaginative: ) (idea/imagination) + (statue / image) = (imagine) an impression of something. (like , but you'd never use to mean 'first impression') includes both a factual summary of the thing as well as one's opinion of it . .
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.Often used in the phrase :: a high-school book report. (feeling) + (idea/imagination) = (impression)
( )
"Manteca"
to mentally associate XXX with YYY. Like your psychologist says, "Let's play a wordassociation game."
"Yo Mama." (take with / inform of) + (idea/imagination) = (mental association)

topic category,type number, to count idea/imagination
DAY BIG WOMAN HEART
toDAY's topic is a BIG category: the number of WOMEN with imaginary HEARTS.
prohibition
(tree) + (show/altar radical)

My KINfolk prohibited me from showing two trees in a row. (they are afraid someone will steal both of our trees)
*
JUKUGO:
to forbid something
( ) ( )
no smoking (prohibition) + (smoky) = (no smoking)
forbidden by law. Common examples: smoking outdoors, parking your bike here, opening this door, busking on the street, breathing on a grandpa. (prohibition) + (stop) = (forbidden)
( )
do not cross this line, no entry. ( NP ) (stand up) + (put/go in) + (prohibition) + (stop) = (no entry)
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( ) ( )
strictly forbidden. (strict) + (prohibition) = (strictly forbidden. )
taboo or forbidden thing (prohibition) + (animal / thing) = (taboo or forbidden thing )
fruit / result
(rice field) + (tree)
ONYOMI: KA
Number: 355 8 strokes JERK, STRONG
Hey Junior, get the CAR, we're going fruit-stealin! Fruit is like a rice field up in the top of a tree, where the crops result at harvest time! KUNYOMI:
*!!
JUKUGO:
just as I thought!
( ) ( )
an effect (effective) + (fruit / result) = (an effect)
result (bind) + (fruit / result) = (result)
( ) ( )
effective (an effect) + (motivation / '-al') = (effective) fruit. You might see this on signs, but in conversation, most people say ( KUNKUN , NP ) (fruit / result) + (animal / thing) = (fruit)
USED IN:
Number: 356
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15 strokes
section
ONYOMI: KA
BETA
(say) + (fruit / result) (Same-ON)

The section chief of the fruit factory says orders to you, the fruit employee. DESCRIPTION:This means "section" as in part of an organization. Section of a thing is usually () or (). Occasionally it means lesson, as in 'section of a book you have to learn.' JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
section chief - or department manager. (section) + (long / boss) = (section chief)
The subject of today's lesson (in school); the task at hand (at work) (section) + (topic) = (the task at hand)
The subject of today's lesson (in school); the task at hand (at work) (section) + (topic) = (the task at hand)
sweets/pastry
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KA JUKUGO:
(fruit / result) (Same-ON)
Sweets are made with honey from flowers and fruits.
( )
pastries, cupcakes, etc. - also called "sweets" in Japanese-English. (BOOBOO:Not candy bars.) (sweets/pastry) + (child) = (pastries)
east
ONYOMI: TOU
(tree) + (rice field)

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Go east on your tip-TOES. Rice fields and trees grow better back east. KUNYOMI:
east JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
Tokyo (east) + (capital) = (Tokyo)
east exit (east) + (mouth) = (east exit) east side of Japan including Tokyo. (connected to) + (east) = (East Japan)
( )
the middle-east. ( NEO ) (middle) + (east) = (the middle-east.)
USED IN:
practice
ONYOMI: REN JUKUGO:
(string) + (east)
MC REN practices knitting string from Compton all the way to the east coast.
( ) ( )
practice , as in guitar, tennis, or jerking off (practice) + (learn) = (practice) training - more serious than ; more like for the army or kung fu (kunyomi) + (practice) = (training)
( )
senrensareta - literally 'polished.' Like the 'after' version of Eliza Doolittle - rich but also well-mannered. Not like Paris Hilton. I guess 'cosmopolitan sophisticate' is the best English equivalent. Also applies to hi-class things that have been made in a very skillful way. (wash) + (practice) = (sophisticated)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
continue SELL practice EAST
Hint
Radical
Continue to SELL drugs. Go EAST to practice Kung Fu.
guide/proposal
ONYOMI: AN ANN coulter guides you safely to the tree. KUNYOMI:
(cheap / safe) (Same-ON) + (tree)
an idea you just had - or a proposal you're making - to specifically solve a problem. (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
a guide - usually in the form of a map, or an information kiosk. Also if a clerk shows you around a store pointing out things you might want to buy, that 's annai. (guide/proposal) + (the inside) = (guide)
( )
a proposal - not just in business but also in everyday life : "Let's go to this movie!" (submit a proposal) + (guide/proposal) = (proposal)
or ( or )
more/less/weirder than you expected. (guide/proposal) + (outside) = (more than one expected)
one cup of liquid

(tree) + (un)
ONYOMI: HAI Would you like another cup of sake? HAI! Wood is UN-liquid. Wood is solid. JUKUGO:
( )
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one cup-full ( KANA, COUNTER ) (one) + (one cup of liquid) = (one cup-full)
( ! )
Cheers! Let's drink! (thirsty) + (one cup of liquid) = (Skoal!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
one cup of liquid
Hint
counter for flat objects DIRECTOR
NOT
Radical
Liquid in cups is NOT made of trees (tree + not) Paper is read by the DIRECTOR. (it's a script, fool!)
knee or lap
ONYOMI:
(moon/organ) + (tree) + (water)

She hit her knee organ on a tree so she had to use water to curb the swelling.
KUNYOMI:
knee but also lap
guarantee/maintain
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: HO DESCRIPTION: needs work re: jukugo synonyms and stars. KUNYOMI:
Number: 363 9 strokes PN, ???
(mouth/small box radical) + (tree)
I guarantee that that HAIRY OBESE person can eat a tree in one mouthfull.
*
JUKUGO:
maintain
( )
guarantee
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(guarantee/maintain ) + (proof) = (guarantee)
( )
guarantee (guarantee/maintain ) + (impede) = (guarantee)
( )
politically or morally conservative. ( NEO ) (guarantee/maintain ) + (protect) + capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (conservative)
( ) ( )
insurance (guarantee/maintain ) + (steep) = (insurance)
conserve (natural resources, the environment, traditional morals, our dwindling fuel supply, etc.) - political conservatives are () (guarantee/maintain ) + (be aware of) = (conserve)
( )
health insurance (health) + (insurance) = (health insurance) to save face (opposite: ()) ( CCW) (front surface / face) + (eye) + (guarantee/maintain ) = (save face)
( )
( )
conserve, protect - only used in the literal sense. (BOOBOO: conservative person is () ) (guarantee/maintain ) + (defend) = (conserve, protect)
( )
a guarantor. This may not sound like a useful word to know, but if you ever come to Nippon, you'll need a Japanese guarantor. For pretty much everything- getting an apartment, a visa, etc. Usually it's your boss. So if you lose your job, your boss can kick you out of your house AND the country. It's a sort of share-cropper system! (guarantee) + (person) = (a guarantor)
USED IN:
spin
(string) + (products) + (tree)

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ONYOMI: I have a spinning top, made from wood, and when I pull the string it spins! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
spin
( )
to repeat over and over. (spin) + (return) = (to repeat over and over.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
manipulate/ chastity HAND STRING spin
Hint
Radical
The masturbator's HAND manipulates, but the STRING causes the spinnin' top to rotate.
manipulate/ chastity
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SOU She's SO chaste.
Number: 365 16 strokes JERK, FR
(products) + (tree)
I guess you can think of the three boxes as wooden gears which the hand is manipulating. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
manipulate
chastity (chastity means manipulate? Fucked Roots?) (FR)

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( )
control or operate - usually a machine, but can also be used about politicians controlling the people. ( FP ) (manipulate/ chastity) + (make) = (operate)
( )
gymnastics (body) + (manipulate/ chastity) = (gymnastics)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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manipulate/ chastity HAND STRING spin

The masturbator's HAND manipulates, but the STRING causes the spinnin' top to rotate.
dye
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SEN KUNYOMI:
(the number 9) + (tree)
SEND the artists to dye nine trees with liquid dye!
() ()
a stain (usually used like this : )
* *
to dye one's hair
to be dyed, colored, stained
JUKUGO:
( )
pollution OR contamination. (BOOBOO : If you want to say "environmental pollution," you have to use not ) (dirty) + (dye) = (pollution/contamination)
miscellaneous , random
Number: 367
14 strokes BETA
(the number 9) + (tree) +

ONYOMI: ZATSU Now ZAT's random!!
(turkey)
We found nine miscellaneous turkeys in the tree. JUKUGO:
( )
magazine (miscellaneous , random) + (magazine) = (magazine)

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( ) ( )
Watch video
complicated; having multiple things that make it complex. (complicated or compound) + (miscellaneous , random) = (complicated)
noise - like traffic, static, the classic STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH song 'What's that noise?!?!?' etc.
(miscellaneous , random) + (sound) = (noise)
Number: 368

DESCRIPTION:
wheat
USED IN:
childish
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: CHI
(turkey)
it's childish to play with your CHEESE all giving yourself webbed fingers with mozzarella and finger-painting with fondue. Either childish or way too adult in some kind of wet-and-messy way, but either way it is not ok in this household, young lady. It was childish of you hold the wheat just out of reach of the hungry turkey! JUKUGO:
( )
kindergarten
Want to come see?") + (public park) = (kindergarten)
( )
childish, immature, puerile. "Hey i wrote POOP on a picture of the president! Want to
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come see?" (childhood) + (childish) = (childish, immature)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
childish upkeep
Hint
Radical
peace/ Japan
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: WA
If the peasants have enough wheat to put in their mouths, they will WAnt peace. If they don't have enough to eat: revolution! KUNYOMI: () ()
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(used about an angry person or weather) to settle down, relent
to become friendly, to calm down (: to calm someone/something down)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
Japanese-style (food, clothing, houses. . .) (peace/ Japan) + (wind / the flu / style) = (Japanese-style)
peace (equal / level) + (peace/ Japan) = (peace)
( )
Japanese-style food (peace/ Japan) + (eat) = (Japanese-style food)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
flavor
Hint
Radical
MOUTH ON LEFT SIDE

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know
peace/ Japan WHEAT
ARROW
I finished the food but the flavor, is LEFT behind in my mouth. I know how to shoot your moms with an ARROW. In the nanny. I gave your Moms a peace OF WHEAT to help turn that yeast infection into some bread.
secret
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: HI KUNYOMI:
(surely)
HE surely keeps his wheat secret, as if it was important to anyone else!
( or ) to hide, or conceal information, to keep something to one's self. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a secret (secret) + (hard to see) = (a secret)
constipation (convenient / poop) + (secret) = (constipation)
me / private
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(moocow)
I am he and he is SHE, and She is me and we are all together. Here's me, delivering wheat using my cow.
KUNYOMI:
this kanji is 'watashi' if you're a formal guy, and 'atashi' if you're a formal lady.If you're an old guy, you can say, 'washi,' and if you're addressing a superior person you'd say 'wataKUshi.' (BOOBOO: Don't ever start your sentences with 'watashi wa.' That is like the #1 noobiest thing ever. If you are going to a school where they teach you to introduce yourself with 'watashi ha', it's ok, but if they want you to start all your sentences that way, quit and find another school.) (1/2 KANA)
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
us ( 1/2 KANA) (me / private) + (plural/delivery) = (us)
private railway - uses the second meaning of ' (private) (me / private) + (iron) = (private railway)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Buddha
PERSON
Hint
Radical
Buddha is a PERSON. I myself cut the WHEAT. You enlarge something by making it WIDER. I use my HAND to pay.
one second
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: BYOU
Number: 373 9 strokes SOLO, COUNTER
(a little (amount))
Because of his legendary B.O., it only takes a second to realize he's entered the room. Wheat plants grow a little every second KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
xxx-seconds of time ( COUNTER )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
odd sand
one second WHEAT
Hint
Radical
WOMAN STONE
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transfer
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: I KUNYOMI:
(many)
I transfer wheat to many locations, to feed many people
( or ) broad meaning! A transfer or shift - as in, climate change, moving to a new house, transmitting a cold, yawns that are 'catching', fire spreading to the next building, or moving a conversation on to the next subject. These are all ! ()
something or someone gets transferred
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
organ transplant (transfer) + (plant) = (organ transplant)
immigrant (only applies to people who became Japanese citizens and generally their families live here for generations)(i.e. not you) Countries like America, UK, or Brazil are (- immigrant countries), built by immigrants. Japan, like most of the world, still thinks of citizenship as blood and DNA. So if you're coming from the USA, remember your open-minded point-of-view is a small minority! (transfer) + (folk) = (immigrant )
handy
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: RI Bruce LEE is handy in a fight. Swords are handy for cutting wheat. KUNYOMI:
(rightsword)
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*
JUKUGO:
to use (usually a body part) - : have a smart mouth. : have a great nose, have wonderful smelling-ability. : to have a discerning eye (for art/ antiques / etc.)
( ) ( )
handy, convenient (convenient / poop) + (handy) = (handy, convenient)
profit (both literal and figurative) (handy) + (profit) = (profit)
( )
right-handed (right) + (handy) = (right-handed )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
handy
Hint
Radical
excessive RIDE
WHEAT
WHEAT is a handy snack, but excessive mc's RIDING your jock is wack.
USED IN:
season
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: KI
(child)
The seasons KEEP on changing. This is the season when wheat plants give birth to their wheat children. JUKUGO:
( )
season (season) + (season / joint) = (season)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
season member clause flexible
CHILD WOMAN EACH HALBERDS
Radical
A CHILD grows every season,

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but a WOMAN is a member of the MILF club. EACH clause in the contract forbids flexible HALBERDS.
member
(woman) +
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
(wheat)
I am a member of the women's wheat-harvesting collective.
( )
member of a committee. (member) + (clerk) = (member of a committee.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
A CHILD grows every season, but a WOMAN is a member of the MILF club. EACH clause in the contract forbids flexible HALBERDS.
good smell
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(sun, day)
My COLON smells awesome. CHECK IT OUT. Wheat smells good in the sunshine. All, you know, wheaty. I say, Miss Havisham, what is that splendid perfume you are wearing?" My dear man, I rubbed wheat all over my pits!" Marvelous!" KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
good smell
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( ) ( )
Hong Kong ( FP ) (good smell) + (harbor) = (Hong Kong)
perfume (good smell) + (water) = (perfume)
fall
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
Number: 379 9 strokes SOLO, PN, STRONG
(fire)
It's getting colder outside in fall, so make sure to wear SHOES. Fall is the season when we burn the wheat crops.
KUNYOMI:
fall
USED IN:
sorrow
ONYOMI: SHUU
(fall) (Same-ON) +
(bottomheart)
Your SHOES are so wack it fills me with sorrow. When the season turns to fall, my heart is always full of sorrow. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
melancholy- sorrowful - but more subtle than the OTHER () Regular urei is like a homeless guy that is obviously suffering and you can see why. is like a elegant woman in a kimono going to a temple and carrying with her a subtle poetic aura of sadness. Older Japanese guys go for this.
( )
an archaic, literary word meaning, "melancholy, pathos, grief." (used about a novel, song, movie, or tone of voice, but not about a person). ( NP ) (pitiful) + (sorrow) = (melancholy)
( )
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literary word for nostalgia (BOOBOO: most people just say (!)) ( NP )
(one's hometown) + (sorrow) = (nostalgia)

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the tip
ONYOMI: MATSU

I got your MA TO press up on my tip. tree () plus one extra LONG branch. - LONG because it stretches ALL THE WAY TO THE TIP. KUNYOMI:
the end of something- end of the month, the end of a story
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! Hint
the weekend (week) + (the tip) = (the weekend)
end of the year (year) + (the tip) = (end of the year)
end of the month (moon) + (the tip) = (end of the month)
the conclusion of something - the last chapter of a book or the last scene of a movie. (bind) + (the tip) = (conclusion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
not yet TOP BRANCH SHORTER husband NO PENIS TOP BRANCH LONGER the tip
Radical
The MADA tree, the top branch has not yet fully grown, that's why it is shorter than the middle one. The SUE tree, however, the top branch has grown all the way to the tip, which is why it's LONGER than the middle one! Unlike the trees,the husband has NOTHING BETWEEN HIS LEGS, so that's how you can remember him. (FYI they say his wife cut his pecker off . . .after catching him fucking the tree) (birch!)
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not yet
ONYOMI: MI

I'm not yet the perfect ME. is basically , but with a SHORTER upper stroke. . HOW TO TELL THEM APART; -tip - SHORT UPPER BRANCH on the tree - not yet - LONG UPPER BRANCH on the tree The MADA tree, the extra branch has not yet fully grown, that's why it is shorter than the middle one. The SUE tree, however, the extra branch has grown ALL THE WAY TO THE TIP, which is why it's LONGER than the middle one. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
not yet (1/2 KANA)
( )
future ( ()= the future tense) (not yet) + (come/future) = (future)
( )
not yet good at something. (not yet) + (get good at) = (not yet good at something.)
( ) ( )
legal minor (not yet) + (become) + (year) = (legal minor)
attempted xxx (murder, suicide, kidnapping, etc.) (not yet) + (attain) = (attempted xxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
not yet TOP BRANCH SHORTER husband NO PENIS TOP BRANCH LONGER the tip
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
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little sister
ONYOMI: MAI KUNYOMI:
(woman) + (not yet)

MY little sister is . . . .not yet a woman. A logical kanji!! Let's all send presents to the Japanese embassy! Maybe this cd would make a good one
JUKUGO:
my younger sister (BOOBOO: if I address YOUR younger sister, it's '')
( )
sisters (older sister) + (little sister) = (sisters)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WOMAN little sister share, stock TREE
Hint
Radical
My little sister is a WOMAN who owns stock in a TIMBER corporation.
flavor
ONYOMI: MI
(mouth/small box radical) + (not yet) (Same-ON)

ME mouth hasn't tasted the flavor yet. So pass the Tabasco over here, mate!
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
flavor
to taste something
( )
meaning (meaning) + (flavor) = (meaning)
( )
interest in something
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xxx : an intriguing xxx : I'm interested in it! ! : I'm not interested!
(interest) + (flavor) = (interest)
( )
hobby (hobby) + (flavor) = (hobby)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
peace/ Japan WHEAT
flavor know
Hint
Radical
MOUTH ON LEFT SIDE ARROW
rice / America
(tree) + (dot)
ONYOMI: MAI, BEI
MY BAby comes from America. MY BAby also loves him some rice. Think of the rice plant as a little tree, with the two dots being little grains of rice which bud off of it. KUNYOMI:
raw, uncooked rice. The kind you buy in a big 2 kilo bag.
JUKUGO:
( )
Europe and USA - but unfortunately due to racism, Japanese often use to mean the West in general, ignoring Africa, South and Latin America and even Canada. (Europe) + (rice / America) = (europe/ USA)
( )
South America ( NEO ) (south) + (rice / America) = (South America)

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( ) ( )
Latin America ( NEO ) (middle) + (rice / America) = (Latin America)
brown rice (entryway / mysterious / brown rice) + (rice / America) = (brown rice)
USED IN:
perplexed
(motion) +
ONYOMI: MEI
(rice / America)
You MAY be perplexed by how complex kanji are. Especially when you compare this one to the next one! The motion of the rice perplexed me until I figured out it was actually a BOWL of maggots! DESCRIPTION:This word is wonderful because all of its jukugo correspond neatly to English words, and are not irritating synonyms of almost-identical Japanese words. KUNYOMI: ()
to be paralyzed because you are unable to choose. (i.e. when shopping, or when you are lost and can't decide which street to take)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
get lost. (street) + (perplexed) = (get lost.)
lost child ( FP ) (perplexed) + (child) = (lost child)
maze (perplexed) + (road) = (maze)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
perplexed RICE (2 dots!!) ONE DOT refer to
Hint
Radical
You get perplexed by RICE, so you refer to ONE DOT to comparison: "OK, if it's bigger than this dot, then it must not be rice."
USED IN:
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mystery
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(say) + (perplexed) (Same-ON)

A perplexed person says, "That's a mystery!" as they throw up their hands in confusion.
( XXX )
a mystery (KANA)
a mysterious XXX
decision/judgement/refuse
Number: 388
L (loser) + (rice / America) + (axe)

ONYOMI: DAN Glen DANzig decided to cut up the loser with his axe.
DESCRIPTION: This means decision, but also means to judge, refuse, or cut off. Kind of related, but not really! KUNYOMI:
* *
the most common word for 'refuse'
to sever a thing, or to divide something in two. Can also be used figuratively, as in 'Cut off all contact with so-and-so.' or 'Quit smoking altogether forever.'
JUKUGO:
( )
to judge, to deliver a verdict - but also judge like 'I wouldn't wear that skirt if I was her.' (seal / stamp) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (judge)
( )
diagnosis (=to diagnose) (diagnose) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (diagnosis)
( )
let down your guard. (oil) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (let down your guard.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
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Radical
NECROPHILIAC fold HAND decision/judgement/refuse RICE analyze TREE pray
succeed / inherit
ONYOMI: KEI
(string) + L (loser) + (rice / America)

It's OK to inherit a ball of string and a bag of rice from a loser. DESCRIPTION: not 'succeed' like to win, but to succeed someone at a position. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to inherit. Or to get a job because the last person quit. Or to become king, because the old king got mysteriously sick and died.
( )
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an inheritor, an heir, heiress (vestiges) + (succeed / inherit) = (heir/heiress)
( )
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to carry on (the family business / a tradition) (succeed / inherit) + (continue) = (to carry on)
be sticky
ONYOMI: NEN KUNYOMI: ()
(rice / America) + (fortune teller/ occupy)

The fortuneteller predicts raiNEN (= next year = ) by throwing rice and seeing what the rice sticks to.
to be sticky - usually shortened to the onomopoetic word ! (1/2 KANA)
( xxx )
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no matter how many times I try xxx, I can't do it. JUKUGO:
( )
clay. (BOOBOO : but not the finished pottery, which is '', or '') (be sticky) + (earth) = (clay)
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( )
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adhesive- like tape, glue, or maybe even velcro? (be sticky) + (wear / arrive) = (adhesive)
vegetable
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(rice / America)
SIGH as you are forced by your stupid jerkface parents to eat cauliflower BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A BRAIN AND YOU KNOW THIS, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO MEEEEE?!?!?? I eat flowers and rice with my vegetables. JUKUGO:
( )
vegetable (field) + (vegetable) = (vegetable)
essence
ONYOMI: SUI
(rice / America) + (the number 9) + (ten)

Human beings are essentially SWEET, although on the other hand, Pol Pot. Rice is the essential part of nine out of ten Japanese meals! KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
stylish (present or clothes) but also a considerate or supportive person.( (KANA, JERK)
( )
the essence of something. Pure pleasure! Pure blood! Pure honor! (epitome) + (essence) = (essence)
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Radical
sour drunk horrendous essence pulverize
EACH TEN MOUTH RICE ROCK
EACH lemon is sour, but NINE OF TEN guys get drunk every hour, and your MOUTH has horrendously bad raps when you you freestyle in the shower. The essence of my RICE you did mock, so I pulverize you with a ROCK!!
grain
ONYOMI: RYUU
(rice / America) + (stand up)

After the farmers harvest the crops, they RE-USE the grain to plant next year's crops. Rice grains, on the tops of the rice shoots, appear to be standing up facing the sun. KUNYOMI:
a grain,, for instance . . . rice
JUKUGO:
( )
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an atomic particle, as in 'particle physics.' (grain) + (child) = (atomic particle.)
powder PART STAND grain
Radical
Powder is made from a small PART of ground-up brains, But I STAND in line to get grains. (I'm on welfare)
powder

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(rice / America) + (understand / divide / minute)

ONYOMI: FUN It's FUN to snort powder! If you keep dividing rice kernels smaller and smaller, you will wind up with powder.
KUNYOMI:
powder
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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hay fever (flower) + (powder) + (symptom) = (hay fever)
powder PART STAND grain
Radical
Powder is made from a small PART of ground-up brains, But I STAND in line to get grains. (I'm on welfare)
come/future
ONYOMI: RAI
(rice / America) + (one/line radical)

rice ) plus a line, which we'll call a horizontal bolt of RAIghtning. So you can say . . . In the future, we'll use RAIghtning to cook our rice! ZAP!!!! DESCRIPTION: This is used as a PREFIX, meaning next : (next year, month, week). HOWEVER, BOOBOO!!! It's NEVER used with tomorrow, or next hour, or next minute. Nonono. Sorry. KUNYOMI: ()
*
come
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
next year (come/future) + (year) = (next year)
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next month (come/future) + (moon) = (next month) or ( or ) it's possible to do.(I can run, I can shit, but I can't run and shit at the same time.) ( 1/2 KANA) (pull out / hand over) + (come/future) = (possible)
( )
since then ( NP ) (compared to) + (come/future) = (since then)
( )
USED IN:
a specific person's future (i.e. the dumb interview question, "What do you see yourself doing 10 years from now?") Also sometimes used with Japan's future.
number
ONYOMI: BAN
(come/future) + (rice field)

I'd like to BAN the number 13 because it is unlucky. I'll come to your rice paddy if you write down the address NUMBER. JUKUGO:
( )
number which has been assigned to a thing, as in phone number or apartment number, or ZIP code number. (number) + (number) = (number)
( ) ( )
the best! Number one! ( NEO ) (one) + (number) = (number one!)
police box - a small shop in your neighborhood where police hang out and wait to help you or jail you. (combine) + (number) = (police box)
XXX
YYY (XXX YYY)
this is a term used in counting things in a row. For instance, in English we'd say "Second book from the right" or "Third shelf from the top" in Japanese, they'd say: 2book OR 4shelf. ( COUNTER , KUNKUN ) (number) + (eye) = (thing in a row)
USED IN:
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judge
(number) +
ONYOMI: SHIN JUKUGO:
Number: 397 15 strokes ILL PAIR, BETA
(crown)
The prisoner was being judged for stealing a number of SHINY crowns.
( )
to judge or examine something - anything from Charles Manson's trial to American Idol. Anything with a panel of judges. Also when the fire marshal or the IRS comes to do an Official Inspection. (judge) + (inspect) = (investigation, judging)
edge
judge NUMBER police FESTIVAL chafe HAND TOWN
Radical
When the judge gives you a NUMBER of years in prison, the police will have a FESTIVAL on the edge of TOWN. Your HAND is chafing against my thigh.
big
ONYOMI: DAI/TAI A big hippy wearing a big TIE DIED T-shirt.
Number: 398 3 strokes PK, PN, ILL PAIR
This big fat hippy, legs apart, arms apart, waiting to hug you WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. DESCRIPTION:If you're looking up a jukugo in your dictionary and can't find it, try using instead of or . For some reason, this kanji tends to go kunyomi in its jukugo!
*
big JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
really like (big) + (like) = (really like)

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( )
this has 2 meanings, both used equally often: "Tony is tai hen!" , for instance, could mean: a) I feel sorry for Tony because his job sucks and his girl is cheating. b) Tony is a really scary, mean person. (big) + (change) = (that's terrible!)
( )
vital, important. Can also be used as a sort of goodbye - but only in cases where you're sort of worried about the person. Like if they're coming down with a cold, you'd say, "! instead of ! (big) + (action/ incident) = (vital)
( )
adult, as opposed to minor, not as opposed to 'with clothes on.' ( FP ) (big) + (person) = (adult)
( ) ( )
landlord ( FP ) (big) + (home) = (landlord)
large-scale ( KUNKUN ) (big) + (type / proper way) = (large-scale )
fat dog big
Radical
DOT ON BOTTOM DOT ON TOP
Dude has a fat schlong, (represented by the dot between his legs) Dog is eating some meat, (represented by the dot next to its head) Big has no dot.
USED IN:
waaay in the back

ONYOMI:
(rice / America) + (big)

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George got a big kernel of rice lodged waaay in the back of his stache , and he wants you to reach in and try to dislodge it.
KUNYOMI:
way in the back: Back of the closet, back of the casket, back of the cave, etc.
JUKUGO:
( )
wife (used about my own wife as well as your wife) (literally,'back of the house person' - OH SNAAAAAP!!) ( FP , FR)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STOP tooth waaay in the back BIG
Hint
Radical
STOP the tooth decay. Use a BIG toothbrush from the front, to way in the back.
strange
ONYOMI: KI JUKUGO:
(big) + (possible)
It's possible for a KEY to be over 10 feet big, but it would be a little strange.
( )
weird - but more broad than the related term . means unusual and absurd - a street-person wearing a duck as a hat is . (strange) + (odd) = (weird)
( )
curiosity BOOBOO: if you want to say you're curious about a specific thing, you'd use ( ) instead. usually means "curiosity-in-general": you have an inquiring personality, or a gaze of curiosity on your face. You'd never say, "Oh, you play in a band? ! (like) + (strange) + (heart) = (curiosity)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get close CROWN strange NO CROWN
Hint
Radical
You get close to a guy with a CROWN (because you're a gold-digger).

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If a guy has NO CROWN he must be strange, so just walk by like your shit don't stink.
USED IN:
get close
ONYOMI: KI
(strange) (Same-ON) +
KEEP away!!', he says. 'Don't get close! '
(crown)
The king don't like strange people to get close to his crown. KUNYOMI: ()
come near
JUKUGO:
( )
to get close to, to approach.(usually used in the negative, on warning signs: danger! keep out! danger! high voltage! !) (near) + (get close) = (get close to)
( )
old person ('70s and up). This isn't rude per se, but if you want to dismiss or belittle what an old fart just said, this is the word you use. ( NP ) (year) + (get close) = (old person)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get close CROWN strange NO CROWN
Hint
Radical
You get close to a guy with a CROWN (because you're a gold-digger). If a guy has NO CROWN he must be strange, so just walk by like your shit don't stink.
stinky odor
(my own) + (big)
ONYOMI: SHUU My own SHOES are causing a big stink.
KUNYOMI:
BOOBOO: the dictionary says and are both used to mean (good smell), but that's bollocks.
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*
JUKUGO:
The truth is much less confusing: means good smell, and means bad.
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stinky. To be stank.
( )
annoying, a pain in the ass. () is one example (so out of fashion that it is stinking) , also ' ( )' - meaning like 'stoopid redneck.' ) = (pain in the ass)
xxx
(xxx !! )
SUFFIX meaning 'XXX and therefore dumb.' () is one example (so out of fashion that it is stinking) , also ' ()' - meaning like 'stoopid redneck.' ( SUF)
( )
to be stank because you sweat. (sweat) + (SUFFIX meaning 'XXX and therefore dumb.' () is one example (so out of fashion that it is stinking) , also ' ()' - meaning like 'stoopid redneck.' ) = (to be stank because you sweat.)
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get worked up
(big) +
ONYOMI: FUN It's FUN to get worked up at a concert.
(turkey) +
(rice field)
the big turkey got all worked up running around the rice field DESCRIPTION:
JUKUGO:
( )
to get all excited and freak out. to get really worked up. Not in a bad way. Like when you wet your pants after seeing n'sync. (interest) + (get worked up) = (get excited)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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steal by force GLUE get worked up NO glue on bottom.

I GLUE it down so you can't steal it.
instrument
(big) + (products)
ONYOMI: KI
KEEP the products in big boxes so they don't get damaged! They are delicate instruments! Especially violins!!
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
bowl or container-but also (rarely) capability (like, KRS ONE has more rappin' capability than Pharrel)
( )
musical instrument (enjoy) + (instrument) = (musical instrument)
( )
arms , armament (soldier) + (instrument) = (arms)
( )
skillful, dexterous. Like a kung-fu fighter that can jump around and not get kicked, or a pianist who plays hella difficult pieces without any fucked notes. There is also an implication that the person can improvise! (instrument) + (utilize) = (dexterous)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
No 'BIG' products instrument BIG
Hint
Radical
A tuba is a BIG instrument.
thrust
ONYOMI: TOTSU
(hole) + (big)
He TOTES a big thing that he can thrust in your hole! Now THAT'S a mnemonic.
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KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to poke or jab, but not necessarily with a sharp object. Could be your finger.
( )
suddenly! Like , but you can also use if you're sending someone an unexpected mail, or making a last-minute plan. (thrust) + (nature) = (suddenly!)
( )
means impact (car crash) but also a conflict (India and Pakistan are on a collision course) or mental conflict (his communism conflicts with his love for the sexy CIA agent). (collision) + (thrust) = (impact / conflict)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
research NINE BIG thrust
Hint
Radical
You research NINE topics, but you thrust a BIG sword in the hole.
central
(big) +
ONYOMI: OU OH SHIT, that is a big stache.
To a certain kind of brawny man, having a big Moustache is central to his lifestyle. That's right - I'm talking about Philosophers.
JUKUGO:
( )
central. Tokyo has a famous train line: (the central line). (middle) + (central) = (central)
USED IN:
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project, reflect
(sun, day) + (central)
ONYOMI: EI
Saying EYYYY over and over was the cool image that Fonzie projected to the world. (although inside, he was quite insecure) The sun reflects off the center of a bald man's head. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I project
to be reflected, a shadow projected on the ground
JUKUGO:
( )
movie (project, reflect) + (a drawing) = (movie)
( ) ( )
movie theater (movie) + (big hall) = (movie theater)
any reflected, moving image - including images on TV or a computer screen, a shadow play, etc. (project, reflect) + (statue / image) = (image)
heroic
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: EI JUKUGO:
Number: 408 8 strokes PN, JERK, BETA
(central) (Same-ON)
People threw flowers at the hero as he triumphantly walked down the central road.
( )
an English conversation school where nobody learns. Also, a place for housewives to meet shameless Australians. (heroic) + (conversation) = (English conversation school)
( )
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hero of an adventure story or legend - (BOOBOO: it's different from the word for 'main character' (()) which can be used in any kind of story. (heroic) + (male animal or hero) = (hero)
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dog
ONYOMI: KEN
(big) + (dot)
KENNY gets eaten to death by a big dog (he's that red dot there!)
KUNYOMI:
dog
JUKUGO:
( )
puppy ( KUNKUN ) (child) + (dog) = (puppy)
( )
Since it literally means 'losing dog,' you'd think that was a transliteration of the English 'underdog,' But no, it simply means loser or schlemiel. Japan doesn't really have much respect for plucky underdogs who dare to try and rise above their status. (lose) + (dog) = (loser)
fat dog big
Radical
USED IN:
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lay face down

(personleft) +
ONYOMI: FUKU He didn't want to lay face down because it would wrinkle his FUKU () The person orders the dog to lay face down.
(dog)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to lay face down - also means, "to keep this a secret, to hide the truth from outsiders."
( )
surrender (descend /rainfall / get out of vehicle ) + (lay face down) = (surrender)
shut up
ONYOMI: MOKU
(village) + (dog) +
KUNYOMI:
(firebottom)
The inhabitants of the village gathered on THURSDAY (= MOKUyobi) to burn the village dog which just would never shut up.
*
JUKUGO:
shut up. Usually said like DAMARE! (KANA)
( )
silence. (BOOBOO: not to be confused with ()). means a quiet place. is like a awkward hush that falls over the crowd when your mom's g-string fell off at the superbowl. (sink) + (shut up) = (bad kind of silence)
XXX ( XXX)
to silently do xxx. ( KANA)
nature EVENING shut up VILLAGE
Radical
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EVENING is the best time to see nature, because that's when you get the sunsets, when all the animals come out, and etc. Everyone in the VILLAGE has to shut up because it's Japan and it's polite to be quiet.
nature
ONYOMI: ZEN
(evening) + (dog) +
ZEN Buddhism is in harmony with nature.
(firebottom)
It's natural to set a dog on fire every evening JUKUGO:
( )
nature (my own) + (nature) = (nature)
( )
absolutely! (usually used to emphasize the word after it. But sometimes, the word being emphasized is omitted because it's so obvious (to Japanese)) If you hear someone say 'Zenzen!' with no word after it, it might mean 'zenzen daijoubu,' ('Absolutely no problemo.') . . . OR it might mean 'zen zen dame!' ('No effing way, guy!') ( 1/2 KANA) (all) + (nature) = (absolutely! )
( )
just, natural, deserved - although it's often used like 'That's obvious, isn't it?' (hit the target) + (nature) = (natural, obvious)
nature EVENING shut up VILLAGE
Radical
EVENING is the best time to see nature, because that's when you get the sunsets, when all the animals come out, and etc. Everyone in the VILLAGE has to shut up because it's Japan and it's polite to be quiet.
USED IN:
burn
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(nature) +
ONYOMI: NEN KUNYOMI: () ()
(fireleft)
Nature catches on fire and burns every Year (=NEN)
* *
I burn something up, I light something on fire. Intentionally!
something gets incinerated - destroyed by fire
( xxx ) burning with xxx (burning with passion, burning desire for revenge, consumed by hate, etc.) JUKUGO:
( )
burnable garbage (possible) + (burn) = (burnable garbage)
( )
unburnable garbage (un) + (burn) = (unburnable garbage)
fat
ONYOMI: TAI
(big) + (dot)
The only way fat dudes can get laid is to go to THAIland. Let's consider the dot a schlong, for reasons which shall soon become clear) Picture a dude who has to walk with his legs spread open wide, to accommodate the huge, fat schlong dangling there. KUNYOMI:
* *
fat JUKUGO: get fat
( )
the Pacific Ocean (fat) + (equal / level) + (Pacific Ocean / the West) = (the Pacific Ocean)
( )
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traditional Japanese drums - the kind that can be up to 15 feet wide. (BOOBOO: Rock and roll drums are just called .) (fat) + (drum) = (Japanese drums)
fat dog big
Radical
USED IN:
bad quality
(horse) + (fat)
ONYOMI: DA JUKUGO:
Your horse is too fat!! It's bad quality. So is your DAD!
( )
this has so many meanings: useless, bad, 'stop!' or just 'no way!' ( KANA, KUNKUN )
(bad quality) + (eye) = (no way!)

xxx (xxx ) a waste of something (time, money) ( 1/2 KANA) (without) + (bad quality) = (waste )
Number: 416
(right radical)
from China (radical)
(flowertop) + USED IN:
(central) + (one/line radical)
DESCRIPTION: I got a flower from China, AKA the Middle Kingdom.
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Chinese
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KAN This water came from China, so it's Chinese! JUKUGO:
(from China (radical))
Genghis KHAN was not Chinese, he was Mongolian.
( ) ( )
of course (Chinese) + (letter) = (kanji) Usually means Chinese: it's used in a lot of obscure words ('Chinese dictionary,' 'Chinese herbal medicine,' 'Chinese classical literature,' etc.) HOWEVER - aside from - the only time is really used in daily life is here: , meaning a guy who molests or gropes women on crowded trains. So the literal reading is: 'sick Chinese' !WTF??? ( FR, 1/2 KANA) (molester) + (Chinese) = (train pervert)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
side / arrogant TREE WET Chinese NO TREE yellow
Hint
Radical
The TREE got knocked over on its side. Kanji came to Japan from across the WET sea. Yellow has NO TREE, so you can say: pee, not tree!!
difficult
(from China (radical)) +
ONYOMI: NAN Baking NAN bread correctly is difficult. Catching turkeys from China is difficult.
(turkey)
*
difficult
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KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
( )
to criticize someone for no reason, just to nag at them. (injustice / mistake) + (difficult) = (to criticize someone for no reason, just to nag at them.)
( )
a hardship, big trouble. Not like "Oh, If I fail this test, I'm going to be in big trouble!" is more like an ongoing hardship, like your parents died when you were young and you had to put yourself through school while working 20 hours a week washing dishes. Also often used in this phrase: (troubled times) ( NP ) (trouble) + (difficult) = (hardship)
be employed at
(from China (radical)) +
Number: 419 12 strokes DUPE, PN
(strong)
The dudes who came from China to do be employed are hella strong and KEEN on working.
* *
JUKUGO:
to be employed at xxx company (emphasis is on the physical work rather than the role). (used only about a job, and not in reference to a particular project at that job)
my duties, my job
( )
commute (pass) + (be employed at) = (commute)
lament, sigh
ONYOMI: TAN
(from China (radical))
I lament that I got too TAN in Hawaii. Now I got melanomas!!

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Your mouth laments that kanji came from China and now you have to learn it even though you are in Japan! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
emit a wail of despair or mourning (1/2 KANA)
( )
amazement, slack-jawed wonder (astonish) + (lament, sigh) = (amazement)
Number: 421 STRONG
(top radical)
opium
(flowertop) +
(sun, day) + (big)
DESCRIPTION: Opium flowers grow big in the sun STRONG RADICAL : usually "BO."
USED IN:
model
(tree) +
ONYOMI: MO I made a model out of your BOzack.
(opium) (Same-ON)
Lou Reed carved a realistic model of an opium poppy out of a tree. JUKUGO:
( )
a pattern which does not have pictures: fractals , mandala, plaid, zeebra skin. wood. do NOT use about representational patterns like flower-print or kids pajamas with
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horsies on them. also has a more formal meaning: the details of an incident : You might hear a train/airport announcement which says "We will explain the details of the delay" ( ) ( 1/2 KANA) (model) + (important person) = (pattern)
( ) ( )
a model (this is literal! Model, like a snap-tite model car or model train) (model) + (type / proper way) = (plastic model)
a model: Can be a person (a role model, a model sudent), or a thing (a model home, a model economy). (BOOBOO: Not model like a plastic model tank or gandam) (model) + (standard / the best way to do) = (model - prototype)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
sign, mark WEST SUN model
Hint
Radical
LOOKALIKES: Ice cube's "W" is the mark of the WEST side. The model is hot like the SUN. (not that she's good-looking, but she burned herself up free-basing cocaine).
Meaning
Hint
recruit STRENGTH make a living DAY grave EARTH model WOOD
Radical
You recruit members to give your organization more STRENGTH. You have to make a living every DAY. The grave is in the EARTH. But you carve a model airplane out of WOOD.
grave
(opium) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: BO KUNYOMI:
(earth)
Your mother went to an early grave from smokin' too much opium, so now she's buried in the earth.
grave
JUKUGO:
( )
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graveyard (grave) + (area) = (graveyard)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
make a living
(opium) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: BO KUNYOMI: ()
(sun, day)
Your mother makes a living by selling opium every day!
This doesn't correspond to any English word. Maybe the closest phrase is, "To lead one's life." Homeless people, retirees, and rich divorcees all even though they don't . It means "to live in a place" as well as "to do all one's daily junk (eating, sleeping, hanging out)." is usually used in sentences like, "over 30,000 people are living in the city." or "Live on $20 a day," or "She had an easy/hard life."
JUKUGO:
( )
to be at a loss, to feel like WTF can I do?? (on the way) + (direction / method / person) + (make a living) = (be at a loss)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
You recruit members to give your organization more STRENGTH. You have to make a living every DAY.
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The grave is in the EARTH. But you carve a model airplane out of WOOD.
recruit
(opium) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: BO
(strong)
Your mom was recruited to sell opium because she's so strong, she can keep the block locked down all by herself if need be. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to raise funds, solicit contributions (for a magazine ,etc.), to find workers or soldiers.
( ) ( )
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you'll see this sign a lot. It means 'now hiring!' (recruit) + (collect) + (middle) = (now hiring)
to apply for a job. (react) + (recruit) = (to apply for a job.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
curtain
(opium) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: MAKU
(small city/dagger radical)

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Old MACK Donald had a farm, and on this farm he had beef curtains. There's an opium addict hiding behind the curtain holding a dagger. When you walk by, he'll jump out and stab you, take your shit and sell it for dope. DESCRIPTION:literal curtains, as well as metaphorical curtains, as in 'The mafia who are controlling the city do it in secret, behind the black curtains ().'
KUNYOMI:
literal curtains, as well as metaphorical curtains, as in 'The curtain fell on his career when he got caught humping a loaf.'
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
sub-titles ( KUNKUN ) (letter) + (curtain) = (sub-titles)
most people in the West called the Shogun government "feudalism", but the shoguns themselves called it BAKUFU ( FP ) (curtain) + (government) = (Shogun government)
desert
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: BAKU
(opium)
Welcome BACK TO the desert, motherfucker! All us scorpions and vultures missed you! Addicts need opium like desert travelers need water. JUKUGO:
( )
desert (sand) + (desert) = (desert )
( )
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vague, obscure, ambiguous ( ???) (desert) + (nature) = (vague, obscure, ambiguous)
Number: 428
(big radical)
big box
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DESCRIPTION: This is different than "mouth" because you put other radicals INSIDE it. You'll get it.
USED IN:
origin
(big) +
ONYOMI: IN JUKUGO:
(big box)
The origin of the universe was IN a big bang, because a big amount of energy burst out of a microscopic box.
( )
USED IN:
origin or cause of something (original/ high plain) + (origin) = (cause)
kindness
(origin) +
ONYOMI: ON The origin of kindness is ON the heart.
(bottomheart)
KUNYOMI: gratitude. Unlike the related words () and (), means that you really WANT to do something nice, to give back to the person you're grateful to. Also, unlike doesn't imply that you owe them a specific favor. Often, is used like, "Everyone else gave up on me, told me I was a juvenile delinquent, that I'd amount to nothing. That teacher was the only one who believed in me, who kept encouraging me no matter how many times I fucked up. "
JUKUGO:
( )
favor. Unlike the very personal "", giving and receiving is a more businesslike form of gratitude: means "to recieve a favor." A sort of I'll-scratch-yourback-if-you-scratch-mine practicality. (kindness) + (do a favor) = (favor)
( )
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ingrate (literally, 'unaware of gratitude.') (kindness) + (know) = (ingrate)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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do a favor
TNT plunger
bacteria
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KIN Your KINfolk ain't nothing but bacteria!!
(big box) +
(wheat)
The flower planted in the box full of wheat became infected with bacteria. JUKUGO:
( )
bacteria (regular word) (slender) + (bacteria) = (bacteria (regular word))
( )
a germ (usually used as a kids' insult - an "EWW you're gross!" kind of word) ( 1/2 KANA, KIDS )
trouble
(tree) +
ONYOMI: KON KUNYOMI:
(big box)
The pine tree is in trouble- it kind of got lost all its CONES, got chopped down and turned into a big pine box.
to be in trouble. . . .not exactly. It doesn't mean 'punishment' like 'You're in trouble!' means in English. It's not like your teacher yelling at you. If you're late and can't find your shoes, that's . If you're lost, that's . If you forgot your password for ratemycheneyfanfiction.org, that's . . . actually you're better off, probably. (BOOBOO)
JUKUGO:
( )
a hardship, big trouble. Not like "Oh, If I fail this test, I'm going to be in big trouble!"
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is more like an ongoing hardship, like your parents died when you were young and you had to put yourself through school while working 20 hours a week washing dishes. Also often used in this phrase: (troubled times) ( NP ) (trouble) + (difficult) = (hardship)
prisoner
(person) +
ONYOMI: SHUU JUKUGO:
Number: 433 5 strokes BETA, DUH
(big box)
A person stole some SHOES and got thrown in a big box of a cell- now he's a prisoner.
( )
prisoner (prisoner) + (person) = (prisoner )
rotate / times
ONYOMI: KAI
Number: 434 6 strokes COUNTER, JERK
(big box)
Imagine a small box rotating inside a big box. like, I dunno, gears or something. Then, use the rotating gears to reel in the string for that KITE, so you don't have to do it by hand. DESCRIPTION: Literally, it means 'to rotate.' However, mostly you'll see it used to mean 'xxx amount of times.' I guess you could think of clock hands rotating around the clock, but it's still a JERK. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I roate it
*
It rotates
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
this time (now) + (rotate / times) = (this time)
every time. Every single fucking time. Jesus! Get it together, man. Sometimes I don't
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know what goes on in your head. (every) + (rotate / times) = (every time)
( ) ( )
one time ( COUNTER ) (one) + (rotate / times) = (one time)
last time (last time, this happened, last time we met). although in practice people tend to use the more irritating and ambiguous ' .' (back then) (before) + (rotate / times) = (last time)
hard
(big box) +
ONYOMI: KO
(old) (Same-ON)
That KODOMO () is hard to deal with. The old bread in the big box has gotten too hard to eat. KUNYOMI:
Hard like a stiff, formal, tight-ass person, stubborn. Also means physically hard like firm: you tap it and it goes TON TON.
()
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to make something congeal (clay, paint, pudding). OTHER MEANING: to harden or fortify one's defenses (or strengthen the unity of factions within the party).
()
something hardens, something takes shape
JUKUGO:
( )
stubborn ( 1/2 KANA) (stubborn) + (hard) = (stubborn)
USED IN:
individual
(personleft) +
(hard) (Same-ON)
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ONYOMI: KO Lemmy is a person who is a hard individual. DESCRIPTION: doesn't usually mean 'individual' like special, but more like 'private' or 'single-serving' (also it's a counter for small things) JUKUGO:
( )
personal, single-serving (one-to-one session with a teacher, personal pizza)(BOOBOO: don't confuse this with private - private is ) (individual) + (person) = (personal)
( ) ( )
one small, usually roundish, thing - orange, apple, ipod ( COUNTER , KUNKUN ) (one) + (individual) = (small thing)
private room (individual) + (room) = (private room)
well
ONYOMI: JOU Push JOE Stalin down the well. JUKUGO:
Number: 437 4 strokes PK, PN, BETA
it looks like tic-tac-toe, so you can say, "I play tic-tac-toe in the bottom of the well while waiting to be rescued."
( )
a well ( FP ) (well) + (door) = (a well)
( )
ceiling ( FP ) (heaven) + (well) = (ceiling)
USED IN:
surround
(big box) +
(well)
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ONYOMI: I I am surrounded by morons. The well is surrounded by the big box.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
: surround.( to be surrounded: XXX )
( ) ( )
the atmosphere of a place (usually figurative!) (atmosphere) + (surround) + (mood) = (atmosphere)
the extent, range scope, or bounds (extent of the earthquake-damaged area, scope of the congressional inquiry, range of the birds' migrations). (standard / the best way to do) + (surround) = (extent, scope,)
( )
perimiter, circumference (circumference) + (surround) = (perimiter)
beef bowl
(well) + (dot)
ONYOMI: DON
DON Quixote fills a well up with rice and puts some meat in the center for a giant beef-bowl. is made of well ()+ a dot, which we'll call a little piece of beef (speaking of which - why your step-dad got a M16 collection??) DESCRIPTION: Along with ramen, the beef bowl is the Japanese equivalent of the big mac - the basic quanta of fast food. JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning bowl of hot rice and sweet sauce with a painfully stingy amount of XXXX on top' (XXX is usually beef or pork) ( SUF)
( )
beef bowl (beef over rice). (cow) + (beef bowl) = (beef bowl)
Number: 440
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king
ONYOMI: OU
4 strokes PK, PN, BETA, ILL PAIR
(earth) + (one/line radical)

OH shit, here comes the king!! The 'one' radical on top of the 'earth' radical .. .hmmm . . . .OK, here goes: Imagine some really earnest guy with a pamphlet telling you, there is only ONE REAL king on the whole earth. and his name is JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
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queen (woman) + (king) = (queen)
king (king) + (important person) = (king)
the fuckin' Pope (law) + (king) = (the fuckin' Pope)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
master/mainly DOINK ON TOP NO DOT ON TOP king
Hint
Radical
(master) . . . is king () with a little doink on top. After much deliberation, I have decided that master OF PUPPETS is just a little bit better than King Diamond. . . . therefore Master is better, so master gets the EXTRA LINE for EXTRA ROCKIN'!
USED IN:
ball
ONYOMI:
Number: 441 5 strokes SOLO, DUPE
(king) + (dot)
The middle line of "king " is his arm, and the little dot is his ballsac. The king likes playing with his testicles. KUNYOMI:
(broad meaning) any ball - a fire-ball, ball bearing, a mathematical sphere, a glass bead. Also it has the nuance of gem, or jewel.
JUKUGO:
( )
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your mama's big hairy balls ( KUN ON) (gold) + (ball) = (balls)
( ) ( )
Egg. ( KUNKUN ) (ball) + (child) = (Egg.)
the eyeball ( KUNKUN , NEO ) (eye) + (ball) = (the eyeball)
USED IN:
country
(ball) +
KUNYOMI:
(big box)
ONYOMI: KOKU Pablo Escobar said, "Smuggle the COKE out of the country in a big box full of balls (full of coke!) "
country
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
China (think, 'the Middle Kingdom') (middle) + (country) = (China)
heaven (heaven) + (country) = (heaven)
( )
international. As in a certain House of Pancakes (also used to refer to a couple where one person is a foreigner: .) (country) + (edge) + (motivation / '-al') = (international)
( ) ( )
the people, as in, "The Republicans are the People's party!" (country) + (folk) = (people of a country)
nationwide,national (as in a national contest) (all) + (country) = (nationwide)
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treasure
(ball)
ONYOMI: HOU
as in, "The HOE always wants to take my treasure." Here is how to remember "crown + ball = treasure":
KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
treasure
( )
public lottery
( ) ( )
jewel. (treasure) + (rock) = (jewel.)
national treasure. (country) + (treasure) = (national treasure.)
reason
ONYOMI: RI JUKUGO:
(king) + (village) (Same-ON)

He's the king of the village for a REason.
( )
reason (for doing something) (reason) + (freedom / reason) = (reason)
( )
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comprehend, understand. (reason) + (solve / untie) = (comprehend, understand.)
( ) ( )
psychology (heart) + (reason) + (knowledge) = (psychology)
geography (area) + (reason) = (geography)
reason king earth bury
Radical
The KING is the reason that I'm buried in the EARTH. (I fucked his wizard)
have responsibility for

Number: 445
6 strokes
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: NIN
(king)
NINjas are the people responsible for guarding the king. KUNYOMI:
( or ) leave it to me! To make someone responsible for some task. JUKUGO:
( )
responsibility (condemn) + (have responsibility for) = (responsibility)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MASTER dwell have responsibility for PERSON GO go on a trip
Hint
Radical
The MASTER dwells in the mansion . The PERSON has responsibility. 'Go on a trip' has the GO radical ().
USED IN:
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pregnant
ONYOMI: NIN
(woman) + (king)
Pregnant NINjas can't hide so good. They say you gotta treat a pregnant woman like a king. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
pregnant (pregnant) + (pregnancy) = (pregnant)
pregnant woman (pregnant) + (housewife) = (pregnant woman)
birth control (avoid / dodge) + (pregnant) = (birth control)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
family name BORN KING pregnant
Hint
Radical
The person BORN to a woman takes her family name, but the pregnant woman is like the KING who rules her baby.
emperor
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
(white) + (king)
George Bush, the American emperor, our white king, was fond of COCAINE.
( )
emperor of Japan - never used about other countries. (BOOBOO: you don't say ! And you don't use his proper name - Hirohito or Akihito, either. You say, ( ) which means His Majesty The Emperor. If you want an easy-to-read book that really dishes all the dirt on the Emperor system, read YAMATO DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave. (heaven) + (emperor) = (emperor)
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( ) ( ) ( )
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emperor - like China, not like Japan. (BOOBOO: Japan's emperor is :.) (emperor) + (foreign emperor) = (other country's emperor)
imperial family (emperor) + (family) = (imperial family)
imperial palace (emperor) + (room) = (imperial palace)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
LIFE star emperor KING
Radical
There is alien LIFE on that star, but the alien emperor is their KING.
desire
ONYOMI: BOU / MOU
(dying) (Same-ON) + (moon/organ) + (king)

The Dude desired nothing MORE than BOWLING. I desire to see the dying organs of the king!! (FYI I am Cromwell) KUNYOMI:
* *
JUKUGO:
to wish or desire. (the possible as well as impossible)
an almost-impossible or impossible wish: a faint and idle dream. "Someday I'll marry Tom Cruse." "Someday I'll be President of Moldovia."
( )
A common-place, easily possible wish: "I'd like an aisle seat." "I'd like to fly nonstop." might be better translated as 'request': 'Customers wishing to request a childseat for their infant please see the waiter.' (uncommon) + (desire) = (request)
( )
to aim too high, to be over-ambitious. (tall) + (desire) = (aim too high)
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holy
ONYOMI: SEI JUKUGO:
(ear) + (mouth/small box radical) + (king)

Listen with your ear to the holy words that the mouth of the king is SAYing.
( ) ( )
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holy (GOD kanji) + (holy) = (holy)
bible (holy) + (write) = (bible)
extent
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: TEI
(mouth/small box radical) + (king)
TAKE off your clothes to the extent that you cannot be shown on broadcast tv. This wheat is popular to the extent that it is even fed to the mouth of the king.
KUNYOMI:
an extent.- You shouldn't joke to that extent. You shouldn't drink to that extent. He's not good at skabashing to the extent his father was. And so on. (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
a degree or extent (extent) + (times) = (a degree or extent)
( )
"ohhhh, now I see!" (very similar to a hearty !! (), but it also has the nuance of, understanding AND agreeing whole-heartedly) ( KANA, KUNKUN ) (become) + (extent) = (oh, I see!)
( )
a process (surpass / too much) + (extent) = (a process)

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xxxx ( xxxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
don't do XXX too much! ( KUNKUN )
pile up extent
achievements STRING WHEAT KING
Hint
Radical
She had a STRING of achievements in the field of piling up WHEAT. The KING has the greatest extent of power.
master/mainly
(king) + (dot)
ONYOMI: SHU
Number: 451 5 strokes ILL PAIR, JERK
The master can always order the slave to bend over and See Her Underpants. (master) . . . is king () with a little doink on top. After much deliberation, I have decided that . . . because master OF PUPPETS is just a little bit better than King Diamond. . . . therefore Master is better, so master gets the EXTRA LINE for EXTRA ROCKING. duhduh!! . . . duhduh!!!! KUNYOMI:
( )
mainly ( xxx ) SUFFIX meaning, the master or owner of something, for instance: :: stockholder :: the landlord (SUF, KUNKUN) JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning 'ism'. As in capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ( SUF) (master/mainly) + (righteousness) = (- ism)
( )
the subject of the sentence. AKA the thing Japanese people never say. (master/mainly) + (language) = (subject)
( )
@narchy (without) + (government) + communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.'
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) = (@narchy)
( )
capitalism (capital) + materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (capitalism)
( )
democracy (folk) + (master/mainly) + communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (democracy )
( )
communism (with) + (childbirth, production of things) + capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (communism)
( )
pet owner (keep a pet) + (master/mainly) = (pet owner)
( )
feudalism (seal in) + (build) + materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (feudalism)
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( )
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theme song (master/mainly) + (topic) + (sing) = (theme song)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
master/mainly DOINK ON TOP NO DOT ON TOP king
Hint
Radical
(master) . . . is king () with a little doink on top. After much deliberation, I have decided that master OF PUPPETS is just a little bit better than King Diamond. . . . therefore Master is better, so master gets the EXTRA LINE for EXTRA ROCKIN'!
USED IN:
contract
ONYOMI: KEI
(master/mainly) + (sword) + (big)

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It's OK to kill your master with a big sword because Fat Tony has a contract on him. JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
contract (one of the most hated words in the Japanese language) (contract) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (contract)
enjoy a drink and a smoke

Number: 453
12 strokes BETA
(mouth/small box radical) + (contract)

ONYOMI: KITSU
FOXES ( = ) stop at the coffee-shop to get their drink on. I got a contract to enjoy a drink and smoke with my mouth every time I go to that cafe . JUKUGO:
( )
a coffee-shop. These are really popular because Japanese don't invite people over to their homes very often - they meet at the coffee-shop. This is fairly polite example to point to when a Japanese asks you, "Do foreigners really think we're a cold people?" BOOBOO: most Japanese don't say they just say () (enjoy a drink and a smoke) + (tea) + (shop) = (coffe-shop)
( )
the act of smoking. You'll see this on signs a lot, meaning 'this is the smoking section.' ( NP ) (enjoy a drink and a smoke) + (smoky) = (smoking)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
free time DAY enjoy a drink and a smoke MOUTH honorable WATER the honorific "o" GO
Hint
Radical
I'm free TODAY, to enjoy a drink with my MOUTH. I'm honorable so I'll share my WATER . As for , it is easy because the left radical means GO in English, and it's pronounced GO!!!
USED IN:
honorable
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(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KETSU
(enjoy a drink and a smoke)
OK, the "enjoy a drink" kanji is a bit simplified - it's MISSING the radical! If you can get past that, then you can use this mnemonic: The honorable person enjoys a drink of KETCHUP or water instead of booze.
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honor JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
honorable - unlike the related term () happens even if no one is looking. means someone who puts principle above everything else - someone who will turn down a job offer from a mobconnected business, even if they are really broke and don't have enough to eat. This is also the word used about guys who commit suicide for honor. (CCW)
( ) ( )
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pure, clean, undiluted. Literal or figurative. (pure) + (honorable) = (pure)
filthy (un) + (honorable) = (filthy)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
pour / be careful
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: CHUU You don't CHEW drinks, you pour 'em.
(master/mainly)
Pour some water drinks for your master, o knave! DESCRIPTION: JERK. It makes sense if you think about it like, 'Be careful when you pour that sulphuric acid.' KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
to pour
( )
be careful! caution! (when used as a 'suru' verb, it means, 'to warn') (pour / be careful) + (meaning) = (be careful!)
( )
to order an item - both in a store and by mail. Also, if you ask your friend to do an annoying and detailed favor, like, "Could you do the laundry again with this other kind of soap!", that's chuumon. (pour / be careful) + (culture/ sentence) = (order)
( )
to concentrate (collect) + (pour / be careful) = (to concentrate)
pillar
ONYOMI: CHUU KUNYOMI:
(tree) + (master/mainly)
The master is standing next to a wooden pillar and CHEWing on it. (FYI there has been inbreeding in the master's family)
JUKUGO:
pillar
( )
telephone pole. Although, since in Japan all the telephone poles double as light poles () AND are festooned with every other imaginable cable to boot, I have no idea which word people use! ( NEO ) (electricity) + (pillar) = (telephone pole)
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dwell
(personleft) +
(master/mainly)
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ONYOMI: JUU JEWISH people dwell all over the earth, because they're having themselves a Diaspora. You're a person who dwells in the master's house, that's why you have to pay rent! KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to dwell in xxx. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
address (dwell) + (area / attribute) = (address)
residents (dwell) + (folk) = (residents)
( )
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a person or animal native to the area. Indigenous. (original/ high plain) + (residents) = (native)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
stop at
ONYOMI: CHUU JUKUGO:
(horse) + (master/mainly)
The master parks his horse for a few hours so it can CHEW grass.
( )
parking lot. Interestingly, there is no word for 'parking space,' in the sense of "Keep a lookout for a good space!" (stop at) + (car) + (area / attribute) = (parking lot.)
( )
no parking ( NP )
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(stop at) + (car) +
outdoors, parking your bike here, opening this door, busking on the street, breathing on a grandpa.) = (no parking)
damage
(crown) +
ONYOMI: GAI JUKUGO:
(master/mainly) + (mouth/small box radical)
That GUY punched the master right in the fucking mouth, damaging his crown in the process.
( )
pollution. Has a more broad meaning than the related word () Not just dirty smoggy air, but also noise pollution, the annoyance of someone talking on a cellphone on a train, and (): "ad pollution" - the inescapable advertisements one sees everywhere. BOOBOO:If you want to say "environmental pollution," you have to use not (public) + (damage) = (pollution.)
( )
damage (to property) or casualties (human): used about earthquakes, wars, and crimes. (get injured) + (damage) = (casualties)
( )
victim ( NP )
and crimes. ) + (professional) = (victim)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
poison/ addict EVERY MOUTH damage
Hint
Radical
Sugar damages your mouth, but the addict eats it EVERY day.
USED IN:
divide
(damage) +
(rightsword)
Number: 460 12 strokes COCK
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ONYOMI: KATSU He damaged the CAT with the sword, dividing it in two. DESCRIPTION: This gets a COCK rating, because it's probably the #1 offender for NOKURI AND KUNKUN. Most jukugo that look like they should be pronounced KATSU will not only wind up being pronounced WARI, but the RI won't be even written down. Be careful. KUNYOMI: () ()
I divide it- also can mean 'smash a brittle object to pieces' like if you drop a mirror.
it divides / it gets divided
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
discount ( NOKURI ) (divide) + (pull) = (discount) a role - the verb is (), as in XXX ( to play the role of XXX) ( KUNKUN ) (role) + (divide) = (role)
( ) ( )
10 percent ( COUNTER , NOKURI ) (one) + (divide) = (10 percent)
ratio ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (divide) + (to suit) = (ratio)
element
ONYOMI: SO / SU
(master/mainly) + (string)
SU- SOME ONE has elements of poop in SOME UNDERPANTS of theirs. The elements (copper, silver, iron, etc.) are like the strings which bind together molecules, therefore the elements are the masters of the physical world. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
the best! Usually used about art or theatrical performances. (element) + (weather get good now) = (the best!)
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raw material - both literally and figuratively (as in, the raw data that you base your essay or report or novel on) ("I'm working on materal for my novel!") (element) + (raw materials) = (raw material)
( )
oxygen - which is kind of a Fucked Roots if you think about it - "sour element?" What have they got against oxygen?!? What SHOULD we be breathing? ( FR) (sour) + (element) = (oxygen.)
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( )
- zero stars! Hint
carbon dioxide (two) + (sour) + (transform) + (carbon) + (element) = (carbon dioxide)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
express CLOTHING element STRING EACH barley
Radical
Elements are the STRING that ties together chemicals. You express yourself with your CLOTHING, and . . . you have to eat EACH bit of barley or you don't get any dessert.
constitution
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(master/mainly) +
(net) +
(bottomheart)
KENNY from South Park, something something, constitution. It says in the constitution of the USA, that we have no masters and no crowns. This democratic, egalitarian system is like an ideological net which captures the hearts of freedom-loving peoples everywhere. JUKUGO:
( )
constitution (constitution) + (law) = (constitution)
blue
(master/mainly) + (moon/organ)
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ONYOMI: SEI Robert Johnson was fond of SAYING he was blue. The master watches a blue movie every month. KUNYOMI:
*
blue JUKUGO:
( )
a blue traffic light - in English we call it a "green traffic light." (BOOBOO: In Japan, they call the same blue-greenish color '' - so it isn't exactly the English "Green." (blue) + (signal, i.e. traffic signal) = (green light!)
( )
in the prime of one's life. (blue) + (spring /sexy) = (in the prime of one's life.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
condemn MONEY MONTH blue
Hint
Radical
The guy that owes you MONEY gets condemned to your hate, and every MONTH you feel blue when you menstruate.
USED IN:
request
ONYOMI: SEI JUKUGO:
(say) + (blue) (Same-ON)

You SAY a request for some blue movies: "I'd like a copy of TOM CLANCY'S TOE SUCKIN' SPY ACTION #11: KAZEKHESTANI MAN/BOY MISSION"
( )
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to apply for, to petition for. (humbly say) + (request) = (apply for)
pure
Number: 465 11 strokes FR, PN
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(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SEI
(blue) (Same-ON)
If you SAY the water is really blue, it must be pure! DESCRIPTION: Perhaps a bit of a Fucked Radical? "If you axe me. Clean equals pure! Mongrels are unclean!" you can almost hear MC Serch giving the gas face. (although honestly his regular face looks like most peoples' gas faces) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
pure, clean
( )
pure, clean, undiluted. Literal or figurative. (pure) + (honorable) = (pure)
spirit
ONYOMI: SEI
Number: 466 14 strokes BETA, SIDEKICK
(rice / America) + (blue) (Same-ON)

If your body doesn't eat enough rice, your spirit gets mighty blue. DESCRIPTION: I'm almost wanting to say SIDEKICK since 90% of the time it's only used with JUKUGO:
( )
spirit- both in the sense of psychology and in the sense of religion. If you want to say "Samurai spirits!" this is the one you'll use. (spirit) + (GOD kanji) = (spirit)
( )
with all one's might (spirit) + (one cup-full) = (with all one's might)
( )
spiritual.
to say "Samurai spirits!" this is the one you'll use.) + (motivation / '-al') = (spiritual.)

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weather get good now

(sun, day) + (blue) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: SEI They SAY that the sun and blue sky will mean good weather! (they're not too good with tautologies). KUNYOMI: ()
the weather becomes sunny. The weather is sunny
JUKUGO:
( )
the best! Usually used about art or theatrical performances. (element) + (weather get good now) = (the best!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STAND dark weather get good now MASTER
Hint
Radical
Ghosts STAND UP in the dark and start to move. But MASTER commands the weather to improve
emotion
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: JOU
(blue)
Q: What emotion are you feeling ? A: My heart is blue ever since JOE Stalin left me.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
mercy (usually used in the negative!)
( ) ( )
a feeling, an emotion (feeling) + (emotion) = (a feeling, an emotion)
circumstances. A euphemism for 'bad situation': crushing debt, mother is a prostitute, etc, in trouble with the mob, etc. (She looks like she comes
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, doesn't
she?)
from Circumstances
also differs from other 'situation' words because it emphasizes the circumstances behind a person's actions. (i.e. the boss says, 'You were late to work again, but if you explain your situation, I might not punish you.') (action/ incident) + (emotion) = (circumstances)
( )
affection : more than friendship and less than love. (love) + (emotion) = (affection : more than friendship and less than love.)
( )
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facial expression - although most people say "XXX (xxx), meaning "She made an xxx-face." (express) + (emotion) = (facial expression)
Number: 469 PK
(top radical)
rifle
DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
life / birth
(master/mainly) +
ONYOMI: SEI, SHOU
Number: 470 5 strokes PN, DUPE, STRONG
(rifle)
If you can SAY something, it SHOWS you're alive. The master gave you life, and the master can take your life away with the rifle KUNYOMI:
( or ) to be born. Like, 1999 (born in 1999) ()
*
to live.
To give birth. Can be used figuratively as in, "these conditions breed terrorists," or "He gave birth to the film industry," or " produce profits."
()
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()
* *
usually means, "make the most of (a resource or a spot of good luck)" or "to use wisely. (a scarce resource)" . . . but but it also can mean a doctor literally bringing a patient back to live i.e. after cardiac arrest.
()
sprout (hairs as well as plants)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
teacher (earlier/ the tip) + (life / birth) = (teacher)
lifestyle (life / birth) + (vivid, lively) = (lifestyle)
student (knowledge) + (life / birth) = (student)
XXX ( XXX)
this is hard. It got tons of meanings: nama tv is live, not prerecorded. Nama beer is poured straight from the bottle, not like a fancy mixed drink. Nama information is first hand. Nama meat is raw. ( PRE)
( )
Life, as in someone's entire life, or life in general:. "He lived a quiet life." "Life is a bitch." "Life span." (person) + (life / birth) = (life (in general))
( )
living, moving thing . . . (BOOBOO:it doesn't apply to plants! Only little dudes that can move around and forage for food are ) (life / birth) + (animal / thing) = (living thing)
USED IN:
star
ONYOMI: SEI
(sun, day) + (life / birth) (Same-ON)

They SAY life can only exist on planets where the sun is a star.
KUNYOMI:
Star. . .but sometimes a planet. Oops!
JUKUGO:
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( ) ( ) ( )
planet. (be misguided or tempted) + (star) = (planet.)
satellite (defense) + (star) = (satellite)
bullseye. ( KUN ON) (diagram/ map) + (star) = (bullseye.)

- zero stars! Hint
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
LIFE star emperor KING
Radical
There is alien LIFE on that star, but the alien emperor is their KING.
sex / essential nature

Number: 472
8 strokes SUF
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: SEI, SHOU
(life / birth) (Same-ON)
SAY you'll SHOW me the sex! Sex is the part of life closest to the heart. JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( )
possibility (possible) + (talent) + (sex / essential nature) = (possibility)
male (man) + (sex / essential nature) = (male)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX which turns an adjective into a noun: possible+=possibility. creative+=creativity. = man, but = masculinity. ( SUF)
( )
female - emphasizes biology, (sex, rather than gender). (woman) + (sex / essential nature) = (female)
( )
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what you got from your pops. (sex / essential nature) + (sick kanji) = (STD)
family name
ONYOMI: SEI KUNYOMI:
(woman) + (life / birth) (Same-ON)

SAY you'll be my wife, my woman for life, and take my family name?
last name (only used on a form to indicate where you're supposed to put your family name.(and then your first name, like this: (____ _____ )) (LAZY, NP)
JUKUGO:
( )
one's full name - first and last names. (family name) + (name, famous) = (one's full name - first and last names. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
family name BORN KING pregnant
Hint
Radical
The person BORN to a woman takes her family name, but the pregnant woman is like the KING who rules her baby.
vermilion
(rifle) +
ONYOMI: SHU
(tree)
I Saw Her Underpants! and they had a vermilion stain on them. Shoot a rifle at a tree and it bleeds vermilion sap. DESCRIPTION: Along with , this is one of 2 color words for colors that don't exist in English. 'Vermillion' is just an approximation. WHY BOTHER? It turns out that you need this to make the kanji for "stocks","stock market," and "corporation." JUKUGO:
( )
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vermilion ( KUN ON) (vermilion) + (color) = (vermilion)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
PENIS ON THE BOTTOM vermilion miss out on HEAD but NO PENIS NO HEAD arrow
Hint
Radical
Vermillion has a dick between its legs (think of the bright red veins in a dick). Arrow and Miss don't have anything down there. HOW TO TELL ARROW AND MISS APART: "" has a little line sticking up at the top, which we'll call a HEAD. has no head. So you can say, "I MISS getting HEAD from your uncle ever since he got BEHEADED BY AN ARROW."
USED IN:
share, stock
ONYOMI: SHU KUNYOMI:
(tree) + (vermilion) (Same-ON)

I'm buying a stock certificate printed on wood, with vermilion ink.
actual individual stocks - 'I bought stock in Enron.' 'My stocks are fucked up because of the thing with that guy.'
JUKUGO:
( )
This is the word used in financial terms about stocks IN GENERAL - IPO or 'go public' or 'stock amoritization' and the like ( NP ) (share, stock) + (ritual) = (stocks)
( )
a corporation - you'll usually see this word after the company name on their front window. DAMAGE, INC. = DAMAGE,; MURDER, INCORPORATED = MURDER public' or 'stock amoritization' and the like) + corporation)
( )
(stocks)+(marketplace)=the stock market! ( NEO , FP ) public' or 'stock amoritization' and the like) + (small city) + (place) = (stock market)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WOMAN little sister share, stock TREE
Hint
Radical
My little sister is a WOMAN who owns stock in a TIMBER corporation.
play around
(motion) +
ONYOMI: YUU KUNYOMI:
(direction / method / person) +
(rifle) +
(child)
Let's play a fun game; it's called "YOU move in the direction of the child with the rifle. "
( or ) to play (BOOBOO : not just play a game like soccer or croquet - usually it's used in the context of have fun, hang out, mess around, go to a movie, etc.)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
amusement park (play around) + (public park) + (area) = (amusement park)
symmetry
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(rifle) +
(small size)
I'm SHOWING you how to use a tiny rifle to blow wheat into tiny symmetrical chunks. JUKUGO:
( )
symmetrical ( ( = assymetrical!) (against) + (symmetry) + (motivation / '-al') = (symmetrical)
Number: 478
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second rank / girl

ONYOMI: kind of looks like the numeral '2'! DESCRIPTION: Fucked Roots a little? KUNYOMI:
1 stroke JERK, PK, FR
second rank, second thing in a series - usually seen on legal documents: "Party of the second part" or whatever. (NP, F)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
a girl. Unlike the related term , emphasizes the "pure, virginal" aspect of girlhood - used about girls around 12-19 years old. ( FR) (second rank / girl) + (woman) = (pure, virginal girl)
USED IN:
thirsty
(morning) +
ONYOMI: KAN KUNYOMI: () ()
(rifle) +
(second rank / girl)
Genghis KHAN gets mighty thirsty after shooting rifles at girls all morning.
* *
to dessicate something - beef jerky or leather. Arid regions of the globe. dried (BOOBOO: unlike the OTHER (), which applies to things which are normally wet, but are now dried out - ('My throat is dry!' or whatever), THIS is said about things that are normally dry such as paint, clay, dirt, sponge, beef jerky, etc.)
JUKUGO:
( ! )
Cheers! Let's drink! (thirsty) + (one cup of liquid) = (Skoal!)
( )
- zero stars! -
to become dry or arid (weather or place) ; to dry out or desiccate.
Number: 480
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your Moms
MUTANTS: mama ONYOMI: BO
5 strokes JERK, PK
Nobody wants to BONE your mom. Not even your dad. The only reason you were born was, he was just trying to pass as straight, is all. DESCRIPTION:JERK RADICAL : they say the roots of this is, it's a picture of mama's two titties arranged vertically, like she was lying on her side to breast-feed you. What it leaves out, though , was how hairy your mom's titties are.
KUNYOMI:
mother
JUKUGO:
( ! )
Maaaama!!! ( KIDS )
( )
mama! ( KIDS )
( ) ( )
Mother ( KUNKUN ) (your Moms) + (parents/kindness) = (Mother)
mama-papa ( KUNKUN , KIDS ) (dad) + (your Moms) = (mama-papa )
USED IN:
poison/ addict
ONYOMI: DOKU JUKUGO:
(master/mainly) + (your Moms)

My mom claims she is a master of cooking, but I'm always telling her, "DON'T COOK with poison!"
( )
addict (middle) + (poison/ addict) = (addict)
( )
toxic, poisonous
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(exist) + (poison/ addict) = (toxic, poisonous)
( )
'poison tongue' - in English, we'd say a sharp tongue (poison/ addict) + (tongue) = (sharp-tongued)
( )
- zero stars! -
regular ,intentional poison- as opposed to toxic pollutants or drugs. (poison/ addict) + (medicine) = (poison)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
poison/ addict EVERY MOUTH damage
Hint
Radical
Sugar damages your mouth, but the addict eats it EVERY day.
every
(rifle) +
ONYOMI: MAI JUKUGO:
Number: 482 6 strokes PRE, BETA
(your Moms)
Every time MY Mama grabs the rifle, there's another dead cop on the evening news.
( )
every time. Every single fucking time. Jesus! Get it together, man. Sometimes I don't know what goes on in your head. (every) + (rotate / times) = (every time)
( )
every night (every) + (night) = (every night)
USED IN:
plum
KUNYOMI:
(tree) + (every)
ONYOMI: BAI - you don't need this I BUY every plum tree I see!
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plum
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
plum liquor ( KUN ON) (plum) + (liquor) = (plum liquor)
pickled plums! Oddly, they don't use the kanji for pickle.(). that would make too much sense. ( KUNKUN ) (plum) + (dry out) = (pickled plums)
- zero stars! -
ocean
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(every)
I flew a giant KITE all the way across the ocean! Every ocean is full of some damn water (). think you can remember that one, Einstein? KUNYOMI:
ocean
JUKUGO:
( )
the coast OR the beach! Unlike or , has a scientific meaning: the coastline, (regardless of if there's sand or not). You'll see on maps or geography books. The useage of is odd, even for Japanese. Where Americans will just say, "Let's go to the beach!", Japanese might suggest to their pals, "!(let's go to the ocean!) but ONLY ONCE THEY WERE ALREADY THERE, then they might specifically suggest going to the - as opposed to other things to do by the sea. Weird! (ocean) + (shore) = (coast / beach)
( ) ( )
accross the sea - foreign countries, basically. (ocean) + (outside) = (foreign countries)
in the kaiiiigun, you can sail the seven seeeeas, in the kaiiiigun, you can put yourself at eeeeease... (ocean) + (army) = (navy)
( )
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bottom of the ocean (ocean) + (bottom) = (bottom of the ocean)

- zero stars! -
regret
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(every)
Charlie Brown regrets the time his KITE got eaten! I regret that I broke every heart I encountered DESCRIPTION:This isn't a moral regret- (that's more like (kaerimiru) or (koukai)). is more like, you just regret that you didn't succeed in your evil schemes.
* *
KUNYOMI:
this means, "Fuck! I almost had it and then it all went to hell GOD DAMN IT I WAS SO CLOSE!" (1/2 KANA) to succeed but still feel like you could have done better (used exclusiely in the expression: )
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
the most general, broad, useful word for regret ( FP ) (afterwards / behind) + (regret) = (regret)
regret HEART despise PEOPLE
Radical
I regret getting my HEART broke, but I despise all PEOPLE.
despise
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BU KUNYOMI:
(every)
I despise every person on stage, so I BOO them.
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*
JUKUGO:
to hold in contempt. Usually used about a third party - it's odd to tell someone, "I you" even if they are an asshole.
( )
to insult (to be insulted : ()) (despise) + (humiliate) = (insult)
regret HEART despise PEOPLE
Radical
I regret getting my HEART broke, but I despise all PEOPLE.
middle
ONYOMI: CHUU
(mouth/small box radical) + (one/line radical)

Let's call the vertical line your tongue. So you could say, Your tongue is sticking out the middle of your mouth, and you are CHEWing on it. (FYI you are epileptic) DESCRIPTION: It means the physical middle of something, but also means "in the middle of doing something." KUNYOMI:
inside something -Usually, XXX
JUKUGO:
( )
the social, everyday world - more poetic than Used in dramatic declarations like, "I'm sick of this fuckin' world!" "I don't care about this life!" "Poor Kurt Cobain, he was just too sensitive for this cruel world!" Also, usually implies JUST Japanese society. (society) + (middle) = (the world)
( ) ( )
the very center ( KUNKUN ) (truth) + (middle) = (the very center) central. Tokyo has a famous train line: (the central line). (middle) + (central) = (central)
( )
intermediate-level
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(middle) + (level) = (intermediate-level)
( )
middle school (middle) + (school) = (middle school)
( )
(temporarily) stopped or (permanently) canceled. This is a word you'd hear in an announcement. You wouldn't say to your friend, "I'm going to watching TV for a week." ( NP ) (middle) + (stop) = (stop/cancel)
xxx
(xxx )
in the middle of doing XXX. XXX is always a noun: ()means 'I'm on the phone right now!' ( SUF)
USED IN:
loyalty
ONYOMI: CHUU
(middle) (Same-ON) +
You're so loyal I could kiss you *CHUU!*
(bottomheart)
Your loyalty makes you central to my heart. JUKUGO:
or ( or )
someone who is faithful in doing his/her duties. Also means like a movie which is faithful to the book, or a translation which is faithful to the original. Or even a forgery which copies the original dollar bill completely well. (loyalty) + (truth) = (faithful)
( )
USED IN:
admonishing negative advice: "Don't open that door!" "Don't swim naked!" (loyalty) + (inform) = (admonish)
medical patient
(loyalty)
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ONYOMI: KAN This is basically the loyalty kanji ()TWICE - one on top of the other.So you could say, Genghis KHAN was admitted as a patient to the hospital. Since he depended for his life on the doctor, he was DOUBLE LOYAL to the doctor.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to suffer from (an illness or physical problem)
( )
a patient. Easy to remember because in California the can legally get . (medical patient) + (professional) = (a patient)
friendship
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: CHUU KUNYOMI:
(middle) (Same-ON)
Friendship is what is in the middle of people. Holding them together.
:the extent of one's friendship (as in, or )
JUKUGO:
( )
friendship, OR membership in a group (i.e. working for the same company). You'll also hear things like this: "The squid is the octopus' ." ( KUNKUN ) (friendship) + (a period of time) = (friendship)
( )
a good friend (friendship) + (good) = (a good friend)
xxx (xxx ) to make up with XXX , to restore a friendship (friendship) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (to make up)

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insizzect
ONYOMI: CHUU
(middle) (Same-ON) + (one/line radical)

Insect is middle plus a line at the bottom, which for the purposes of this mnemonic, we'll call a "stinger." So you can say, Put some insects in the middle of your mouth and CHEW. Later use their stinger as a toothpick. MMMM!!! ! KUNYOMI:
insect
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
crybaby (cry) + (insizzect) = (crybaby)
weakling, gayrod ( KUNKUN ) (weak) + (insizzect) = (weakling)
a cavity (literally, 'bug tooth,' because parents would tell their kids, 'If you get a cavity, bugs will crawl in the hole and nest and lay eggs.') ( KUNKUN ) (insizzect) + (tooth) = (cavity)
( ) ( ) ( )
parasite (literally, 'close living insect') (get close) + (life / birth) + (insizzect) = (parasite)
poisonous insect (damage) + (insizzect) = (poisonous insect)
insect, (a more scientific term than '') ( NP ) (insect) + (insizzect) = (insect)
USED IN:
snake
(insizzect) +
ONYOMI:
(crown) +
(heel)
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A snake is like a scaly bug that would bite the crowned king on his heel. KUNYOMI:
snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake
mosquito
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(culture/ sentence) + (insizzect)

Mosquitoes are the bugs this sentence is about.
mosquito (! (!) = I got bit by a mosquito!)
make noise
ONYOMI: SOU KUNYOMI: ()
(horse) + (again/crotch radical) + (insizzect)

The horse made SO much noise when all its crotch-bugs bit it at once.
Make noise. As in, road construction noise, and also as in high school students laughing at dumb shit at the next table.Most commonly used in the phrase: (no particle needed)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
din, discord (make noise) + (sound) = (din)
Number: 495 PK, MR
(left radical) MUTANTS:
corpse
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sunny corpse DESCRIPTION: That's what the textbooks say, anyway. . . . although I have no idea why! It's easy to remember though, so I'll roll with it. (it seems like most of the kanji involving butts, farts, or pee have this, so maybe that is the origin?) Anyway, think of it as a dude that died and his upper body toppled over, while his legs are standing up due to rigor-mortis.
USED IN:
genus/affiliation
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: ZOKU
(insizzect) +
I'm not in the bosoZOKU gang but I'm affiliated with them, so I can act like a big shot. The bug crawling across the corpse's Moustache appears to be the genus of drosophila melogaster, the common housefly. Soon it will lay eggs in the tender hairs. JUKUGO:
( )
to be affiliated with, (the research hospital is affiliated with Cambridge University), to be a member of (I'm a member of the Juggalo quilting club) (area / attribute) + (genus/affiliation) = (affiliated)
( )
metallic (gold) + (genus/affiliation) = (metallic)
xxx
yyy (xxx yyy)
attached - i.e. an institute attached to a certain university. Or, included, as in 'use the gloves included with the hair-bleach kit.' Attachments - such as vacuum cleaner attachments or PC peripherals are also . (stick to) + (genus/affiliation) = (attached)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
genus/affiliation BUGS GET layer
Hint
Radical
BUGS have genus and species. Layers GET piled up.
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live
(corpse) +
ONYOMI:
(old)
An old man living upstairs recently died and I found his corpse. DESCRIPTION:COCK : To be precise: is not a "solo" kanji, but almost always it uses the kunyomi in jukugo. Ironically, when you actually use the kunyomi on its own, it's often hiragana! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to be alive - to exist (only used about animals, not plants) (1/2 KANA)
( )
Japanese-style bar ( KUNKUN ) (live) + (liquor) + (store) = (Japanese-style bar)
( )
retire, retired person (Fucked Roots - retirement is cowardly? I see! I'll work for the Emperor until my arms fall off!) ( FR, FP ) (hide) + (live) = (retire)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
OLD live extend to FREEDOM
Hint
Radical
The OLD lady lived a long time, but FREEDOM extends only to the young.
nun
(corpse) +
ONYOMI:
(heel)
It's the corpse of a nun who got poisoned-darted in the heel, all Achilles style. Weird. KUNYOMI:
( )
Buddhist nun
Radical
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nun
mud butt
WET NINE
HEEL
Nuns wear high-HEELS under their gowns. The heels get WET from the MUD. To beat a baseball team, you must kick NINE butts!
USED IN:
mud
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: DEI
Number: 499 8 strokes FR
(nun)
The nun played in the muddy water all DAY! DESCRIPTION: Fucked Roots : kind of rude to nuns, isn't it??? KUNYOMI:
mud
JUKUGO:
( )
a robber - not like a mugger but like a break-into-your-house-when-you're-not-home guy ( KUNKUN , 1/2 KANA) (mud) + (pole) = (robber)
( )
someone who is shit-faced drunk (: to BE shit-faced) ( SARC) (mud) + (drunk) + (professional) = (shit-faced)
nun
Radical
mud butt
HEEL
WET NINE
Nuns wear high-HEELS under their gowns. The heels get WET from the MUD. To beat a baseball team, you must kick NINE butts!

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urine
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: NYOU
(water)
I piss my liquid oN YOUr corpse. JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
the reason you hate doing your mom's laundry. (late night) + (urine) + (symptom) = (bed-wetting)
butt
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(the number 9)
Nine corpses, killed by a giant butt.
butt (usually given the honorable 'o', like so: (1/2 KANA, SARC)
JUKUGO:
( )
tail ( KANA, FP ) (butt) + (tail) = (tail)
( )
a peach-shaped ass. This is considered the ideal feminine shape by Japanese people, since they don't have a lot to work with. Your mom's got a momoshiri, too- it's covered with fuzz. ( KUNKUN ) (peach) + (butt) = (rad booty)
nun
Radical
mud butt
HEEL
WET NINE
Nuns wear high-HEELS under their gowns. The heels get WET from the MUD.
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To beat a baseball team, you must kick NINE butts!
print
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: SATSU
Number: 502
- zero 8 strokes stars! SIDEKICK
(small city/dagger radical) +
(rightsword)
I SAW TWO books that were printed. I'll print a violent book - about corpses, daggers and swords. (FYI: I'm Gutenberg and the book is the Bible!)) JUKUGO:
( )
the physical process of printing, as in printing press - not to be confused with (=publishing), which is an entire industry. (stamp) + (print) = (print)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
printing plate FRAGMENT SWORD print
Hint
Radical
They don't look alike but the meanings are so similar it is hard for me, at least, to tell them apart. The publishers use FRAGMENTS, think of the moveable lead type that printers used to use. But you print a true-crime book about a CORPSE killed with a DAGGER AND SWORD.
door
ONYOMI: KO KUNYOMI:
(one/line radical) +
or
door JUKUGO:
(corpse)
There's one corpse of a KODOMO () who was killed by a swinging door.
( )
Edo (a period of Japan's history). () = Edo Period.
( )
family register - what Japanese use instead of a social security number for the
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purpose of verifying their identity. ( FP ) (door) + (family register) = (family register)
( )
a well ( FP ) (well) + (door) = (a well)
( )
cupboard ( KUNKUN ) (door) + (shelf) = (cupboard)

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USED IN:
area / attribute
(door) + (axe)
ONYOMI: SHO
If you go to a bachelor's area, you can Smell His Odors. Go to the place where they live, and knock down the front door with an axe. KUNYOMI:
3 meanings. 1= area, place 2= attribute. "He's got a stupid tokoro." means "He's stupid." 3= a place in time. "Ima no tokoro" means 'ima". "SoreDOkoro de wa nai!" means, 'We don't have time for your bullshit right now.' Basically meanings 2 and 3 are purely rhetorical - you can delete them from the sentence and the meaning stays the same. (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
place, like a parking lot. Also space, as in, your moms can't ride in my new van because there's not enough space. This is by far the most popular word to use these kanji, so it's too bad the pronunciation is messed up: uses kun, but uses onyomi. Assholes. ( KUN ON) (place) + (area / attribute) = (place)
( ) ( )
address (dwell) + (area / attribute) = (address) strong point, as opposed to weak point. Can be used about people (his is his courage, her is her brain) or machines ('The strong point of this PC is its long battery-life') (long / boss) + (area / attribute) = (good point)
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( )
weak point, flaw (short) + (area / attribute) = (flaw )
shoulder
ONYOMI: KEN KUNYOMI:
(door) + (moon/organ)
KENNY's shoulder is an organ that got crushed by a huge metal door. Oh my God, it. . . .
shoulder
JUKUGO:
( )
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piggy-back ride ( KUNKUN ) (shoulder) + (car) = (piggy-back ride)
hire
(door) +
ONYOMI: KO
(turkey)
Hire a KODOMO (), it is cheaper because they don't have rights. Hire a turkey to stand in the door; it's a bouncer. KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
hire (1/2 KANA)
( )
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to fire (although mostly people just say, ! (literally: My throat was cut!)) (solve / untie) + (hire) = (to fire)
USED IN:
Number: 507
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wife/cluster
ONYOMI: BOU KUNYOMI:
8 strokes JERK
(door) + (direction / method / person)

Your wife went out the door in the direction of the BOWLing alley to bowl with some clusters of "katamari damacy".
a cluster or tuft
JUKUGO:
( )
A somewhat formal term for one's own wife (FR: female cluster? What's that about!?? ) ( FR, F ) (woman) + (wife/cluster) = (one's own wife)
( )
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heating : central heating, electric heater, an air-conditioner set to "heat," etc. (warm place) + (wife/cluster) = (heating)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wife/cluster DIRECTION BIG return
Hint
Radical
I kicked the dust-cluster off in that DIRECTION, but it returned even BIGGER than before.
return
(door) + (big)
He returned through the same big door that he came in from.
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I return
something returns
JUKUGO:
( )
give me my money back, you shystey douchetool. (pay) + (return) = (refund)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wife/cluster DIRECTION BIG return
Hint
Radical
I kicked the dust-cluster off in that DIRECTION, but it returned even BIGGER than before.
USED IN:
teardrop
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: RUI
(return)
Your wet teardrops return like every 5 minutes? you keep crying like that you're going to RUIN our dinner party! KUNYOMI:
teardrop
fur
ONYOMI: MOU
I can't stand your mom's FUR anyMORE. she has a bigger back-pelt than you!
KUNYOMI:
non-head hair, or fur
JUKUGO:
( )
animal fur - on a living animal OR on a fur coat ( KUNKUN ) (fur) + (skin) = (animal fur)
( ) ( )
men's pubicals ( ABU)
eyebrows ( KUNKUN )
( )
ladies' pubicals ( ABU)

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() + (fur) = (ladies' pubicals)
( )
underarm hair
hand fur
Radical
bottom swings LEFT bottom swings RIGHT
The bottom of hand bends to the left, because the leper LEFT his hand back at the motel. Much to the surprise of your mother, the maid. The bottom of fur bends more considerably to the RIGHT, because you have to wear the RIGHT fur if you are going to impress people at the pimp show/opera.
USED IN:
tail
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: BI
(fur)
That honeyBEE has a stinger on its tail Swing the monkey corpse around by its furry tail. Let me know when you are ready for the Olympics. KUNYOMI:
tail (BOOBOO: most people say )
JUKUGO:
( )
tail ( KANA, FP ) (butt) + (tail) = (tail)
( )
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tail someone like a detective ( NEO ) (tail) + (go) = (to tail)
Number: 512 PK
(top radical)
bunny ears
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DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
leather/revolution
(bunny ears) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
(middle) + (one/line radical)
Let's think of the single line on top as an erection. So now we can say, Wearing bunny ears on the center of your COCK is a fashion revolution KUNYOMI:
leather
JUKUGO:
( )
revolution (leather/revolution) + (life) = (revolution)
( ) ( )
leather jacket
reform (the welfare system, the campaign-contributions laws, etc.) (renew / improve) + (leather/revolution) = (reform)
( )
USED IN:
a rebel (revolution) + (professional) = (a rebel)
shoe
ONYOMI: KA
(leather/revolution) + (transform) (Same-ON)

Leather is transformed into shoes by the shoemaker.
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KUNYOMI:
shoes (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
socks ( KUNKUN , KANA) (shoe) + (below) = (socks)
sweet
ONYOMI:

KUNYOMI:
(bunny ears)
Your Mama's so dumb, she puts bunny ears in her mouth, and savors the sweet taste. (the remaining bunny parts were thrown in the field as a warning to others).
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JUKUGO:
usually means sweet-tasting - but ALSO means 'not spicy.' (Q; Is it karai? A; no, daijoubu, it's quite amai.)
( )
USED IN:
to not take an opponent seriously because you assume they are soft. (sweet) + (look) = (not take seriously)
a certain
ONYOMI: BOU
(sweet) + (tree)
There is a certain BOWLing ball rumored to exist that has The Dude's face carved into it! There is a certain tree in Romania rumored to taste very sweet.
( xxx )
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KUNYOMI:
:a certain xxx ; it also has the connotation of 'undisclosed', like Dick Cheny's undisclosed location.
JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX)
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PREFIX: you can put it before any noun, with no particles in between, for example: : :a certain country, :: an undisclosed location, : :a certain monkey. etc. USED IN:
plot
ONYOMI: BOU
Number: 517 16 strokes DUPE, BETA
(say) + (a certain) (Same-ON)

We have a plot to take over BOWLing !! If you say a certain password to the spy, he'll let you in on the plot.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to plot a murder! Murder most faoouuullll!!! almost never used.

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( ) ( )
rash, impulsive, unpremeditated (without) + (plot) = (unpremeditated)
conspiracy (shady) + (plot) = (conspiracy )
Number: 518 PK
(bottom radical)
human legs
USED IN:
look
(eye) +
ONYOMI: KEN KUNYOMI:
Number: 519 7 strokes PN, DUPE
(human legs)
I looked with my eye as rats gnawed off KENny's little human legs.
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() ()
to look, to see
show something to someone
( or ) be able to see. As in, "Can you see that bird in the distance?"
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JUKUGO:
to show off. This is not an offensive term - you can even say it about yourself, "I'd like to show off my new boyfriend!"
( )
opinion (meaning) + (look) = (opinion) find (your car keys that you thought you'd lost) BOOBOO: you don't use about things you're discovering for the first time. That's ()! ( 1/2 KANA) (look) + (stick to) = (find)
( )
( )
cherry-blossom looking-at-and-getting-bombed parties ( KUNKUN ) (flower) + (look) = (sakura-viewing party)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
shellfish ANIMAL LEGS look HUMAN LEGS
Hint
Radical
Money has ANIMAL LEGS because a shellfish is an animal. Look has HUMAN LEGS because you're a human and you look at shit.
USED IN:
leniency
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(bunny ears) +
(look)
Ghengis KHAN was lenient to any bunnies that he saw trying to steal his crown. Human thieves got boiled alive, though. And fed to the bunnies. JUKUGO:
( )
tolerant, broad-minded, gracious, lenient (leniency) + (big) = (lenient)

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( )
tolerance, leniency (leniency) + (appearance) = (tolerance, leniency )
roast / grill
(ten) +
(bunny ears) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(human legs) +
(fireleft)
as in, "SHOW me a roast bunny and I'll show you an uneaten carrot." Flames roast ten bunny ears, and human legs too for dessert! KUNYOMI: () ()
I roast food, (but sometimes used with other stuff, like 'I burn the flag' or even CD-burning)
something gets burned, sunburned, roasted
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
sunburn ( NEO ) (sun, day) + (roast / grill) = (sunburn)
roast chicken ( NOKURI ) (roast / grill) + (bird) = (roast chicken)
roast meat, usually beef. ( NOKURI ) (roast / grill) + (meat) = (roast meat, usually beef.)
( )
sunset (evening) + (roast / grill) = (sunset)
border
(earth) + (stand up) + (look)

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ONYOMI: KYOU as in, "Today's ( = , pronounced KYOU) border will vanish tomorrow, when The Man starts his next war." Ooh, political!! If you stand on the earth over there, you can see all the way to the border KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
boundary - can be used with countries OR property lines of 2 pieces of land. Usually used when talking about crossing a boundary, or being within the boundary.
( )
environment (like English, this is not limited to nature. A bad kid can be a "product of his environment.") (environment) + (border) = (environment)
( ) ( )
national border (country) + (border) = (national border) means border or boundary of property (80% the same usage as () , but a bit more formal). BOTH and are often used in the figurative sense - like "This film pushes the envelope of good taste" or "His art blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture". Also used in science. (border) + (the world) = (boundary)
border EARTH mirror METAL
Radical
The border is a line on EARTH but the mirror is made of METAL.
present time
(king) + (look)
ONYOMI: GEN
Right now, it's the present again! And AGAIN, now. And again, now!! Funny that way. The king can see everything presently going on in the kingdom. That's why he is king! KUNYOMI: ()
to display something, to make something manifest.

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Second meaning: something becomes clear. ()
something appears - symptoms, your soul-mate, attackers, rappers that bite my style crop up all over the place since I blew up.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
figure of speech, expression (express) + (present time) = (figure of speech)
reality (present time) + (truth) = (reality)
the current place. (this one is used on the 'YOU ARE HERE' part of maps) ( KUN ON) (present time) + (place) = (the current place)
( )
the present time - but also can mean "the present situation" or "the staus quo." (present time) + (be real) = (the present time)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HUSBAND criteria NECROPHILIAC peer at present time KING
Hint
Radical
You think about your criteria for choosing a HUSBAND. You peer at the NECROPHILIAC, is he the one for you? The KING is present, and waiting for you to choose him.
parents/kindness
ONYOMI: SHIN Your parents took quite a SHINE to me.
(spicy / painful) (Same-ON) + (look)

Your parents look very spicy. Perhaps they should beware of gourmet cannibals!!! KUNYOMI:
parent
intimate, friendly
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
kind, emphasis on action: specifically doing favors for people. (parents/kindness) + (cut / important) = (kind)
Mother ( KUNKUN ) (your Moms) + (parents/kindness) = (Mother) father which is weeeird, since "CHICHI" is slang for breasts. ( KUNKUN ) (dad) + (parents/kindness) = (father)
best friend (parents/kindness) + (friend) = (best friend)
all living relatives even ones you have not met
( )
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incest ( ABU) (near) + (parents/kindness) + (partner) + (rape) = (incest)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
parents/kindness LOOKING AXE new
Hint
Radical
I'm LOOKING for my parents, to show them my new AXE.
older brother
ONYOMI: KYOU / KEI
(human legs)
as in "KYOU () my older brother acted OK. Tomorrow he'll be a bully again. " My older brother is eating so much, he is basically a mouth on legs. DESCRIPTION: STRONG for KYOU. KUNYOMI:
()
older brother (used less often)
( )
older brother (used more often)
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JUKUGO:
( )
siblings (not just brothers) (older brother) + (younger brother) = (siblings)
USED IN:
overcome
ONYOMI: KOKU
(ten) + (older brother)

Try to overcome your COKE addiction. Ten brothers working together can overcome most of life's problems. JUKUGO:
( )
conquest, control, subjugation. But it can also mean, 'Recover from or overcome an obstacle.' (overcome) + (clothes) = (conquer)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
inform
Hint
Radical
condition
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KYOU JUKUGO:
(older brother) (Same-ON)
KYOU (), my older brother's condition is he is wet . He just got out of the shower.
( )
the state of affairs, the condition, the context: ( = In what situation do you use that word?)
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(circumstance) + (condition) = (context, condition)
( )
economic slump or recession; Republican administration (un) + (condition) = (recession)
contest
ONYOMI: KYOU
(stand up) + (older brother)

KYOU (= today), My two older brothers stand up to have a contest with each other.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
competing to get the best grade, the most sales. 90% overlapping with ; same useage and everything. fugeddaboutit.
( )
unless you're talking about a literal foot-race, does not mean a game. It refers to competing within a framework (usually business or academic). The best score on the test, the salesman who sold the most this month. (contest) + (battle) = (competition)
( ) ( )
the more literal word for race: racing cars, sprinting, marathons, etc. (contest) + (run) = (race)
horse racing ( FP ) (contest) + (horse) = (horse racing)

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baby
(former) +
ONYOMI: JI
(human legs)
Formerly, baby JESUS was thought to have legs. Recent discoveries tend to indicate that he propelled himself by hydrofoil.
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DESCRIPTION: A more formal kanji than . JUKUGO:
( )
children - usually this word is found on signs like "children's room of the library" or "child services" or "daycare room" ( NP ) (baby) + (kid) = (children)
( )
child (more a newspaper word: child abuse, child-rearing, etc.) ( NP ) (childhood) + (baby) = (child)
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Number: 530
(bottom radical)
animal legs
DESCRIPTION: OK, you just learned human legs:
. Well here's a new one:
animal legs. Really sorry to do this to you. You're thinking, "Human legs, animal legs? Who give a shit??? " But there is a reason -- if you don't make the distinction, you will never be able to distinguish between two of the most common kanji: look ()and money( ). HOW TO TELL THEM APART: Human legs are curvy because humans dance. Animal legs are straight because shut up is why.
USED IN:
(bottom radical)
shellfish/money
(eye) +
ONYOMI:
Number: 531 7 strokes SOLO, SYMBOLIC, JERK RADICAL
(animal legs)
You look at money. You sell animal legs for money. DESCRIPTION: JERK KANJI ALERT - by itself it means shellfish, but when combined with another kanji to form a compound word, it means "money". They say that shellfish used to be kind of like "wampum" before gold was discovered.
KUNYOMI:
shell
LOOKALIKES:
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shellfish ANIMAL LEGS look HUMAN LEGS
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Money has ANIMAL LEGS because a shellfish is an animal. Look has HUMAN LEGS because you're a human and you look at shit.
USED IN:
buy
ONYOMI: BAI KUNYOMI:
(shellfish/money) +
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JUKUGO:
(net)
You BUY too much shit with your money because you are caught in the net of capitalism and materialism.
buy
( )
shopping (buy) + (animal / thing) = (shopping)
get indignant
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: FUN
Number: 533 15 strokes SOLO, ILL PAIR
(ten) +
(flowertop) +
(shellfish/money)
It's FUN watching her get indignant, as long as she ain't yelling at YOU. Her heart grew indignant, that ten flowers cost that much money!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
moral outrage - at corruption, murder, etc. It doesn't have to be expressed by yelling, though. It can be hidden inside.
( )
resentment, burning slow anger. (get indignant) + (deplore) = (resentment, burning slow anger.)
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get indignant HEART MOUTH spew
The HEART grows indignant, but the MOUTH spews.
spew
ONYOMI: FUN KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + (ten) +

it's FUN to spew ten flowers out of your mouth for money.
(flowertop) +
(shellfish/money)
spew- not vomit, but like lava, fire or high-pressure water. (vomit is ())
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get indignant HEART MOUTH spew
Hint
Radical
The HEART grows indignant, but the MOUTH spews.
cargo
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KA as in, "CAAAAAArgo."
(heel) +
(shellfish/money)
The black-market organ-donor guy traded you a whole cargo of human heels for some money. JUKUGO:
( )
cargo, freight (cargo) + (animal / thing) = (cargo, freight)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rent money RESPONSIBILITY GENERATION lend
Hint
Radical
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cargo
HEELS
It's my RESPONSIBILITY to pay rent, but the older GENERATION won't lend me a CENT. I got to rob a cargo truck full of pork HEELS.
poverty
ONYOMI: BIN
(understand / divide / minute) + (shellfish/money)

He's BEEN poor so long, he'll borrow some Kool-aid from you and then come back to borrow water. If you consider that one of the meanings of is 'part', then you can say: They're so poor, they only got part of a dollar.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
scanty, skimpy, meager.Mostly used about amounts of money.
( )
a broke motherfucker (can be used as a noun or adjective) (poverty) + (shoddy) = (poor)
save up
ONYOMI: CHO
(shellfish/money) +
KUNYOMI:
(crown) +
(nail)
I'll CHOKE people to get money (all mugger stylezz), and save up the money to buy a crown, which I'll nail to my head so when the people track me down for revenge they still can't pry it off my head.
*
JUKUGO:
to set something aside
( )
savings.(BOOBOO: used only about money in the bank - not stocks or real estate investments)( (save up) + (gold) = (savings)
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) All savings, especially investments such as stocks, gold and gems.Or anything else you're hoarding. (save up) + (store or put aside) = (savings)
bet or stake
ONYOMI: TO
(shellfish/money) + (professional)
The professional gambler always Takes Off after she gets the money. (a la Kenny Rogers) KUNYOMI:
bet/risk (not just money, but also situations like 'She's betting her reputation that her scence theory will disprove Stephen Hawking')
quality
ONYOMI: SHITSU
(bamboo) + (shellfish/money)
This bamboo is the best-quality SHIT money can buy. Look at the quality of this fucking bamboo dude!! DESCRIPTION: COCK: in almost all the jukugo means 'quality,' BUT the one jukugo that is used 90% of the time, means 'question'!!!
( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
quality, as in or (the quality is good / bad).
( )
a question - usually used in a structured setting: interview, trial, test. BOOBOO: in casual conversation, people will say or instead of . (quality) + (question, problem) = (question)
( )
quality of merchandise (/) (products) + (quality) = (quality)

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( )
natural quality. In contrast to (), applies to rocks and things as well as people and animals. Also it refers to the inner nature of people, rather than their social selves. So if you wanted to say that someone was very outgoing and loved sports and bars, you wouldn't use . But if you wanted to say that someone was very stoic or honest, you would. (sex / essential nature) + (quality) = (essential nature)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
rent money
ONYOMI: CHIN JUKUGO:
(have responsibility for) + (shellfish/money)

The responsibility of paying the rent money is like a painful blow to my CHIN.
( )
rent money ( FP ) (home) + (rent money) = (rent money)
( )
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rental (rent money) + (lend) = (rental)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rent money RESPONSIBILITY GENERATION lend cargo HEELS
Hint
Radical
Number: 541
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chastity
(katakana toe) +
ONYOMI: TEI
9 strokes SIDEKICK
(shellfish/money)
TAKE me to the chastity belt factory please. Fast as you can. I feel the hornies coming on. He's so chaste, he won't even touch another woman with his big toe! not even for money! JUKUGO:
( )
male virgin. BOOBOO: You'd think that female virgin would also use this kanji, but no. A lady with a hymen is a - 'managed woman.' Oh snapppppz!!! (kid) + (chastity) = (male virgin)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
She tells the fortune with her MOUTH. The sea SHELL was chaste - it reproduced asexually. A detective is a PERSON you hire to check the chastity of your daughter or spouse.
USED IN:
detective
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TEI JUKUGO:
Number: 542 11 strokes SIDEKICK, FR
(chastity) (Same-ON)
A detective is a person who you hire to check up on your mate's chastity.Does that count as a Fucked Root?
( )
BOOBOO: Most books say this means 'detective' but really it means private detective, not police. (police detective is -). There's a huge P.I. industry here - they have advertisements in all the magazines and even posters on walls on the street! (look for) + (detective) = (private detective)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
She tells the fortune with her MOUTH. The sea SHELL was chaste - it reproduced asexually.
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A detective is a PERSON you hire to check the chastity of your daughter or spouse.
clerk
ONYOMI: IN
(mouth/small box radical) + (shellfish/money)

When you give your money to the clerk IN the store, she uses her mouth to say thanks . DESCRIPTION: is a SUFFIX - it goes after any word for shop, to mean "a person who works in such a shop." For example, JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
USED IN:
shop staff (shop) + (clerk) = (shop staff)
all the members of the group (all) + (clerk) = (all members)
train station staff. (train station) + (clerk) = (train station staff. )
member of a committee. (member) + (clerk) = (member of a committee.)
harm
(handleft) +
(clerk)
Your SON took his hand and smacked the clerk's son, harming him.
harm or injury - usually financial harm or financial damage: ()
a disadvantage or handicap (LAZY)

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JUKUGO:
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( )
damage - to your body, but also to your property. Often used when you lose money on a deal. Usually implies that the damage was not intentionally caused. (harm) + (damage) = (damage)
rule
ONYOMI: SOKU
Number: 545 9 strokes STRONG, BETA
(shellfish/money) +
(rightsword)
My rule is, I put on the left SOCK first, then the right one. That's the thing about rules: you follow them you get paid money, if you think for yourself, you get cut with the sword. It's all fucking Big Brother and his corporate machine system for robots!!! JUKUGO:
( )
rule or regulation (criteria) + (rule) = (rule or regulation)
( ) ( )
USED IN:
foul! To break a rule! (anti) + (rule) = (foul! To break a rule!)
a physical , as opposed to governmental law, as in 'law of gravity' or 'murphy's law' (law) + (rule) = (physical law)
side of something
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SOKU The person walks on the left side of the kanji!
(rule) (Same-ON)
That anal - retentive dude has a rule about keeping his SOCKS in the left side of his drawer.
DESCRIPTION: This is almost always used with the KUNyomi, even in jukugo! KUNYOMI:
side
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
left side ( KUNKUN ) (left) + (side of something) = (left side)
right side ( KUNKUN ) (right) + (side of something) = (right side )
west siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. ( KUNKUN ) (west) + (side of something) = (west siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
side of something scientific measurment example knock down
PERSON WATER ROW ARRIVE
The PERSON stands beside some shit, but we measure WATER in cups. The entrance line of a football game is an example of people in a ROW. When you ARRIVE, I'll knock you down.
scientific measurment
Number: 547
12 strokes DUPE
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SOKU
(rule) (Same-ON)
We measured the bacteria percolating in his SOCKS. My rule is to measure your blood and water. KUNYOMI:
to measure, but (unlike the other two kanji) THIS usually used in a medical or scientific context. (blood pressure, air pressure). Also used for area, distance, sound decibels, angle, capacity.
JUKUGO:
( )
speculate. Kind of formal: "It's too early to speculate about the economy." "Scientists speculate that..." ( NP ) (infer) + (scientific measurment) = (speculate.)
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( )
predict,forecast (beforehand) + (scientific measurment) = (predict)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
pierce
ONYOMI: KAN
(mouth/small box radical) + (one/line radical) + (shellfish/money)

Let's call that extra horizontal line a piercing which goes through the mouth! Now we can say. .. It takes money for Genghis KHAN to get his mouth pierced.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to penetrate all the way through: not just violently. (for example, 'The river runs through the town.') Also to see a project all the way through to the end (KANA)
( )
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to do something consistently all the way till it is done. ( ()= consistency) (one) + (pierce) = (consistency)
USED IN:
adapt
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(pierce) (Same-ON)
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Genghis KHAN adapted to the Mongolian temperatures, but he still had a mean disposition. It used to hurt to get my heart pierced but I've since adapted to it (said the Emo)
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
adapt to
( )
a custom or practice (of a person or a culture) (learn) + (adapt) = (custom)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
give increase detest adapt buddhist monk
MONEY EARTH HEART not HORNY PERSON
Radical
You give MONEY away. The EARTH'S temperature increases. You detest me with all your HEART. I adapt to it because I'm NOT HORNY for you anyway. A monk is a PERSON.
condemn
ONYOMI: SEKI KUNYOMI:
(master/mainly) + (shellfish/money)
The master condemns you for being too SEXY, and as punishment, takes your money.
*
JUKUGO:
to blame someone for a problem. To accuse someone of wrongdoing.
( )
responsibility (condemn) + (have responsibility for) = (responsibility)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
condemn MONEY MONTH blue
Hint
Radical
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The guy that owes you MONEY gets condemned to your hate, and every MONTH you feel blue when you menstruate.
USED IN:
achievements
ONYOMI: SEKI JUKUGO:
(string) + (condemn) (Same-ON)

The sadist was condemned by the preacher for the SEXY bondage she achieved with string.
( ) ( )
an achievement or good deed (success) + (achievements) = (achievement)
ranking of the results of a competition (i,e, the results of a test, a race, or when a hostess bar posts the framed pictures of their #1,2,and 3 earners outside the club on the marquee!) (become) + (achievements) = (ranking)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
pile up extent
Hint
Radical
pile up
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SEKI KUNYOMI: () ()
(condemn) (Same-ON)
I condemn you for letting the wheat pile up too high! It is just reckless.
to pile up things (luggage, cargo, crap) or, to accumulate.
something is piled upsomething has accumulated
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JUKUGO:
or ( or )
(adjective): enterprising, (adverb) :positively, aggressively. Someone who is really active and getting shit done and having opinions and stuff. (pile up) + (extreme) + (motivation / '-al') = (active, enterprising)
( )
area, like square meters. (front surface / face) + (pile up) = (area)
( )
accumulate. Used about bad things mostly - bills or stress piles up. Similar to () or () But can also can be good, like the compound interest or accumulated knowledge. (store or put aside) + (pile up) = (accumulate.)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
pile up extent
Hint
Radical
exalted
ONYOMI: KI
(insizzect) + (shellfish/money)
The exalted bug KEEPS all the money the other bugs give her in tribute. DESCRIPTION: literally means 'from a royal family'. KUNYOMI:
*
sacred JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
fucknuts, douchebags. ( SARC) (exalted) + (important person) = (fucknuts)
a noble, that is to say, someone from a noble family. (exalted) + (family) = (a noble)
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USED IN:
bequeath
(motion) +
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
(exalted)
I bequeath you my money - i.e. I move it to you in hopes you will exalt me after I'm dead.
( )
inheritance (but, sadly, you can't say 'isan suru' to mean 'inherit.'- you have to say ( )). . . .fuck! (bequeath) + (childbirth, production of things) = (inheritance) a gene (heredity is ()) (bequeath) + (transmit) + (child) = (gene)
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( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
apply
bequeath MONEY BUREAUCRATS
Hint
Radical
I bequeath MONEY to my heirs, but the government applies BUREAUCRATS to tax that money.
soldier
(hill) +
ONYOMI: HEI Soldiers HATE REMFs.
(animal legs)
The sergeant makes soldiers march up and down the hill on their tired legs. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
infantryman, low-ranking soldier (soldier) + (samurai radical) = (infantryman, low-ranking soldier)
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arms , armament (soldier) + (instrument) = (arms) USED IN:
beach
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HIN
(soldier)
I saw HIM on the beach. Soldiers march on the beach next to the water. KUNYOMI:
a very casual word for the beach, usually used by people who live on beach-towns.
Number: 557 PK
(top radical)
fishhook
DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
lose
(fishhook) +
ONYOMI: FU KUNYOMI:
(shellfish/money)
That is FUCKED : I bet all my money I could hook a fish today and I lost.
( xxx ) that's (Someone's) loss ( or )
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lose a game or fight or struggle. This can be used 2 different ways, which I'll elaborate on because I have time: If you lose a game: Game WO maketa If you lose TO Jerry: Jerry NI maketa JUKUGO:
( )
a win or lose situation. Fighting over a girl/boy. Not neccesairly the final, decisive battle, the Superbowl. . The game/battle is won or lost on account of ..XXX. . (win) + (lose) = (win or lose situation)
( )
Since it literally means 'losing dog,' you'd think that was a transliteration of the English 'underdog,' But no, it simply means loser or schlemiel. Japan doesn't really have much respect for plucky underdogs who dare to try and rise above their status. (lose) + (dog) = (loser)
( )
a responsibility, usually financial, which is declared by a system. "If a guest falls off the hotel roof, it's the hotel's responsibility." "The parent is responsible for paying for the child's lunch at boarding school." (lose) + (carry on your back) = (financial responsibility)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MONEY lose horn/corner UTILIZE
Hint
Radical
You lose MONEY when you UTILIZE corners. You should of cut corners to make more money, and then use that money to bribe politicians to enact tort reform so the victims of your cut corners/ unsafe cars/botched surgery can't sue you.
fish
(fishhook) +
ONYOMI: GYO
Number: 559 14 strokes SYMBOLIC
(rice field) +
(firebottom)
Get Your Own damn fish. Catch a fish with a fishhook, then cook it in the fire and eat that shit with some rice. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
a fish
( )
goldfish (gold) + (fish) = (goldfish)

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USED IN:
horn/corner
(fishhook) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
(utilize)
If I want to make my COCK stand up like a horn, I have to utilize a fish hook and some twine... I can't afford Viagra. KUNYOMI:
a corner
a horn
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a square (the numeral 4) + (horn/corner) = (a square)
an angle (horn/corner) + (times) = (an angle)
( )
triangle (three) + (horn/corner) = (triangle)
( )
an antenna or feeler, like an insect or lobster's got (touch) + (horn/corner) = (antenna)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MONEY lose horn/corner UTILIZE
Hint
Radical
You lose MONEY when you UTILIZE corners. You should of cut corners to make more money, and then use that money to bribe politicians to enact tort reform so the victims of your cut corners/ unsafe cars/botched surgery can't sue you.
USED IN:
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touch
ONYOMI: SHOKU KUNYOMI:
(horn/corner) + (insizzect)
The bug was SHOCKed when it was touched by the rhino horn.
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touch ()
to feel or percieve something: "I feel sick . . ."
JUKUGO:
( )
an antenna or feeler, like an insect or lobster's got (touch) + (horn/corner) = (antenna)
( ) ( )
the texture of something (i.e. how it feels when rubbed on your skin) (human skin) + (touch) = (texture)
a physical sensation of touch, as in "I've lost all feeling in my left ball." Also can be used as "impression", as in, "What kind of feeling did you get from the interview? Do you think it went well?" (feeling) + (touch) = (touch-sensation)
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Number: 562 PK
(anywhere radical) DESCRIPTION: It looks like the sign for3.141592653589, but let's think of it as symbolizing an actual pie, because making a mnemonic out of an imaginary number is hard work for me.
pi
USED IN:
Number: 563
nice thick pie

(pi)
DESCRIPTION: like regular PI, but thicker and more flavorful. That's right-- I'm talking about TOPPINGS.
USED IN:
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sell
ONYOMI: BAI KUNYOMI: () ()
(samurai radical) +
*
(nice thick pie)
The samurai is selling a nice thick pie. Do you want to BUY it?
I sell something
something is on sale
JUKUGO:
( )
a business, a line of work: (the camera business, the pimp game, the clock business, etc.) (merchandise) + (sell) = (a business)
( )
sales (transaction) + (sell) = (sales)
( )
hostess clubs, host clubs,strip clubs, etc. ( KUN ON) (water) + the clock business, etc.)) = (hostess clubs, host clubs,strip clubs, etc.)
( )
your sister, (when your brother when he runs out of meth money, he turns into a ` ') (sell) + (spring /sexy) + (housewife) = (hoe)
USED IN:
continue
(string) + (sell)
ONYOMI: ZOKU I'll continue to sell these strings.
The BANDIT (-also pronounced zoku) continued to rob rich travelers.
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KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I keep doing it
it continues happening
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a series (take with / inform of) + (continue) = (a series)
one after the other, in rapid succession
( )
procedure (usually involving forms in triplicate and irritating bitchy secretaries) (hand) + (continue) = (procedure)
( )
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to carry on (the family business / a tradition) (succeed / inherit) + (continue) = (to carry on)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
continue SELL practice EAST
Radical
Continue to SELL drugs. Go EAST to practice Kung Fu.
read
ONYOMI: DOKU
(say) + (sell)
I can't seem to get the hang of suDOKU, Perhaps I'll read a book about it. If you say the book sold a lot of copies, I'll read it.
KUNYOMI:
to read
JUKUGO:
( )
yep yep. (kunyomi) + (read) = (yep yep.)

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( )
yep. (sound) + (read) = (The kanji pronunciation one uses in compound words.)
( )
to subscribe (subscribe) + (read) = (to subscribe)
window
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(hole) + (moocow) +
(bottomheart)
The moocow pokes its head in through the hole in the window.
window
JUKUGO:
( )
the kind of depressing place where you get a ticket or food from a person in a box with usually a bulletproof plexiglas window between you and them. ( KUNKUN ) (window) + (mouth) = (service window)
window HOLE MOUTH lazy
Radical
A window is a HOLE in the side of a house. A lazy person just sits around shoveling food in your MOUTH.
look for
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TAN
(nice thick pie) +
(tree)
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Get a ladder! We're looking for a thick, TAN pie at the top of the tree.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to search for something you want but don't have (a good restaraunt, a store with bargains, sanity).
( )
BOOBOO: Most books say this means 'detective' but really it means private detective, not police. (police detective is -). There's a huge P.I. industry here - they have advertisements in all the magazines and even posters on walls on the street! (look for) + (detective) = (private detective)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
deep
Hint
Radical
gather
look for HANDS NEST
PIE
search FREEDOM instruct RECIEVE

You look for delicious PIE, but you gather NESTS so the birds all die. You search for FREEDOM. The merman lives in the deep WATER. You RECEIVE instruction.
deep
(waterleft) +
(nice thick pie) +
(tree)
The flood of SHINY water was so deep, the thick pie floated above the treetops!
*
deep () ()
* *
my (thoughts, self-confidence,hatred) deepens.
it gets deeper, it deepens.
JUKUGO:
( )
the situation is grave, serious, and worsening. Used with something that was kind of ill to begin with, and if you don't act now it'll get much worse. (deep) + (carve up) = (grave situation)
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( )
in the middle of the night. (deep) + (late night) = (in the middle of the night. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
deep
Hint
Radical
gather
look for HANDS NEST
PIE

tool
(eye) +
ONYOMI: GU JUKUGO:
(pi)
Your eye is a tool you use to look for a GOOEY piece of pie!
( ) ( )
tool (street) + (tool) = (tool)
furniture (home) + (tool) = (furniture)
or ( or ) ( )
concrete, literal, in practice . . as opposed to abstract, in theory (tool) + (body) + (motivation / '-al') = (concrete/ in practice)
condition something is in. Can be used with a living thing or object. Always used only with or . Unlike the related term (), emphasizes the condition IN THE SHORT TERM - the condition at that particular time of day. ( KUN ON, NOKURI ) (tool) + (to suit) = (condition)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put down on table

TREES are plants
plant tool truth prefecture correct a probem / direct contact
TREE WITHOUT THE 'TEN' RADICAL TEN SMALL 'L' L NET
Hint
Radical
The truth is worth TEN TOOLS. I come from a SMALL prefecture. You can't spell "correct a probLLLLem" without an L". You put the NET down on the table.
original
ONYOMI: GEN
KUNYOMI:
(pi)
All pie comes from one original pie - the First Pie of the scriptures. Someday this pie will be Born AGAIN, and that's what we call the apiecalypse.
originally (see below!) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
cheerful, energetic. Doesn't matter if it's totally forced. ( CCW) (original) + (mood) = (cheerful)
( )
originally
XXX ( XXX)
PREFIX meaning "former XXX' (ex-boyfriend, former prime minister, etc.) ( PRE)
( )
right at your feet, right in front of you. often seen on 'watch your step!' signs) ( KUNKUN ) (foot/ be enough) + (original) = (at your feet)
USED IN:
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complete
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(original)
She KAN make a complete replica of the crown if you show her the original. DESCRIPTION: This motherfucker is used in more synonyms than anyone! I'll do my best to clarify the differences between the synonyms below. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
perfect, as in 'the perfect crime' or 'perfectly safe.' Also, perfect as in, 'My new project is perfectly complete, now the finishing touches are over.'
completion (noun) - usually said of a painting, construction of a building, or other physically creative project. (complete) + (become) = (completion)
( )
complete or total. "Don't stand up until the bus comes to a complete stop." Perfect victory: 100 to nothing. Not used about people, except for this idiom: (nobody's perfect) Also used when creating things. To perfect a new invention or complete a new artwork. (complete) + (all) = (complete)
( )
to finish work on a project - an annual report, a re-formatting of the database, etc. ( NP ) (complete) + (total) = (finish)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ALTAR religion complete GENKI
Hint
Radical
My religion sacrifices you on the ALTAR, and it makes us completely GENKI.
USED IN:
west
(pi) +
MUTANTS:
Number: 573 6 strokes PN, MR

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west top ONYOMI: SEI In the Old West it was not considered rude to SAY things with one's mouth full of pie.
KUNYOMI:
west
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
western part of Japan (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto) (connected to) + (west) = (western Japan)
west entrance ( KUNKUN ) (west) + (mouth) = (west entrance)
west siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. ( KUNKUN ) (west) + (side of something) = (west siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.)
USED IN:
ballot
(west top) +
ONYOMI: HYOU
HE'S YOUR candidate, so you cast your ballot for him. Go west and show them your ballot and they'll let you vote. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
one vote (LAZY)
( )
USED IN:
to vote (also, it can mean election, as in "Did he win the vote?") (throw) + (ballot) = (vote)
sign, mark
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(tree) + (ballot) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: HYOU The ballot which you marked with your vote, was made out of a wooden shingle. JUKUGO:
( )
A goal - usually not something you do all at once. Usually related to selfimprovement in some way: "My goal is to learn French in 2 years." "My goal is to run a marathon next July." (eye) + (sign, mark) = (eventual goal)
( )
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"marked", as in 'Obey the rules which have been posted on the wall', or 'Follow the marked trail', 'Follow the target kitty which has been tagged with a blue collar.' (sign, mark) + (be conscious) = (marked)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
sign, mark WEST SUN model
Hint
Radical
LOOKALIKES: Ice cube's "W" is the mark of the WEST side. The model is hot like the SUN. (not that she's good-looking, but she burned herself up free-basing cocaine).
drift
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HYOU KUNYOMI:
(ballot) (Same-ON)
I threw your ballot in the water and now it is drifting.
( or ) to drift on the surface of water. A smell drifts through the air . Or (figuratively) an atmosphere or vibe wafts around the place (of mutiny, for example!) a dude gives off a vibe of being a ganster JUKUGO:
( )
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drifting (drift) + (flow) = (drifting)
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liquor
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SHU
(west top) +
(one/line radical)
as in, "If she drinks liquor, you can See Her Underpants." Actually this is one of those things that looks like what it looks like: a bottle with a wide spout on top, and see that extra line? That's the meniscus in the middle. KUNYOMI: ()
booze
JUKUGO:
( )
( )
Japanese-style booze, or what we in the west call Sake. (BOOBOO: In fact, to Japanese, any booze is Sake) (sun, day) + (book / the real) + (liquor) = (Japanese booze)
( )
a person who likes to drink booze (liquor) + (drink) = (heavy drinker)
( )
drunk driving ( NEO ) (drink) + (liquor) + (drive a vehicle) = (drunk driving)
USED IN:
drunk
ONYOMI: SUI
(west) + (the number 9) + (ten)

In the west, nine out of ten people drink alcohol because it's SWEET!
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to be drunk (see below!) (NUBI)
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drunk (literally, 'paying for one's drink'!) ( SARC) (drunk) + (pay) = (drunk)
( ) ( )
hangover (literally: 'paying for your drink') ( SARC) (two) + (sun, day) + (drunk) = (hangover)
someone who is shit-faced drunk (: to BE shit-faced) ( SARC) (mud) + (drunk) + (professional) = (shit-faced)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
value
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KA
(west)
You want a Hummer because you think it's a high-value CAR. Picture the person as a mail-order bride, and she values the West highly, at least according to the website.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
value - but not an actual dollar amount (that'd be ) . is value as in, ('the value of the antique goes up with time' or 'I'll estimate the value, using my jewler's loupe and tweezers.')
( )
merit or worth - not used about money (it's worth it for the view! The good part of Dancehall is the bass!) (value) + (price or ranking) = (merit)
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( )
price of commodities in general. (Tokyo prices are high! The bananna market took a hit as prices continued to fall!) An economist might use this word. ( NP ) (animal / thing) + (value) = (price)
( )
ones moral values - used with specific things, like drinking, smoking, gambling. of Dancehall is the bass!)) + (point of view) = (moral values )
important
(west top) +
ONYOMI: YOU KUNYOMI:
(woman)
In the west, it is important for women to YODEL regularly.
*
JUKUGO:
in short, in sum (NP, LAZY)
the one key point, the lynchpin of

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( ) ( )
essential (heavy / overlap) + (important) = (essential)
the important point which I'm trying to make (important) + (point) = (the point)
( ) ( )
a demand (important) + (demand/ask) = (a demand)
a demand, a need - doesn't need to be made by a person. (i.e. "This situation demands action!" or "Supply of shiny plastic things cannot keep up with the market's demand!"
This does NOT get to turn into a verb. You don't use . You'd say (there's a demand for xxx) or perhaps () (there's enough of xxx to meet the demand). ( NP ) (demand) + (important) = (demand)
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USED IN:
waist
ONYOMI: YOU
(moon/organ) + (important) (Same-ON)

When you YODEL, make sure and use your diaphragm muscle (located in your waist) to project your voice all the way to the next Alp. To models, a slim waist is an important organ.
KUNYOMI:
waist
JUKUGO:
( )
coward - the nuance is someone who becomes paralyzed when the shit goes down. Someone who is too frightened to react. (waist) + (extract) = (coward)
smoky
(fireleft) +
ONYOMI: EN
(west top) +
(earth)
The fire on the west side of the earth made the air too smoky to ENJOY. KUNYOMI:
*
smoky JUKUGO:
smoke (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
no smoking (prohibition) + (smoky) = (no smoking)
the act of smoking. You'll see this on signs a lot, meaning 'this is the smoking
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section.' ( NP ) (enjoy a drink and a smoke) + (smoky) = (smoking)

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Oprah
(right radical)
Number: 583 PK
DESCRIPTION: . . . Because it comes form the katatana "O". With which you are no doubt familiar.
USED IN:
loot
(shellfish/money) + (Oprah)
ONYOMI: SAI or ZAI I took my loot and bought me a XYLOPHONE with platinum SIDES. All the money goes to Oprah. The bitch has loot! JUKUGO:
( )
wallet ( 1/2 KANA) (loot) + (fabric) = (wallet)
( ) ( )
one's possessions (loot) + (childbirth, production of things) = (one's possessions)
a group of banks, corporations, and underworld guys, where everyone is on each other's board of directors - like capitalist feudal states. These are the fuckers who bankrolled and encouraged Japan's role in the second world war. FDR specifically told MacArthur to break them up, but Mac didn't.Companies like Mitsui bank and Mitsubishi, Nissan, etc. have profited handsomely off of slave labor and Hirohito's war, and they continue to be the bedrock of society. (loot) + (clique) = (big biz)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MONEY loot raw materials TREE GLUE hicktown
Hint
Radical
Loot is usually MONEY, but raw material is lumber from TREES.

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The hicks GLUE banjos to their knees .
raw materials
(tree) + (Oprah)
ONYOMI: ZAI
The raw materials for my home-kit XYLOPHONE are taking so long to arrive. Not many people know that Oprah Winfrey is composed entirely from the raw material of wood, and carved by a Melanesian teak specialist. JUKUGO:
( )
usually seen on the "ingredients" label on food packaging. But also used about source material for a report: field notes, raw data. The implication is that, unlike , the source material is not totally raw, it's partially assembled --for instance, if you get silk, that's , but when the silk is woven into a fabric, that is , and then the fabric is an ingredient of a handbag. (raw materials) + (ingredients / fees) = (ingredients)
( )
raw material - both literally and figuratively (as in, the raw data that you base your essay or report or novel on) ("I'm working on materal for my novel!") (element) + (raw materials) = (raw material)
( )
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raw lumber (tree) + (raw materials) = (raw lumber)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Loot is usually MONEY, but raw material is lumber from TREES. The hicks GLUE banjos to their knees .
close store
(gate) + (Oprah)
Number: 586 11 strokes DUH, DUPE
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ONYOMI: HEI I HATE it when I go to the store and it's already closed. Like 3 minutes before! Close the gate of the store! Oprah's coming! Aieeeee!!! KUNYOMI: () () () ()
* * * *
I shut or close (a door, etc.)
the door is shut or closed Also, the Man cracks down on something, tightens controls on something.
I shut (a book, my eyes, my heart... those are the only times you use it!)
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the book / eyes/ mouth gets shut.A store shuts down, goes out of business.
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JUKUGO:
( )
close the store for the day (although people usually say instead!) (close store) + (shop) = (close store)
husband
ONYOMI: FU, also FUU
(big) + (one/line radical)

Peter Griffin is one big husband - plus he's Fucked Up.
KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
kind of formal word for husband (NP)
( )
married couple (husband) + (housewife) = (married couple)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
not yet TOP BRANCH SHORTER husband NO PENIS
Hint
Radical
362
the tip
TOP BRANCH LONGER
USED IN:
agree
ONYOMI: SAN JUKUGO:
(husband) + (shellfish/money)
Two husbands agree that SANTA should bring them some money
( )
to agree with a statement - not just agree but also support, as in "Many people support this new law." "Most of the committe members support the chairman's fuckin' proposal." ( in this case, it is usually used about a great number of people, not just one individual) (agree) + (become) = (agree/ support)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
everyone
Hint
Radical
substitute
KUNYOMI: ()
(husband) + (sun, day)

ONYOMI: TAI - you don't need this The two husbands were TIED together all day - you can't replace one without replacing both of them.
I switch from one thing to another thing - usually of a different type: (switch channels / modes / clothes / sides)
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()
something was substituted-something automatically switches (modes/channels/places)
JUKUGO:
( )
to make change - i.e. "Do you have change for a dollar?" ( NOKURI ) (both) + (substitute) = (make change)
( ) ( )
to exchange (take) + (substitute) = (to exchange)
a change of clothes (wear / arrive) + (substitute) = (a change of clothes)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
everyone
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
lurk
ONYOMI: SEN KUNYOMI: ( ga )
(substitute) +
(waterleft)
They SENT in someone to lurk around and substitute the enemy's water for poison.
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() ()
* *
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to lurk (1/2 KANA)
(usually KANA) to dive in, to go underground , as far as I know this is not used figuratively a la Harriet Tubman. (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
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subconscious (lurk) + (be real) + women are conscious of potential rapists in an everyday, peripheral way that men are not. Hippies are environmentally conscious. That's ishiki. ) = (subconscious)
mix lurk
INSECTS HUSBAND
Radical
You mix INSECTS in your bug-shake (mmmm!!) but a lurking HUSBAND steals it from you. Yoink.
criteria
ONYOMI: KI
(husband) + (look)
You have to KEEEP using the same criteria, otherwise your measurements will be meaningless. My fucking husband uses looks as his criteria of judging women. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
rule or regulation (criteria) + (rule) = (rule or regulation)
literally, "rule," but closer to the English word for "discipline."Rules typically say "don't do this or that," but give long lists of things you HAVE TO do, in the order you have to do them. Like if you're at military school, you have to get up at 5:30, have your bed made by 5:35, shine your shoes by 5:40, and report to the mess hall. (criteria) + (regulation) = (rules/discipline)
( )
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a criterion (criteria) + (prepare / criteria) = (a criterion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
365
pinch
(handleft) +
ONYOMI:
(husband) + (dot)
Let's think of those two dots as the husband's two arms. so now we can say . . . Pinch the husband with your hand, until he throws his arms up to defend himself.
KUNYOMI:
crush between two things - as in slam your finger in the car door. (also, to tuck in between 2 things, as in place a bookmark in the book, or wedge the phone between your shoulder and chin) (BOOBOO: does NOT mean pinch, which is ) (1/2 KANA)
narrow CAT HAND pinch
Radical
The CAT goes through a narrow alley, but I use my HAND to pinch Captain O'Malley.
Number: 593 PK
(top radical)
t.c.f.b.b.y.e.s.i.y.l.
DESCRIPTION: THE CUTEST FUCKING BABY BIRDS YOU EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE as this picture demonstrates:
USED IN:
habitat
(t.c.f.b.b.y.e.s.i.y.l.) +
ONYOMI: SOU
(fruit / result)
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The baby birds build a habitat in the top of the tree SO they can feed on the fruit. KUNYOMI:
BOOBOO: this is usually translated as nest, but anywhere an animal lives is a SU. A spider's web, a badger's burrow, are all .
JUKUGO:
( )
:A very archaic word for testicles! Although you'll never use this, the roots are so awesome, I had to include it' the balls are apparently the 'spiritual habitat' of men. ( FR, OBSOLETE) (spirit) + (habitat) = (balls)
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merely BABY BIRDS

Radical
shining
(pi) +
ONYOMI: KOU COCAINE is shiny white powder. 4 and 20 baby birds inside of a shining pie. KUNYOMI: ()
Number: 595 6 strokes PN, ILL PAIR
(t.c.f.b.b.y.e.s.i.y.l.)
*
to shine (noun) a shining light
*
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
tourist (point of view) + (shining) + (customer) = (tourist)
a spectacle (shining) + (scene) = (a spectacle)

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( )
honor : usually used by lower person to higher person. "It's an honor to meet you, sir!" "I'm honored to have a chance to work with you, ma'am." ( F ) (shining) + (glory) = (it's an honor!)
USED IN:
merely
ONYOMI: TAN
(rice field) + (ten)
as in 'I was hit with a flame thrower (long story) but it MERELY gave me a TAN. ' Even though I have ten rice fields, all that is growing is merely three lousy baby firds, I mean birds. KUNYOMI:
*
merely JUKUGO:
( )
a SIMPLE Japanese word (note the kanji) : is a tango, as is a hiragana word like . But compound words or long-ass words are not tango. (merely) + (language) = (simple word)
( ) ( )
simple or easy, but in a good way (simplicity) + (merely) = (simple)
denomination or unit (college credit, but also centimeter or pound) (merely) + (rank) = (unit)
( )
the simple kind of X as opposed to the complicated kind (not rude). Also, simpleminded, mouth-breathing person (pretty rude). (merely) + (epitome) = (simple version)
merely BABY BIRDS

Radical
368
USED IN:
sakura
(tree) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(woman)
The woman sits under the sakura tree watching the baby birds eat the cherries.
cherry blossoms, or cherry trees
beast
(t.c.f.b.b.y.e.s.i.y.l.) + (dog)
ONYOMI: JUU
(rice field) + (mouth/small box radical) +
Hitler was quite a beast making the JEWS work like dogs in the ricefields. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
a beast - used about literal animals - not neccesairly the hugest or scariest, but animals that are both violent AND unclean, like the hyena. Also used about people who behave like those animals.
( ) ( )
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one of them 400-footer godzilla monsters with the zipper on the back. (suspicious) + (beast) = (Godzilla monster)
you know that WASP song, 'fuck like a beast?' (field) + (beast) = (beast)
( )
- zero stars! Hint
bestiality ( ABU) (beast) + (rape) = (bestiality)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
beast
DOG
Radical
369
obscene RICE CHILD fierce monkey FAR

A DOG is a slobbery beast, but RICE is an obscene feast. The fierce CHILD chased the monkey FAR AWAY!
carrot
(right radical)
Number: 599
DESCRIPTION: This is basically baby birds ( it as anything besides this:
) + month ()but I honestly can't picture
. .. So, fuck it!
USED IN:
whittle down
(carrot) + (sword)
ONYOMI: SAKU Use the sword to whittle down the carrot. KUNYOMI:
Always wear underpants while using a weed-whacker otherwise you might accidentally trip and whittle down your SAC.
*
JUKUGO:
whittle down, or shave off (1/2 KANA)

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( )
delete (as in, delete a file, but also to eliminate or censor something) (whittle down) + (exclude) = (delete)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER erase whittle down SWORD
Hint
Radical
You erase cum-stains with soapy WATER, but you whittle wood with a SWORD.
Meaning
Hint
cough nucleus carve up correspond to whittle down
MOUTH TREE SWORD SAY CARROT
Radical
You cough with your MOUTH. The seed is the nucleus of a TREE, but you carve with a SWORD. My words correspond to what I SAY. You whittle a what?? a CARROT,dummy.
erase
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(carrot)
as in, ' He SHOWED me his dick but I thought it was just a pencil eraser. Awkward. ' You dump water on Flaming Carrot to put him out KUNYOMI: () ()
I extinguish or erase it.
it gets erased.
JUKUGO:
( )
passive person who always is like, 'I dunno, what do YOU wanna do?' and never starts any new projects. (erase) + (extreme) + (motivation / '-al') = (passive)
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( )
eraser (erase) + () = (eraser)
( )
to delete (computer term) delete a file or folder. Also to eliminate, as in process of elimation. Elimination. Whatever, it's only a dictoinry. Dictionary. FUCK! More coffee. (erase) + (past tense) = (to delete)
( )
firefighter (erase) + (ward off) + (samurai radical) = (firefighter)
( )
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fire station (erase) + (ward off) + (government office) = (fire station)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER erase whittle down SWORD
Hint
Radical
You erase cum-stains with soapy WATER, but you whittle wood with a SWORD.
Number: 602
(top radical)
nest
(one/line radical)
DESCRIPTION: three baby birds, with a roof over their heads, constitutes a nest!
USED IN:
float
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI:
(nest) +
(child)
The child stayed floating in the water by clinging to a buoyant nest. KUNYOMI:
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() ()
*
to float
to be so happy you're 'walking on air.'
JUKUGO:
( )
cheating, having an affair (can be used even if you're not married) ( KUNKUN ) (float) + (mood) = (affair)
( )
someone who is oblivious to social rules, not a rebel way, more like in a spaz way. doesn't have any friends and sort of floats around on the periphery of society. (float) + (person) = (space cadet)
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receive
(nest) +
ONYOMI: JU You're about to receive some Juicy Underwear.
Each baby bird in the nest receives a moustache! The nest is located in the crotch of a tree. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to recieve
( )
the reception desk in an office. ( NOKURI ) (receive) + (stick to) = (reception)
( )
reciept (receive) + (territory) + (write) = (reciept)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cheap / safe BERET
Hint
Radical
373
USED IN:
compromise
(nest) +
ONYOMI: DA
(woman)
You compromise with your DAD about when you can borrow the car. The man wanted a huge aerie of vultures but the woman compromised on a small nest. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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compromise (compromise) + (cooperate) = (compromise) means 'appropriate' - but more relaxed than related words like () and (). . . is more like "adequate." (compromise) + (hit the target) = (adequate)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cheap / safe BERET
Hint
Radical
instruct
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: JU KUNYOMI:
(receive) (Same-ON)
The students will receive instruction from the hand of the teacher.
*
JUKUGO:
to give or grant a prize to someone

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( )
classroom (instruct) + (business) = (classroom)

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( )
- zero stars! Hint
the act of teaching: pedagogy, that's what I'm fucking talking about. ( NP ) (teach) + (instruct) = (pedagogy)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
deep
Radical
gather
look for HANDS NEST
PIE

gather
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(nest) +
(tree)
I SIGH as I gather with my hand the nest from the tree (the eggs of the last dodo are inside - all eaten from within by hideous gibbering parasites). KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
gather (mushrooms, cherries, honey (if you are a bee)). Also, sometimes, it means to adopt a certain policy or take a certain measure.
( ) ( )
- zero stars! Hint
adopt a policy or resolution (gather) + (utilize) = (adopt)
cutting down a tree. Logging. (timmmberrr) + (gather) = (logging)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
deep
Radical
gather
look for HANDS NEST
PIE
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been a long time

(katakana 'ku') + (person)
ONYOMI: KYUU JUKUGO:
It's been a long time since I kissed the KUchie of a CUTE person.
( )
forever - the science word. (BOOBOO : the poetic word is 'eien'.()) (forever) + (been a long time) = (forever )
( )
durability ( NP ) (withstand) + (been a long time) + (sex / essential nature) = (durability)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
reach / amount to right side BUMPY CROSSed lines each been a long time bottom GOES APART
Hint
Radical
grasp - the right line has what looks like BUMPS on it - those bumps are the WHITE KNUCKLES of the grasping hand. 's diagonal lines do NOT cross - they go APART. 's diagonal lines DO cross. So you can say: Each time we met,you double-CROSSed me, so it's been a long time since we've been apart.
each
MUTANTS:
Number: 609 6 strokes STRONG, PRE, BETA, MR
(mouth/small box radical) + ??? (???)

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eachbottom ONYOMI: KAKU Allright! Let's call that weird thing on top your nose. You'll notice that it looks a LOT like the kanji for 'been a long time' : . But 's diagonal lines do NOT cross. 's diagonal lines DO cross. So! Now we are ready to do our mnemonic, which will help us remember the difference between the two kanji: Each COCK in your mouth crosses your nose. DESCRIPTION: STRONG for both and ! JUKUGO:
( )
sure this is a scary and long word, but if you live here, you'll use it everyday: It means "local train" (literally, "stopping at each station train") (each) + (train station) + (bring to a halt) + (car) = (local train) each thing in its own way. (everyone thinks in their own way/ everyone has their own opinion). ( 1/2 KANA) PREFIX- you can put in front of a noun to make it mean "each one, respectively":each place, each thing, person. ( PRE)
xxx ( xxx) xxx ( xxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
love
(nest) + (eachbottom)
ONYOMI: AI
(bottomheart) +
Each bird in the nest loves the guy with the moustache from the bottom of its heart. (he feeds them worms, and if that isn't what love is all about, I'll eat my hat) KUNYOMI:
love (LAZY)
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JUKUGO:
( )
cute! ( 1/2 KANA) (possible) + (love) = (cute!)
( ) ( )
patriotism (love) + (country) + (heart) = (patriotism)
love or relationships in general - that is to say, if there's an ad for fortune-telling that says, "Test your luck in money! Love! and health!" it'll be using . If there's an article in a womens' magazine, "How to get love in 10 steps!" it'll be using . But you wouldn't tell a hot guy " I you very much!" See? (passion) + (love) = (love in general)
( )
affection : more than friendship and less than love. (love) + (emotion) = (affection : more than friendship and less than love.)
customer
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KYAKU, KAKU
(each) (Same-ON)
The customers are COCKS where I work. Each customer will be sold one crown. Because the customer is king here at Randy Ralph's Regal Strip Ranch!!! DESCRIPTION: NEW ONYOMI: from now on, when you see a new kanji whose onyomi is "kyaku", please use "customer" for the mnemonic! KUNYOMI: ()
( or )
customer
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
audience (point of view) + (customer) = (audience) ( )

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passenger ( NP ) (ride a vehicle) + (customer) = (passenger)
USED IN:
fall,drop
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: RAKU
(waterleft) +
(each) (Same-ON)
The ROCK and roller was so wasted he fell down three times. On the way to the stage . Each flower petal falls onto the water. DESCRIPTION: Christ! Two out of three radicals are mutants. The mutant invasion has begun!!!
KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I drop something.
something falls (fall off your chair, a plate falls and breaks)
JUKUGO:
( )
corrupt in one's personal life - not usually political corruption. Drugs, lies, trife behavior. (corrupt) + (fall,drop) = (corrupt) to keep your cool. Often said as a command: !! (fall,drop) + (wear / arrive) = (keep your cool.)
( ) ( )
(literally,'the fallen group.') this is - along with Ainu, Korean ex-slaves, the Etahin,and the handicapped, one of the main groups discriminated against in Japan. I won't go into the whole story here, but most Japanese will say, 'Don't say , it's (= discriminatory)' What they neglect to tell you is, there is no polite word! Effectively denying these people a voice in the guise of being polite to them. This is a very. Very. Japanese way of fucking with people. ( CCW, ABU, FR) (section) + (fall,drop) + (folk) = (burakumin)
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( )
fail an exam,or get held back a grade. (fall,drop) + (rank or number in series) = (fail a test)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
late night BERET
fall,drop
FLOWERS
Hint
Radical
FLOWERS fall on me when I wear my BERET at night .
character, aspect
(tree) + (each) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: KAKU
Number: 613 10 strokes BETA, JERK
You should judge a man's character by the size of his COCK. Each species of tree has a different character - some are tall, some are dignified, some are gnarly and some are just on fire. DESCRIPTION: A classic JERK kanji; it means personality, shape, AND pass test! JUKUGO:
( )
literally, 'look' or 'shape,' as in 'He's dressed as a woman' : But usually it means 'coolness:' (cool) or (not).(when used in the figurative, 'cool' sense, it is usually KANA) ( 1/2 KANA) (character, aspect) + (like) = (looks)
( )
personality (sex / essential nature) + (character, aspect) = (personality)
( )
pass a test.(opposite: ) (to suit) + (character, aspect) = (pass test)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STRING get entangled character, aspect TREE RICEFIELD abbreviation
Hint
Radical
You get entangled in STRING, The Ents are TREEs, who were characters in Lord of the Rings. And. . . .um . . .and you abbreviate a RICEFIELD when you harvest the rice.
380
get entangled
ONYOMI: RAKU
(string) + (each) (Same-ON)

Each ROCK and roller who got entangled with Courtney Love, wound up committing suicide. Each string gets entangled with the other string. KUNYOMI: () ()
to get entangled in (a problem, a crime)
something gets entangled (unlike tends to be used only literally)
JUKUGO:
( )
to inform, to let someone know. Like, "Let me know if you're coming. Call me when you get there," kind of thing. (take with / inform of) + (get entangled) = (inform)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
abbreviation
(rice field) + (each)
ONYOMI: RYAKU ??? KUNYOMI:
r.y.a.k.u. is an abbreviation for each field. (Rrice Yells And Kalls U!)
*
JUKUGO:
to omit some information. Usually used like : : "I won't mention in more detail because you already know this part." Or, alternatively:
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( ) ( )
to abbreviate , omit, but also contraction. ( contractions like 'ain't' are ) (ministry / cut down on) + (abbreviation) = (abbreviate or leave out)
abbreviation or acronym, like CIA or SHIELD, NWA, or KRS ONE, BDP, CREAM, etc. (abbreviation) + (language) = (abbreviation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
road
ONYOMI: RO
(foot/ be enough) + (each)

should be easy to remember, because it sounds like ROad. Each foot walks on the same road. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
paved road - small or large (street) + (road) = (road)
maze (perplexed) + (road) = (maze)
road
Radical
street MOVE
FEET
The road is under your FEET, but you MOVE along the street. Word.
EACH road distance GIANT
Meaning
Hint
Radical
EACH road goes on for a GIANT distance. (it's part of a massive public-works project driven by kickbacks. Quite elaborate, really!)
382
USED IN:
clause
(eachbottom) +
ONYOMI: JOU
Number: 617 7 strokes COUNTER, BETA
(tree)
JOE Stalin nicely included a clause in the Soviet constitution where each comrade got a tree shoved up their butt DESCRIPTION: is a counter for laws or paragraphs. JUKUGO:
( )
condition, as in, "You gotta be Japanese to come in this club? Are you jokin'??"" (clause) + (incident) = (condition)
9 ( )
article 9 of the constitution, which states that Japan can't have an army. Right? WRONG. Japan CAN have an army - they just aren't allowed to invade, an inconvinient fact that both pacifists AND right-wingers seem to forget.
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
barley
ONYOMI:
(master/mainly) +
(eachbottom)
Each bit of barley was fed to the master DESCRIPTION: this can mean wheat, barley, or even oats. KUNYOMI:
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wheat JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! Hint
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Radical
sour
ONYOMI: SAN
(liquor) + (moocow) +
SANTA's lap smelled sour.
(animal legs) +
(eachbottom)
Each moocow who drinks sake gives sour milk the next day. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
sour, acidic flavor: lemons, vinegar, pickled plums. (1/2 KANA)
( )
acidity (sour) + (sex / essential nature) = (acidity)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
EACH lemon is sour, but NINE OF TEN guys get drunk every hour, and your MOUTH has horrendously bad raps when you you freestyle in the shower.
384
The essence of my RICE you did mock, so I pulverize you with a ROCK!!
Number: 620 PK
(right radical)
grasping hand
DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
excel
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(grasping hand)
He excels at grasping wheat from his opponent's SHOES. What? It's still not as dumb of a game as baseball! KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to be excellent / to surpass xxxx JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
superior, excellent (kindhearted/excel) + (excel) = (superior)
invite / entice
(say) + (excel)
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ONYOMI: YUU YOU excel at saying things which entice suckers. (FYI you are a televangelist, pimp, or both) DESCRIPTION: This has both a good meaning and a bad meaning! Invite someone to a nice dinner or lure them to their doom. KUNYOMI:
( or ) invite (a friend to dinner) (or sometimes, invite an emotion, as in, a tear-jerker of a movie) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
tempt (invite / entice) + (be misguided or tempted) = (tempt )
to lead or conduct : A teacher leads the class on the field trip. The policewoman conducts traffic. The nuance is, means literally going together with the people to the place. (invite / entice) + (lead) = (lead)
transparent
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(excel)
The excellent ninja moves on transparent TOES , so he is always unseen. KUNYOMI: ()
to be seethrough, (as in, a see-through blouse, or seeing a guy's scalp through his thinning hair) ususally phr ased like this: XXX
JUKUGO:
( )
transparent (like water or glass)(BOOBOO: not to be confused with 'invisible', which is ()) (transparent) + (bright) = (transparent)
( )
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to permeate (like mud permeating a towel); to stealthily take over (communism) ; osmosis (immerse) + (transparent) = (permeate)
Number: 624
386
carry in hand
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KEI It's OK to grab a turkey and carry it in your grasping-hand. KUNYOMI: ()
13 strokes
(turkey) +
(grasping hand)
o be mixed up in something, to participate or concerned with something. ( in the internet business/ a job with computers/ involved in a hijacking incident)
JUKUGO:
( )
cellphone (carry in hand) + (belt) = (cellphone)
reach / amount to
(grasping hand) +
ONYOMI: KYUU
Number: 625 3 strokes STRONG, SOLO
(one/line radical)
I never thought you'd amount to the CUTEst boy in school. (but then you bought Ray Bans and started pegging your acid-washed jeans) Let's think of the extra line as a dreadlock. So we can now say . . The grasping hand reaches to grab a dreadlock. Actually, that was not helpful. KUNYOMI: ()
influence the outcome or have an effect on. (usually bad, as in alcohol influencing judgement, or 'what impact does this have on society?')
()
* *
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reach to, but not like reaching your hands to the cookie jar. Reach like, "His research extends from physics to theology" or "Her criminal empire reaches from gambling to union shakedowns."
( xxx ) ( yyy ) xxx as well as yyy (F) LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
387
USED IN:
suck
ONYOMI: KYUU
(mouth/small box radical) + (reach / amount to) (Same-ON)

With such a CUTE mouth for sucking, you can amount to a first-class escort.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
duck/ I mean suck. (KANA)
( )
vampire (literally, 'suck blood devil.') ( NEO ) (suck) + (blood) + (demon) = (vampire)
( )
absorb (suck) + (get) = (absorb)
suck blow
REACH LACK
Radical
You REACH for a cigarette to suck. Then you blew out all the air, so now you LACK air.
level
ONYOMI: KYUU
(string) + (reach / amount to) (Same-ON)

Ozzy's CUTENESS level is fairly high. This is absolutely the highest level of the mountain you can reach with a 30 foot string. JUKUGO:
( )
hi-klass
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(tall) + (level) = (hi-klass)
( )
beginner-level (first time) + (level) = (beginner-level)
( ) ( )
intermediate-level (middle) + (level) = (intermediate-level)
advanced level. When you finish this book, you'll still be a beginner of kanji but you'll have advanced level skills at making people aware of problems in life that their Moms might face. (above) + (level) = (advanced-level)
( )
a rank, grade, class.(usually used in the sense of social class) ( NP ) (story of a building) + (level) = (social class)
treatment
(handleft) +
ONYOMI:
(reach / amount to)
You reach your hand out to someone: whether you shake their hand or punch them is your treatment of them.
* *
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
Treatment - usually applied to people, but originally used for objects, so it 's a little rude. Usually used like or . Can mean 'treatment of others' but, confusingly, can ALSO mean 'easy or hard for ME to DEAL WITH HIM/HER.' For example, does NOT mean 'He treats me difficultly', it means 'He's difficult to deal with.' (noun)
treatment(verb)
( )
Treatment - but unlike , is ONLY used for objects or cases. i.e. The police are handling the racial hate-crime very carefully. (take) + (treatment) = (management)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
treatment REACH (grasping hand)
Hint
Radical
389
extract
FRIEND
You REACH out for treatment with your grasping hand, but only your FRIEND will extract your tumors.
Number: 629 PK
snout
DESCRIPTION:
any questions?
USED IN:
tranquil
(wheat) + (nest) +
ONYOMI: ON - you don't need this
(snout) +
(bottomheart)
it's tranquil ON the surface but deep within the twisted mazes of your mind, you're as psycho as I am. The bird wished with all her heart to build a tranquil nest out of wheat, to shield her family from the snouts of predators.
* ( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
calm or mild - used about personality AND peaceful places, calm weather, mild ocean. A person who doesn't get mad. (1/2 KANA)
( )
- zero stars! -
quiet or tranquil place (equal / level) + (tranquil) = (tranquil)
hide tranquil
HOW TO TELL AND APART: 90% of the time it's .

390
perpetrate
(personleft) + (again/crotch radical)
ONYOMI: SHIN as in, "The perpetrator stole a SHINy diamond. " The person raped the pig - snout with his crotch. In the nostril! DESCRIPTION: This is usually used about rape.
DUPE
(snout) +
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
violate something, usually civil rights, copyright, right to privacy, right to free speech, etc. Also used in slander or defemation, for instance if I said the pope only had one nut. (NP)
( )
invasion ( NP ) (perpetrate) + (attack) = (invasion)
( )
intrusion or infestation or - sometimes - interstitial or even good old 'entry!' If you're talking about intrusive, anxious thoughts that make it impossible to enjoy a sunny day, or whether you're talking about a burglar intruding into your home, or an infestation of maggots in a wound, or even if you're planning a particular point for a moon landing, is your boy. Holla! ( NP ) (perpetrate) + (put/go in) = (intrusion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
sweep go back home perpetrate immerse
HAND SWORD PERSON WATER
Radical
You use your HANDS to clean, but use your SWORD to go home (since there are zombies in your driveway, duh). A PERSON perpetrates a crime by immersing a wicked witch in WATER. That might have been cool in the '40s but now it's a hate-crime.
immerse
(waterleft) + (snout) +

391
ONYOMI: SHIN
The mustachioed pig immersed his snout in the SHINY water which flowed from his crotch. Daaaamn!!! How ya like me now, mnemonics-fans??? KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I soak or immerse something, like dipping bread in soup, or a soapy rag.
something gets immersed
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
to permeate (like mud permeating a towel); to stealthily take over (communism) ; osmosis (immerse) + (transparent) = (permeate)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
green
(string) +
ONYOMI: RYOKU
(snout) +
(water)
I have a RE-OCCURRING nightmare where green water pours out of my snout like a green string uncoiling.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
green
( )
green tea (AKA the only time you'll ever use the on-yomi for 'green')
392
(green) + (tea) = (green tea)

WATER green rim / omen HOUSE GOLD record
The WATER is green, but the rim of the HOUSE is clean. If you record music you'll get a GOLD record.
urgent
(fishhook) +
ONYOMI: KYUU
(snout) +
(bottomheart)
When some CUTE dudes get fishhooks stuck in their snouts while simultaneously having heart attacks, that's pretty urgent.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to rush (usually in the present tense, like this : !(!))
xxx ( xxx)
suddenly ( KUN ON)
( )
express train (urgent) + (go) = (express train)
or ( or )
urgent (tense) + (urgent) = (urgent)
hit the target

ONYOMI: TOU
(snout)
393
I hit the target of your TOE. The weapon is this sputum. The three cute baby birds hit the pig right on the snout. DESCRIPTION: this can always be used literally OR figuratively, just like in English. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I hit it, I guess correctly, (telling someone to guess is :!( !))
to hit (the nail on the head), to correspond to something exactly.To win (a prize)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
for realz. (book / the real) + (hit the target) = (for realz.) appropriate, as in an appropriate gift. However, also means irresponsible! Doing something without considering the consequences. ! He's irresponsible. He'll say anything that pops into his head. ( JERK) (suitable) + (hit the target) = (appropriate)
( ) ( )
just, natural, deserved - although it's often used like 'That's obvious, isn't it?' (hit the target) + (nature) = (natural, obvious)
that day . . . (hit the target) + (sun, day) = (that day . . .)
Number: 636
(right radical)
swordswallower
DESCRIPTION: Moustache on top + dagger ) on bottom = sword going into a mouth = sword swallower.
USED IN:
394
housewife
(woman) +
ONYOMI: FU
Number: 637 11 strokes ILL PAIR, BETA, FR
(snout) +
(swordswallower)
That is FUCKED up that while you're out working , your housewife is fucking a pig-snouted swordswallower. DESCRIPTION: Is this a Fucked Radical? There's nothing inherently bad about the right-hand radicals "snout + swordswallower" (remember, they're just names I made up) - but the only other two kanji that have that particular combo are "go home" and "clean house." So you be the judge. . . JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
married couple (husband) + (housewife) = (married couple)
housewife ( FR) (master/mainly) + (housewife) = (housewife)
pregnant woman (pregnant) + (housewife) = (pregnant woman)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
housewife woman radical is on the LEFT wife FORK
Hint
Radical
The housewife is on the LEFT side, because she gets left behind when her husband goes to work. The wife is holding a FORK because she has a job as a cook.
sweep
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SOU This room is SO dirty. Sweep it!
(snout) +
(swordswallower)
Take your hand, and sweep the snouts off the floor of the sword-swallower's room (he's been practicing on pigs again)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
sweep (KANA)
395
( )
house-cleaning. Not just sweeping, but vacuuming, straightening up, smacking the futon, etc. ( 1/2 KANA, FP ) (sweep) + (exclude) = (house-cleaning)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
go back home
(sword) +
ONYOMI: KI When you go home you need the KEY to get in.
(snout) +
(swordswallower)
I know the right-bottom radical is 'sword-swallower', but let's just pretend it's plain old 'dagger' instead. thus: I got my sword pointed at your ugly snout, and my dagger pointed at your ugly hat, you need to get your ass home before I kill you!!! Punk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KUNYOMI:
( or ) go home JUKUGO:
( )
go home. (a little formal) (go back home) + (residence) = (go home. (a little formal))
or ( or )
return to one's home country. (go back home) + (country) = (return to one's home country.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
396
go back home SWORD perpetrate PERSON immerse WATER sweep HAND
foreign emperor
(stand up) +
ONYOMI: TEI TAKE me to the foreign emperor now!
Number: 640 9 strokes BETA, STRONG
(swordswallower)
The foreign emperor stands in front of you swallowing a sword. All like, "Yeaaah boyeeee I can swallow anything I like, I'm the freakin' emperor!!" JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
emperor - like China, not like Japan. (BOOBOO: Japan's emperor is :.) (emperor) + (foreign emperor) = (other country's emperor)
empire - in the literal, non-judgemental sense of 'having an emperor' (England, China, ancient Inca). I don't think carries the bad nuance of 'imperialism' (i.e. warlike or colonialist). (foreign emperor) + (country) = (empire)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
foreign emperor STAND MOUNTAIN belt
Hint
Radical
STAND UP to greet the emperor, But tie your belt around a MOUNTAIN.
USED IN:
tighten
(string) + (foreign emperor) (Same-ON)

397
ONYOMI: Tighten the string around the foreign emperor!! Next stop, the guillotine!!! Viva la revolucion! KUNYOMI: ()
* *
to tighten (a knob, guitar strings, a seat-belt, the throat of your 11th victim (each victim you kill in a different way) (KANA)
()
something gets tightened or fastened (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
a deadline (tighten) + (cut / important) = (a deadline)
( )
a crackdown, a regulation of something that was unregulated (take) + (tighten) = (crackdown)
Number: 642
(right radical)
MUTANT
(turkey)
(snout) + USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: A turkey with 2 snouts is a mutant. Who's the best kanji teacher? Huh? Who?? Me, that's right.
jump
(foot/ be enough) +
*
JUKUGO:
(MUTANT)
Use your feet to jump over the mutant YAK!
to jump repeatedly up and down- as in "jumping jacks."
( )
a leap. Usually figurative. Make a leap forward in technology. Not used as a verb.
398
(fly) + (jump) = (a leap)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
to jump horizontally, as in the Olympic long jump. (leap up) + (jump) = (to jump horizontally)
rapid progress (jump) + (progress) = (rapid progress)
rinse
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: TAKU
(MUTANT)
I've been meaning to TALK to that mutant about rinsing properly with water. Having 3 arms and eyestalks is cool, but homeboy is smelling rank. JUKUGO:
( )
washing machine (do laundry) + (machine) = (washing machine)
( ) ( )
do laundry ( 1/2 KANA) (wash) + (rinse) = (do laundry)
laundry ( KUN ON) (do laundry) + (animal / thing) = (laundry )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER rinse day of the week DAY
Hint
Radical
Rinse with WATER, but day of the week has a fuckin' DAY in it. Duh.
day of the week

(sun, day) +
(MUTANT)
399
ONYOMI: YOU Every day of the week that mutant is YODELING. I'm going to smack it. JUKUGO:
( )
Thursday (tree) + ''.So, () becomes simply ())) = (Thursday )
xxx
(xxx )
Day of the week (BOOBOO; in practice, most Japanese omit the final ''.So, ( ) becomes simply ()) ( COUNTER , SUF) (day of the week) + (sun, day) = (day of week)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER rinse day of the week DAY
Hint
Radical
Rinse with WATER, but day of the week has a fuckin' DAY in it. Duh.
craft or industry
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 646 3 strokes STRONG, PK, PN, BETA
as in : "The crafty drug mule smuggled COCAINE on the plane in his COLON." It looks like a cross-section of an iron girder. Since this is the kanji for factory (), you can think of it like, a girder made at the iron factory.
JUKUGO:
( )
construction work - buildings or roads, i.e. what guys do outside your window. (craft or industry) + (action/ incident) = (construction)
( )
factory (craft or industry) + (place) = (factory)
( )
400
man-made ( NEO ) (person) + (craft or industry) + (motivation / '-al') = (man-made)
( )
carpenter. How awesome is that!???! Seriously, I wouldn't even believe my friend when he told me,I was like, 'Cmon, grow up.' He was like, "What is so funny about a daiku carpenter?" I made him look it up in the dictionary and prove it. ( FP ) (big) + (craft or industry) = (carpenter)
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
air
ONYOMI: KUU KUNYOMI:
(hole) + (craft or industry)

COOL air came in through a hole in the aircraft carrier.
the sky
( xxx ) to be empty or vacant (XXX could be a chair, a parking spot, etc.) ()
to empty out (a bottle for your dead homies, etc.)Also to get out of the way of something
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
air
(air) + (mood) = (air )
( )
USED IN:
airport (air) + (harbor) = (airport )
abstain
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(air)
401
Abstain from COCAINE! When your hand reaches out for it, it just grabs empty air instead. Because I snatched your little mirror. Zoinks!
KUNYOMI:
Sometimes means 'to wait,' but often means, 'to repress one's true feelings or refrain from actions you really secretly want to do. ' Pretty much the same as but there are two important distinctions: is something you do because society forces you to, but is something you do because YOU want to. Also is usually used about repressing or refraining from doing ACTIONS, while usually referrs to only repressing feelings.
JUKUGO:
( )
waiting room (abstain) + (room) = (waiting room)
dark lipstick red color

Number: 649
9 strokes
(string) + (craft or industry) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: KOU, KU
Dark lipstick red from your KOOCHIE is staining my COLON right now. You crazy felcher you! Dark red lipstick is a craft women use to tie up men like string. DESCRIPTION: along with (vermilion), this is one of 2 color words for colors that don't exist in English. Unfortunately, you need this for 2 fairly common words: lipstick and tea.
KUNYOMI:
dark red color
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
lipstick ( KUNKUN ) (mouth) + (dark lipstick red color) = (lipstick)
black tea (dark lipstick red color) + (tea) = (black tea )
success
(craft or industry) (Same-ON) + (strong)

402
ONYOMI: KOU COCAINE was successful in keeping me up all night. His craftiness is so strong, it assures him success (Dick Cheney/the Joker). JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
success (become) + (success) = (success)
an achievement or good deed (success) + (achievements) = (achievement)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
adroit
Hint
Radical
STRENGTH success CRAFT attack renew / improve MYSELF

She's skilful with a FISHHOOK. He's successful because of his STRENGTH. The attack was CRAFTY. I want to renew and improve MYSELF.
FISHHOOK
Number: 651 PK
(hook radical)
pirate's hook
DESCRIPTION:
Yup.
USED IN:
adroit
ONYOMI: KOU
(craft or industry) +
(pirate's hook)
403
She's very adroit with her COLON. she can poop a turd that looks like Rodin's "The Thinker." She's is such an adroit metalworker, she can craft her own pirate-hooks in less than three minutes.
* ( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
schmoov. Schmooov! A clever ad slogan, slick flattery, adroit political manipulation, etc.
( )
- zero stars! -
to handle a tool skillfully (adroit) + (manipulate/ chastity) = (handle a tool skillfully)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
adroit
Hint
Radical

FISHHOOK
bestow
(pirate's hook) +
ONYOMI: YO Bestow a YO-YO!
(one/line radical)
If you think of the horizontal line as a line of crank, you can say this: Bestow one line of crank to ol' Cap'n Hook, or it's the brig for ye!! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to give, grant, bestow (give a kid an allowance / give someone a chance / a degree in Doctorology / an award / food to a pet)
( )
USED IN:
salary, wages (provide) + (bestow) = (salary, wages )
404
copy
ONYOMI: SHA KUNYOMI: () ()
(bestow)
You SHALL bestow on me a copy of the moustache you got. That shit is dope!
* *
I copy something using the xerox machine / I take a picture
to be reflected or mirrored .
JUKUGO:
( )
photo (take photo: ()) (copy) + (truth) = (photo)
( )
a depiction or representation of something (literally, as in 'this film contains graphic depictions of violence' or figuratively, as in 'Describe his personality to me.') ( NP ) (depict) + (copy) = (depiction )
- zero stars! -
dirty
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: O
(pirate's hook)
OH shit, get some water! That pirate's hook of yours is just nasty and filthy and dirty as -- where have you been putting that hook??? (up Peter Pan's butt is the answer; we both know this) DESCRIPTION: BOOBOO: Although your books will tell you this means 'kitanai,' kitanai is 99.9% written in hiragana, so don't bother. KUNYOMI: () ()
to make something dirty
to be polluted. Both literally, like a dirty shirt, and metaphorically, like an untouchable person. My friend said this is an important 'cultural code word,' because in Japan if someone is a dick to you and you fight back in public, you are considered , That is, you're linked publicly with that person even if you were defending yourself. That's why girls don't punch guys trying to hassle them. I'm not sure it's true what my friend said, but she's pretty right-wing so she would never make up somethin (CCW)
JUKUGO:
405
( )
pollution OR contamination. (BOOBOO : If you want to say "environmental pollution," you have to use not ) (dirty) + (dye) = (pollution/contamination)
extreme
radical)
ONYOMI: KYOKU I can't think of anything...
Number: 656 12 strokes ILL PAIR, DUPE
(tree) + (mouth/small box radical) +
(pirate's hook) +
(again/crotch
The pirate jumped out from behind a tree and is clawing your mouth with his pirate hook and you are kicking him in the crotch and it is so fucking EXTREME. KUNYOMI: ()
extremely. good OR bad. Usually used like: xxx ; extremely good at XXX. Or, the tyrant was extremely cruel.
JUKUGO:
( )
extreme - Used about people, people who take things too far. (not tempratures or political ideologies) A 2-foot-tall mohawk is . (extreme) + (the edge) = (extreme)
( )
to get to the bottom of. To exactly assess or find the reason for something. (eye) + (extreme) = (get to the bottom of.)
( )
- zero stars! Hint
the ultimate, definitive, comprehensive something-or-other (research) + (extreme) = (ultimate, definitive)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
intense WHITE extreme TREE
Radical
The WHITE-water rafting is intense!!!!!, but the TREE is extremely tall!!!!
be proud of

406
(say) + (big) +
ONYOMI: KO
(pirate's hook)
The KODOMO () said he was proud of his big pirate hook. As he should be!
KUNYOMI:
be proud of
number
ONYOMI: GOU

GO to school and learn numbers.
(pirate's hook)
The Bizarro Dentist put a number of pirate hooks in your mouth during the Bizarro Checkup. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) a SUFFIX which you put after a numbered item (apartment number, account number, etc.) Like, if you live in room 204, you'd say (LAZY, SUF) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
signal, i.e. traffic signal (believe) + (number) = (signal)
a code (dark) + (number) = (a code)
( )
your secret PIN number you use when you go to the ATM. This is different from a password you use on the internet - that's (dark) + (proof) + phone number or apartment number, or ZIP code number.) = (secret code number)
consider
407
(dizzy) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(pirate's hook)
I consider putting my pirate hook upside your mom's COlon until the bitch gets dizzy.
* *
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to think (about a problem or your options or the meaning of some shit)
one's thoughts on the matter.
( )
to consider carefully -to take into account the special circumstances. (consider) + (consideration) = (consider)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get old
Hint
Radical
HEEL
consider PIRATE HOOK

Getting old is my Achilles' HEEL, but I'm considering getting a PIRATE HOOK.
USED IN:
torture
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: GOU JUKUGO:
(consider)
The CIA makes you GO to Gitmo and they'll torture your hands until you re-consider your actions.
( )
torture (torture) + (question, problem) = (torture)
ritual
MUTANTS:
Number: 661 6 strokes BETA, MR
(craft or industry) + ??? (???) + (dot)

408
rituals ONYOMI: SHIKI SHE KILLED the chicken at the voodoo ritual. On the top right, you see a new shape: two lines and a dot I guess you could think of some cavemen having a ceremony where they make fire (the dot) by rubbing the two sticks (lines) together) . . . and then you could say .. . At the ritual, the head caveman ceremoniously crafted fire ! JUKUGO:
( )
the marriage ceremony (the marriage ceremony)
( ) ( )
funeral (mourn) + (ritual) = (funeral)
Usually refers to a religious ceremony. Or sometimes a secular one: a swearing-in of a new president, or even someone with O.C.D. who has to clap their hands 4 times whenever they touch a doorknob! (politeness) + (ritual) = (ceremony)
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
wipe
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SHOKU
(ritual)
Wiping your butt with your bare hand is an Arab ritual that might SHOCK members of the infidel community. KUNYOMI:
to wipe
attempt to do
(say) +
(ritual)
409
ONYOMI: SHI SHE will attempt to say the right Hebrew words on her Bat mitzvah ritual, but that shit is really hard so she'll probably forget it after SHE turns 14.
* *
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to attempt or try something (NP)
to test the limits of something (Rollerball tests your life!) or to try something and see if you like it (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
a game (of pool, tennis, etc.) ( KUN ON, NOKURI ) (attempt to do) + (to suit) = (game) a test, like in school - kind of formal. (BOOBOO : normally people just say ) ( NP ) (attempt to do) + (test) = (test)
military
ONYOMI: BU
(rituals) +
(stop)
Hippies see the military and yell BOO!! BABY KILLERS!! There is only one ritual that makes the military stop what they are doing even in the middle of a big battle : Hammer Time. JUKUGO:
( )
weapon (military) + (instrument) = (weapon)
( ) ( )
martial arts (military) + (street) = (martial arts) White kids say 'samurai', but real Japanese usually say . It can also be used to refer to the whole social class, as in ( = samruai spirit) or ( = the honor-code of the samurai) (military) + (samurai radical) = (samurai)
410
generation / instead of
Number: 665
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: DAI
(rituals)
Back in the '70s, they had a ritual where the older generation of people DIED , and the new generation took its place. I think it was called punk. KUNYOMI: ()
* ( )
JUKUGO:
something is exchanged or one person succeeds another. A robot replaces a human, (who is made into Soylent Green)
instead of. As in, "Pay with your booty instead of money."
( ) ( )
political delegate or group represtntative (generation / instead of) + (express) = (representative)
a generation (as in, generation gap, the me generation, all that stuff) (society) + (generation / instead of) = (generation)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
generation / instead of dot is on the outside GLUE - dot is on the inside! stick to
Timberrrr! is like Generation but with an EXTRA LINE -which you can think of as a SPEAR striking down a whole generation. "Stick to" is the only kanji where the dot is on the inside, so you could think of it as a dot of GLUE making the left and right right radicals stick to each other.
timmmberrr
Hint
Radical
SPEAR
USED IN:
lend
ONYOMI: TAI
(generation / instead of) + (shellfish/money)

Can you lend me some money to go to THAILAND? The older generation lends money to the younger. KUNYOMI:
411
*
JUKUGO:
lend, or rent, which is kind of fucked up that they use the same word for a generous act and a usorious one.
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIXusually found on store signs, meaning 'rental': room for rent, parking space for rent, etc.(FP;note how the last "shi" is pronounced but not written. ) ( SUF, NOKURI )
( )
- zero stars! -
rental (rent money) + (lend) = (rental)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rent money RESPONSIBILITY GENERATION lend cargo HEELS
Hint
Radical
Number: 667
(right radical)
spear
(rituals) +
(one/line radical)
DESCRIPTION: We'll think of the line as a still-beating heart impaled on the end of the spear. So anyway, yeah, during the ritual they get all Aztec on your ass with a big spear.
USED IN:
412
timmmberrr
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BATSU
(spear)
The person with the spear strikes down bad BATSU Maru.That penguin was out of line!! JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
cutting down a tree. Logging. (timmmberrr) + (gather) = (logging)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
timmmberrr
Hint
Radical
SPEAR
USED IN:
clique
ONYOMI: BATSU KUNYOMI:
(gate) + (timmmberrr) (Same-ON)

When your clique gets to the gate, my clique will strike them down with baseball BATS!
clique (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
A faction within a political party or corporation. Like every country has factions, but has the nuance of 'We all claim to be loyal to the organization but behind closed doors we are plotting to hijack it with our own agenda.' Nobody would say publicly, "I'm in this ! ( NP ) (faction/bling) + (clique) = (faction)
( )
a group of banks, corporations, and underworld guys, where everyone is on each

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other's board of directors - like capitalist feudal states. These are the fuckers who bankrolled and encouraged Japan's role in the second world war. FDR specifically told MacArthur to break them up, but Mac didn't.Companies like Mitsui bank and Mitsubishi, Nissan, etc. have profited handsomely off of slave labor and Hirohito's war, and they continue to be the bedrock of society. (loot) + (clique) = (big biz)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
BEANS struggle pitch-black darkness SOUND PERSON clique
Hint
Radical
be misguided or tempted
Number: 670
12 strokes
(spear) +
ONYOMI: WAKU
(bottomheart)
The devil on my shoulder used his mouth to tempt me to stab with a spear, the girl who WALKED on my heart. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
get bewildered (by your own ignorance, accidentally) or led astray (by someone else, deliberately)
( )
annoyance. Can be used as an adjective (xxx) or as a verb (=to annoy). (perplexed) + (be misguided or tempted) = (annoyance)
( )
tempt (invite / entice) + (be misguided or tempted) = (tempt )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
be misguided or tempted NO CLIFF feeling CLIFF
Hint
Radical
MISGUIDED is basically FEELING, missing the left-hand side. So you can say, "I feel like a CLIFF. If there's no cliff, I must have been MISGUIDED and gotten lost on the way to the CLIFF "
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we
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: GA
(spear)
Don't mess with us!! We GOT our hand around the handle of this here spear!
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
us (kind of formal, an 'older guy' word) (gives the impression that you're making a speech) (F) like but more so! (F)
( )
to endure, to bear something. Often translated as 'patience,' but that is not quite right. You have patience if you can do data entry on a fucking kanji dictionary for 5 hours straight, but you gaman with your overtime or while taking final exams with a burst appendix. Masochists tend to gaman when they're fed worms while tied up. Sometimes the concept of gaman DOES overlap with the English idea of patience, though: Little kids have to gaman if they find out that Disneyland is still 4 hours away. One possible way to make GAMAN fit with the theme of 'neglect' is to remember that the 'ga' part means 'self.' So GAMAN means 'neglect yourself,' or, more poetically, 'Stop feeling the pain of your body and mind, and concentrate on the task at hand.' ( CCW, 1/2 KANA) (we) + (neglect/ egotistic) = (persevere)
( )
visible evidence of damage: scars, cuts, bruises. Both new and old scars. ( KANA, FP )
(suspicious) + (we) = (scar)

USED IN:
bandit
(shellfish/money) +
(spear) +
(ten)
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ONYOMI: ZOKU This is a new mnemonic! Whenever you see a kanji whose onyomi is ZOKU, please use this radical as the keyword. Ten bandits with spears took your money . KUNYOMI:
a bandit or rebel- not like a lone mugger, but a bunch of dudes hiding in the countryside outside of government control, all Robin Hood style (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
pirate (pirate DVDs go by the wonderful neologism of "DVD") (ocean) + (bandit) = (pirate)
region
ONYOMI: IKI
(earth) + (mouth/small box radical) +

I'll be good -please don't send me to the ICKY region!
(spear)
I guard the border of my region of earth with a spear and my mouth. All waving the spear, yelling "YOU GODDAMN KIDS! STAY OFF MY REGION!!" JUKUGO:
( )
a region or district, a zone. (emphasizes a social community moreso than a geographical area) (i.e. you wouldn't use it for the tropics or the Arctic, but you'd use it for Chinatown ,the American South or Kanto/Kansai) (area) + (region) = (district, zone)
( )
a territory or domain controlled by someone. Also used in neologisms like "domain name!" ( NP ) (territory) + (region) = (domain)
region MOUTH castle BECOME
Radical
This region's full of SNITCHIN' ASS MOUTHS The ground BECOMES a castle, when architects come around.
Number: 674
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fight
(merely) +
ONYOMI: SEN KUNYOMI: ()
13 strokes DUPE
(spear)
SEND the soldiers to fight with merely a spear? Are you mad???? Give them guns and shit like that. Hella flamethrowers.
*
a fight
*
JUKUGO:
fight physically - either with fists or armies. (sometimes used figuratively - fight crime!) But in any case, usually refers to an ongoing struggle rather than a single barroom punch-up.
( )
war (fight) + (battle) = (war)
( )
challenge (challenge yourself to do better, test your limits / challenge the system) be defiant or provocative. take the pepsi challenge! (challenge) + (fight) = (challenge)
( )
any strategy for succeeding - in war, business, school, etc. (make) + (fight) = (strategy)
cultivate
(ten) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(spear) +
(tree)
I SIGH when my dad tells me he's cultivating marijuana again. I'm cultivating ten trees so I can turn them into spears! JUKUGO:
( )
bonsai. Oh man, this entry was so not worth even making. Deeeyamn.
( )
cultivate
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how much?
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: KI How much for a KILO? How many spears does Eazy E have? Two. KUNYOMI:
(spear)
* *
JUKUGO:
how many? (1/2 KANA)
how much? (1/2 KANA)
( )
geometry (I like this because it seems that even the Chinese sages who made up this word were confused by geometry. It's like 'the science of what the fuck??') ( FR, FP ) (how much?) + (what?!?) + (knowledge) = (geometry)
USED IN:
machine
ONYOMI: KI
(tree) + (how much?) (Same-ON)

KEEP your crossbow machine away from me! I ain't do nothin'! How many trees did it take to make that wooden machine? JUKUGO:
( )
A machine, particularly something with a motor in it which moves when activated. A computer is not a , but a robot arm is. (machine) + (contraption) = (machine)
( ) ( )
airplane (fly) + (go) + (machine) = (airplane) mood (bad mood: !)

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(machine) + (eww!!) = (mood)
( )
a social crisis (oil crisis, global warming, etc.) ( 1/2 KANA) (dangerous) + (machine) = (social crisis)
( )
a chance, as in, "I hope I will have a chance to go to Australia someday." or "This could be my only chance to see yo mama's huge collection of Rosie O'donnel papsmears." (machine) + (big meeting) = (a chance)
Number: 678 STRONG
(side radical)
sentry
(spear) +
(stand up) +
USED IN:
(sun, day)
DESCRIPTION: I call him the SENTRY, because who else stands all day in the sun holding a spear?? STRONG RADICAL FOR SHOKU and SHIKI.
employment
(ear) +
(sentry) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: SHOKU
I was SHOCKED to hear that he was able to find a employment! My ear is a sentry, always alert for opportunities for employment. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
unemployment (without) + (employment) = (unemployment)
place of work. ( KUN ON) (employment) + (place) = (place of work.)
( )
occupation - a slightly formal word for job. ( NP )

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(employment) + (business) = (occupation)

EAR employment SAY be conscious organization / weave STRING
You HEAR about employment opportunities with your EAR, but you have to be conscious what you SAY in the job interview. If you get the job, you're bound to the organization with social STRING.
organization / weave
Number: 680
18 strokes PN, JERK
(string) +
(sentry) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: SHOKU, SHIKI I was SHOCKED that SHE KEEPS joining that organization! With string, you weave a uniform for all the sentries of that organization.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
weave, knit
( )
an organization or structure - usually social (like a union or mafia) (one's team) + (organization / weave) = (organization)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
be conscious
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(say) +
ONYOMI: SHIKI
(sentry) (Same-ON)
SHE KEEPS knocking me unconscious. My consciousness is a sentry that watches over everything I say. JUKUGO:
( )
knowledge (know) + (be conscious) = (knowledge)
( )
to have an awareness or be conscious of something- women are conscious of potential rapists in an everyday, peripheral way that men are not. Hippies are environmentally conscious. That's ishiki. (meaning) + (be conscious) = (awareness)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 682 PK
(big radical)
container
DESCRIPTION: Not only does it contain other radicals, but it actually LOOKS like the letter C. so. . .CCCCcontainer
USED IN:
ward
(container) +
ONYOMI: KU JUKUGO:
(katakana 'me')
By May, this ward may contain as many as 1,000,000 people.
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xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX meaning 'ward'- for example, () Shinjuku ward. (ward is a district of a city) ( SUF)
( )
to make a distinction - to tell one thing from another - 2 synonyms, for instance. or 2 similar-looking kanji (ward) + (separate) = (distinguish)
( )
the government office for your ward- where you get your immigration paperwork and junk. (ward) + (role) + (area / attribute) = (ward office)
USED IN:
gallop
ONYOMI: KU KUNYOMI: ()
(horse) + (ward) (Same-ON)

That horse can gallop around a full ward in like 3 seconds.
gallop - only used about horses/camels/elephants (if you are Hannibal). Also can be used if you are describing someone who is yelling at a taxi driver to go faster.
giant super huge

(container) +
ONYOMI: KYO
Your bad breath from your mouth is so giant, you had to Keep Your Odor in a huge container , and you only let it out when Godzilla attacks the city. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
huge guy! Like a dinosaur or Gandam. (giant super huge) + (big) = (huge guy! (or girl))
a giant, like Andre, but also a important person, as in, 'Microsoft is a giant in the software industry.'
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(giant super huge) + (person) = (giant)
( ) ( )
tig ole biddies ( ABU) (giant super huge) + (milk) = (tig ole biddies)
Think you can figure this one out? ( ABU) (giant super huge) + (root) = (that's right: monster cock.)
USED IN:
repel
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KYO
(giant super huge) (Same-ON)
Keep Your Odors to yourself - I repel them! David used his hands to repel the giant. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
absolute refusal - it can be physical as well as verbal. For example, if someone refuses to shake your hand, that's
( )
absolute refusal- unlike (), is always verbal - an exit line. Like if you tell a guy 'no thanks' 10 times and he won't go away, you use . As in, ' Oh no you di'int! ( ABU) (repel) + (no) = (refuse!!!!)
distance
ONYOMI: KYO
(foot/ be enough) + (giant super huge) (Same-ON)

Keep Your Odor at a distance please. The distance is so giant, you can't journey there on foot. JUKUGO:
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( )
physical distance between two things: towns on a map, for instance, or the distance between an archer and a target - a much bigger distance than the related word . (distance) + (divorce / physical distance between things) = (distance)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
EACH road distance GIANT
Hint
Radical
EACH road goes on for a GIANT distance. (it's part of a massive public-works project driven by kickbacks. Quite elaborate, really!)
vassal
ONYOMI: SHIN, JIN
(giant super huge) + (one/line radical)

I command the vassal to bring us a SHINY new bottle of GIN! This kanji is 'gigantic' plus TWO VERTICAL LINES, which we can think of as crutches. .. My vassal is so gigantic, he needs 2 crazy vertical crutches and struts to not collapse, a la Salvador Dali.. . .no wait. . . fuck!! You do better.
No wait, that is a pretty ok mnemonic. Check that vassal out! Look at 'im go!!! shit, after all that explanation, it's only a * DESCRIPTION: This kanji is mostly used as a radical, and more bad news: for some reason, all the kanji using the vassal radical tend to be super complex and similar-looking. Doh. JUKUGO:
( )
cabinet Minister (Minister of Finance, Minister of Defense, Minister of Butts and Asses, etc.) (big) + (vassal) = (Minister )
USED IN:
solid, steadfast
Number: 689 12 strokes PN, DUPE, SOLO

424
(vassal) + (again/crotch radical) + (earth)

ONYOMI: KEN KENNY from South Park is pretty steadfast - he keeps getting killed and coming back. The vassal's crotch is as solid as the earth whenever the master's wife walks by. KUNYOMI:
unlike the other 2 s, this one is FIGURATIVE : hard as in a steadfast, Sam Gamgee-ass pal. certain, reliable, solid. But also has a bad meaning: too stuffy, formal, rigid and bound by tradition
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
tense oversee solid, steadfast clever view
STRING PLATE EARTH MONEY LOOK
Radical
I pull the STRING until it's very tense. You oversee the PLATE (you're a waiter) The EARTH is very solid. You gotta be clever to get MONEY. You view things by LOOKING at them, dumbass.
tense
ONYOMI: KIN
(vassal) + (again/crotch radical) + (string)

I'm tense whenever your KINfolk come around. There's a family feud a'brewin'. The vassal ties a string to your crotch and RAN until the string was pulled very tense. JUKUGO:
( )
stress, stretched to the max can be used both literally and figuratively. (tense) + (stretch) = (stress)
or ( or )
urgent (tense) + (urgent) = (urgent)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
tense oversee
STRING PLATE
Hint
Radical
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solid, steadfast EARTH MONEY clever LOOK view
clever
ONYOMI: KEN
(vassal) + (again/crotch radical) + (shellfish/money)

Clever KEN pimps out his vassal's crotch for extra money.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
clever, shrewd, wise
( )
devious (bad) + (clever) = (devious )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 692
view
17 strokes BETA
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(vassal) +
ONYOMI: RAN JUKUGO:
(rifle) +
(look)
The vassal picked up his rifle and RAN to look and view the intruders.
( ) ( )
an art show or art exhibition. (exhibit) + (view) + (big meeting) = (exhibition)
a formal way of asking your superior to view something. either ' ' or ' .' ( F ) (the honorific "o") + (view) = (please look sir)
( )
To break it down:
a GIANT exposition. Not like, "Cezanne's greatest fuckin' paintings all up in here festival" but huger - like a World's Fair.
(biggest kind of expo ) (=trade show) (=art exhibition) (museum /extensive) + (view) + (big meeting) = (exposition)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical

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to confront
(vassal) +
ONYOMI: RIN KUNYOMI: ()
(rifle) +
(products)
The vassal with the rifle confronts anyone who tries to steal the products: expensive RINGS.
the dictionary says it means "to face", like "You 'll face sanctions if you keep trying to build atomic weapons." , But usually it has the nuance of "Stand strong and resolute even in the face of something scary". Like, "He must face terrorism without flinching." (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( ) temporary, acting, provisional ( NP ) (to confront) + (time) = (provisional)

- zero stars! -
princess
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: ()
(woman) + (vassal)
A princess is only a female vassal until she gets promoted to queen.
( )
princess
small animal
(human legs) +
ONYOMI: HIKI
(container)
Don't give HICKEYS to your pets. That is not awesome. Imagine one of those uncomfortable women you see on a train, all sneaking her pet on in a plastic container. All you can see is its furry legs through the mesh window. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
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it's a counter for animals, up to maybe the size of a deer. (BOOBOO: anything bigger than a deer is counted with '.') ( COUNTER )
( )
USED IN:
three small animals (three) + (small animal) = (three small animals)
artisan
(container) +
(axe)
The artisan will SHOW the apprentice how to expertly carve a wooden container using the traditional axe.
( )
master craftsman, who teaches disciples and apprentices. If he's awesome but doesn't have apprentices, you don't use this one. (master, teacher) + (artisan) = (master craftsman)
the numeral 4
(animal legs) +
ONYOMI: SHI
Number: 697 5 strokes ABU
SHE can fit four legs in her mouth at the same time. (FYI she is not kinky, she is a female Carcharodon carcharias) DESCRIPTION: Along with '7' '4' is one of the numbers where the KUN and ON are used pretty randomly. Like, more than usual. When counting months, usually one uses the kuns, but with 4 and 7 you use the ONs. ABU: since this has the same ONyomi as 'death' () it is considered an unlucky number.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
4 things (COUNTER)
( )
April ( KANA, FP ) (the numeral 4) + (moon) = (April)

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( )
4 o'clock (the numeral 4) + (time) = (4 o'clock)
( ) ( ) ( )
USED IN:
4 hours' time. As in, this bus ride takes 4 hours. (4 o'clock) + (a period of time) = (4 hours' time)
fourth day of the month ( FP ) (the numeral 4) + (sun, day) = (fourth day of the month )
a square (the numeral 4) + (horn/corner) = (a square)
exclaim
ONYOMI: KAN KUNYOMI: ()

*
(fishhook) +
(the numeral 4) + (big)
When Genghis KHAN puts four big fish-hooks in your mouth, you'll exclaim too.
(almost always hiragana) - yell in an angry way, but you're still using words. (KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
exchange HANDS MOUTH exclaim
Hint
Radical
You exchange stuff with your HANDS, but you exclaim with your MOUTH.
exchange
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(fishhook) +
(the numeral 4) + (big)

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I CAN exchange my hand for four big fish hooks (FYI I am some kind of rejected Bond villain)
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
exchange (yen for euros) change (diapers / a broken heel on your pumps) Unlike the other ( ) means you are exchanging something for a similar or identical thing
( )
swap, exchange (Japanese/English language exchange, for instance) (combine) + (exchange) = (exchange)
( )
to transfer buses/ trains. (ride a vehicle) + (exchange) = (transfer)
( )
What Japanese bathrooms never have. (exchange) + (mood) = (ventilation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
exchange HANDS MOUTH exclaim
Hint
Radical
You exchange stuff with your HANDS, but you exclaim with your MOUTH.
lack
ONYOMI: KETSU
(person) +
(rifle)
I lack KETCHUP. please pass it over here. Unlike the regular rifle radical, the tip on the right hangs limply down. You could say that the person LACKS a functioning rifle. And then you could giggle about that if you were, you know, immatoor. KUNYOMI: ()
to lack an abstract thing (experience / confidence / creativity / trust) (BOOBOO: if you want to say you don't have enough of a physical thing (for instance, money!) you'd say ()instead.)
JUKUGO:
/ ( / )
shortcoming. Opposite of (). Can be used about people (he drinks too much, she always lies) or machines (this PC is very slow and prone to crashing). (lack) + (point) = (shortcoming)
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( ) ( )
defective, defect (lack) + (entrapped) = (defective)
A kind of formal word for failure to attend, absence. ( F ) (lack) + (seat) = (absent)
USED IN:
Europe
ONYOMI: OU JUKUGO:
(ward) + (lack)
OH shit! Europe lacks a single ward without bad techno!!
( )
Europe and USA - but unfortunately due to racism, Japanese often use to mean the West in general, ignoring Africa, South and Latin America and even Canada. (Europe) + (rice / America) = (europe/ USA)
xxx ( xxx)
- zero stars! LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint
PREFIX: "XXX" means, "European-style XXX." ( PRE)
punch
Europe LACK DIAPER
Radical
Compared to Tokyo, europe LACKS PUNCH. But I punched a dude in the DIAPER after lunch.
sing
ONYOMI: KA
(possible) (Same-ON) + (lack)

Personally, I like to sing in my CAR, so others can't hear me. It's possible to sing even if you lack talent.
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KUNYOMI:
song (BOOBOO: is generally used only for songs with lyrics. Instrumentals are ()
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
singer. Not like Joey Ramone, but like Celine Fuckin' Dion or Pavarotti or someone. (sing) + (hand) = (singer)
lyrics (sing) + (part of speech) = (lyrics)
( )
- zero stars! -
theme song (master/mainly) + (topic) + (sing) = (theme song)
blow
ONYOMI: SUI KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + (lack)

When your mom blows out her mouth, I can tell her breath lacks SWEETness. It smells like she swallowed a junkie whole, in fact.
*
JUKUGO:
blow (1/2 KANA)
( )
to whistle (mouth) + (blow) = (to whistle )
suck blow
REACH LACK
Radical
You REACH for a cigarette to suck. Then you blew out all the air, so now you LACK air.
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cook rice
(fireleft) +
ONYOMI: SUI KUNYOMI:
(lack)
My electric rice cooker makes SWEET rice just fine, even though it lacks a flame.
*
JUKUGO:
boil (anything) / cook (rice)
( )
rice-cooker (cook rice) + (rice / meal) + (instrument) = (rice-cooker)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
streetlight NAIL cook rice LACK
Hint
Radical
A streetlight is on top of a pole or a NAIL, but you LACK water to boil some delicious kale.
Number: 705 PK
(right radical)
director
DESCRIPTION:Helsig calls this incredibly common radical the TASKMASTER, because it usually shows up in kanji about learning or organized procedures. That makes sense, but I prefer to call him the DIRECTOR, as you can easily picture his imperious figure sitting on this cliche Hollywood director's chair with the crossed legs:
. . .the tallness of the chair allows him to oversee his underlings' every move, and hector them appropriately. LOOKALIKES: Lack ()is spreading its legs because it LACKS good manners,but the director's chair, by definition, has crossed legs.
USED IN:
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number, to count
(rice / America) + (woman) +
ONYOMI: SUU KUNYOMI:
(director)
The director makes SUE (a woman) count all the damn rice, until she knows the exact number of kernels.
*
to count JUKUGO:
a number
xxx ( xxx) ( )
a big number of XXX (many) + (number, to count) = (a big number of XXX)
a numeral - 1,2,3, etc. (number, to count) + (letter) = (a numeral - 1,2,3, etc.)
( )
mathematics (number, to count) + (knowledge) = (mathematics)
( )
minority (a little (amount)) + (number, to count) = (minority)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
DAY BIG WOMAN HEART
counter for flat objects

Number: 707
8 strokes COUNTER
(tree) +
(director)
435
ONYOMI: MAI MY tree fell down and flattened the director. It was an accident, I swear! JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
counter for flat objects (ichimai, nimai, sanmai, yonmai, etc.) ( COUNTER )
( )
how many flat objects? (what?!?) + (counter for flat objects) = (how many flat objects?)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
one cup of liquid
Hint
counter for flat objects DIRECTOR
NOT
Radical
Liquid in cups is NOT made of trees (tree + not) Paper is read by the DIRECTOR. (it's a script, fool!)
agile / sensitive
(every) +
ONYOMI: BIN
Number: 708 10 strokes PN, BETA, JERK
(director)
as in, "BIN Laden must be quick-witted because we still haven't caught him yet." Every director has to be quick-witted if they want to survive in Hollywood (or Bollywood!) DESCRIPTION: This kanji applies to both physical agility, and mental quick-wittedness. AND it means 'sensitive' as well. Jerk!!! JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
sensitive (in both the good and bad sense) (agile / sensitive) + (feeling) = (sensitive)
quick-witted, keen. (sharp) + (agile / sensitive) = (quick-witted, keen.)
hypersensitive (surpass / too much) + (agile / sensitive) = (hypersensitive)
USED IN:
Number: 709
436
be defeated
(shellfish/money) +
ONYOMI: HAI Are you a loser ? HAI! The director defeated me and stole my money! KUNYOMI:
11 strokes
(director)
( or ) to be beaten JUKUGO:
( )
any failure! Flunking a test, your plan fails, no one comes to your party, your business goes bankrupt, your mom's chest waxing goes wrong and her pec-fro winds up as Beyonce's wig. (miss out on) + (be defeated) = (failure)
( )
a total disaster. (big) + party, your business goes bankrupt, your mom's chest waxing goes wrong and her pec-fro winds up as Beyonce's wig.) = (total disaster)
breakdown, accident
(old) +
ONYOMI: KO
(director)
Don't let the KODOMO ()have an accident if you are the babysitter. The director is so old, he keeps having accidents on set. KUNYOMI:
( or or )
reason JUKUGO:
( )
accident - not like you spilled your Coke, but like a traffic accident or a dude getting smeared by a meteorite. (action/ incident) + (breakdown, accident) = (accident)
( )
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a slightly more emphatic version of "Why?" ( 1/2 KANA) (what?!?) + (breakdown, accident) = (why)
( )
a breakdown or malfunction (breakdown, accident) + (impede) = (malfunction)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
breakdown, accident DIRECTOR
wither
Hint
TREE
Radical
The DIRECTOR got in an accident when he hit the withered TREE.
politics
ONYOMI: SEI
Number: 711 9 strokes FR, BETA
(correct) (Same-ON) +
DESCRIPTION: FR, if you are cynical! JUKUGO:
(director)
Politicians are like benevolent directors that SAY laws which are correct. That's why there are no problems in the world today.
( ) ( )
government (politics) + (government) = (government)
politics. (FR:literally "administer and cure",which is a bit of a laugh) ( FR) (politics) + (cure) = (politics)
( )
- zero stars! -
a policy ( NP ) (politics) + (take measures) = (a policy)
release
(director)
438
ONYOMI: HOU The director commands you: Release the HOE in that direction. Her radio collar will provide valuable information about her movements and migrations. KUNYOMI: () ()
I release it
* *
it is released
JUKUGO:
( )
broadcast (release) + (send) = (broadcast)
( ) ( ) ( )
all you can eat (eat) + (release) + (topic) = (all you can eat )
all you can drink (drink) + (release) + (topic) = (all you can drink)
emancipate, let loose (open) + (release) = (emancipate, let loose )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
release
Hint
Radical
teach
(dizzy) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
(child) +
(director)
439
TODAY(, pronounced KYOU) , I taught my little brother how to blow snot out of one nostril, all "farmer style." The director is teaching the children so much their heads get dizzy.
*
to teach JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
textbook (teach) + (science) + (write) = (textbook)
classroom (teach) + (room) = (classroom)
education (teach) + (grow up / be raised) = (education)
Christian church (teach) + (big meeting) = (church)
intense
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: GEKI
(white) + (direction / method / person) +
(director)
If the movie is intense so I GET KEYED up and start yelling at the screen. The wet, white-capped, intense waves were heading in the direction of the director!! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
severe, violent, intense Has the nuance of something that is aggressive and over-full of energy: weather, emotions, or even a place that is crazy packed and busy can be hageshii.
( )
stimulate something - a chemical reaction, a clitoris, whatever. (v) ;a stimulus (n) (stab / buisness card) + (intense) = (stimulate)
( )
encouragement, incitement ( NP )
440
(intense) + (diligence) = (encouragement, incitement )

- zero stars! Hint LOOKALIKES: Meaning Radical
intense WHITE extreme TREE
The WHITE-water rafting is intense!!!!!, but the TREE is extremely tall!!!!
reproduction
ONYOMI: HAN
(agile / sensitive) + (string)

Could you give me a HAND with this reproduction? People reproduce by sperm which resembles a kind of agile string. JUKUGO:
( )
often, frequently
( )
breeding. Unlike the related term () refers to the entire process of finding a mate, not just the physical act of insemination: Breeding grounds. Mating season. Farmers breeding livestock. (reproduction) + (multiply) = (breeding)
- zero stars! -
attack
ONYOMI: KOU KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
(director)
COLIN Powell was the director of the army because his attacks were so crafty.
attack - specifically, something which has been planned in advance. Not a bar-room brawl. You could use it about an army attack, but also about a fencer who deliberately chooses a certain attack-style to defeat her opponent.
( )
A military-style massive, planned attack.

441
(attack) + (charge) = (attack)
( )
college major, field of study (specialty) + (attack) = (major)
( )
invasion ( NP ) (perpetrate) + (attack) = (invasion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
adroit
Hint
Radical

FISHHOOK
Number: 717 STRONG
(big radical)
Yosemite Sam
(stand up) + (old) +
DESCRIPTION: You can think of him as an old man with a huge moustache who stands up whenever a varmint encroaches on his mud-flap.
Also, Yosemite Sam is Bugs Bunny's ENEMY, and this radical is STRONG FOR "TEKI ", . . . which is the word for enemy!
USED IN:
enemy
442
(director) +
ONYOMI: TEKI
(Yosemite Sam) (Same-ON)
Bugs Bunny was the ENEMY of Yosemite Sam. (as was the director of the cartoon, which is why Sam always lost!) KUNYOMI:
()
enemy (LAZY)
to be a match for someone / to be up to a task
JUKUGO:
( )
Wonderful! Magnificent! This is usually used only by women, and it is used in reference to things made or done by a third party - you wouldn't say your friend's cooking was , but you'd say a dress your friend wore was . (element) + (enemy) = (Wonderful!)
( ) ( )
unrivaled (without) + (enemy) = (unrivaled)
rival (enemy) + (against) = (rival)
suitable
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TEKI
My TEKI (enemy) is suitable for poking or slapping. Yosemite Sam is very suitable for the mud-flaps of a moving vehicle. JUKUGO:
( )
appropriate, as in an appropriate gift. However, also means irresponsible! Doing something without considering the consequences. ! He's irresponsible. He'll say anything that pops into his head. ( JERK) (suitable) + (hit the target) = (appropriate)
( )
a marriageable age (suitable) + (stage of life) +
(period of time) =
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(a marriageable age)
- zero stars! -
drop
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: TEKI Water drops are the ENEMY of electricity.
Water drops make Yosemite Sam's hat grow limp. KUNYOMI: ()
*
to drip
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
a drop of water (water) + (drop) = (drop of water)
pluck
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TEKI KUNYOMI:
Yosemite Sam's hands pluck his prodigious Moustache.
literally, to prune - the gardener prunes the bushes. Figuratively, to nip in the bud. It's often used in the phrase (sainou wo tsumu,to stunt the emotional growth of your kids).(BOOBOO: plucking a single flower is , not )
JUKUGO:
( )
To point out a shortcoming - You can use it about your friends. Or "The critic pointed out the shortcomings of the play." (finger / point at) + (pluck) = (To point out a shortcoming)
444
myself
ONYOMI: KO I myself, am a baby snake.
Number: 722 3 strokes PK, STRONG
The sound of the word KO makes you think of kodomo(), and looks like a snake, so you could say:
DESCRIPTION:Although the onyomi for this is KO, it is STRONG FOR 'KI', - which is to say, most of the kanji using this as a radical have the onyomi of KI for some reason! KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
myself- a very LITERARY way of saying (F)
( )
( )
One's own (as in, self-control, self-hate, self-help books, one's own discretion) (my own) + (myself) = (one's own)
USED IN:
renew / improve
(myself) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(director)
I myself, improve my KITE by adding more streamers. I, the director, improve myself. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
change PLUS improvement. Usually used with behavior - meaning to turn over a new leaf, to quit selfdestructive or bad behavior. Also has a totally unrelated meaning: When a customs official or police asks to see your ID card, that's also for some reason. (1/2 KANA)
()
something is renewed, reformed (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
improve a thing - your performance in Math class / the economy / the efficiency of
445
the car (renew / improve) + (morally good) = (improve)
( ) ( )
reform (the welfare system, the campaign-contributions laws, etc.) (renew / improve) + (leather/revolution) = (reform)
remodeling, renewal, or reorganization of a physical thing ; re-modeling a house, tricking out a car, re-organizing the leadership of an organization. (renew / improve) + (produce) = (remodeling, renewal)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
adroit
Hint
Radical

FISHHOOK
wake up / occur
(run) + (myself) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: KI KUNYOMI: () () ()
Myself, I go running as soon as I wake up. It's the KEY to good health.
*
to wake up
* *
to wake someone up
to occur, to result. Usually said about a new problem or phenomenon.
JUKUGO:
or ( or )
an omen (can be good or bad) (rim / omen) + (wake up / occur) = (omen)
446
century
ONYOMI: KI
(string) + (myself) (Same-ON)

You stupid religious nut, why do you KEEP doing the same shit from 10 centuries ago? The customs and beliefs of previous centuries are connected to myself by the string of time. JUKUGO:
( )
century ( FP ) (society) + (century) = (century)
diary
ONYOMI: KI JUKUGO:
(say) + (myself)
Saying things to yourself honestly is the KEY to a successful diary.
( )
a record (like the minutes of a meeting or a log-file), but also a record like Guiness' Book. To break a record, like your Moms did at the Special Olympics, is ( ). (diary) + (record) = (record)
( ) ( ) ( )
diary (sun, day) + (diary) = (diary)
reporter (diary) + (professional) = (reporter)
a memorial, an anniversary of something good , like marriage or a band's anniversary gig. Or something you give your friend to remember you by. (diary) + (concern) = (memorial)
447
distribute
ONYOMI: HAI
(liquor) + (myself)
Can I myself distribute sake to everyone in the room? HAI!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
pass out by hand: flyers or whatever
( ) ( )
worry (heart) + (distribute) = (worry)
to deliver. Used about business - used when money changes hands. Deliver by truck or UPS or FEDEX. (distribute) + (plural/delivery) = (deliver)
( )
to give consideration to (distribute) + (consideration) = (to give consideration to)
demand/ask
(beret) +
ONYOMI: KYUU
Number: 728 7 strokes ILL PAIR, STRONG, ???
(water)
I demand that you take that CUTE beret off before you go swimming in the water. You don't want the colors to run!!! DESCRIPTION: what is the difference between all the snyonymis?? KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to demand or request
( )
a demand (important) + (demand/ask) = (a demand)

448
( )
USED IN:
a need (want) + (demand/ask) = (a need)
rescue
ONYOMI: KYUU
(demand/ask) (Same-ON) +
KUNYOMI:
(director)
The director demands to be rescued. (FYI: he was a porno when your mom's body caused all the cameras to break, leaving him $90,000 in debt to the Mob)
*
JUKUGO:
to rescue (really dramatic - only use this regarding bankruptcy or death).
( )
ambulance (rescue) + (urgent) + (car) = (ambulance)
rescue DIRECTOR sphere KING
Radical
You gotta rescue the DIRECTOR from the KING'S balls.
sphere
ONYOMI: KYUU
(king) + (demand/ask) (Same-ON)

The king demands that you show your CUTE spheres at the imperial court tomorrow.
KUNYOMI:
(narrow meaning) ball used in sports
JUKUGO:
( )
the world, the physical planet Earth.

449
(area) + (sphere) = (earth)
( )
soccer??? No, wait, badminton. (field) + (sphere) = (baseball) eyeball (doctor's word- most people just say ()) (eyeball) + (sphere) = (eyeball)
- zero stars! -
( )
rescue DIRECTOR sphere KING
Radical
You gotta rescue the DIRECTOR from the KING'S balls.
Number: 731 PK
(upper left radical) DESCRIPTION: Because it looks like a cliff, dummy.
cliff
USED IN:
strict
ONYOMI: GEN
(cliff) +
(director) +
??? (???)
The strict Director is tossing baby birds off of the cliff AGAIN. DESCRIPTION: I have no idea what the crazy shit on the lower left corner is! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
a strict (teacher, sergeant, cop)
( )
majestic , slow and dignified but scary - like a bunch of gangsters slowly walking down the street while the Peter Gunn theme plays. Or a parade float of your mom's neck-beard. (terrible majesty) + (strict) = (majestic/scary)
450
( )
strictly forbidden. (strict) + (prohibition) = (strictly forbidden. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
strict years old annihilate terrible majesty
NEEDLE STOP FIRE AND WATER WOMAN
Hint
Radical
The strict nurse injects you with a NEEDLE, but the drug STOPS you from aging. Both FIRE AND WATER can annihilate a city, but that WOMAN has a terrible majesty even more scary!
diligence
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: REI
(10000) + (strong)
RAY Smuckles smokes pot pretty diligently. Ten thousand strong lemmings dilligently leapt off the cliff. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to cheer up or encourage someone ( xxx ) to concentrate and work diligently on something (1/2 KANA)
- zero stars! -
* *
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
encouragement, incitement ( NP ) (intense) + (diligence) = (encouragement, incitement )
chronicle
(cliff) +
(grove) + (stop)
451
ONYOMI: REKI RAY KEEPS a chronicle of the time he stopped under a cliff and found a grove of hella bud growing there. DESCRIPTION: This kind of means 'permanent record,' as in, 'Young man, this will go on your. . .' It's used a lot in words relating to school or business experience, but who cares. Basically you only need the following 2 words: JUKUGO:
( )
history (chronicle) + (history) = (history)
( )
one's work resume. (put on pants or shoes) + (chronicle) + (write) = (one's work resume.)
thick
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(sun, day) + (child)
You could fit something hella thick inside your massive COLON. The child has a thick head! He stared at the sun, fell off a cliff, but was unhurt because he landed on his thick head!
*
thick JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
really thick makeup. ( SARC, FP ) (thick) + (makeup) = (really thick makeup.)
pressure
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: ATSU
(earth)
452
He's always pressuring me, telling me what I OUGHT TO do!
The earth under the cliff is under a lot of pressure. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to overwhelm ( ( )= overpowering) (pressure) + (knock down) = (overwhelm)
pressure ( = overpowering) (pressure) + (press upon) = (pressure)
( )
USED IN:
physical pressure (usually seen on tanks of high-pressure gas) (pressure) + (strong) = (physical pressure)
makeup
ONYOMI: SHOU
(rice / America) + (pressure)

SHOW me some makeup that doesn't make me look like a whore, please. If you put rice under enough pressure, it turns into makeup. It's like coal and diamonds. JUKUGO:
( )
makeup ( FP ) (transform) + (makeup) = (makeup)
( )
really thick makeup. ( SARC, FP ) (thick) + (makeup) = (really thick makeup.)
furnish
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BI The flowers furnish pollen for the BEES.
(flowertop) +
(cliff) +
(utilize)
The flowers by the cliff are furnished for the use of persons such as tourists to utilize. KUNYOMI:
453
*
JUKUGO:
set some shit aside for an emergency. (for instance, by saving money for a rainy day, or by stocking the basement with canned food for when the Apocalypse comes).
( )
this is the main word you'll use with this kanji: prepare (packing for a vacation, getting the restaurant ready to open for the day, and putting on makeup are all junbi). (prepare / criteria) + (furnish) = (get ready)
( )
the type of guard who protects innocent people: the security guy at the bank, the Secret Service. (the fuzz) + (furnish) = (guard)
ash/ gray
(cliff) +
ONYOMI:
(fire)
The cliff burned up - all that remained was gray ash. KUNYOMI:
ashes
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
gray color ( KUN ON) (ash/ gray) + (color) = (gray color)
ashtray ( KUNKUN ) (ash/ gray) + (plate) = (ashtray)
childbirth, production of things

Number: 740
11 strokes DUPE, FR
(stand up) +
(cliff) +
(life / birth)
454
ONYOMI: SAN SANTA Claus stands on top of the cliff and produces toys, giving them life, and then they roll downhill into your chimney. DESCRIPTION: a bit of a FR (women are child factories? According to Japanese politicians, yes.) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to give birth (human or animal) .This is more of a medical or agricultural word. Normally we use the OTHER () for everyday childbirth. (NP)
( ) ( ) ( )
souvenir ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (earth) + (childbirth, production of things) = (souvenir )
heavy industry, like 'the steel or construction industry.' (childbirth, production of things) + (business) = (heavy industry)
production (life / birth) + (childbirth, production of things) = (production)
original/ high plain

(cliff) +
ONYOMI: GEN
Number: 741 10 strokes JERK, ILL PAIR
(white) + (small size)
I'll go back to my origins AGAIN: I originated on a tiny white cliff. (FYI, I'm a cormorant, coming home to the ol' guano colony to mate) (not sure that that helps you remember the actual kanji, but I went to the trouble of making a whole backstory for the cormorant, and I figure I should get credit for it (he overcame many obstacles)) DESCRIPTION: JERK - by itself it means 'high plain', but used with another kanji it means 'original'
KUNYOMI:
a high plain. (not useful, unless you are a High Plains Drifter, and concoct a Black and Tan in your brandy Snifter)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
origin or cause of something (original/ high plain) + (origin) = (cause) the A-bomb (a contraction of ()) ( NEO )
455
(original/ high plain) + (explode) = (A-bomb )
( )
- zero stars! -
a person or animal native to the area. Indigenous. (original/ high plain) + (residents) = (native)
USED IN:
hot spring / origin

(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: GEN KUNYOMI:
Number: 742 13 strokes ILL PAIR, PN
(original/ high plain) (Same-ON)
Once AGAIN we have found a watery hot spring on the high plain. Everyone in!
JUKUGO:
a spring like where water comes out of the ground
( )
light socket, where you plug shit in. (electricity) + (hot spring / origin) = (light socket)
anti
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: HAN JUKUGO:
Number: 743 4 strokes STRONG, BETA
HAN Solo threw your Mom's crotch off a cliff because he's anti-herpes.
( ) ( )
to be against something (anti) + (against) = (against it!!!!!!!!!!)
foul! To break a rule! (anti) + (rule) = (foul! To break a rule!)
( )
to be rebellious, defiant. To start a revolt. Unlike the related words () and

456
() has the nuance of 'rebel for the fuck of it,' like a teenager would.
(anti) + (oppose) = (rebel)
( )
a reaction - despite the kanji, is not neccesairly a bad reaction. As a noun, it's value-free. (careful! This is pronounced NOU, not OU) ( FP ) (anti) + (react) = (a reaction )
anti
Radical
CLIFF
friend NARUTO
Jason Newsted was seen as the Anti - CLIFF by old-school Metallica fans. NARUTO is your friend if you're an anime nerd. Alternate mnemonic: only FRIEND has a "head" poking up above the horizontal line, and friends have heads.
USED IN:
return
(motion) +
ONYOMI: HEN KUNYOMI: () ()
(anti)
I am moving towards you, to return the HEN to you, against her wishes (FYI you are a butcher)
* *
I return something
something is returned or restored to its former state
JUKUGO:
( )
reply. In Japan, even if you respond to your friend's email 5 minutes after you got it, you have to start all mails with "Sorry my reply is so slow." (!) ( ) (return) + (action/ incident) = (reply)
( )
to repeat over and over. (spin) + (return) = (to repeat over and over.)
Number: 745
457
slope
ONYOMI: HAN
7 strokes
(earth) + (anti) (Same-ON)

HAN solo, accustomed to the zero-gravity of space, is against climbing the steep slopes of the earth!
KUNYOMI: a slope of a hill (BOOBOO: not the hill itself. Hills are the similar-sounding !)
JUKUGO:
( )
A noun meaning, "the act of going downhill." Unhelpfully, this is not used as a verb. What the hell, man? (below) + (slope) = (go downhill )
( )
"the act of going uphill." Same deal. (above) + (slope) = (go uphill )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WOOD board provisional PERSON EARTH slope
Hint
Radical
The board is made of WOOD The PERSON is provisionally good (before xmas). The EARTH has slopes called hills.
board
ONYOMI: BAN
(tree) + (anti)
The tree is against being cut down and made into a fucking board. In fact it wants you to sign this petition BANning the practice altogether. But the petition is made from the paper of an endangered redwood, you say! . . . Fuck!!!
KUNYOMI:
a board, blackboard, etc.
JUKUGO:
( )
458
store sign, signboard, billboard (observe/guard) + (board) = (store sign)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
provisional
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KA KUNYOMI:
(anti)
CARRie is against people, so she can only be a provisional friend of ours.
( )
JUKUGO:
suppose, as in "Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you were a doctor".
( ) ( )
mask. (literally, "temporary face") (provisional) + (front surface / face) = (mask)
all the Japanese letterforms which are not Kanji - hiragana, katakana, okurigana, furigana, oshirigana, nurenuregana, bakana, and whatever they think up next! (provisional) + (name, famous) = (kana)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 748
459
transaction
ONYOMI: HAN JUKUGO:
11 strokes BETA, SIDEKICK
(shellfish/money) + (anti) (Same-ON)

The more money he spends on transactions, the less he has in his wallet. So,transactions are against money.
( )
vending machine, usually shortened to. . . () (my own) + (movement) + (transaction) + (sell) + (machine) = (vending machine)
( ) ( )
limited edition (limit) + (plan) + (sales) = (limited edition)
sales (transaction) + (sell) = (sales)
Number: 749 PK
(right / top radical) DESCRIPTION:
open scissors
LOOKALIKE- Don't get the 'open scissors' confused with the nail radical ()which has a mutant version that looks like this:
You can tell them apart because the NAIL has an OVERHANG on the right: the head of the nail! OK - here is a warning. . . starting now, there are going to be hella lookalikes, even more than usual. As usual,I've tried to group them side-by-side so you can compare them easily and see the differences. Once you memorize the differences then you won't be so confused by them. After about 200 kanji, it calms down a little. So don't panic. . .
USED IN:
become
460
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: SEI
(spear) +
(open scissors)
If you SAY you'll get good at kanji, eventually you will become good. The scissors fell off the cliff and became dangerous spears, piercing the brains of innocent people below. (see also: pennies dropped off Empire State Building become bullets) KUNYOMI: ()
to become (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
completion (noun) - usually said of a painting, construction of a building, or other physically creative project. (complete) + (become) = (completion)
( ) ( )
success (become) + (success) = (success)
"ohhhh, now I see!" (very similar to a hearty !! (), but it also has the nuance of, understanding AND agreeing whole-heartedly) ( KANA, KUNKUN ) (become) + (extent) = (oh, I see!)
USED IN:
sincerity
(say) + (become) (Same-ON)

If you always SAY the truth, you will become a sincere person.
JUKUGO:
faithfulness, fidelity to your boss or superior person.
( )
fidelity to your lover. (used as noun or na-adjective) (sincerity) + (truth) = (fidelity)
Number: 752
461
go beyond
(run) + (become)
ONYOMI: The Nazis ran BEYOND the limits of good taste and became extinct.
12 strokes DUPE, ILL PAIR
DESCRIPTION: Unlike the OTHER () , which means go OVER (a number or limit), THIS means go BEYOND - physically. KUNYOMI: () ()
I go beyond (a physical thing) - I pass or crosss something (a lake, a city, etc)
something crosses something else
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
move to a new house or apartment (pull) + (go beyond) = (move to a new house or apartment)
overtake (follow) + (go beyond) = (overtake)
traditional storehouse
Number: 753
15 strokes DUPE
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: ZOU
(become) + (vassal)
ZORRO keeps all his masks in a giant traditional storehouse. The vassals stored flowers in the traditional storehouse KUNYOMI:
an obsolete word for a building where you store food on farm - a silo or barn. (OBSOLETE)
JUKUGO:
( )
the fuckin' fridge (cold thing) + (traditional storehouse) + (warehouse) = (the fuckin' fridge )
( )
built-in (don't confuse this with which means internal organ)

462
(the inside) + (traditional storehouse) = (built-in)

- zero stars! -
USED IN:
internal organ
ONYOMI: ZOU
(moon/organ) + (traditional storehouse) (Same-ON)

The internal organs of ZOUs ( = elephants) are hella big, dogg. The internal organs are nothing but little warm moist storehouses full of nutrients, blood, lymph, hormones, etc. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
heart (heart) + (internal organ) = (heart)
internal organ (the inside) + (internal organ) = (internal organ) lung --PSYCHElung is just (BOOBOO) ( FP ) (lung) + (internal organ) = (lung)
( )
liver (liver) + (internal organ) = (liver)
years old
ONYOMI: SAI
(stop) + (become) + (small size)

He SIGHed as he turned another year old. Closer to the grave, my friend, closer to the grave! When you turn 10 years old you stop being small, and you become a tween! JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
counter for "years old" that a person is. ( COUNTER )
( ! )
463
Fuckin' banzai, man!!!! (literally '10,000 years', meaning, 'May the Emperor live 10,000 years!' is what you shout as you charge into battle) ( 1/2 KANA) (10000) + (years old) = (banzai!)
( )
twenty years old - traditionally the age at which Japanese turn into adults and get presents, kimono, etc. So, naturally it has its own special pronunciation that doesn't make any sense, since it SHOULD be called Whatever. Tradition. ( FP , CCW) (two) + (ten) + (years old) = (twenty years old)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
annihilate
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: METSU
(become) + (fire)
This word has an unusual onyomi but it's easy to remember if you know who Tom METZGER is. Let's annihilate Metzger!
A flood of water and a hail of fire, together they become a wave of annihilation! KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
- zero stars! -
to get fucked up.
to annhilate - usually used about an enemy in wartime, or destroy the earth, or wipe Al Queda out. Not used about a single person usually.
JUKUGO:
464
( )
the downfall of a civilization or the dying-out of a certain ethnic group. But it doesn't have 'downfall's moral judgement. (annihilate) + (dying) = (downfall)
( )
- zero stars! -
eradicate (a pest or disease) 'The new task force will eradicate drugs once and for all!' (eradicate) + (annihilate) = (eradicate)
( )
- zero stars! -
go extinct (extinct) + (annihilate) = (go extinct)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
terrible majesty
(become) + (woman)
ONYOMI: I
Number: 757 9 strokes BETA, CCW
The dude became a woman, and as she vogued majestically, and I was scared! DESCRIPTION:This is one of the most "no-English-equivalent-y" words in the whole Japanese language. Why is majestic stuff scary? Who is scared of Prince? He's like five feet tall. I guess you have to think like a medieval peasant to really get the meaning. JUKUGO:
( )
majestic , slow and dignified but scary - like a bunch of gangsters slowly walking down the street while the Peter Gunn theme plays. Or a parade float of your mom's neck-beard. (terrible majesty) + (strict) = (majestic/scary)
( )
an authority one has based on power alone (parents, cops, etc.) rather than on rights (authority based on rights is ())
465
(rights) + (terrible majesty) = (authority)
( )
arrogant ( 1/2 KANA) (terrible majesty) + (stretch) = (arrogant)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
castle
ONYOMI: JOU
(earth) + (become)
JOE Stalin needs a castle to defend himself from the Trotskyites. This earth will become a castle after you finish building it, so get cracking, Serf-boy!
KUNYOMI:
castle
region MOUTH castle BECOME
Radical
This region's full of SNITCHIN' ASS MOUTHS The ground BECOMES a castle, when architects come around.
illusion
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: GEN
(open scissors)
466
Eazy did too much crack aGAIN and saw an hallucination of some scissors coming to get him. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
a phantom, an illusion - like but more broad - it can be sounds, tastes, etc.
( )
a visual hallucination (illusion) + (bear in mind) = (hallucination)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
illusion
childhood STRONGER SCISSORS
Hint
Radical
You were STRONGER as a child, but hallucinations of SCISSORS are wild.
mood
(rifle) + (open scissors) +
(katakana 'me')
ONYOMI: KI / GE -People forget about "GE." GET in a good mood and KEEP being in a good mood. I'm in a loco mood - I may stab you with scissors or shoot you with a rifle in this mood. KUNYOMI:
basically, 'mood', but there are over 3,000 expressions that use it. KI can be put in, become exhausted ,become lost, change, be pulled, be big, small, changing. KI gets followed, met, used, lightened, lengthened, shortened, rotated, cut. KI can be strong, weak, floating, heavy. . .. but you never say, "how's your ki doing ?" or "I've got great ki today!" - You have to use it as part of an expression. (CCW)
JUKUGO:
( )
oh HELLS yeah. It feels good.(although this isn't dirty by itself, it is the #1 actual word yelled in pornos.) (mood) + (hold) = (feels good!)
( ) ( )
cheerful, energetic. Doesn't matter if it's totally forced. ( CCW) (original) + (mood) = (cheerful)
weather (heaven) + (mood) = (weather)

467
( ) ( )
don't worry about it!
be careful! (mood) + (stick to) = (be careful!)
( )
I'm worried about it.
( )
(literally, 'different feeling') crazy - this is one of the biggest cusses in the whole language-a garunteed fight-starter. This is instructive in several ways. 1) Japanese is such a polite language that 'different feeling' is one of the worst insults. 2) it takes a certain kind of culture to think that having a different feeling is such a bad thing in the first place! 3) Historically it is a discriminatory term against people who suffer from mental illness. ( ABU) (mood) + (different and therefore wrong) = (fuckin' crazy)
( )
to belatedly realize something - d'oh! (also pronounced ) (mood) + (stick to) = (realize something)
( )
- zero stars! -
Just for fun, do you wanna (blah blah blah)?" (mood) + (weather get good now) = (Just for fun)
decide
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KETSU
(open scissors) +
(big)
He decided to take a big pair of scissors and cut open a bag of KETCHUP, and it rained out of the bag like water. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I decided
it has been decided

468
JUKUGO:
( )
solution (solve / untie) + (decide) = (solution)
( )
to make a real serious decision; like, "I know I'm always saying I'm going to lose 12 pounds but this time I really mean it." (decide) + (plan) = (make a serious decision)
XXXX! ( XXXX!)
I'll HELL OF never do XXX.
WATER decide pleasant HEART
you decide to drink WATER, but you have a pleasant feeling with your HEART.
pleasant
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(open scissors) +
(big)
Flying KITES is pleasant!, which is why the Taliban banned it. It's pleasant to stick a big pair of open scissors in someone's heart. . . (FYI you are a Inca high priest. Duh!)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
pleasant, warm atmosphere
( )
a physical sensation of pleasure - usually but not always sexual. (pleasant) + (feeling) = (pleasure)
( )
- zero stars! Hint
pleasant or amusing (a funny guy, hilarious comments, a fun time) (pleasure) + (pleasant) = (amusing)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
decide
WATER
Radical
469
pleasant HEART
you decide to drink WATER, but you have a pleasant feeling with your HEART.
Number: 763
(bottom radical)
Hitler
(mouth/small box radical) + (one/line radical)

DESCRIPTION: A mouth with a tiny, narrow Moustache above it. What could be Hitlier? That's right. I said "Hitlier."
USED IN:
decrease
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: GEN
(become) +
(Hitler)
GodDAMN it! My water became Hitler again! Decrease the amount of Hitlers in my water, si vous plait! Get me a fuckin' Brita or semething! KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I decrease it
it decreases
JUKUGO:
! ( ! ) ( )
cut it out! (add) + (decrease) = ! (cut it out!)
unfounded or groundless. Not a lie exactly, but someone who is just bullshitting, talking without saying anything meaningful or definite. Also means, working in a haphazard, hit-or-miss fashion. ( CCW) (add) + (decrease) = (unfounded, pointless)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEART feeling regrettable DOUBLE HEART
Hint
Radical
470
decrease
WATER
My HEART feels great! You regret your HEART broke AGAIN - that's TWO HEARTS that broke, buddy. But drinking WATER will decrease the pain.
feeling
(become) +
ONYOMI: KAN KUNYOMI:
(Hitler) +
(bottomheart)
Genghis KAHN , deep in his heart, feels that he has become as bad as Hitler. Why did he ransack and pillage so much?
*
JUKUGO:
to feel something
( )
a feeling, an emotion (feeling) + (emotion) = (a feeling, an emotion)
( )
The most common, general word for gratitude. (feeling) + (apologize) = (gratitude)
( )
to be moved by something (a song, a movie, a speech, a pretty poem about asndfisdnf) (feeling) + (movement) = (emotionally moved)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEART feeling regrettable DOUBLE HEART WATER decrease
Hint
Radical
be misguided or tempted NO CLIFF feeling CLIFF
Meaning
Hint
Radical
MISGUIDED is basically FEELING, missing the left-hand side.

471
So you can say, "I feel like a CLIFF. If there's no cliff, I must have been MISGUIDED and gotten lost on the way to the CLIFF "
USED IN:
regrettable
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAN JUKUGO:
(feeling) (Same-ON)
It's regrettable that the human heart is so emotional, said Mr. Spock.
! ( ! )
a fairly formal way to say, "Aaaah shiit!!" Really really regrettable, deplorable. Only use this about some big thing - North Koreans kidnapping people, or that time you accidentally wiped your nose with the Emperor's tie. ( F ) (bequeath) + (regrettable) = ! (aaah shit!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEART feeling regrettable DOUBLE HEART WATER decrease
Hint
Radical
same
ONYOMI: DOU KUNYOMI:
(Hitler)
When I saw George Michael and Hitler's moustaches at the same time, I went DOH!!
*
same JUKUGO:
( )
one more time!
472
(one) + (times) = (one more time!)
( )
at the same time (same) + (time) = (at the same time)
( )
in the same way. For example, "In the same way caffeine perks up the mind, your dad's naked pictures perk up the body." (same) + (important person) = (in the same way)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
possible
Hint
NAIL
Radical
USED IN:
cylinder /pipe
(bamboo) + (same)
ONYOMI: TOU
He keeps using that same bamboo cylinder to suck his TOES.
KUNYOMI:
usually defined as pipe but more accurately, it means cylinder. Chimney, exhaust pipe, drainage pipe, gun barrel, canister, are all . (BOOBOO: unlike the related kanji (tube), which can bend, is always straight).
JUKUGO:
( )
envelope (seal in) + (cylinder /pipe) = (envelope)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cylinder /pipe HITLER tube BEURACRAT
Hint
Radical
HITLER smokes a pipe of hash, but BUEARUCRATS send messages through flexible pneumatic tubes - like in the movie Brazil.
473
administer
(Hitler) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(open scissors)
SHE administers Hitler's Moustache with her little scissors. JUKUGO:
( )
anyone at work who out-ranks you (above) + (administer) = (upper person)
( )
a master of ceremonies of a TV show or event. It's not used for 'sucker MCs' which is a darn shame. (administer) + (big meeting) + (professional) = (master of ceremonies)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
possible
Hint
NAIL
Radical
USED IN:
formal visit / question

Number: 770
7 strokes JERK, SOLO, F
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(administer) (Same-ON)
SHE is a person who makes formal visits (i.e. a diplomat)
KUNYOMI:
formal visit (only used by the lower person who is visiting the upper person) Also formal way of saying
474
"ask" (ditto: lower to upper) (F) LOOKALIKES: Meaning
what?!?
formal visit / question HITLER
MOUTH
Hint
Radical
You said you were going to pay a formal visit to Herr HITLER. I opened my MOUTH and said "WHAAAAT??"
part of speech
ONYOMI: SHI
(say) + (administer) (Same-ON)

SHE uses parts of speech very well, for a girl. When we say things, parts of speech administer the syntax. JUKUGO:
( )
noun (name, famous) + (part of speech) = (noun)
( ) ( ) ( )
adjective (form) + (appearance) + (part of speech) = (adjective)
verb (movement) + (part of speech) = (verb)
lyrics (sing) + (part of speech) = (lyrics)
Number: 772 PK
(bottom right radical)
hitchhiker
(personleft) +
??? (???)
475
DESCRIPTION: imagine a person on the left, holding out their arm and thumb (on the right), hitchhiking.
USED IN:
trip
ONYOMI: RYO
(rifle) +
(hitchhiker)
We're all sleeping in the same van this trip, so you gotta Regulate Your Odor. When we go on a trip in that direction, we bring a rifle to shoot hitchhikers. KUNYOMI:
a trip
JUKUGO:
or ( or ) a vacation, or just travel in general. (trip) + (go) = (vacation)
( )
a traditional Japanese inn that costs like 300 bones a night. (trip) + (big hall) = (inn)
faction/bling
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HA HAHA, I laugh at your faction! Bloody splitters!
Watch video
(cliff) +
(hitchhiker)
That faction wants to hitchhike to the water, but our faction wants to hitch a ride to the cliff. JUKUGO:
( )
476
super high class! ( 1/2 KANA) (stand up) + (faction/bling) = (super high class!)
( ) ( )
showy and flashy, gaudy ( FP ) (faction/bling) + (hand) = (gaudy) A faction within a political party or corporation. Like every country has factions, but has the nuance of 'We all claim to be loyal to the organization but behind closed doors we are plotting to hijack it with our own agenda.' Nobody would say publicly, "I'm in this ! ( NP ) (faction/bling) + (clique) = (faction)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
faction/bling WET ORGAN vein
Hint
Radical
Your faction is ALL WET, but my veins carry blood to my MEAT AND ORGANS.
vein
ONYOMI: MYAKU
(moon/organ) +
(hitchhiker)
Yo Mama's so old, she has more purple veins in her breasts than MY YAK has in its whole body. Veins are an organ that allow your blood cells to hitch-hike all over your body. DESCRIPTION: WHY BOTHER ? You need this to say, "juice, connections, pull, clout." JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
juice, clout, pull, suction (person) + (vein) = (clout)
pulse (vein) + (clap) = (pulse)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
faction/bling WET ORGAN vein
Hint
Radical
Your faction is ALL WET, but my veins carry blood to my MEAT AND ORGANS.
477
Number: 776
far away

USED IN:
(hitchhiker)
DESCRIPTION: The hitch hiker was talking with her mouth about how she wanted to travel really far.
far
(motion) +
ONYOMI: EN KUNYOMI:
(earth) +
(far away) (Same-ON)
Please ENjoy the trip as you move to a far away place on earth.
*
JUKUGO:
far away
( )
CULTURAL CODE WORD in full effect. Meaning, it's such a uniquely Japanese concept there is no ready English equivalent. means to be diplomatically, politely refuse, to regretfully decline. For example, "You want the last donut?" "Hell yes!" is not . But, "No way I don't want it, it smells!" is also not . "Thanks but I'm full now." is the answer, since it means, "We both know I want it, but since I abstained from it, you owe me one, now! The favor-ball is back in my court!" Used most commonly in two situations: 1) : meaning, 'Act casual. Eat the last pie. Don't wait for all the food to be served. Sit wherever. Make yourself at home.' 2) it's often seen on signs telling you not to do something: XXX ('Please refrain from doing XXX') ( CCW, F ) (far) + (consideration) = (regretfully decline or enjoin from)
( )
the poetic 'forever': I'll hate you forever! We shall rule the world forever!
478
(forever) + (far) = (poetic forever)
public park
(big box) +
ONYOMI: EN JUKUGO:
(earth) +
(far away) (Same-ON)
Far away, there's a big box of ground, with trees and flowers, called a park.
( )
a public park (public) + (public park) = (park)
( )
zoo
(animal) + (public park) = (zoo)
( )
amusement park (play around) + (public park) + (area) = (amusement park)
environment
(king) +
ONYOMI: KAN JUKUGO:
(net) +
(far away)
Genghis KHAN, The king, owns the environment around here. His dominion is like a net extending even to far places.
( )
environment (like English, this is not limited to nature. A bad kid can be a "product of his environment.") (environment) + (border) = (environment)
Number: 780
479
(bottom radical) DESCRIPTION:
kick in the nuts
PK
any questions? USED IN:
cloth
(beret) +
ONYOMI: I
(kick in the nuts)
I kick in the nuts, anyone with a cloth beret. I don't care who. Suge Knight ? Anyone. I'm fucking crazy I tell you. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
garment in the abstract sense - the garment district, a clothes closet, etc.
( ) ( )
clothes-changing - room (all over again) + (cloth) + (room) = (clothes-changing - room)
yukata ; a summer kimono ( 1/2 KANA, FP ) (bathe) + (cloth) = (yukata ; a summer kimono)
- zero stars! -
express MASTER NO MASTER cloth
Radical
The Master is the only person allowed to EXPRESSES himself. But if you're not a master, you are a slave weaving Cloth.
USED IN:
480
express
ONYOMI: HYOU
(master/mainly) + (cloth)
HE'S YOUR master, and you express that by kissing the cloth hem of his robe. MUAH!
()
KUNYOMI:
FRONT surface- used only about things that have a front-and-back. (opposite: ) . Usually used about 2-dimensional things (paper, walls) but can also be used with the ol' tatemae/honne.
to indicate something intentionally, but through symbols rather than words( he expressed his displeasure by flinging feces at the prison correction officer) (the shadow of the sundial indicates the time) (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
figure of speech, expression (express) + (present time) = (figure of speech)
( ) ( )
announcement (launch) + (express) = (announcement) the exterior, the surface - unlike (men), is more technical - usually used by architects or craftspeople. Or, for instance, to describe a "skin" you'd put on a polygon 3d character. (express) + (front surface / face) = (exterior)
- zero stars! Hint
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Radical
express MASTER NO MASTER cloth
Meaning
Hint
Radical
The Master is the only person allowed to EXPRESSES himself. But if you're not a master, you are a slave weaving Cloth.
Number: 783
481
8 strokes
depend on
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
BETA
(cloth) (Same-ON)
What clothes I wear depends on what kind of person I am.
( )
to depend on- usually in a bad way, like "America's dependency on foreign oil" ( NP ) (depend on) + (be aware of) = (depend)
( )
a request or commission. Not like 'Please pass the salt,' but like 'I'd like to hire you to make a custom suit' or to hire a lawyer or PR firm. Any relationship where you'd use the phrase "The client wants. . ... "is (depend on) + (ask a favor) = (commission)
( )
client ( NP )
you to make a custom suit' or to hire a lawyer or PR firm. Any relationship where you'd use the phrase "The client wants. . ... "is ) + (person) = (client)
sack
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(generation / instead of) + (cloth)

In modern times plastic garbage sacks have taken the place of cloth ones.
sack JUKUGO:
( )
garbage bag
( )
gloves ( KUNKUN ) (hand) + (sack) = (gloves)

482
( )
a mystery bag, a grab-bag that stores use to get rid of old inventory. ( KUN ON) (good luck) + (sack) = (the mystery bag)
trial
(ten) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(spear) +
(cloth)
The condemned woman SIGHed at the end of the trial. The decision of the trial: ten spears will rip through the cloth of your vest -- while you're wearing it! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to judge or put someone on trial (KANA)
( )
trial or lawsuit - a court case, anyway! (trial) + (seal / stamp) = (trial)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
CLOTHES trial appear in print CAR
Hint
Radical
People judge my CLOTHES a crime But CARS are appear in print on this week's cover of Time.
praise
(beret) +
ONYOMI: HOU
(guarantee/maintain ) + (cloth)
Dudes pay HOES to praise their dicks. I guarantee the cloth of this beret is so fine all your friends will praise it. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
praise (BOOBOO : in practice this is almost never used. Use the other kanji () instead)
483
( )
prize - but not like on Wheel of Fortune or the lottery. Like if your kid cleans her room, you give her a cupcake. Or if your dog performs a trick, you give it a bone. ( KIDS ) (praise) + (beauty) = (reward)
backside
(beret) +
ONYOMI:
(village) +
(kick in the nuts)
If you wear a beret in the back part of the village, you'll get kicked in the nuts. It's a rough 'hood. DESCRIPTION: This tends to use KUNYOMI in most of its jukugo. KUNYOMI:
sorry to disappoint, it don't mean backside like 'booty,' but backside like, 1) the back side of a building, behind something where few people go. 2) the 'dark side' - illegal or hidden side of something.
JUKUGO:
( ) XXX ( XXX)
backstabbing (verb form: !) (backside) + (cut / important) = (backstab)
SUFFIX meaning, 'hidden side' or 'dark side' of XXX. ( SUF)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
traitor ( KUN ON) (backside) + (cut / important) + (professional) = (traitor )
illegal porno books with no mosaic. ( KUNKUN ) (backside) + (book / the real) = (illegal porno books with no mosaic.)
pitiful
(beret) +

484
(kick in the nuts)

ONYOMI: AI The shit that some women go through for AI (= = love) is pitiful. The Frenchman's mouth let out a pitiful mewl as he was kicked in the nuts.
* ( ) *
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
you poor bastard! God help you. Utterly fucked, pathetic, but you honestly feel bad for them, rather than just looking down on them.
to feel sorry for someone.(or yourself!) To commiserate.

- zero stars! -
( )
an archaic, literary word meaning, "melancholy, pathos, grief." (used about a novel, song, movie, or tone of voice, but not about a person). ( NP ) (pitiful) + (sorrow) = (melancholy)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MOUTH pitiful decline,wane HORIZONTAL LINE
Hint
Radical
When you rap, the rhymes from out your MOUTH is pitiful, but. . . When I stab your mouth with a HORIZONTAL LINE (dagger) your health wanes.
USED IN:
decline,wane
ONYOMI: SUI
(pitiful) + (one/line radical)

The SWEETness of sugar cane wanes if you don't eat it all at once. Let's call the horizontal line a rusty screwdriver, shall we? That way we can say. . . The pitiful guy declined even more when he got his whiney mouth pierced by a rusty screwdriver!
* *
a decline JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
a decline in life-energy. (used only about living things) Usually brought about by sickness, aging, or stress.
( )
decline of the economy, decline and fall of the Roman empire, decline of Western Civilization Part 2.
485
(decline,wane) + (retreat) = (decline)

MOUTH pitiful decline,wane HORIZONTAL LINE
When you rap, the rhymes from out your MOUTH is pitiful, but. . . When I stab your mouth with a HORIZONTAL LINE (dagger) your health wanes.
good
(white) +
ONYOMI: RYOU
(kick in the nuts)
You're gonna have to REORDER more honey-roasted peanuts. They were so good I already ate 'em all. Kicking white people in the nuts is good. KUNYOMI:
*!
good
* ( xxx )
JUKUGO:
it was great! It was rad! (KANA)
If it's ok with you, can I XXX? (KANA)
( ) ( )
a good friend (friendship) + (good) = (a good friend)
conscience (good) + (heart) = (conscience)
USED IN:
daughter
ONYOMI:
Number: 791 10 strokes SOLO, DUH
(woman) + (good)
My daughter is a good woman.
486
KUNYOMI:
daughter
retreat
(motion) +
(good)
It's good to retreat from society and move to THAIland (if you are in NAMBLA).
( or or ) withdraw (from competition, troops withdraw from the Gaza strip, sometimes also means retire). JUKUGO:
( )
to be released from the hospital (retreat) + (institution) = (to be released from the hospital) boring!(verb form : : "It was boring!") ( 1/2 KANA) (retreat) + (yield, get out of the way) = (boring)
( )
wander
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: ROU JUKUGO:
(good)
Surfers in a ROWboat wander the world looking for good water to surf on.
( )
a waste of time or energy; a financial loss ( NP ) (wander) + (expenses) = (waste)

- zero stars! -
( )
- zero stars! -
masterless samurai or misfit nerd obsessed with same (wander) + (person) = (masterless samurai)
487
SKIN wave wander GOOD
Radical
The wave gets your SKIN wet faster, but the ronin finds it's GOOD to not have a master.
eyeball
ONYOMI: GAN KUNYOMI:
Number: 794 11 strokes DUPE, NP
(eye) + (good)
GHANDI's got good eyeballs, for seeing injustice and humanity, as well as panties.
eye (BOOBOO: unless you're reading a medical textbook, most people use the other :) (NP)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
eyeball (doctor's word- most people just say ()) (eyeball) + (sphere) = (eyeball)
hold a grudge
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KON
(good)
I hold a grudge against the pine CONES that fell from the tree and knocked my pops on the head. It's good for your heart to hold a grudge. 4 of 5 bitter doctors recommend it. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to hold a long-term, soul-eating, ulcer-making grudge- against the bitch who stole your boyfriend, etc.
( )
- zero stars! -
deep , bitter regret (hurts!!!) + (hold a grudge) = (deep , bitter regret)
LOOKALIKES:
488
hold a grudge HEART TREE root

Simple! You hold a grudge in your HEART, but the TREE has a root.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
root
ONYOMI: KON
(tree) + (good)
This is a weird tree because the CONES are not on the branches but instead they grow from the roots. It's good for trees to have a root. Stability and nutrients from the soil. You know the deal. KUNYOMI:
root
JUKUGO:
( )
the fundamentals (how is it different from Well, with , the emphasis is: the fundamental, deep, organizing principles, not the most easy 'for dummies' bits). The essential and underlying - as opposed to on the surface and easily apparent) Also handy: (the adjective form) (root) + (book / the real) = (the fundamentals)
( )
roof . That's right, not root. Roof! ( KUN ON) (store) + (root) = (roof) patience. You need to be able to () Often used like (she's very patient!) or, xxx! (you did xxx very patiently!) (root) + (mood) = (patience)
/ ( / )
( )
guts /balls (for instance, giving yourself cigarette burns to prove some kind of point about being a man) (root) + (sex / essential nature) = (balls)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hold a grudge HEART TREE root
Hint
Radical
489
Simple! You hold a grudge in your HEART, but the TREE has a root.
Number: 797 PK
town
DESCRIPTION: Sorry it doesn't look like a town. All the textbooks call it a town, so I figure, fuck it.
USED IN:
limit
(town) +
ONYOMI: GEN KUNYOMI:
(good)
Once AGAIN, the good people were stopped at the town limits and only assholes were let in.
( or ) to limit JUKUGO:
( )
a limit (limit) + (the world) = (a limit)
( )
limited edition (limit) + (plan) + (sales) = (limited edition)
xxx (xxx ) it's not necessarily the case that xxx!
one's hometown
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
Number: 799 11 strokes BETA, PN, F
(good) +
(town)
490
Today ( pronounced KYOU) it was a good day, so Eazy went back to his hometown of Compton. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
return to one's hometown (go back home) + (one's hometown) = (return to one's hometown) literary word for nostalgia (BOOBOO: most people just say (!)) ( NP )
(one's hometown) + (sorrow) = (nostalgia)
( )
- zero stars! -
A somewhat literary word for one's hometown (BOOBOO: most people just say (), meaning "parents' house" instead). ( F ) (breakdown, accident) + (one's hometown) = (hometown )
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
echo
ONYOMI: KYOU KUNYOMI: ()
(one's hometown) (Same-ON) + (sound)

The sound echoed in my head like memories of my old hometown.
*
echo
JUKUGO:
( )
influence (You don't say "x influences Y," you have to say "Y recieves X's influence." (YYYXXX) (shadow) + (echo) = (influence)
story of a building
(town) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(everyone)
You heard the one about the crazy lady flying her KITE from the 8th story window.
491
Everyone in the whole town lives on the same story! The whole rest of the building is vacant. JUKUGO:
( ) (xxx )
stairway (story of a building) + (step / stairs) = (stairway) story of a building. ( COUNTER )
xxx
( )
a step in a process. A measure, as in "We're taking steps to reduce your mother's underarm emanations." Also a palindrome of stairway! (step / stairs) + (story of a building) = (step/phase)
( )
a rank, grade, class.(usually used in the sense of social class) ( NP ) (story of a building) + (level) = (social class)
impede
(town) +
ONYOMI: SHOU KUNYOMI: ()
(emblem / chapter) (Same-ON)
Town cops SHOW their badges to impede criminals.
Hinder - but could also be translated as 'take a toll on', as in, "The problems at work hindered his sleep." 'The excessive drinking took a toll on her health.'
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
guarantee (guarantee/maintain ) + (impede) = (guarantee)
2 meanings. 1= a disability, like a handicapped person . 2= an obstacle like some shit in the road. (impede) + (damage) = (disability)
( )
a breakdown or malfunction (breakdown, accident) + (impede) = (malfunction)
492
institution
(town) +
ONYOMI: IN
(complete)
for once the onyomi actually SOUNDS like the English keyword! INnnnnnnnnstitution! IN our town, we have completed our IN-stitutions = we have a library, a town hall and a university. JUKUGO:
( )
hospital (sick kanji) + (institution) = (hospital)
( )
beauty salon. Yes, hospital () and beauty salon () DO sound totally alike.This is one of the basic mindfucks that teachers like to spring on newbies, so act like you know. (beauty) + (appearance) + (institution) = (beauty salon.)
ward off
(town) +
ONYOMI: BOU
(direction / method / person) (Same-ON)
This magic spell will ward off BOWLers who come in the direction of our town. (last time those damn bowlers came over our town wizard lost his +3 bowlin' shoes in a bet under questionable circumstances) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
To hinder in the sense of 'guard against': anti-crime cameras, anti-theft devices, and such all use this kanji. is more 'positive' than words like or which usually mean 'hinder something you're trying to do.'
( )
anti-crime / crime-prevention (you tend to see this word on hidden cameras or locks a lot) (ward off) + (commit a crime) = (anti-crime) PREFIX meaning, xxx proof, or xxx resistant. (for instance, nippleclamps( ) water-proof nippleclamps. Handy! ( PRE)
493
XXX ( XXX)
( )
precaution (beforehand) + (ward off) = (precaution)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
release
Hint
Radical
entrapped
(town) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(fishhook) +
(former)
Genghis KHAN entrapped his former town using a giant fish-hook. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
to entrap someone
to fall into, or be entrapped
JUKUGO:
( )
defective, defect (lack) + (entrapped) = (defective)
major city
(professional) +
(town)
494
ONYOMI: TO I'm going to Take Off to Tokyo because it's a major city. A town with a bunch of highly-paid professionals living in it, it is considered a major city. KUNYOMI:
major city (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
Tokyo -to. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, so it has "-to" on the end of it. Most cities have a () instead. And most prefectures have a () instead. If you think that's confusing, look at Washington DC - it's not a state, but it's not a city. It's a "district." Huh? (Tokyo) + (major city) = (capital city)
( )
Kyoto (the former capital!) (capital) + (major city) = (Kyoto (the former capital!))
xxx ( xxx)
at your convenience, xxx. ( i.e. with the new hack, we can break into their system at will). (since the Endangered Raver act has been repealed, we can harpoon 'em whenever we feel like it). ( FP ) (major city) + (to suit) = (at your convinience)
xxx
(xxx )
'capital city of XXX' in the sense of 'Hollywood is the film capital' or 'Paris is the art capital' or 'San Francisco is the bear capital.' ( SUF)
hide
(town) +
ONYOMI: IN I hid the snout IN a nest. I hid the nest IN a heart. I hid the heart IN a deserted part of town . KUNYOMI: () ()
(nest) +
(snout) +
(bottomheart)
*
I hide it
*
it is hidden
495
JUKUGO:
( )
retire, retired person (Fucked Roots - retirement is cowardly? I see! I'll work for the Emperor until my arms fall off!) ( FR, FP ) (hide) + (live) = (retire)
- zero stars! -
hide tranquil
HOW TO TELL AND APART: 90% of the time it's .
Number: 808
(right radical)
double the amount
(stand up) + (mouth/small box radical)

DESCRIPTION: When the mistress stands on his mouth, the masochist's screams get double loud!
USED IN:
section
(town) +
ONYOMI: BU KUNYOMI:
(double the amount)
Our section of town is double the size of your section! BOO your section!!
( xxx ) SUFFIX meaning "the XXX" club (baseball, origami, etc.) (SUF) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
all of it (all) + (section) = (all of it)
a part or piece. (section) + (understand / divide / minute) = (a part or piece. )
xxx ( xxx)
some / a certain part of (some complaints / part of the community / some lesbian separatists / some parts of the body / part of the crops)( ( FP )
496
(one) + (section) = (some of)
( )
a detail (slender) + (section) = (a detail)

- zero stars! -
dissect
(double the amount) +
ONYOMI: BOU
(rightsword)
We dissect the BOWLING ball, cutting it with swords to see what's inside. Every time we slice it the number of pieces doubles. JUKUGO:
( )
dissect - both literally and figuratively: to psychoanalyze someone, or understand their motivations. (solve / untie) + (dissect) = (dissect)
dissect SWORD double PERSON
Radical
You dissect with a SWORD chop, but sex makes PEOPLE double a lot. (when they reproduce) (by fucking)
double
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BAI JUKUGO:
Number: 811 10 strokes STRONG, SIDEKICK
(double the amount)
Any person who is double nice, I'll BUY them a double drink!
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX. For example, 2 means, double the amount. 3 means triple the amount, etc. ( COUNTER )
Radical
497
dissect SWORD double PERSON

You dissect with a SWORD chop, but sex makes PEOPLE double a lot. (when they reproduce) (by fucking)
Number: 812 PK
(left radical)
guy so macho he has two dicks
USED IN:
robust
ONYOMI: SOU JUKUGO:
(guy so macho he has two dicks) +

That samurai was SO robust, he had two dicks.
(samurai radical)
( )
- zero stars! -
magnificent, epic (robust) + (big) = (epic)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SAMURAI robust circumstance DOG
Hint
Radical
It takes a robust SAMURAI to save a DOG in bad circumstances.
USED IN:
dress up
ONYOMI: SOU
(robust) (Same-ON) + (cloth)

He looks SO robust, all dressed up in that manly cloth.
KUNYOMI:
to pretend or feign. (like '' - except that means you're fooling yourself, while means you're trying to fool others.)
498
JUKUGO:
( )
a manner of dress- not just a uniform. If you tell your daughter she's not leaving the house 'dressed like that', that's . Or if someone shows up to your party dressed way too formally, that's also a problem. (clothes) + (dress up) = (dressed like that.)
( )
disguise (change) + (dress up) = (disguise)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mass production SYSTEM SAMURAI dress up
Hint
Radical
Mass production is only accomplished with an industrial SYSTEM. The SAMURAIS had their own manner of dress.
circumstance
ONYOMI: JOU JUKUGO:
(dog)
JOE Stalin's dog is in a circumstance of having two dicks.
( )
the state of affairs, the condition, the context: ( = In what situation do you use that word?) (circumstance) + (condition) = (context, condition)
( )
the state or status of something: water is the liquid state of h20, but ice is the solid state. State of shock. Pristine state. Also can mean the state of affairs : good, bad, deadlocked, deteroriorating, improving. (circumstance) + (looks like) = (state)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SAMURAI robust circumstance DOG
Hint
Radical
It takes a robust SAMURAI to save a DOG in bad circumstances.
499
go to bed
(crown) + (George Michael's Moustache) +
ONYOMI: SHIN - you don't need this.
(snout) +
When I went to bed, I saw a SHINY jewel in my dream. I wanted to sleep with this guy in spite of his snout and tasteless crown, because I heard he has two dicks in his crotch.
KUNYOMI: lie down, go to bed (BOOBOO: it does NOT mean 'sleep,' which is !)
*
JUKUGO:
put someone to bed (a baby, a senile aunt, etc)
( ) ( )
a nap ( KUNKUN ) (noon) + (go to bed) = (a nap)
lack of sleep ( KUNKUN ) (go to bed) + teachers.) Also implies that there is a specific amount that is required, For example - (a dog shortage). There's no particle or verb needed.) = (lack of sleep )
( ) ( )
sleep late, oversleep ( KUN ON) (go to bed) + (boy / monk) = (sleep late, oversleep)
bedroom (go to bed) + (room) = (bedroom)
north
ONYOMI: HOKU
(heel)
Up north, the freezing wind on the Boulevard keeps the HOES COOL.
500
Some pervert dude showed me his two dicks so I used my heel to kick him all the way to the NORTH POLE. Aren't mnemonics fun??
KUNYOMI:
north
JUKUGO:
( )
north exit ( KUNKUN ) (north) + (mouth) = (north exit)
( )
Hokkaido (north) + (ocean) + (street) = (Hokkaido)
( )
North Korea ( KUN ON) (north) + (morning) + (fresh) = (North Korea)
Radical
omen SPARKLE north HEEL

SPARKS is an omen of fire, so you better run north on your HEELS.
USED IN:
stature / small of the back

Number: 818
9 strokes
(north) + (moon/organ)
ONYOMI: HAI
I haven't had my coffee yet. Make up your own damn mnemonic. Grr. Northerners like Norwegians are taller than Japanese because of their long backs - and a back is an organ of the body. KUNYOMI:
height. (NUBI) You gotta say like ! or ! (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
background (both in the sense of the background of a photo, and the background context of a story) (stature / small of the back) + (scene) = (background)
501
( )
small of the back ( KUNKUN ) (stature / small of the back) + (middle) = (small of the back) *: lit: to carry on one's back. Figuratively, to assume the burden of. (stature / small of the back) + (lose) = (carry on back)
( * )
Number: 819 PK
(top radical)
hurl
DESCRIPTION: . . . because it looks like some football guy hurling a ball.
USED IN:
system
(hurl) +
(small city/dagger radical) + (sword)
The anarchists SAY that the system hurls daggers and swords at all who resist its tyrannical domination.
*
JUKUGO:
to supress or control (the serfs, your impulses, etc.) (LAZY)
( ) ( )
uniform (nurse, student, policeman, fireman, stewardess, army guy. . .) (system) + (clothes) = (uniform)
system (system) + (times) = (system)
( )
compulsory, forced. "Do it, slave!" ( ABU) (burly) + (system) = (compulsory)

502
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
stab / buisness card TREE DAGGER system
Hint
Radical
You stab at the TREE and watch it sway. The system has a DAGGER (middle left) to stab people who don't obey!
USED IN:
mass production
(system) (Same-ON) + (cloth)
ONYOMI: SEI The system is ideal for mass production of cloth. JUKUGO:
( )
consumer electronics- anything from stereos to calculators to ipods. Radio Shack, Bic P Kan, and Yodobashi Camera are stores.
the denki, would you?' (BOOBOO)) + (mass production) + (products) = (consumer electronics) XXX
(XXX )
This is a SUFFIX which has two meanings, to wit: 1:made from XXX. For instance: :: made from wood. (***)
2: made in such-and-such a country. : : things (usually electronics or clothes) made in Japan. (**) :: manufacturing (**) ( SUF)
( )
manufacturing, production ( NP ) (mass production) + (produce) = (manufacturing)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mass production SYSTEM SAMURAI dress up
Hint
Radical
Mass production is only accomplished with an industrial SYSTEM. The SAMURAIS had their own manner of dress.

503
inform
(hurl) +
ONYOMI: KOKU KUNYOMI:
He informed me with his mouth: don't hurl balls while high on COKE!!!
*
to tell JUKUGO:
or ( or ) to confess- both to a crime and to having a huge crush on me. (inform) + (white) = (confess)
( )
an advertisement - although nowadays people use the Japlish word (CM, short for 'commercial.') (wide) + (inform) = (advertisement)
( )
a report - not like a school report, but like at a business or news show. ( NP ) (data) + (inform) = (report)
( )
admonishing negative advice: "Don't open that door!" "Don't swim naked!" (loyalty) + (inform) = (admonish)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
inform
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
produce
(motion) +
ONYOMI: ZOU
(inform)
504
An ELEPHANT (= ZOU) produces other elephants. The motion of the factory machines informs you that they are in production.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to mass-produce something in a factory. (although one-of-a-kind things like a giant rocket ship are also )
( ) ( )
manufacturing, production ( NP ) (mass production) + (produce) = (manufacturing)
remodeling, renewal, or reorganization of a physical thing ; re-modeling a house, tricking out a car, re-organizing the leadership of an organization. (renew / improve) + (produce) = (remodeling, renewal) creative (BOOBOO: don't confuse it with the OTHER :, which means 'imagine.') (I know, it's pernicious!) (originate / creative) + (produce) + (motivation / '-al') = (creative)
( )
horrendous
ONYOMI: KOKU
(liquor) + (inform) (Same-ON)

I got to inform you that sake and COKE is a horrendous combination.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
terrible! Not like a terrible movie, but like going on a date and your date vomits shrimp all over your dad. Because your date IS your dad. (KANA)
( )
abuse (horrendous) + (use) = (abuse)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
505
earlier/ the tip

(hurl) +
ONYOMI: SEN
(pi)
We heard the other guys were going to pie him at noon, so we SENT him to hurl the pie at them, earlier!! Machiavelli, eat your heart out.
KUNYOMI:
( xxx )
JUKUGO:
the tip (of a spear, etc.)
this expression sucks. It means 'just a little while earlier in time,' but it ALSO means, 'just a little farther along in space.' Sorry. If you're on an elevator and want to say, "You go ahead and get off first, please," You'd say Sheesh. (JERK)
( ) ( )
teacher (earlier/ the tip) + (life / birth) = (teacher)
last month (earlier/ the tip) + (moon) = (last month)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
last week (earlier/ the tip) + (week) = (last week) last year. PSYCHE you didn't think it would be that logical? last year is :.
(earlier/ the tip) + (year) = (not last year.)

earlier/ the tip LEGS OPEN LEGS CLOSED miss out on
1) Probably the first time you saw "" , you were looking at the word for teacher (sensei)--
506
2) MISS is basically SENSEI but with its legs closer together. Therefore, 3) I missed out on sex with teacher because she kept her LEGS CLOSED. See?
USED IN:
wash
(waterleft) +
(earlier/ the tip)
Earlier I SENt these out to be washed in water
*
JUKUGO:
wash (yourself or food)
( )
washing machine (do laundry) + (machine) = (washing machine )
( ) ( )
do laundry ( 1/2 KANA) (wash) + (rinse) = (do laundry)
a shitter ( F ) (the honorific "o") + (hand) + (wash) = (toilet, man. Toilet!!!!!!!)
( )
brainwash ( NEO ) (wash) + (brain) = (brainwash)
Number: 827
(top radical)
terrorist
DESCRIPTION: This is basically the katakana TE () , and what word starts with "TE"? TErrorist, that's what.
USED IN:
Number: 828
507
front surface / face

(terrorist) +
ONYOMI: MEN there seems to be a LADDER in the center of this kanji! So we can say . .
9 strokes COCK
(big box) +
??? (???)
The terrorist MEN climbed up the ladder onto the surface of the big box (a Walmart) and said they'd blow it up unless the Government did the Humpty. KUNYOMI:
2 meanings 1) ENTIRE surface of a 3-dimensional object, as opposed to , which is the front surface of a 2-D object (deeeeyammn!!), 2) the head or face - usually used in the context of expressions like 'meet face to face' or 'dare you to say it to my face!'. In other words, you wouldn't tell a drunk model, 'Hey there, nice !
Yakuza slang for face: 'I can't believe you'd dare show your face around here! ' (ABU)
JUKUGO:
* ( )
interesting, (in a good way) but also can mean funny (as in, laughing at you!) this deliberate ambiguity being a big thing with Japanese Sarcasm. Although in this case, fully half the time people are being serious. ( SARC) (front surface / face) + (white) = * (interesting)
( )
( ) ( )
screen - both movie screen and computer/tv screen (a drawing) + (front surface / face) = (screen)
the ground/floor (applies both inside and outside) (area) + (front surface / face) = (ground) to save face (opposite: ()) ( CCW) (front surface / face) + (eye) + (guarantee/maintain ) = (save face) the exterior, the surface - unlike (men), is more technical - usually used by architects or craftspeople. Or, for instance, to describe a "skin" you'd put on a polygon 3d character. (express) + (front surface / face) = (exterior)
- zero stars! 508
( )
( )
hundred
(white) +
(terrorist)
ONYOMI: HYAKU
Somebody shut that tweeker up. HE'S YAKKING away at a hundred words a minute. There's a hundred white-power terrorists in my backyard! help! JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
100 yen (hundred) + (yen/circle) = (100 yen)
grieve
(hundred) +
(eachbottom)
ONYOMI: YUU YOU grieve because you failed your kanji test.
(heart) +
Dude this kanji is kind of crazy. I'm a professional, but even I am a little bit scared to make a mnemonic: OK, here goes. . . Each heart grieves for the loss of the hundred Moustaches in the Great stache fire Of '07. Fuck! did I. . . did I do it?? I think I did it! Don't thank me, thank coffee.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
grief,sorrow
or ( or )
depressed ( 1/2 KANA) USED IN:
kindhearted/excel
Number: 831 17 strokes JERK, PN, DUPE
509
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: YUU
(grieve) (Same-ON)
YOU are such a kindhearted person to grieve for the loss of my mom's cousin's great-aunt twice removed, whom you've never even met! In other words, a kindhearted PERSON often excels at grief. DESCRIPTION: JERK: by itself, it means nice, but in a JUKUGO, it means EXCEL, or, for some reason, ACTOR. Also this kanji has the distinction of being a DOUBLE dupe: there's two s AND two s!
*
()
KUNYOMI:
warm-hearted. , emphasis on the personality, They make people feel comfortable and understand the feelings of others. Young people can use as kind of a put-down, like "He's just a 'nice guy.'"
to outdo, to be superior.
JUKUGO:
( )
actor (actor) + (kindhearted/excel) = (actor)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
priority (make it a priority: xxx) (kindhearted/excel) + (earlier/ the tip) = (priority)
superior, excellent (kindhearted/excel) + (excel) = (superior)
actor (man) + (kindhearted/excel) = (actor)
actress (woman) + (kindhearted/excel) = (actress)
lodge at
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHUKU
(hundred) +
(crown)
it sounds AND looks like , so that's easy to remember. At the crown hotel is so big, a hundred people can lodge there.
510
KUNYOMI:
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
Shinjuku ward (new) + (lodge at) + (ward) = (Shinjuku ward)
homework (lodge at) + (topic) = (homework)
( )
the act of staying the night -(kind of formal; you might read it in a hotel guidebook, but you wouldn't say "Let's over there, guys!" ( NP ) (lodge at) + (stay for the night) = (stay the night)
- zero stars! -
USED IN:
contract / shrink
(string) + (lodge at) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: SHUKU
SHOES COULD shrink if you wash 'em in hot water. I'll tie a string around the hotel you're lodging at, and pull the string until the hotel shrinks to a meter wide!!! (FYI - I am a somewhat deluded super-villain)
KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
- zero stars! -
contract (lips pucker, the sphincter contracts, the circle closes in around the hunted man)
to shrink , shrivel (shirts shrink in the laundry, dicks shrivel in cold water)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
to reduce, cut back on something. (business word) ( NP ) (contract / shrink) + (small size) = (cut back)
511
rock
(terrorist) +
Number: 834 5 strokes PN, SYMBOLIC
A Palestinian terrorist with a SEXY mouth, holding a rock, ready to throw it at an advancing Israeli tank.
rock, small stone
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
jewel. (treasure) + (rock) = (jewel.)
soap ( KANA)
petroleum oil. (rock) + (oil) = (petroleum oil.)
right rock
Radical
has a HORN sticking up on top no horn - flat on top
The right-winger gets HORNY, but the rock is FLAT so you can sit on it.
USED IN:
sand
ONYOMI: SA
(rock) + (a little (amount))

I went to the beach and SAW sand! I think you can figure out your own mnemonic for this one. KUNYOMI:
grain - (BOOBOO: not grain of rice or wheat (living things' grains are ())--- use about grains of sand or sugar;mineral things.) (JERK)
JUKUGO:
512
( ) ( )
desert (sand) + (desert) = (desert )
sugar ( 1/2 KANA) (sand) + (sugar) = (sugar)
( )
sand dune ( NEO ) (sand) + (hill) = (sand dune)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
odd sand
one second WHEAT
Hint
Radical
WOMAN STONE
pulverize
ONYOMI: SAI KUNYOMI: ()
(rock) + (the number 9) + (ten)

Nine out of ten rocks SIGH when you pulverize them.
I pulverize something. Construction workers smash the sidewalk concrete to dust. The mill turns wheat into flour. Can also mean 'To foil your plans.' Unlike the related term () tends to take a certain amount of time and repeated smashings.
()
it gets pulverized
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
513
foundation
ONYOMI: SO
(rock) + (grove) + (correct)

Some One is buried in Vinnie's foundation! Using rocks and trees from the grove is the correct way to build your foundation!
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
foundation (easy to remember since the first part looks AND SOUNDS like ()
( )
literally this kanji means 'foundation stone,' but unless you're a student of architectural history, you'll be using the metaphorical meaning instead: means 'the fundamentals' (of a language,of a philosophy, or a martial art, etc.) (basis) + (foundation) = (foundation)
mountain
ONYOMI: SAN KUNYOMI:
Number: 838 3 strokes PK, PN, DUH
SANTA Claus lives on a mountain at the north pole.
mountain
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
Mt. Fuji ( FP ) (get rich) + (samurai radical) + (mountain) = (Mt. Fuji)
514
hell of many. ( KANA) (swamp / bling) + (mountain) = (hell of many. )
( )
mountain-climbing. (verb form: ) (mountain) + (climb) = (mountain climbing)
USED IN:
boulder
(rock)
ONYOMI: A boulder is a rock the size of a mountain. KUNYOMI:
Number: 839 8 strokes SOLO, PN
boulder
belt
ONYOMI: TAI
(one/line radical) + (mountain) +

TIE the belt on your kimono. I can see your junk already.
(swordswallower)
A sword-swallower ties one belt around a mountain. Kind of a Christo-type deal. KUNYOMI:
belt, (BOOBOO: this only refers to a traditional obi worn with kimono. Not like a modern belt, which is !)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
cell-phone. (carry in hand) + (belt) = (cell-phone.)
a geographical district or zone - emphaizes a physical location: the tropics, the steppes. is much bigger and broader than . (area) + (belt) = (zone)
LOOKALIKES:
515
foreign emperor STAND MOUNTAIN belt

STAND UP to greet the emperor, But tie your belt around a MOUNTAIN.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
delay / be overdue
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: TAI
(belt) (Same-ON)
I got TIED up, so I am way overdue for my appointment. I am overdue to find a toilet, so I have already accidentally made water on my belt. KUNYOMI: ()
be overdue, left undone, backed-up (piles of unpaid bills teeter on the edge of your desk)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
traffic jam (bitter flavor) + (delay / be overdue) = (traffic jam)
late payment. (prolong) + (delay / be overdue) = (late payment.)
sponsor
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(mountain) +
(turkey)
I SIGHED when they told me the cost of sponsoring the event. The person sponsors a turkey roast on top of the mountain.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
host a small event - an art opening, house party, etc. (1/2 KANA)
516
( )
sponsor a medium party or company event (like () but the emphasis is on 'sponsor' (i.e. provide money in exchange for publicity), where as has more to do with actually doing the work - arranging the chairs and snacks and sweeping the floor, and so on). ( NP ) (master/mainly) + (sponsor) = (sponsor)
( )
to repeat and repeat a demand. Can be used about corporations (This is your 3d notice of overdue library book) or between frends, ('I keep asking you to repay that $5 I lent you') (sponsor) + (peer pressure) = (repeatedly request)
( )
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host a big event like the Olympics (open) + (sponsor) = (host the Olympics)
collapse
ONYOMI: HOU
(mountain) + (moon/organ)
The HOE collapsed in mid-fuck because of a heroin overdose. Occupational hazard! Seismologists estimate that that mountain will collapse two months from now. Volcanic hell!! Occupational hazard! KUNYOMI: () ()
I pull something down
- zero stars! -
something collapses
JUKUGO:
( )
a collapse- said of a building, but also (figuratively) like 'The collapse of communism.'
(collapse) + (break) = (collapse)
hard to see
517
(crown) +
ONYOMI: MITSU
(surely) + (mountain)
as in, "MEE TOO ! I want to be in on the secret!! " The mountain is surely hard to see under that giant crown.
* ( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
surreptitious, furtive, secretive
( ) ( )
a secret (secret) + (hard to see) = (a secret)
smuggling (hard to see) + (transport) = (smuggling)
occult
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: YUU
(mountain)
YOU are very occult, Mr. Crowley! Go visit the occult sorcerers on the enchanted mountain to obtain a magic spell to create a twin of Eazy-E. JUKUGO:
( )
a vengeful ghost - unlike () and (), were once human and driven by revenge. are more popular in horror movies (like The Ring), whereas are more traditional. (occult) + (ghost) = (ghost)
shore
(mountain) +
ONYOMI: GAN
(cliff) +
(dry out)
518
GHANDI is standing on shore, listening to some rap. There's a telephone pole at the base of the mountain cliff, on the shore of the lake. This pole warns sailors they're about to crash into the shore.
KUNYOMI:
shore
JUKUGO:
( )
the coast OR the beach! Unlike or , has a scientific meaning: the coastline, (regardless of if there's sand or not). You'll see on maps or geography books. The useage of is odd, even for Japanese. Where Americans will just say, "Let's go to the beach!", Japanese might suggest to their pals, "!(let's go to the ocean!) but ONLY ONCE THEY WERE ALREADY THERE, then they might specifically suggest going to the - as opposed to other things to do by the sea. Weird! (ocean) + (shore) = (coast / beach)
carbon
(mountain) +
ONYOMI: TAN
(cliff) +
(fire)
That's not a sunTAN, that's brown skin from carbon dioxide pollution. A fire burning on a volcanic mountain sends carbon dioxide down the cliff. DESCRIPTION: I was going to skip this one altogether, but with global warming and shit,everyone gotta know about carbon dioxide. Or not. JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
coal (rock) + (carbon) = (coal)
( )
- zero stars! -
carbon dioxide (two) + (sour) + (transform) + (carbon) + (element) = (carbon dioxide)
mount
(hill) + (mountain)
519
ONYOMI: GAKU It GOT COOL on top of Mt. Gaku this morning. Mount Take is even bigger than a yama, because it is like a yama with a hill on top!! DESCRIPTION: This means the same as but it is more used in Hokkaido, whereas is more used in southern Japan. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) SUFFIX meaning "Mount XXX" (SUF) JUKUGO:
( )
really big mountains! (mountain) + (mount) = (really big mountains!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HILL mount can, like 'canned beef' AXE
Hint
Radical
A mountain is a big HILL. Use an AXE to open up a can of food.
bird
ONYOMI: CHOU
Watching Margaret CHOU trying to tell a joke is like trying to watch a certain type of bird (penguin, chicken, emu) try to fly. I mean it is funny but not in the way it is supposed to be. Bad news is, this is way harder to draw than other kanji. Good news, it is easy to remember LIKE THIS:
KUNYOMI:
bird
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
roast chicken ( NOKURI ) (roast / grill) + (bird) = (roast chicken)
520
goosebumps ( KUNKUN ) (bird) + (human skin) = (goosebumps)
( )
- zero stars! -
turkey (seven) + (front surface / face) + (bird) = (turkey )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
animal cry MOUTHS island bird FOUR LITTLE LEGS MOUNTAIN
Hint
Radical
The animals cry with their MOUTHS. The bird has four little LEGS, but the island is made from a MOUNTAIN.
USED IN:
island
ONYOMI: TOU
(bird) + (mountain)
This boat voyage is too long! I can't wait to finally set my TOES on the island. This bird lives only on the mountain on one particular island. KUNYOMI:
island
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
Hiroshima. ( KUNKUN ) (wide) + (island) = (Hiroshima.)
peninsula (lit: 'half-an-island'!) (half) + (island) = (peninsula)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
521
animal cry
ONYOMI: MEI KUNYOMI: () ()
(mouth/small box radical) + (bird)

The bird MAY emit a piercing cry from its mouth
* *
animal's sound. Not just loud angry animals either. Baby birds also naku.
the sound of a phone or alarm ringing.
JUKUGO:
( )
to tear someone a new one. ( KUN ON) (get mad) + (animal cry) = (to tear someone a new one.)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
thunder cracks. (lightning) + (animal cry) = (thunder cracks.)
tinnitus (ear) + (animal cry) = (tinnitus)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
bean
MUTANTS:
(Hitler) +
(standing worms)
522
beans ONYOMI: TOU Worms stood up on their TOES to feed beans to Hitler's mouth. Sure, that's not the best mnemonic ever but HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN. KUNYOMI:
beeeeeeeans
JUKUGO:
( )
sticky, disgusting soybean remnants that Japanese like to inquire if you can tolerate them. ( FP ) (to supply) + (bean) = (nattou)
( )
tofu! (bean) + (rot) = (tofu!)
( )
soymilk (bean) + (milk) = (soymilk)
USED IN:
rejoice
ONYOMI: KI KUNYOMI:
(samurai radical) + (bean) + (mouth/small box radical)

The only way to make a mean gruff old samurai really rejoice is to just KEEP on keep on keep on feeding him beans all night, right in his mouth! BEEEAAANS.
*
happiness JUKUGO:
( or or ) to make someone become glad or happy - generally said about people other than yourself.
( )
comedy (rejoice) + (play) = (comedy)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
plentiful SONG
Hint
Radical
523
rejoice
SAMRUAI
SONGS ( ) are plentiful, so the SAMURAI rejoices.
stoked WOMAN rejoice NO WOMAN
Meaning Hint
Radical
After our breakup, that WOMAN is stoked, but I rejoice the most because now I have NO WOMAN!
USED IN:
stoked
ONYOMI: KI
(woman) + (rejoice) (Same-ON)

I'm stoked that my woman KEEPS on rejoicing in me.
KUNYOMI:
to be really happy - but it also has a connotation of gratitude. You get when you get a present from someone, but not when the sun comes up and it's a rad-weather day. (BOOBOO: unlike "," you usually use 'ureshii' about yourself.) (1/2 KANA)
stoked WOMAN rejoice NO WOMAN
Radical
After our breakup, that WOMAN is stoked, but I rejoice the most because now I have NO WOMAN!
head
MUTANTS: headright ONYOMI: TOU
Number: 855 16 strokes COCK, MR, STRONG
(bean) (Same-ON) +
(terrorist) +
(shellfish/money)
I hate you from you head down to your TOES. The average human's head is shaped like a bean, full of thoughts about terror and money. DESCRIPTION: (COCK: even though the ON-yomi of is TOU, the head MUTANT RADICAL is STRONG for GAN).
524
KUNYOMI:
head JUKUGO:
( )
headache ( FP ) (head) + (hurts!!!) = (headache)
( ) ( ! )
mouth-breathing, no-brain idiot (head) + (bad) = (mouth-breathing, no-brain idiot)
Means 'You're smart!' . . . or maybe it means 'Well, you're a sly one, aren't you?' (if they say the ** at the end, chances are it's the latter) ( SARC)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
face
head
Hint
BEAN HAIR
Radical
territory COMMAND beseech HIGH PLAIN

Your head looks like a BEAN, but your face has beard HAIR on it. I COMMAND my territory, but you beseech me to keep my army off the HIGH PLAINS.
USED IN:
summer
(headright) +
ONYOMI: KA
(eachbottom)
Every summer I take my CAR and drive with the top down, turning my head to look at each shirtless twink roller-blading down the street.
KUNYOMI:
summer
JUKUGO:
( )
summer vacation (summer) + (rest) = (summer vacation)

525
beseech
ONYOMI: GAN KUNYOMI:
(original/ high plain) +

*
() please!
(headright) (Same-ON)
GHANDI went to the high plains to beseech your Dad for head.
a fairly serious request: ( I have a favor to ask you). (I'll grant your wish.) Can you buy me a car! Can you loan me money? Can you bail me out of jail?
JUKUGO:
( )
a figurative prayer or wish, made to pass a test or to not go to jail ,etc. ( F ) (pray) + (beseech) = (a wish)
- zero stars! Hint
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
face
head
BEAN HAIR
Radical

stubborn
(original) +
ONYOMI: GAN JUKUGO:
As babies, our original heads are stubborn. As we grow up, our heads tend to think more of others.
526
( )
No exact English equivalent. combines two English expressions: 1) do your best! 2) good luck! You tell your friends ! before a big test or job interview. ( 1/2 KANA, CCW) (stubborn) + (stretch) = (good luck!)
( )
stubborn ( 1/2 KANA) (stubborn) + (hard) = (stubborn)
around that time

(heel) +
ONYOMI:
(headright)
Around that time that you talked about my mama, my heel kicked your head. JUKUGO:
( )
when I was but a wee lassie. (child) + (accompany) + (around that time) = (when I was but a wee lassie.) SUFFIX meaning, 'around the time of xxx' (often pronounced ). ( SUF)
xxx
(xxx or )
8 ( )
around 8 o'clock. (check the GORO action!) ( KUN ON) (time) + (around that time) = 8 (around 8-ish)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
summit/climax
Hint
around that time HEEL deposit item/paragraph
NAIL
Radical
BEFORE CRAFT
I plant a NAIL on the summit to claim the mountain. Around that time, my HEEL fell off, BEFORE I could deposit it in the bank. You CRAFT a paragraph of cunning lies about me.
Number: 860
527
summit/climax
(nail) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: CHOU At the climax of the movie, Margaret CHOU got a nail through her head! KUNYOMI:
11 strokes
(headright)
* *
JUKUGO:
the summit of a mountain. A sort of literary or formal word. (F, 1/2 KANA)
- zero stars! -
:to do, have, eat, etc. used by inferior person when addressing superior person. (F, 1/2 KANA)
- zero stars! -
( )
climax or peak (the zenith of his popularity / lonely at the top / peak of fascism's power/ the climax of the song, etc) (summit/climax) + (point) = (peak)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
summit/climax
Hint
NAIL
Radical
BEFORE CRAFT
amount of money / forehead

Number: 861
18 strokes JERK, BETA, SUF
(customer) +
ONYOMI: GAKU
(headright)
I got a fever, so I GOTTA COOL my forehead down with an ice pack. Each customer's Head has a forehead (which we can polish for an amount of money) (forehead polishers Inc. - hot stock tip) DESCRIPTION: JERK- literally it means forehead, but as a jukugo it is a SUFFIX which means "amount of money."
KUNYOMI:
forehead (BOOBOO: most people just say )

528
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
half-price, half the amount. (half) + (amount of money / forehead) = (half-price)
the monthly amount of money (moon) + (amount of money / forehead) = (monthly amount)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD ask a favor amount of money / forehead EACH STOP shun
Hint
Radical
You ask a favor: that I give HEAD. EACH of you asks for an amount of money. So I shun you, I STOP talking to you.
category,type
(rice / America) + (big) +
ONYOMI: RUI
(headright)
LOUIE LOUIE falls into the category of a rock song. This type of rice is as big as your head - It's KIND OF big!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
race of people (person) + (category,type) = (race of people)
variety or type of thing (seed / type or kind) + (category,type) = (variety or type of thing)
( )
- zero stars! -
to classify or divide into groups (understand / divide / minute) + (category,type) = (to classify or divide into groups)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
topic
Hint
DAY
Radical
529
BIG category,type number, to count WOMAN idea/imagination HEART

topic
ONYOMI: DAI
(sun, day) +
(headright) +
(correct)
The topic is how you DIE when I stab you in the chestal area. Use your head to come up with the correct answer for today's topic.. JUKUGO:
( )
problem - as in "environmental pollution", also as in "homework problem" (question, problem) + (topic) = (problem)
( ) ( )
homework (lodge at) + (topic) = (homework)
a theme (of a book or show) topic (of conversation) (conversation) + (topic) = (theme)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
DAY BIG WOMAN HEART
street HORNY topic DAY
Meaning Hint
Radical
HORNY guys is on the street. Every DAY they have a new topic of sexual harassment.
Number: 864
530
21 strokes
look back on
(hire) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: KO KUNYOMI:
DUPE, SOLO
(headright)
When I look back on hiring that KODOMO ()'s head without the body, I realize it was so very wrong.
to look back . Can be used literally OR figuratively, both with a good meaning (nostalgia, reminisince) and bad (guilty, reflecting on past misdeeds) .Also, to consider the consequences of something you're about to do (in which case, it's used in the negative:he acted without thinking!).
lean
ONYOMI: KEI
(transform) +
(headright)
it's oKAY to lean if you're a pimp. I lean on your head, transforming it into my pillow. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I tilt or tip something in a certain direction.
something is tilted, leaning, slanted, or inclined
JUKUGO:
( )
a general tendency or demographic trend (not one specific person and not with any intention) (i.e. people who watch 8 hours of tv a day tend to drool) (BOOBOO: not used about fashion trends, which are conscious and intentional, and called ( )) (lean) + (turn to face) = (tendency)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD lean be inclined BOOK
Hint
Radical
I lean my HEAD because I'm tired. He's inclined read BOOKS with a conservative bias.
531
item/paragraph
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
(headright)
The crafty head snorts COCAINE off of the paragraph of the legal code prohibiting narcotics.
( )
- zero stars! -
an item (on the agenda), a clause, a subject heading (item/paragraph) + (eye) = (clause)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
summit/climax
Hint
NAIL
Radical
BEFORE CRAFT
river
Number: 867 3 strokes DUPE, SUF, PK, DUH
Never, ever SEND a 5 year old into the river to "get your frisbee real quick."
river
JUKUGO:
( )
Kawasaki city
USED IN:
sequence

532
(river) +
ONYOMI: JUN JUKUGO:
(headright)
You are last in the sequence, so you will have to wait until JUNE to dunk your head in the river. (FYI: it's India and there's a lot of pilgrims for the Ganges)
( )
order of people in a line (take a number!) - order of bands on a live show. (sequence) + (number) = (order)
or ( or )
fine, fair, no problems, smoothly. Usually used like this : "Hi! How's business these days?" "Oh, I can't complain!" (sequence) + (check out) = (no problem)
( )
- zero stars! -
the sequence of steps in a proceedure - the order of books arranged by a certain system, (i.e. Dewey Decimal). (sequence) + (first part / preface) = (sequence of steps)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
kunyomi SAY sequence HEAD
Hint
Radical
You SAY kunyomi when you talk, but you have to figure out the sequence of the words in your HEAD.
state
ONYOMI: SHUU KUNYOMI:
Number: 869 6 strokes SUF, PN
All the folks in our state have wet SHOES from all the damn rivers. There's two rivers in our state. (It's a small state)
( xxx ) Usually this is only used with foreign countries, like 'California' or 'Tennessee . ' Japan doesn't have states, but sometimes you'll see a place-name such as (kyushuu). (SUF, PN)
kunyomi

533
(say) + (river)
ONYOMI: KUN When you talk about the KUNyomi of a river, you say, "It's kawa!" DESCRIPTION: Ironically, 'Kun' is only used in compound words. . .it doesn't have a kun-reading of its own. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
yep yep. (kunyomi) + (read) = (yep yep.) training - more serious than ; more like for the army or kung fu (kunyomi) + (practice) = (training) a lesson. Often used like this: !('That taught me a lesson!') (teach) + (kunyomi) = (lesson)
- zero stars! -
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
kunyomi SAY sequence HEAD
Hint
Radical
You SAY kunyomi when you talk, but you have to figure out the sequence of the words in your HEAD.
go wild / rough
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(dying) + (river)
Yo mama's COLON is so wild, hella jungle animals get lost in there. Plus it can trumpet like an elephant. The flowers on the riverbank died when the river went wild during the flood.
*
()
KUNYOMI:
wild or rough - (BOOBOO : not like 'girls gone wild' but like bums or abandoned houses that go wild and have dirt and weeds growing out of them)
to go wild or feral
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER flow go wild / rough FLOWERS
Hint
Radical
534
WATER flows, but FLOWERS grow in the wild.
USED IN:
be in a rush / freaked out

Number: 872
12 strokes
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(go wild / rough) (Same-ON)
Your sister took so much COCAINE that she freaked out and her heart went wild. KUNYOMI: ()
to be in a rush (or busy) to the point where you freak out; to panic (KANA)
JUKUGO:
xxxx ( xxxx)
- zero stars! -
To do XXX in a panicked rush, helter-skelter!!!! ( KANA) (big) + (be in a rush / freaked out) = (helter-skelter)
Number: 873 PK
(top radical)
horny
DESCRIPTION: What else does two dots at the top of something look like? Horn
USED IN:
neck
(horny) +
ONYOMI: SHU
(headright)
The horny person moved his head and neck to See Her Underpants. KUNYOMI:
neck
JUKUGO:
( )
535
get fired (this goes back to the Samurai days, when if you lost your job, your retirement plan consisted of your neck getting severed) ( KANA)
( ) ( )
ankle ( KUNKUN ) (foot/ be enough) + (neck) = (ankle)
nipple ( FP ) (milk) + (neck) = (nipple)
( )
A somewhat newspaper-ish word for Prime Minister (BOOBOO: actually, most people say instead) ( FP , NP ) (neck) + (partner) = (Prime Minister)
USED IN:
street
(motion) +
ONYOMI: DOU
Number: 875 12 strokes PN, SUF
(neck)
I twisted my neck looking at a hot jogger moving fast down the street Then I was like all holding my neck going, D'OH KUNYOMI:
smaller street (BOOBOO: bigger streets are ())
JUKUGO:
( )
sidewalk (walk) + (street) = (sidewalk)
( ) (xxx )
a short-cut ( KUNKUN ) (near) + (street) = (a short-cut )
xxx
DOU can also be used as a suffix, meaning 'method and philosophy of XXX' as can be seen in all this martial arts stuff: (judo, kendo, bushido). . . as well as tea ceremony, and flower arranging: ( SUF)
( )
martial arts (military) + (street) = (martial arts)

536
( )
morals in general - universal principles like "don't cheat, don't kill" - as opposed to your own personal rules, like "I don't smoke, I don't watch Julia Roberts films." When newspapers talk about "moral education in the classroom," they use . (street) + (virtue) = (moral principles)
( )
- zero stars! -
Judo (flexible) + (street) = (Judo)
road
Radical
street MOVE
FEET
The road is under your FEET, but you MOVE along the street. Word.
street HORNY topic DAY
Meaning Hint
Radical
HORNY guys is on the street. Every DAY they have a new topic of sexual harassment.
USED IN:
tax
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: ZEI
(horny) +
(older brother)
ZHEY came to my older brother's house and taxed him for all his wheat. JUKUGO:
( )
tax money (tax) + (gold) = (tax money)
( )
price including tax ( KUN ON) (tax) + (get crowded) = (price including tax)

537
explain
(say) +
(horny) +
ONYOMI: SETSU He SAID TO me an explanation.
(older brother)
My horny older brother, by way of explaining what he was doing in the glory hole, had this to say :"EEEOII!" KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to explain, preach, or hold forth on an important subject (BOOBOO: usually we just say . . . (setsumei suru)) (F)
( ) ( ) ( )
Explanation / to explain (explain) + (bright) = (explain)
novel (small size) + (explain) = (novel)
pester someone, usually for sex (mouth) + (explain) = (pester)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SPEECH explain get naked ORGANS
Hint
Radical
With my SPEECH I explain why you should take off your clothes and reveal your ORGANS.
get naked
ONYOMI: DATSU (FYI: I'm King Scrub)
(moon/organ) + (older brother) +
(horny)
My idea of a romantic date is to get naked in the back of my DATSUN.
My older brother gets so horny he gets naked and runs around with his organ all BOIOIOIOIOINGGG. KUNYOMI: ()
take off clothes

538
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
to digress, go off-topic (get naked) + (line) = (digress)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SPEECH explain get naked ORGANS
Hint
Radical
With my SPEECH I explain why you should take off your clothes and reveal your ORGANS.
before
(horny) +
ONYOMI: ZEN
(moon/organ) + (sword)
ZEN is before NOW. That is a terrible pun but now you won't be able to forget it. Cut the standing worms with your sword before the full moon. Otherwise they'll turn into WERE-worms, of which the less said, the better.
KUNYOMI:
before; in front of
( ) last time (i.e. "Thanks for helping me last time.") JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
AM , before noon. (noon) + (before) = (AM)
name ( KUNKUN ) (name, famous) + (before) = (name)

539
XXX ( XXX) ( )
every xxx (day, week, year, night, etc.) ( PRE)
You. Kind of rude -like a father scolding a son. Ruder than () but less rude than .
( )
one's principles, one's public position. (i.e. never drinking tang, being anti-abortion) (as opposed to , one's private feelings) ( CCW, KUNKUN ) (build) + (before) = (The way one behaves in public)
magnet
(rock) +
ONYOMI: JI
(horny) +
(Eazy)
Only JESUS could make a magnetic rock so powerful that it could draw together two Eazy-Es of opposite polarities. DESCRIPTION: Honestly this kanji is not that useful; I just wanted an excuse to show you that mnemonic. Probably the best one in the book, although we're still waiting for the Emperor's decision on that. JUKUGO:
( )
magnetism (magnet) + (mood) = (magnetism)

- zero stars! -
( ) ( )
magnetic field ( KUN ON) (electricity) + (magnet) + (place) = (magnetic field)
a magnet (magnet) + (rock) = (a magnet)
sheep
(king) +
ONYOMI: YOU
Number: 881 6 strokes SYMBOLIC, STRONG
(horny) +
(dot)
540
That line on the bottom? Dropping down from the bottom of king? Let's think of that as an erect penis (for reasons which shall become clear shortly) So, we can say . . . The king got horny, and his erect penis unfurled between his legs, and then do you know what he did? HE HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A SHEEP. You could hear the sheep YODEL in response. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC half the time.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
sheep (1/2 KANA)
( )
- zero stars! -
wool (sheep) + (fur) = (wool)
USED IN:
yen
ONYOMI:
DESCRIPTION: This is annoying because it looks like sheep but means the same thing as . (even Japanese people use and interchangeably.) HOW TO TELL THEM APART: Yen ()only gots 2 horizontal lines, but sheep () has 3 horizontal lines. . . because a sheep costs 3 yen.
USED IN:
south
(ten) +
KUNYOMI: ONYOMI: NAN
(yen)
If you insert ten yen into George Michael's moustache, he'll take you down south to India where you can get some kick-ass NAN bread.
JUKUGO:
south
( )
South America ( NEO ) (south) + (rice / America) = (South America)
( )
541
south exit ( KUNKUN ) (south) + (mouth) = (south exit )
( )
south fuckin' pole ( NEO ) (south) + (extreme) = (south fuckin' pole)
fresh
ONYOMI: SEN
(fish) + (sheep)
SEND out for some fresh meat because I want to cook. Both the fish meat and the sheep meet at the market is just f-f-f-f-ffreeesshhhhhhhh
* ( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
vivid, splendid, bright, skillful
( )
f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ffffffreshhhhh! (new) + (fresh) = (f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ffffffreshhhhh!)
expert
ONYOMI: SHOU
(say) + (sheep)
SHOW me an expert at once, for I have an urgent query. The sheep expert can talk for like 34 hours about sheep. KUNYOMI: ()
an expert- not always a professional in the field, but someone who has a detailed knowledge of shit. (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
the details or particulars of a thing (expert) + (slender) = (details)

542
Radical
Pacific Ocean / the West

Number: 886
9 strokes PN, BETA, PRE
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: YOU
(sheep)
If we did not have electricity, we would have to YODEL to communicate across the Pacific . We import all of our sheep from across the water of the Pacific KUNYOMI:
( xxx )
JUKUGO:
'Western style XXX' (xxx is always pronounced onyomi) (PRE)
( )
western style (suits, furniture, food, buildings, etc.) (Pacific Ocean / the West) + (wind / the flu / style) = (western style)
( )
Western clothing (Pacific Ocean / the West) + (clothes) = (Western clothing)
( )
the Pacific Ocean (fat) + (equal / level) + (Pacific Ocean / the West) = (the Pacific Ocean)
( ) ( )
western food (Pacific Ocean / the West) + (eat) = (western food)
east-and-west (east) + (Pacific Ocean / the West) = (east-and-west)
543
slow / late
(motion) +
ONYOMI: CHI
(corpse) +
(sheep)
Dinner was ok but our CHEESE fondue was hella late. You move slow like a corpse tied to the back of a sheep. And the corpse is hella fat.
*
()
KUNYOMI:
to be slow moving / to be late
*
to be late
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
to arrive late for school or work. (slow / late) + (carve up) = (arrive late )
discriminate
(sheep) + (left)
ONYOMI: SA KUNYOMI:
Conformist sheep discriminate against SAAAWuthpaw left-handers.
( or ) point at (usually used about light - flashlights or stage lights, spotlights pointing at someone). Apparently it also means to wear a sword, or to set people against each other. WTF this kanji makes no sense. Anyway the important thing is, if you want to say 'point with your finger,' you have to use one of the OTHER s ())
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
discrimination (discriminate) + (separate) = (discrimination)
traffic intersection (combine) + (discriminate) + (point) = (intersection)

544
( ) (xxx )
index finger (literally, "the people-pointing finger") (person) + (discriminate) + (finger / point at) = (index finger) SUFFIX meaning, the mathematical difference between 2 things, as in (: the time difference between two places). ( SUF)
xxx
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
wear / arrive
(sheep) + (eye)
ONYOMI: CHAKU
The sheep arrived with CHALK DUST in its eye. It must have had an adventure. DESCRIPTION: For some reason, the jukugo having to do with clothes tend to be KUNKUN, but the jukugo about arrival are ON-ON. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
arrive
put on shirt (BOOBOO: pants use a different verb!!)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
underwear in all shapes and sizes ( KUNKUN ) (below) + (wear / arrive) = (underwear)
kimono. ( KUNKUN ) (wear / arrive) + (animal / thing) = (kimono. )
swim-suit ( KUNKUN ) (water) + (wear / arrive) = (swim-suit)

545
( )
a change of clothes (wear / arrive) + (substitute) = (a change of clothes)
( )
arrive- usually you only hear this over the loudspeakers at train stations, airports, etc. ( NP ) (arrive) + (wear / arrive) = (arrive)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
cultivate, rear
(sheep) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: YOU KUNYOMI:
(animal legs) +
(good)
If you rear sheep good enough, you can even teach them to YODEL.
*
JUKUGO:
to foster, raise, breed, cultivate. usually about animals. Or orphans. (seriously!)
( )
nutrition (glory) + (cultivate, rear) = (nutrition)
( ) ( )
culture and refinement - think of My Fair Lady. (teach) + (cultivate, rear) = (refinement)
an adopted child. See, and you thought I was just being a dick. Don't blame the messenger, people! ( FR) (cultivate, rear) + (child) = (adopted child)
- zero stars! -
546
righteousness
(sheep) + (we)
ONYOMI: GI JUKUGO:
Number: 891 13 strokes BETA, ILL PAIR, STRONG
JESUS was righteous, and we sheep are his flock. Fuck!!! That was so easy!!!
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning 'ism'. As in capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ( SUF) (master/mainly) + (righteousness) = (- ism)
( )
an obligation to society - like voting, paying taxes, going to school, or in some cases, the army. (righteousness) + (perform a task) = (social obligation)
( )
obligation or honor debt. Like, you went to my band's show now I have to go to your band's show even though you guys are really terrible. ( CCW) (righteousness) + (reason) = (obligation)
( )
a definition (hey! recursion!) (plan) + (righteousness) = (definition)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
SPEAK discussion PERSONs. politeness righteousness NO LEFT RADICAL
Hint
Radical
You discuss things when you SPEAK. Righteousness is something you have inside you, but politeness is how you treat other PERSONs. That's why righteous has no left radical ! It's an INTERNAL virtue.
USED IN:
politeness
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: GI
(righteousness) (Same-ON)
547
I will be polite and behave righteously towards that person. JUKUGO:
( )
politeness. (polite) + (politeness) = (politeness.)
( )
a serious, formal bow - the real bow, not the head-nod. ( 1/2 KANA, CCW) (quit) + (politeness) = (bow)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
discussion
ONYOMI: GI JUKUGO:
(say) + (righteousness) (Same-ON)

I will say something righteous during the discussion
( ) ( )
a conference (big meeting) + (discussion) = (a conference)
not quite an argument, but definitely a spirited loud discussion. (discussion) + (make a case for) = (argument)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
548
important person
ONYOMI: YOU
Number: 894 14 strokes SUF, JERK
(tree) + (sheep) (Same-ON) + (water)

You're a very important person, so here is your complimentary sheep, your jug of water, and your free tree, as well as a 30-minute 'YODELING telegram' which you can not turn off nor refuse. DESCRIPTION: OK, this is kind of a JERK, now that I think about it. It means 'important person' - and in those cases it uses the KUN reading (). But it also means 'the situation', and in THOSE cases, it uses the ON reading (). What the hell, man? KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) SUFFIX which goes after someone's name to be polite. (SUF) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a more formal way to say "everyone." ( F , KUNKUN ) (everyone) + (important person) = (everyone)
a pattern which does not have pictures: fractals , mandala, plaid, zeebra skin. wood. do NOT use about representational patterns like flower-print or kids pajamas with horsies on them. also has a more formal meaning: the details of an incident : You might hear a train/airport announcement which says "We will explain the details of the delay" ( ) ( 1/2 KANA) (model) + (important person) = (pattern)
( )
the situation. Usually used in medicine or business: The patient's situation is grave. We'll wait and see if the market situation improves. ! The other main way it's used is: ! Which means, 'Something funny is going on here!' or 'There's something funny about that person.' 'You mean the homeless with a stuffed duck on his head?' 'Yes.' ( FP ) (important person) + (child) = (the situation)
( ) ( )
All different kinds of xxx. Very similar to (), but means more like "all the kinds of" rather than "many kinds of."
in the same way. For example, "In the same way caffeine perks up the mind, your dad's naked pictures perk up the body." (same) + (important person) = (in the same way)
549
heaven
ONYOMI: TEN
(big) + (one/line radical)

the Mormons believe in TEN heavens. To monotheists, there is only ONE BIG GOD in heaven. And he is a jealous god who uses his omnipotence to check up on you to make sure you aren't doing anything with other deities. If he was a boyfriend, they'd call him a stalker. I'm just saying. JUKUGO:
( )
weather (heaven) + (mood) = (weather)
( ) ( )
genius (heaven) + (skill) = (genius)
heaven (heaven) + (country) = (heaven)
USED IN:
append
(firebottom) +
ONYOMI: TEN
(heaven) (Same-ON) +
(waterleft)
I'll append no less than TEN "P.S."s to the end of my letter. Awkward! For every fire, Heaven appends some rain. For every rain, Heaven appends some fire. Thus is the balance of life restored.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
A formal word for append. (F)

- zero stars! -
( )
attatch (a file to your email) (read the attached instructions) (append) + (stick to) = (attach)
550
laugh
(bamboo) + (heaven)
When I SHOW you a picture of a panda impaled on the very bamboo it was trying to eat, the irony makes you laugh so hard I thought you'd died and gone to heaven.
*
laugh ()
*
comedian
JUKUGO:
( )
smiling face ( FP ) (laugh) + (face) = (smiling face)
( )
to laugh explosively- to suddenly and convulsively guffaw (explode) + (laugh) = (explosive laughter)
HEAVEN laugh answer SUIT
Radical
It's HEAVENLY to laugh, but I'll only answer questions that SUIT me.
chug
ONYOMI:
(heaven) + (mouth/small box radical)

I chugged the drink down and it was like heaven in my mouth. DESCRIPTION: This is to what is to - a more crude version.
KUNYOMI:
chug. Drink in one gulp, (emphasis on swallowing) (use this about medicine, chugging booze, or dudes reaching a desert oasis). Also, figuratively, to accept an onerous demand.
USED IN:
551
Number: 899
(right radical)
horny heaven
(horny) +
(heaven)
DESCRIPTION: Where you go and get 77 virgins after blowing up some infidels.
USED IN:
send
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SOU
(horny heaven)
I want to move to horny heaven SO bad. Send me there in a plain brown wrapper! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
send (letter) or transmit (radio or tv program)
( ) ( )
broadcast (release) + (send) = (broadcast)
to see a friend off - like as far as the train station. (look) + (send) = (see off) these are the hiragana letters dangling from the end of kanji, like the "" in or the "" in okurigana are useful because they cue you to pronounce the kanji using KUN yomi, rather than ON. (send) + (provisional) + (name, famous) = (okurigana)
( )
bloom
(horny heaven)
552
ONYOMI: SHOU SHOW me where the cherry trees are blooming! I wanna see!! When Fabio puts your clitoris in his mouth, it will bloom so bad he will take you to horny heaven. KUNYOMI:
bloom (you'd think that this would also be the same kanji as SAKURA (the cherry blossoms). You'd be wrong. Sakura is )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
bloom
Hint
Radical
call to someone EQUAL

When flowers bloom, it means they are HORNY (pollen and all that), but I call my EQUALS 'homey.'
HORNY
connected to
(gate) +
ONYOMI: KAN KUNYOMI: ()
(horny heaven)
This gate connects the material world to horny heaven. Unfortunately it is guarded by Genghis KHAN.
( )
to be connected to (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
related to - a sysadmin job is (connected to) + (be involved with) = (related to)
( )
be associated with something, or relevant to something. (connected to) + (take with / inform of) = (relevant)
roll up
(horny heaven) +
ONYOMI: KAN
Number: 903 9 strokes ???
(myself)
553
Genghis KHAN ??? I got nothing
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
roll up (a scroll), wind up (fishing line)
( ) (XXX )
spring rolls ( NEO ) (spring /sexy) + (roll up) = (spring rolls) ; : first , second, third volumes in a series of books ( COUNTER )
XXX
( )
- zero stars! -
whirlwind or tornado (dragon) + (roll up) = (whirlwind)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
certificate, cupon POWER WET harbor NO WATER roll up
Hint
Radical
A ticket gives you the POWER to go to the concert. Harbor IS WET. A rolled- up scroll is NOT wet.
USED IN:
range / area of influence

Number: 904
12 strokes BETA
(big box) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(roll up)
The range of the fruit roll-up is limited to the box it came in. JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
out of range / out of your jurisdiction (range / area of influence) + (outside) = (out of range)
( )
- zero stars! -
the English -speakng world; countries that speak English (no stars. . .This isn't used very often, but it gives you a good idea of what this kanji means) (English) + (range / area of influence) = (english-speaking world)
554
certificate, cupon
(horny heaven) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(sword)
as in: "KENNY got certified to come back from Hell" If you kill an infidel with your sword, Allah gives you a free cupon to get into Horny Heaven with 72 virgins. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
to wit;
Take pretty much any noun you can think of, and add "" to the end, and you have invented a coupon for that noun.
: eat + ken = meal ticket . . . : merchandise + ken = discount coupon . . . :commute +ken = commuter pass etc. . . ( SUF)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
win
ONYOMI: SHOU
(moon/organ) + (certificate, cupon)

Every month, the team needs to SHOW the coach a certified win.
KUNYOMI:
to win
555
a victory
JUKUGO:
( )
a win or lose situation. Fighting over a girl/boy. Not neccesairly the final, decisive battle, the Superbowl. . The game/battle is won or lost on account of ..XXX. . (win) + (lose) = (win or lose situation)
( )
to do like a dick. I mean, to do something selfishly without asking, like you're the only one on the planet. I ate MY cake, but then I ate your cake too, and just look at you like, "What?" (****) ( KUNKUN ) (win) + (hand) = (to do without asking)
bow
ONYOMI: KYUU - you don't need this DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC for 'bow' or 'pull.'
Number: 907 3 strokes PK, DUH, SYMBOLIC
That's a CUTE bow you have in your hair. It really goes well with the other bow which you are pointing at me.
KUNYOMI:
bow
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
archery (bow) + (street) = (archery)
USED IN:
younger brother
(horny) +
ONYOMI: TEI, DAI
(bow) + (dot)
When my younger brother gets horny he TAKES a bow like Cupid and shoots you and you DIE. He's passionate but unfortunately not gifted with a sense of poetic metaphor. KUNYOMI:
556

JUKUGO:
someone's younger brother (say if you're talking to your friend's younger brother)
( ) ( )
siblings (not just brothers) (older brother) + (younger brother) = (siblings)
student (more formal, ususally used with the name of the institution: Harvard Waseda ) ( F , FP ) (younger brother) + (child) = (student)
USED IN:
rank or number in series

Number: 909
11 strokes BETA, PRE
(bamboo) + (younger brother) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: DAI JUKUGO:
My younger brother is ranked first at DYING a panda-related death (his hobby is dressing up like bamboo),
( )
the first (impression, priority, episode/ game of the season) the primary thing. (rank or number in series) + (one) = (first or primary)
( )
first rank.
+ (rank) = (first rank.)
7 ( ) ( )
chapter 7 (rank or number in series) + (emblem / chapter) = 7 (chapter 7)
the second step (in a plan for world domination) (rank or number in series) + (two) + (step / stairs) = (second step )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rank or number in series YOUNGER BROTHER TEMPLE equal /etc./plural
Hint
Radical
My YOUNGER BROTHER comes after me in our family series. According to the U.S. Constitution, all TEMPLES are equivalent.- Congress shall pass no law and etc.
557
boil water
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: FUTSU KUNYOMI: ()
(younger brother)
It's normal (= , pronounced FUTSU) to boil one's younger brother in water from time to time.
to be boiling. Usually used with , (hot water) as in, ('The water's boiling!')
JUKUGO:
( )
literally, to boil some water. Figuratively; to seethe with anger or get too excited
expenses
ONYOMI: HI KUNYOMI:
(younger brother) + (shellfish/money)

HE spends all his money on his little brother, for expenses like school-boxes and juice boxes
*
JUKUGO:
to spend, to consume, to waste. Can also be used of time(literally, 'consume time' ), in the context of work. : which translates to : it was time well spent / it was time wasted.
( ) ( ) ( )
consume (erase) + (expenses) = (consume)
the consumer ( NP ) (consume) + (professional) = (the consumer)
expenses, for a road-trip or a night out, misc. things you have to buy. (expenses) + (utilize) = (expenses)
558
burly
ONYOMI: KYOU
(bow) + (moocow) + (insizzect)

I learned a burly Kanji today (=, pronounced KYOU) The burly cow used the bow to shoot the bug. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) xxx is strong!
*
JUKUGO:
compel, or force someone to do something
( )
To study. Used about learning a whole subject, such as Irish History or Thermodynamics. (BOOBOO: takes months or years, as opposed to () which means to learn one thing, and can take a second.) (try hard) + (burly) = (To study)
( ) ( )
emphasize (burly) + (check out) = (emphasize)
compulsory, forced. "Do it, slave!" ( ABU) (burly) + (system) = (compulsory)
( )
:someone who is rugged, thuggy, street-looking. ( KUNKUN ) (burly) + (front surface / face) = (rugged, thuggy)
pull
ONYOMI: IN KUNYOMI:
(bow) + (one/line radical)

The line is a bow-string. How about that. Ok, can you guess what the story will be? Everybody say it one time:
559
pull JUKUGO:
( )
discount ( NOKURI ) (divide) + (pull) = (discount)
( ) ( )
move to a new house or apartment (pull) + (go beyond) = (move to a new house or apartment)
shoplift. ( SARC) (10000) + (pull) = (shoplift.)
bullet / play guitar / bounce

Number: 914
12 strokes JERK
(merely) + (bow)
ONYOMI: DAN
You can't hurt glenn DANzig with merely a bow, you need a silver bullet. DESCRIPTION: possibly the most random JERK of the bunch! KUNYOMI:
*
()
bullet
play stringed instrument
*
bounce
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
bomb (explode) + (bullet / play guitar / bounce) = (bomb)
bullet (bullet / play guitar / bounce) + (round) = (bullet)
Number: 915
560
red
7 strokes
(samurai radical) +
*
red JUKUGO:
(bottomheart)
The SEXY samurai makes my heart turn red with passion. I mean, deeyammn!
( )
baby
( )
baby (red) + (boy / monk) = (baby)
( )
USED IN:
blush (other than this, you don't really need the on-yomi) (red) + (front surface / face) = (blush)
bay
ONYOMI: WAN
(bow) + (red)
I WANNA drop my red bow in the water of the bay. It's red with blood, of course, and I need to hide the evidence before the detectives come.
KUNYOMI:
bay (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
Taiwan (big thing counter) + (bay) = (Taiwan )
Number: 917
561
13 strokes
vestiges
ONYOMI: SEKI
(foot/ be enough) + (red)

Although she is old now, she (Condi Rice) still has vestiges of her youthful SEXIness. The blood-red footprints are vestiges, clues that a murder took place here.
KUNYOMI:
a trace left behind, a vestige
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
footprint ( 1/2 KANA, KUNKUN ) (foot/ be enough) + (vestiges) = (footprint)
ruins of old buildings. (bequeath) + (vestiges) = (ruins)
( )
- zero stars! -
an inheritor, an heir, heiress (vestiges) + (succeed / inherit) = (heir/heiress)
passion
(red) +
ONYOMI: REN KUNYOMI:
(bottomheart)
My heart () turns red with passion for MC REN. Specifically,i want to kizz hizz black azz.
usually translated as love, but lust is closer!
JUKUGO:
( )
lover - (BOOBOO: is usually the good kind, where no one's cheating. The bad one is ) ( KUNKUN ) (passion) + (person) = (lover)
( )
get your heart broke
562
(miss out on) + (passion) = (get your heart broke)
( )
love or relationships in general - that is to say, if there's an ad for fortune-telling that says, "Test your luck in money! Love! and health!" it'll be using . If there's an article in a womens' magazine, "How to get love in 10 steps!" it'll be using . But you wouldn't tell a hot guy " I you very much!" See? (passion) + (love) = (love in general)
passion HEART change EACH
Radical
HEARTS feel passion, but EACH lover wants to change for another!
change
(red) +
ONYOMI: HEN The egg changes into a HEN after hatching.
(eachbottom)
Each red Communist changes into a yuppie when they turn 30. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I change something
( )
JUKUGO:
something changes
abnormal or bad (FR)

- zero stars! -
( ) ( )
transformation, change (change) + (transform) = (transformation, change)
this has 2 meanings, both used equally often: "Tony is tai hen!" , for instance, could mean: a) I feel sorry for Tony because his job sucks and his girl is cheating.
563
b) Tony is a really scary, mean person. (big) + (change) = (that's terrible!)
( )
What your brother and sister call you when they catch you peeking in the bathroom while they're doing it in the toilet. (change) + (looks like) = (perv)
passion HEART change EACH
Radical
HEARTS feel passion, but EACH lover wants to change for another!
long / boss
(kick in the nuts) +
Number: 920 8 strokes PN, STRONG, JERK, SYMBOLIC
??? (???)
I have no idea what that top radical is supposed to be. So, regardless, here's a mnemonic: I've waited a long time to kick my boss in the nuts.
*
long JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX meaning "Boss of XXX." ( SUF)
( ) ( )
company boss. (company) + (long / boss) = (company boss.) strong point, as opposed to weak point. Can be used about people (his is his courage, her is her brain) or machines ('The strong point of this PC is its long battery-life') (long / boss) + (area / attribute) = (good point)
( )
height (BOOBOO; only about human bodies- not about buildings or, well, anything else) ((one's own) flesh) + (long / boss) = (height)
564
( )
extension or prolonging, in time. Also means,to extend a linear thing by building it longer. A bit more official than the related term (). (prolong) + (long / boss) = (prolonging)
USED IN:
stretch
ONYOMI: CHOU
(bow) + (long / boss) (Same-ON)

as in, "It's a stretch to call Margaret CHO funny. " Stretch the bow until it is really long. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to physically make something longer. stretch a rubber-band stretch a canvas on a paint frame, pitch a tent. Also to extend one's influence.
( )
No exact English equivalent. combines two English expressions: 1) do your best! 2) good luck! You tell your friends ! before a big test or job interview. ( 1/2 KANA, CCW) (stubborn) + (stretch) = (good luck!) stress, stretched to the max can be used both literally and figuratively. (tense) + (stretch) = (stress)
( )
notebook
ONYOMI: CHOU JUKUGO:
(small city/dagger radical) + (long / boss) (Same-ON)

I keep a long dagger tucked in the spine of my notebook, so if anyone tries to copy my notes I can stab them.
( )
notebook. Not the big school kind. The tiny kind Japanese girls are always sitting alone in cafes penciling in their social engagements in. ( KUN ON)
565
(hand) + (notebook) = (notebook)
Number: 923
(top radical)
peaked roof
PK
USED IN:
Number: 924 STRONG
(right radical)
risk
(peaked roof) +
(central) + (one/line radical)
DESCRIPTION: It's risky to stand right in the center of a peaked roof during an earthquake. ridiculously strong RADICAL for KEN, so you can say: South Park's KENNY led a very risky life.
USED IN:
investigate
(tree) +
ONYOMI: KEN JUKUGO:
(risk) (Same-ON)
FBI agents hide behind a tree to do a risky investigation.
( )
Medical checkup. Also, investigation, inspection, review: (fiancial audit, smog check, check the condition of goods that roll off the assemby line, etc). Has the nuance of a test where something passes or fails. (investigate) + (inspect) = (checkup)
( )
internet search (investigate) + (look up) = (internet search)
( )
to consider, give consideration to (before giving him life in prison for murder , please give consideration to the fact that he was defending himself) (investigate) + (attack/discuss) = (give consideration to)
566
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
investigate TREE PERSON thrifty
Hint
Radical
The detective TREE investigates the thrifty PERSON.
thrifty
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KEN JUKUGO:
(risk) (Same-ON)
KENNY is thrifty because his family's poor. He's also a risky person because he dies in every episode.
( )
frugal, saving money, getting bargains. (BOOBOO - is used in a good way. If you want to say someone is cheap, say 'kechi!') (thrifty) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (frugal)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
investigate TREE PERSON thrifty
Hint
Radical
The detective TREE investigates the thrifty PERSON.
saber
(risk) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(rightsword)
The saber is the riskiest type of sword. Because it's like a combination of 'stabber' and 'sandwitch.': you could be trying to eat and kill at the same time and get hella distracted. Oh shiiit!!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
serious or earnest (truth) + (saber) = (serious or earnest)
the wooden-sword-fighting martial art (saber) + (street) = (wooden-sword fighting)

567
- zero stars! -
test
(horse) +
ONYOMI: KEN JUKUGO:
(risk) (Same-ON)
I'll test my gambling expertise by risking it all on that hose. I mean horse.
( ) ( ) ( )
an experience (experience) + (test) = (experience)
a scientific experiment (truth) + (test) = (a scientific experiment) a test, like in school - kind of formal. (BOOBOO : normally people just say ) ( NP ) (attempt to do) + (test) = (test)
steep
(town) +
ONYOMI: KEN It's risky to build a town on such a steep hill. KUNYOMI:
(risk) (Same-ON)
*
JUKUGO:
a steep hill, or a very grim situation (but mostly a steep hill).
( ) ( )
insurance
adventure (risk) + (steep) = (adventure)
568
(guarantee/maintain ) + (steep) = (insurance)
( )
risky, unsafe (dangerous) + (steep) = (risky, unsafe)
steep
exclude EXCESS RISK
Radical
Japanese exclude the EXCESS foreigners because the RISK is too steep.
gold
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: KIN
Number: 930 8 strokes PN, SYMBOLIC
(king) +
(horny)
He won the lottery, moved out the trailer park, but he still won't share any gold with his KINfolk. The horny king hoards his gold in a treasury with a peaked roof. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC for metal and money. KUNYOMI: ()
!!! !
JUKUGO:
( )
Friday (payday!) (gold) + (day of the week) = (Friday (payday!))
( ) ( ) ( )
rich person AKA your mom's bail bondsman. (gold) + (hold) = (rich person)
a fee, also, bills. (ingredients / fees) + (gold) = (a fee, also, bills.)
your mama's big hairy balls ( KUN ON) (gold) + (ball) = (balls)
( )
a debt - What the Yakuza comes to break your knees if you don't pay.
569
(borrow) + (gold) = (a debt)
( )
a safe (gold) + (warehouse) = (a safe)
USED IN:
sharp
(gold) +
ONYOMI: EI
(horny) +
(older brother)
Fonzie says "EYYYY!!" as he sticks his sharp thumb up, to indicate his satisfaction. Older brother has a sharp mind so he winds up earning a lot of gold. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
sharp (1/2 KANA)
( )
quick-witted, keen. (sharp) + (agile / sensitive) = (quick-witted, keen.)
rust
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: ()
(gold) + (master/mainly) + (yen/circle)

The master's gold rusted, reducing its yen value.
to rust (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
rusted / rusty ( KANA) (rust) + (stick to) = (rusted / rusty)
570
record
(gold) +
(snout) +
ONYOMI: ROKU
(water)
Recording a ROCK song about a wet snout will earn us a lot of gold! It's what all the kids are into these days. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
sound recording (record) + (sound) = (sound recording)
to enter data, or to register for something - (usually means filling out a form) (climb) + (record) = (register, enter data)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
mirror
ONYOMI:
(gold) + (stand up) + (look)

Stand up to look in the metal mirror.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
mirror
( )
- zero stars! -
telescope (desire) + (far) + (mirror) = (telescope)

571
( )
- zero stars! -
microscope (teeny) + (mirror) = (microscope)
border EARTH mirror METAL
Radical
The border is a line on EARTH but the mirror is made of METAL.
shut/chain
(gold) +
ONYOMI: SA KUNYOMI:
(shellfish/money)
I SAW / saw a golden chain, locked around the baby birds, which were sitting on money. I guess that's one way of keeping it safe.
JUKUGO:
chain
( )
chain. Usually used figuratively: chain store and chain reaction. Cycle of child-abuse. Food chain. (take with / inform of) + (shut/chain) = (chain)
silver
ONYOMI: GIN
(gold) + (good)
I'll give you silver in exchange for GIN. Sliver is as good as gold, what is not good is being broke. JUKUGO:
( )
bank (silver) + (go) = (bank)

572
( )
Ginza , a ritzy neighborhood in tokyo (silver) + (sit) = (Ginza)
( )
bank account (bank) + (mouth) + (sit) = (bank account)
needle
ONYOMI:
(gold) + (ten)
Give me ten gold needles please.
KUNYOMI:
a needle
JUKUGO:
( : )
a wire ( KUNKUN ) (needle) + (gold) = (a wire)
bronze
ONYOMI: DOU JUKUGO:
(gold) + (same) (Same-ON)

The Olympic athlete went DOH when they gave her the bronze medal, because it's just not the same as gold.
( )
- zero stars! -
bronze medal. (bronze) + () = (bronze medal.)

573
tea
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: CHA
(peaked roof) +
(katakana 'ho')
It is traditional to serve flower-scented tea to the HOE under the peaked roof. (it's this hostess club for recovering alcoholics, is what it is) JUKUGO:
( )
tea
( )
brown ( KUN ON) (tea) + (color) = (brown)
( )
a coffee-shop. These are really popular because Japanese don't invite people over to their homes very often - they meet at the coffee-shop. This is fairly polite example to point to when a Japanese asks you, "Do foreigners really think we're a cold people?" BOOBOO: most Japanese don't say they just say () (enjoy a drink and a smoke) + (tea) + (shop) = (coffe-shop)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
green tea (AKA the only time you'll ever use the on-yomi for 'green') (green) + (tea) = (green tea)
black tea (dark lipstick red color) + (tea) = (black tea )
umbrella
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: SAN
(person) + (ten)
SANTA Claus uses an umbrella at the north pole, to deal with the fallin' snow. Ten people - - uh,. . .you know what? Actually this kanji LOOKS like an umbrella so fuck it. KUNYOMI:
umbrella (KANA)
JUKUGO:
yyy
xxx (yyy xxx)
574
YYY, which is a subsidiary of XXX. (Fanta is a subsidiary of Coke) (umbrella) + (below) = (subsidiary)
all
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: ZEN
(king)
All kings do ZEN meditation under a peaked temple roof.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
absolutely / completeley (I absolutely don't know this man, officer! He's completely crazy)
( )
all of it (all) + (section) = (all of it)
( )
absolutely! (usually used to emphasize the word after it. But sometimes, the word being emphasized is omitted because it's so obvious (to Japanese)) If you hear someone say 'Zenzen!' with no word after it, it might mean 'zenzen daijoubu,' ('Absolutely no problemo.') . . . OR it might mean 'zen zen dame!' ('No effing way, guy!') ( 1/2 KANA) (all) + (nature) = (absolutely! )
( ) ( )
all the members of the group (all) + (clerk) = (all members)
nationwide,national (as in a national contest) (all) + (country) = (nationwide)
KINGS all excess SHOW
Radical
We can't all be KINGS, becaus that would SHOW an excess of monarchs.
Number: 942
575
scheme
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: KI
6 strokes
(stop)
I have a scheme to stop at the house with the peaked roof tonight. (FYI it's full of rad scientists) I have the KEY, don't worry, we can get in. Then we can teach them kanji via Yo Mama jokes and in return they'll give us some shrink-rays. Raddd!! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to scheme, to be up to something. to be hatching a nefarious plan.
( )
plan - not like, 'I'm planning on going to Lake Tahoe this weekend," but like a bigtime business plan or world-domination scheme. ( NP , FP ) (scheme) + (a drawing) = (plan)
eat
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: SHOKU
(good)
I was SHOCKED when the dude ate like Jello with eels in it. It's good to eat in a restaurant with a peaked roof. Shows class. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC 2/3 of the time. KUNYOMI:
* *
eat to devour!!! it's kind of a more mean way of saying 'to eat.'- most of the negative, dark expressions involving eating use KUU rather than TABERU. Also - very seldom - it means to make a living, as in the English phrase, 'You gotta work to eat.'
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
food. Can be used of the ingredients OR the finished, cooked product. (eat) + (animal / thing) = (food)
Japanese-style food (peace/ Japan) + (eat) = (Japanese-style food)

576
( ) ( )
western food (Pacific Ocean / the West) + (eat) = (western food)
light meal, snack (lightweight) + (eat) = (light meal, snack)
xxx ( xxx)
USED IN:
a man-eating XXX. (person) + (eat) = (a man-eating XXX.)
drink
ONYOMI: IN
(eat) + (lack)
Drink it all IN. That's right, chug. Drinking is like eating but with a lack of solids. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
drink, or take medicine
( ) ( )
beverages (drink) + (animal / thing) = (beverages )
a person who likes to drink booze (liquor) + (drink) = (heavy drinker)
decorate
(eat) (Same-ON) +
(rifle) +
He decorates the food he eats with rifles and daggers. it is quite SHOCking if you eat one on accident.
577
* *
to decorate your room/ lunchbox / fingernails
a display (good, bad, or excessive!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get sick of WRAP decorate
Hint
Radical
DAGGER
I'm sick of WRAPPING Christmas presents , I want to decorate my DAGGER with the blood of whoever invented this dumb holiday.
rice / meal
ONYOMI: HAN
Number: 946 12 strokes COCK, DUPE
(eat) + (anti) (Same-ON)

HAN Solo is against eating rice, because he thinks that it looks like little white maggots. DESCRIPTION: COCK: as if the / synonyms were not confusing enough, has ANOTHER meaning, PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY.
KUNYOMI:
literally, cooked rice. But usually used to mean, 'a meal.'
JUKUGO:
( )
two meanings - 1) cooked rice, 2) a meal ( KANA) (the honorific "o") + (rice / meal) = (rice)
( )
rice-cooker (cook rice) + (rice / meal) + (instrument) = (rice-cooker)
keep a pet
(eat) + (administer) (Same-ON)

SHE administrates when and what her pet eats.
578
*
JUKUGO:
to keep a pet
( )
pet owner (keep a pet) + (master/mainly) = (pet owner)
trunk
(morning) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(peaked roof) +
(dry out) (Same-ON)
Genghis KHAN pulls the elephant by the trunk. This morning, I dried my roof by draping it over the trunk of a tree. KUNYOMI:
a tree trunk
JUKUGO:
( ) XXX ( XXX)
bullet train (new) + (trunk) + (line) = (bullet train)
as a prefix, it means the main (office, manager, road) rather than a branch one ( PRE)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
counter for shops PHONE POLE (no roof!) ROOF
Hint
Radical
trunk
There's a PHONE POLE in front of my shop, but my trunk has a ROOF on top.
hut
(peaked roof) +
Number: 949
- zero 8 strokes stars! SIDEKICK, OBSOLETE
(earth) + (mouth/small box radical)

579
ONYOMI: SHA I SHALL lean out of the veranda of my opulent mansion and make fun of your humble hut. A hut is nothing more than a peaked roof propped up over an earth floor, (with no walls) and a mouth inside, eating and snoring. DESCRIPTION: This kanji is kind of obsolete - hence zero stars! - but you need it to say "countryside" and it's also useful as a radical. JUKUGO:
( )
the countryside,hicksville ( FP ) (rice field) + (hut) = (countryside)
USED IN:
throw away
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SHA KUNYOMI:
(hut) (Same-ON)
Use your hand to throw away that old hut. It's falling down anyway. Build something new, out of concrete!
*
JUKUGO:
throw out
XXX ( XXX)
disposable XXX, throwaway things. (use) + (throw away) = (disposable)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HUT throw away pick up off the ground SUIT
Hint
Radical
Throw your old HUT out in the street, but pick up shoes that SUIT your feet.
USED IN:
excess
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: YO
580
We got excess YOYOS so we are selling at a discount. Show me your excess roofs! Yeah, that IS a lot of roofs. I don't think we are prepared to dispose of that many roofs. What the hell kind of manic shopping spree did you go on, anyway??? DESCRIPTION: Despite being pronounced YO, this kanji has a STRONG ONYOMI for "JO". KUNYOMI:
( or ) the excess, suruplus (excess labor drives down wages) (surplus food rots on docks) JUKUGO:
( )
room/time/money to spare. Like, don't sweat it. (excess) + (abundant) = (time/room to spare)
( )
excessive, uncalled-for, and unnecessary (usually used in the context of ! (!): 'Mind your own business!') (excess) + (measure) = (uncalled-for)
KINGS all excess SHOW
Radical
We can't all be KINGS, becaus that would SHOW an excess of monarchs.
religion CROWN excess PEAKED ROOF
Meaning
Hint
Radical
I got so many CROWNS from starting my own religion . . . I have to store the excess in a warehouse with a PEAKED ROOF. (BTW, seminars start at 40,000 yen!)
USED IN:
paint
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(excess) + (earth)
The excess water overflowed the BOWL, and painted the earth with its moisture
to paint, or to smear.Like foundation makeup. Or mud. (1/2 KANA)
581
on the way
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TO JUKUGO:
(excess)
If you can do lots of motion, you're On the way to Taking Off excess pounds. In other words, exercise!
xxx
(xxx )
on the way to XXX (I stopped and got some chips and a sody). (on the way) + (middle) = (on the way)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
on the way MOVE slowly GO TOWN
Hint
Radical
exclude
In order to be on your way, you have to MOVE. If you GO too slowly, you'll be excluded from TOWN. (everyone is in a hurry there!)
exclude
(town) +
ONYOMI: JO KUNYOMI:
(excess) (Same-ON)
The people of Gaytown voted to exclude the excess women, so they'd have more places to Jack Off.
The more hostile meaning is, to exclude, for instance: certain people. The more polite meaning is, to not count someone: "Not counting Bill, everyone here is republican." "Not counting Sarah, eveyrone here hates cats." "Except for one mistake, he did a good job!"
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
delete (as in, delete a file, but also to eliminate or censor something) (whittle down) + (exclude) = (delete)
582
house-cleaning. Not just sweeping, but vacuuming, straightening up, smacking the futon, etc. ( 1/2 KANA, FP ) (sweep) + (exclude) = (house-cleaning)
( )
to remove or eliminate (eliminate) + (exclude) = (to remove or eliminate )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
exclude
steep
exclude EXCESS RISK
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Japanese exclude the EXCESS foreigners because the RISK is too steep.
storage
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: SOU
Number: 955 10 strokes SIDEKICK, PN, DUPE
(corpse) +
When "corpse" has the extra line through it like this, I call that a "sunny corpse." So you can say: Store the corpse in a place with a peaked roof, SO the sun can't get to it. JUKUGO:
( )
means "warehouse," but also "storage" (as in the English phrase, "It's in storage.") is a stand-alone building - a warehouse or shack in back. (storage) + (warehouse) = (storage)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STRING knit be inclined PERSON MOUTH storage
Hint
Radical
You knit STRING, PEOPLE are biased,

583
You keep food for your MOUTH in storage.
USED IN:
originate / creative
(storage) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: SOU JUKUGO:
(rightsword)
The same guy to originated the concept of storage, also created the sword to guard it with.
( )
creative (BOOBOO: don't confuse it with the OTHER :, which means 'imagine.') (I know, it's pernicious!) (originate / creative) + (produce) + (motivation / '-al') = (creative)
( )
creativity (originate / creative) + (produce) + (sex / essential nature) = (creativity)
( )
seminal or original - a new idea that was the basis for a trend. None of the bands you like are dokusouteki. They're all ripping off the dokusouteki artists. You poser (solitary) + (originate / creative) + (motivation / '-al') = (seminal)
introduce / intervene
Number: 957
4 strokes BETA, PK
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(eight)
I'm going to introduce you to mr. Kai, the KITE maker. I know it's peaked roof plus '8', but you can think of this as an arrow pointing at the person you are introducing, a la the coveted "I'M WITH STUPID" shirt. JUKUGO:
( )
introduce (someone or something to somebody else) (aquaint) + (introduce / intervene) = (introduce )
( )

584
( )
troublesome, worrying. Hard to deal with! A hard-to-fix appliance. A stubborn, persnicketty person. ( 1/2 KANA) (misfortune) + (introduce / intervene) = (hard to deal with)
( )
intervention ( NP ) (introduce / intervene) + (put/go in) = (intervention)
USED IN:
the world
ONYOMI: KAI JUKUGO:
(rice field) + (introduce / intervene) (Same-ON)

Farmers used big KITEs, with their farm's name printed on the underside, to introduce their rice to the world!
( )
the world, as in "biggest in the world!" "fastest in the world!" (society) + (the world) = (the world)
( ) ( )
showbiz (art) + (talent) + (the world) = (showbiz) means border or boundary of property (80% the same usage as () , but a bit more formal). BOTH and are often used in the figurative sense - like "This film pushes the envelope of good taste" or "His art blurs the boundary between painting and sculpture". Also used in science. (border) + (the world) = (boundary)
xxx
(xxx )
Suffix meaning, 'the world of XXX', as in () (the world of politics) or. . . . () (the world of show biz)
585
to suit
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: GOU
Number: 959 6 strokes ILL PAIR, DUPE, COCK
You have a date tonight, so GO and find a Suit that suits you. The peaked roof of the church suits Godzilla's mouth. Mmmm delicious!! DESCRIPTION: gets the COCK because it's the #1 offender for NOKURI AND the #1 offender for KUN ON. Put another way: not only does it use the KUNyomi in the jukugo, but it doesn't even use the KUNyomi properly! It's usually pronounced '', but the '' is not even written down. KUNYOMI: ()
to suit. The burlap sack suits your mama's hippo behind.
( or ) to unify. To bring different things together and make them fit. Like a band tuning up is called (making the notes fit). JUKUGO:
xxx (xxx ) in the case of XXX ( KUNKUN ) (place) + (to suit) = (in the case of XXX) or ( or ) those clothes look good on you. (resemble) + (to suit) = (suit)
( )
a game (of pool, tennis, etc.) ( KUN ON, NOKURI ) (attempt to do) + (to suit) = (game)
xxx ( xxx)
at your convenience, xxx. ( i.e. with the new hack, we can break into their system at will). (since the Endangered Raver act has been repealed, we can harpoon 'em whenever we feel like it). ( FP ) (major city) + (to suit) = (at your convinience)
( )
a union or association ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (one's team) + (to suit) = (a union or association)
( )
a big meeting or assembly of people - can be used for business meeting as well as fun meeting like a concert. (collect) + (to suit) = ( big meeting)
( )
ratio ( KUNKUN , NOKURI )

586
(divide) + (to suit) = (ratio)
( )
located conveniently close to a place ( FP ) (major city) + (to suit) = (convenient)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
big meeting TWIN COWS MOUTH to suit
Hint
Radical
You have abig meeting with TWIN COWS. They say, "Don't eat us! We don't suit your MOUTH!"
USED IN:
provide
ONYOMI: KYUU
(string) + (to suit)

If you provide me with the string, I'll make a CUTE suit that suits you. DESCRIPTION: Sorry! The top 2 jukugo mean the same exact thing and are even 99% same-SOUNDING but you need both of them. JUKUGO:
( )
wages - a bit more useful than the related word . For instance, 'payday' is () not . (provide) + (ingredients / fees) = (wages)
( )
to supply (supply and demand / supply the troops with guns / supply your kid with a school lunches / the feed chute supplies grain to the conveyor belt at the cereal factory) (accompany) + (provide) = (supply)
( )
salary, wages (provide) + (bestow) = (salary, wages )
tower
(to suit) +
(flowertop) +
(earth)
587
ONYOMI: TOU Godzilla stubbed his TOE on a tower. OK - a tower rises from the earth, with flowers growing from its peaked roof. KUNYOMI:
tower,pagoda (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX - for example, = Eiffel tower. ( SUF)
pick up off the ground

Number: 962
9 strokes SOLO
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(to suit)
Use your hand to pick up the SHOES which suit you KUNYOMI:
pick up off the ground, pick up big thing like a box.
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HUT throw away pick up off the ground SUIT
Hint
Radical
Throw your old HUT out in the street, but pick up shoes that SUIT your feet.
board
ONYOMI: TOU
(throw away) +
(flowertop)
Get on board by climbing up the ramp on your tipTOES. OK, it's not EXACTLY the radical. But it's close enough, so bear with me: You have to throw away your flowers to get on board a plane - they could be a dangerous terror weapon! JUKUGO:
588
( )
to board a plane, train, big boat. Usually seen on signs 'Board over here, fool.' . ( NP )
(board) + (ride a vehicle) = (board)

xxx (xxx ) to come equipped with XXX (built-in camera, etc.) (board) + (appear in print) = (come equipped with)
- zero stars! -
answer
ONYOMI: TOU
(bamboo) + (to suit)

How many TOES do you have? Answer me! Which bamboo is more suitable for my garden? Answer me!
* *
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to answer (verb)
an answer(noun, fool!) (1/2 KANA)
( )
backtalk, sass (mouth) + (answer) = (sass)
HEAVEN laugh answer SUIT
Radical
It's HEAVENLY to laugh, but I'll only answer questions that SUIT me.
rambo
USED IN:
Number: 965 PK
DESCRIPTION: from the katakana "ra"
589
now
(rambo)
ONYOMI: KON KUNYOMI:
Right now, Rambo is under his peaked roof, arguing with pine CONES (he loses.)
now
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
this week (now) + (week) = (this week)
today ( FP ) (now) + (sun, day) = (today)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
this month (now) + (moon) = (this month)
this time (now) + (rotate / times) = (this time)
next time (now) + (times) = (next time )
tonight (now) + (late night) = (tonight)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
command GRASPING HAND
cold thing FROST RAMBO now
Hint
Radical
Right now RAMBO is my pawn, I command him with my GRASPING HAND. Cold thing has the FROST radical.
USED IN:
590
include
ONYOMI: GAN
(now) + (mouth/small box radical)

GHANDI wanted to include all Indian people in his liberation movement, regardless of caste. I want to you to be quiet right now, including your mouth. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to include
xxx (xxx ) xxx is included.

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
include MOUTH concern HEART
Hint
Radical
My face includes a MOUTH for fast-food snacks, but I'm concerned I might get a HEART attack.
concern
(now) +
ONYOMI: NEN JUKUGO:
(bottomheart)
You're the sole concern of my heart right now ; I've been stalking you all NEN (= YEAR, pronounced 'nen')
( )
"That's too bad." - kind of informal ; say this when someone didn't enjoy a movie they went to, or couldn't come to your party because they got the flu. (remain behind) + (concern) = (That's too bad!!)
( ) ( )
as a precaution, in case something goes wrong.
a memorial, an anniversary of something good , like marriage or a band's anniversary gig. Or something you give your friend to remember you by. (diary) + (concern) = (memorial)
LOOKALIKES:
591
include MOUTH concern HEART
Meaning
Hint
Radical
My face includes a MOUTH for fast-food snacks, but I'm concerned I might get a HEART attack.
command
MUTANTS:
Number: 969 5 strokes SIDEKICK, STRONG, BETA, MR
(peaked roof)
bottom command ONYOMI: REI RAY commands that a peaked roof be built, so he can bust through it while dressed as Simon Le Cowell. MUTANT RADICAL: It looks like sort of a grasping hand, perhaps holding puppet-strings of its command-ees.
JUKUGO:
( )
an order, a command. (life) + (command) = (a command)
( )
grammar.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the command form of Japanese grammar.
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
592
tiny electric bell or buzzer

Number: 970
13 strokes PN
(gold) + (command) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: RIN KUNYOMI:
The tiny gold buzzer commands you to get up and get your ass to work when it RINGS.
small bell or electric buzzer
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
doorbell (call to someone) + (tiny electric bell or buzzer) = (doorbell)
territory
In my territory I got over 100 heads I can command. I order them to do stuff, and when they finish, I REORDER them so they can do even more shit.
( ) ( ) ( )
President (big) + (tradition) + (territory) = (President)
reciept (receive) + (territory) + (write) = (reciept)
a territory or domain controlled by someone. Also used in neologisms like "domain name!" ( NP ) (territory) + (region) = (domain)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
face
head
Hint
BEAN HAIR
Radical

593
life
ONYOMI: MEI
(command) + (mouth/small box radical)

You MAY learn kanji if you study your whole life. Your money or your life!" he commanded with his mouth.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
life. As in, 'He had a long life.' or 'Your money or your life!' or 'Cling to life by a thread.'
( )
fate (carry / luck) + (life) = (fate)
( )
life span (for living things AND for machines) ( FP ) (lifespan/sushi) + (life) = (life span)
(left radical)
chill
DESCRIPTION: Yeah, I dunno what it looks like. But since you've come this far, I think you can handle it. SYMBOLIC for cold - 60% of the time.
USED IN:
cold thing
(chill) +
(command) (Same-ON)
594
ONYOMI: REI RAY likes him some stone cold disses when he is prank-calling cartoons. I command you to chill my beer until it's stone cold!
*
() () ()
KUNYOMI:
cold- both literally and figuratively. Also, bad puns are .
* * *
I chill something; I put something on ice
something gets cold.
to fall out of love -the heart gets cold
JUKUGO:
( )
( )
cool-headed, calm person - someone who doesn't panic when the shit goes down. (cold thing) + (quiet) = (cool-headed)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
to freeze
(chill) +
ONYOMI: TOU KUNYOMI: ()
(east)
It gets pretty chilly in the East - your TOE freezes.
*
it freezes Hint Radical
595
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
to freeze
cool place WATER
CHILL radical
Freezing things are CHILLY, but after a long hike you want to cool down with WATER.
exhaust, use up
(R for ROCK) +
ONYOMI: JIN
(chill)
We've exhausted all the GIN and tonic, go get more! The rocker decided to chill out after he exhausted himself performing. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
to do everything in one's power , to exhaust every option trying to do XXX.
something is used up.
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
unreasonable, irrational, unjust (reason) + (un) + (exhaust, use up) = (unreasonable)
winter
(each) +
ONYOMI: Each winter it gets chilly.
(chill)
KUNYOMI:
winter
JUKUGO:
( )
winter break. (winter) + (rest) = (winter break. )

596
USED IN:
end
ONYOMI: SHUU KUNYOMI: ()
(string) + (winter)
At the end of winter, the string of your SHOES finally froze off.
*
to end "the end" - usually written at the end of old movies. Also said out loud by someone who wants to declare victory and change the subject.
*
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
the last train (end) + (electricity) = (the last train )
the last stop of the train. (end) + (point) = (last stop)
( )
- zero stars! -
to expire, to come to an end (used about contracts or subscriptions expiring) ( NP ) (end) + (total) = (expire)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
afterwards / behind GO STRING end
Hint
Radical
I GO behind you, with a garrotte STRING which ends your life.
next
(chill) +
ONYOMI: JI
(lack)
Next time JESUS shows up, he's going to lack any chill for sinners. Burn in the fire!!!!! DESCRIPTION: Even though is pronounced 'ji,' it's STRONG for 'SHI'!!!
597
( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
next (for example, means the next day)
( ) ( )
one after the other, in rapid succession
table of contents (eye) + (next) = (table of contents)
( )
gradually, by degrees ( FP ) (next) + (rank or number in series) = (by degrees)
USED IN:
someone's shape, body, form

Number: 980
9 strokes
(next) + (woman)
ONYOMI: SHI
Dudes always cheat because they look at the next woman's body and say "SHE's got it going on!"
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
a figure, a shape. As in, Ive got a bad figure or She saw a shadowy figure emerge from the darkness
( )
posture - posture, both literal and figurative. Unlike the related word () one's is always intentional - something one consciously adopts. (someone's shape, body, form) + (power) = (posture )
( )
one's looks (appearance) + (someone's shape, body, form) = (one's looks)

- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MONEY capital (as in $$$) PLATE steal by stealth someone's shape, body, form WOMAN
Hint
Radical
Capitalism means money is GREAT. You steal a PLATE,

598
but the WOMAN's body makes you want to MATE. Way to go, pervert. That's your mom.
capital (as in $$$)

(next) + (shellfish/money)
ONYOMI: SHI JUKUGO:
SHE invests capital now, and next she will get money back as dividends.
( )
capital (capital (as in $$$)) + (book / the real) = (capital)
( )
data, primary sources, the material you use to write a report or a historical novel (capital (as in $$$)) + (ingredients / fees) = (primary sources)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Capitalism means money is GREAT. You steal a PLATE, but the WOMAN's body makes you want to MATE. Way to go, pervert. That's your mom.
Number: 982
(top radical)
three Stooges
(person) + (three)
DESCRIPTION: This looks like "big" with some extra lines, but it's easier to make up stories involving 3 Stooges, so there we are.
USED IN:
599
cold
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KAN Genghis KHAN is from mongolia which is cold! As they walk through the cold, the 3 stooges wear crowns, to keep off the chill! (Yeah, I know this is a weird, wide version of three Stooges. Roll with it.)
SOLO
(three Stooges) +
(chill)
*
cold LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint Radical
KUNYOMI:
cold
truth
FROST NO frost
Cold has the two dots of the FROST radical.
musical performance
(three Stooges) +
ONYOMI: SOU
(heaven)
The musical prowess of the 3 Stooges is SO fresh, you will think you died and gone to heaven. JUKUGO:
( )
perform music or a play (performance) + (musical performance) = (perform)
spring /sexy
(three Stooges) +
ONYOMI: SHUN
(sun, day)
Gothic people SHUN spring, preferring the bitter coldness of winter. 3 Stooges frolic and play on a spring day.
600
KUNYOMI:
spring, or sexy (think of the English expression 'spring fever' if you don't see the connection)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
spring break ( KUNKUN ) (spring /sexy) + (rest) = (spring break)
in the prime of one's life. (blue) + (spring /sexy) = (in the prime of one's life.)
( )
your sister, (when your brother when he runs out of meth money, he turns into a ` ') (sell) + (spring /sexy) + (housewife) = (hoe)
( )
old-school porn drawings of samurai getting it on. Remember the one broad with the oral sex octopus? Major shunga. (spring /sexy) + (a drawing) = (sexy picture from History.)
pole
(tree) +
ONYOMI: BOU Ass!
(three Stooges) +
(dry out)
Poles are not allowed in BOWLing . You're thinking of polo. Or maybe curling. But not BOWLing .
The 3 stooges made a telephone pole out of a tree.
KUNYOMI:
wooden pole (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
a robber - not like a mugger but like a break-into-your-house-when-you're-not-home guy ( KUNKUN , 1/2 KANA) (mud) + (pole) = (robber)
601
truth
(crown) +
ONYOMI: JITSU
(three Stooges)
The truth is, homey's ju JISTSU is so burly, he can take down 3 stooges. That's why he has the crown. KUNYOMI:
usually used like this:' xxx,' which is like saying 'The truth is...', as in, 'The truth is ,I used to be a dude named Carlos.' (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
in fact. (as in, 'You think you're Samoan, but in fact, you're adopted.') Also has the nuance of 'in practice', as opposed to 'in theory.' (truth) + (edge) = (in fact)
( )
fact (action/ incident) + (truth) = (fact)
( ) ( )
the truth (truth) + (truth) = (the truth)
reality (present time) + (truth) = (reality)
cold
Radical
truth
FROST NO frost
Cold has the two dots of the FROST radical.
beauty
(three Stooges) +
ONYOMI: BI
(horny)
602
The three Stooges are so BEEEEautiful , they make me what? Hhhhorny. KUNYOMI:
*
beautiful JUKUGO:
( )
foxy lady - could be a tramp or a classy broad. (beauty) + (person) = (foxy lady)
( )
cute underage boy (beauty) + boy)
( )
beauty salon. Yes, hospital () and beauty salon () DO sound totally alike.This is one of the basic mindfucks that teachers like to spring on newbies, so act like you know. (beauty) + (appearance) + (institution) = (beauty salon.)
USED IN:
Number: 989 5 strokes COUNTER, PK
counter for books

ONYOMI: SATSU
I SAW TWO books that I really wanted to buy -- Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. DESCRIPTION: Try to picture it as a two shelves of books all stacked next to each other.
HOW TO TELL SATSU ()AND COMB (
) APART:
comb has a handle. I guess it's more of an Afro-pick. book shelf- no handle.
603
JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
()=1 book, ()=two books, etc. ( COUNTER , KANA)
USED IN:
flatflat
ONYOMI: HEN
Number: 990
- zero 666 strokes stars! STRONG, OBSOLETE
(door) + (counter for books)

The HEN was squished flat. The door fell on the book, flattening it. DESCRIPTION: Obsolete kanji! Nowadays it's just a radical. STRONG RADICAL for HEN.
USED IN:
knit
ONYOMI: HEN KUNYOMI:
(string) + (flatflat) (Same-ON)

Take string and knit a flat sweater for the HEN.
*
JUKUGO:
knit
( ) ( )
to edit. (editor: ()) (knit) + (collect) = (to edit. )
braid hair (three) + (knit) = (braid hair)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
You knit STRING, PEOPLE are biased,

604
You keep food for your MOUTH in storage.
decieve
ONYOMI:
(horse) + (flatflat) (Same-ON)

The horse deceived the hunter by lying flat and playing dead.
KUNYOMI:
decieve (KANA)
be inclined
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: HEN KUNYOMI:
(flatflat) (Same-ON)
That person is inclined to stomp HENs flat (she's a Russian dominatrix making 'crush' videos).
( or or ) Figuratively, to be biased. Literally, to have an assymetrical distribution of objects. For example, "There are crows in every prefecture, but there is a much higher distribution of them in Aichi prefecture." Or,aesthetically speaking, "I put all the chairs on the left side of the room to make it ." JUKUGO:
/ ( / )
prejudice or bias -not always racial (be inclined) + (look) = (prejudice )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD lean be inclined BOOK
Hint
Radical
I lean my HEAD because I'm tired. He's inclined read BOOKS with a conservative bias.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
605
You knit STRING, PEOPLE are biased, You keep food for your MOUTH in storage.
Number: 994
(right radical)
bookstore
(peaked roof) + USED IN:
(counter for books)
DESCRIPTION: Do I have to explain the rationale behind this?
make a case for

(say) +
ONYOMI: RON
(bookstore)
RON Reagan talked in his speech, he made a case for keeping your Moms away from bookstores after she tried to mate with a Fabio cover. DESCRIPTION: Unlike the related term (which also means to discuss) is not reciprocal. I.e. you need two people to , but only one to . JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
an essay, like a senior thesis. (make a case for) + (culture/ sentence) = (essay)
public opinion (society) + (make a case for) = (public opinion)
theory, as in science or "theory vs. practice" (reason) + (make a case for) = (theory)
( )
- zero stars! -
discussion ( NP ) (attack/discuss) + (make a case for) = (discussion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
principles
PERSON
Hint
Radical
606
make a case for TALK
A PERSON has principles, but you TALK when you have discussion.
principles
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: RIN
(bookstore)
My principles require me to wear a RING when I get married. The person's principles forbid him from going to a bookstore (FYI he is a jock) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
an affair - cheating (un) + (principles) = (affair)
one's personal ethics or principles (principles) + (reason) = (principles)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
PERSON principles make a case for TALK
Hint
Radical
A PERSON has principles, but you TALK when you have discussion.
glueglue
(bottom radical)
Number: 997 - zero 3 strokes stars! JERK, OBSOLETE
(open scissors) +
ONYOMI: SUN
(dot)
Let's think of the dot as a drop of GLUE. thus. . . A tiny amount of glue and SOON my scissors will be fixed! DESCRIPTION:99% of the time you see this, it's a RADICAL, meaning glue. (why glue? Because the main kanji you'll see it in is 'stick to' - as you'll soon see!) Anyway, even if 'glue' is kind of an arbitrary keyword, it's STILL better than the original meaning: 'An obsolete unit of measurement for determining pants sizes.'
USED IN:
607
stick to
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: FU
Number: 998 5 strokes COCK, DUPE
(glueglue)
It is FUCKED up to glue yourself to a person (your ex???) just to stick to her. DESCRIPTION: COCK - it's part of a lot of really useful jukugo BUT In jukugo, is usually written in HIRAGANA, whereas the other kanji of the jukugo are still written in kanji. Why? KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I attach something
Something gets attached
JUKUGO:
( )
be careful! (mood) + (stick to) = (be careful!)
( )
catch up to (follow) + (stick to) = (catch up to) find (your car keys that you thought you'd lost) BOOBOO: you don't use about things you're discovering for the first time. That's ()! ( 1/2 KANA) (look) + (stick to) = (find) to belatedly realize something - d'oh! (also pronounced ) (mood) + (stick to) = (realize something)
( )
( )
( )
clean up the room or desk. Not just sweep the floor but like straighten up all the papers, put the pens in a row, etc. (fragment) + (stick to) = (clean up, tidy)
( )
the reception desk in an office. ( NOKURI ) (receive) + (stick to) = (reception)
( )
608
to encourage someone ( 1/2 KANA) (courage) + (mood) + (stick to) = (encourage) or ( or ) to draw close to a physical destination or a goal. ( 1/2 KANA) (near) + (stick to) = (get close to destination)
( )
attatch (a file to your email) (read the attached instructions) (append) + (stick to) = (attach)
( )
rusted / rusty ( KANA) (rust) + (stick to) = (rusted / rusty)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
timmmberrr
Hint
Radical
SPEAR
USED IN:
attachment
(town) +
ONYOMI: FU JUKUGO:
Number: 999 8 strokes SIDEKICK, DUPE
(stick to) (Same-ON)
You are attached to your home-town, because that's where your mom FUCKED your dad (or whoever).
xxx
yyy (xxx yyy)
affiliated - i.e. a research institute which is affiliated or attached to a certain university. Or, included, as in 'use the gloves included with the hair-bleach kit.' (attachment) + (genus/affiliation) = (affiliated)
attack/discuss
609
(say) + (glueglue)
ONYOMI: TOU Jehovah's Witnesses attack you by talking to you and discussing the Lord, and sticking to you like glue. The way to get rid of them is to attack them on the TOES!!! DESCRIPTION: JERK. this is probably the granddaddy, ultimate example of a jerk kanji. I mean, attack / discuss???? KUNYOMI:
revenge-attack- the literal meaning is "get some motherfucking payback for the death of my daimyo". almost never used, but it's wild that they have a word for that specific kind of attack. (OBSOLETE)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
to consider, give consideration to (before giving him life in prison for murder , please give consideration to the fact that he was defending himself) (investigate) + (attack/discuss) = (give consideration to)
( )
- zero stars! -
discussion ( NP ) (attack/discuss) + (make a case for) = (discussion)
steal by force
(big) +
KUNYOMI:
(turkey) +
(glueglue)
ONYOMI: DATSU A big turkey broke into your DATSUN and stole all your glue. Why you were hoarding glue in your Datsun is anyone's guess.
steal by force
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
steal by force
Meaning
Hint
Radical
GLUE
610
get worked up NO glue on bottom.

I GLUE it down so you can't steal it.
protect
(crown) +
ONYOMI: SHU
(glueglue)
SEE HER UNDERWEAR, and protect it by gluing it to your crown. Sssssssssssssssssafety.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
protect, take care of
( )
politically or morally conservative. ( NEO ) (guarantee/maintain ) + (protect) + capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (conservative)
( )
to be away from home; to be absent ( ()= leave a message at the tone) ( FP ) (absent / stopped) + (protect) = (be away)
( )
- zero stars! -
prison guard (observe/guard) + (protect) = (prison guard)
USED IN:
group
611
(big box) +
ONYOMI: DAN
(glueglue)
I sealed Glen DANzig and his group inside the big box with some glue. JUKUGO:
( )
Yakuza. )
( )
a group of people united for a purpose (Citizens Environmental Lawsuit Group), (collect) + (group) = (group)
( )
a little fried dumpling, usually served 3 to a shish kebab. (group) + (child) = (dumpling kebab)
ticket
ONYOMI: FU JUKUGO:
(bamboo) + (stick to) (Same-ON)

FUCK!! My train ticket got stuck to this bamboo plant. Now I can't get on the train!
( )
a ticket (only used for a concert or a train, or bus) ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (cut / important) + (ticket) = (ticket)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
612
hicktown
(tree) + (glueglue)
The hicktown is so boring they have to glue their SONS to trees to keep them from leaving.
hicktown
JUKUGO:
( )
village chief (hicktown) + (long / boss) = (village chief)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Loot is usually MONEY, but raw material is lumber from TREES. The hicks GLUE banjos to their knees .
lifespan/sushi
ONYOMI: JU, SU Your nose has 3 times the lifespan of glue. JUKUGO:
(katakana 'no') + (three) + (glueglue)

This JUU-SU (juice?? Yes!) expires tomorrow, so drink it before its lifespan is over.
( )
hamburgers?? Hot dogs??? Dumbass. (lifespan/sushi) + (administer) = (sushi)
( )
life span (for living things AND for machines) ( FP ) (lifespan/sushi) + (life) = (life span)
613
console
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: I
(show/altar radical) + (glueglue) +
(bottomheart)
To console the grieving relatives at church, I glue the heart of the corpse to the altar (FYI it didn't work the way I planned) KUNYOMI:
*
to console JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
compensation money, alimony. (console) + (apologize) + (ingredients / fees) = (compensation money, alimony.)
( )
the Korean 'comfort women' enslaved during the war, which Japan still won't make amends to. ( ABU) (console) + (cheap / safe) + (housewife) = ("comfort women")
- zero stars! -
ask
(snout) +
ONYOMI: JIN KUNYOMI:
Number: 1008 12 strokes DUPE, PN, SOLO
(craft or industry) + (mouth/small box radical) + (glueglue)
The crafty drunk asked for some GIN and some glue so he could glue the bottle to his snout.
ask- basically it's the same as , but you'd be more likely to use when asking a clerk something at a store. They're both really casual, but is a bit more businesslike. (1/2 KANA)
lead
(street) (Same-ON) + (glueglue)
614
ONYOMI: DOU DOH goes Homer as the inanimate carbon rod is picked as the leader, again. This street is dangerous, so follow and stick to your leader like glue
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to lead or guide - in the sense of MORAL guidance, reforming a juvenile delinquent, to lead by example, etc.
( )
to lead or conduct : A teacher leads the class on the field trip. The policewoman conducts traffic. The nuance is, means literally going together with the people to the place. (invite / entice) + (lead) = (lead)
( )
to introduce - not a person but a new concept or thing. "Billy Fuckpants introduced tea to Europe from China." (lead) + (put/go in) = (introduce new concept)
struggle
(gate) + (bean) (Same-ON) + (glueglue)

It is a struggle to build a gate with huge beans glued to all your TOES.
fight - (only used figuratively) - struggle against temptation, war on poverty, the, uh, the uh, hold on, the effin' war on drugs, struggle against prejudice, etc.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a battle (fight) + (struggle) = (a battle)
fightin' spirit, pluck, moxie, NUTZ (struggle) + (intention, volition) = (fightin' spirit)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
BEANS struggle pitch-black darkness SOUND clique PERSON
Hint
Radical
615
temple
ONYOMI: JI
Number: 1011 6 strokes STRONG, SOLO
(glueglue) + (earth)
as in, "JESUS threw the money lenders out of the temple." The Buddhist temple is glued to the earth to stop Christian missionaries from dragging it to the river and baptizing it. KUNYOMI: ()
Buddhist temple
JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning, "temple of xxx." BOOBOO : Most Buddhist temples have the kanji at the end of their name, and in that case it is pronounced "JI". But if you are talking in general about temples, you say "tera". got it? ( SUF)
USED IN:
poem
(say) + (temple)
SHE said a poem at the temple
a poem (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
poet (poem) + (person) = (poet)
( )
poetic (poem) + (motivation / '-al') = (poetic)

616
time
ONYOMI: JI
(sun, day) + (temple) (Same-ON)

Q:It's time to go to temple! A:AWW MOM, JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES?? KUNYOMI:
time, as in 'That time your mom shaved her beard.'
JUKUGO:
( )
4 o'clock (the numeral 4) + (time) = (4 o'clock)
( ) ( ) ( )
4 hours' time. As in, this bus ride takes 4 hours. (4 o'clock) + (a period of time) = (4 hours' time)
what time is it? (what?!?) + (time) = (what time is it?)
time (time) + (a period of time) = (time)
( )
sometimes, as in 'sometimes this is written in hiragana.' ( 1/2 KANA)
( )
at the same time (same) + (time) = (at the same time)
hold
(handleft) +
(temple) (Same-ON)
617
ONYOMI: TAI Hold on to the temple with your hand. This will keep Satan from pulling you away into a life of drugs and book-learnin'.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to hold, but also to own, and often, to bring. As in 'Buy some nachos and bring them to the party.'
( ) ( )
rich person AKA your mom's bail bondsman. (gold) + (hold) = (rich person)
oh HELLS yeah. It feels good.(although this isn't dirty by itself, it is the #1 actual word yelled in pornos.) (mood) + (hold) = (feels good!)
( )
to maintain or sustain something (the quality of our products, our 10% lead in the polls, maintaining the giant robot takes 3 hours a day) (upkeep) + (hold) = (maintain or sustain )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HANDS hold GO wait bargain / obtain SUN
Hint
Radical
You hold something in your HANDS, but you GO to the temple and wait for God. SUNlight is a bargain which you can easily obtain, because it's free.
samurai kanji
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: JI
(temple) (Same-ON)
as in, "If JESUS fought a fully-armed samurai, but Jesus only had a rusty screwdriver, who would win? What if He had an 8-ball in a gym sock?" The samurai is the person guarding the temple.
KUNYOMI:
samurai, bitch!!! (BOOBOO: most of the time, Japanese don't say samurai, they'll say () instead. The only time actual Japanese say "samurai" is when they're referring to something very concrete things like "samurai haircut" or "Samurai TV drama.") (1/2 KANA)
618
equal /etc./plural
(bamboo) + (temple)
ONYOMI: TOU All my TOES are equally long (FYI I am a lemur)
There are plural temples but each one gets an equal amount of bamboo. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
equivalent : usually in the mathematical sense, but can also be used figuratively, "He's as good as dead!" "Your lies are tantamount to treason, and I'll see you hanged!!" This is closer to the non-judgemental than it is to the moralistic (fair)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX . . . actually, it's one of TWO Japanese suffixes that both mean 'plural.' is kind of a more macho suffix than (), and it's ONLY used in the following words : : (them) . . . .and : (those clowns) . . . and : (those assholes over there) ( SUF)
( )
et cetera. ( FP )
( )
impartial, even-steven. (to cut the cake into equal pieces, to treat your adopted kids and your biological kids equally) ( FP ) (equal / level) + (equal /etc./plural) = (impartial, even)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rank or number in series YOUNGER BROTHER TEMPLE equal /etc./plural
Hint
Radical
My YOUNGER BROTHER comes after me in our family series. According to the U.S. Constitution, all TEMPLES are equivalent.- Congress shall pass no law and etc.
esteem
ONYOMI: SON
(west) + (glueglue)
My SON esteems Western glue.
619
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
noble or holy (NP)
( )
the formal Japanese you use when you are addressing your superiors. ( F )
directly, 'I you very much!' - you'd say it about a third party)) + (language) = (formal Japanese)
( )
to look up to or respect someone. (BOOBOO: it's not ok to tell someone directly, 'I you very much!' - you'd say it about a third party) (esteem) + (respect) = (respect)
( )
sexism (literally, and I love this; 'men - esteem - women - despise') (man) + (esteem) + (woman) + (despicable) = (sexism)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
specialty TNT esteem
Hint
Radical
SAKE
- unicycle (UTILIZE) His specialty is TNT, but I esteem his ability to hold his SAKE - he can drink a pint and still UTILIZE a unicycle!

His specialty is TNT,
Meaning
Hint
Radical
SAKE
but I esteem his ability to hold his SAKE
USED IN:
620
rumor
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + (esteem)

When you spread rumors, your mouth messes with peoples' self-esteem
rumor
lie
Radical
rumor ESTEEM
It's not smart to lie to the TIGER. Rumors wreck your self-ESTEEM.
TIGER
dad
ONYOMI: FU Damn, dude, your dad is FUCKED UP. KUNYOMI:
Think of dad on two crutches, the crutches crossing back and forth as he hobbles.
father,(which is weird, considering that chichi also means 'tits,' which is basically what the 'mother' kanji depicts. So why isn't 'mama' called chichi?)
JUKUGO:
( )
daddy! ( KIDS )
( ) ( )
father which is weeeird, since "CHICHI" is slang for breasts. ( KUNKUN ) (dad) + (parents/kindness) = (father)
mama-papa ( KUNKUN , KIDS ) (dad) + (your Moms) = (mama-papa )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
culture/ sentence CROTCH
Hint
Radical
621
combine dad
BERET NO BERET
USED IN:
combine
(beret) +
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 1020 6 strokes DUPE, STRONG
(dad)
as in, "I combined COCAINE with downers. " Q: If you combine a beret and a dad, what do you get? A: Ned Flanders' dad. KUNYOMI:
( or ) to intersect with () ()
* *
to be mixed with
I mix things together . Also used figuratively, as in joining or associating with a group.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
swap, exchange (Japanese/English language exchange, for instance) (combine) + (exchange) = (exchange)
traffic (combine) + (pass) = (traffic)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
combine dad
culture/ sentence CROTCH BERET NO BERET
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
622
against
ONYOMI: TAI
(combine) + (glueglue)
I am against combining my neckTIE and a bottle of glue. I think maybe a better way to keep it attached to my chest is to tie it in a knot around, say, my neck? DESCRIPTION:COCK: By itself, it means 'pair' as in 'a pair of tennis rackets'. . . but in a jukugo it means "against" - the OPPOSITE of being a pair with. Sheesh. Luckily, the kunyomi is almost never used. But still, that just makes it even more stupid. KUNYOMI:
a pair
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
absolutely, without fail (extinct) + (against) = (absolutely, without fail)
( ) ( )
to be against something (anti) + (against) = (against it!!!!!!!!!!)
counter-plan / counter-measure (against) + (take measures) = (counter-plan / counter-measure)
( )
- zero stars! -
the opposing faction (to be against something) + (faction/bling) = (the opposing faction)
school
ONYOMI: KOU
(tree) + (combine) (Same-ON)

All the jocks at my school were total COLONS. Our schoolhouse is built out of trees combined together. JUKUGO:
623
( ) ( )
high school (tall) + (school) = (high school)
school (knowledge) + (school) = (school)
( ) ( ) ( )
a trade school, like for electricians or anime voice-over actors. (a specialty) + (school) = (trade school)
middle school (middle) + (school) = (middle school)
high school student (high school) + (life / birth) = (high school student)
( )
elementary school (small size) + (school) = (elementary school)
suburb TOWN
school
WOOD
Radical
The school is made from WOOD, but the suburb is a big TOWN.
suburb
ONYOMI: KOU
(combine) (Same-ON) +
My COCAINE dealer lives in the suburbs.
(town)
Several small towns combine to make one big suburb. JUKUGO:
( )
suburb (suburb) + (outside) = (suburb)

624
suburb TOWN
school
WOOD
Radical
The school is made from WOOD, but the suburb is a big TOWN.
effective
ONYOMI: KOU
(combine) (Same-ON) + (strong)

COLONS are very effective for discharging waste. If you combine the strong points of various techniques, you will get the most effective style! KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) xxx is effective, most often said about medicine or drugs. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
effective (an effect) + (motivation / '-al') = (effective)
an effect (effective) + (fruit / result) = (an effect)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
efficient (effective) + (ratio) = (efficient)
the opposite effect from what you'd intended. (opposite) + (an effect) = (the opposite effect )
wring out / strangle

(string) + (combine) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: KOU
625
Use the string to strangle your COCAINE dealer for combining your coke with baking soda. KUNYOMI: () () ()
*
squeeze
* *
I strangle - not just like murder, but to wring out a towel or squish a sponge or something
something gets tightened or fastned.
Number: 1026 PK
TNT plunger
DESCRIPTION:
All Wile E. Coyote style.
USED IN:
specialty
(TNT plunger) +
ONYOMI: SEN
(glueglue)
He is an international terrorist whose specialty is gluing plungers to bombs. SEND him to headquarters, he has a new assignment! DESCRIPTION: Although the onyomi of is SEN, it's STRONG for HAKU or BAKU. Weird and not helpful, but, it is what it is, yo.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
exclusively, entirely, nothing but
( ) ( )
a specialty (specialty) + (gate) = (a specialty)
626
college major, field of study (specialty) + (attack) = (major)
XXX ( XXX )
someone is a specialist for XXX. In other words, they have a fetish for xxxx. Like is a "fat person specialist" ( SARC)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
SAKE
- unicycle (UTILIZE) His specialty is TNT, but I esteem his ability to hold his SAKE - he can drink a pint and still UTILIZE a unicycle!

His specialty is TNT,
Meaning
Hint
Radical
SAKE
but I esteem his ability to hold his SAKE
USED IN:
museum /extensive
(ten) + (specialty)
ONYOMI: HAKU
They oughta take that crazy rainbow phlegm you HACK up and put it in a museum, you cancerous chainsmoking freak!! This museum has an extensive collection, with over ten specialized exhibits. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
To break it down:
museum (museum /extensive) + (animal / thing) + (big hall) = (museum)
a GIANT exposition. Not like, "Cezanne's greatest fuckin' paintings all up in here festival" but huger - like a World's Fair.
(biggest kind of expo ) (=trade show) (=art exhibition)

627
(museum /extensive) + (view) + (big meeting) = (exposition)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STRING tie up WATER weak or thin museum /extensive TEN
Hint
Radical
You tie up with STRING, but WATER is a weak-tasting thing. Museums are TEN times more extensive than galleries and etc.
tie up
ONYOMI: BAKU KUNYOMI:
(string) + (specialty)
His specialty is tying up nuns with string.He ties their arms behind their BACK.
*
JUKUGO:
To bind something - to tie a string AROUND something - to shackle a prisoner, to tie up a masochist, to put one's hair in a pony tail (BOOBOO: to tie a knot is ()). (1/2 KANA)
( )
to restrain, to restrict, tie up in red tape. (bundle of sticks) + (tie up) = (restrain)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
weak or thin
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HAKU
(flowertop) +
(specialty)
628
This coffee is so weak I want to take a machete and HACK someone!! Her specialty is submerging fragrant flowers in a lot of water, to create a very weak perfume.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
weak or thin flavor. A cup of coffee with one bean.
to dilute or water down.
( )
- zero stars! -
cold-hearted (weak or thin) + (emotion) = (cold-hearted )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
performance
(crown) +
ONYOMI: EN
(waterleft) +
(TNT plunger) +
(animal legs)
You'll ENJOY the performance -- it's a Rube Goldberg kind of affair . A stream of water falls on a crown, causing it to topple onto a TNT plunger and blow up the whole theater!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
perform music or a play (performance) + (musical performance) = (perform)
a lecture (lecture) + (performance) = (a lecture)
a genre of really un-hip music Japanese grandparents and hicks listen to - it's been called "the country western music of Japan", but it's much more. When you listen to Enka, or sing it in a karaoke bar, you can cry and express emotion. ( CCW) (performance) + (sing) = (enka)
629
do a favor
(TNT plunger) +
ONYOMI: KEI
(bottomheart)
If it's OKAY, can you do me a favor -- take some TNT and blow up my heart? Why not? You basically already did that when I asked you out and you said, "Who farted?" KUNYOMI:
to do a favor
( xxx ) to be blessed with xxx (good looks, a talent for dope rhymes, etc.) JUKUGO:
( )
wisdom ( FP ) (know) + (do a favor) = (wisdom)
or ( or )
- zero stars! -
cunning, crafty (bad) + (wisdom) = (cunning, crafty)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning

do a favor
Hint
Radical
TNT plunger
lay out / site

(TNT plunger) +
ONYOMI: SHIKI SHE'S KEEN on haunted houses!
(director)
The director is at the construction site, saying, "Lay out the TNT in that direction!" KUNYOMI:
630
*
JUKUGO:
to spread out (a tarpaulin), to lay out (railroad tracks)
( )
security deposit (on your Haunted House (which you don't get back if you damage the ghosts in any way)) (lay out / site) + (gold) = (deposit money)
( )
Haunted House! () + () + (store) + (lay out / site) = (Haunted House!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
lay out / site TNT respect
Hint
Radical
FLOWER
Blow up the site with TNT, but I give you a FLOWER to show that I respect you.
Number: 1034 PK
(big radical)
pit
USED IN:
a drawing
(TNT plunger) +
ONYOMI: GA You GOTTA see this guy's drawing.
(pit)
This kanji is a drawing of a tnt plunger in a pit. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
movie (project, reflect) + (a drawing) = (movie)
what's that??? ( 1/2 KANA) (manga) + (a drawing) = (manga)
( )
631
Pretty close to () in meaning, but perhaps more elaborate - you'd use to say "I have a plan to get rich!" or to say "I planned out our whole vacation to 3 countries." . . but you wouldn't use ( FP ) (measure) + (a drawing) = (plan)
( )
screen - both movie screen and computer/tv screen (a drawing) + (front surface / face) = (screen)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
both
Hint
Radical
a drawing RICEFIELD
MOUSTACHE
Both MOUSTACHES paint a picture of a RICEFIELD. Somehow.
both
(nail) +
ONYOMI: RYOU
(pit)
We are out of New and Old Testaments, we have to REORDER BOTH of them. We have to nail both Moustaches to bottom of the pit. (don't ask: it's performance art)
JUKUGO:
( )
both things / both ways (both) + (direction / method / person) = (both things / both ways)
( ) ( )
to make change - i.e. "Do you have change for a dollar?" ( NOKURI ) (both) + (substitute) = (make change)
both parents (both) + (parents/kindness) = (both parents )

632
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
both
Hint
Radical
a drawing RICEFIELD USED IN:
MOUSTACHE
Both MOUSTACHES paint a picture of a RICEFIELD. Somehow.
full
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: MAN The MAN was full of pie. Both flowers were full of rain- water. JUKUGO:
(flowertop) +
(both)
( ) ( ) ( )
to be totally satisfied. (full) + (foot/ be enough) = (to be totally satisfied.)
the event is full, there's no seats left (full) + (clerk) = (all full up!)
full moon. Also, when you moon someone with your ass, that is also a mangetsu. ( SARC, NEO , ABU) (full) + (moon) = (full moon)
( )
obesity (obese / manure) + (full) = (obesity)
( )
not what it sounds like! Houman means zatfig, voluptuous. This has two meanings: a) a borderline sexual-harassment word used generally about the big titty women. b) a a relatively polite way to describe a chubby woman. Anyway, ABU! ( ABU) (plentiful) + (full) = (voluptuous)
divorce / physical distance between

Number: 1038
633
things
18 strokes
(beret) +
(katakana 'me') +
(turkey)
(pit) +
(moocow) +
(George
Michael's Moustache) +
ONYOMI: RI
Bruce LEE got divorced from Tommy LEE in 1985. When two people get a divorce, the husband has to wear a beret.Then the wife draws a big "X" on his face, canceling him,Then she throws him into a pit with an angry moocow .While he is being chased around the by the cow, she gets with George Michael because she can't deal with straight guys anymore, And they ride off on the back of a giant turkey. I don't know about your country, but this is the usual way it is done in Japan. KUNYOMI:
( ) to leave someone, to be distant (both physically and emotionally) ()
to separate, to detach, to keep separate
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
divorce (divorce / physical distance between things) + (marriage) = (divorce)
physical distance between two things: towns on a map, for instance, or the distance between an archer and a target - a much bigger distance than the related word . (distance) + (divorce / physical distance between things) = (distance)
( )
The dictionary says "separation, " as in separation of church and state, or "the river separates the two countries." Politically it means to segregate people, like in the American South, or what Japan does to Burakumin. (understand / divide / minute) + (divorce / physical distance between things) = (segregation / separation)
- zero stars! -
pull out / hand over

(pit) +
(one/line radical)
ONYOMI: SHUTSU He pulls out his revolver and SHOOTS. is two pits + a vertical line (which we'll think of as a string or cable)
634
This looks like you're hauling something up; Pulling the line of string out of the pits. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I take it out
it comes out
JUKUGO:
( )
exit. ( KUNKUN ) (pull out / hand over) + (mouth) = (exit.)
or ( or ) it's possible to do.(I can run, I can shit, but I can't run and shit at the same time.) ( 1/2 KANA) (pull out / hand over) + (come/future) = (possible)
( )
departure of train, bus, plane. ( NP ) (pull out / hand over) + (launch) = (departure)
xxx (xxx ) a thing made in XXX, a person from XXX ( SUF) (pull out / hand over) + ((one's own) flesh) = (a thing from XXX)
( )
USED IN:
drawer or chest of drawers. (pull) + (pull out / hand over) = (drawer)
yield, get out of the way

Number: 1040
8 strokes BETA
(corpse) + (pull out / hand over)

ONYOMI: KUTSU My KUTSU (=shoes) make the corpse go out and get out of the way because I'M KICKING IT. JUKUGO:
( )
boring!(verb form : : "It was boring!") ( 1/2 KANA) (retreat) + (yield, get out of the way) = (boring)
( )
:stiff or formal, tight-assed.

635
(to be in trouble) + (yield, get out of the way) = (tight-assed. )

USED IN:
dig
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KUTSU
(yield, get out of the way) (Same-ON)
Dig a hole with your KUTSU (shoes). You use your hands to dig, making the earth yield before you and open up. KUNYOMI:
*
dig JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
excavation (launch) + (dig) = (excavation )
can, like 'canned beef'

Number: 1042
6 strokes NEO, PRE
(axe) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(pit)
In the old days before aluminum cans/KANs were invented, people would dig a pit with an axe and pour all their soup in there. Then bears would drink most of it. I mean, it was not a good time to be alive, people. DESCRIPTION: the ONyomi seems to be a neologism - When Westerners introduced tin cans, Japanese needed a word for 'em, so they re-purposed an obsolete kanji to mean "can" because it happened to be pronounced the same way! JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX)
PREFIX it means 'canned.' is a can of beer. ( PRE)
( )
can opener
LOOKALIKES:
636
HILL mount can, like 'canned beef' AXE

A mountain is a big HILL. Use an AXE to open up a can of food.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
sway, joggle
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: YOU
(nest) +
(can, like 'canned beef')
She YODELS so loud it'll make a skyscraper sway. The '' radical is somewhat simplified, but let's roll with it anyway, because we can say: He holds out his hand, holding a tin can with a nest on top of it, and jiggles it so the nest sways. KUNYOMI: () () ()
* * *
I shake or shock something : I make something sway
something gets a jolt, something sways
to shock , jolt, to make something sway or shake
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
to be agitated or unsettled, to be jolted (movement) + (sway, joggle) = (jolt)
society
ONYOMI: SE,YO
L (loser) + (one/line radical) +
(pit)
To start a new society, populate a deserted island with kids you make when you have SEX with the rapper YOYO. In this dog-eat-dog society, losers get shoved into a pit. JUKUGO:
( )
637
the world, as in "biggest in the world!" "fastest in the world!" (society) + (the world) = (the world)
( )
the social, everyday world - more poetic than Used in dramatic declarations like, "I'm sick of this fuckin' world!" "I don't care about this life!" "Poor Kurt Cobain, he was just too sensitive for this cruel world!" Also, usually implies JUST Japanese society. (society) + (middle) = (the world)
( )
public opinion (society) + (make a case for) = (public opinion)
( )
flattery (society) + (quit) = (flattery)
( )
to take care of someone sick or old or retarded. What your mom did. (society) + (conversation) = (take care of)
USED IN:
leaf
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(society) + (tree)
Every year, the tree grows a new society of flowers and leaves.
*
leaf JUKUGO:
( )
ANY word - unlike the related term () can refer to compound words, or onomonopoeia. Also can mean "way of speaking." There are expressions like "watch what you say!" that use this way: (her way of speaking is very polite!) or (let's be careful how we speak!) ( FP ) (say) + (leaf) = (any word)
( )
638
( )
postcard ( KUNKUN ) (leaf) + (write) = (postcard)
speak MOUTH FLOWER leaf
Radical
You talk to me with your MOUTH, about a leaf of a pretty FLOWER.
USED IN:
speak
ONYOMI:
Number: 1046 1 stroke SOLO
(mouth/small box radical) + (leaf)

OK, this mnemonic is a bit of a stretch: The right-side part of looks like , which is a kanji in the word, 'word'=. so, if you buy THAT argument,then the mnemonic becomes really easy, like so: When you speak, your mouth says words (). KUNYOMI:
( or ) to talk (KANA) LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint
*
Radical
speak MOUTH FLOWER leaf
You talk to me with your MOUTH, about a leaf of a pretty FLOWER.
tooth
(stop) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(pit) +
(rice / America)
Teeth are there to stop the rice from falling into the pits of your gums.
tooth
JUKUGO:
( )
639
a cavity (literally, 'bug tooth,' because parents would tell their kids, 'If you get a cavity, bugs will crawl in the hole and nest and lay eggs.') ( KUNKUN ) (insizzect) + (tooth) = (cavity)
( ) ( ) ( )
dentist (tooth) + (doctor ) = (dentist)
buckteeth; rabbit-lookin'-ass teeth. ( KUNKUN ) (pull out / hand over) + (tooth) = (buckteeth; rabbit-lookin'-ass teeth.)
the gnarled, wish-I-had-braces teeth that Japanese are famous for. Lots of Japanese find it cute, in fact. ( FP ) (eight) + (heavy / overlap) + (tooth) = (gnarly teeth)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STOP tooth waaay in the back BIG
Hint
Radical
STOP the tooth decay. Use a BIG toothbrush from the front, to way in the back.
USED IN:
chew, bite
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 1048 18 strokes SOLO, DUH
(mouth/small box radical) + (tooth)

This one actually 'looks like what it looks like' so if you need a mnemonic, you can bite a tough titty.
bite,chew (1/2 KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
chew, bite MOUTH stage of life ORDER
Hint
Radical
Chew with your MOUTH open, but I ORDER you to leave my age unspoken ;I'm old and it's rude to tell people.
Number: 1049
640
17 strokes
stage of life
ONYOMI: REI JUKUGO:
BETA
(tooth) + (command) (Same-ON)

In Logan's Run, once people reached a late stage of life, guards were commanded to take a RAYgun and blast 'em right in the teeth.
( )
years old (year) + (stage of life) = (years old)
( )
- zero stars! -
a marriageable age (suitable) + (stage of life) + (period of time) = (a marriageable age)
( )
- zero stars! -
old person (tall) + (stage of life) + (professional) = (old person )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
chew, bite MOUTH stage of life ORDER
Hint
Radical
Chew with your MOUTH open, but I ORDER you to leave my age unspoken ;I'm old and it's rude to tell people.
terrible
ONYOMI: KYOU
Number: 1050
- zero 4 strokes stars! BETA
(katakana 'me') +
(pit)
In May, I fell into a terrible pit and I am still trapped there until TODAY (, pronounced KYOU)!! DESCRIPTION: This kanji is usually only seen by itself in fortune-telling. It's like the worst fortune or whatever, so it's frequently the punchline of jokes. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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atrocious! Heinous! Some Rape of Nanking kind of shit. (terrible) + (bad) = ( Heinous!)
horrible luck, an atrocity.

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(big) + (terrible) = (horrible luck)

- zero stars! -
USED IN:
brain
ONYOMI: NOU
(moon/organ) + (terrible) +
JUKUGO:
(t.c.f.b.b.y.e.s.i.y.l.)
The 3 dots are usually Cutest Baby Birds, but in this case let's call them hair, covering your brain. Your brain is NO good. It's just a terrible organ, covered in greasy hair.
( ) ( )
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brainwash ( NEO ) (wash) + (brain) = (brainwash)
gray matter, brains.- the "miso" part is written in hiragana, but it comes from the word , or 'soup'!!! ( FR)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
brain
worry
HEART HAIR
Hint
Radical
chest/breast WRAP
When you worry, your HEART beats fast. Your brain is under your HAIR (those three dots at the top : hair) Your chest is WRAPPED in ribs.
chest/breast
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
(wrap) +
(terrible) (Same-ON)
I saw her today ( =, pronounced KYOU), for the first time since her breast surgery, her chest looked like a terrible organ wrap. DESCRIPTION: Usually SOLO KUNYOMI:
chest / breasts
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JUKUGO:
( )
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courageous (people usually just say ()) ( NP ) (times) + (chest/breast) = (courageous)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
brain
worry
HEART HAIR
Hint
Radical
chest/breast WRAP
worry
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: NOU KUNYOMI:
(terrible)
I'm worried that those baby birds have a horrible heart condition and will die.
* *
a worry
TO worry (verb)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
brain
worry
HEART HAIR
Hint
Radical
chest/breast WRAP

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arrow
(rifle) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(big)
An arrow flies like a bullet out of a big rifle.
arrow - never used by itself (see below!) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
arrow ( KUNKUN ) (bow) + (arrow) = (arrow )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
doubt
(arrow) +
ONYOMI: GI
(heel) +
(correct) + (Mama)
as in, "I doubt that GEESE can do the Moonwalk. " It's correct to shoot yo Mama's heel with an arrow if you doubt that she's telling the truth..
*
to doubt JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
a doubt (= I have doubts about it.)

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(doubt) + (question, problem) = (a doubt )
( )
suspect in crime; foreigner. (appearance) + (doubt) + (professional) = (suspect)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
doubt
Hint
Radical
perform a task HALBERD

You're a HEEL, so I doubt you'll do the work. But this HALBERD pointing at you makes you perform your tasks.
HEEL
USED IN:
sham
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: GI
(doubt)
You raise your hand up like, "Waaaait a minute, I doubt that you are real GEEse. Judging by your cardboard feathers and paste-on googly eyes, you are some motherfucking sham geese." DESCRIPTION:This one is different from fake () :it doesn't mean counterfeit or phony. It means sham as in a practice test, or a mock trial, or the model home in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT where all the fruit in the kitchen was plastic. In other words, means a sham that is a mock-up or a model - it's not meant to fool anyone. JUKUGO:
( )
is a very Japanese concept - a sound effect for something that doesn't make noise - usually emotional states. The only English example of I can think of is ' bling.' ( 1/2 KANA) (sham) + (looks like) + (language) = (emotional sound-effect)
XXX ( XXX) ( )
PREFIX meaning 'quasi-XXX' ( PRE) (sham) + (resemble) = (quasi)
Onomatopoeia!!!! Sound-effect words. in English, that means words like 'slap' 'smack' or 'splash.' ( 1/2 KANA) (sham) + (sound) + (language) = (Onomatopoeia!)
Number: 1057
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short
ONYOMI: TAN KUNYOMI:
12 strokes
(arrow) + (bean)
That TAN arrow is so short, it barely comes level with the top of that bean!! Which is also TAN!!
*
short JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
weak point, flaw (short) + (area / attribute) = (flaw )
short period of time (short) + (period of time) = (short period of time)
low short
SPECULUM BEAN
Radical
The person reached down low to pick up the SPECULUM, but the ARROW was so short it couldn't penetrate more than halfway into a BEAN
doctor
(container) +
ONYOMI: I
(arrow)
I am a medical doctor, who surgically removes an arrow out of your colon and puts it in the biohazard container. JUKUGO:
( )
doctor (doctor) + (professional) = (doctor)
( )
dentist (tooth) + (doctor ) = (dentist)

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( )
a more formal word for doctor -(you wouldn't say "I need to see the !" - you'd say, "I need to see the ()!) ( NP ) (doctor) + (master, teacher) = (doctor)
XXX
(XXX )
a SUFFIX meaning, 'XXX branch of medicine -' in other words, 'XXXology'. ( SUF)
( )
medical treatment- the kind one gets in a hospital (x-rays, MRI, surgery, etc.) (doctor) + (medical therapy) = (medical treatment)
family
ONYOMI: ZOKU
(rifle) +
(arrow)
Their whole family is BANDITS. (remember, bandit () is also pronounced ZOKU) I am so fucking fed up with my family, if I had a rifle or an arrow I would point it in their direction. Right at the Thanksgiving table. JUKUGO:
( )
your immediate family - parents, grandparents, siblings. (home) + (family) = (family)
( )
two meanings: 1) ethnic group, 2) folk (as in folk customs, folk music, etc) (folk) + (family) = (ethnic)
climate/candidate
(arrow) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(personleft) +
(katakana 'yu' radical)
A candidate is a person who gets shot in the COLON with an arrow full of hot air, causing them to make all kinds of weird noises as the air rushes to their mouth. DESCRIPTION: JERK: this can mean climate, candidate, or even symptom. There is really no pattern. JUKUGO:
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( ) ( )
candidate (climate/candidate) + (supplement) = (candidate)
climate - not like the weather we're having today, but the general climate of a region - temperate, tropical, etc. (mood) + (climate/candidate) = (regional climate)
- zero stars! -
( )
- zero stars! -
a sign that something will start soon: (Those clouds on the horizon are a sign a taiphoon is coming) (omen) + (climate/candidate) = (a sign)
know
ONYOMI: CHI KUNYOMI:
(arrow) + (mouth/small box radical)

I put an arrow in my mouth because I know there's CHEESE on it. MMMcheese.
* *
JUKUGO:
to know something or someone. (BOOBOO: as opposed to , which means 'Oh shit! now I get it!' or 'I just realized / comprehended something!') Typical example: 'Do you know the band Rotting Christ?' ()
I don't know. (as opposed to "" which means, 'i don't get it.')
( )
knowledge (know) + (be conscious) = (knowledge)
( ) ( )
an acquaintance (know) + (to suit) = (an acquaintance)
a flyer, or a sign on the wall - usually advertising an event.
( )
to agree in theory (business - speak). Stronger than ().
is what you say when you have heard and understood a business proposal, and you agree with it. It doesn't necessarily mean that you will sign the contract or do
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whatever the person says; merely that you want to work together with them to accomplish these goals, in theory, after 100 more meetings. ( F , CCW) (to be told / consent) + (know) = (to agree in theory)
( )
to pretend you don't know what I am talking about, to feign innocence ( 1/2 KANA) (know) + (brandish / pretend) = (feign innocence )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
peace/ Japan WHEAT
flavor know
Hint
Radical
MOUTH ON LEFT SIDE ARROW
USED IN:
miss out on
(rifle) +
ONYOMI: SHITSU
(big)
Oh SHIT! I missed out on the reunion concert of the PART TIME CHRISTIANS. This is rifle plus big. But, since arrow () is ALSO rifle plus big, it's easier to think of as "arrow plus a little head on top!" So you can say, "I MISS getting HEAD from your uncle ever since he got BEHEADED BY AN ARROW." KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to miss out on. Like you were watching tv too much and missed out on a pool party in your own backyard.
( )
any failure! Flunking a test, your plan fails, no one comes to your party, your business goes bankrupt, your mom's chest waxing goes wrong and her pec-fro winds up as Beyonce's wig. (miss out on) + (be defeated) = (failure)
( )
rude, without manners. (miss out on) + (polite) = (rude)

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( ) ( )
get your heart broke (miss out on) + (passion) = (get your heart broke)
a total disaster. (big) + party, your business goes bankrupt, your mom's chest waxing goes wrong and her pec-fro winds up as Beyonce's wig.) = (total disaster)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
earlier/ the tip LEGS OPEN LEGS CLOSED miss out on
Meaning
Hint
Radical
1) Probably the first time you saw "" , you were looking at the word for teacher (sensei)-- 2) MISS is basically SENSEI but with its legs closer together. Therefore, 3) I missed out on sex with teacher because she kept her LEGS CLOSED. See?
USED IN:
iron
ONYOMI: TETSU
(gold) + (miss out on)

If you're feeling anemic, TAKE TWO iron pills and call me in the morning. He was digging for gold, but missed out and found only iron ore.
KUNYOMI:
iron (LAZY)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
subway (area) + (below) + (iron) = (subway)

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( )
'iron man,' not as in the Sabbath song, but as in a bad mother fucker. (this is the kanji from Iron Chef) (iron) + (person) = (bad mother fucker)
( )
a train-spotter, a train-obsessed nerd. ( SARC)
Number: 1064 STRONG
(swan radical)
swan
(turkey) +
(arrow)
DESCRIPTION: I call it swan because it's like turkey but bigger and more difficult to deal with. I guess you could say, "A swan shoots an arrow at a turkey". I mean, maybe it is a feud. Who knows? Swan is STRONG for KAN .
USED IN:
point of view
(swan) (Same-ON) +
(eye)
Genghis KHAN's eyes, saw the swan from his point of view.
to watch something, deliberately and for a long time, In other words, to be a spectator at something (only used in the phrase . And you only used about concerts, broadway plays, and art exhibitions). Basically this is for your eyes.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
audience (point of view) +
(customer) =
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(audience)
( )
( )
a notion, an idea. (BOOBOO: Not like 'I got an idea! Let's start a food CO-OP!' But idea like, 'He has no concept of personal hygine.' 'That's a very stereotypical idea!') (point of view) + (concern) = (notion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
recommend point of view rights make certain
STRONG SEE TREE ROCK
Radical
TELLING APART THE SWAN MOTHERFUCKERS: I recommend you get STRONGER. You SEE things from your point of view . But TREES have rights,to not get cut down. Or so they say. Make ROCK SOLID CERTAIN that your kanji are correct.
recommend
(swan) (Same-ON) +
(strong)
Genghis KHAN strongly recommended that you get a swan.
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JUKUGO:
to recommend (1/2 KANA)
( )
- zero stars! -
to advise or counsel someone. ( NP ) (recommend) + (inform) = (to counsel)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
recommend STRONG point of view SEE
Hint
Radical
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TREE rights make certain ROCK
rights
(tree) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(swan)
KENNY has the right to come back from the dead. The swan has a right to peck the tree. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
human rights (person) + (rights) = (human rights )
the authority or right to do something (rights) + (handy) = (the right to do)
an authority one has based on power alone (parents, cops, etc.) rather than on rights (authority based on rights is ()) (rights) + (terrible majesty) = (authority)
( )
power (over other people)(as in boss, parent, governor, pope, etc.) (rights) + (strong) = (power)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
TELLING APART THE SWAN MOTHERFUCKERS: I recommend you get STRONGER. You SEE things from your point of view .
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But TREES have rights,to not get cut down. Or so they say. Make ROCK SOLID CERTAIN that your kanji are correct.
make certain
(rock) +
(swan) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
(crown)
Please make certain that the swan's COCK is hard as a rock. (the swan with the hardest COCK gets to wear the crown) (it's not how I personally would decide the future of the monarchy, but then I'm not Japanese)
* ( )
probably JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
to double-check something. (make certain) + (admit) = (double-check)
probability (make certain) + (ratio) = (probability) certainty. This is never used as a verb. You'd never say ( NP ) (make certain) + (truth) = ( certainty)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1069
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car
ONYOMI: SHA To get from A to B, you SHALL need a car.
7 strokes PK, DUH, ILL PAIR
KUNYOMI:
car JUKUGO:
( )
train (electricity) + (car) = (train)
( )
bicycle (my own) + (roll over) + (car) = (bicycle)
( ) ( )
ambulance (rescue) + (urgent) + (car) = (ambulance)
tank (fight) + (car) = (tank)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
car heavy / overlap EXTRA LINES / AXLES drip, dangle LINES DRIP OFF TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT ride a vehicle TREE
Car is an axle turned sideways. Heavy cars are so heavy they need an extra axle. Paint drips or dangles from the side of the newly-painted car. You ride a vehicle RIGHT INTO A TREE.
USED IN:
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heavy / overlap
(car) + (two)
ONYOMI: JUU
JEWS have to bear the heavy responsibility of being God's People and a Light Unto Nations. looks like : car ()sandwiched between an extra set of lines on top and bottom So we can say,"The car was so heavy it needed an extra set of tires to carry the load! "
Behold! KUNYOMI:
*
heavy () ()
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to overlap (literally) to have problems or work piling up and your life is hellish (figurative)
to get piled up, to get a backlog - to go further and further (into debt)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
essential (heavy / overlap) + (important) = (essential)
your mama's weight (450kilos?) (body) + (heavy / overlap) = (your mama's weight (450kilos?))
the important point. (heavy / overlap) + (point) = (the important point. )
XXX
(XXX )
PREFIX meaning double, as in "double-chin" or "twin-engine plane." ( PRE) (two) + (heavy / overlap) = (double-xxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
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Radical
USED IN:
drip, dangle
(car)
ONYOMI: SUI
the SWEET ice cream cone dripped on to my hand. ALSO looks like car () but the horizontal lines poke out, and the verticals do NOT poke out. So we can say . . . "The new car's paint job dripped off the sides, creating a mess."
LO...! KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I dangle it. (1/2 KANA)
it drips, dangles. Also used as the action verb for piss, shit, fart. Seriously, even fart. A fun curse to use when frustrated is is !(literally, "Dangling turd!") (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
vertical, but also means perpendicular. (drip, dangle) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (vertical, but also means perpendicular.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
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USED IN:
ride a vehicle
(drip, dangle) + (tree)
ONYOMI: JOU
When JOE Stalin rode the bus, everyone else got off. You rode your car right into a damn tree, and it dangled from the branches. KUNYOMI: () ()
get on the vehicle
to take on a passenger, to give someone a lift
JUKUGO:
( )
to transfer buses/ trains. (ride a vehicle) + (exchange) = (transfer)
( )
to board a plane, train, big boat. Usually seen on signs 'Board over here, fool.' . ( NP )
(board) + (ride a vehicle) = (board)
( )
passenger ( NP ) (ride a vehicle) + (customer) = (passenger)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
Number: 1073
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base
(town) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
10 strokes SOLO
(car)
Soldiers drive their car from the base to town and back.
an army camp or base
ring/tire
(car) +
ONYOMI: RIN The wedding RING! My car needs tires to go to the bookstore. KUNYOMI:
(bookstore)
can mean ring, like rings of saturn, or loop, like cable which is stored in a loop, or circle, like folk-dances where everyone forms a circle. But is never an actual ring like you wear on your finger. (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
THIS is the ring you wear! ( KUNKUN ) (finger / point at) + (ring/tire) = (ring)
( )
tire (car) + (ring/tire) = (tire)
( )
rubber band ( KUNKUN ) (ring/tire) + () = (rubber band)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
transport BUTCHER ring/tire LIBRARY
Hint
Radical
You transport meat to the BUTCHER, but I check out a ring from the LIBRARY.
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counter for shops

(car) + (dry out)
ONYOMI: KEN
KENNY parks his car inside his shop to keep it dry in the rain. DESCRIPTION: Literally, it means 'eaves', but whatever. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
basically the only time you will see this is as a counter for houses or shops: etc.: For example: ("He owns 3 restaurants") ( COUNTER )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
trunk
counter for shops PHONE POLE (no roof!) ROOF
Hint
Radical
There's a PHONE POLE in front of my shop, but my trunk has a ROOF on top.
evaluate
ONYOMI: KAKU
(car) + (combine)
Can you evaluate my COCK ?" This is one of the questions you should not say ever. To properly evaluate different brands of cars, you have to drive a mixture of them first! JUKUGO:
( )
comparatively (BOOBOO: you DON'T use a 'na' at the end, for some reason) ( NP )
rocked the most, but you'd the GDP of developing nations.) + (motivation / 'al') = (comparatively)
( )
a more formal word for 'compare': You'd AC/DC albums to see which one rocked the most, but you'd the GDP of developing nations. ( NP ) (compare) + (evaluate) = (compare)
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soft
ONYOMI: NAN
(car) + (lack)
Indian NAN-bread is soft and pliable compared to heavy German bread. My car made of steel, lacks softness. So maybe don't walk in front of it talking on your cell phone, while I am driving. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
soft (1/2 KANA)
( )
this word combines both synonyms for 'soft.' So you know it means really feeble, weak, nerdy. (soft) + (weak) = (feeble)
( )
flexible, like a Crazy Straw / elastic (flexible) + (soft) = (flexible)
appear in print
(ten) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(spear) +
(car)
The celebrity SIGHed, upon learning that his latest drug-arrest was bout to appear in print . He jumped in his car with ten spears to drive to the magazine office and stop them printing it. KUNYOMI:
( or ) to include something in the final version, include in the published report. Confusingly, can also can mean 'put on top of something' : 'put the skis on vehicle' or 'put something on top of the cabinet' ()
to be printed or reported
JUKUGO:
( )
Basically means the same thing as but is a little more formal: to be reported.
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xxx (xxx ) to come equipped with XXX (built-in camera, etc.) (board) + (appear in print) = (come equipped with)
CLOTHES trial appear in print CAR
Hint
Radical
People judge my CLOTHES a crime But CARS are appear in print on this week's cover of Time.
army
ONYOMI: GUN JUKUGO:
(car)
The army rides into battle with their tank and their moustaches and their GUNS.
( ) ( ) ( )
an army - but not necessarily the whole army. It could just be some troops. (army) + (troop) = (army)
soldier (army) + (person) = (soldier)
in the kaiiiigun, you can sail the seven seeeeas, in the kaiiiigun, you can put yourself at eeeeease... (ocean) + (army) = (navy)
( )
- zero stars! -
The Land Army (as opposed to navy or airforce) (continent) + (army) = (The Land Army )
USED IN:
brandish
(handleft) +
(army)
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ONYOMI: KI I got the KEY to the army car in my hand, and I am brandishing it. JUKUGO:
( )
to reveal one's true strength, to get an opportunity to exercise one's full power (in economics, language ability, fighting, whatever) (launch) + (brandish) = (reveal the extent of one's power)
( )
- zero stars! -
conductor or commander (finger / point at) + (brandish) + (professional) = (conductor or commander)
take with / inform of

(motion) +
ONYOMI: REN
(car)
Move and Take that car with you to MC REN's. (He's still rolling in a Pinto. ) KUNYOMI: () ()
bring someone with you to the zoo, the party, etc. (99% used like this: xxx ())
to be in a physical arrangement with other things of the same kind - a row of bars on the street, Japan's islands are in a north-south row, extending from Russia to Korea.
JUKUGO:
( )
to inform, to let someone know. Like, "Let me know if you're coming. Call me when you get there," kind of thing. (take with / inform of) + (get entangled) = (inform)
( )
a series (take with / inform of) + (continue) = (a series)
( )
be associated with something, or relevant to something. (connected to) + (take with / inform of) = (relevant)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
plural/delivery carry / luck
HAPPY SOLDIERS
Hint
Radical
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take with / inform of CAR

I'm HAPPY to have plural friends. I need to carry SOLDIERS to the battle, So I'll take them with me in my CAR.
carry / luck
(motion) +
ONYOMI: UN
(army)
I wish the army luck when they move forward with their campaign - hopefully they only meet UN-armed civilians. KUNYOMI:
to transport - unlike (), is NOT related to business or money. If you help your friend move his fridge to his new place, that's . If you pick up your suitcase and take it to the airport, that's
luck (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
drive a vehicle (carry / luck) + (roll over) = (drive a vehicle)
exercise (carry / luck) + (movement) = ()
fate (carry / luck) + (life) = (fate)
/ ( / )
lucky / unlucky (carry / luck) + (bad) = / (lucky / unlucky)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HAPPY plural/delivery SOLDIERS carry / luck take with / inform of CAR
Hint
Radical
I'm HAPPY to have plural friends. I need to carry SOLDIERS to the battle,
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So I'll take them with me in my CAR.
dazzle
ONYOMI: KI KUNYOMI: ()
Number: 1083 15 strokes PN, SOLO, ILL PAIR
(shining) + (army)
Our army KEEPS lazers around to dazzle our opponents with the shining light.
to shine, radiant light, sparkle (1/2 KANA)
flamboyant
(flowertop) +
Number: 1084 10 strokes PN, DUPE, JERK
(drip, dangle)
ONYOMI: KA - same as the OTHER flower kanji His showy sports-CAR had flowers dangling from the rearview mirror. DESCRIPTION:JERK: literally it means gorgeous flower, but in practice it means "flamboyant", and generally the only time you'll see it, it'll mean "Chinese Restaurant." Fuck this vague motherfucker.
KUNYOMI: in theory, it means flower, but in practice no one ever uses it that way. If you use it twice in a row: (), it means gorgeous or flamboyant. . . so you can still see the roots of the flower (heh).. (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
luxurious, in a good way (luxurious) + (flamboyant) = (luxurious)
Chinese (often seen on the signs of Chinese restaurants) (middle) + (flamboyant) = (Chinese)
sleep

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(eye) + (drip, dangle) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: SUI We say "SWEET dreams" when we go to sleep. The sleepy guy's eyelids looked like they were dangling and about to fall closed. JUKUGO:
( )
a somewhat medical-sounding word for sleep (BOOBOO: you would never say, " ?" -You gotta say, "?") ( NP ) (sleep) + (sleepy) = (sleep )
( )
sleeping pill
"?" -You gotta say, "?") ) + (medicine) = (sleeping pill)
mail
ONYOMI: YUU
(drip, dangle) +
JUKUGO:
(town)
The mailman dangled your package all the the way into town, by the time YOU get it, it is all fucked up and dirty.
( )
post office (mail) + (convenient / poop) + (department) = (post office)
( )
post number (i.e. zip code) (mail) + (convenient / poop) + thing, as in phone number or apartment number, or ZIP code number.) = (post number (i.e. zip code))
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mail
Hint
Radical
seed / type or kind WHEAT movement
excessive
TOWN SWORD
STRENGTH
You send a letter in the mail to TOWN, but the SWORD cuts the excessive stuff down.
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Types of WHEAT seeds come in different lengths, but to move and plant them takes a lot of STRENGTH.
excessive
ONYOMI: JOU JUKUGO:
(ride a vehicle) (Same-ON) + (sword)

It's hard for JOE Stalin to get on the train with his excessive swords, he can't even fit in the door!
XXX ( XXX)
PREFIX (sometimes SUFFIX!) meaning excessive - sometimes as in an overdose of drugs, an excess of personnel, but usually an excess of an attitude or behavior. This prefix is the only time you'll ever see the kanji. ( PRE) (surpass / too much) + (excessive) = (excessive XXX)
( )
overconfidence. (self-confidence) + sometimes as in an overdose of drugs, an excess of personnel, but usually an excess of an attitude or behavior. This prefix is the only time you'll ever see the kanji.) = (overconfidence.)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mail
Hint
Radical
excessive
TOWN SWORD
STRENGTH
You send a letter in the mail to TOWN, but the SWORD cuts the excessive stuff down. Types of WHEAT seeds come in different lengths, but to move and plant them takes a lot of STRENGTH.
handy
Meaning
Hint
Radical
excessive RIDE
WHEAT
WHEAT is a handy snack, but excessive mc's RIDING your jock is wack.

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seed / type or kind

(wheat) +
ONYOMI: SHU Smell His Underpants - what kind of smell is it? Please fill out this report. . . This kind of wheat seed is really heavy.
(heavy / overlap)
KUNYOMI:
seed
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
variety or type of thing (seed / type or kind) + (category,type) = (variety or type of thing) race of people. (BOOBOO - is not ethnic group like Albanians, it means race like honkeys.) (person) + (seed / type or kind) = (race of people)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mail
Hint
Radical
excessive
TOWN SWORD
movement
seed / type or kind WHEAT
STRENGTH
movement
ONYOMI: DOU
(heavy / overlap) + (strong)

As Homer tries to move the Stonehenge, he grunts, "DOH!" You have to be strong to move such a heavy thing. KUNYOMI: ()
I move; he moves himself.

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()
I move an ashtray, I make something move.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
animal (movement) + (animal / thing) = (animal)
exercise (carry / luck) + (movement) = ()
( ) ( )
automatic (my own) + (movement) + (motivation / '-al') = (automatic)
verb (movement) + (part of speech) = (verb)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
mail
Hint
Radical
excessive
TOWN SWORD
STRENGTH
USED IN:
to do your job
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: DOU
(movement) (Same-ON)
Homer says DOH as he schleps off to do his job. A person moves around as they do their job. DESCRIPTION:, , and all mean 'work', but emphasizes the job title, emphasizes the physical labor on the job, and emphasizes 'to work AT such-and-such a company.' KUNYOMI:
*
to work
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JUKUGO:
( )
manual labor (labor) + (to do your job) = (manual labor)
( )
laborer. proletarian (manual labor) + (professional) = (laborer)
swell
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(moon/organ) + (heavy / overlap)

The organ got heavier as it swelled up.
swell up not like a boner, like you got stung by a bee. (KANA)
injustice / mistake
ONYOMI: HI HE's crying because of the injustice JUKUGO:
Number: 1092 8 strokes BETA, PK, DUH, SYMBOLIC
Usually the textbooks say to think of this as two streams of tears running down a face. Works for me.
( )
this has 2 meanings: 1) in casual conversation, starting a sentence with 'zehi' means, 'Absolutely!' 'I'll get it done by hook or by crook!' - also, you'll hear '!' a lot, which means 'Thanks in advance for this favor.' . . . . 2) the propriety or morality of a certain course of action ( the kanji themselves translate to 'right + injustice'). ( 1/2 KANA) (fer shure) + (injustice / mistake) = (absolutely!)
( )
emergency. This is the word on all the emergency exits and emergency firehoses. But
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you'd never say "I'm having an ! (injustice / mistake) + (usual) = (emergency)
xxx ( xxx)
in an emergency? No! That would be too simple. means, exceedingly or extremely. (injustice / mistake) + (usual) = (exceedingly xxx)
XXXX ( XXXX)
PREFIX meaning 'without xxx' Usually words use the or prefixes, but occasionally you'll see a -word, like () (no common sense) ( )(asymmetrical). I guess if is like 'un-' and is like 'without-', then '-' is like 'no-'!! ( PRE)
USED IN:
older or younger colleague

Number: 1093
15 strokes CCW, BETA
(injustice / mistake) + (car)

ONYOMI: HAI
Is the guy writing this already an old fart? HAI. It is injustice that my older classmates get to drive the car, but us sophomores don't! JUKUGO:
( )
Usually translated as "person ahead of you in school." (opp. ()). But the system of unchanging, rigid heirarchy is in full effect all throughout Japanese society, from the punk scene to corporations and everywhere in between. People still call each other 40 years after they graduate. ( CCW) (earlier/ the tip) + (older or younger colleague) = (Person ahead of you at school)
( )
someone younger than you in school (afterwards / behind) + (older or younger colleague) = (someone younger than you in school)
( )
old person. (year) + (older or younger colleague) = (old person.)

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sad
ONYOMI: HI KUNYOMI:
(injustice / mistake) (Same-ON) +

* *
JUKUGO: sad to feel sad
(bottomheart)
HE is sad because of all the injustices done to his heart.
( ) ( )
a somewhat literary word for pessimistic ( F ) (sad) + (point of view) + (motivation / '-al') = (pessimistic)
tragedy (opp: comedy!) (sad) + (play) = (tragedy)
( )
terrible, harrowing, tragic. Usually used not about a single persons misfortune but like the tragic cost of war, the terrible catastrophe that befell the small town in Godzillas path, etc. (sad) + (wretched) = ( terrible)
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sin
(net) +
ONYOMI: ZAI
(injustice / mistake)
He committed a sin with a XYLOPHONE Sinners who perpetrate injustice get caught in the net of retribution!!
KUNYOMI:
a sin: a crime
JUKUGO:
( )
crime
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(commit a crime) + (sin) = (crime)
( )
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apologize ( NP ) (apologize) + (sin) = (apologize)
actor
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: HAI JUKUGO:
Are actors basically selfish, phony, unjust people ? HAI.
( ) ( )
actor (actor) + (kindhearted/excel) = (actor)
yo mama so fat / she went to the zoo one time / kids fed her peanuts (actor) + (verse of a poem) = (haiku)
eliminate
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: HAI
Do Japanese eliminate foreigners sometimes? HAI! If an injustice comes your way, raise up your hand to eliminate it and keep it out. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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to remove or eliminate (eliminate) + (exclude) = (to remove or eliminate )
the dook (doctor word, although it's sure to get a chuckle if you use it) ( NP ) (eliminate) + (convenient / poop) = (defecate)
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( )
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to eliminate (another doctor word, which could mean poo OR pee, which is what is so excellent about it) (especially if you speak almost no Japanese but know really advanced medical terms for turd dropping) ( NP )
Number: 1098 STRONG
(right radical)
take a dump
(again/crotch radical) + (earth)

DESCRIPTION: what would YOU call a crotch squatting over the earth? strong ONYOMI for KEI.
USED IN:
lightweight
(car) +
ONYOMI: KEI KUNYOMI: ()
(take a dump) (Same-ON)
It is oKAY to take a dump in my car but only if it is a lightweight turd. For really massive dumps, maybe go to the toilet.
lightweight, but also mild or carefree.
JUKUGO:
( )
a loose tongue : either a mean gossip, or someone who can't keep a damn secret even if they try. (mouth) + (lightweight) = (loose-tongued)
( )
light meal, snack (lightweight) + (eat) = (light meal, snack)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
lightweight suspicious diameter experience
CAR HEART GO STRING
Radical
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The new CAR is lightweight but suspicious HEARTS are hard to mate. I'll GO walk around the diameter, and measure the length of my experience with STRING.
experience
(string) +
ONYOMI: KEI KUNYOMI: ()
Everyone I know has had the experience of taking a dump and string came out. It's OK.
usually used in the phrase : time passes. Usually a long time. Like, "After three days, the letter arrived."
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
an experience (experience) + (test) = (experience)
the economy (()= economics) (experience) + (economy / to be over) = (the economy (( )= economics))
( )
someone with experience - usually a negative experience. In which case the closest English word would be 'survivor' (of abuse, discrimination ,etc.) (an experience) + (professional) = (survivor)
( )
nerve cell (GOD kanji) + (experience) = (nerve cell)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
CAR HEART GO STRING
Radical
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suspicious
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(take a dump)
Charlie Brown, is suspicious of the KITE eating tree When my boyfriend acts suspicious and shady around other girls it is like he is totally dumping on my heart. This will be the theme of my next singer/songwriter album, I am auditioning nylon string guitarists now.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
suspicious. Not like "I'm suspicious of him," but like "He's acting shady."
( )
a traditional Japanese monster from folk tales. They have physical forms, but don't necessairly attack people. More like the European "fairy" than "monster.
( ) ( )
one of them 400-footer godzilla monsters with the zipper on the back. (suspicious) + (beast) = (Godzilla monster)
visible evidence of damage: scars, cuts, bruises. Both new and old scars. ( KANA, FP )
(suspicious) + (we) = (scar)

CAR HEART GO STRING
suspicious
Meaning
Hint
Radical
TAKE A DUMP
close but no cigar HELLBUNNY

I'm suspicious that your mom was the one who TOOK A DUMP on the lawn. I tried to catch the HELLBUNNY but no cigar!!
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Number: 1102 PK
(upper left radical)
Naruto
DESCRIPTION: It's the katakana NA ()! So, thus, NAruto.
USED IN:
friend
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: YUU
YOU are perhaps my best friend. Naruto, being a teenage boy, is really good friends with his own crotch. Perhaps best friends. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
friend (friend) + (plural/delivery) = (friend)
a somewhat formal word for friend, used mostly by older people. (friend) + (person) = (friend)
best friend (parents/kindness) + (friend) = (best friend)
anti
Radical
CLIFF
friend NARUTO
Jason Newsted was seen as the Anti - CLIFF by old-school Metallica fans. NARUTO is your friend if you're an anime nerd. Alternate mnemonic: only FRIEND has a "head" poking up above the horizontal line, and friends have heads.
USED IN:
extract
(handleft) +
(friend)
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ONYOMI: Use your hand to extract fleas out of your friend's matted pelt (FYI you are a gibbon) KUNYOMI: ()
I pluck or extract something - pluck a carrot out the ground, pluck out a gray hair, The mouse plucks the thorn out of the lion's paw.If you bleach the color out of cloth or hair, you're . plucking the color out!
()
something is plucked out
JUKUGO:
( )
coward - the nuance is someone who becomes paralyzed when the shit goes down. Someone who is too frightened to react. (waist) + (extract) = (coward)
( ) ( )
to see through someone's pretension or their deception. (look) + (extract) = (to see through)
idiot( usually KANA, so one star : *) ( KANA) (a period of time) + (extract) = (idiot)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
treatment REACH (grasping hand) extract FRIEND
Hint
Radical
You REACH out for treatment with your grasping hand, but only your FRIEND will extract your tumors.
male animal or hero

(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: YUU
(moocow) +
(turkey)
YOU may work at Costco and have a neck-beard, but you're still a hero to me! Naruto, the hero, had a male cow and a male turkey as pets. DESCRIPTION: A little Fucked Radical, don't you think? Male = hero??
XXX
KUNYOMI:
PREFIX meaning 'male XXX' as in 'male cat' or 'male hippo.' BOOBOO: You don't say 'osuhito' though. (PRE, 1/2 KANA)
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JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX) ( )
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PREFIX meaning 'male XXX' as in 'male cat' or 'male hippo.' (BOOBOO: You don't say '' though) ( KANA, PRE)
hero of an adventure story or legend - (BOOBOO: it's different from the word for 'main character' (()) which can be used in any kind of story. (heroic) + (male animal or hero) = (hero)
fabric
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: FU KUNYOMI:
Naruto's daggers FUCKED up the perfectly good fabric.
fabric
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
wallet ( 1/2 KANA) (loot) + (fabric) = (wallet)
futon ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (fabric) + (group) = (futon)
USED IN:
uncommon
ONYOMI: KI
(katakana 'me') + (fabric)

You have an uncommon KEY, hold on to it until you find out what it opens. It is uncommon to see this kind of fabric in May.
( )
KUNYOMI:
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( )
JUKUGO:
very similar to (unusual), but more formal/newspapery. Also has the connotation of rarebecause-it's-valuable (endangered species, a rare talent, etc.) If you see a dog-turd shaped like Lyle Lovett, that's , not
once in a great while, seldom
( )
A common-place, easily possible wish: "I'd like an aisle seat." "I'd like to fly nonstop." might be better translated as 'request': 'Customers wishing to request a childseat for their infant please see the waiter.' (uncommon) + (desire) = (request)
( )
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useless, academic word for rare animals or plants. ( NP ) (uncommon) + (a little (amount)) = (rare animals or plants)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
uncommon "X" ON TOP HEART scary
Hint
Radical
X is a rare letter, but if it makes your HEART go doki doki, it's scary.
scary
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: FU
(fabric) (Same-ON)
it is FUcking scary when you see a heart dissected on some fabric, just lying there. AND IT'S STILL BEATING AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! KUNYOMI:
*
scary ( xxx ) to be scared of (usually used like )('I'm scared of yo mama's breath') JUKUGO:
( )
super duper terror (dread) + (scary) = (super duper terror)
XXX
(XXX )
xxx- phobia ( SUF) (super duper terror) + (symptom) = (xxx- phobia)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
uncommon "X" ON TOP HEART scary
Hint
Radical
X is a rare letter, but if it makes your HEART go doki doki, it's scary.
right
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: U
right-wingers are URUsai! Whatever Naruto says with his mouth is always right.
KUNYOMI:
right
JUKUGO:
( )
right side ( KUNKUN ) (right) + (side of something) = (right side )
( )
turn right
( ) ( )
right-handed (right) + (handy) = (right-handed )
right wing :pro- LDP, pro-emperor, anti-union, pro-yakuza, anti-article-9. anti-thewhole -macarthur-fuckin-wrote-it-anyway constitution. Not necessarily anti - western. After all, the USA is the main ally in the fight against the Red Menace. It's easy for Americans to say, 'communism is dead, get over it,' but we're not the ones living next door to fuckin' Kim Jong Il. ( NEO ) (right) + (political wing) = (right wing)
right rock
Radical
has a HORN sticking up on top no horn - flat on top
The right-winger gets HORNY, but the rock is FLAT so you can sit on it.
USED IN:
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left
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: SA I SAW him turn left.
(craft or industry)
Naruto left his girlfriend because she was too crafty. KUNYOMI:
left JUKUGO:
( )
left side ( KUNKUN ) (left) + (side of something) = (left side)
( ) ( )
turn left (left) + (song / turn or bend) = (turn left)
left wing: pro-union, pro-article 9,anti-national-anthem, anti -LDP ( NEO ) (left) + (political wing) = (left wing)
USED IN:
young
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(right)
The right flower is a young flower. Old flowers are already wilted, so they're not right for this occasion.
*
young JUKUGO:
( )
young person - example of the kunyomi () suffix ( KUNKUN ) (young) + (professional) = (young person)
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( )
somewhat (young) + (dry out) = (somewhat)
exist
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: YUU
(moon/organ)
How about YOU? Do you exist? Does Naruto exist as the sum of his organs, or does he have a soul which can not be explained by science? DESCRIPTION: DUPE, but you don't have to worry about it because generally both kanji are written as hiragana.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to exist (KANA)
( ) ( )
famous (exist) + (name, famous) = (famous)
shared / communal / jointly owned things. (with) + (exist) = (jointly owned)
( ) ( ) ( )
the owner of something. (; to own) (area / attribute) + (exist) + (professional) = (owner)
toxic, poisonous (exist) + (poison/ addict) = (toxic, poisonous)
useful or beneficial, (a policy beneficial to the State /it was a useful experience (a learning experience)) ( NP ) (exist) + (profit) = (beneficial)
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USED IN:
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corrupt
(town) +
ONYOMI: DA KUNYOMI: ()
DUPE
(exist) + (earth)
My DAD lives in a corrupt town which exists on yonder ground.
fall into moral ruin (become a junkie, get all caught up in a cult or gambling debts, etc.)
JUKUGO:
( )
corrupt in one's personal life - not usually political corruption. Drugs, lies, trife behavior. (corrupt) + (fall,drop) = (corrupt)
bribe / provide capital to

Number: 1114
13 strokes
(shellfish/money) + (exist)
ONYOMI: WAI KUNYOMI:
It's WILD how much bribe money exists in the government!
*
JUKUGO:
to cover the costs of some expenditure. To provide capital for a task (NP)
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( )
bribe
be real
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: ZAI JUKUGO:
(earth)
Naruto thought that XYLOPHONES were really made of earth.
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( )
to exist (be aware of) + (be real) = (to exist)
( )
the present time - but also can mean "the present situation" or "the staus quo." (present time) + (be real) = (the present time)
be aware of
(Naruto) +
ONYOMI: SON Naruto was aware of his SON, a child. JUKUGO:
(child)
( ) ( )
to exist (be aware of) + (be real) = (to exist)
to depend on- usually in a bad way, like "America's dependency on foreign oil" ( NP ) (depend on) + (be aware of) = (depend)
( )
conserve (natural resources, the environment, traditional morals, our dwindling fuel supply, etc.) - political conservatives are () (guarantee/maintain ) + (be aware of) = (conserve)
XXX ( XXX)
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the existing XXX (already) + (be aware of) = (the existing XXX)
fragment
ONYOMI: HEN
Number: 1117 4 strokes PK, STRONG
This, to me, looks like a dude facing right, down on one knee, holding out a fancy tray, on which is placed a FRAGMENT OF A HEN (usually the beak, sometimes just the giblets).
685
KUNYOMI:
fragment (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
or XXX ( or XXX) ( )
to do xxx one-handed. ( KUNKUN ) (fragment) + (hand) = (one-handed)
we say "He speaks broken English".Japanese say, "He speaks katakoto nihongo." ( KUNKUN , FP ) (fragment) + (say) = (broken english / Japanese)
( )
fragment (rend) + (fragment) = (fragment)
( )
katakana - the letterforms which are used to write foreign words and indicate emphasis. Oddly, the word "katakana" is written in Kanji. Kind of defeats the purpose? (fragment) + katakana, okurigana, furigana, oshirigana, nurenuregana, bakana, and whatever they think up next!) = (katakana)
USED IN:
printing plate
ONYOMI: HAN
(fragment) + (anti) (Same-ON)

HAN Solo liked printing slash fiction of himself and Chewbacca. To print, you press fragments of lead against the printing plate, to smoosh the ink onto it in the form of letters. DESCRIPTION: WHY YOU SHOULD BOTHER: You can't say "When was the book published?" or ask, "Who is the publisher of that book?" without .
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
publish (pull out / hand over) + (printing plate) = (publish)
publishing company (publish) + (company) = (publishing company)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
printing plate FRAGMENT SWORD print
Hint
Radical
They don't look alike but the meanings are so similar it is hard for me, at least, to tell them apart. The publishers use FRAGMENTS, think of the moveable lead type that printers used to use. But you print a true-crime book about a CORPSE killed with a DAGGER AND SWORD.
Number: 1119
(right radical)
crows
(nest) +
(friend) + (one/line radical)
DESCRIPTION: The crows in the nest are friends with each other.
USED IN:
warm place
(sun, day) +
ONYOMI: DAN
(crows)
Glen DANzig is bound for a really warm place when he dies. The sun shines on the crows in the warm place KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
warm place or weather - use this one when you come in from the cold. Often shortened to ! (1/2 KANA)
( )
heating : central heating, electric heater, an air-conditioner set to "heat," etc.

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(warm place) + (wife/cluster) = (heating)

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assist
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: EN
(crows)
Believe it or not, I ENJOY assisting you guys learn kanji ! Use your hand to assist the crow back into her nest JUKUGO:
( )
to compensate someone for a favor they have done you, to aid someone with money or material things. When high schools date salarimen for money, it's enjo kousai.( ) (assist) + (save) = (to assist)
( )
support - usually used with support groups like "adult children of alcoholics" or "a heartwarming show of support for a city which has had a natural disaster". It's not limited to victims but it has that sort of nuance to it. ( NP ) (support) + (assist) = (support)
( )
to cheer for or root for someone at a game. ( KANA) (react) + (assist) = (cheeer on)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
brandish / pretend
PAYBACK
HAND assist become loose / abate STRING
He's brandishing a firearm to with which to dish out some PAYBACK, I use my HAND to assist a bird in building a nest. STRING becomes loose.
become loose / abate

Number: 1122
688
15 strokes SOLO
(string) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(crows)
I tied a string around a crow's neck but it got loose, and then it got loose.
loose (KANA)
( or ) something comes loose (a string) or a situation becomes more calm or relaxed. (KANA)
* ( )
()
mild, low-intensity (i.e. this hill has a mild slope. Low-intensity exercise.We'll cross the river at the point where the current is the most mild.)
loosen to relax, to slow down, to stop being a dick about it (KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
brandish / pretend
Hint
Radical
PAYBACK
Number: 1123 PK
(right radical)
hair
DESCRIPTION: 3 hairs, blowing in the wind.
USED IN:
hair
ONYOMI: HATSU
(long / boss) +
You wear a HAT over your hair.
(hair) +
(friend)
Your long hair is like an old friend. KUNYOMI:

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hair on your head
JUKUGO:
( )
blonde (gold) + (hair) = (blonde)
( )
one single hair from a human head (as opposed to pubes), (i.e. there's a hair on the floor/ cloggin' the damn drain?) (hair) + (fur) = (head hair)
( ) ( )
hairstyle ( KUNKUN ) (hair) + (type / proper way) = (hairstyle)
gray hair ( FP ) (white) + (hair) = (gray hair)

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hue
(nest) +
ONYOMI: SAI
(tree) +
(hair)
I SIGH when I think of the hue of her hair. DAMN YOU RESTRAINING order!! The blonde hair of Meg Ryan reminds me of the hue of a hay nest way up in yonder tree. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to color something in; to show something off- always figuratively: 'The setting sun painted the sky orange' 'The festival showcases the unique atmosphere of the town.'
- zero stars! -
( )
- zero stars! -
color, in the abstract sense : color palette, color wheel, color blindness. (color) + (hue) = (color)
hue
Radical
shadow SUN
NEST
The NEST has a brown hue,

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But the SUN makes shade for me and you.
shadow
(scene) +
ONYOMI: EI
(hair)
Fonzie's trademark "EYYYY!" demonstrates that he is as cool as a shadow on a hot day We stood in the shadow of Rapunzel's enormous hair and watched the scenery. KUNYOMI:
shadow, literally
JUKUGO:
( )
a photoshoot or movie shoot. (photo-shoot) + (shadow) = (a photoshoot or movie shoot.)
( )
influence (You don't say "x influences Y," you have to say "Y recieves X's influence." (YYYXXX) (shadow) + (echo) = (influence)
hue
Radical
shadow SUN
NEST
The NEST has a brown hue, But the SUN makes shade for me and you.
shady
Meaning
Hint
Radical
TOWN
shadow HAIR
That part of TOWN is shady so don't go there. Your HAIR casts a shadow on your face.
face
(stand up) + (cliff) +
(hair) +
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ONYOMI: You stand on a cliff, the hair from your head blowing into your face. DESCRIPTION: This is an odd kanji because, although it has a bunch of jukugo, it uses the KUN in all of them!
KUNYOMI:
face
JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
"She made a sour face" = sour "He made a mad face"= mad
( )
smiling face ( FP ) (laugh) + (face) = (smiling face)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! Hint
portrait ( KUNKUN ) (resemble) + (face) + (picture) = (portrait)
face in profile ( KUNKUN ) (side / arrogant) + (face) = (face in profile)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
face
head
BEAN HAIR
Radical

admit defeat / visit

(moocow) + (big) +
ONYOMI: SAN
(hair)
SANTA visits a moocow with big hair. (He shaves it for his false beard)
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KUNYOMI:
( or ) When you say !! it means, to say uncle, or !No mas! (Confusingly, it can also mean 'I'm fed up!' 'Fuck this, I'm outta here.') However, there's another meaning: to visit an important place. (luckily, this JERK meaning is very formal and almost never used anymore) What is really fucked up is, usually when a word has 2 meanings, you can tell which meaning it is by the particle. But with MAIRU, both meanings use NI. (1/2 KANA, NP) JUKUGO:
( )
to join a group, or participate in something (admit defeat / visit) + (add) = (join)
( )
surrender (descend /rainfall / get out of vehicle ) + (admit defeat / visit) = (surrender)
( )
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go to a temple to pray ( NP ) (admit defeat / visit) + (worship) = (go to a temple to pray)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
PERSON master a skill admit defeat / visit MOOCOW HEART wretched
Hint
Radical
The PERSON is a master at making shoes, but the MOOCOW defeats you. The wretched HEART is singing the blues.
USED IN:
master a skill
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(director) +
(hair) +
(one/line radical)
Gene Simmons is a master of walking in high-heel SHOES. next to is a single vertical line, which let's think of as "a straight razor" the person is holding. Thus: That person is a master of shaving hair with a straight razor, so they made him the director of the barbershop! JUKUGO:
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( ) ( )
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to fix a thing- (BOOBOO: you don't a car, or a computer, you it) (master a skill) + (reason) = (fix)
study, training (polish, sharpen) + (master a skill) = (study, training )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
wretched
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: SAN, ZAN
(admit defeat / visit)
SANta claus's heart admits defeat when tarZAN breaks up with him (for good this time). He feels wretched!
KUNYOMI:
* ( )
JUKUGO:
pathetic. Unlike the related term (), is a pretty un-sympathetic word you use for some poor schmuck who is in a wretched state but, you know, you couldnt imagine them ever being happy anyway.
( )
a tragedy (BOOBOO: not as in a sad play, but as in someone's sister died while giving birth. A dramatic tragedy is () ) (wretched) + (action/ incident) = (tragedy)
( )
terrible, harrowing, tragic. Usually used not about a single persons misfortune but
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like the tragic cost of war, the terrible catastrophe that befell the small town in Godzillas path, etc. (sad) + (wretched) = ( terrible)
Hint
Radical
bulge
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI: ()
(moon/organ) + (rejoice) +
*
(hair)
My organ bulges and rejoices when I see hair (I'm the editor of EroticBarbershop.com)
swelling - not only of body parts, but of ANYTHING: sails swell in the wind, the universe expands. Often used to describe debt: (1/2 KANA)
Number: 1132
(right radical)
salon
(peaked roof)
(hair) + USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: A salon is a room with a peaked roof where you go to get your weave on and your hair done.
very rare
(king) +
(salon)
695
ONYOMI: CHIN - you don't need this It's very rare for the king to go to a hair salon, so now his hair hangs down past his CHIN. KUNYOMI:
*
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
rare! Unusual. but not necessarily valuable.
diagnose SAY very rare KING
Hint
Radical
I SAY my diagnosis: you got a very rare KING lodged in your proboscis.
diagnose
(say) +
(salon)
ONYOMI: SHIN
Doctor, can you diagnose these SHINY pustules? My diagnosis is, I say you need to get to a hair salon and lose that 'gumby fade'. 'gumby fade' : a style so ill, not even google has it. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to examine a patient (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
diagnosis (=to diagnose) (diagnose) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (diagnosis)
medical exam (diagnose) + (police) = (medical exam)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
diagnose SAY very rare KING
Hint
Radical
I SAY my diagnosis: you got a very rare KING lodged in your proboscis.
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Number: 1135
(left radical)
cave
(cliff) +
(dot)
DESCRIPTION: The dot is actually an elevator taking you down to the cave inside. (Roll 2D4 to determine the number of hobgoblins waiting there)
USED IN:
corridor
(cave) +
ONYOMI: ROU JUKUGO:
(good) +
(town)
All the good ROBOTS have dug a corridor in the cave wall which leads to their town.
( )
corridor ( 1/2 KANA) (corridor) + (below) = (corridor )
to brush
(cave) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(grove) + (rock)
In the cave is a special rock you use to brush your teeth with. It's enchaaaanted.
697
*
JUKUGO:
brush :(almost always used with teeth: ( )
( )
the act of brushing the teeth ('Brush your teeth' = !) ( 1/2 KANA) (tooth) + (to brush) = (brush your teeth!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HAND friction to brush ROCK
Hint
Radical
Your HAND makes friction, as you brush ROCKs looking for gold.
rot
(cave) +
ONYOMI: FU
(stick to) + (meat)
The meat stuck to the floor of that cave 4 years ago is starting to smell FUCKED up. You think it may be rotten?? KUNYOMI: ()
to rotto go bad (like food left out too long)
JUKUGO:
( )
tofu! (bean) + (rot) = (tofu!)
( )
slang term for a lady into BL comics. ( SARC) (rot) + refer to female students as a group: " line up on the left side of the class, (danshi) line up on the right side." BOOBOO: You wouldn't say "She's a joshi." ) = (lady comic book nerd perv.)
react
698
(cave) +
ONYOMI: OU
(heart)
How will you react when you find a human heart on the floor of the cave??? OH shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is how. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
for now, for the time being, (one) + (react) = (for now, for the time being,) a reaction - despite the kanji, is not neccesairly a bad reaction. As a noun, it's value-free. (careful! This is pronounced NOU, not OU) ( FP ) (anti) + (react) = (a reaction )
( )
to cheer for or root for someone at a game. ( KANA) (react) + (assist) = (cheeer on)
government
(cave) +
ONYOMI: FU
(stick to)
I'd like to stick the whole government to the bottom of a deep cave because it is FUCKED. JUKUGO:
( )
government (politics) + (government) = (government)
metropolitan government
Number: 1141
5 strokes BETA, ILL PAIR
(cave) +
ONYOMI: CHOU
(nail) (Same-ON)
Someday we'll take all the city government guys to a cave and nail 'em there. JUKUGO:
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( )
regular uniformed city cops (as opposed to local cops or specialized cops like (, meaning detectives), FBI, etc.) (the fuzz) + (peer at) + (metropolitan government) = (metro police)
( )
metropolitan government (major city) + (metropolitan government) = (metropolitan government)
warehouse
(cave) +
ONYOMI: KO
Number: 1142 10 strokes BETA, DUPE, DUH
(car)
We got a warehouse full of cars and an orphanage full of KODOMOS () We use the cave as a warehouse to keep all our cars in. KUNYOMI:
storehouse
JUKUGO:
( )
( )
a safe (gold) + (warehouse) = (a safe)
shop
(cave) +
ONYOMI: TEN KUNYOMI: ()
(fortune teller/ occupy)
In this cave alone, the fortune teller has TEN shops!!
700
a shop, speaking generally. "I got to go open the shop now." (The speaker can use this no matter what kind of shop it is). JUKUGO:
( )
shop staff (shop) + (clerk) = (shop staff)
( ) ( )
close the store for the day (although people usually say instead!) (close store) + (shop) = (close store)
a branch office (support) + (shop) = (a branch office)
sit
(cave) +
ONYOMI: ZA KUNYOMI: ()
(person) + (earth)
Two people sit on the earth inside a cave. One is ZAcchary.
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sit
JUKUGO:
( )
the kind of traditional Japanese sitting that makes your ankles fall off ( CCW) (correct) + (sit) = (the kind of traditional Japanese sitting that makes your ankles fall off)
floor
(cave) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(tree)
701
This tree was growing on the floor of a cave without sunlight! (FYI it turned out to be a plastic Xmas tree)
the floor
WOOD floor bottom SPECULUM
Radical
The floor is made of WOOD but the SPECULUM probes to the very bottom of the hoo-hoo.
mah jongg / ganja

(cave) +
ONYOMI: MA Two trees stand in a cave playing MAH jongg.
Number: 1146 11 strokes STRONG, JERK, BETA
(tree)
DESCRIPTION: (literally this means "hemp" but 90% of the time, you'll see it on the store-fronts of ma jongg parlors!) The former Japanese Prime Minister's name (Aso) is , which literally means, 'hemp life.' JUKUGO:
( )
mah jongg
( ) ( )
USED IN:
anesthesia (mah jongg / ganja) + (drunk) = (anesthesia)
hemp (big) + (mah jongg / ganja) = (hemp)

- zero stars! -
friction
ONYOMI: MA JUKUGO:
Number: 1147 15 strokes SIDEKICK, ILL PAIR
(mah jongg / ganja) (Same-ON) + (hand)

Your hand has mad friction from grabbing MAH jongg tiles so much. All whapping them down on the table like Doughboy yelling, "DomiNO, motherfucker!!"
702
( )
friction (friction) + (chafe) = (friction)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HAND friction to brush ROCK
Hint
Radical
Your HAND makes friction, as you brush ROCKs looking for gold.
wide
(cave) +
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 1148 5 strokes PN, ILL PAIR, DUPE
(moocow)
Your mom's COLON is like a cave- so wide it can even accommodate a whole moocow. ohhhh shiiii-- you just got served!! !
*
()
KUNYOMI:
wide, spacious (can be used about interiors but also outside spaces)
to spread or widen (to spread a blanket on a bed, to widen a street, open one's arms). Like the related term (), but is only in 2 dimensions, I guess.
JUKUGO:
( )
an advertisement - although nowadays people use the Japlish word (CM, short for 'commercial.') (wide) + (inform) = (advertisement)
( )
Hiroshima. ( KUNKUN ) (wide) + (island) = (Hiroshima.)
USED IN:
enlarge
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
Number: 1149 8 strokes ???, ILL PAIR, DUPE
(wide)
703
Use your hands to enlarge the opening, widen it, and then stick some COCKS in it. Oh my god that is not family-oriented. DESCRIPTION: how is this different from ?? KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to spread or widen (to spread a blanket on a bed, to widen a street, open one's arms). Like the related term (), but is only in 2 dimensions, I guess. (???)
( ) ( )
to extend or physically enlarge a thing (an extended family, enlarge the factory). (enlarge) + (stretch) = (enlarge)
Literally it means to zoom in on or magnify. Figuratively it means to escalate (a conflict) or scale-up (a buildup of some sort) (enlarge) + (big) = (zoom in / escalate)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Buddha
PERSON
Hint
Radical
Buddha is a PERSON. I myself cut the WHEAT. You enlarge something by making it WIDER. I use my HAND to pay.
Number: 1150
(mole radical)
mole
(bunny ears)
(cave) + USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: A mole is like a bunny that never leaves the darkness of a cave.
populist
704
(mole) +
ONYOMI: SHO
(firebottom)
If a mole dies in a fire,the populace Smells His Odor. JUKUGO:
( )
the common people, Joe Lunchpail (populist) + (folk) = (the common people, Joe Lunchpail)
( )
unpretentious, folksy)
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populist, unpretentious, folksy
seat
(mole) +
ONYOMI: SEKI
SEXY guys like us have to keep daggers under our seats in case horny moles tunnel up from below and try to get our butt.
KUNYOMI:
A public seat - on the bus, or in a theater:Is that seat free? This restaurant seats 28 people. and so on. (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
A kind of formal word for failure to attend, absence. ( F ) (lack) + (seat) = (absent)
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( )
a kind of formal word for attendance (at an event) ( F ) (pull out / hand over) + (seat) = (attendance )
times CROTCH DAGGER seat
Radical
Every time you grab my CROTCH I reach under my seat for a DAGGER.
times
(mole) +
ONYOMI: DO KUNYOMI:
Every time the mole bites my crotch, I yell "DON'T do that!"
( xxx ) ( YYY. ) Every time XXX happens, YYY happens. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
next time (now) + (times) = (next time )
an attitude/manner (defiant, peaceful, etc.) or stance (anti-trade, pro-shinto, anticorporate). When it comes to the first meaning, is something you can tell just by looking at the person - they might not be doing it intentionally. (looks like) + (times) = (attitude/ stance)
( ) ( )
exactly, precisely. Just right. ( 1/2 KANA) (nail) + (times) = (just right)
a degree or extent (extent) + (times) = (a degree or extent)
times CROTCH DAGGER seat
Radical
706
Every time you grab my CROTCH I reach under my seat for a DAGGER.
USED IN:
pass by
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: TO KUNYOMI: () ()
(times)
I Took Off running past the water a number of times.
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to pass an object to someone (like, 'Pass the peas')
to go past something
Number: 1155 SYMBOLIC
(top radical)
villain
(rice field) + (dot)

DESCRIPTION: Let's think of the dot as a gob of phlegm, shall we? Thus: That villain spit a gob of phlegm in my rice field!!
USED IN:
demon
(villain) +
ONYOMI: KI KEEP me away from that demon.
(human legs) +
(moocow)
The demon is a villain with the horns of a moo-cow and the legs of a human.
707
DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC- most kanji with this mean something occult or magical. KUNYOMI:
demon. (the red guys with kabuki wigs and horns)
JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
devil
ONYOMI: MA JUKUGO:
(mah jongg / ganja) (Same-ON) + (demon)

Devils always beat demons at MA Jongg
( )
to interrupt. Often heard in the phrase: !('May I come in?') Used with co-workers or friends who are busy. Not used when you go to a store or someone's house. ( 1/2 KANA) (heresy) + (devil) = (interrupt)
( )
I am The Devil, do you understand?!? (used only for the Christian devil, not
native Japanese demons,which are ) (bad) + (devil) = (devil)
( ) ( )
witch
witchcraft - Applies to anything - flying, shooting lightning, turning dudes into trout. (devil) + (law) = (witchcraft )
708
(devil) + (woman) = (witch)
enchant
ONYOMI: MI JUKUGO:
(demon) + (not yet) (Same-ON)

The demon has not yet enchanted me (I made my saving throw!!)
( ) or ( or )
a captivating, charming, glamorous person (not used about movies or artworks) (enchant) + (strong) = (alluring)
a lure or fascination - in the old sense of fascination (i.e. sirens luring sailors to their doom.) (enchant) + (be misguided or tempted) = (lure or fascination)
ugly
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(west) + (demon)
Western demons are ugly!! Ha ha it is so racist! To anyone who thinks this dictionary is not PC, well, sorry!Blame the Chinese!
*
JUKUGO:
the type of stick that hit your Moms way back when.
( )
hideous - more literary and more extreme than the related word (). Also - unlike , is more often used figuratively to mean 'scandalous' : an ugly divorce, a scandalous rift between political factions. ( NP ) (ugly) + (bad) = (hideous, scandalous)
- zero stars! -
709
clump
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(earth) + (demon)
Every time I clean my room, some little demon puts little clumps of dirt all over the floor. Not MY fault!
JUKUGO:
lit:clump, cluster. Also used figuratively to describe someone's personality : a greedy guy is 'a clump of greed.' (SARC)
( )
- zero stars! -
katamari damacy! (clump) + (soul) = (katamari damacy!)
despicable
(villain) +
ONYOMI: HI
(numeral4)
HE's such a despicable villain, he spit in 4 of my rice fields!! KUNYOMI:
* *
JUKUGO:
- zero stars! -
foul, trifling,low, despicable - not used trivially. Used about child molesters and such.. Often used like this: 'XXX ',where XXX is the thing he's a dick about.
contemptable, despicable (literally, "ought to be despised.") to despise someone. This is where it gets tricky. Only a bully or a dick s someone.i.e. "Ha ha your parents got divorced!" or something. I guess you could say, "Don't or you will become ."
( )
not just a coward ,but someone who does treacherous, trifling bullshit because they're a coward - like if they fight you they know they can't win fairly so they'll knee your groin, they're a motherfucker. (despicable) + (get afeared) = (treacherous coward)
( )
to put yourself down (BOOBOO: only used when talking to others - mumbling "I suck!" to yourself doesn't count for some reason)
710
(despicable) + (below) = (put yourself down)

despicable VILLAIN
ascend dialect
SUN MOOCOW
The SUN ascends every DAY, but the MOOCOW'S dialect is hard to say. the VILLAIN is , of course, despicable.
USED IN:
Number: 1162
mr. /speculum radical

ONYOMI: SHI SHE is a member of the speculum family.
4 strokes PK, ILL PAIR, STRONG, JERK RADICAL
I like to pretend that the family name in question is Speculum" because that is what this mother looks like.
DESCRIPTION: JERK: this is a legit kanji, meaning 'Mr.', BUT as a radical, the keyword is 'speculum.' Although is pronounced SHI, it is STRONG for TEI!!!! JUKUGO:
( )
boyfriend. ( KUNKUN ) (him) + (mr. ) = (boyfriend.)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning 'Mr. XXX ( SUF)
( )
first AND last name. But you wouldn't ever SAY 'What's your shimei?' In conversation, you'd just use () instead. ( NP ) (mr. ) + (name, famous) = (first AND last name. But you wouldn't ever SAY 'What's your shimei?' In conversation, you'd just use () instead. )
711
folk mr.
MOUTH NO MOUTH
Radical
Folk music is sung with the MOUTH. Speculum goes in the hoo-hoo, not the mouth, so the speculum radical doesn't have a mouth.
USED IN:
bottom
(cave) +
ONYOMI: TEI
(mr. /speculum radical) (Same-ON)
TAKE the speculum to the bottom of the cave! (it's got yo Mama's residue on it so we have to bury it before it infects the general populace) KUNYOMI: ()
the bottom
JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX)
to do XXX thoroughly, exhaustively, comprehensively. Plus, isn't that the greatest pronunciation? tetetetetetetetete!!! That's the most wild sound since the past tense of 'warm': (atatakatta) (do thoroughly) + (bottom) + (motivation / '-al') = (to do XXX thoroughly)
( )
- zero stars! -
bottom of the ocean (ocean) + (bottom) = (bottom of the ocean)
WOOD floor bottom SPECULUM
Radical
The floor is made of WOOD but the SPECULUM probes to the very bottom of the hoo-hoo.
paper
712
(string) + (mr. /speculum radical) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: SHI SHE wrote Mr. Speculum a letter on a piece of paper, and sent it to him by pulling a string which connected him. KUNYOMI:
paper
JUKUGO:
( )
letter ( KUNKUN ) (hand) + (paper) = (letter)
( )
origami (fold) + (paper) = (origami)
low
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TEI
TAKE the speculum lower, Doctor - you're looking at my belly button now. The person reached low to pick up the speculum on the ground. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
low (temperature, blood pressure,low voice, low hill)
( ) ( )
dude is kind of short. (stature / small of the back) + (low) = (dude is kind of short.)
the lowest - both in the moral sense of "He's the lowest kind of sexual predator" and in the mathematical sense of "Crime rates are the lowest in 30 years," or "Do this for a minimum of 5 minutes per day." (most) + (low) = (lowest, worst)
low
SPECULUM
Radical
713
short
BEAN
The person reached down low to pick up the SPECULUM, but the ARROW was so short it couldn't penetrate more than halfway into a BEAN
marriage
ONYOMI: KON
(woman) + (mr. /speculum radical) + (sun, day)

CONfound this infernal patriarchal system!!! The woman gets married outdoors under the sun, and from then on she`ll have her husband's family name. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to marry (to be married to xxx-san = xxx ) (bind) + (marriage) = (to marry)
the marriage ceremony (the marriage ceremony)
resist
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TEI JUKUGO:
Her hand resists the speculum as it tries to probe her. TAKE that the hell out of me, she yells!
( )
to resist, used about one person taking on the whole fuckin' system, mannn!: draft resister, resisting arrest, La Resistance. Also, to encounter resistance, resist temptation, and the electric concept of 'resistance' are also included in the meaning. (resist) + (oppose) = (resist)
( )
generally, for the most part, in most cases ( 1/2 KANA)

714
(big) + (resist) = (in most cases)
folk
ONYOMI: MIN JUKUGO:
(mr. /speculum radical) + (mouth/small box radical)

You can think of "folk" as being a bunch of families who all speak with one mouth, one voice. Usually urging the ethnic cleansing of the other folk. Ethnic strife is MEAN!!
( ) ( ) ( )
the people, as in, "The Republicans are the People's party!" (country) + (folk) = (people of a country)
two meanings: 1) ethnic group, 2) folk (as in folk customs, folk music, etc) (folk) + (family) = (ethnic)
citizens of a city (small city) + (folk) = (citizens of a city)
( )
democracy (folk) + (master/mainly) + communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (democracy )
folk mr.
MOUTH NO MOUTH
Radical
Folk music is sung with the MOUTH. Speculum goes in the hoo-hoo, not the mouth, so the speculum radical doesn't have a mouth.
USED IN:
sleepy
ONYOMI: MIN
(eye) + (folk) (Same-ON)

Our 4 year old gets MEAN when he's sleepy.
715
I'm too sleepy to keep an eye on my folks. KUNYOMI:
* *
JUKUGO:
sleepy from being up all day (BOOBOO: not to be confused with being tired from work or exercise, which is )
to sleep
( )
a somewhat medical-sounding word for sleep (BOOBOO: you would never say, " ?" -You gotta say, "?") ( NP ) (sleep) + (sleepy) = (sleep )
( ) ( )
sleeping pill
insomnia (un) + (sleepy) + (symptom) = (insomnia )
song / turn or bend

ONYOMI: KYOKU
Number: 1170 6 strokes JERK, SOLO, PK
it's hard to KEEP YOUR COOL when a Mariah Carey song comes on the radio. I just want to bend the speakers until they break. DESCRIPTION: I guess it looks like a ghetto-blaster with two antennas? Playing songs!!
KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I bend it
JUKUGO:
it bends or curves (the road, the path, the tree-trunk)
a piece of music - a song, if you will (LAZY)
716
( )
USED IN:
turn left (left) + (song / turn or bend) = (turn left)
plentiful
ONYOMI: HOU
(song / turn or bend) + (bean)

HOES are plentiful in this region. If you play a song I will reward you with plentiful magic beans. KUNYOMI:
* ( )
JUKUGO:
abundant - like a rainforest abundant in life or a country's abundant natural resources. You can also use it for a person - he has a lot of education or a wealth of wisdom. (but not used for actual dollars - in that case you'd use (yuufuku))
xxx ( xxx) ( )
abundant, rich in xxx (resources, cows, etc.) (plentiful) + (get rich) = (rich in xxx)
not what it sounds like! Houman means zatfig, voluptuous. This has two meanings: a) a borderline sexual-harassment word used generally about the big titty women. b) a a relatively polite way to describe a chubby woman. Anyway, ABU! ( ABU) (plentiful) + (full) = (voluptuous)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
plentiful SONG rejoice SAMRUAI
Hint
Radical
SONGS ( ) are plentiful, so the SAMURAI rejoices.
classic
ONYOMI: TEN
(song / turn or bend) +
(animal legs)
There are TEN classic songs about animal legs on this wonderful CD.
717
Yeah, I don't get it either. Kids these days and their rock music!!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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typical thing of that type. (classic) + (type / proper way) + (motivation / '-al') = (typical)
classical, like Shakespeare or Bach or Shunga something. (old) + (classic) + (motivation / '-al') = (classical)
something bad
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SOU
chance meeting usually with

(flowertop) +
(song / turn or bend) + (sun, day)
We chanced to meet because we were both moving towards the same flower singing songs under the sun, It was SO romantic times, dogg! KUNYOMI: ()
just like the other 'au' () but only used with sudden and random disasters, such as a car accident, a mugging, etc.
Number: 1174 STRONG
(side radical)
payback
(cliff) +
(two) +
(kick in the nuts)
DESCRIPTION: I kicked him twice in the nuts and he fell off the cliff. Now THAT'S payback. STRONG ONYOMI FOR "SHIN"
USED IN:
Number: 1175
718
farming
ONYOMI: NOU
13 strokes BETA
(song / turn or bend) +
(payback)
NObody wants to be a farmer in this day and age. The farmer sings a song while he picks crops to pay back the landowner. JUKUGO:
( )
farmer (farming) + (home) = (farmer)
( )
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agriculture, farming (farming) + (business) = (agriculture, farming)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
thick / dense LIQUID NO WATER farming
Hint
Radical
The LIQUID coffee was very thick with flavor. The farmer grew a nice crop of rocks with NO WATER.
USED IN:
thick / dense
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: NOU
(farming) (Same-ON)
NO way will I drink coffee unless it is dense! All Malcolm X style - no cream, no sugar. The farmer only drinks dense coffee liquid to get him through the hard workday starting at 5 AM.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
thick or dense, like a dense fog or really strong coffee. (1/2 KANA)
( )
density or concentration (thick / dense) + (times) = (density)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
thick / dense LIQUID
Hint
Radical
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farming
NO WATER
The LIQUID coffee was very thick with flavor. The farmer grew a nice crop of rocks with NO WATER.
humiliate
(payback) +
ONYOMI: JOKU KUNYOMI:
(glueglue)
In payback for the humiliation of your JOKE at my expense, I'll glue your ass shut.
*
JUKUGO:
to humiliate someone
( )
to insult (to be insulted : ()) (despise) + (humiliate) = (insult)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MOUTH lips humiliate GLUE
Hint
Radical
Your lips are on your MOUTH, but humiliation sticks to you like GLUE.
pregnancy
(woman) +
ONYOMI: SHIN Pregnant women SHINE with fecundity.
(payback) (Same-ON)
Pregnancy is God's payback for women ever since Eve ate the apple. Don't blame me, it's in the Bible!! JUKUGO:
( )
pregnant (pregnant) + (pregnancy) = (pregnant)
720
brandish / pretend
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SHIN KUNYOMI: () ()
Number: 1179 10 strokes JERK, ILL PAIR
(payback) (Same-ON)
I brandish a SHINY sword in my hand, about to do some payback on these pretentious suckas.
to brandish or wave something around
*
to be dumped
( xxx ) ( ) to pretend to be something you're not. (1/2 KANA) JUKUGO:
( )
a gesture, conscious or not - a motion of any part of the body - from flipping someone off to waving to shaking one's booty. ((one's own) flesh) + (brandish / pretend) = (gesture)
( )
to pretend you don't know what I am talking about, to feign innocence ( 1/2 KANA) (know) + (brandish / pretend) = (feign innocence )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
brandish / pretend
Hint
Radical
PAYBACK
lips
(payback) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI:

721
I punch you in the lips and mouth as payback for your smart-mouthing me.
KUNYOMI:
lips JUKUGO:
( )
labia : () and (), as one would expect) ( ABU, NP ) (shady) + (lips) = (labia)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MOUTH lips humiliate GLUE
Hint
Radical
Your lips are on your MOUTH, but humiliation sticks to you like GLUE.
Number: 1181
(top radical)
teepee
(peaked roof)
DESCRIPTION: . . . because it's a peaked roof which is decorated festively
USED IN:
climb
(teepee) +
(bean)
If you climb to the top of my teepee on tipTOE, you will find a magic bean .
climb only used with mountains, cliffs and ladders.
JUKUGO:
( )
to enter the stage - literally (making one's first appearance in a given movie or tv show) or figuratively ( by making a debut in show biz) (climb) + (place) = (enter the stage)
( )
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mountain-climbing. (verb form: ) (mountain) + (climb) = (mountain climbing)
festival
(teepee) +
ONYOMI: SAI
I SIGH as I leave the festival. MOMMM! Can't we stay five more minutes?!??? At the Native American festival they showed hella teepees. KUNYOMI:
*
festival
USED IN:
edge
(town) +
ONYOMI: SAI KUNYOMI:
(festival) (Same-ON)
The festival of SIGHs is on the edge of town, over there.
( xxx ) SUFFIX attatched to a place or thing , meaning 'close to' or 'on the border or edge of' something- usually used with locations: 'I'm standing on the edge of the ocean, where it meets the shore.' It is pronounced GIWA. (SUF) JUKUGO:
( )
in fact. (as in, 'You think you're Samoan, but in fact, you're adopted.') Also has the nuance of 'in practice', as opposed to 'in theory.' (truth) + (edge) = (in fact)
xxx
"at the time of XXX, do YYY" .. . As in, 'As long as you're going to the kitchen, get me some pretzels, you crazy broad.'
YYY (xxx YYY)
Radical
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edge
police
(crown) +
ONYOMI: SATSU KUNYOMI:
(festival)
I SAW TWO police at the festival, wearing crowns.
*
JUKUGO:
CULTURAL CODE WORD. To infer the feelings of other people (usually in the sense of being a good host or sentitive friend) (as opposed to , which refers to actually physically doing something for that person, based on what you ed!). (CCW)
( ) ( )
police ( NP ) (the fuzz) + (police) = (police) to guess or speculate about the meaning of someone's behavior or words. is only used when you have no real proof. (infer) + (police) = (guess or speculate )
edge
Radical
USED IN:
Number: 1186
724
chafe
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SATSU KUNYOMI: ()
17 strokes
(police) (Same-ON)
I SAW TWO hands chafing against my butt, and called the police!
to rub, to wear out, to lose one's naivety.
JUKUGO:
( )
friction (friction) + (chafe) = (friction)
edge
Radical
Number: 1187 PK
(open radical)
open
DESCRIPTION: This should be easy to remember if you look at the kanji for 'closed' and 'open': You can almost see the left-side line of sliding over and, er, opening up, to transform into the kanji for open.
USED IN:
open
(gate) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(open)
725
A KITE flies through the open gate. KUNYOMI: () () ()
* *
I open something (door, envelope)
to get opened - the automatic doors swung open
hold a party or call a meeting. Open the way for something to happen.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
emancipate, let loose (open) + (release) = (emancipate, let loose )
open to the public (public) + (open) = (open to the public)
a store opening for the day (open) + (launch) = (store opens)
launch
(teepee) +
ONYOMI: HATSU
(open)
Welcome to the launch and opening of my new teepee business! We also sell lots of hot HATS!!! JUKUGO:
( )
pronunciation of a word (launch) + (sound) = (pronunciation of a word)
( )
discovery (ray gun, water on Mars, kind of thing) (launch) + (look) = (discovery)
( )
announcement (launch) + (express) = (announcement)
( )
explosion
726
(explode) + (launch) = (explosion)
( )
a living thing or baby develops. (launch) + (plural/delivery) = (biological development)
( )
USED IN:
a store opening for the day (open) + (launch) = (store opens)
wane
(cave) +
ONYOMI: HAI KUNYOMI: ()
(launch)
is MC Hammer's career on the wane since he was launched deep into that cave? HAI!
to become obsolete or go out of fashion
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
abolish (slavery, alcohol, heroin) ( NP ) (wane) + (stop) = (abolish )
dispose of - usually used of specialized garbage: medical waste or nuclear boogers or whatever. ( NP ) (wane) + (discard) = (annul)
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form
(open) +
ONYOMI: KEI
(hair)
Your open palms have the form of hair. You have been masturbating!!!! It's OKAY to masturbate once in a while, but don't get ass-crazy with it because Jesus is watching. (and if He likes what He sees, then when you die, Jesus will put you to work in the 25 cent booth. Oh deeyammn. )
727
DESCRIPTION: the OTHER kata () is the figurative one , meaning 'proper way to do'. This kata just means a literal form or shape. KUNYOMI:
body JUKUGO:
form. Literally the shape of something (unlike the other ()you can use regardless of if that thing is unique or very conventional).
( ) ( )
adjective (form) + (appearance) + (part of speech) = (adjective)
doll ( FP ) (person) + (form) = (doll)
( )
grammar.)
the command form of Japanese grammar.
( ) ( )
triangle (triangle) + (form) = (triangle)
plastic surgery (arrange) + (form) = (plastic surgery)
polish, sharpen
(rock) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(open)
KENNY polished his rock with an open hand (holding a chemise cloth)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to grind or hone - usually a knife. But sometimes you can hone a skill, just like in English.
( )
research
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(polish, sharpen) + (research) = (research)
( )
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study, training (polish, sharpen) + (master a skill) = (study, training )
penalty
(open) +
ONYOMI: KEI
(rightsword)
OK, I will pay the penalty (if it will put an end to your giant-ass lecture about irresponsibility and morals) The death penalty is when they open up your whole torso with a sword. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
USED IN:
jail/prison (penalty) + (perform a task) + (area / attribute) = (jail/prison)
death penalty (death) + (penalty) = (death penalty)
type / proper way

(penalty) (Same-ON) + (earth)
ONYOMI: KEI If it's done the proper way, it's OK The earth pays the penalty for our type of pollution.
Number: 1194 9 strokes CCW, DUPE
DESCRIPTION: This is one of those critical cultural code words. Kata refers to the proper way of doing things, which is why Japanese kids imitate their idols exactly, why you have old guys obsessed with collecting EVERY skate/thrash 7" from 1984 regardless of if it's any good.
KUNYOMI:
2 meanings: model and type. Model, as in clay/plaster mold, or cookie-cutter stamp, or (figuratively) as in a social convention or conformity. ('this book is too cliche, it just follows all the rules of the style!'). Type as in blood type, or "new type" (i.e. this year's model of crime-fighting robot). (CCW)
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JUKUGO:
( )
( ) ( )
typical thing of that type. (classic) + (type / proper way) + (motivation / '-al') = (typical)
a model (this is literal! Model, like a snap-tite model car or model train) (model) + (type / proper way) = (plastic model)
noon
ONYOMI: GO
(dry out) + (one/line radical)

Get Out of my house by noon! Let's call the single line (upper left corner) a left sock. Thus: Every NOON, I hang my left sock out to dry. JUKUGO:
( )
pm (noon) + (afterwards / behind) = (pm)
( )
AM , before noon. (noon) + (before) = (AM)
cow noon
Radical
HEAD NO HEAD
The cow has a head that sticks up in the middle. Noon does not have a head because it is an abstract concept, not a physical animal with four nipples. I had to google that. This is my job.
USED IN:
730
allow
ONYOMI: KYO
(say) + (noon)
Keep Your Opinions to yourself until I allow you to say them at noon. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to forgive / allow
( )
permission (allow) + (possible) = (permission) an exemption from something, or a license to do something. (i.e. driver's license: ( ) (exemption / license) + (allow) = (license)
( )
Radical
cow
(noon)
ONYOMI: GYUU
GYUU is the Japanese sound-effect for hugging. Picture the farmer hugging the cow's nipples to make the milk come out. Cow is basically noon () plus a little head sticking up on top: Here's how to remember the difference: The cow has a head that sticks up in the middle. Noon does not have a head because it is an abstract concept, not a physical animal with 8 nipples.
KUNYOMI:
cow
JUKUGO:
731
( ) ( )
cow's milk (cow) + (milk) = (cow's milk)
beef (cow) + (meat) = (beef)
cow noon
Radical
HEAD NO HEAD
The cow has a head that sticks up in the middle. Noon does not have a head because it is an abstract concept, not a physical animal with four nipples. I had to google that. This is my job.
USED IN:
incident
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KEN JUKUGO:
(cow)
Did you see the incident where the person KENNY got gay married to a cow and now America is totally over?
( ) ( )
condition, as in, "You gotta be Japanese to come in this club? Are you jokin'??"" (clause) + (incident) = (condition)
incident, as in crime or accident. Something you gotta fill out a report if you were a witness. (action/ incident) + (incident) = (incident)
special
ONYOMI: TOKU
(cow) + (temple)
There is a special sacred cow at the temple, Why is it special? It can TOKE real hard on some kind bud. The cow is so freaking wasted man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
732
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
especially
special (special) + (separate) = (special )
( )
one's specialty (special) + (technique) = (one's specialty)
sacrificial victim
(cow) + (life / birth)
ONYOMI: SEI JUKUGO:
When you sacrifice the life of the cow, remember to SAY a prayer.
( )
a sacrifice - not only religion. You can sacrifice your happiness for someone else. If a bunch of people die in a train wreck, you can use (sacrifice) + (sacrificial victim) = (a sacrifice)
( )
a victim, a martyr else. If a bunch of people die in a train wreck, you can use ) + (professional) = ( martyr)
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sacrifice
ONYOMI: GI
(cow) + (righteousness) (Same-ON)

If it pleases the gods, it is righteous to sacrifice a cow! DESCRIPTION: You like how this kanji and the previous kanji mean the same thing? And use the same left radical? And are only ever used in the same one word? What a waste!
733
If I was you, I'd just study the word and forget about studying the individual kanji. Sort of reminds you of , doesn't it? Two kanji with the same left- radical that are only used in conjunction with one another. JUKUGO:
( )
a sacrifice - not only religion. You can sacrifice your happiness for someone else. If a bunch of people die in a train wreck, you can use (sacrifice) + (sacrificial victim) = (a sacrifice)
( )
a victim, a martyr else. If a bunch of people die in a train wreck, you can use ) + (professional) = ( martyr)
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solve / untie
ONYOMI: KAI KUNYOMI: ()
Number: 1202 13 strokes BETA, DUPE
(horn/corner) + (sword) + (cow)

The cow got its horn all tangled up in rope from that damned KITE again. Use your sword to "untie" the knot.
I untie or solve something
( or ) to come loose, to be solved. JUKUGO:
( )
solution (solve / untie) + (decide) = (solution)
( ) ( )
comprehend, understand. (reason) + (solve / untie) = (comprehend, understand.)
correct answer (correct) + (solve / untie) = (correct answer)
( )
an interpretation. Not like interpreters at the U.N., but like "What is your interpretation of this painting, Mr. Art Critic????"
734
Number: 1203 PK
(right radical)
thing
DESCRIPTION: This radical is mainly used in the 'animal' kanji () So, if you need a mnemonic - picture it as a ribcage. . .which is a thing.
USED IN:
animal / thing
(cow) +
(thing)
ONYOMI: BUTSU / MOTSU A cow has a ribcage, therefore it is an animal.
I refuse to knock BOOTS with MOST animals. Even your mom.
DESCRIPTION: This is one of the most useful kanji. But it's also one of the most disgraceful kanji when it comes to using KUNyomi in random jukugo. Like 50% of the time it'll use MONO instead of the onyomi. And even when it DOES use the onyomi, there's two onyomi which are ALSO used randomly. Fuck! On the good side, however, most of the jukugo are so common that you'll pick them up in no time.
KUNYOMI:
thing
JUKUGO:
( )
animal (movement) + (animal / thing) = (animal)
( ) ( )
shopping (buy) + (animal / thing) = (shopping)
plant (plant) + (animal / thing) = (plant)

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( )
luggage or belongings. Also, cargo (if you're a ship's captain). Also, emotional baggage, or a metaphorical burden ( FP ) (luggage) + (animal / thing) = (luggage)
( )
kimono. ( KUNKUN ) (wear / arrive) + (animal / thing) = (kimono. )
( )
a character in a book, play, novel, movie, etc.
tv show) or figuratively ( by making a debut in show biz)) + (person) + (animal / thing) = (character)
( )
the real thing, not a counterfeit. ( KUNKUN ) (book / the real) + (animal / thing) = (the real thing, not a counterfeit.)
( ) ( )
museum (museum /extensive) + (animal / thing) + (big hall) = (museum)
taboo or forbidden thing (prohibition) + (animal / thing) = (taboo or forbidden thing )
to fall in love with

(leftheart) +
ONYOMI:
(thing) +
(bottomheart)
Two hearts fall in love with the same thing: a typical love triangle. KUNYOMI: ()
to fall in love with - unlike (ai) or (renai), is more often used to describe a one-sided affection - first you and if you're lucky the other person likes you back, and THEN you get your If you know what I mean. (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
love at first sight ( KANA) (one) + (eye) + (to fall in love with) = (love at first sight)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
pleasure
Hint
Radical
BUTCHER
to fall in love with RIBCAGE

It gives the BUTCHER pleasure to fall in love with a ANIMAL RIBCAGE.
easy
ONYOMI: EKI, I
(sun, day) +
(thing)
I went to the EKI () easily because I had a map. The sun is an easy thing to see. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
easy,simple to do. (BOOBOO: don't mix it up with the other 'yasashii' (), which means kindhearted) (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
easily (appearance) + (easy) = (easily)
international trading -imports and exports. (of merchandise, NOT stocks / finance) (international trading) + (easy) = (international trade)
USED IN:
hot water
(waterleft) +
(easy)
It's easy to burn your TOE if you spill hot water.
hot water
JUKUGO:
737
( ) ( )
boiling water (hot thing / fever) + (hot water) = (boiling water)
public bath (coin) + (hot water) = (public bath)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hot water THING thirsty HEEL
Hint
Radical
Hot water is a THING you want to soak in if your HEELS are parched.
hoist / deep fat fry

(handleft) +
ONYOMI: YOU
Number: 1208 12 strokes DUPE, JERK, SOLO
(easy)
It's easy to deep fat-fry if you use your hands. More difficult: doing it while YODELING. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
This is one of the more weird words. . . You don't use this for 'raise your hand' or 'raise a barbell over your head.' You use this for hoisting a flag, deep-frying tempura, and honestly that's about it. How's that for random?
()
something is hoisted
sun
(town) +
ONYOMI: YOU JUKUGO:
(easy)
It's easy to see the sun from this part of town.
( )
the fucking sun! (fat) + (sun) = (the fucking sun!)

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( )
solar system (the fucking sun!) + (group, tribe) = (solar system)
wound
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(rifle) +
(easy)
I know it's only our first date, but would you mind if I SHOWed you my wound? It's easy to wound a person with a damn rifle, son.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
damage to one's body. Broken bones and such (visible or not).
to damage (smoking meth damages your teeth ; the fungus damages the crops)
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( )
to get one's feelings hurt, but also to actually get banged up
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
to hurt someone, or hurt someone's feelings
wound entrails
PERSON ORGAN
Hint
Radical
complicated or compound DUCKY return or re-do

The PERSON has a wound, in the ORGAN of her entrails. The DUCKY wrote a physics paper which was too complicated, so we have to GO back and redo it.
GO
place
Number: 1211 12 strokes PN, SUF, BETA, COCK

739
(earth) + (easy)
ONYOMI: JOU It's easy for JOE Stalin to take over all places on the earth with his legions of fanatics. DESCRIPTION:This is a COCK because - in jukugos - it uses the KUN and ON pronunciations pretty much randomly. So not only do you not know how to pronounce the words, you also don't know how to look them up in the damn dictionary. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) SUFFIX! xxx means 'the place where we do XXX' (i.e. graveyard is 'grave-, slaughter house is 'slaughter ' and so on) Unlike the related kanji , emphasizes the activity rather than the location. (SUF) JUKUGO:
xxx (xxx ) in the case of XXX ( KUNKUN ) (place) + (to suit) = (in the case of XXX)
( )
place, like a parking lot. Also space, as in, your moms can't ride in my new van because there's not enough space. This is by far the most popular word to use these kanji, so it's too bad the pronunciation is messed up: uses kun, but uses onyomi. Assholes. ( KUN ON) (place) + (area / attribute) = (place)
( )
a character in a book, play, novel, movie, etc.
tv show) or figuratively ( by making a debut in show biz)) + (person) + (animal / thing) = (character)
( ) ( )
the current place. (this one is used on the 'YOU ARE HERE' part of maps) ( KUN ON) (present time) + (place) = (the current place)
point of view, usually used like: XXX(from XXX's point of view. . . ) ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (stand up) + (place) = (point of view)
Number: 1212
(top radical)
bait
740
(fishhook) +
DESCRIPTION: Let's break with tradition, and call the box a little square worm (), impaled neatly in the middle by the hook.
USED IN:
color
(bait) +
(one/line radical)
ONYOMI: SHIKI, SHOKU SHE KEEPS wearing the most SHOCking colors. bait worm PLUS a curved line. . . Imagine that that line is the smile of a fish, ensnared by the bright colors of the bait worm. DESCRIPTION: This guy sucks. In jukugo, it uses the kunyomi half the time, and even when it DOES use the onyomi like it's supposed to, it has TWO onyomi which are used half the time randomly. Jesus. The only hint I can give you is this: in the NAMES of colors, tends to use the KUN, while in other jukugo it uses the traditional ON. Usually. If it wants to. KUNYOMI:
a color
JUKUGO:
( )
brown ( KUN ON) (tea) + (color) = (brown)
( )
various and sundry, hella different types of. . .(often shortened to ) ( 1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
not 'sexy', more like 'nasty.'
vermilion ( KUN ON) (vermilion) + (color) = (vermilion)

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( )
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color, in the abstract sense : color palette, color wheel, color blindness. (color) + (hue) = (color)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
exemption / license LEGS color

The SAMURAI'S voice is loud.
voice
Hint
SAMURAI SMILEY-FACE BOTTTOM LINE
Radical
My LEGS have a licence to run on the ground. I SMILE when I see colors floating around.
USED IN:
exemption / license
(bait) +
ONYOMI: MEN MEN have a license to urinate standing up.
(human legs)
You need a fishing license to walk to the river on your human legs and throw your baited worm in. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to get out of (your punishment, because you had a good excuse), get out of paying a fine (because you are related to the Chief of Police). Basically, it means you got an exemption.
( )
driver's license (drive a vehicle) + something. (i.e. driver's license: ( )) + (proof) = (driver's license)
( )
to exempt (exemption / license) + (exclude) = (to exempt)
( )
sorry (usually KANA, but it's worth learning to see the roots of the expression: 'Honorably exempt me (from your wrath!)') ( KANA) (the honorific "o") + (exemption / license) = (sorry)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
voice
Hint
SAMURAI
742
Radical
exemption / license LEGS color SMILEY-FACE BOTTTOM LINE

The SAMURAI'S voice is loud. My LEGS have a licence to run on the ground. I SMILE when I see colors floating around.
USED IN:
more or less than normal

Number: 1215
11 strokes BETA
(motion) +
ONYOMI: ITSU
(exemption / license)
The Flash has a license to move more than normal. When? ITSU? Anytime!
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
is this always KANA? Yes. You don't need the kanji for this. Oh, by the way, it means 'To deviate, diverge, go wide of the mark.' (KANA)
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( )
an anecdote. (more or less than normal) + (conversation) = (an anecdote.)
or ( or ) to deviate from or be inconsistent with ( NP ) (more or less than normal) + (get naked) = (to deviate from)
night
Hint
Radical
more or less than normal MOVE
SUN
Night is when the SUN goes away, but you have to get a MOVE on if you are going to be better than normal at Japanese.
night
ONYOMI: BAN
(sun, day) + (exemption / license)

I'd like to BAN the use of loud motorcycles at night.
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The sun has a license to quit work at night.
KUNYOMI:
evening, night (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
good evening ( 1/2 KANA) (now) + (night) = (good evening)
every night (every) + (night) = (every night)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
night
Hint
Radical
more or less than normal MOVE
SUN
Night is when the SUN goes away, but you have to get a MOVE on if you are going to be better than normal at Japanese.
extinct
ONYOMI: ZETSU
(string) + (color)
THEY ,TOO, will go extinct if global warming continues. Tie a string around their necks until they turn the color blue and go extinct. KUNYOMI: ()
* ( +VERB )
()
to sever - usually figurative: to cut off all relations with (your ex) , or to totally quit doing (alcohol).
incessantly, constantly - usually has a bad feeling (constant whining, endless parade of atrocity on the TV news, etc.).
to become extinct, to cease
JUKUGO:
( )
absolutely, without fail (extinct) + (against) = (absolutely, without fail)
( )
to scream. usually from enjoyment - think, roller coaster.

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(extinct) + (shout) = (to scream)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
total despair (extinct) + (desire) = (total despair)
cliff ( KUNKUN ) (extinct) + (wall) = (cliff)
( )
- zero stars! -
go extinct (extinct) + (annihilate) = (go extinct)
try hard
ONYOMI: BEN
(exemption / license) + (strong)

BEN Franklin tried hard to get his picture on the $100. I use all my strength to get a driver's license. I try hard to do it. JUKUGO:
( )
To study. Used about learning a whole subject, such as Irish History or Thermodynamics. (BOOBOO: takes months or years, as opposed to () which means to learn one thing, and can take a second.) (try hard) + (burly) = (To study)
Number: 1219 PK
(right or top radical)
lorgnette
DESCRIPTION: I know it's not a common English word, but this radical looks EXACTLY like it! Behold!!!!!!!!!!!
745
USED IN:
voice
ONYOMI: SEI
(samurai radical) +
(lorgnette)
Your voice is what you SAY shit with, dummy. The samurai used his lorgnettes to see where the voice was coming from. KUNYOMI:
voice
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
voice color
Hint
exemption / license LEGS

The SAMURAI'S voice is loud.
SAMURAI SMILEY-FACE BOTTTOM LINE
Radical
My LEGS have a licence to run on the ground. I SMILE when I see colors floating around.
obese / manure
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI: HI
(lorgnette)
HE's so obese, he needs a lorgnette to see his sex organs under all the rolls. DESCRIPTION: this is probably only a one-star kanji, but as an American with a belly full of nachos, I feel obliged to represent. JUKUGO:
( )
obesity (obese / manure) + (full) = (obesity)
( )
- zero stars! -
manure (obese / manure) + (ingredients / fees) = (manure)
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pig
MUTANTS:
Number: 1222 11 strokes MR
(moon/organ) +
pigbottom ONYOMI:
(thing)
organ ) + the "Pig" radical: ( ) , which you will notice looks like thing ( on the right side: '<', which we can think of as the pig's gluttonous open mouth. A pig is harvested for its organs (pork, hooves, pickled snouts, tail kebabs, etc.) KUNYOMI:
) plus these two lines
pig
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
pork ( KUNKUN ) (pig) + (meat) = (pork )
female pig - oddly, THIS is the one that means "Biiiitch!" ( KUN ON) (your Moms) + (pig) = (female pig)
USED IN:
elephant / phenomenon
Number: 1223
12 strokes JERK, ILL PAIR
(bait) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(pigbottom)
The phenomenon of elephants trumpeting SHOWs that humans are not the only beings to enjoy smooth jazz. Use a pig as bait to catch a hungry elephant! DESCRIPTION: another absolutely classic JERK, the kind that could only happen in this cluster-fuck of a language.
KUNYOMI:
elephant
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JUKUGO:
( )
impression (stamp) + (elephant / phenomenon) = (impression)
( )
literary symbol ; "In the novel, the trees symbolize life." 'The color red in the painting symbolizes communism.' (=to symbolize something) (elephant / phenomenon) + (sign / indication) = (symbol)
( )
phenomenon (present time) + (elephant / phenomenon) = (phenomenon)
( )
abstract (thought) or figurative (meaning) (abstract) + (elephant / phenomenon) + (motivation / '-al') = (abstract)
( )
USED IN:
target of criticism, subject of a documentary (against) + (elephant / phenomenon) = (target/subject)
statue / image
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: ZOU KUNYOMI:
(elephant / phenomenon)
ZORRO stood next to the statue of the elephant man!
a statue (BOOBOO: in practice, its much more common to use , from the French word 'objet') (LAZY)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
imagine. (imaginative: ) (idea/imagination) + (statue / image) = (imagine)
image - usually it refers to an image on the computer screen which does NOT move (JPGs, basically). (a drawing) + (statue / image) = (still image)
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( )
any reflected, moving image - including images on TV or a computer screen, a shadow play, etc. (project, reflect) + (statue / image) = (image)
rim / omen
(string) +
ONYOMI: EN
(snout) +
(pigbottom)
The rim has no END, you can keep going around it forever. Tie the string around the rim of the pig's snout, to keep it from biting. DESCRIPTION: JERK: it can mean rim or edge, but also a connection (think of 2 things joined at the edges).
KUNYOMI:
rim or edge of table, cup, picture frame (emphasis is that it's not a point on the edge, it's the ENTIRE edge) (KANA)
JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( )
an omen (can be good or bad) (rim / omen) + (wake up / occur) = (omen)
to have a chance, to be linked by fate
Radical
home
(crown) + (pigbottom)
Number: 1226 10 strokes STRONG, SUF
749
ONYOMI: KA Drive home in your CAR, ok? Why is that pig wearing a crown in our home? That's no pig, that's my father! DESCRIPTION: Often used as a sufix for jobs, usually jobs that can be done from home, like comic book artist (())
KUNYOMI:
home
JUKUGO:
( )
your immediate family - parents, grandparents, siblings. (home) + (family) = (family)
( )
politician
(home) = (politician)
: ( ) ( )
author (make) + (home) = : (author)
the family you are living with. (home) + (garden) = (the family you are living with.)
( )
a specialist (often shortened to just xxx) (this is often used sarcastically - for instance a is a "fat person specialist", meaning a "chubby chaser.") ( SARC, SUF) (a specialty) + (home) = (specialist)
USED IN:
bride
ONYOMI: KA
Number: 1227 13 strokes FR, SOLO
(woman) + (home) (Same-ON)

My bride is the woman I keep at home, barefoot and pregnant DESCRIPTION: Fucked Radical . . . if you think that's bad, wait until you see the kanji for wife! KUNYOMI:
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bride ()
to marry a lady
- zero stars! -
bring home the loot

(wheat) +
ONYOMI: KA The farmer brings home the loot, in the form of wheat.
(home) (Same-ON)
KUNYOMI:
to earn money by doing xxx, to make a living at xxx. "She likes to DJ but she can't make a living at it." (How much money do you make? = )
luxurious
(home) + (tall)
ONYOMI: GOU Let's GO to my very tall, luxurious home! JUKUGO:
( )
luxurious, in a good way (luxurious) + (flamboyant) = (luxurious)
attain
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SUI Use sugar to attain SWEETness.
(horny) +
(pigbottom)
With a stroking motion, the horny pig attained a boner. KUNYOMI:

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* ( )
JUKUGO:
accomplish; carry out (usually used with work (Boss, I can't accomplish this task without more resources!) or with a computer process (working. . . 97% complete) (KANA)
finally! At last ! (BOOBOO: be careful! This word is TSUI, very close but not exactly the same as the onyomi if SUI. What an asshole move of it)
( )
attempted xxx (murder, suicide, kidnapping, etc.) (not yet) + (attain) = (attempted xxx)
troop
(town) +
ONYOMI: TAI
(horny) +
(pigbottom)
Careful! There is a whole troop of horny pigs in town. Lock your doors and TIE your windows shut. JUKUGO:
( )
an army - but not necessarily the whole army. It could just be some troops. (army) + (troop) = (army)
( )
Japan's army, in English called the SDF (self-defense forces)
(troop) = (Japan's army)

xxx
(xxx )
SUFFIX; putting at the end of any word is like saying 'squad,': 'vice squad', 'turtle squad,' whatever. ( SUF)
go
(personleft) +
MUTANTS:
Number: 1232 6 strokes COCK, MR
(nail) + ??? (???)

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goleft ONYOMI: KOU Go get me some COcaine. Person, plus nail, PLUS those two extra lines on top, which are SPEED LINES, didn't you know? What are speed lines? They're a comic strip term for the . . . .well, I'll just show you:
So, a person holding a nail is going somewhere, and they get speed lines because they are going fast. I assume to a crucifixion. KUNYOMI: ( or ) go ()
* *
to perform, put into practice, carry out.
( ) for someone to go away. Also means, for someone to proceed and march ever forward.. (*) Here's the COCK part: Although the meaning is different, the OKURIGANA is the same - so there's no way to tell from ! (COCK) JUKUGO:
or ( or ) a vacation, or just travel in general. (trip) + (go) = (vacation)
( ) ( )
trend (flow) + (go) = (trend)
behavior, conduct. Can be used in a good or bad way. (go) + (movement) = (behavior)
XXX
(XXX )
a train / bus / plane bound for XXX ( NP ) one's behavior. Basically the same as ()but a little more formal. Usually used in newspapers or discussions of trials. ( NP ) (go) + (deed) = (deed)
( )
USED IN:
Number: 1233
753
slowly
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: JO JUKUGO:
10 strokes BETA
(excess) (Same-ON)
The traffic is going excessively slowly today, so I have time to Jack Off in my car.
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
gradually, little by little
slow down! (usually seen on road signs) (slowly) + (go) = (slow down! )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
exclude
regulation
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: RITSU
(write)
Go write a regulation to RE-TOOL the electoral college. God damn that thing is useless. DESCRIPTION: Of course it's impossible to actually CHANGE the electoral college, because of the corruption and greed. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
laws (law) + (regulation) = (laws)
literally, "rule," but closer to the English word for "discipline."Rules typically say "don't do this or that," but give long lists of things you HAVE TO do, in the order you have to do them. Like if you're at military school, you have to get up at 5:30, have your bed made by 5:35, shine your shoes by 5:40, and report to the mess hall.
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(criteria) + (regulation) = (rules/discipline)
pupil / follower
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: TO
(run)
The pupil goes - she Takes Off running after the teacher. JUKUGO:
( )
slightly formal word for a pupil or religious follower (life / birth) + (pupil / follower) = (follower)
diameter
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: KEI
It is OK to go all the way across the diameter of a circle to take a dump. Pooping in the middle is a bit gauche, though. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! Hint
diameter (correct a probem / direct contact) + (diameter) = (diameter)
radius (half) + (diameter) = (radius)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
role
Radical
THROW
diameter DUMP
The pitcher's role is to THROW, but if you gotta expand your sphincter's diameter, you gotta TAKE A DUMP .
lightweight CAR
Meaning
Hint
Radical
755
suspicious HEART GO diameter experience STRING

afterwards / behind
(goleft) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: GO, KOU
(Eazy) +
(eachbottom)
Each time you GO see Eazy-E rap, afterwards you buy some COCAINE from him. DESCRIPTION: COCK: it has 3 totally different KUN-yomi - 2 of which have NO OKURIGANA to help you tell them apart! In a pinch, you can guess the pronunciation by checking the particles: goes with but goes with Usually. KUNYOMI:
() ( xxx ) after. Usually used like this: XXX*, or simply ! ( YYY ) () after YYY (this means the same thing as , but sounds more like you're 50 years old. It's not formal but a bit old fashioned and / or literary) ( zzz ) () physically behind ZZZ JUKUGO:
( )
pm (noon) + (afterwards / behind) = (pm)
( )
last (most) + (afterwards / behind) = (last)
( )
someone younger than you in school (afterwards / behind) + (older or younger colleague) = (someone younger than you in school)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
afterwards / behind GO STRING end
Hint
Radical
756
I GO behind you, with a garrotte STRING which ends your life.
go on a trip
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: OU JUKUGO:
(master/mainly)
OH shit, the master is going on a trip. Now the servants can have hella shennannagans!!
( )
round trip (go on a trip) + (return or re-do) = (round trip)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
wait
(goleft) +
(temple)
Go to the temple and then wait until the dude from the THAI place delivers the chicken.
*
JUKUGO:
wait
or ( or )
Expectations. For example, ! ( !) We lost this time, but I expect we'll win next time! (period of time) + (wait) = (expectations)
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( )
to make someone wait. The person at a cash register will generally say 'Taihen !' if you have to wait over 3 seconds.
( )
waiting room ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (wait) + (to suit) + (room) = (waiting room)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
bargain / obtain
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: TOKU Go to the temple of the sun to obtain a blessing! KUNYOMI:
(sun, day) + (temple)
If you obtain a joint for me I would gladly let you TOKE on it for a hit or two.
*
()
to obtain (usually obtain permission, or the right to do something, sentitive information, a patron, a prize or promotion )
(noun) a bargain, a good deal. Also means "benefit, advantage, profit." (not just money - like 'It pays to be on time' or 'It pays to be beautiful in this society') (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
persuade (explain) + (bargain / obtain) = (persuade) 1) one's strong suit - the thing that someone does best (xxx !) 2) something one is proud of.() (bargain / obtain) + (meaning) = (my forte!)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
obey
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: JUU
(horny) +
(correct)
Nobody's going to obey a JEW with a mouthful of pork. If you are horny it is correct to obey your instincts and go to the porn store. KUNYOMI: ()
*
obey
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
employee, personnel ( NP ) (obey) + (business) + (clerk) = (personnel )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
obey vertical deplore general concept
GO STRING HEART TREE
Radical
When duty calls I GO to obey. A yo-yo dangles from a vertical STRING, and sways. I deplore with all my HEART the general concept of cutting down TREES.
USED IN:
vertical
(string) + (obey) (Same-ON)
759
ONYOMI: JUU The Torah is like a vertical string tying JEWs directly to heaven if they obey it. KUNYOMI:
vertical
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
Asian-style vertical writing. (vertical) + (write) = (Asian-style vertical writing. )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
art / technique
(go) + (tree)
ONYOMI: JUTSU
His ju JITSU techniques are crazy fast and violent.
Go over there and practice your whittling techniques on those trees. JUKUGO:
( )
technique - used mostly with industry or artisans. (technique) + (art / technique) = (technique)
( )
fine art (art) + (art / technique) = (fine art)
( )
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museum (fine art) + (big hall) = (museum)
( ) ( )
fine art (beauty) + (art / technique) = (fine art)
sorcery - has the connotation of illusions, fooling someone. (devil) + (art / technique) = (sorcery )
( )
surgery (hand) + (art / technique) = (surgery)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hang / halfway done HAND HEAVY collision shopping district art / technique TERMITE HILL WOOD
Hint
Radical
Hang something with your HAND from a windowsill! Colliding with a HEAVY thing is painful. A shopping district as busy as a TERMITE HILL. Technique of chopping WOOD fast is a skill.
collision
(go) + (heavy / overlap)

SHOW me two heavy objects going in convegent directions until they overlap, and I'll show you a huge collision.
( )
'real' shock (like electroshock therapy), or an emotional shock, or also just a physical impact (car crash) (collision) + (charge) = (shock/impact)
( )
means impact (car crash) but also a conflict (India and Pakistan are on a collision course) or mental conflict (his communism conflicts with his love for the sexy CIA agent). (collision) + (thrust) = (impact / conflict)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
teeny
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: BI Your skillz BE teeny.
(mountain) +
(pi) +
(director)
The director makes you go the mountain and get a TEENY WEENY LITTLE SLICE OF PIE.
* ( )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
:slight, faint ( a faint odor of maternal musk is enough to repel most rottweilers) (KANA)
( )
a nice way of saying, 'meh.' "How did you like the play?" "Bimyou." (teeny) + (odd) = (meh!)
( )
- zero stars! -
microscope (teeny) + (mirror) = (microscope)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
sign / indication KING withdraw do thoroughly teeny PIE
Hint
Radical
HAND GO
762
A crown is a sign of a KING.
I'll eat a TEENY PIE because I am on a diet. You withdraw your HAND, while I GO to thoroughly accomplish a quest of some sort.
sign / indication
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: CHOU Margaret CHOu shows no signs of being funny.
(mountain) + (king) +
(director)
If you go to the king's mountain, you'll see a sign of the director (his footprints and cologne). JUKUGO:
( )
a characteristic of something ("Loving big stuff for the sake of big stuff is characteristic of Americans.") (special) + (sign / indication) = (characteristic )
( )
literary symbol ; "In the novel, the trees symbolize life." 'The color red in the painting symbolizes communism.' (=to symbolize something) (elephant / phenomenon) + (sign / indication) = (symbol)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
HAND GO
A crown is a sign of a KING. I'll eat a TEENY PIE because I am on a diet. You withdraw your HAND, while I GO to thoroughly accomplish a quest of some sort.
Number: 1247
(moocow) + (one/line radical)
decapitated cow
DESCRIPTION:This is basically the lower half of moocow, plus a line on top, as if to say, "OMG, THAT COW GOT THE TOP CUT OFF!" After all, normally cows are quite round on top, or spikey if you include the horns.
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But if a cow has got a straight line on top, it might go a little something like this:
And the decapitated cow sometimes is drawn with a little line in the center( )- this is symbolic of a cow that was decapitated quite recently and there's hence still a little blood fountain coming out the neck. Logical? You bet! I think of everything!
USED IN:
do thoroughly
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: TETSU
(decapitated cow) +
(moon/organ) +
(director)
When I pump iron (, pronounced TETSU), I do it thoroughly. The director tells you to go decapitate a cow once a month - do it thoroughly... . Don't just wound the cow. Don't kind of kidney-punch it and then be like, 'Another job well done.' He'll know. KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
be devoted to a project, do nothing else, heart-and-soul. Also means, to stay up all night because you're so focused on your project Star-16
XXX ( XXX)
to do XXX thoroughly, exhaustively, comprehensively. Plus, isn't that the greatest pronunciation? tetetetetetetetete!!! That's the most wild sound since the past tense of 'warm': (atatakatta)
764
thoroughly)
(do thoroughly) + (bottom) + (motivation / '-al') = (to do XXX
( )
- zero stars! -
stay up all night (do thoroughly) + (late night) = (stay up all night)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
HAND GO
withdraw
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TETSU
(decapitated cow) +
(moon/organ) +
(director)
This is basically the exact same as the previous kanji () - even the onyomi is the damn same. So rather than try to make another mnemonic to tie together director, decapitated cow, and moon. . . it might be simpler to just think of this kanji as "do thoroughly with a hand instead of a damn '' on the left". So you can say, I withdraw my hand thoroughly from your corrupted embrace!!! JUKUGO:
or or ( or or ) to remove or dismantle (withdraw) + (past tense) = (dismantle)
( )
- zero stars! -
to withdraw or retract a comment (withdraw) + (rotate / times) = (to withdraw or retract a comment )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
HAND GO
765
grow up / be raised
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: IKU
(moon/organ)
The lady shrieked 'IKU!IKU!' as she was impregnated with the child she would have to raise for the next 18 years. I was raised to decapitate a cow every month. (FYI, My dad was Ted Nugent) KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
to bring up or to raise a child/underling
to be brought up (in a certain way) to grow up.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
education (teach) + (grow up / be raised) = (education)
child-rearing (grow up / be raised) + (baby) = (child-rearing)
( )
P.E. class (body) + (grow up / be raised) = (P.E. class)
flow
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: RYUU
(decapitated cow) +
(river)
Don't REUSE your flow so much, it'll sound wack. You gotta keep coming up with new styles. The river's flow carried the decapitated cow-head downstream , bobbing up and down in the water. KUNYOMI: ()
various meanings. . . .to make something flow - to flush a toilet. - Also means, a DJ plays music. Which is pretty rad.
766
()
something is literlly flowing. Also used when music is playing on the loudspeaker, or when time passes ()(literally, 'In the course of time . . .. ').
JUKUGO:
( )
trend (flow) + (go) = (trend)
( )
the most trendy (one) + (flow) = (the most trendy)
( )
- zero stars! -
drifting (drift) + (flow) = (drifting)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
WATER flow go wild / rough FLOWERS
Hint
Radical
WATER flows, but FLOWERS grow in the wild.
shady
(town) +
ONYOMI: IN
(now) +
(decapitated cow)
Right now this town is full of decapitated cows, lurking IN the shadows. DESCRIPTION:Unlike the OTHER shadow kanji () which is literal, this shadow kanji () is more figurative: things that are shady, dark, secret, or hidden. is also the kanji used for naughty bits. KUNYOMI:
shadow, both literally , and more likely, metaphorically. If someone is operating shady deals from the shadows, you use this kanji. (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
xxx (xxx ) thanks to XXX (despite being the 'bad shadow' kanji, is not only used with bad things. You can say, thanks to you, I have mastered the techniques of Double Dutch, and it would be fine.) ( 1/2 KANA)
( )
gloomy or dark atmosphere
767
(shady) + (mood) = (gloomy)
( ) ( )
conspiracy (shady) + (plot) = (conspiracy ) sex organs (no stars- people usually say !) ( NP ) (shady) + (section) = (sex organs)
- zero stars! -
( )
clitoris - not a word you'd use in most conversations, but I'm including it anyway because the literal translation is so irresistable: hidden nucleus! How boss is that? ( SARC) (shady) + (nucleus) = (clitoris)
- zero stars! -
shady
Radical
TOWN
shadow HAIR
That part of TOWN is shady so don't go there. Your HAIR casts a shadow on your face.
fill up
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: JUU
(human legs)
JEWISH people like to fill up on Eastern European traditional dishes like blintzes and knish. I decapitated the cow and found that its belly was full of human legs! What do you have to say about that, PETA? Yeah, I thought so. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
a somewhat formal way to say, "full, satisfactory, plentiful" ( F ) (fill up) + (truth) = (plentiful, full)
charge a battery (no stars, but it demonstrates the 'fill up' meaning) (fill up) + (electricity) = (charge a battery)
to suppliment, (a shortfall or deficit) or replenish (fluids, vitamins to replenish strength, restock the store-room) - it's like , but the nuance is that you are restocking a supply of something which has dwindled.
768
(supplement) + (fill up) = (suppliment)

past tense IS UNDER until IS ABOVE LEGS fill up
In the past, moocows lived UNDER the earth, until they finally migrated ABOVEground. The tunnels were filled up with the LEGS of the migrating cows.
USED IN:
gun
ONYOMI: JUU KUNYOMI:
(gold) + (fill up) (Same-ON)

JEWS in Israel like to fill up their golden uzis with bullets.
JUKUGO:
any type of fire-arm. "I got myself and uzi and my brother a nine." - KRS ONE (LAZY)
( )
revolver
tradition
ONYOMI: TOU
(string) + (fill up)

To learn this kanji it helps to remember that kanji came from China. Chinese tradition is like a string that binds the TOES of the women, and fills everyone up with sexism. You know who had the best anti-foot-binding protest song? MAN IS THE BASTARD. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
President (big) + (tradition) + (territory) = (President)
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tradition (traditional: ()) (transmit) + (tradition) = (tradition)

LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrive tradition
polite "do" DIRECTOR SWORD STRING
Hint
Radical
The DIRECTOR asks you to do something when you arrive with a SWORD: cut the STRINGS of tradition which bind society.
until
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(earth)
SHE decapited the cow until its head fell down and hit the earth. DESCRIPTION: There's no really useful jukugo but you'll sometimes see as a PREFIX meaning, 'the most'. KUNYOMI: ()
to get to, to arrive. To extend to. Until the very top/bottom/end. (Either literally or figuratively, as in, 'Open up your hearts to new ideas' or 'This ingredient holds the key to enriched flavor')
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
past tense IS UNDER until IS ABOVE LEGS fill up
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
arrive
(until) +
ONYOMI: TOU He arrived on tipTOE (FYI he was a ninja) He won't arrive until his sword is finished.
(rightsword)
770
JUKUGO:
( )
arrive- usually you only hear this over the loudspeakers at train stations, airports, etc. ( NP ) (arrive) + (wear / arrive) = (arrive)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrive tradition
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
polite "do"
(until) +
ONYOMI: CHI
(director)
Do cut the CHEEese politely. Which is to say, quietly. Do it politely until the director tells you to stop. DESCRIPTION:This is the kanji for "" as in, " !" (you're welcome, sir!) or " !" (please excuse me, madam!) ...all those polite expressions. p> However, they're usually written in hiragana these days. KUNYOMI:
most dictionaries/websites describe this as 'to bring about' which is kind of ambiguous and makes it more confusing than it is. It's better to think of as THE POLITE FORMAL VERSION OF . (usually KANA, so I'm only givin' it one star! *) (KANA)
JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
the polite form of 'suru,' used by clerks when addressing your noble presence. However, unlike 'suru', 'itashimasu' can be used with any verb. XXX's verb form is 'masu minus': for instance, mochimasu becomes mochi itashimasu. ( F , 1/2 KANA)
( )
to correspond with, to match ("The crime scene DNA matches your mom's semen"; "This example corresponds to the itasu kanji") (one) + (polite "do") = (to match)
771
( )
fatal! (polite "do") + (life) + (motivation / '-al') = (fatal!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrive tradition
Hint
Radical
knock down
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TOU KUNYOMI: () ()
(arrive) (Same-ON)
When the person arrives, knock him down by tripping his TOES.
I knock something down
something gets toppled
JUKUGO:
( )
( )
trouble, petty bullshit ( 1/2 KANA) (front surface / face) + (knock down) = (trouble, petty bullshit)
( )
to overwhelm ( ( )= overpowering) (pressure) + (knock down) = (overwhelm)
( )
bankrupt (knock down) + (childbirth, production of things) = (bankrupt)

772
( )
- zero stars! -
to push someone down. Actually this isn't so useful but I read it in a gay porno and so . (push) + (knock down) = (push someone down)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
past tense
(ten) +
(decapitated cow)
ONYOMI: KYO, KO
Keep Your Own KOdomo in the past, Don't let him grow up and lose his innocence. In the past, I decapitated ten cows. But that's all behind me now. I'm a changed man. That is to say, I'm now a woman. KUNYOMI: ()
to leave (as in leave while others stay). also to be xxx miles away from a particular place.
JUKUGO:
( )
the past (surpass / too much) + (past tense) = (the past)
( )
last year (past tense) + (year) = (last year)
( )
the past tense (the past) + (form) = (the past tense)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
773
past tense
IS UNDER
until fill up
IS ABOVE LEGS
USED IN:
law
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HOU
(past tense)
HOES are against the law unless they blow the cops for protection. We got a new law , outlawing water - making it a thing of the past. Only half joking. Bolivia tore shit up. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
laws (law) + (regulation) = (laws)
grammar (culture/ sentence) + (law) = (grammar)
( ) ( )
illegal (different and therefore wrong) + (law) = (illegal)
a physical , as opposed to governmental law, as in 'law of gravity' or 'murphy's law' (law) + (rule) = (physical law)
get afeared
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
(past tense)
774
My heart is afeared of all the secrets in my past, which could come back to haunt me (KYOU=today)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
To be intimidated. Sometimes it is used the same way as more popular cousin (): to be scared. But often it connotes a very specific form of fear : to be cowed, scared into submission - usually used with things like political intimidation or domestic violence. To be scared into complying or obeying.
( )
not just a coward ,but someone who does treacherous, trifling bullshit because they're a coward - like if they fight you they know they can't win fairly so they'll knee your groin, they're a motherfucker. (despicable) + (get afeared) = (treacherous coward)
store
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 1263 9 strokes ILL PAIR, SUF
(until)
You can only leave your corpse at my store until it starts to smell.
( xxx ) a store which only sells xxx (= bookstore, = bread store, etc.) (SUF) JUKUGO:
( )
room ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (section) + (store) = (room)
( ) ( ) ( )
someone who gets embarrassed easily. (disgrace) + (store) = (someone who gets embarrassed easily.)
roof . That's right, not root. Roof! ( KUN ON) (store) + (root) = (roof)
( )
Haunted House! () + () + (store) + (lay out / site) = (Haunted House!)

775
store
Radical
CORPSE CROWN
room
You go to a mortuary store to buy a CORPSE, but you wear a CROWN in the throne room.
USED IN:
room
(crown) +
ONYOMI: SHITSU
Number: 1264 9 strokes PN, ILL PAIR, BETA
(until)
Get your SHIT out of my room! Jesus! You can't wear the crown until you get to the throne room. JUKUGO:
( )
classroom (teach) + (room) = (classroom)
( ) ( )
waiting room ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (wait) + (to suit) + (room) = (waiting room)
clothes-changing - room (all over again) + (cloth) + (room) = (clothes-changing - room)
store
Radical
CORPSE CROWN
room
You go to a mortuary store to buy a CORPSE, but you wear a CROWN in the throne room.
grasp
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: AKU
(store)
776
It's BAD () for Godzilla to grasp stores with his hand, destroying the merch. (AKU is the onyomi for , meaning bad) Godzilla grasps a whole store in the palm of his hand. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to grasp - Usually grab is just (). is more specific: grabbing and squeezing! (someone's hand, or a baseball bat, or some free weights). (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
shake hands (grasp) + (hand) = (shake hands)
to grasp the meaning of, to figure out.
international trading
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: BOU
(sword) + (shellfish/money)
She internationally trades BOWLing balls, decapitated cow-heads, and swords for money. (the swords drive down the price of beef, since they make the cows easier to slaughter. Having this inside information, she can short-sell beef futures). JUKUGO:
( )
international trading -imports and exports. (of merchandise, NOT stocks / finance) (international trading) + (easy) = (international trade)
absent / stopped
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: RYUU
Number: 1267 10 strokes DUPE, JERK, COCK
(sword) + (rice field)
You'll have to REUSE that phone to call me later - I'm absent right now. The cow's head is absent - it was chopped off with a sword and then hidden in a rice field. Kids these days. DESCRIPTION: COCK: not only is the most-often used word of this kanji Fucked Pronunciation, but it's a fake duplicate as well. That is to say, it's too much of a random cock to even be a real pain-in-the-ass dupe. KUNYOMI:
777
()
DICTIONARIES say , along with , both mean 'to stop something.' Luckily is never used, so you don't have to worry about confusing it with .
()
- zero stars! -
it doesn't move or expand (crime rate doesn't change / the jerkface politician remains in office / the damage is limited to this)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
student studying abroad (absent / stopped) + (student) = (student studying abroad )
to be away from home; to be absent ( ()= leave a message at the tone) ( FP ) (absent / stopped) + (protect) = (be away)
twin decapited cows

(decapitated cow) +
Number: 1268
(two)
DESCRIPTION: CHECK OUT HOW LOGICAL MY SHIT IS! Two plus decapitated cow? Decpaitated TWIN cows. Kanji is easy, see? It's a fuckin' UFO-cattle-mutilation epidemic over here, is what it is, boy howdy!
USED IN:
roll over
ONYOMI: TEN KUNYOMI: () ()
(car) + (twin decapited cows)

The car rolled over the twin cows TEN times, decapitating them.
* *
something tumbles
something rolls over; something turns over (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
778
bicycle (my own) + (roll over) + (car) = (bicycle)
( ) ( )
drive a vehicle (carry / luck) + (roll over) = (drive a vehicle)
convert to new ideology, do an about-face. This is important because most of the freaky looking kids you see on the street will all become housewives and salarimen the exact second they turn 23. - making TENKOU what we call a "cultural code word." ( CCW) (roll over) + (turn to face) = (do an about-face)
( )
when a salariman gets transferred to another office, that's tenkin. I only mention this because most of the Japanese you meet who speak good English, probably one of their parents got tenkin-ed to America / UK, so it tends to come up in conversation. (roll over) + (be employed at) = (transfer)
- zero stars! -
transmit
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: DEN KUNYOMI: () ()
(twin decapited cows)
A person transmits a command to decapitate the twin cows and DEN you have to carry it out.
* *
I tell someone (use this one for, "Tell her I said hello!")
something is transmitted
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
help (hand) + (transmit) = (help) tradition (traditional: ()) (transmit) + (tradition) = (tradition)
779
a legend - King Arthur or Lord of the Rings or whatever. (transmit) + (explain) = (a legend)
soul
ONYOMI: KON
(twin decapited cows) + (demon)

The human soul is the same size as a pineCONE. The cows were born siamese twins because a mischievous demon put one soul in two bodies.
soul JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX- put it at the end of a word to mean 'spirit,' as in 'fighting spirit,' 'winning spirit,' 'patriotic spirit,' and so on. In that sense, it's not like a real ghost or religious thing. ( SUF)
( )
- zero stars! -
katamari damacy! (clump) + (soul) = (katamari damacy!)
art
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: GEI JUKUGO:
The GAY performance artist made flowery wreaths for the funeral of the twin decapitated cows.
( )
fine art (art) + (art / technique) = (fine art)
( )
showbiz (art) + (talent) + (the world) = (showbiz)

780
( )
what Asian chicks in college get mad about (art) + (professional) = (geisha)
big meeting
(peaked roof) +
ONYOMI: KAI No flying KITES at the big meeting!!
Number: 1273 6 strokes ILL PAIR, DUPE
The twin cows held a big meeting under the peaked roof. KUNYOMI: ()
to meet someone
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
company (big meeting) + (company) = (company)
society (company) + (big meeting) = (society)
conversation (big meeting) + (conversation) = (conversation)
a conference (big meeting) + (discussion) = (a conference)
( )
a society or association (cooperate) + (big meeting) = (a society or association)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
big meeting TWIN COWS MOUTH to suit
Hint
Radical
You have abig meeting with TWIN COWS. They say, "Don't eat us! We don't suit your MOUTH!"
USED IN:
781
picture
ONYOMI: E
(string) + (big meeting)

They say that this artist is the shit, but I saw his pictures and I was just like, "EH." Let's all meet and look at pictures of string! KUNYOMI:
picture (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
oil painting. ( NEO , KUNKUN ) (oil) + (picture) = (oil painting.)
( ) ( )
portrait ( KUNKUN ) (resemble) + (face) + (picture) = (portrait)
oil paint, like what Rembrandt and Picasso use. (picture) + (tool) = (oil paint)
Number: 1275 STRONG
(middle radical)
termite mound
(earth)
DESCRIPTION: Can you think of a better mnemonic for earth piled on top of earth?
STRONG RADICAL FOR GAI
USED IN:
782
shopping district
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: GAI JUKUGO:
(termite mound) (Same-ON)
Let's go shopping with the GUYS in the shopping district inside the termite mound.
( )
shopping district. Not quite a mall, but a street with a tin roof, and all the shops are decorated similarly.Like all the stores on that street formed a kind of merchants' association and tried to give their street some atmosphere. (merchandise) + (shop) + (shopping district) = (shopping district.)
( )
Highway (shopping district) + (street) = (Highway)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
hang / halfway done

(handleft) +
ONYOMI: GAI
(termite mound) (Same-ON) +
(katakana toe)
Use your hand to hang the GUY's toe from the termite mound. The termites will feast tonight! (the hand was made out of wood, and the guy was a pirate - it's a long story). KUNYOMI: ()
I hang something using a hook or pin. Also, to sprinkle something on something else (pepper, salt, etc.) Also means to drape over : drape a blanket over a sleeping child or put a tablecloth on the um uh table. Also means to turn on something electric, although how this is different from is unclear!
783
()
something is hung
JUKUGO:
( )
a clue ( 1/2 KANA) (hand) + (hang / halfway done ) = (a clue)
xxx
YYY (xxx YYY)
SUFFIX meaning halfway done. could be anything. a halfway-eaten cake, a halfwaydrawn picture, a hal ( KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
lifetime
(termite mound) +
ONYOMI: GAI
(cliff) +
(waterleft)
There's a GUY standing on a termite mound at the cliff's edge, ready to jump off into the water, and end his LIFETIME. JUKUGO:
( )
lifetime (need a lifetime of counseling / for the rest of your life / cradle-to-grave healthcare / lifelong habit) (life / birth) + (lifetime) = (lifetime)
seal in
784
(termite mound) +
ONYOMI: FUU / HOU
(glueglue)
Its FUCKED up how they sealed that HOE inside the termite mound with glue. JUKUGO:
( )
envelope (seal in) + (cylinder /pipe) = (envelope)
( )
feudalism (seal in) + (build) + materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (feudalism)
- zero stars! -
Number: 1280
(pie radical)
termite pie
(pi)
(termite mound) +
DESCRIPTION: delicious?
USED IN:
continent
(town) +
ONYOMI: RIKU
(termite pie)
That continent is famous for termite pie !! If you get there, to go to the first pie shop in town and LICK all the pies. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
continent (ie. what your Mom is not) (big) + (continent) = (continent )
The Land Army (as opposed to navy or airforce) (continent) + (army) = (The Land Army )
785
power
(termite pie) +
(round) + (strong)
They SAY that if you eat a round termite pie you'll get strong powers.
most dictionaries/books/apps define this as POWER but it's more like momentum, (a power which is in motion). The power to influence something - like "The car had a lot of so it was hard to stop the car before we hit the cat." or "Because of the whiskey's , I could do a table dance in the White House." Also means to gain steam or lose steam - said of political momentum or the momentum of a trend or ideology.
JUKUGO:
( )
posture - posture, both literal and figurative. Unlike the related word () one's is always intentional - something one consciously adopts. (someone's shape, body, form) + (power) = (posture )
( )
- zero stars! -
a large number of people - not in the sense of 'It's crowded today' but like 'There were crowds waiting to greet the Ambassador' - the crowd is united in its purpose. (big) + (power) = (crowd)
hot thing / fever

(termite pie) +
ONYOMI: NETSU
(round) +
(firebottom)
You don't want to get a fever form mosquito bites so put NETS around your bed at night. They lit a fire all around the termite pie until it was a hot thing. KUNYOMI:
a hot thing. Also can be used figuratively for hot emotions.
a fever. (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
786
( )
passionate! Although pretty far from how we'd use that word in english: the Japanese version means "dedicated , hardworking, diligent." (a passionate student) . . perhaps a better translation is simply 'enthusiastic.' (emotion) + (hot thing / fever) = (enthusiastic)
or ( or )
passion - usually used about sports or performances: They praised the actor's passionate performance. She's passionate about her hobby. (hot thing / fever) + (heart) = (passionate)
( )
the tropics, tropical zone (hot thing / fever) + (belt) = (tropics)
Number: 1284 PK
(big and right radical)
diaper
DESCRIPTION: Diaper is a strange radical because sometimes it is a "big" radical, with other radicals inside it,
and sometimes it turns into a "right-side" radical. Be warned!!!! Diapers come in all sizes! Diaper (
is different from 'Moustache'( ) because both of diaper's sides bend outward at the bottom. If you still have trouble telling them apart, think "FULL DIAPERS BULGE OUTWARDS".
USED IN:
joke
ONYOMI: JOU
(diaper)
JOE Stalin told a vulgar joke about nuzzling a diaper with his Moustache. That dude was a riot. Whatever happened to him? JUKUGO:
( )
a joke - you'll often hear: "! ('I'm not kidding!') ( 1/2 KANA) (joke) + (consult) = (joke)
787
human skin
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI:
(diaper)
Your skin is like a diaper to keep blood leaking out of the body's organs.
KUNYOMI:
refers to the skin of a person - not to leather or animal skin (BOOBOO)
JUKUGO:
( )
goosebumps ( KUNKUN ) (bird) + (human skin) = (goosebumps)
( )
the texture of something (i.e. how it feels when rubbed on your skin) (human skin) + (touch) = (texture)
oppose
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KOU I oppose COCAINE.
(beret) +
(diaper)
Put your hand up to oppose him laying his beret on top of your dirty cast-off diaper. JUKUGO:
( )
to counter (used with two roughly equal things that oppose each other) (i.e. a counter-reaction, counter-demonstration, compete in the marketplace, counterculture, antagonist, counter-balance) (against) + (oppose) = (to counter )
( )
to resist, used about one person taking on the whole fuckin' system, mannn!: draft resister, resisting arrest, La Resistance. Also, to encounter resistance, resist temptation, and the electric concept of 'resistance' are also included in the meaning. (resist) + (oppose) = (resist)
788
( )
to be rebellious, defiant. To start a revolt. Unlike the related words () and () has the nuance of 'rebel for the fuck of it,' like a teenager would.
(anti) + (oppose) = (rebel)
desk
(tree) +
ONYOMI:
(diaper)
I sit down at my wooden desk and write epic legends about diapers.
desk LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint Radical
KUNYOMI:
desk
TONGUE disorder card / label / bill TREE NECROPHILIAC polite

There's a DIAPER on my desk, so use your TONGUE to clean up that disorder. The card was printed on TREE bark. NECROPHILIACS are very polite because they never get a lady pregnant or give her an STD.
DIAPER
wind / the flu / style

(diaper) +
(insizzect)
ONYOMI: FUU - but half the time just FU. The spooky wind made a sound like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. The wind blows a bug into your diaper. A bug??? Or is it. . . WU TANG KILLA BEE STYLE!!!!! That is a whole new kind of diaper rash right there.
KUNYOMI:
wind
789
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
bathrub. I mean tub. A bathtub. ( 1/2 KANA) (wind / the flu / style) + (washtub) = (bathtub)
a common cold, the flu ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (wind / the flu / style) + (heresy) = (a common cold, the flu)
( )
Japanese-style (food, clothing, houses. . .) (peace/ Japan) + (wind / the flu / style) = (Japanese-style)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX that can go with a lot of words, meaning 'XXX - style.' ( SUF)
starve
(eat) +
ONYOMI: KI
(diaper)
Starvation is the KEY to being a successful model. I'm starving so bad I could eat a diaper! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to starve (xxx = metaphorically hungry for xxx (knowledge or power ,etc.))
( )
hunger (no stars!)

- zero stars! -
dispose of
(eachbottom) +
ONYOMI: SHO
(diaper)
You gotta dispose of each of the baby's diapers, otherwise you'll Smell His Odors 24/7. JUKUGO:
790
( )
management (dispose of) + (reason) = (management)
( )
female virgin ( FR) (dispose of) + (woman) = (female virgin)
( ) ( )
to dispose of (unwanted stuff),punish, or deal with or manage (a problem) (dispose of) + (understand / divide / minute) = (deal with/ dispose of)
deal with a problem that just cropped up. Usually used in business situations: deal with the missing money! Take care of the radiation leak. Manage the PR crisis. (dispose of) + (put down on table) = (take care of it!)
USED IN:
evidence which is the basis for a

Number: 1292
judgment
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KYO
8 strokes BETA
(dispose of)
When the cops get their HANDS on you, Keep Your Opinions to yourself, and dispose of the evidence. JUKUGO:
( )
physical evidence, such as a footprint, or "This green tap-water is evidence of pollution." Also this is the word one uses about evidence at trials, not . ( FP , NP ) (proof) + (evidence which is the basis for a judgment) = (physical evidence)
( )
a grounds or basis for doing something. The authority to do something. (root) + (evidence which is the basis for a judgment) = (grounds)
mediocre

791
(diaper) +
ONYOMI: BON
(dot)
as in "You can get a BONer from even mediocre porn." Let's call the single dot inside the diaper a tiny turd. OK? Great. Aaaand, all together now,: A mediocre man walks around with a diaper with merely a single turd in it. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
USED IN:
commonplace, ordinary, mediocre (i.e. rapping about rims) (equal / level) + (mediocre) = (mediocre)
an ordinary person, a common mediocre person. (mediocre) + (person) = (ordinary person)
architect
ONYOMI: CHIKU
(bamboo) + (craft or industry) + (mediocre) + (tree)

CHICKS like construction workers, especially when they whistle. Use crafts to construct a mediocre house with bamboo and trees. JUKUGO:
( )
architect
(architect)
( )
architecture. So help me God I'll never spell that word right. (build) + (architect) = (architecture)
dread
ONYOMI: KYOU
(craft or industry) + (mediocre) +

792
(bottomheart)
Today (, pronounced KYOU) fills me with dread. . . . it's my wedding day, to your stepdad I dread the crafts made by people with mediocre hearts. P.Diddy, I'm looking at you. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to dread or really fear something.Basically the same as but a little more formal. ()
*
scary
JUKUGO:
( )
super duper terror (dread) + (scary) = (super duper terror)
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
The legal term for blackmail or extortion. ( NP )
WOMAN get mad CRAFTY dread make an effort STRENGTH
Hint
Radical
Number: 1296
(right radical)
throw
(diaper) +
DESCRIPTION: Imagine a lazy babysitter throwing a diaper at the baby's crotch. Stupid baby, do it yourself!
USED IN:
throw
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: TOU
Number: 1297 7 strokes MR
(throw)
Use your hand to throw a ball at the umpire's TOE KUNYOMI:

793
*
throw JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to vote (also, it can mean election, as in "Did he win the vote?") (throw) + (ballot) = (vote)
contribute to a magazine - letter to the editor, purikura, etc. (throw) + (write) = (contribute)
role
(goleft) +
(throw) (Same-ON)
Your role is to go to the game and throw a ball at a YAK (FYI you are in the human/animal baseballympics)
role
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to be useful, to work like it's supposed to (used about things, not humans) (role) + (stand up) = (to work like it's supposed to) a role - the verb is (), as in XXX ( to play the role of XXX) ( KUNKUN ) (role) + (divide) = (role)
( )
a petty bureaucrat ass-grower like at the DMV. These are almost as unpopular in Japan as they are in the West, so maybe don't ask someone "Are you a ?" to their face. ( ABU) (role) + (person) = (beuracrat)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
role
Hint
Radical
THROW
diameter DUMP
The pitcher's role is to THROW,
794
but if you gotta expand your sphincter's diameter, you gotta TAKE A DUMP .
establish
(say) +
KUNYOMI:
(throw)
ONYOMI: SETSU I SAID TO the coach, we should establish a baseball team so that we can throw balls at mitts.
*
JUKUGO:
to establish (a committee to look into the matter) , provide (money) , or throw ( a party for a valuable customer) . More broad and casual than the related term ()
( )
to establish a regulation or rule - also it is often seen on the 'setup' or 'preferences' menus of software when you install it. (establish) + (plan) = (establish)
( )
an institution, some facilities. (a mental hospital / sports stadium / orphanage / water filtration plant) (put into practice / charity) + (establish) = (institution / facilities)
downfall
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: BOTSU
(throw)
I will throw the evil roBOTS down into the water!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
sink. (sink) + (downfall) = (sink.)
to reject or turn town
795
kill
(katakana 'me') + (tree) +

ONYOMI: SATSU I SAW TWO killers escape from the prison.
(throw)
The killer threw the victim's body in a tree and left it there.
*
kill JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
( )
suicide (my own) + (kill) = (suicide)
( ) ( )
murderer (kill) + (person) = (murderer)
assassination (dark) + (kill) = (assassination)
punch
(ward) +
ONYOMI: OU KUNYOMI:
(throw)
I say OHHHH shit!!! As you punch me so hard I'm thrown into the next ward.
*
punch JUKUGO:
( )
fistfight ( 1/2 KANA) (punch) + (to suit) = (fistfight )
LOOKALIKES:
796
punch
Europe LACK DIAPER
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Compared to Tokyo, europe LACKS PUNCH. But I punched a dude in the DIAPER after lunch.
grrrrrroin
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI: KO Two grrroins can make a KOdomo.
(throw)
A man's grrroin is an organ that throws a milky white substance known as "Mommy Fertilizer."
KUNYOMI: crotch (BOOBOO: usually people say )
JUKUGO:
( )
a comparatively polite way to say "crotch" (grrrrrroin) + (a period of time) = (polite crotch)
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charge
(car) +
(throw) +
ONYOMI: GEKI
(handleft)
When the soldiers charge, they really GET KEYed up! The car charged up and hands came out the window, throwing spears.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to shoot a weapon
( )
A military-style massive, planned attack. (attack) + (charge) = (attack)

797
( )
'real' shock (like electroshock therapy), or an emotional shock, or also just a physical impact (car crash) (collision) + (charge) = (shock/impact)
Number: 1305
(top radical)
the fly
(ten) + (eye)
DESCRIPTION: Ten + eyes = the compound insect eyes of the fly!
USED IN:
shield
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: JUN I bought my shield in JUNE.
(the fly)
You need to stand behind the cliff to shield yourself from the onslaught of the fly. He has the strength of 20 men!! KUNYOMI:
shield
JUKUGO:
( )
contradiction / hypocrisy (interesting: the kanji literally mean 'spear plus shield'! Picture a guy claiming his shield is for self-defense, even as he holds a bloody spear in his other hand) . . .. Japanese, tellingly, does not have a word for hypocrisy, so if you want to say hypocrite, you have to use this word (mujun) and try and make it fit. (halberd) + (shield) = (contradiction )
798
USED IN:
circulate
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: JUN
(shield) (Same-ON)
Blood goes from the heart to the shield and back, circulating. It helps the knight defend himself to have blood inside his body rather than outside of it. JUKUGO:
( )
a vicious circle. ( NEO ) (bad) + circle.)
( )
- zero stars! -
circulation - whether blood, air, whatever. (circulate) + (environment) = (circulation )
truth
(the fly) +
ONYOMI: SHIN
(pi)
The truth is, that the fly likes to eat on a SHINY pie. (The pie is shiny because it is coated with the fly's glistening vomit. I'm not just being sick for the sake of sick here. Flies don't have a stomach, so they have to vomit acid on their food - digesting it OUTSIDE THEIR BODY, so to speak. Then they suck up the liquefied remains through their straw-like mouth-hole.)
( xxx )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
PREFIX meaning,absolutely totally entirely XXX. usually used with colors.( , etc). The words using this prefix always use the KUNyomi. (PRE)
( ) ( )
the truth
photo (take photo: ()) (copy) + (truth) = (photo)
799
(truth) + (truth) = (the truth)
( ) ( )
the very center ( KUNKUN ) (truth) + (middle) = (the very center)
to bite someone's style, to impersonate ( FP ) (truth) + (resemble) = (bite the style)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put down on table

TREES are plants
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
refrain / be prudent
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: SHI SHE refrained from speaking the truth in her heart.
Number: 1309 13 strokes PN, FR
(truth)
DESCRIPTION: FUCKED ROOTS ALERT -- whoever invented this kanji thought that it's prudent to refrain from speaking your heart.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to be cool-headed, prudent, or discreet when it comes to something potentially disruptive. Could also be translated as 'refrain', like, 'refrain from smoking or talking loudly.' 'Don't say fuck. Watch your lanauge when you talk to nuns.'
( )
discreet, careful ( FP ) (refrain / be prudent) + (heavy / overlap) = (discreet)

800
( )
- zero stars! -
imprudent, indiscreet (un) + (refrain / be prudent) = (imprudent)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
refrain / be prudent TRUTH nostalgia UFO
Hint
Radical
Refrain from speaking the TRUTH to a person nostalgic for UFOs. Actually the space invader days were pretty bad but why argue?
prefecture
ONYOMI: KEN
Number: 1310 9 strokes SIDEKICK, SUF
(eye) + L (loser) + (small size)

KENNY 's prefecture is the poor part of South Park. A small loser, who's never seen anything outside of his home prefecture with his eyes. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
xxx - prefecture (Japan has prefectures instead of counties) ( SUF)
( )
prefectural (hospital, capital, etc.) (prefecture) + (stand up) = (prefectural)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put down on table

TREES are plants
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
801
suspend / gamble
ONYOMI: KEN KUNYOMI: ()
(prefecture) (Same-ON) + (group, tribe) +

I would bet my heart that we'll find the lost tribe in this prefecture!
(bottomheart)
* *
literally, to hang or suspend something. But since usually Japanese use the kanji to mean hang, is more often used figuratively: meaning, to gamble or stake something. One's life, one's heart, one's money, etc.
()
it is hanging / it depends on xxx. Perhaps more accurately, "XXX is at stake."
JUKUGO:
( )
to really bust ass and do one's utmost. (one) + (life / birth) + (suspend / gamble) + (life) = (bust ass)
correct a probem / direct contact

Number: 1312
8 strokes DUPE, PN, JERK
(the fly) +
L (loser)
ONYOMI: CHOKU or JIKI My hand directly smacks the fly because it's a loser. (and it vomited on my CHOCOlate) This fixed the problem of vomi-chocolate. Now I feel more JIGGY. DESCRIPTION: In jukugo, tends to use CHOKU in words that have to do with direct contact, and JIKI in words which have to do with fixing things or being nice. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
it gets fixed
to fix / reform / correct a problem ( a broken chair, an inneficient beuraracrarcy, a poorly spelled word). Doesn't mean the thing was totally fucked up. Sometimes just means do some minor alterations or revisions to make some shit perfect. Also means redo, as in (phone me back).
()
JUKUGO:
or ( or )
directly (not just direct communication, but direct anything) (adjective form:) (correct a probem / direct contact) + (directly contact) = (direct.)
802
( )
very honest person, very loyal. Person with integrity. Also means, "To tell you the truth. . . xxxx" (correct) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (honest / loyal)
xxx (xxx ) to make up with XXX , to restore a friendship (friendship) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (to make up)
( )
obedient, gentle (kind of usually used in a sexist way to compliment a lady. I have a hat with sunao written on the front which always is good for nervous laughter.) ( KUN ON) (element) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (obedient)
( )
immediately before (correct a probem / direct contact) + (before) = (immediately before )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put down on table

TREES are plants
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
put down on table

(net) +
(correct a probem / direct contact)
Put the stinky CHEESE directly down onto the net (the net will then be whisked out to sea by a pelican).
to put something down (put a pack of anchovies down on the bear's carcass) (that's not a mnemonic, BTW. That's just what I usually put down and where I usually put it).
803
JUKUGO:
( )
be located at a certain spot (as in, the 7-11 is located north of the mountains but south of the sea) (rank) + (put down on table) = (geographic location)
( )
deal with a problem that just cropped up. Usually used in business situations: deal with the missing money! Take care of the radiation leak. Manage the PR crisis. (dispose of) + (put down on table) = (take care of it!)
( )
to leave something alone. (similar to (neglect), but is value-neutral. just means "leave it as it is.") (release) + (put down on table) = (leave it as-is!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put down on table

TREES are plants
Hint
Radical
price or ranking
(personleft) +
Number: 1314 10 strokes BETA, DUPE, ILLPAIR
A CHEESE snob is a person who will only directly contact only the highest-ranked CHEESE.
price (NUBI)
a numerical value in a math or science sense. Angstroms. Light years. (not value like 'bad' or 'good')
804
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
price ( KUN ON) (price or ranking) + (step / stairs) = (price)
merit or worth - not used about money (it's worth it for the view! The good part of Dancehall is the bass!) (value) + (price or ranking) = (merit)
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
TREE plant price or ranking PERSON SHHH! multiply
Hint
Radical
TREEs are plants, but PEOPLE buy them for a price. SHHH!!! I can't tell you how people multiply.
plant
(tree) + (correct a probem / direct contact) (Same-ON)

Trees and plants can fix a problem if you smoke them.
*
JUKUGO:
to plant a plant
- zero stars! -
( )
plant (plant) + (animal / thing) = (plant)
( )
organ transplant (transfer) + (plant) = (organ transplant)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
plant
Hint
TREE
Radical
805
price or ranking PERSON SHHH! multiply

put down on table

TREES are plants
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1316 PK
(left radical)
shhh
DESCRIPTION:
the line on top is a closed mouth ), below it is a raised finger pressed to the lips, and below THAT is a box, which is a closed fist.
USED IN:
multiply
(shhh) +
ONYOMI: SHOKU
Number: 1317 12 strokes DUPE, SIDEKICK
It might SHOCK you to know how rabbits multiply. Shhh!! I'm trying to correct a sexual problem and I need to concentrate. JUKUGO:
806
( ) ( )
reproduction, as in 'reproductive organs,' or 'the reproductive process' ( NP ) (life / birth) + (multiply) = (reproduction) breeding. Unlike the related term () refers to the entire process of finding a mate, not just the physical act of insemination: Breeding grounds. Mating season. Farmers breeding livestock. (reproduction) + (multiply) = (breeding)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
TREE plant price or ranking PERSON SHHH! multiply
Hint
Radical
separate
ONYOMI: BETSU
(shhh) +
(sword)
I'll BET TWO dollars that you and your boyfriend separate by next year. If you don't shhh, I'll use my sword to separate your yapping mouth from your face! KUNYOMI: ()
( xxx ) ( xxx )
JUKUGO:
to separate, like 'break up with', or like when you separate wheat from the chaff.
means 'especially' , but always used in the negative: (this food is not really delicious.')(used by itself, as a short declaration, it's a good reply to anyone who asks you a dumb question) (SARC)
a different kind of thing
( ) ( )
special (special) + (separate) = (special )
separately, as in "separate checks" at a restaraunt
( )
to make a distinction - to tell one thing from another - 2 synonyms, for instance. or 2
807
similar-looking kanji (ward) + (separate) = (distinguish)
( )
gender (sex / essential nature) + (separate) = (gender)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
row
separate MOUTH SHHH!!
Hint
Radical
The MOUTH is loud which makes it separate from the row of people saying SHHH!
row
(shhh) +
ONYOMI: RETSU
Number: 1319 6 strokes SOLO, STRONG
(sword)
The Shogun says to the troops: Shhh!! Ten-hut! LET'S quiet down and stand in a row with our swords! It's time for an inspection.
KUNYOMI: a line of people or things which have been lined up. ? means, 'What is this line for?' (it's for tickets to see QUEEN;THE MUSICAL) (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! Hint
parallel (line up / ordinary) + (row) = ( or )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
row
separate MOUTH SHHH!!
Radical
The MOUTH is loud which makes it separate from the row of people saying SHHH!
USED IN:
tear up
(row) (Same-ON) + (cloth)
808

ONYOMI: RETSU KUNYOMI: ()
LET'S tear up the neatly lines rows of cloth.
I pick apart something strand by strand - string cheese, cloth, etc. (why they have a word specifically for this is beyond me) . Also, to break people apart, like Romeo and Juliet. (1/2 KANA)
()
it gets tore up, it splits (1/2 KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrange BUNDLE tear up SWORD
Hint
Radical
You arrange sticks in a BUNDLE, but you tear up shit with your SWORD.
violently intense
(row) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: RETSU JUKUGO:
(firebottom)
LET'S light an intense fire directly under that row of posers!
( ) ( ) ( )
intense, furious, loud (burly) + (violently intense) = (intense)
severe, violent, terrible, fierce (fierce) + (violently intense) = (fierce )
fervent, passionate enthusiasm. (hot thing / fever) + (violently intense) = (passionate enthusiasm)
example
809
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: REI
(row)
RAY SMUCKLES is an example of a def rapper. The Japanese army lined up Chinese people in a row and then bayonetted them to make an example of them. For more details of Japanese war crimes, get the incredible documentary RIBEN GUIZI (Japanese Devils) or the fictional but based-on-a-true-story Chinese film Men Behind The Sun. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
for example,~
xxx ( xxx)
for example, xxxx
( ) ( )
an exception to a rule (example) + (outside) = (exception)
an example sentence (example) + (culture/ sentence) = (an example sentence)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
support
ONYOMI: SHI
(ten) + (again/crotch radical)

SHE supports abortion and the death penalty. The pimp supports ten crotches, and he is responsible for their care, feeding, financial management, and discipline.
810
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
support - usually literal: a crutch supports a heavy tree limb or an injured person.
( )
support - usually used with support groups like "adult children of alcoholics" or "a heartwarming show of support for a city which has had a natural disaster". It's not limited to victims but it has that sort of nuance to it. ( NP ) (support) + (assist) = (support)
( )
a branch office (support) + (shop) = (a branch office)
( )
- zero stars! -
payment (noun!) (support) + (pay) = (payment (noun!))
support TEN PIMP CANE skin
Radical
Pimp supports TEN hoes, but walks with a CANE to save his skin.
USED IN:
skin
(support)
ONYOMI: HI Your mnemonic is right here:
Number: 1324 5 strokes DUPE, STRONG, PK
Pimp's gotta use a cane because HE has got a skin condition. Some kind of alligator-hide allergy, I heard. Bad news. KUNYOMI:
skin, (human or animal - also skin of an apple, or even the crust of bread!) (BOOBOO: don't use this for fur-covered skin, which is )
JUKUGO:
( )
811
animal fur - on a living animal OR on a fur coat ( KUNKUN ) (fur) + (skin) = (animal fur)
( )
sarcasm OR irony. Japanese DO have a sense of sarcasm,(for example, calling the traditional chicken-and-scrambled-eggs dish "parents and child") but it is so different than the Western say-the-opposite-of-what-you-mean style that Japanese don't have a word for western sarc. So they seem to have taken their word for Irony and pressed it into service for sarcasm as well. ( SARC) (skin) + (meat) = (sarcasm/irony)
support TEN PIMP CANE skin
Radical
Pimp supports TEN hoes, but walks with a CANE to save his skin.
USED IN:
him
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: KA He has a nice CAR. Go touch his skin!
(skin)
KUNYOMI:
he
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
her. Might also mean 'girlfriend' depending on context. (him) + (woman) = (her / girlfriend)
boyfriend. ( KUNKUN ) (him) + (mr. ) = (boyfriend.)
they ( 1/2 KANA) (him) + (equal /etc./plural) = (they)
812
branch
(tree) + (support) (Same-ON)

Not going to bother with a story to explain the visuals.
branch
JUKUGO:
( )
soybeans in the pod, usually slightly steamed and salted. ( KUNKUN ) (branch) + (bean) = (steamed soybeans)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
technique HAND TREE branch
Hint
Radical
Kung-fu gots techniques where you use your HANDS, but a TREE has something called a branch.
technique
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: GI
(support)
GEESE have a technique to find their way back home every summer. He got such crazy martial arts techniques, his hands are all the support he needs - no guns, knives, whatever. KUNYOMI:
a style or technique (usually used about martial arts, skateboard moves, or rappers, moreso than artisans or factory manufacturing)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
technique - used mostly with industry or artisans. (technique) + (art / technique) = (technique)
one's specialty
813
(special) + (technique) = (one's specialty)

technique HAND TREE branch
Kung-fu gots techniques where you use your HANDS, but a TREE has something called a branch.
drum
ONYOMI: KO
(samurai radical) + (bean) + (support)

I play drums on the KODOMO'S ()head The samurai played drums on a big bean, to support his band. JUKUGO:
( )
traditional Japanese drums - the kind that can be up to 15 feet wide. (BOOBOO: Rock and roll drums are just called .) (fat) + (drum) = (Japanese drums) heartbeat (although most people just say , the sound of a beating heart) (drum) + (movement) = (heartbeat )
- zero stars! -
( )
rend
ONYOMI: HA KUNYOMI: ()
(rock) + (skin)
HAHA! I threw a rock which rent your skin!
violate, destroy, tear up. Often used figuratively- she breaks the rules, he breaks with convention, they broke the promise or the rules.
()
*
- zero stars! -
shit gets torn up
JUKUGO:
814
( ) ( )
fragment (rend) + (fragment) = (fragment)
Destruction. Ususaly used about bombs, or 'President Bush destroyed the economy,'. . . pretty much the same circumstances you'd use the English word. (BOOBOO: you can't use with this one, for some reason. It's one of those nouns you can't verb) (rend) + (break) = ( Destruction.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
get injured DUCKY rend STONE
The DUCKY got injured, When I rent him with a sharp STONE.
wave
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HA KUNYOMI:
(skin)
HA! I laugh as your skin gets wet by the wave.
wave
JUKUGO:
( )
radio wave/ reception - why do you need this one? Here's why: ( = the reception is bad here - I can't hear you on my keitai!) (electricity) + (wave) = (reception)
( )
tsunami ( KUNKUN )
- zero stars! -
SKIN wave wander GOOD
Radical
The wave gets your SKIN wet faster, but the ronin finds it's GOOD to not have a master.
815
Mama
DESCRIPTION: . . . from the katakana "ma" STRONG for odors.
Number: 1331 PK
USED IN:
courage
ONYOMI: YUU JUKUGO:
(Mama) + (man)
YOU men get your courage from a strong and supportive Mama. (Wuss.)
or ( or ) ( )
courage (courage) + (mood) = (courage)
to encourage someone ( 1/2 KANA) (courage) + (mood) + (stick to) = (encourage)
beforehand
(Mama) + (nail)
ONYOMI: YO JUKUGO:
I put a nail in YO mama beforehand, so she wouldn't struggle too much.
( ) ( )
an informal plan (like to meet your friends for a movie) (beforehand) + (plan) = (an informal plan)
reservation, appointment (beforehand) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (reservation)

816
( )
forecast, prediction (beforehand) + (data) = (forecast, prediction)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
first part / preface

(cave) +
ONYOMI: JO Finding your dick is the first part of Jacking Off.
(beforehand)
You have to go in the first part of the cave before you go into the depths.
KUNYOMI: the first part - also means the order. as in, xxx (in order of XXX) (LAZY)
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
Preface or introduction. (first part / preface) + (culture/ sentence) = (Preface)
( )
- zero stars! -
the sequence of steps in a proceedure - the order of books arranged by a certain system, (i.e. Dewey Decimal). (sequence) + (first part / preface) = (sequence of steps)
deposit
(beforehand) (Same-ON) +
(headright)
817
ONYOMI: YO I deposit a YOYO in the toybox. Before you deposit a human head into your safe deposit box, you have to fill out the forms. KUNYOMI:
( ) to deposit (money in a bank) to leave (your backpack with the paranoid cashier of the CD store) JUKUGO:
( )
bank deposit (deposit) + (gold) = (bank deposit)

- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
summit/climax
Hint
NAIL
Radical
BEFORE CRAFT
field
ONYOMI: YA
(village) + (beforehand)
YA gotta know where the field is. Before this was a village it was just an empty field. KUNYOMI:
- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
vegetable (field) + (vegetable) = (vegetable)
( ) ( )
soccer??? No, wait, badminton. (field) + (sphere) = (baseball)
818
you know that word that all the rappers call each other? In Japanese, that's Like the American equivalent, can be a term of camaraderie or a big insult, depending on how well you know the rapper. ( KANA)
halberd
ONYOMI: MU
Number: 1337
- zero 5 strokes stars! OBSOLETE
(beforehand) + (katakana 'no')

Stab a MOOcow with your halberd. beforehand + one more line - a pointy line - which is the halberd in question. The guy had the halberd ready BEFOREHAND, to stab your ass.
Also he seems to be flipping you off. JUKUGO:
( )
contradiction / hypocrisy (interesting: the kanji literally mean 'spear plus shield'! Picture a guy claiming his shield is for self-defense, even as he holds a bloody spear in his other hand) . . .. Japanese, tellingly, does not have a word for hypocrisy, so if you want to say hypocrite, you have to use this word (mujun) and try and make it fit. (halberd) + (shield) = (contradiction )
( )
- zero stars! -
literally 'spearhead'; figuratively, the brunt. (halberd) + (earlier/ the tip) = (bruuuunt)
USED IN:
flexible
ONYOMI: JUU
(halberd) + (tree)
Flexible JEWS sometimes eat this:
819
The halberd is made from a flexible wood, so when you stab someone it doesn't hurt them. DESCRIPTION: This 'soft' has more of a good meaning than the OTHER 'soft' kanji (): flexible rather than weak.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
flexible, mild, gentle. In pornos, when someone grabs a handful of boobie and yells '!!' they're using this kanji, not Also you can use for an object which bends like a novelty 'krazy straw', or if you tap it with your finger, the finger leaves a little dent (dead body). (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
- zero stars! Hint
flexible, like a Crazy Straw / elastic (flexible) + (soft) = (flexible)
Judo (flexible) + (street) = (Judo)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Radical
perform a task
ONYOMI: MU KUNYOMI:
(halberd) (Same-ON) + (strong) +

*
(director)
I use all my strength and my halberd when I perform tasks for the directors.
( or xxx ) to work in the capacity of XXX, to play the role of XXX (not used with actual actors, though) JUKUGO:
820
( )
the office. Although, they say that some Yakuza groups also call themselves 'jimusho' as in, 'If you don't pay, they won't be happy down at the office.' ( ABU) (action/ incident) + (perform a task) + (area / attribute) = (office)
( )
an obligation to society - like voting, paying taxes, going to school, or in some cases, the army. (righteousness) + (perform a task) = (social obligation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
doubt
Hint
Radical
perform a task HALBERD

You're a HEEL, so I doubt you'll do the work. But this HALBERD pointing at you makes you perform your tasks.
HEEL
USED IN:
bundle of sticks
ONYOMI: SOKU
(tree) + (mouth/small box radical)

I always wear SOCKS when I walk on bundles of sticks. I don't want to get SPLINTERS. According to my system, it's tree () plus mouth () but fuck it- it's easier to just think of it as what it looks like:
DESCRIPTION: "Faggot" is an interesting concept. To an ancient Frankish barbarian, it meant "bundle of sticks," in English it means a gay man, in German it means bassoon, in Italian it's the symbol of homophobic Fascism, and in Japanese it's just . Imagine the tree is just a bunch of lumber and the loop around it is kind of a rope tied in a knot, holding the lumber together. It is a bundle!!
KUNYOMI:
bundle
JUKUGO:
( )
promise (promise/ roughly speaking) + (bundle of sticks) = (promise)
( )
to restrain, to restrict, tie up in red tape.

821
(bundle of sticks) + (tie up) = (restrain)

USED IN:
shun
ONYOMI: SO
(Mama) + (stop) + (bundle of sticks)

Everyone shuns Some One. I wish your mama would stop shunning bundles of sticks. She's a homophobe. KUNYOMI: ()
emotionally distant from, or: to not know a lot about
JUKUGO:
( )
alienation withdrawl (shun) alienation
( )
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(usually it means alienation from society or the world at large - more of a or angsty thing) + (outside) + (feeling) = (alienation (usually it means from society or the world at large - more of a withdrawl or angsty thing))
to become estranged from, alienated from (usually used about a specific person or people: ex-husband, family, group of friends, etc.) (shun) + (far) = (become estranged from)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
ask a favor
(bundle of sticks) +
ONYOMI: RAI
(headright)
822
I wanted to ask you a favor -- can you carry this bundle on your head? It's really LIGHT.
Thanks! KUNYOMI:
* *
to ask someone to do something for you. You can use this when ordering food at a restaraunt, but also when asking a favor from a friend. has the nuance that the person being asked can refuse. (1/2 KANA)
a favor, a request.
( or ) to trust or rely on someone: Say, you're robbing a bank and you get your friend to be the getaway driver. You have to count on him to actually be waiting when you get out of the bank. JUKUGO:
( )
a request or commission. Not like 'Please pass the salt,' but like 'I'd like to hire you to make a custom suit' or to hire a lawyer or PR firm. Any relationship where you'd use the phrase "The client wants. . ... "is (depend on) + (ask a favor) = (commission)
( )
client ( NP )
you to make a custom suit' or to hire a lawyer or PR firm. Any relationship where you'd use the phrase "The client wants. . ... "is ) + (person) = (client)
( )
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trust (believe) + (ask a favor) = (trust)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
823
fast
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SOKU
(bundle of sticks)
Your Mama runs faster in SOCKS than in shoes (because she doesn't know how to tie laces). The bundle of sticks moves fast when it rolls downhill. KUNYOMI:
* ( )
JUKUGO:
fast speed
like , but emphasizes finishing something quickly, rather than STARTING it immediately. Usually used in an office - give this document or procedure top priority! (NP)
xxx! ( xxx!) ( )
do XXX immediately! ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (early) + (fast) = (do XXX immediately!)
speed (fast) + (times) = (speed)
arrange
ONYOMI: SEI KUNYOMI: ()
(bundle of sticks) +
* *
(director) +
(stop)
The director says, you gotta stop doing what you're doing and arrange these sticks into a bundle.
to arrange or prepare - usually used with "prepare a hairstyle", or "clean up a sentence on a re-write of a paper", and not used anywhere else. Sometimes books will refer to someone who is pretty as having a (totono-ta kao) (literally: a well-arranged face!)
()
something is arranged in a certain formation.
JUKUGO:
824
( ) ( )
arrange things, like arranging papers alphabetically, or arranging books by topic. (arrange) + (reason) = (arrange)
plastic surgery (arrange) + (form) = (plastic surgery)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrange BUNDLE tear up SWORD
Hint
Radical
You arrange sticks in a BUNDLE, but you tear up shit with your SWORD.
Number: 1345
(right radical)
pass radical
(Mama) + (utilize)
DESCRIPTION: I call it the pass radical because it's the main radical in 'pass,' one of the most common kanji. Also, your mama utilizes a bullhorn to pass gas.
USED IN:
pass
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TSUU TWO cars move and pass through a tunnel. KUNYOMI: () ()
Number: 1346 10 strokes ???
(pass radical)
* *
to go past???
I make something go in or through - either literally (i.e. threading a needle, escorting a guest inside) or figuratively (to force one's opinion through a meeting or to keep crying all night)
( or ) go to (used only with places like school or work, where you go there regularly)
a big road, an avenue. (NUBI - is a SUFFIX which goes after the name of the avenue. You'd never say, "Hey, which way is the ?") (NUBI)
825
JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( )
normal / normally (normal) + (pass) = (normal / normally)
traffic (combine) + (pass) = (traffic)
dance
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(foot/ be enough) +
*
(pass radical)
You pass your feet left and right when you dance.
to dance (BOOBOO: in conversation people are more likely to say ) (1/2 KANA)
t-bone steak
USED IN:
Number: 1348 DUH
pattern
U:**
(tree) + (t-bone steak)

ONYOMI: HEI - you don't need this The conduct of the Bush administration clearly demonstrates a pattern of HATE for science.
Both trees and t-bone steaks have distinctive patterns: wood-grain and fat-marbling.
KUNYOMI:
pattern - both representational (i.e. flower wallpaper) and abstract (the pattern of wood-grain). (1/2 KANA)
826
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
national character ( KUNKUN ) (country) + (pattern) = (national character) personal character (kind of a formal, news-paperish word. Usually we'd say ( ) for personality, or () for someone's essential nature) ( NP , KUNKUN )
(person) + (pattern) = (personal character )

to supply STRING WOODEN pattern
I'll supply you with STRING so you can weave a WOODEN pattern with it.
Number: 1350 SYMBOLIC
(big radical)
sick
(cliff) +
(dot)
DESCRIPTION: Think of it as a SICK cliff, and those 3 little dots are spots, buboes, skin tags, warts, eczema flakes, etc. covering the sick cliff. SEND A CARD, MOTHERFUCKER!
USED IN:
sick kanji
(sick) +
ONYOMI: BYOU Your B.O. is making me sick.
(t-bone steak)
He got sick from eating a t-bone steak. JUKUGO:
( )
sick (sick kanji) + (mood) = (sick)
XXX
(XXX )
827
SUFFIX meaning, "xxx-disease" ( SUF)
( )
what you got from your pops. (sex / essential nature) + (sick kanji) = (STD)
( )
mental hospital
to say "Samurai spirits!" this is the one you'll use.) + (mental hospital)
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hurts!!!
(sick) +
ONYOMI: TSUU I'm so sick, it hurts TOO pass gas. KUNYOMI:
(pass radical) (Same-ON)
OW!!!! To say in a slang way: ! Or if you're an old man: ! . . .but those last two aren't ever written using the kanji.
*
JUKUGO:
(noun) pain
( )
headache ( FP ) (head) + (hurts!!!) = (headache) pain-killer, like aspirin. (BOOBOO: not anaesthetic, which is () ) (hurts!!!) + (stop) = (pain-killer,)
( ) ( )
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deep , bitter regret (hurts!!!) + (hold a grudge) = (deep , bitter regret)
Number: 1353
828
get tired from hard work

(sick) +
ONYOMI: HI HE gets tired of that sick rash on his skin! KUNYOMI:
10 strokes SOLO
(skin) (Same-ON)
( or ) be tired from hard work - (BOOBOO:not to be confused with ( ), which means tired because you're up past your bedtime.)
diarrhea
(sick) +
ONYOMI: RI
(handy)
This place REEKS of diarrhea (FYI the place is your pants) If you are sick with diarrhea, keep a toilet handy. JUKUGO:
( )
diarrhea (below) + (diarrhea) = (diarrhea )
molester
(sick) +
ONYOMI: CHI JUKUGO:
(know)
The molester acquires sick knowledge in his CHEESY exploits.
( )
Usually means Chinese: it's used in a lot of obscure words ('Chinese dictionary,' 'Chinese herbal medicine,' 'Chinese classical literature,' etc.) HOWEVER - aside from - the only time is really used in daily life is here: , meaning a guy who molests or gropes women on crowded trains.
829
So the literal reading is: 'sick Chinese' !WTF??? ( FR, 1/2 KANA) (molester) + (Chinese) = (train pervert)
xxx
(xxx )
literally, to be tone-deaf, unable to carry a tune. But you can also say, , which means 'to have no sense of direction,to get lost a lot.' One more idiom: : (undou onchi) means terrible at sports. (sound) + (molester) = (terrible at --xxx)
( )
grumble or mutter a complaint over and over - to bitch, whine, grouse, sing the blues. (as opposed to () which means make a loud and articulate complaint) ( 1/2 KANA) (dum diddy dum dum) + (molester) = (grumble)
symptom
(correct) (Same-ON) +
(sick)
You're SHOWING symptoms of the sickness, so you're correct to say you have it!
XXX ( XXX )
SUFFIX meaning XXXdisease. ( SUF)
( )
hay fever (flower) + (powder) + (symptom) = (hay fever)
XXX
(XXX )
xxx- phobia ( SUF) (super duper terror) + (symptom) = (xxx- phobia)
( )
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symptom of a disease (symptom) + (circumstance) = (symptom)
go numb
830
(sick) +
ONYOMI: HI
(despicable) (Same-ON)
HE got sick and the despicable germs made him numb. KUNYOMI: ()
go numb (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
paralysis (mah jongg / ganja) + (go numb) = (paralysis)

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Number: 1358 STRONG
(right radical)
butcher
(peaked roof) +
(moon/organ) + (sword)
DESCRIPTION: STRONG RADICAL for "YU" (the keyword for YU is 'Your Underpants', BTW) The butcher cuts up organs with a sword in his store with a peaked roof, while wearing Your Underpants.
USED IN:
cure
(sick) +
ONYOMI: YU KUNYOMI:
(butcher) (Same-ON) +
(heart)
I cured the sick heart of the butcher using Your Underpants. He'll never be lonely again!
831
*
JUKUGO:
healing (noun) (emphasis on making the pain go away: the healing effect of music, or the healing power of the Ganges)
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( )
healing in general : (the healing process / an unhealed wound / taking too long to heal) (cure) + (cure) = (healing)
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pleasure
(heart) +
ONYOMI: YU
(butcher) (Same-ON)
Wearing Your Underpants gives me a pleasure I simply can't describe. He became a butcher is because chopping meat gives his heart pleasure. DESCRIPTION: This tanoshii means the same as the OTHER tanoshii (), except that is very literary and pretentious. Basically the only time you'll see is if your friend is typing on his cell phone and the "auto-complete" feature selects this one instead of the usual one. However, that happens a lot in today's troubled society, so it might be worth your while to learn . (As a matter of fact, there's a LOT of kanji that only occur as a result of auto-complete snafus. Older folks who complain that the internets is making young Japanese kind of illiterate and culturally myopic should be thanking auto-complete - it's responsible for accidentally reviving a whole CLASS of old words! ) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
enjoyable! Fun!
( )
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pleasant or amusing (a funny guy, hilarious comments, a fun time) (pleasure) + (pleasant) = (amusing)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
pleasure
Hint
Radical
BUTCHER
to fall in love with RIBCAGE
It gives the BUTCHER pleasure to fall in love with a ANIMAL RIBCAGE.
832
chide / guide
(say) +
ONYOMI: YU
(butcher) (Same-ON)
Chide the butcher when you say, "Cut my baloney thinner, dongpipe!" DESCRIPTION: (BOOBOO: dongpipe isn't a real insult) KUNYOMI:
( ) NOT VERY USEFUL. Means to gently advise or guide someone. Not a scolding, but it has the connotation of parent-to-child.
transport
(car) +
ONYOMI: YU JUKUGO:
(butcher) (Same-ON)
The car transports YOUR UNDERPANTS to the butcher.
( ) ( ) ( )
import (transport) + (put/go in) = (import)
export (transport) + (pull out / hand over) = (export)
smuggling (hard to see) + (transport) = (smuggling)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
transport BUTCHER ring/tire LIBRARY
Hint
Radical
You transport meat to the BUTCHER, but I check out a ring from the LIBRARY.
Number: 1363
833
(top radical)
stinky
(corpse) +
(mouth/small box radical) + (spicy / painful)
DESCRIPTION: A corpse with garlic spice in its mouth is exceptionally stinky! I'm calling it stinky because most of the kanji which use it have a negative vibe to them.
USED IN:
bad habit
(sick) +
ONYOMI: HEKI
(stinky)
He's got a bad habit of stinking so bad people think he's sick. That's a HECK of a bad habit! KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
bad habit. But not that bad. Gambling or hoe-hopping is like a "akushumi". is just like biting your nails or saying "like" a lot, although it is usually more unique and distinctive.
xxx YYY!! (xxx YYY!!) a very disapproving way of saying "but still". As in, "He don't even have money for rent but still he just got a $200 Bathing Ape shoe.": bape ! ( 1/2 KANA)
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avoid / dodge
(motion) +
ONYOMI: HI
(stinky)
HE is moving to avoid the stinky guys because he's a snobby fuck. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
dodge (a bullet, a kick) (can be used figuratively; avoid the consequences, escape punishment)
834
( ) ( )
to take shelter , to evacuate (avoid / dodge) + (difficult) = (evacuate)
birth control (avoid / dodge) + (pregnant) = (birth control)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
avoid / dodge MOVING wall EARTH
Hint
Radical
The wall is built on EARTH, but you avoid a jerk by MOVING away.
wall
(stinky) +
ONYOMI: HEKI
(earth)
What the HECK is this wall doing here? Oh, I get it,I'm drunk. Build a wall on earth to keep the stinky people outside! KUNYOMI:
wall
JUKUGO:
( )
the language barrier ( NEO ) (say) + (language) + (wall) = (the language barrier )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
avoid / dodge MOVING wall EARTH
Hint
Radical
The wall is built on EARTH, but you avoid a jerk by MOVING away.
Number: 1367 STRONG, SYMBOLIC
small talk
835
(big) +
DESCRIPTION:
(horny) +
(sun, day) + (small size)
SYMBOLIC : This is usually used in kanji about jobs or structured social get-togethers: That's why I called it small talk. So you could say . . . At our office we make small talk about who is big, who is horny, it's a sunny day ,and what office supplies to REORDER. STRONG RADICAL for RYOU
USED IN:
medical therapy
(sick) +
(small talk) (Same-ON)
The nurse made small talk with the sick patient, to distract him as she did some painful therapy.
( ) ( )
medical treatment- the kind one gets in a hospital (x-rays, MRI, surgery, etc.) (doctor) + (medical therapy) = (medical treatment) medical therapy - for instance, cancer would be chemo. Unlike the related term () refers to ongoing, repeated-once-a-day/week processes for specific illnesses) (cure) + (medical therapy) = (therapy)
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dormitory
(crown) +
ONYOMI: RYOU KUNYOMI:
Make small talk about crowns in your dormitory.
dormitory
836
coworker
(personleft) +
My coworker is a person whom I have to make small talk with at the water cooler.
( ) ( )
coworker (same) + (coworker) = (coworker)
a senior bureaucrat - not the kind at the DMV, but the high powered kind that get like
millions in bribes, kickbacks, and revolving-door funds. (federal) + (coworker) = (senior bureaucrat)
humbly say/god radical

(right radical)
Number: 1371
5 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC, STRONG, JERK RADICAL
(rice field) + (one/line radical)

ONYOMI: Simple.
The line goes above and below the rice field, because rice fields represent Earth, but God goes from Heaven (above) to Hell (below).
DESCRIPTION: The kunyomi is only used on formal occasions, but you should learn it anyway because it is like one of the most common formal words! On the other hand, as a radical, it means "god",and it is seen really often. STRONG RADICAL for the ON-yomi of SHIN. KUNYOMI: ()
When you're talking to a superior person, you use instead of to describe your own speech. (Instead of saying, 'My name is Ruttiger', you'd say 'Ruttiger!) (F)
JUKUGO:
( )
really really really sorry. That your mom got big-boned. ( F ) (humbly say) + (reason / translation) = (sorry'n shit) ( )
837
an application (for a loan or to go to college, etc) (humbly say) + (get crowded) = (application)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
line goes DOWN turtle shell freedom / reason line goes UP LINE GOES UP AND DOWN humbly say
Hint
Radical
The turtle's head() goes DOWN into its shell. But you have the freedom to reach UP() to the stars. GOD ()is infinite so the line sticks OUT ON BOTH SIDEZZZ.
USED IN:
(right radical)
lose weightlose
(sick) +
ONYOMI: SOU
(humbly say/god radical) + (again/crotch radical)
The sick, anorexic model lost SO much weight God punished her crotch: she stopped menstruating.
KUNYOMI:
to lose weight (KANA)
gentleman
ONYOMI: SHIN JUKUGO:
(string) + (humbly say/god radical) (Same-ON)

Noble and virtuous behavior is like a string which connects a gentleman to god.
( )
gentleman (gentleman) + (samurai radical) = (gentleman)
Number: 1374
838
search
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: SOU
10 strokes DUPE
(humbly say/god radical) + (again/crotch radical)
SO many people search for love, SO few find it. "That's the hand of God searching for your crotch." At least that's what Father Flannagan told you. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
search for something you lost (carkeys, sanity) or cops searching for a criminal.
( )
criminal investigation ( NP ) (search) + (inspect) = (criminal investigation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
deep
Hint
Radical
gather
look for HANDS NEST
PIE

stretch
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHIN KUNYOMI: ()
(humbly say/god radical) (Same-ON)
A person tries to stretch up to the SHINing light of God, but always falls short.
to intentionally stretch , to extend. Unlike the OTHER () is more used with things: stretch your back, extend a collapsible umbrella/telescope/ admantium claw.
839
()
something automatically lengthens or grows - like hair or grass. Something extends further- a forest that extends all the way to the ocean, or days of summer that get longer.
JUKUGO:
( )
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to stretch your body (stature / small of the back) + (stretch) = (to stretch your body)
stretch PERSON / GOD HANDS push
Radical
A PERSON stretches up to try to touch god, but you push with your HANDS.
turtle shell
ONYOMI: KOU
(humbly say/god radical)

as in, Shove a turtle shell up your COLON. It looks like the God radical(), but the vertical line only goes DOWN. That's because the turtle's head() goes DOWN into its shell when he's scared(but GOD ()is infinite so the line sticks OUT ON BOTH SIDEZZZ) KUNYOMI:
turtle shell
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
reason for living ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (life / birth) + (turtle shell) = (reason for living)
back of one's hand (hand) + (turtle shell) = (back of one's hand)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
840
Hint
Radical
The turtle's head() goes DOWN into its shell.
But you have the freedom to reach UP() to the stars. GOD ()is infinite so the line sticks OUT ON BOTH SIDEZZZ.
USED IN:
push
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: OU KUNYOMI:
(turtle shell)
Mario's hand pushes down on the turtle shell and the Toopa says OH SHIT and bails right out of there.
*
JUKUGO:
push
physically hold down or restrain
( )
closet (push) + (put/go in) = (closet )
stretch PERSON / GOD HANDS push
Radical
A PERSON stretches up to try to touch god, but you push with your HANDS.
freedom / reason
(humbly say/god radical)
ONYOMI: YUU YOU want to be free, don't you?
Number: 1378 5 strokes PN, PK, BETA, JERK
Looks like the God radical, but the vertical line only goes UP. That's because humans always reach UP, searching for freedom. JUKUGO:
( )
freedom
841
(my own) + (freedom / reason) = (freedom)
( )
reason (for doing something) (reason) + (freedom / reason) = (reason)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
The turtle's head() goes DOWN into its shell. But you have the freedom to reach UP() to the stars. GOD ()is infinite so the line sticks OUT ON BOTH SIDEZZZ.
USED IN:
abstract
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: CHUU
(freedom / reason)
In the abstract, I'd like to CHEW on your earlobe, but in practice, your ear smells strongly of wax and there's bees living in it. Your hand can't grab freedom because freedom is an abstraction. JUKUGO:
( )
abstract (thought) or figurative (meaning) (abstract) + (elephant / phenomenon) + (motivation / '-al') = (abstract)
space
(crown) +
ONYOMI: CHUU
(freedom / reason)
The space alien wants to kiss you like CHUU. In space, everyone has the freedom to crown themselves King of Space . There's no one around for millions of miles, so who is going to contradict you?
842
JUKUGO:
( )
alien
(outer space) + (person) = (alien)
( )
outer space (cosmos) + (space) = (outer space)
( )
oil
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: YU KUNYOMI:
(freedom / reason)
I have the freedom to splash Your Underpants with a liquid called oil.
oil JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
let down your guard. (oil) + (decision/judgement/refuse) = (let down your guard.)
soy sauce! (usually KANA, so I'm just giving it *) ( KANA)
Number: 1382 8 strokes JERK, SOLO

843
extend to
(corpse) +
ONYOMI:
(freedom / reason)
Freedom does not extend to corpses, who have nothing to say. DESCRIPTION: is used in two kunyomi words, which look like a normal jidoshi/tadoshi verb pair , but in fact they have totally separate meanings. Jerk! KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
to give your paperwork to the bureauacrats, to give an official report. to physically reach with your hands (reach for the top shelf, etc) (what is fucked up is that the form is , which is the same exact pronunciation as the first word!
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
OLD live extend to FREEDOM
Hint
Radical
The OLD lady lived a long time, but FREEDOM extends only to the young.
Number: 1383 STRONG
(right radical)
soup
(turtle shell) +
STRONG ONYOMI for GUU
??? (???)
DESCRIPTION: George Michael has a turtle shell in his stache from eating turtle soup!
USED IN:
coincidence
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: GUU JUKUGO:
(soup) (Same-ON)
It was a coincidence that I ran into that person just as I was talking about the time he made GOOEY soup.
844
or ( or ) ( )
accidentally, coincidence (coincidence) + (nature) = (coincidence)
spouse (you only need this if you are getting married to a Japanese and want a 'spouse visa.') ( NP ) (distribute) + (coincidence) + (professional) = (spouse )
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corner of room
(town) +
ONYOMI: GUU KUNYOMI:
(soup) (Same-ON)
That is the corner of the town where they make GOOEY soup.
corner of a room (BOOBOO: corner of an object - a table, a sheet of paper, etc, is ())
dum diddy dum dum

(soup) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: GU
(bottomheart)
This kanji has "GU-with-a-short-U" UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER "SOUP" KANJI WHICH HAVE A "GUUUU" ON-YOMI!) So we need a new keyword: "Get Up" As in: Get Up! only dummys oversleep. He 's dumb, so he ate high-fat soup until he caught a heart attack. DESCRIPTION: DUM diddy, DUM diddy, DIDDY dum DUM!!!!!
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KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
foolish (1/2 KANA)
( )
grumble or mutter a complaint over and over - to bitch, whine, grouse, sing the blues. (as opposed to () which means make a loud and articulate complaint) ( 1/2 KANA)
845
(dum diddy dum dum) + (molester) = (grumble)
( )
stupid question (dum diddy dum dum) + (question, problem) = (stupid question)
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rain
ONYOMI: U This heavy rain is URUSAI.
Number: 1387 8 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC
(dot)
Capital 'T' plus a Mosutache, plus four dots (which are, of course, raindrops). let's say "T" stands for TOM of Finland, whose Moustache got wet in the rain. KUNYOMI:
rain
JUKUGO:
( )
rain forest ( NEO ) (rain) + (grove) = (rain forest)
USED IN:
fog
ONYOMI: MU
(rain) + (perform a task) (Same-ON)

You can hear the cows MOOing when they get lost in the fog. We can't perform our tasks in all this fog and rain!
KUNYOMI:
fog
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
outdoors, public ROAD MAKE AN EFFORT fog
Hint
Radical
846
The ROAD is outdoors. You have to MAKE AN EFFORT to find it in this fog!
cloud
ONYOMI: UN
Number: 1389 12 strokes ILL PAIR.SOLO
(rain) + (twin decapited cows)

It's UNlucky to play with electricity on a cloudy day. Clouds rain on the severed heads of Siamese twin cows.
KUNYOMI:
cloud
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
lightning
RICE FIELD
Hint
Radical
shake, tremble PAYBACK cloud get cloudy MOOCOW SUN
Lightning hits the RICE FIELD so near PAYBACK makes me tremble with fear Cloud hovers over a MOOCOW, but when the SUN is hidden behind clouds, it gets more cloudy.
USED IN:
get cloudy
ONYOMI:
(sun, day) + (cloud)

It's getting cloudy but you can still see the sun a little.
KUNYOMI:
get cloudy
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
lightning
RICE FIELD
Hint
Radical
shake, tremble PAYBACK
847
cloud get cloudy
MOOCOW SUN
frost
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(rain) + (partner)
In winter, frost is the partner of rain.
frost
lightning
ONYOMI: RAI
(rain) + (rice field)

The RAIghtning fell from the rainy sky onto the rice field DESCRIPTION: The sound effect of thunder is GORO, GORO!!!
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
KUNYOMI:
lightning and thunder (in Japanese, the same word applies to both, which kind of makes sense)
lightning
RICE FIELD
Hint
Radical
Lightning hits the RICE FIELD so near

848
PAYBACK makes me tremble with fear Cloud hovers over a MOOCOW, but when the SUN is hidden behind clouds, it gets more cloudy.
shake, tremble
(rain) +
KUNYOMI: ()
(payback) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: SHIN It's raining so hard the ground is shaking, and SHINING. It must be payback for that dry spell we've been having.
to shake or tremble
JUKUGO:
( )
earthquake ( FP ) (area) + (shake, tremble) = (earthquake)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
lightning
RICE FIELD
Hint
Radical
leak
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: ROU
(corpse) +
(rain)
849
There's so much water leaking from my ceiling I could ROW a boat through it. Call the fuckin' landlord. I'll put his ass in a sling god damn it.
The bodily fluids leaked out of the corpse like rain. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
I leak. Used with bed wetting, as well as (figuratively) when someone inadvertently betrays a secret, or vents indignation.
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()
something is leakingor escaping
snow
(rain) +
(snout)
ONYOMI: SETSU
Grandpa SAID TO her, my left knee is itchy, it'll snow tonight! Snow is a term for cocaine, which rains into the snouts of the businessmen, gangsters, and the show business community. KUNYOMI:
Snow
atmosphere
ONYOMI: FUN
(rain) + (understand / divide / minute)

The atmosphere of this party is no FUN. Please understand that rain falls from the atmosphere JUKUGO:
( )
the atmosphere of a place (usually figurative!) (atmosphere) + (surround) + (mood) = (atmosphere)
outdoors, public
(rain) + (road) (Same-ON)
850

ONYOMI: RO JUKUGO:
It rains on the ROAD outdoors.
( )
exhibitionist (outdoors, public) + (pull out / hand over) + (go nuts) = (exhibitionist)
( )
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outdoor hot springs baths - AKA the best shit ever. (outdoors, public) + (heaven) + (wind / the flu / style) + (washtub) = (outdoor hot springs )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
outdoors, public ROAD MAKE AN EFFORT fog
Hint
Radical
The ROAD is outdoors. You have to MAKE AN EFFORT to find it in this fog!
Number: 1398 PK
(bottom radical)
hedgehog
DESCRIPTION: . . . Because it is close to the ground, and has spines on its back.
USED IN:
ghost
ONYOMI: REI
(rain) + (two) +
(hedgehog)
I shot him with my RAYgun and he turned into a ghost. Here come the ghosts of 2 deceased hedgehogs who died in the rainstorm. JUKUGO:
( )
a vengeful ghost - unlike () and (), were once human and driven by revenge. are more popular in horror movies (like The Ring),
851
whereas are more traditional. (occult) + (ghost) = (ghost)
( )
an evil spirit; a spirit who puts curses on people, or brings misfortune to entire towns, or possesses innocent fools. Unlike , they don't attack you directly, and unlike don't have a physical form ( FP ) (bad) + (ghost) = (evil spirit)
( )
inspiration. To get inspired: () To inspire someone: () (ghost) + (feeling) = (inspiration)
become damp, moisten

Number: 1400
12 strokes
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SHITSU
(sun, day) +
(hedgehog)
I could give two SHITS if you are getting moist in your area, because I'm gay.
The spines of the hedgehog glistened with moist water in the morning sunshine. DESCRIPTION: (BOOBOO: this kanji is NOT used for humid weather. that's ( )) (also it's not really used for horny girls - in that case you'd say or ) KUNYOMI: ()
to get moist or damp

852
JUKUGO:
( )
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humidifier (add) + (become damp, moisten) + (instrument) = (humidifier)
business
(hedgehog) +
ONYOMI: GYOU
(tree) + (sheep)
GET YOUR business running with a cheap loan. The hedgehogs did business with the sheep - selling them trees to eat. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
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overtime work (remain behind) + (business) = (overtime work)
heavy industry, like 'the steel or construction industry.' (childbirth, production of things) + (business) = (heavy industry)
industry (craft or industry) + (business) = (industry)
the fishing industry
USED IN:
me (for dudes)
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BOKU
(business)
I(boku) am a person who is in business for myself!
KUNYOMI:
me (LAZY, 1/2 KANA)

853
JUKUGO:
( )
us (said by men) (me (for dudes)) + (plural/delivery) = (us )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
me (for dudes) PERSON HAND eradicate
Hint
Radical
Me is a PERSON, who is eradicating you with my HAND. QED motherfucker.
eradicate
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: BOKU
(business) (Same-ON)
It's a violent kanji, so we can think of the hand as a fist. So : The business of MY fist is eradicating posers. JUKUGO:
( )
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eradicate (a pest or disease) 'The new task force will eradicate drugs once and for all!' (eradicate) + (annihilate) = (eradicate)
( )
Sumo. I've seen a bunch of of straight porn featuring 'sexy sumo wrestler girls,' but I've been unable to find a single gay sumo porn. Which either means, a) gay dudes think sumo are trolls, b) gay dudes have too much respect for the manliness of Sumo to do a x-rated parody, or c) gay dudes just jerk it to regular sumo on the tube for free. ( FP , CCW) (partner) + (eradicate) = (Sumo)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
me (for dudes) PERSON HAND eradicate
Hint
Radical
Me is a PERSON, who is eradicating you with my HAND. QED motherfucker.
Number: 1404
854
(rice field) + (one/line radical)

DESCRIPTION: Let's call the curved line on the bottom, a "tail." So now we can say,. . . There's a dragon trying to hide in the rice field , but you can tell because its tail is sticking out.
dragon radical
USED IN:
dragon
(stand up) +
ONYOMI: RYUU
Number: 1405 10 strokes PN, COCK
(dragon radical)
Bruce Lee has a new environmentally friendly movie out called REUSE THE DRAGON. When the dragon stands up you are pretty much a lost cause.
KUNYOMI:
In theory, the kunyomi of dragon is TATSU - but oddly it's never used ABOUT DRAGONS THEMSELVES. For example, if you see a dragon, you have to use the ON yomi - 'Hey! It's a ryuu!' However CONFUSINGLY - some jukugo - such as 'seahorse' and 'tornado' use this kunyomi (TATSU). . . .It's basically the reverse of how kun and on are usually used. (COCK)
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JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
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dinosaur!! (dread) + (dragon) = (dinosaur!! )
whirlwind or tornado (dragon) + (roll up) = (whirlwind)
waterfall
(waterleft) +
(dragon radical)
855
ONYOMI: The huge waterfall had all the power of a raging dragon. KUNYOMI:
waterfall
electricity
(rain) +
ONYOMI: DEN
(dragon radical)
I flip the switch and DEN the electric light goes on. Electricity comes from lightning in the rain and also from the lightning breath of dragons. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
train (electricity) + (car) = (train)
telephone (electricity) + (conversation) = (telephone)
electricity. Also, instead of saying 'lamp,' most people will merely say, 'Turn on the denki, would you?' (BOOBOO) (electricity) + (mood) = (electricity)
( )
battery (electricity) + (pond) = (battery)
me (macho version)
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: ORE
(big) +
(dragon radical)
A big dragon person - this is how Japanese dudes like to think of themselves. KUNYOMI:
856
me (only used by guys)
turtle
(fish) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(dragon radical)
This kanji is the top part of fish + the bottom part of dragon !
turtle
USED IN:
rope
ONYOMI:
(string) + (turtle)
You can't tie a big ole' turtle with string - you have to use a rope.
KUNYOMI:
rope
JUKUGO:
( )
Okinawa
( ) ( )
jump rope (rope) + (leap up) = (jump rope)
one's turf, or territory (kind of a street term) (rope) + (stretch) = ( turf)
Number: 1411 PK
857
(bottom radical)
comb
DESCRIPTION: For some reason, kanji using the comb radical tend to have a lot of elaborate nuances. Read on for the boring details!
USED IN:
demand
(rain) +
ONYOMI: JU I demand your Juicy Underwear!
(comb)
My hair got wet in the rain and I demand to receive a comb. JUKUGO:
( )
a demand, a need - doesn't need to be made by a person. (i.e. "This situation demands action!" or "Supply of shiny plastic things cannot keep up with the market's demand!"
This does NOT get to turn into a verb. You don't use . You'd say (there's a demand for xxx) or perhaps () (there's enough of xxx to meet the demand). ( NP ) (demand) + (important) = (demand)
( )
necessities: both on everyday occasions and on adventures. Like if you're leaving the house you need your keitai and your keys! But also if you're going to the moon you need your ray gun and your moon bikini. (surely) + (demand) + (products) = (necessities)
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withstand
(comb) +
ONYOMI: TAI
(glueglue)
The masochist can withstand being TIED up. The comb can withstand glue without becoming stuck in your hair! KUNYOMI:
858
()
withstand something physical - Fire resistant, or water-resistant. People, too: if you try to be a coalminer and you can't take the physical labor then you (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
patience, forbearance -basically it is a more formal version of (). However, can be used in the active sense of "keep doing what you're doing, keep rolling that rock up the hill, don't quit." Whereas, has more a passive nuance "Continue doing nothing, fight the urge to counter-attack or snap back." ( NP ) (hide / endure) + (withstand) = (forbear, endure)
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durability ( NP ) (withstand) + (been a long time) + (sex / essential nature) = (durability)

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the edge
ONYOMI: TAN
(stand up) + (mountain) +
(comb)
His TAN is so deep he is on the edge of getting a melanoma. Stand on the edge of the mountain and comb your hair (FYI you are super nonchalant) KUNYOMI:
edge (always literal, never figurative) (of your seat, edge of the plank) As opposed to (fuchi) usually refers to ONE POINT on the edge, the most extreme point (i.e. edge of the cliff, tip of the peninsula)
JUKUGO:
( )
this is an excellent phrase. It means, to do things halfway. Whether it's doing a halfass job at your work, or taking a girl out on a date . . . .to burger king, or cleaning your room but only to the extent that your mom's turds are in a bag and not on the floor. - that's all CHUUTOHANPA. (middle) + (on the way) + (half) + (the edge) = (half-assed job)
( )
extreme - Used about people, people who take things too far. (not tempratures or political ideologies) A 2-foot-tall mohawk is . (extreme) + (the edge) = (extreme)
xxx
YYY (xxx YYY)

859
No sooner had I done XXX, when YYY happened. (where the is the end of a pasttense verb: tabeta, nonda, hashitta, etc.)
Number: 1415 STRONG, PK
(big radical)
wrap
DESCRIPTION:This looks like the katakana "KU", but since the smaller radicals go INSIDE it, we can think of it as a big hand wrapping around something, with the thumb in the upper left. strong RADICAL for HOU!
USED IN:
wrap
(wrap) (Same-ON) +
ONYOMI: HOU KUNYOMI:
(myself)
I paid a HOE $500 to wrap me up. (and another $20 to tickle)
( ) to wrap JUKUGO:
( )
a package ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (small size) + (wrap) = (a package)
( )
kitchen knife, cutlery (wrap) + (nail) = (kitchen knife, cutlery)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
verse of a poem wrap hug
Hint
scent (good or bad) HEEL
MOUTH
Radical
YOURSELF HAND
With your MOUTH you sing a verse. That HEEL's scent is the worst. Wrap YOURSELF up in gauze from the nurse.
860
With my HANDS, I hugged Fred Durst.
USED IN:
cell
ONYOMI: HOU
(moon/organ) + (wrap) (Same-ON)

The HOE got caught soliciting and locked in a cell. A cell is nothing but organs wrapped around a nucleus. JUKUGO:
( )
a cell, like an amoeba or a brain cell. (slender) + (cell) = (cell)
bubble WATER MEAT cell
Radical
The bubble is air wrapped in WATER. A cell is a MEAT bubble.
bubble
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: HOU KUNYOMI:
(wrap) (Same-ON)
A bubble is nothing but film of soapy water wrapped around a sphere of air.
bubble, or a froth of hella bubbles (1/2 KANA)
bubble WATER MEAT cell
Radical
The bubble is air wrapped in WATER. A cell is a MEAT bubble.
861
cannon
ONYOMI: HOU JUKUGO:
(rock) + (wrap) (Same-ON)

The HOE wraps her finger around the trigger of a cannon, which shoots lead rocks.
( )
cannon (big) + (cannon) = (cannon)
get sick of
ONYOMI: HOU
(eat) + (wrap) (Same-ON)

I'm sick of eating this HOE, wrap her up and I'll finish her at home. (FYI, I'm Ted Bundy) DESCRIPTION: That's right - 1,400 kanji in and I'm just now getting around to the Bundy gags. KUNYOMI: ()
to get sick of something (1/2 KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get sick of WRAP decorate
Hint
Radical
DAGGER
I'm sick of WRAPPING Christmas presents , I want to decorate my DAGGER with the blood of whoever invented this dumb holiday.
hug
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: HOU,COCK
(wrap) (Same-ON)
He's a christian, so he'll just hug HOES instead of fornicating them. You hug by wrapping your hands around someone. DESCRIPTION: You'd think that 'hug' would be the nicest kanji, but no, it's another COCK.
862
Both kunyomi have the same particle () AND the same okurigana (), but are pronounced differently . . . so it's impossible to tell which one it is! Luckily, one of the kunyomi is very very rarely used, so you can just assume it's the other one. Sigh.
KUNYOMI:
hug
metaphorically hold (a suspicion, a belief, a grudge) (1/2 KANA)

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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
MOUTH
Radical
YOURSELF HAND
With your MOUTH you sing a verse. That HEEL's scent is the worst. Wrap YOURSELF up in gauze from the nurse. With my HANDS, I hugged Fred Durst.
put in custody VERSE MYSELF hug
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Cops put you in custody for singing a VERSE about the Emperor's mama. I hug by wrapping MYSELF around someone.
verse of a poem
(wrap) +
ONYOMI: KU
(mouth/small box radical) (Same-ON)
This is a sensitive love poem is about a COOCHIE. When you mouth a verse, you wrap your words in poetry. DESCRIPTION: Don't confuse (verse) with ! is straight lines, because it's the nail radical - nails are straight! But, uses the 'wrapping' radical, (not hard iron, but soft paper or cloth), so it's round and organic. JUKUGO:
( )
complain ( FP ) (culture/ sentence) + (verse of a poem) = (complain)

863
( ) ( )
forbidden, tabboo word (prohibition) + (verse of a poem) = (forbidden, tabboo word)
yo mama so fat / she went to the zoo one time / kids fed her peanuts (actor) + (verse of a poem) = (haiku)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
MOUTH
Radical
YOURSELF HAND
USED IN:
respect
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: KEI It's OK to respect my ass.
(verse of a poem) +
(director)
The director wrote some verses about flowers that are pretty terrible, but you gotta respect it anyway, because he's the director. JUKUGO:
( )
the formal Japanese you use when you are addressing your superiors. ( F )
directly, 'I you very much!' - you'd say it about a third party)) + (language) = (formal Japanese)
( )
to look up to or respect someone. (BOOBOO: it's not ok to tell someone directly, 'I you very much!' - you'd say it about a third party) (esteem) + (respect) = (respect)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
lay out / site TNT respect FLOWER
Hint
Radical
864
USED IN:
Blow up the site with TNT, but I give you a FLOWER to show that I respect you.
the fuzz
ONYOMI: KEI
(respect) + (say)
You must respect what the fuzz says.It's OK to lie to the fuzz though. DESCRIPTION: Seriously? Yeah. That's what they used to call cops back in the hippy days. JUKUGO:
( )
police ( NP ) (the fuzz) + (police) = (police)
( ) ( )
police station (police) + (government office) = (police station)
a warning or admonition. Not like "Be careful!" but more like "You better not!" Usually applies to signs like "no tresspassing!" (the fuzz) + (inform) = (admonition)
( )
regular uniformed city cops (as opposed to local cops or specialized cops like (, meaning detectives), FBI, etc.) (the fuzz) + (peer at) + (metropolitan government) = (metro police)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the fuzz SAY astonish HORSE
Hint
Radical
The police SAY things to astonish a HORSE. Things like, "Dick Cheney is on Youtube fucking Dee Snyder!" And then the horse is like, "Deeeeeeeeeeeyammnn!!"
astonish

865
(respect) + (horse)
ONYOMI: KYOU I was astonished that that horse respected you TODAY (, pronounced KYOU). On other days, he bucks and tramples and licks. DESCRIPTION:22 strokes, kids! Holy shit! Can you imagine how hard this would be if you had to learn this stroke-by-stroke? Jesus. And yet, since you've been following this guide, instead of 22 strokes, you see just 2 kanji - WHICH YOU ALREADY KNOW. How the hell did gaijin learn japanese before this?!? KUNYOMI: () ()
to be shocked, surprised (!= I was suprised!)
to shock or astonish motherfuckers
JUKUGO:
( )
amazement, slack-jawed wonder (astonish) + (lament, sigh) = (amazement)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the fuzz SAY astonish HORSE
Hint
Radical
The police SAY things to astonish a HORSE. Things like, "Dick Cheney is on Youtube fucking Dee Snyder!" And then the horse is like, "Deeeeeeeeeeeyammnn!!"
department
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: KYOKU
(verse of a poem)
KYOU () , COULD you please go to the TV department and drop off this script? The local tv department did a great special on a dead poet's haiku verses. JUKUGO:
( )
in the end, or "after all" (bind) + (department) = (in the end, or "after all")
( )

866
( )
pharmacy (BOOBOO: sells perscription drugs. . .the regular kind of Wallgreen's ass drug store is ()) (medicine) + (department) = (pharmacy)
put in custody
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
(verse of a poem)
Reach your hand out to put him in custody for saying a forbidden verse about COCAINE.
( ) ( )
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put in custody ( NP ) (put in custody) + (absent / stopped) = (put in custody )
to physically restrain (handcuffs / strait-jacket) to legally restrict (carbon emissions / immigration quotas / freedom of speech) ( NP ) (put in custody) + (bundle of sticks) = (restrain/restrict)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
put in custody VERSE MYSELF hug
Hint
Radical
Cops put you in custody for singing a VERSE about the Emperor's mama. I hug by wrapping MYSELF around someone.
in season/ time of month

Number: 1428
6 strokes JERK
(sun, day) +
ONYOMI: JUN KUNYOMI:
(wrap)
JUNE is the best time to see the sun wrapping festival.
( xxx ) meaning, when something is in season i.e. fruit (SUF, LAZY)

867
JUKUGO:
( )
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end of month (below) + (in season/ time of month) = (end of month)
( ) ( )
beginning of month (above) + (in season/ time of month) = (beginning of month)
middle of the month (middle) + (in season/ time of month) = (middle of the month)
pottery
(town) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(wrap) +
(can, like 'canned beef')
His TOE broke off so they made him a pottery one. It broke off too. It's a weird town where they wrap all their coke cans in pottery. JUKUGO:
( )
pottery (pottery) + (instrument) = (pottery)
scent (good or bad)

(wrap) +
ONYOMI:
(heel)
The socks which wrap your heel (and toes) have a great scent recently. KUNYOMI:
a smell. Sometimes bad, sometimes, good. Usually not so good. (good smells are ) (1/2 KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
868
verse of a poem
MOUTH
scent (good or bad) HEEL wrap hug
YOURSELF HAND
USED IN:
thirsty
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KATSU KUNYOMI: ()
(sun, day) + (scent (good or bad))
The CATS got thirsty in the sun and went sniffing for the scent of water. (Good luck with that.)
something which is/should be wet , becomes dry: My eyes are dry. My throat is dry. Usually only used when you are thirsty, as in: ! ! I'm thirsty!
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hot water THING thirsty HEEL
Hint
Radical
Hot water is a THING you want to soak in if your HEELS are parched.
Number: 1432
(right radical)
promise
(wrap) +
(dot)
DESCRIPTION: Let's call the dot a little turd! "I promise NOT TO LEAVE ANY TURDS UNWRAPPED". There's your mnemonic, sweetie.
USED IN:
Number: 1433
869
promise/ roughly speaking

(string) +
ONYOMI: YAKU I promise to keep the YAK on the string, and not let it run away like last time.
9 strokes JERK
(promise)
DESCRIPTION: JERK; When used in a jukugo, it means "promise", but when used as a SUFFIXit means "roughly speaking" . . . . although suffixes are always part of a jukugo, aren't they? So it is hard to tell the difference. KUNYOMI:
( XXX ) roughly speaking. Ish. 9yards 3 days (SUF) JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
promise (promise/ roughly speaking) + (bundle of sticks) = (promise)
reservation, appointment (beforehand) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (reservation)
( )
marriage engagement (marriage) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (marriage engagement)
( )
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a treaty or pact (clause) + (promise/ roughly speaking) = (a treaty or pact)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
promise/ roughly speaking STRING WHITE motivation / '-al'
Hint
Radical
Tie a STRING round your finger to remember this promise: The motivation of the Revolution is to get WHITEY.
motivation / '-al'
(white) +
ONYOMI: TEKI
Number: 1434 8 strokes JERK, SUF
(promise)
My motivation is to fuck up my TEKI (teki == enemy).

870
I promise that my motivation is only to catch white fish, not fish of color. KUNYOMI:
objective, target
JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
Mostly this is used as a SUFFIX which turns a noun into an adjective. Like how politics becomes 'political,' or how education becomes 'educational.' or economics becomes 'economical.' In Japanese, becomes . ( SUF)
( )
motive, not only for crimes. (eye) + (motivation / '-al') = (motive, not only for crimes.)
( ) ( ) ( )
automatic (my own) + (movement) + (motivation / '-al') = (automatic)
ideal. (reason) + (idea/imagination) + (motivation / '-al') = (ideal.)
the basics (the emphasis is: the minimum knowledge) Also means fundamentally (emphasizing the essential bits that various things or ideas have in common) (basis) + (book / the real) + (motivation / '-al') = (the basics)
( )
rational OR reasonable (i.e. get up at a reasonable hour or a reasonable compromise like 'logical,' but used even if there is not a mathematical proof involved. Also has the nuance of efficient - the boss says to the worker ! ( !), meaning, 'Stop wasting our time and money! Work in a more efficient, rational way.' (to suit) + (reason) + (motivation / '-al') = (rational OR reasonable )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
promise/ roughly speaking STRING WHITE motivation / '-al'
Hint
Radical
Tie a STRING round your finger to remember this promise: The motivation of the Revolution is to get WHITEY.

871
fishin
(gold) +
ONYOMI: I promise I'll pay you gold for fish you catch. KUNYOMI:
SOLO
(promise)
* *
the act of fishin' (n)
to fish (v)
average
(earth) +
ONYOMI: KIN Your KINfolk will never be more than average.
(promise)
I promise that the ground is an average level -- stuff higher than the ground is tall, stuff lower than the ground is like a valley or a gorge or some shit. JUKUGO:
( )
an average (adjective form: ) (equal / level) + (average) = (an average)
( )
uniform, even (both figurative and literal: level playing field, uniform lighting, equal opportunity) ( ) (average) + (equal /etc./plural) = (uniform, even)
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plate
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
Number: 1437 5 strokes PK, SOLO
Picture a plate with a brick of meatloaf on it, cut into slices. DESCRIPTION: 1,433 kanji into this book and we're still introducing new primaries!
872
plate
JUKUGO:
( )
ashtray ( KUNKUN ) (ash/ gray) + (plate) = (ashtray)
USED IN:
steal by stealth
(next) + (plate)
ONYOMI: TOU KUNYOMI:
I stole your plate, next time I'll come back and steal your TOES.
*
JUKUGO:
to steal - in a sneaky, burglar way
( ) ( )
to steal in a violent, mugging kind of way. ( FP ) (burly) + (steal by stealth) = (jack fools)
take a sneak picture, usually of a woman dropping a deuce in a public restroom. Also known as 'ninjashotting.' (steal by stealth) + (photo-shoot) = (hidden camera)
( )
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plagiarism - biting of one's style by a sucker MC. (steal by stealth) + (make) = (plagiarism )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Capitalism means money is GREAT. You steal a PLATE, but the WOMAN's body makes you want to MATE. Way to go, pervert. That's your mom.
873
hot or warm thing

(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: ON KUNYOMI:
(sun, day) + (plate)
The sun shining ON the plate full of water, made the water warm.
*
() ()
also abbreviated to : warm thing (puppy, or puddle under your bed )
* *
I warm up (the muffins)
something gets warmed up
JUKUGO:
( )
temperature (hot or warm thing) + (times) = (temperature)
( )
hot spring baths (although most onsen use artificially heated water from regular wells these days) (hot or warm thing) + (spring) = (hot spring bath)
oath
ONYOMI: MEI JUKUGO:
(bright) + (plate)
I take an an oath to clean my plate until it's sparkley bright. But I MAY break the oath.
( ) ( )
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an alliance, league, union ( NP ) (same) + (oath) = (alliance)
a federation ( NP ) (take with / inform of) + (oath) = (a federation)

874
heaps of!
ONYOMI: SEI, JOU KUNYOMI: ()
(become) + (plate)
They SAY that when JOE Stalin first prospered, his dish was finally able to become full with heaps of food.
* ( )
JUKUGO:
a heaping bowl of food / a raging fire / something overflowing with solids (but not liquids - that's a different kanji with the same pronunciation! !!!)
robust, active, overflowing with something-or-other : A flurry of applause, a fire vigorous enough to roast an ox, a flowering of culture.
( ) ( )
to get exciting, to liven up. (heaps of!) + (above) = (to liven up)
a bulging pudenda. Not like an average camel-toe. More like a set of labia that is thrusting out of a pair of tight pants like a she-boner. Seriously, there's enough guys that are into this that they had to make up a word. Seems kind of a homo-erotic fetish to me. But on the other hand, who says only guys should get to brag about the size of their units? ( ABU, CCW) (heaps of!) + () = (bulging pudenda)
salt
(earth) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(rifle) +
(mouth/small box radical) + (plate)
You dig salt out of the earth with the butt of your rifle,and put it on your plate, and then eat it with your mouth.
salt, motherfucker. Salt
875
oversee
(vassal) +
ONYOMI: KAN JUKUGO:
(rifle) +
(one/line radical) + (plate)
Genghis KHAN used his one rifle to oversee the vassal's filling of the BOWL.
( )
movie director/ construction foreman / coach. (oversee) + (supervisor) = (director)
( )
to supervise, or watch over a project. Also means, to guard bad people - guards at a prison, a teacher who watches students at test time to keep them from cheating. (BOOBOO: don't mix this with (), which is someone who is guarding or protecting good people or things). (oversee) + (peer at) = (to supervise)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
expert opinion
ONYOMI: KAN
(gold) + (oversee) (Same-ON)

The economist had an expert opinion on how to oversee money. DESCRIPTION: 23 strokes! This is the biggest, baddest kanji in the bunch. JUKUGO:
876
( )
one's seal or stamp with one's name on it, which the Japanese use instead of signatures. (stamp) + (expert opinion) = (chop / seal)
( )
a field guide; a book where each page has one picture and a description of a thing. (birds, gandams, monsters, doinks, whatever). (diagram/ map) + (expert opinion) = (a field guide)
( )
to have a 'discriminating eye' for art. To appreciate art or music on some deep, expert level. (expert opinion) + (prize) = (discriminating eye)
( )
expert opinion. Like an American Idol judge or art critic or some guy in court who says that tobacco does/does not cause cancer. (expert opinion) + (plan) = (expert opinion)
blood
ONYOMI: KETSU KUNYOMI:
(dot) + (plate)
A dot of blood on a plate looks like KETCHUP.
blood
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
to bleed (pull out / hand over) + (blood) = (to bleed)
nosebleed (
877
KUNKUN (nose) + (blood) = (nosebleed)

USED IN:
populace
ONYOMI: SHUU JUKUGO:
(un) + (blood) +
(chill)
The hobbit populace all have the same blood. Because of the fur on their feet, they are un-chilly, so the hobbit populace doesn't need SHOES.
( )
general public - in the political sense. "This politician appeals to the general public." "Public sentiment is against the tax hike." (big) + (populace) = (general public.)
Number: 1447 PK
(top radical)
crab
DESCRIPTION: To me it looks wide, flat, and covered with little pinchy arms.
USED IN:
profit
ONYOMI: EKI The train station (= EKI ) turned a profit too. Eric Cartmen turns a profit.
DESCRIPTION:
878
JUKUGO:
( )
profit (both literal and figurative) (handy) + (profit) = (profit)
( )
useful or beneficial, (a policy beneficial to the State /it was a useful experience (a learning experience)) ( NP ) (exist) + (profit) = (beneficial)
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USED IN:
overflow
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: ITSU KUNYOMI: ()
(profit)
SOMEDAY () my profits will overflow my wallet like water.
overflow (also you can use it if you are a lady who is, um, - it's the femenine equivalent of 'boioioioioioingggg!')
honor
(crab) +
ONYOMI: YO
(say)
YOyos have no honor. They are children's toys. Talk to a crab about honor and, uh, and uh, and you will be surprised. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
compliment - no, wait, fuck it. Most dictionaries list both and as kanjis for 'compliment' but in practice only is used. How's that for disambiguation?
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( )
An honor or prestige that comes in the form of a seal of approval or bonus points from an authority figure. Usually used like this : (name, famous) + (honor) = (honor/prestige)
879
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
raise / cite/ mention HANDS SAY honor
Hint
Radical
You raise your HANDS in class, to SAY answers that bring you honor.
raise / cite/ mention

(crab) +
ONYOMI: KYO
(handleft)
Keep Your Opinions to yourself until I ask you to cite or mention something. Raise your hand to grab the crab. Yum! KUNYOMI: ()
* *
To metaphorically bring up something (an objection, a point) to give an example of , to cite or mention something. But also - irritatingly - to literally raise one's hand (Oo! Oo! I know ! I know!) However, if you're raising anything else BUT your hand, you have to use instead of . Yeah, I know, I know. What can you do?? (NP)
()
something gets cited or mentioned in a report or article.
JUKUGO:
( )
an election (choose) + (raise / cite/ mention) = (an election)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
STRENGTH labor TREE glory raise / cite/ mention HAND
Hint
Radical
Labor requires STRENGTH, such as the glory of chopping down a TREE. Your raise your HAND to cite your answer: "Teacher! I know!!"
raise / cite/ mention HANDS SAY honor
Meaning
Hint
Radical
You raise your HANDS in class, to SAY answers that bring you honor.
Number: 1452
880
boat
ONYOMI: SHUU If you go on a boat, your SHOES will get the hell wet. Think about it like a giant sail:
6 strokes ILL PAIR, SYMBOLIC, PK, DUPE, SOLO
KUNYOMI:
boat. Never used by itself - only used in jukugo about boat stuff (oars, masts, etc.) (NUBI)
USED IN:
ship
ONYOMI: SEN
(boat) + (eight) + (mouth/small box radical)

SEND for the caterer! I have eight mouths to feed on this here boat! DESCRIPTION: 9 times out of 10, when someone wants to say "boat" or "ship", they'll use this one instead of .
KUNYOMI:
ship
JUKUGO:
( )
balloon ( NEO ) (wind / the flu / style) + (ship) = (balloon)
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ship
Hint
EIGHT
Radical
881
navigation
BERET
general / overall THROW

There are EIGHT ships, but they are navigating around a BERET. Oh, and I THROW a diaper overall your heads.
navigation
(boat) +
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
(beret) +
(diaper)
The captain has a problem with his COLON so he navigates the ship wearing nothing but a diaper and a beret. He doesn't have time to change pants every hour in these rough seas.
( ) ( )
nautical (navigation) + (ocean) = (nautical)
navigation (navigation) + (law) = (navigation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
navigation
ship
Hint
EIGHT BERET
Radical

general / overall
(boat) +
ONYOMI: HAN HAN Solo is, in general, kind of a wise-ass.
(throw)
In general, boats are thrown into the harbor, more often than thrown on land. JUKUGO:
882
( )
One of many many Japanese words for 'normal.' The nuance of is ordinary, non-special - as opposed to a member of a special group of people of things. means, an average person. As in, 'an average person is not allowed in this Yakuza bar.' (generally, commonly) + (motivation / '-al') = (ordinary)
( )
generally, commonly (one) + (general / overall) = (generally, commonly)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
navigation
ship
Hint
EIGHT BERET
Radical

USED IN:
tray / basis
ONYOMI: BAN Let's BAN trays made of asbestos!
(plate) + (general / overall)

Generally, plates are put on trays in the cafeteria. DESCRIPTION: also means foundation or basis - makes sense if you think about a tray as the foundation for your lunch.
KUNYOMI:
tray (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a UFO (yen/circle) + (tray / basis) = (a UFO)
the base, basis, or foundation (basis) + (tray / basis) = (the base or foundation)
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Number: 1457
883
cat
(catleft) +
MUTANTS:
11 strokes MR, SYMBOLIC
(flowertop) +
(rice field)
catleft ONYOMI: The left-hand radical is the MUTANT RADICAL for cat- it looks like a cat's paw with claws extended. So you can say: The cat is out playing with flowers in the rice field. DESCRIPTION: SYMBOLIC for small animals in general KUNYOMI:
cat (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
the little cat in all the shop windows. It's kind of a weird phenomenon if you think about it: One paw is up, beckoning customers to come in, like "Come on in, guy! I like your style!" But the other paw clutches a gold coin, usually marked 10,000,000 yen. Like "OK, J/K about valuing you. I just want your money." ( CCW) (beckon) + (cat) = (shop-window cat)
( )
kitten ( KUNKUN ) (child) + (cat) = (kitten)
( ) ( )
stray cat ( FP , KANA) (field) + (good) + (cat) = (stray cat)
someone who don't like spicy food. ( KUNKUN ) (cat) + (tongue) = (someone who don't like spicy food.)
CLAW cat depict HAND
Radical
The cat has a CLAW. You draw with your HAND.
USED IN:
Number: 1458
884
fierce
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: MOU
11 strokes BETA, ILL PAIR
(child) + (plate)
He's MORE fierce than a , um, some kind of fierce guy. The fierce cat ate the child on a plate. JUKUGO:
( ) XXX ( XXX)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
severe, violent, terrible, fierce (fierce) + (violently intense) = (fierce ) PREFIX, meaning fiercely XXX (i.e. :fiercely against) ( PRE)
Hint
beast obscene fierce monkey
DOG RICE CHILD FAR
Radical
obscene
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: WAI Girls gone WILD is obscene.
(rice field) + (cloth)
The obscene cat ripped off your clothes and left you naked in the middle of the rice field. JUKUGO:
( )
old man slang. Nasty, dirty, obscene. Not always used in a bad way. (despicable) + (obscene) = (obscene)
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
gross, obscene. Always bad. A morbidly obese exhibitionist with genital warts. ( ABU)
Hint
Radical
885
obscene RICE fierce CHILD monkey FAR beast DOG
monkey
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(earth) +
(far away)
The cat ran across the earth to get far away from the monkey.
monkey (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! Hint
an expression which means, "Monkey see, monkey do!" ( NEO ) (monkey) + (truth) + (resemble) = (Monkey see, monkey do!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
beast obscene fierce monkey
DOG RICE CHILD FAR
Radical
hunt
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: SHU
(protect)
886
You track the prey you're hunting by Smelling His Odors. You have to protect yourself if a cat is hunting you.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to hunt
XXX
(XXX )
hunting for XXX (including humans) ( SUF)
go nuts
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
(king)
KYOU () is a good day to go nuts. The cat's endless meyowing drove the king nuts KUNYOMI: ()
someone who is insane since childhood. Ted Bundy or whoever. They might seem normal at first.
JUKUGO:
( )
As opposed to (born crazy), is someone who is normally sane but had a breakdown from stress, or a sudden flip-out. (launch) + (go nuts) = (mental breakdown)
( )
exhibitionist (outdoors, public) + (pull out / hand over) + (go nuts) = (exhibitionist)
go nuts KING aim at ABE LINCOLN'S HAT
Radical
The KINGs are all crazy from inbreeding. John Wilkes Booth aimed for for ABE LINCOLN'S HAT.
solitary

887
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: DOKU
(insizzect)
The cat chased the solitary bug - it DON'T COOK the bug, though. . .it's a cat.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
Alone. Unlike the other hitori () has a sort of lonlely value judgement on it. Like, 'He lives by himself' or 'She had to do the whole thing herself (since no one would help her)' (1/2 KANA)
( )
single, unmarried (solitary) + ((one's own) flesh) = (single, unmarried)
( ) ( )
talking to yourself ( KANA) (solitary) + (say) = (talking to yourself)
unique, or a quality particular to some thing or person (solitary) + (special) = (unique)
( )
autonomous - a colony becomes an independent country; a business start-up that is not under the umbrella of an established conglomerate, etc. (solitary) + (stand up) = (autonomous)
hell
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: GOKU
(say) + (dog)
GO COOK your flesh in a sizzling inferno. The guy trapped between the viciously fighting cat and dog said, "OMG this is hellish!" JUKUGO:
( )
hell (area) + (hell) = (hell)
( )
throw someone in prison (throw) + (hell) = (throw someone in prison)

888
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prey on / get
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
(flowertop) +
(turkey) +
The cat preys on a turkey whose crotch has a COCK attached KUNYOMI:
get or obtain :Unlike the OTHER ( ), is used for hunting - the predator obtains prey. Also sometimes used about sports victories.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to acquire, obtain, get, catch - used in the context of hunting. (prey on / get) + (bargain / obtain) = (acquire)
prey ( KUNKUN ) (prey on / get) + (animal / thing) = (prey)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
narrow
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: KYOU
(husband)
The two lines in the middle of the husband radical? Those are his arms! So we can say, KYOU () the husband adopted a hungry stray cat, who is very narrow, He gestures to his wife with his arms, 'It's THISSSS narrow!' KUNYOMI:
889
narrow or cramped (1/2 KANA)
narrow CAT HAND pinch
Radical
The CAT goes through a narrow alley, but I use my HAND to pinch Captain O'Malley.
(right radical)
fingerprint
DESCRIPTION: It looks like the whorl of one's fingerprint, and generally means "proof of identity." In the west we use fingerprints, in the East they use little "chop" stamps with the family name on it. This radical is SYMBOLIC for stamp or seal or hand.
USED IN:
commit a crime
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: HAN
(fingerprint)
HAN Solo also hella committed the crime of smuggling. Fingerprint that cat before it can commit more crimes!! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
commit or perpetrate - usually used with rape.
( )
anti-crime / crime-prevention (you tend to see this word on hidden cameras or locks a lot) (ward off) + (commit a crime) = (anti-crime)
( ) ( )
criminal
crime (commit a crime) + (sin) = (crime)
890
(commit a crime) + (person) = (criminal)
stamp
(Eazy) +
ONYOMI: IN
(fingerprint)
You have to really push the stamp IN the paper to leave a mark. The capital "E" on eazy-E's stamp is like his fingerprint: a unique signature which signifies that he has notarized the documents.
KUNYOMI:
a logo or symbol - as in a check mark on a list, or a cross, or the black flag logo
JUKUGO:
( )
one's seal or stamp with one's name on it, which the Japanese use instead of signatures. (stamp) + (expert opinion) = (chop / seal)
( )
first impression.
+ (impression) = (first impression.)

stamp 'E' MOUTH slap 2 DOTS (YOLKS) egg
Radical
EAZY E's stamp is in the shape of an E." You slap someone in the MOUTH, but eggs have two YOLKS which stare at you from the plate like accusing eyes. Why didn't you let me LIIIIVE????"

891
slap
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:

*
JUKUGO:
(fingerprint)
I slap your mouth so hard it leaves a fingerprint!
slap (KANA)
xxx (xxx ) bitch-slap someone right in the XXX. ( KANA) (pull) + (slap) = (bitch-slap)
Radical
egg
ONYOMI:

Looks like 2 eggs with black dots for yolks.
(fingerprint)
DESCRIPTION: usually people use the a DIFFERENT set of kanji: . (pronounced the same! Why do they need two words for eggs?!?) KUNYOMI:
egg (used mostly by farmers and agriculture people) ( also means "beginner" , in the sense of "someone who might be really skilled at XXX but has not made their professional debut yet." For instance, a great artist who has not had an exhibition or a genius photographer who has not published a photo-book yet.)
LOOKALIKES:
892
Meaning Hint
Radical
disregard
(past tense) +
ONYOMI: KYAKU KUNYOMI:
(fingerprint)
I disregarded the KYAKU'S (=, meaning customer's) past fingerprints, because he has a new set now.
( xxx ) ( yyy ) instead, all the more (better or worse) (KANA) JUKUGO:
( )
Business Japanese: An upper person rejects,dismisses, or overrules a proposal made by an underling. ( NP ) (disregard) + (below) = (reject, dismiss.)
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standard / the best way to do

Number: 1473
15 strokes PN, BETA
(bamboo) + (car) +
ONYOMI: HAN
(fingerprint)
It's standard for HAN Solo to have adventures involving swashbuckling. The standard car of the year 2100 will be made of environmentally friendly bamboo and have a fingerprint sensor so only the registered owner can drive it. JUKUGO:
( )
the extent, range scope, or bounds (extent of the earthquake-damaged area, scope of the congressional inquiry, range of the birds' migrations). (standard / the best way to do) + (surround) = (extent, scope,)
893
( )
a model: Can be a person (a role model, a model sudent), or a thing (a model home, a model economy). (BOOBOO: Not model like a plastic model tank or gandam) (model) + (standard / the best way to do) = (model - prototype)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
standard / the best way to do CAR OLD family register
Hint
Radical
CARS are a standard way to move, But you gotta have an OLD family registry, your citizenship to prove.
the honorific "o"

(goleft) +
ONYOMI: O or GO
Number: 1474 12 strokes PRE, F, CCW, BETA
(bamboo) + (correct) +
(fingerprint)
It is the honorable, correct thing to GO to the cops and give them your fingerprints. At least that's what they make foreigners do at the airport! JUKUGO:
( )
two meanings - 1) cooked rice, 2) a meal ( KANA) (the honorific "o") + (rice / meal) = (rice)
( ) ( )
a shitter ( F ) (the honorific "o") + (hand) + (wash) = (toilet, man. Toilet!!!!!!!)
a formal way of asking your superior to view something. either ' ' or ' .' ( F ) (the honorific "o") + (view) = (please look sir)
( )
sorry (usually KANA, but it's worth learning to see the roots of the expression: 'Honorably exempt me (from your wrath!)') ( KANA) (the honorific "o") + (exemption / license) = (sorry)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
DAY free time enjoy a drink and a smoke MOUTH WATER honorable
Hint
Radical
894
the honorific "o"
GO
arm / skill
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI: WAN Captain Hook had only WAN arm.
(crown) +
(evening) +
(fingerprint)
Your arm is an organ you use for putting on your crown in the evening. Plus arms have fingerprints at the ends! KUNYOMI:
arm. Also, to be good at something, as in, "xxx !" "She's good at xxx!"
JUKUGO:
( )
armband. Anytime you see an unemployed grand-dad with an armband, you can be sure he will poke his nose in someone's business and try to wreck their fun:"No smoking!" "No bicycle parking!" "No hammocks!" (arm / skill) + (emblem / chapter) = (armband)
( )
muscle/force - literal, not figurative. (arm / skill) + (strong) = (muscle/force - literal, not figurative.)
immediately
(good) +
ONYOMI: SOKU KUNYOMI:
(fingerprint)
Can you be a good guy and immediately leave a fingerprint on my SOCKS ?
( XXX )
JUKUGO:
immediately XXX will happen. (you don't need a particle for this)
895
( )
to improvise! (immediately) + (interest) = (to improvise!)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
immediately FINGERPRINT already heresy FANG TOWN
Hint
Radical
They FINGERPRINT you immediately because you already had FANGS. In that TOWN fangs are a heresy!
USED IN:
season / joint
ONYOMI: SETSU
(bamboo) + (immediately)
As I SAID TO him, now is the season for shitty mnemonics. Bamboo grows immediately in this season! JUKUGO:
( )
season (season) + (season / joint) = (season)
( )
joint - like an elbow or knee joint , in a skeleton. (connected to) + (season / joint) = (joint)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1478
896
misfortune
(cliff) +
ONYOMI: YAKU
4 strokes SIDEKICK
(fingerprint)
The YAK-thief had the misfortune to leave a fingerprint on the cliff. (and was thusly convicted of Grand Theft Precipice and sent upstate for 2-5 years) JUKUGO:
( )
troublesome, worrying. Hard to deal with! A hard-to-fix appliance. A stubborn, persnicketty person. ( 1/2 KANA) (misfortune) + (introduce / intervene) = (hard to deal with)
USED IN:
dangerous
(fishhook) +
ONYOMI: KI
(misfortune)
Keep your KEY in your pockets in this neighborhood, It's dangerous. Misfortune is MORE dangerous when there is a fishhook involved. KUNYOMI: ()
dangerous. Although, in a society where grown people spend their lives listening to loudspeakers telling them "Please watch your step," the notion of dangerous is broad enough to be meaningless. If your friend is in someone's way on the sidewalk, you can't say, "Move over, dumbass!" you have to say 'Abunai!' and furtively point at the person they are about to run into. However, if you are walking and someone is in YOUR way, you can't say 'abunai' . In fact, there is nothing you can say.
*
JUKUGO:
on the brink of disaster or collapse. (1/2 KANA)

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( ) ( )
risky, unsafe (dangerous) + (steep) = (risky, unsafe)
a social crisis (oil crisis, global warming, etc.) ( 1/2 KANA) (dangerous) + (machine) = (social crisis)
897
Number: 1480 PK
(right radical)
clown posse
DESCRIPTION: although it uses the fingerprint radical, it looks more like C.P. - which always reminds me of the band I.C.P. So, we're abandoning the Method here for a second - but then clowns were never logical in the first place. Blame it on ICP. Blame pretty much anything on them.
USED IN:
suppress
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: YOKU
(clown posse)
You gotta use your hands to suppress the clown posse, or else they'll pick up a microphone and do something wack. Put a YOKE on them and make them plow the fields instead.
KUNYOMI:
inhibit or suppress (a behavior or desire) (one's true feelings) Also used about the Man oppressing or holding down The People in general. (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
oppression (suppress) + (pressure) = (oppression) an inhibitor, or suppressor. Basically it's the Noun form of . (suppress) + (system) = (suppressor)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
go to pick someone up MOVE pompous / look up to PERSON HAND suppress
Hint
Radical
I MOVE my ass to the airport to pick you up. But you are a pompous PERSON, so I put my HAND over my mouth to suppress a laugh.
go to pick someone up
Number: 1482
898
7 strokes
(motion) +
ONYOMI: GEI
(clown posse)
the GAY dude moved to the train station to pick up the clown posse! DESCRIPTION: Pick someone up, like at the airport or bus stop! (to drop someone off, or walk your friend TO the train station on the way home, is ().
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
To pick someone up, like at the airport or bus stop!
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
welcome (a warm - , a hearty - a lukewarm - )
Hint
Radical
pompous / look up to
Number: 1483
6 strokes BETA
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: GYOU GEE, YOU're pompous!
(clown posse)
The person in the clown posse band was very pompous. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
someone who is too formal, pompous, high-falutin'. You're like "Hi, dude!" and they're like "Salutations, my good man! Verily the sun doth shine like the Emperor's benign gaze upon this blessed land!"
to be flabbergasted - in a good way OR a bad way. (pompous / look up to) + (heaven) = (flabbergasted )
religious faith (believe) + (pompous / look up to) = (religious faith)

899
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1484
(right radical)
wardrobe
(fingerprint) +
DESCRIPTION: because. . . 1) one 's wardrobe and style of dress is as unique as one's fingerprint ,and 2) most people have a wardrobe full of chaps to accent their crotch. At least most people I know.
USED IN:
clothes
(moon/organ) +
ONYOMI: FUKU Any FOOL COULD put on clothes.
(wardrobe)
You gotta have a wardrobe of clothes to cover your organs, so you don't get arrested. KUNYOMI:
clothes (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
uniform (nurse, student, policeman, fireman, stewardess, army guy. . .) (system) + (clothes) = (uniform)
( )
plainclothes police, detectives. ( KUN ON) (me / private) + (clothes) + detectives.)

- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES:
900
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Wack MCs should quit talking with their TONGUE, but wearing a uniform once a month can be FUN. We're all HAPPY with the data about your MUM (she isn't pregnant).
data
ONYOMI: HOU
(luck, happiness) +
JUKUGO:
(wardrobe)
Fashion magazines have data on what HOES should put in their wardrobe to be happy. Because that's where happiness comes from - clothes and shiny things.
( ) ( )
news report - not like a report on what you did last summer. (emotion) + (data) = (news report)
forecast, prediction (beforehand) + (data) = (forecast, prediction)
Radical
Wack MCs should quit talking with their TONGUE, but wearing a uniform once a month can be FUN. We're all HAPPY with the data about your MUM (she isn't pregnant).
(right or bottom radical) DESCRIPTION:
Abe Lincoln's Hat
901
yes. STRONG RADICAL: Most kanji which use this radical have the on yomi "SO."
USED IN:
aim at
(catleft) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(Abe Lincoln's Hat) (Same-ON)
The cat aims at Abe Lincoln's Hat. It is ready to pounce!!!
* *
to aim for (literally or figuratively) (1/2 KANA)
one's aim or motivation (whether good or bad)
go nuts KING aim at ABE LINCOLN'S HAT
Radical
The KINGs are all crazy from inbreeding. John Wilkes Booth aimed for for ABE LINCOLN'S HAT.
one's team
(string) +
ONYOMI: SO
Number: 1489 11 strokes CCW
I need Some One on my team - I can't do it alone. Our team is all wearing Abe hats which are tied together with string. (so we can't do anything on our own this is Japan, after all) DESCRIPTION: Cultural Code Word; According to Alex Kerr's seminal Japan-rant DOGS AND DEMONS, kids are assigned a kumi from the first day of school, and grow up thinking in terms of insider/outsider and be-likeeveryone-else. . . even MORE than regular teens. They say Asians in general are more group-oriented than selfish Westerners, but the 'kumi system' is a specifically Japanese way of promoting group loyalty in a very rigid and some would say unthinking, ass-non-shaking way. KUNYOMI:
902
team or group.
JUKUGO:
( )
an organization or structure - usually social (like a union or mafia) (one's team) + (organization / weave) = (organization)
( ) ( )
tv program (number) + (one's team) = (tv program)
a union or association ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (one's team) + (to suit) = (a union or association)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
hamper
Hint
Radical
hamper
(town) +
ONYOMI: SO KUNYOMI:
The plan to run through the whole town wearing nothing but Abe Lincoln's Hat was hampered by 'the fuzz.'
*
JUKUGO:
to stop the advance of something by physically obstructing it: The defensive lineman stopped the other team's football guy. The army checked the advance of the other army. Our vacation was stopped by the hurricane. (NP, 1/2 KANA)
( )
an obstruction ( NP )
903
(hamper) + (damage) = (an obstruction)

hamper
rough texture / bad quality

Number: 1491
11 strokes JERK
(rice / America) +
ONYOMI: SO
Some One has a stovepipe hat with the rough texture of rice - such bad quality! Everyone knows stovepipe hats should be smooth like silk. DESCRIPTION: Apparently it also means 'approximate', but not in any context you're likely to see it. The two MAIN jerk meanings are enough to keep you confused for a while. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
coarse or crude (KANA)
( )
a lame gift - by law no matter what you give someone, you have to apologize to them for not giving a better gift. You say, ( FP , F ) (rough texture / bad quality) + (products) = (a lame gift)
( )
a small or wack pud. That is to say, an unsatisfactory penis. ( ABU)
( )
- zero stars! -
poor quality, shabby (rough texture / bad quality) + (the tip) = (Shabby)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
one's team
Hint
STRING
904
Radical
hamper
NECROPHILIA ancestor TREE partner rough texture / bad quality RICE TOWN
inspect
(tree) +
ONYOMI: SA JUKUGO:
(Abe Lincoln's Hat)
The tree inspects Abe's hat, to see what it SAW on the night of the assassination (the hat was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing)
( )
an investigation. Emphasizes that there are no correct answers, and implies that the investigators are talking to someone, asking questions directly. (usually used about polls, surveys, and detectives questioning suspects and/or witnesses) (check out) + (inspect) = (investigate)
( )
Medical checkup. Also, investigation, inspection, review: (fiancial audit, smog check, check the condition of goods that roll off the assemby line, etc). Has the nuance of a test where something passes or fails. (investigate) + (inspect) = (checkup)
( ) ( )
criminal investigation ( NP ) (search) + (inspect) = (criminal investigation)
assess (inspect) + (plan) = (assess)

- zero stars! -
tatami mat
905
(rice field) +
ONYOMI: JOU KUNYOMI:
(Abe Lincoln's Hat)
JOE Stalin used fibers from rice plants, his own generous Moustache hair, and Lincoln's hat, and wove them together into a tatami mat.
JUKUGO:
traditional Japanese flooring made from woven straw
xxx
(xxx )
a real-estate or architectural term. . .specifically, it's a measure of how big a room is. For instance, a 4 room is big enough for 4 tatami mats. I know it seems like, "Why should I learn this?" but if you ever plan to live here. . . ( COUNTER )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
stomach nose
Hint
Radical
ORGAN YOURSELF
save
(Abe Lincoln's Hat) +
ONYOMI: JO KUNYOMI: () ()
(strong)
Use your strength to save Abe's hat!! That pervert's Jacking Off into it!!!
*
I save him.
He is saved. (usually used in the past tense: ! = Thanks for saving me!)
JUKUGO:
( )
to compensate someone for a favor they have done you, to aid someone with money or material things. When high schools date salarimen for money, it's enjo kousai.( ) (assist) + (save) = (to assist)
906
( ) ( )
advice (save) + (say) = (advice)
an assistant, a helper (save) + (hand) = (assistant)
NEcrophilia
(left radical) DESCRIPTION: Because it is the katakana "NE." NECROPHILIA PLAYLIST is here.
Number: 1495 PK
USED IN:
ancestor
(NEcrophilia) +
ONYOMI: SO
I do necrophilia with Abe Lincoln because he's my favorite ancestor. DESCRIPTION: The Jukugo for this are AMAZING: two words, Spoonerized!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
one's own personal ancestors. Ancestor worship. (earlier/ the tip) + (ancestor) = (one's family ancestors) includes the meaning of , but it's more broad. can also refer to ancestors dating back to monkeys, fish, germs, etc. "The two words/phyla of fish/languages share a common ancestor." (ancestor) + (earlier/ the tip) = (far-away ancestor)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
STRING NECROPHILIA TREE RICE

907
Radical
hamper
TOWN
peer at
ONYOMI: SHI
(NEcrophilia) + (look)
There's a necrophiliac and SHE's peering at you, looking from behind the coffin.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
to ignore or snub someone or something. (without) + (peer at) = (to ignore or snub someone or something.)
one's field of view; like insects can see 360 degrees and etc. (peer at) + (the world) = (field of view)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
908
celebrate
ONYOMI: SHUKU KUNYOMI:
(NEcrophilia) + (older brother)

We celebrated our necrophiliac older brother's birthday by going to this new bar in ShinJUKU that has dead waitresses.
*
JUKUGO:
celebrate
( )
a holiday - whether you get the day off from work or not (celebrate) + (sun, day) = (holiday)
company
ONYOMI: SHA
(NEcrophilia) + (earth)
That company SHALL pollute the earth till it dies and then commit necrophilia on the dead planet, all in the name of corporate greed!! DESCRIPTION: Holy cow - look below and you'll see ANOTHER pair of Spoonerized jukugo. What are the odds? !? I know. I'm a nerd! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
company (big meeting) + (company) = (company)
society (company) + (big meeting) = (society)
( )
company boss. (company) + (long / boss) = (company boss.)
( )
company worker (company) + (clerk) = (company worker)

909
( )
a corporation - you'll usually see this word after the company name on their front window. DAMAGE, INC. = DAMAGE,; MURDER, INCORPORATED = MURDER public' or 'stock amoritization' and the like) + corporation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
PERSON work company NECROPHILIAC
Hint
Radical
The PERSON works, but the company makes porn for NECROPHILIAC jerks.
pray
ONYOMI: KI
(axe) + (NEcrophilia)
The KEY to effective prayer is to sacrifice something with an axe and then fuck it after it's dead. (If you're praying to KALI, which I assume you are. I mean, who doesn't? Egghead, latte-sippin' liberals, that's who! They're out of touch with real values) KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to pray (used about Christians, but probably not Buddhists or Shinto), but also if you pray in class to pass a test, or pray "please let me catch that fly ball!") . . . .just like in English. Emphasizes the ACT of prayer, rather than the contents.
( )
a figurative prayer or wish, made to pass a test or to not go to jail ,etc. ( F ) (pray) + (beseech) = (a wish)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
910
welfare
ONYOMI: SHI JUKUGO:
(NEcrophilia) + (stop) (Same-ON)

Yo Mama : SHE is one lazy necrophiliac- the only time she stops corpse-desecrating is to collect a welfare check.
( )
social welfare programs. (good luck) + (welfare) = (social welfare programs.)
GOD kanji
ONYOMI: SHIN
(NEcrophilia) + (humbly say/god radical)

Worship the gods at a SHINY altar. The necrophiliac humbly said to the gods, `Please let Eminem die, so I can do the autopsy.'
KUNYOMI:
god or gods - almost never used by itself. (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
a more polite term for god or gods ( KUNKUN ) (GOD kanji) + (important person) = (god)
shinto, the state religion of Japan (GOD kanji) + (street) = (shinto)
shinto shrine ( FP ) (GOD kanji) + (company) = (shinto shrine)
( )
holy (GOD kanji) + (holy) = (holy)
( )
911
occult, mystical, supernatural-ish. Not like poltergeists or Alistair Crowley, but like a painting with a spooky vibe or a secluded nature spot where it's easy to imagine forest spirits jumpin' out on you. (GOD kanji) + (secret) + (motivation / '-al') = (occult, mystical,)
( )
nerve cell (GOD kanji) + (experience) = (nerve cell)
Number: 1503 STRONG
(right radical)
wine bottle
(one/line radical) + (mouth/small box radical) + (rice field)

DESCRIPTION:The bottle is standing up, so the mouth on top, is the mouth of the bottle. The rice field on the bottom? Because it's rice wine, naturally. STRONG RADICAL for 'fuku.'
USED IN:
good luck
(NEcrophilia) +
ONYOMI: FUKU
(wine bottle) (Same-ON)
It was good luck that I had cool FUKU on when I ran into Brad at the mall! The necrophile poured out some wine for his dead homies - it was good luck that their bodies were so well preserved. JUKUGO:
( )
financially wealthy with cash. (abundant) + (good luck) = (financially wealthy with cash.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get rich
good luck
NECROPHILE CROWN
Hint
Radical
side- or vice- SWORD DAGGER width
The NECROPHILE had good luck at the burial mound, but the rich man wears a CROWN.
912
The SWORD cut affects your side, but the DAGGER is more wide!
side- or vice(wine bottle) (Same-ON) +

ONYOMI: FUKU
(sword)
Your FUKU (), while cool, have a side-effect of making you look like a slut. Sword-fights at the tavern are a side-effect of too much wine. JUKUGO:
( )
side-effect (side- or vice-) + (make) + (utilize) = (side-effect)
( )
vice-president of a company (side- or vice-) + (company boss.) = (vice-president of a company)
( )
- zero stars! -
vice-president of a country. (side- or vice-) + (President) = (vice-president of a country.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get rich
good luck
NECROPHILE CROWN
Hint
Radical
The NECROPHILE had good luck at the burial mound, but the rich man wears a CROWN. The SWORD cut affects your side, but the DAGGER is more wide!
width
(wine bottle) (Same-ON) +

913
ONYOMI: FUKU The shoulder pads on your 1980's FUKU () are so wide! The dagger is the same width as a wine bottle. KUNYOMI:
width
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
get rich
good luck
NECROPHILE CROWN
Hint
Radical
get rich
(crown) +
ONYOMI: FU KUNYOMI:
(wine bottle) (Same-ON)
The first thing she did after getting rich was buy a crown and some wine, and fancy FUKU!
( xxx ) to be rich in XXX (i.e. This region is rich in timber. Tofu is rich in calcium.. . . .but not actual money usually)
wealth (oddly, this one DOES refer to cash wealth)
JUKUGO:
( )
Mt. Fuji ( FP ) (get rich) + (samurai radical) + (mountain) = (Mt. Fuji)
xxx ( xxx)
abundant, rich in xxx (resources, cows, etc.) (plentiful) + (get rich) = (rich in xxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
good luck
NECROPHILE
Hint
Radical
914
get rich
CROWN
Number: 1508
(right radical)
hook
PK
USED IN:
polite
ONYOMI: REI JUKUGO:
(NEcrophilia) +
(hook)
The polite necrophiliac kept his lovers on meat-hooks, so RAY wouldn't step on them when he came over. Thoughtful!
( ) ( ) ( )
rude, without manners. (miss out on) + (polite) = (rude)
in thanks for. As in, "In thanks for the sweater, I bought him a moray eel."
politeness. (polite) + (politeness) = (politeness.)
( )
literally 'politeness money.' - sometimes the phrase "key money" is also used - as if that explains anything. This is the legalized bribe you pay for the privilege of paying rent on a new apartment. (polite) + (gold) = (key money)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
desk
Hint
Radical
disorder
DIAPER TONGUE
915
card / label / bill TREE NECROPHILIAC polite

disorder
(tongue) +
ONYOMI: RAN KUNYOMI: () ()
(hook)
I RAN amok, causing disorder by stabbing folks' tongues with hooks!!
I mess shit up so it is disorderly
to be chaotic, to become disordered and messy
JUKUGO:
( )
violent - "He's a violent guy" or "She's a violent /crazy driver" - violent weather, (can be noun OR adjective OR verb!) (disorder) + (rampage) = (violent)
( )
What you are experiencing right now while studying Japanese! (mix) + (disorder) = (confusion)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
desk
Hint
Radical

DIAPER
Number: 1511 5 strokes COUNTER, JERK

916
card / label / bill

(tree) +
(hook)
ONYOMI: SATSU I SAW TWO dollar bills laying in the sidewalk yesterday. Weird. Hang the label from a hook driven into the tree-trunk. DESCRIPTION: This usually means a small card or label, but as a suffix, it means "bill", as in "ten-dollar bill." KUNYOMI:
a label, nametag, small sign, etc.
JUKUGO:
( )
any money in paper form is a 'satsu' - a ten dollar bill is a $10 satsu, etc. ( COUNTER ) (thousand) + (yen/circle) + (card / label / bill) = (1,000 yen bill)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
desk
Hint
Radical

DIAPER
milk
(nest) +
ONYOMI: NYUU
(child) +
(hook)
This milk is spoiled; I want some NEW milk. Milk is a hook that the mother uses to keep the child in the nest.
( KIDS )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
baby-talk for titties. (KANA)
( )
cow's milk
917
(cow) + (milk) = (cow's milk)
( )
nipple ( FP ) (milk) + (neck) = (nipple)
( )
tig ole biddies ( ABU) (giant super huge) + (milk) = (tig ole biddies)
Number: 1513
(left radical)
ducky
(ducky) +
(dot)
DESCRIPTION: ducky is basically necrophiliac () + one little line. But that one little line, it makes the whole thing look like the beak of a cute, quacky little ducky!
USED IN:
first time
(ducky) +
ONYOMI: SHO KUNYOMI: ()
(sword)
The first time you cut the ducky with the sword, Smell His Odors. (if he's fresh, we can make a nice fillet!)
* ( xxx )
JUKUGO:
() at the beginning
did xxx for the first time ever
( )
first of all. . .
918
(most) + (first time) = (first of all. . .)
( ) ( )
nice to meet you! ( 1/2 KANA)
at first (most) + (first time) = (at first)
naked
(ducky) +
ONYOMI: RA
(fruit / result)
RA the Egyptian sun God got naked with a ducky and fruits - he was just SICK AS HELL.
KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
naked
( ) ( )
totally nude - as in, your dad with your high school coach. ( NP ) (all) + (naked) = (totally nude)
half nude, as in your dad with your Moms. (half) + (naked) = (half nude)
get injured
919
(ducky) +
ONYOMI: HI
(skin)
HE injured the ducky's skin. JUKUGO:
( )
damage (to property) or casualties (human): used about earthquakes, wars, and crimes. (get injured) + (damage) = (casualties)
( )
victim ( NP )
and crimes. ) + (professional) = (victim)
( )
paranoia! Although most Japanese will say in casual conversation. ( NEO , NP )
and crimes. ) + Michael Jackson!" "Jewish aliens are following me in an invisible robot!") = (paranoia!)
get injured DUCKY rend
STONE
The DUCKY got injured, When I rent him with a sharp STONE.
Number: 1517 STRONG
(right radical)
dork!
(rifle) +
(sun, day) +
(eachbottom)
DESCRIPTION: Each dork shoots his rifle at the sun. Dummy, they can't shoot that far, and even if they could, what is the sun gonna do? Bleed? Fuckin' dork! STRONG radical for FUKU.
USED IN:
920
complicated or compound
Number: 1518
14 strokes BETA
(ducky) +
ONYOMI: FUKU
(dork!) (Same-ON)
The dorky ducky was wearing very complicated FUKU (). All corsets on its wings, all garters on its webbed feet. JUKUGO:
( )
complicated; having multiple things that make it complex. (complicated or compound) + (miscellaneous , random) = (complicated)
( )
Plural - in English ! . . .The Japanese language doesn't really have a word for 'plural,' but Japanese use to describe English plurals. So you'll need this word to correct your Japanese friends' frequent grammar boners. "Look at the deers!" "Deer doesn't have , Yoshio 3 deer is still 'deer'." "!
medicine)) + (form) = (plural)
( )
- zero stars! -
multiple (causes of the disease / reasons for the decision / effects of the medicine) (complicated or compound) + (number, to count) = (multiple)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wound entrails
complicated or compound DUCKY return or re-do GO

The PERSON has a wound, in the ORGAN of her entrails.
PERSON ORGAN
Hint
Radical
The DUCKY wrote a physics paper which was too complicated, so we have to GO back and redo it.
entrails
(moon/organ) + (dork!)
Number: 1519 13 strokes COCK, ILL PAIR
921

ONYOMI: Only a dork would eat organs and entrails.
or
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
entrails! The kunyomi of his one is tricky because if it's written like this: , it's pronounced but if it's written with the honorary '', like this: then it's pronounced Thus, this kanji is a COCK.
( ) ( )
get mad (entrails) + (stand up) = (get mad )
(usually said by macho guy/ country child) I'm hungry! ( KIDS )
( )
when a samurai commits suicide by slicing his guts out. ( is kind of formal - in casual conversation, you'd say () instead) ( F ) (cut / important) + (entrails) = (seppuku)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wound entrails

PERSON ORGAN
Hint
Radical
return or re-do
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: FUKU
(dork!) (Same-ON)
That dork forgot his butt, so I made him go home, return, and get it. Only a FOOL COUld forget his own butt. JUKUGO:
( )
922
to recover (rotate / times) + (return or re-do) = (to recover)
( ) ( ) ( )
review what you've learned - like vocabulary or even kanji. (return or re-do) + (learn) = (review )
revenge! ( KIDS )
round trip (go on a trip) + (return or re-do) = (round trip)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
wound entrails

PERSON ORGAN
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
put on pants or shoes

Number: 1521
15 strokes
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: RI
(return or re-do)
Put the pants back on that corpse again in order to RE-do the chaps scene. (FYI : chaps scene from the classic "Brokeback Zombies 3: The Rigorous Mortification")
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
put on pants or shoes. That's right ; a crazy 15-stroke kanji for a very basic act.(this must seem absurd to even Japanese because this kanji is usually KANA) (KANA)
( )
one's work resume. (put on pants or shoes) + (chronicle) + (write) = (one's work resume.)
923
valley/Swamp Thing radical

(eight) +
ONYOMI: YA
Number: 1522
7 strokes PN
(peaked roof) +
It's got a peaked roof + a mouth, but basically it looks so much like the face of Swamp Thing it is difficult for me to think anything else.
YA gotta get out of the valley! Swamp thing lives there! KUNYOMI:
valley
JUKUGO:
( )
the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo (lit. 'bitter valley'which kind of makes sense when you go there and smell it.) (bitter flavor) + (valley) = (Shibuya)
( )
cleavage ( ABU, KUNKUN ) (valley) + (a period of time) = (cleavage)
USED IN:
abundant
ONYOMI: YUU
(NEcrophilia) + (valley/Swamp Thing radical)

YOU can see duckies because are abundant in this valley. DESCRIPTION: Often dictionaries say that both and mean ''. But that's silly. No one uses , so don't worry about it. JUKUGO:
( )
924
room/time/money to spare. Like, don't sweat it. (excess) + (abundant) = (time/room to spare)
( )
financially wealthy with cash. (abundant) + (good luck) = (financially wealthy with cash.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
want uncouth
abundant DUCKY
Hint
Radical
LACK PERSON
DUCKIES are abundant around here. I want what I LACK. PEOPLE are uncouth sometimes.
want
ONYOMI: YOKU KUNYOMI:
(lack) + (valley/Swamp Thing radical)

the Swamp Thing OFTEN (in Japanese, often is pronounced ) lacks friends, due to his reeking hideous appearance, so he wants friends.
*
JUKUGO:
I want it! (kind of a childish way to say it) (1/2 KANA, KIDS)
or ( or ) ( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
greed : can be used about people OR greedy institutions- you greedy Americans, greedy-ass Wall Street.
a need (want) + (demand/ask) = (a need)
sex drive (sex / essential nature) + (want) = (sex drive)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
abundant DUCKY want uncouth
Hint
Radical
LACK PERSON
925
uncouth
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: ZOKU
(valley/Swamp Thing radical)
BANDITS(, pronounced "zoku")are known to behave uncouthly. The Swamp Thing is an uncouth person, always dripping slime on your moms. JUKUGO:
XXX ( XXX) ( ) ( )
'to put it in slang terms,XXX' . 'commonly,'as in 'your mom, commonly known as 'Big Bertha,'...)
old-school folk customs or music. (folk) + (uncouth) = (folk)
the hooker biz, (BOOBOO: as opposed to (), which encompasses the hostess-biz, hooker-biz and general nightlife-biz.) (wind / the flu / style) + (uncouth) = (the hooker biz)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
want uncouth
abundant DUCKY
Hint
Radical
LACK PERSON
appearance
(crown) +

926
ONYOMI: YOU If you YODEL you'll appear Swiss. With a blingy crown, even Swamp Thing has the appearance of high class. JUKUGO:
( )
the contents (of a box or a book or whatever) (the inside) + (appearance) = (contents)
( ) ( )
suspect in crime; foreigner. (appearance) + (doubt) + (professional) = (suspect)
one's looks (appearance) + (someone's shape, body, form) = (one's looks)

- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
appearance SWAMP THING WATER melt NO CROWN bathe
Hint
Radical
SWAMP THING uses a crown to change his appearance. If you melt something it takes on the appearance of WATER. you TAKE OFF YOUR CROWN to bathe.
USED IN:
melt
(waterleft) +
(appearance)
When that plastic melts it takes the appearance of a liquid.
* *
I melt something
something has melted or dissolved.
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
927
bathe
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
I bathe in the water in the valley.
*
bathe JUKUGO:
( )
yukata ; a summer kimono ( 1/2 KANA, FP ) (bathe) + (cloth) = (yukata ; a summer kimono)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
bathe
PEAKED ROOF
run parallel to NO ROOF

So you bathe under a PEAKED ROOF for privacy. Outdoors (i.e. where there is NO ROOF), you run parallel to the river.
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1529 PK
(bottom radical)
hell
928
DESCRIPTION: It looks like "H", which, is the first letter of "HELL."
it also looks like the FLOWER mutant radical, ( )but flower is always on top, and this is always on the bottom, so if you think I'm being too pedantic, the hell with you.
USED IN:
nose
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(my own) + (rice field) +
(hell)
When I get near a rice field the allergies make my own nose into a hell.
nose
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
nostril (nose) + (hole) = (nostril)
boogers: (literally "nose poop"!!) ( KANA, KUNKUN )
( ) ( )
stuffy nose (literally, 'crammed nose'!) (nose) + (cram in) = (stuffy nose)
nosebleed ( KUNKUN ) (nose) + (blood) = (nosebleed)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
stomach nose
Hint
Radical
ORGAN YOURSELF
929
mourn
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: SO KUNYOMI:
(death) +
(hell)
Some One died and went to hell, so now we mourn them by placing a flower on their grave.
*
JUKUGO:
to bury (literal) / to hush up (figurative)
( )
funeral (mourn) + (ritual) = (funeral)
calculate
ONYOMI: SAN
(bamboo) + (eye) +
(hell)
SANTA Claus calculates how many presents to give each child. Use a bamboo ruler and your eyes to calculate how far it is from here to hell. JUKUGO:
( )
to calculate (measure) + (calculate) = (to calculate)
dialect
(moocow) +
ONYOMI: BEN JUKUGO:
(hell)
BENNY Hill did a skit once, where moocows speak only the dialect of hell. All pitch-shifted!!
930
XXXX (XXXX ) SUFFIX meaning 'the dialect from the city of XXX.' ( SUF)
( )
box lunch (dialect) + (hit the target) = (box lunch) Defense attorney (BOOBOO: it's often translated as 'lawyer,' but usually handle criminal cases - murder, arson, etc. Lawsuits or legal procedures related to your visa are either handled by a sort of freelance bureaucrat/notary or by the mob. )
( )
(dialect) + (defend) + (samurai radical) = (Defense attorney)

despicable VILLAIN
ascend dialect
SUN MOOCOW
ascend
(sun, day) +
(hell)
Q: Why is the sun hot, Daddy? A: Well, Jimmy, I'll SHOW you. See when the sun ascends from the horizon, it is coming directly out of hell!.
( or ) ascend. (Planets, moons. People that go to heaven). Also people who take an elevator. Unlike the related word , implies that there is no effort on the part of the ascending person or thing. JUKUGO:
( )
promotion at work (ascend) + (character, aspect) = (promotion at work)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ascend dialect
SUN MOOCOW
Hint
Radical
931
despicable VILLAIN
admonish / commandment
Number: 1535
7 strokes
(spear) +
ONYOMI: KAI
(hell)
I admonish you not to play with that KITE anymore, or my spear will send you straight to hell.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
warn someone to not do something (NP)
( )
- zero stars! -
the ten commandments. ( FP ) (ten) + (admonish / commandment) = (the ten commandments.)
( )
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to be vigilant, to take precautions. To be on high alert - police or security. Describes a tense but temporary situation. (the fuzz) + (admonish / commandment) = (to be vigilant)
USED IN:
contraption
ONYOMI: KAI A KITE is a simple contraption.
(tree) + (admonish / commandment) (Same-ON)

I admonish you to always cut down trees with a contraption - don't use your teeth, dummy! JUKUGO:
( )
A machine, particularly something with a motor in it which moves when activated. A computer is not a , but a robot arm is. (machine) + (contraption) = (machine)
932
( )
the mechanization of a society or of an industry. activated. A computer is not a , but a robot arm is. ) + (transform) = (mechanization )
feathers
ONYOMI:
KUNYOMI:
feathers
JUKUGO:
( )
predicament ( KUNKUN ) (feathers) + (eye) = (predicament)
USED IN:
fly
(hell) +
ONYOMI: HI
(feathers)
this has the feather radical . . .except they are Bizarro feathers, turned the other way, on top of each other, and stretched out So, you could say . .. HE flies downwards to Hell, not up, because he's got Bizarro feathers. KUNYOMI: ()
* *
it flies
2 meanings: 1) I send something flying. 2) to skip a page, to skip a step in a process, to skip a turn in a game.
()
933
JUKUGO:
( )
airplane (fly) + (go) + (machine) = (airplane)
or ( or ) to jump out in front of you suddenly. Normally you'll see this on road signs, "Drive slow! Children might dash out!" Unlike the related words and , emphasizes jumping FROM a place. Jumping FROM the side of the road, or FROM the shadows. ( 1/2 KANA) (fly) + (pull out / hand over) = (jump up from out of nowhere)
( )
a leap. Usually figurative. Make a leap forward in technology. Not used as a verb. (fly) + (jump) = (a leap)
the next- / the following Number: 1539
11 strokes SUF
(stand up) + (feathers)

ONYOMI: YOKU JUKUGO:
Will the following birds please stand up so we can hook your feathers into this YOKE? (we're working on a sky-chariot here, you understand)
( ) ( )
the next day ( NP ) (the next- / the following -) + (sun, day) = (the next day)
the next month ( NP ) (the next- / the following -) + (moon) = (the next month )
( )
the next morning ( NP ) (the next- / the following -) + (morning) = (the next morning)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the next- / the following - STAND WHITE learn
Hint
Radical
The next person in line STANDS up, but the WHITE person sits down at a desk to learn.
934
learn
(white) + (feathers)
If you learn how to use your white Air Jordan SHOES correctly, they'll be like feathers that float you up to the basket.
*
JUKUGO:
learn - but not like 'I learned Bob's last name!' Instead of single facts, means to take lessons in something - karate, flower arranging. (BOOBOO: not used with math, science, or religion)
( ) ( ) ( )
practice , as in guitar, tennis, or jerking off (practice) + (learn) = (practice)
review what you've learned - like vocabulary or even kanji. (return or re-do) + (learn) = (review )
a custom or practice (of a person or a culture) (learn) + (adapt) = (custom)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
the next- / the following - STAND WHITE learn
Hint
Radical
The next person in line STANDS up, but the WHITE person sits down at a desk to learn.
weak
ONYOMI: JAKU
(feathers) + (bow)
Michael JAKUson is weak. Basically it is the same as feathers ( ) but mixed up with the kanji for bow () I guess you could say that birds with weak feathers can't fly fast, so they are the ones shot down by the bow. KUNYOMI:
935
*
weak JUKUGO:
( )
weakling, gayrod ( KUNKUN ) (weak) + (insizzect) = (weakling)
( )
this word combines both synonyms for 'soft.' So you know it means really feeble, weak, nerdy. (soft) + (weak) = (feeble)
( )
Achilles heel, soft underbelly. A built-in weakness that - while not correctable - is not a deal-breaker either. (weak) + (point) = (achilles heel)
traditional fan
(door) + (feathers)
ONYOMI: SEN SEND for my fan, It's hot in here!
The fan cools you down like the cool breeze coming in the door, or like the gently flapping feathers of a bird.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to fan one's self (with a fan or one's hand) (KANA)

- zero stars! -
( ) ( )
electric fan (traditional fan) + (wind / the flu / style) + (machine) = (electric fan)
traditional paper fan ( KANA, FP ) (traditional fan) + (child) = (traditional paper fan)
- zero stars! -
Number: 1543
936
(top radical)
hellbunny
(bunny ears)
(hell) +
DESCRIPTION: These abound in the pits of the netherworld. So, maybe it would be more accurate to depict them thus. BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. that's better.
USED IN:
borrow
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHAKU KUNYOMI:
(hellbunny) +
(sun, day)
Can that person borrow your hellbunnies for one day ? He promises to keep them in their SHACKLES.
*
JUKUGO:
borrow (1/2 KANA)
( )
a debt - What the Yakuza comes to break your knees if you don't pay. (borrow) + (gold) = (a debt)
scatter
(hellbunny) +
ONYOMI: SAN
(moon/organ) +
937
(director)
SANTA Claus scatters presents all over the world.
The hellbunnies tear the director apart and scatter his organs in all directions. KUNYOMI: () ()
*
I scatter things.
something is scattered or dispersed
JUKUGO:
( )
a stroll, to walk with no particular destination (scatter) + (walk) = (a stroll)
( )
band breaks up (solve / untie) + (scatter) = (band breaks up)
exhibit
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: TEN
(hellbunny) +
(kick in the nuts)
There's TEN exhibits this weekend, but I'm going to the one with the corpse that was kicked to death in the nuts by the hellbunny. It has gotten nothing but rave reviews. JUKUGO:
( )
an exhibition or trade-show (International Plumbing Equipment Expo 2010!) (exhibit) + (show) + (big meeting) = (trade-show)
( )
an art show or art exhibition. (exhibit) + (view) + (big meeting) = (exhibition)
( )
development or exploitation of a country or resource (launch) + (exhibit) = (development)
concessions
Number: 1547 20 strokes F

938
(say) + (six) +
(hellbunny) +
(cloth)
JOE Stalin said,"I'll make concessions," when 6 hellbunnies threatened him.
( or ) to hand something over (that you don't want to), to concede; to make a concession (NP) JUKUGO:
( )
Along with Sonkeigo, Kenjougo is half of Japanese formal speech: When talking to your superiors, you use kenjougo to refer to your own humble actions. ( CCW, F ) (modesty) + (concessions) + (language) = (humble formal japanese)
long ago
(hellbunny) +
ONYOMI: SEKI
(sun, day)
Cleopatra was a SEXY despot of long ago. Very long ago, hellbunnies were as hot as the sun. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
in the distant past
( )
- zero stars! -
an old tale ( KUNKUN ) (long ago) + (conversation) = (an old tale)
USED IN:
close but no cigar

(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: SEKI
(long ago) (Same-ON)

939
Long ago, I lost my heart in a tragic affair. I came so close to getting the SEXY woman of my dreams, which makes it all the more regrettable.
KUNYOMI:
* *
close! Not as in, "Godzilla is close to Ultraman's size". Close, as in you throw a ball to a little kid and he drops it and you are like 'That was close! Almost!' (1/2 KANA)
to regret something, to have a little grudge about it.
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
suspicious
Hint
Radical
TAKE A DUMP

I'm suspicious that your mom was the one who TOOK A DUMP on the lawn. I tried to catch the HELLBUNNY but no cigar!! Meaning Hint Radical
detest
HORNY

When you get HORNY, you detest the BUNNIES that tell you close but no cigar! You got dissed, player!
family register
ONYOMI: SEKI
(bamboo) + (tree) + (long ago) (Same-ON)

The tree radical has an extra line in it, which I assume makes it the King Tree for being so bad-ass. Thus; The bamboo, though humble, is descended directly from the King Tree, since long ago. And it has the family register to prove it! JUKUGO:
( )
family register - what Japanese use instead of a social security number for the purpose of verifying their identity. ( FP ) (door) + (family register) = (family register)
( )
- zero stars! -
citizenship (country) + (family register) = (citizenship)
( )
- zero stars! -
to have your name entered in the koseki (family register) ( F ) (put/go in) + (family register) = (enter in the koseki)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
940
standard / the best way to do CAR OLD family register

CARS are a standard way to move, But you gotta have an OLD family registry, your citizenship to prove.
yellow
(hellbunny) +
ONYOMI: JUKUGO:
(freedom / reason) +
(animal legs)
Hellbunnies have the freedom to hop about on yellow legs.
( )
yellow ( KUN ON) (yellow) + (color) = (yellow)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
side / arrogant
ONYOMI: OU
(tree) + (yellow) (Same-ON)

OH SHIT, the side of the tree is yellow with dog piss. Those arrogant dogs! DESCRIPTION: When it uses the onyomi, it means 'arrogant', but when it uses the kunyomi, it means 'side.' KUNYOMI:
side (BOOBOO: not left or right side, that's "gawa". Yoko is like I'm standing beside him, or, she's lying on her side, sideways.)
JUKUGO:
941
( )
embezzlement (side / arrogant) + (territory) = (embezzlement )
( ) ( )
shamelessly slacking off or avoiding one's responsibility. ( CCW) (side / arrogant) + (wear / arrive) = (shameless slacking)
face in profile ( KUNKUN ) (side / arrogant) + (face) = (face in profile)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
with
(hellbunny) +
ONYOMI: KYOU Can I go with you KYOU (= today)??
(animal legs)
The hellbunny attacks you with kicks from its vicious animal legs. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
common point (between two things or people) (with) + (pass) + (point) = (common point)
public, as in "public toilet" or "public telephone" (public) + (with) = (public)
( )
communism (with) + (childbirth, production of things) + capitalism, communism, materialism, and a Japanese grindcore band called 'intestine baalism.' ) = (communism)
942
( )
shared / communal / jointly owned things. (with) + (exist) = (jointly owned)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
LINES POINTING DOWN with line up / ordinary LINES POINTING UP
Hint
Radical
has lines pointing down, because it means you're DOWN with someone. has lines pointing up because it means LINE UP.
USED IN:
line up / ordinary
(standing worms) +
ONYOMI: HEI HEY, you new recruits! Line up!
(hedgehog)
Standing worms all lining up on the back of a hedgehog!!!
KUNYOMI:
( xxx )
() ()
ordinary, average xxx - when ordering food, it means, "I just want this ala carte"
* *
I line things up, put them in order
they're lined up (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
parallel (line up / ordinary) + (row) = ( or )
( )
- zero stars! -
side-by-side; abreast (line up / ordinary) + (go) = (side-by-side; abreast )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
943
Radical
LINES POINTING DOWN with line up / ordinary LINES POINTING UP

has lines pointing down, because it means you're DOWN with someone. has lines pointing up because it means LINE UP.
USED IN:
normal
ONYOMI: FU
(line up / ordinary) + (sun, day)

It is normal for people to be FUCKED. In an eclipse, it is normal for planets to line up in front of the sun. JUKUGO:
or ( or ) ( )
normal / normally (normal) + (pass) = (normal / normally)
under normal circumstances (normal) + (step / stairs) = (under normal circumstances)
( )
- zero stars! -
universal (normal) + (motivation / '-al') = (universal)
accompany
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: KYOU JUKUGO:
(with) (Same-ON)
A suspicious person accompanies you, therefore they are always WITH you.
( )
child ( KUNKUN ) (child) + (accompany) = (child)
( )
when I was but a wee lassie.

944
wee lassie.)
(child) + (accompany) + (around that time) = (when I was but a
( )
to supply (supply and demand / supply the troops with guns / supply your kid with a school lunches / the feed chute supplies grain to the conveyor belt at the cereal factory) (accompany) + (provide) = (supply)
choose
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SEN
(myself) + (with)
SEND for the chosen ones!! Bring them to me! Texas Governor Bush asked Dick Cheney to help him choose his running mate for the 2000 campaign. Dick cheney said, "OK, I make a motion to choose myself, with myself, to run with you." KUNYOMI:
*
choose JUKUGO:
( )
choice- somewhat more formal than - you'd a bagel but a President. ( F )
(choose) + (select) = (to choose)
( ) ( )
an election (choose) + (raise / cite/ mention) = (an election)
pro athlete (choose) + (hand) = (pro athlete)
flood
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KOU
Number: 1558 9 strokes SIDEKICK, DUH
(with)
945
Poo flooded out of my COLON Water goes with a flood. It is common sense!! You don't have a flood of Bailey's!! (although, what if?!?) JUKUGO:
( )
flood (be careful - the is pronounced which is really unusual.) (flood) + (water) = (flood)
Tha $treetz
(myself) + (with)
ONYOMI:
..I'm on Tha $treetz with myself - nobody's got your back on tha $treetz.
KUNYOMI:
literally, it means a street. But it's usually used figuratively: word on the street is. . . . the streets are talking . . . his name rings out on the streets.
USED IN:
harbor
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(Tha $treetz)
They confiscated like 300 kilos of COCAINE on a ship at the harbor. The harbor is basically a big $treet full of water, where all the boats drive, I mean float. I know 'tha $treetz' is supposed to be a gangster kind of kanji, but if you think of Miami harbor? OK, there you go. KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
harbor
( ) ( )
airport (air) + (harbor) = (airport )
Hong Kong ( FP )
946
(good smell) + (harbor) = (Hong Kong)

to differ
ONYOMI: I I differ from P.Diddy
(rice field) + (with)

A rice field has a difference with a plum field or a mango field. KUNYOMI:
( xxx ) to differ according to xxx (similar to the ol' xxx) ( xxx ) use to emphasize that, one thing is very specifically NOT like xxx. JUKUGO:
* *
( )
abnormal (as in 'abnormal psychology') (to differ) + (usual) = (abnormal)
( )
homonym (same) + (sound) + (to differ) + (righteousness) + (language) = (homonym)
( )
USED IN:
the opposite sex (to differ) + (sex / essential nature) = (the opposite sex)
- zero stars! -
political wing
(feathers) + (to differ)
947
ONYOMI: YOKU The right wing wants to place the YOKE of oppression around the necks of foreigners. In English we talk about left and right wings of politics. In Japanese, apparently they use left and right FEATHERS!!! So you can say, "The left and the right feather differ in their opinions." DESCRIPTION: Originally this meant a literal wing, but nowadays it's more common to see it used about politics.
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
a literal wing
( )
right wing :pro- LDP, pro-emperor, anti-union, pro-yakuza, anti-article-9. anti-thewhole -macarthur-fuckin-wrote-it-anyway constitution. Not necessarily anti - western. After all, the USA is the main ally in the fight against the Red Menace. It's easy for Americans to say, 'communism is dead, get over it,' but we're not the ones living next door to fuckin' Kim Jong Il. ( NEO ) (right) + (political wing) = (right wing)
( )
left wing: pro-union, pro-article 9,anti-national-anthem, anti -LDP ( NEO ) (left) + (political wing) = (left wing)
rampage
ONYOMI: BOU
(sun, day) + (with) + (water)

Rather than let Smokey win, Walter went on a BOWLing rampage. The flooding water and the burning sun go on an environmental rampage. Thanks, big polluters! KUNYOMI: () ()
expose some bad thing in public - like a journalist or watchdog group would.
someone or something rampages or rages
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
violence of person against person. (rampage) + (strong) = (violence)
948
violent - "He's a violent guy" or "She's a violent /crazy driver" - violent weather, (can be noun OR adjective OR verb!) (disorder) + (rampage) = (violent)
( )
Japanese bikers. (rampage) + (run) + (family) = (Japanese bikers. )
( )
Yakuza. ) USED IN:
explode
(firebottom) +
ONYOMI: BAKU
Number: 1564 19 strokes DUH, BETA
(rampage)
I'll bomb you BACK TO the stone age! An explosion is a rampage of fire!! JUKUGO:
( )
bomb (explode) + (bullet / play guitar / bounce) = (bomb)
( )
explosion (explode) + (launch) = (explosion)
( )
to laugh explosively- to suddenly and convulsively guffaw (explode) + (laugh) = (explosive laughter)
( )
suicide-bomb. (like PLO, not like Kamikaze) Suicide-bomb terrorism is ( ) also - if you unintentionally blurt out a secret, you just ! ( SARC) (my own) + (explode) = (suicide-bomb)

949
again / once more

(nail) + (utilize)
ONYOMI: SA I SAW the vampire start to re-animate. . .you'll have to utilize the nail once more! KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
once again. For the second time
( ) ( )
month after next (again / once more) + (next month) = (month after next)
year after next. (again / once more) + (next year) = (year after next.)
( ) ( )
week after next (again / once more) + (come/future) + (week) = (week after next)
re-opening, resuming (again / once more) + (open) = (re-opening) day after next? NO. Of course not. Day after next is ! "" means "To re-visit Japan." Psyche!!!! With a language THIS logical, you're bound to want to re-visit! ( COCK) (again / once more) + (come/future) + (sun, day) = (to re-visit japan)
- zero stars! -
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
HEAD on top again / once more FLAT top
Hint
Radical
Only the unicycle has a HEAD - the head of the rider! Again has a FLAT top because the unicycle's tire went FLAT again!
Number: 1566 OBSOLETE, STRONG

950
(right radical)
unicycle
USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: . . because it looks like a person riding a unicycle! STRONG RADICAL: HO (The keywords for which are, of course, 'Hairy Obese.')
chain store
ONYOMI: HO
(hut) + (unicycle) (Same-ON)

Walmart is a chain store for Hairy Obese people. Ride your unicycle to the hut store, to pick up a hut. How you're going to carry a hut home on a unicycle I have no idea. JUKUGO:
xxx
(xxx )
a branch of a chain store such as Macy's or a Best Buy. Regular stores are xxx ( ) or xxx () ( SUF) (shop) + (chain store) = (branch of chain store)
- zero stars! -
supplement
(ducky) +
ONYOMI: HO KUNYOMI:
(unicycle) (Same-ON)
The ducky was too Horribly Obese to walk; it had to supplement its legs with a unicycle.
to suppliment - like , but the nuance is that you are filling a vacancy. For instance, nutritional suppliment. Substitute teacher. Assist in the completion of something (I helped write the speech). To make up for (i.e. Mitsubishi bank loaned money to Toyota to make up for their shortfall)
JUKUGO:
( )
candidate (climate/candidate) + (supplement) = (candidate)
( )
to suppliment, (a shortfall or deficit) or replenish (fluids, vitamins to replenish

951
strength, restock the store-room) - it's like , but the nuance is that you are restocking a supply of something which has dwindled. (supplement) + (fill up) = (suppliment)
supplement DUCKY
capture
Hint
HAND
Radical
You use your HAND to capture, but you use A DUCKY to supplement your bubble-bath.
capture
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: HO KUNYOMI: ()
(unicycle) (Same-ON)
The cop on the unicycle reached out his hand and captured your Moms, for the crime of being Hairy Obese.
to catch, grasp, arrest
( or ) to catch (can both be used to describe an animal catching prey OR someone grabbing someone else by the arm, catching a taxi, a crook caught in the act, etc.) JUKUGO:
( )
arrest (arrest) + (capture) = (arrest )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
supplement DUCKY
capture
Hint
HAND
Radical
You use your HAND to capture, but you use A DUCKY to supplement your bubble-bath.
Number: 1570 STRONG
(right radical)
hell's circus
952
(hellbunny) +
(unicycle)
DESCRIPTION: The hell bunny rides a unicycle in Hell's circus. STRONG RADICAL: KOU
USED IN:
set up / care about

(tree) +
ONYOMI: KOU COCAINE addicts really care about their drugs.
(hell's circus) (Same-ON)
Use the tree as the central pole when you set up hell's circus tent. KUNYOMI: ()
to get into one's fighting stance, say, when a Samurai challenges one. Nowadays, usually used in the negative: : don't be so nervous. relax. Also sometimes means to pose as , to put on airs. (KANA)
( ) to care about, to look after something, to take responsibility for it. (1/2 KANA) JUKUGO:
! ( ! )
I don't care.
( )
1)literally, "OK."
this has 3 meanings, each used just as often as the others .
2) "No thank you" (just like American women, Japanese people use 'That's ok' to mean 'No.'!) 3) "Very much" : You often hear people saying, "Kekkou atsui ne!" ("It's very hot today, eh?") ( 1/2 KANA, JERK) (bind) + (set up / care about) = (ok / no thanks / very)
( ! ) ( )
a polite way to say, "Don't worry about it."
structure of a physical thing: cell structure, house structure,structure of a society. (set up / care about) + (produce) = ( structure)
953
lecture
(say) +
ONYOMI: KOU Saying a lecture on the topic of hell's circus. JUKUGO:
Nancy Reagan lectured me about saying no to COCAINE.
( ) ( )
a lecture (lecture) + (performance) = (a lecture)
lecture (lecture) + (righteousness) = (lecture)
subscribe
(shellfish/money) +
ONYOMI: KOU JUKUGO:
I subscribe to hell's circus by paying money every month.
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
to subscribe (subscribe) + (read) = (to subscribe)
purchasing (usually used in a business context) (subscribe) + (put/go in) = (purchasing )
ditch
(waterleft) +

954
ONYOMI: KOU The ditch was full of waste-water from hell's circus. DESCRIPTION: PN (huh? seriously? what kind of low-expectation-having motherfucker would name their kid that? why not name your kid Nighttrain-in-a-plastic-bag Jones?) KUNYOMI:
ditch, gutter, drain
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
big ditch. who cares. (eliminate) + (water) + (ditch) = (big ditch.)
Number: 1575 PK
(fuck radical)
fuck
DESCRIPTION:
Any questions?
USED IN:
descend /rainfall / get out of vehicle

(town) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(eachbottom) +
(fuck)
Some poo descended from my COLON. He gets out of his vehicle at each town to fuck the locals. (FYI he's a christian missionary, and he's teaching them the position favored by the Lord) KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
get off the bus/ taxi / train
955
rain falls JUKUGO:
( )
surrender (descend /rainfall / get out of vehicle ) + (admit defeat / visit) = (surrender)
( )
surrender (descend /rainfall / get out of vehicle ) + (lay face down) = (surrender)
year
ONYOMI: NEN
(bamboo) +
(fuck)
I gotta fuck some bamboo every year (FYI, I lost a bet. don't ask) DESCRIPTION: NEW ONYOMI: from now on, when you see a new kanji whose onyomi is "nen", please use "year" for the keyword!
KUNYOMI:
a year
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
next year (come/future) + (year) = (next year)
last year (past tense) + (year) = (last year)
half a year. ( KUN ON) (half) + (year) = (half a year.)
1969 ( 1969 ) ( )
the year Black Sabbath released their first album.
young boy- usually 5- 15 years old. (a little (amount)) + (year) = (young boy)
956
XXX
(XXX )
XXX-year anniversary ( COUNTER ) (circumference) + (year) = (XXX-year anniversary)
five
ONYOMI: GO KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
5 things (COUNTER)
( ) ( )
May ( KANA) (five) + (moon) = (May)
the fifth day of the month. Also a homonym for 'when,' so that Abbot and Costello routine practically writes itself. ( FP ) (five) + (sun, day) = (fifth day of month)
USED IN:
language
ONYOMI: GO KUNYOMI:
(say) + (five) (Same-ON) + (mouth/small box radical)

Learn how to say FIVE () languages from your mouth.
*
JUKUGO:
to tell a story
( )
English
957
(heroic) + (language) = (English)
( ) (xxx go )
French () + () + (language) = (French) SUFFIX meaning "language of xxx-country" (for example, ) ( SUF)
xxx
( )
the subject of the sentence. AKA the thing Japanese people never say. (master/mainly) + (language) = (subject)
( )
a tale- often used in the title of a book or movie. As in 'the tale of genji' 'tale of two cities.' ( KUNKUN , NOKURI ) (animal / thing) + (language) = (tale)
( )
synonym (same) + (meaning) + (language) = (synonym)
( )
homonym (same) + (sound) + (to differ) + (righteousness) + (language) = (homonym)
enlightenment
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: GO Because not everyone can do that!
(five) (Same-ON) + (mouth/small box radical)
Her heart Got Out of her mouth five times, that's when she knew she was enlightened.
KUNYOMI:
to realize (that someone is following you around / that someone is lying to you), or have a spiritual enlightenment (like Buddha)
Number: 1581 STRONG

958
orgy
(five) + (mouth/small box radical) +

STRONG for "I"
(fuck)
DESCRIPTION: Given that combination of radicals, what would YOU call it, Mr. Maturity??
USED IN:
different and therefore wrong

Number: 1582
13 strokes CCW
(motion) +
ONYOMI: I
(orgy) (Same-ON)
I am different and wrong, and so is this dictionary. Moving towards an orgy is different and wrong. KUNYOMI: ()
nuh-uh! Wrong! It's not like that at all!
JUKUGO:
( )
a mistake ( 1/2 KANA) (a period of time) + (different and therefore wrong) = (a mistake) a misunderstanding - like the related term , but is a little smaller. If I'm reading and confuse one kanji with a similar looking kanji, that's . But if I see my fiancee with her cousin from out of town, and assume she's having an affair and punch the guy, that's (perception) + (different and therefore wrong) = (misunderstanding)
( )
( )
(literally, 'different feeling') crazy - this is one of the biggest cusses in the whole language-a garunteed fight-starter. This is instructive in several ways. 1) Japanese is such a polite language that 'different feeling' is one of the worst insults. 2) it takes a certain kind of culture to think that having a different feeling is such a bad thing in the first place! 3) Historically it is a discriminatory term against people who suffer from mental illness. ( ABU) (mood) + (different and therefore wrong) = (fuckin' crazy)
959
( )
a somewhat formal word for difference ( NP ) (partner) + (different and therefore wrong) = (a somewhat formal word for difference)
high-powered, prestigious
Number: 1583
12 strokes SOLO
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: I
(orgy) (Same-ON)
The person who organized this orgy was prestigious. KUNYOMI:
great, outstanding. As in 'a great painting' or 'a great show.'(p> It also means upper-class. Like 'We can't park in that parking spot - it's for erai people.' A regular doctor is not erai, but the head surgeon of the hospital is erai. That kind of thing.
(literally, "Prestigious, isn't he?") someone who thinks they're all that (SARC)
defense
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: EI
(orgy)
I have to go and defend the orgy from The Fonz (He's mad because he wasn't invited) JUKUGO:
( )
self-defense - usually used in (Japan's army, the Self-Defence Forces) (my own) + (defense) = (self-defense)
( ) ( ) ( )
hygiene (defense) + (life / birth) = (hygiene)
satellite (defense) + (star) = (satellite)
960
a bodyguard, an escort (defend) + (defense) = (a bodyguard, an escort)

- zero stars! -
Number: 1585
(top radical)
date
(fuck)
(evening) +
USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: Evening + fuck = a date.
twinkle / tiny bit of time

Number: 1586
18 strokes
(eye) +
KUNYOMI: ()
(nest) +
(date)
ONYOMI: SHUN You look with your eye for a tiny bit of time and decide not to date the guy with the nest embedded in his moustache - in fact, you decide to SHUN him.
*
- zero stars! -
* ( )
JUKUGO:
to blink, but also to flicker or twinkle Usually used as a adjective like, " " (twinkling star)
a wink,a blink (1/2 KANA)
or ( or )
an instant, the blink of an eye. (twinkle / tiny bit of time) + (a period of time) = (an instant)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
neighbor
dance / flutter
WITHOUT TOWN
Hint
Radical
twinkle / tiny bit of time EYE
You can't dance WITHOUT a beat. The neighboring TOWNs are next door to each other. I like how your EYES twinkle.
961
dance / flutter
(without) +
ONYOMI: BU, MU
(date)
BOO! The fluttering freak-dancers scared you with their sudden freakery. Because of your poor dancing, you remain without a date. KUNYOMI: ()
to flutter or dance - like leaves in the wind. Not like a person doing the Smurf.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
where your mom gets her makeup from. (sing) + (dance / flutter) = (kabuki)
the stage. (dance / flutter) + (big thing counter) = (the stage.)
or ( or ) to do a 'sympathy visit' to someone who is sick, usually in the hospital. (look) + (dance / flutter) = (sympathy visit)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
neighbor
dance / flutter
WITHOUT TOWN
Hint
Radical
neighbor
(town) +
ONYOMI: RIN - don't bother. KUNYOMI:
(rice / America) +
(date)
I'm dating an American, from the neighboring town.

962
()
next to- could be the seat next to yours, could be the house next to yours. (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
someone from the neighborhood - a homey. (neighbor) + (person) = (a homey)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
neighbor
dance / flutter
WITHOUT TOWN
Hint
Radical
(right radical)
spice rack
DESCRIPTION: Just one of them racks you hang on your kitchen wall full of spice bottles.
Not only does it look like a spice rack, when seen from the side view, but ALSO the radical usually means ingredient.
USED IN:
ingredients / fees
(rice / America) +
ONYOMI: RYOU REORDER more ingredients.
(spice rack)
Get the ingredients and the rice from the spice rack. This is gonna be some nut-busting risotto here, I tell you that right now.
963
JUKUGO:
( )
2 meanings. 1: cooking , as in, "My hobby is cooking. I'm cooking right now, I can't talk." 2: cuisine, as in, "My favorite cuisine is Mexican. My favorite cuisine is Indonesian." (BOOBOO: You don't say, though, "I'm going to buy some ryouri." Or "I'm eating ryouri right now." ) (ingredients / fees) + (reason) = (cuisine/cooking)
( )
free (not like Martin Luther King, I mean free like a free magazine full of articles on how to become a stripper) (without) + (ingredients / fees) = (free)
( )
a fee, also, bills. (ingredients / fees) + (gold) = (a fee, also, bills.) wages - a bit more useful than the related word . For instance, 'payday' is () not . (provide) + (ingredients / fees) = (wages)
( )
( )
spices - not just hot ones. This is the only word you'll ever need the onyomi for. Sorry. (good smell) + (spicy / painful) + (ingredients / fees) = (spices)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
science
Hint
Radical
ingredients / fees RICE
WHEAT
Scientists study WHEAT, then use RICE ingredients for something to eat.
science
(wheat) +
ONYOMI: KA
(spice rack)
Thanks to science, we now have a CAR that runs on wheat and spices! JUKUGO:
( )
textbook
964
(teach) + (science) + (write) = (textbook)
( )
science (science) + (knowledge) = (science)
( )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
science
Hint
Radical
ingredients / fees RICE
WHEAT
Scientists study WHEAT, then use RICE ingredients for something to eat.
diagram/ map
(big box) +
ONYOMI: ZU, TO
(spice rack)
I want to Take Off to the ZOO, but first I need to get a map. Before I can build my spice rack, I have to draw a diagram of it in this big box. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
a fairly neutral word for 'to scheme or plan': 'The committee plans to raise interest rates.' It can be used for both good and bad schemes.
( ) ( )
map (area) + (diagram/ map) = (map)
intention, aim ( NP ) (meaning) + (diagram/ map) = (intention, aim)

- zero stars! -
( )
blueprint (diagram/ map) + (front surface / face) = (blueprint)

- zero stars! -
965
diagonal
(excess) +
ONYOMI: SHA
(spice rack)
SHALL I wear my diagonal '80s new-wave dress today? My spice rack is so full of excess spice bottles that it droops diagonally. KUNYOMI:
* ( xxx )
JUKUGO:
diagonal xxx (1/2 KANA)
( )
- zero stars! -
a slant or slope (diagonal) + (front surface / face) = (a slant or slope)
Number: 1594 PK
(bottom radical)
skipping legs
DESCRIPTION: The crossed legs of a jaunty person skipping down the street.
USED IN:
history
ONYOMI: SHI

JUKUGO:
(skipping legs)
With her mouth, SHE tells the history of skipping - from the stumbling of drunken cavemen, to the modern ballet.
( )
history (chronicle) + (history) = (history)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MOUTH history all over again RICEFIELD
Hint
Radical
966
You tell oral history with your MOUTH, and every year we have to plant the RICEFIELD all over again.
USED IN:
all over again

ONYOMI: KOU
(one/line radical) + (rice field) +
(skipping legs)
Your mom did all the COCAINE, so now we have to score all over again. We were unable to skip through one rice field. We have to start all over again! KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
all over again, afresh, furthermore, in addition, besides. (NP)
( )
it's too late now, after all this time. Too much water under the bridge. ( KUNKUN ) (now) + (all over again) = (too late now)
( )
renew (all over again) + (new) = (renew)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
MOUTH history all over again RICEFIELD
Hint
Radical
You tell oral history with your MOUTH, and every year we have to plant the RICEFIELD all over again.
USED IN:
hard like a rock

ONYOMI: KOU, KU
(rock) + (all over again) (Same-ON)

Thanks to viagra, the old man's junk got rock hard all over again, and furthermore his COLON too. DESCRIPTION: this is the least used of the 3 dupes. KUNYOMI:
967
*
JUKUGO:
hardalmost the same as the OTHER ()- hard like hard to break. If you want to say someone is stiff or stubborn or anal retentive, you'd have to use , though.
( )
rigid - but not like a boner. Like a rigid class system resistant to change. Like rigor mortis. Other meaning: to sit bolt upright, soldiers rigidly standing at attention. (hard like a rock) + (correct a probem / direct contact) = (rigid)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
use
hard like a rock
Hint
ROCK BERET
Radical
convenient / poop RICE FIELD
"Hard" as a ROCK. A person uses a BERET to keep his head warm, but another person takes a poo in the RICE FIELD. You're welcome.
use
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHI
(one/line radical) + (history)
Can't you see?? SHE's just using you, dude! The person uses a stick (the line on top right) to teach history.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
use (a cement mixer, a video game controller, an AK)
968
( )
how to use (use) + (direction / method / person) = (how to use)
XXX ( XXX) ( )
disposable XXX, throwaway things. (use) + (throw away) = (disposable)
angel (heaven) + (use) = (angel )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
use
hard like a rock
Hint
ROCK BERET
Radical
convenient / poop
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: BEN
(all over again)
BENny Hill had BEEN doing a TV show known for poop jokes. As well as boob jokes and other cultural fare. A person poops when it is convenient, and then the next day they have to poop all over again. DESCRIPTION: This is pronounced BEN in poo-related words, and BIN in mail-related words.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
news or communication from someone - a letter. A simple postcard now and again. Is that so much to ask? Mr. thinks-his-shit-don't-stink???
( ) ( )
handy, convenient (convenient / poop) + (handy) = (handy, convenient)
inconvenient (un) + (convenient / poop) = (inconvenient)

969
( ) ( )
- zero stars! -
the dook (doctor word, although it's sure to get a chuckle if you use it) ( NP ) (eliminate) + (convenient / poop) = (defecate)
( )
- zero stars! -
the wee (Doctor's word) ( NP ) (small size) + (convenient / poop) = (the wee)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
use
hard like a rock
Hint
ROCK BERET
Radical
(one's own) flesh

(my own) + (katakana 'no')
ONYOMI: SHIN First, let's say that is short for "nose" now we can say . . . My own nose flesh is SHINY with grease.
Number: 1600 7 strokes PN, ILL PAIR
DESCRIPTION: Careful - this guy tends to use the KUN reading in its jukugo.
( NUBI )
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
flesh (never used by itself - you wouldn't tell a hot dude, "nice !!" as you leer at him. See below for examples.
xxx (xxx ) a thing made in XXX, a person from XXX ( SUF) (pull out / hand over) + ((one's own) flesh) = (a thing from XXX)
( )
970
identity, as in ID card or unidentified headless corpse. ( KUNKUN ) ((one's own) flesh) + (original) = (identity)
( )
height (BOOBOO; only about human bodies- not about buildings or, well, anything else) ((one's own) flesh) + (long / boss) = (height)
( ) ( )
the contents of (a box, bag) ( KUNKUN ) (middle) + ((one's own) flesh) = (contents)
one's social status: bum, clerk, socialite, ne'er-do-well, etc ( KUNKUN ) ((one's own) flesh) + (understand / divide / minute) = (social status)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
ministry / cut down on A LITTLE YOUR OWN (one's own) flesh
Hint
Radical
Cut down on smoking a LITTLE, and save your OWN flesh.
USED IN:
shoot
ONYOMI: SHA KUNYOMI:
(glueglue) + ((one's own) flesh)

I SHOT an arrow at your flesh and it sticks in you like glue.
*
JUKUGO:
shoot (only used about bows)(no stars!)

- zero stars! -
( ) ( )
USED IN:
launch (a rocket) (launch) + (shoot) = (launch)
reflection (anti) + (shoot) = (reflection)
Number: 1602
971
apologize
ONYOMI: SHA
17 strokes DUPE
(say) + (shoot) (Same-ON)

I apologize that I SHOT your dachshund. If you say enough apologies, I won't shoot you. KUNYOMI: ()
apologize (BOOBOO: This is only used when describing actions after the fact. You wouldn't step on someone's toes and then say !)
JUKUGO:
( )
The most common, general word for gratitude. (feeling) + (apologize) = (gratitude)
( )
- zero stars! -
apologize ( NP ) (apologize) + (sin) = (apologize)
to be in trouble
ONYOMI: KYUU CUTE guys are nothing but trouble.
(hole) + (bow) + ((one's own) flesh)

When a bow shoots a hole in your flesh, you bet your ass you're in trouble. KUNYOMI: ()
*
- zero stars! -
To be caught in a dillema, to have your back to the wall, to the point where there seems to be no hope. Almost never used.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
:stiff or formal, tight-assed. (to be in trouble) + (yield, get out of the way) = (tight-assed. )
to be up a creek, in a predicament, painted into a corner, fucked. (to be in trouble) + (area) = (FUCKED)
972
(bottom radical)
scorpion
DESCRIPTION: Often - but not always - STRONG RADICAL for 'CHI.'
USED IN:
area
(earth) +
ONYOMI: CHI, JI
(scorpion) (Same-ON)
Damn it smells good in here. Did JESUS cut the CHEESE in this area? Dangerous scorpions are on the earth in that area. DESCRIPTION:This is different from other 'place' kanji like and , because doesn't emphasize the a particular activity done at the place : instead emphasizes the land, the physical, geographical aspects of the space. JUKUGO:
( )
map (area) + (diagram/ map) = (map)
( )
a region or district, a zone. (emphasizes a social community moreso than a geographical area) (i.e. you wouldn't use it for the tropics or the Arctic, but you'd use it for Chinatown ,the American South or Kanto/Kansai) (area) + (region) = (district, zone)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
the world, the physical planet Earth. (area) + (sphere) = (earth)
earthquake ( FP ) (area) + (shake, tremble) = (earthquake)
the ground/floor (applies both inside and outside) (area) + (front surface / face) = (ground)
a geographical district or zone - emphaizes a physical location: the tropics, the steppes. is much bigger and broader than . (area) + (belt) = (zone)
973
( )
geography (area) + (reason) = (geography)
pond
(waterleft) +
(scorpion) (Same-ON)
There's a scorpion living in the water of that pond, eating CHEESE.
pond, small lake
JUKUGO:
( )
battery (electricity) + (pond) = (battery)
other
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: TA
(scorpion)
The solitary scorpion doesn't usually TAlk to other people.
KUNYOMI:
other - another thing of the same type.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
the others, as well as, furthermore, etc. (often seen on charts: 45% Republican, 45% Democrat, 10%)
other people, people around you (emphasis is slightly negative: they're not in your group, so who cares about them?) (other) + (person) = (other people)
974
put into practice / charity

Number: 1608
9 strokes JERK, PN

(rifle) +
(scorpion)
SHE sees you're about to get bit, so SHE charitably points her rifle in the direction of the scorpion and blasts away.
*
JUKUGO:
to give to charity (1/2 KANA)
( )
an institution, some facilities. (a mental hospital / sports stadium / orphanage / water filtration plant) (put into practice / charity) + (establish) = (institution / facilities)
( )
- zero stars! -
to put something - a plan or rule - into effect (truth) + (put into practice / charity) = (in full effect)
get
(right radical)
Number: 1609 STRONG, OBSOLETE
(horny) +
(rice field) + (sun, day)
DESCRIPTION: strong RADICAL: ZOU. ZORRO gets horny working in the rice fields all day. OBSOLETE KANJI: officially this means former," but it is rarely used, so we're going to use it to mean gain," for reasons that will become clear in one second...
USED IN:
increase
(earth) + (get) (Same-ON)
975
ONYOMI: ZOU (not so useful) Every time ZORRO got more ground, his power increased(and the hated Governor Alverado's decreased). KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I increase something. (my bank balance, my muscles)
something increases.
JUKUGO:
( ) an increase ( NP ) (increase) + (add) = (an increase)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
give
ONYOMI: ZOU KUNYOMI:
(shellfish/money) + (get) (Same-ON)

ZOrro got money from robbing the rich, and gave that money to the poor.
*
JUKUGO:
give a present, or present someone with something rad (a scholarship, a knighthood). This is actually more similar to , but I think it's a little more formal. (F)
( )
a present ( 1/2 KANA) (give) + (animal / thing) = (a present)

976
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
detest
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(get) (Same-ON)
My heart gets more fast the more I detest!
* *
hateful, just odious, terribly immoral.
to hate or detest! Not like "I hate sports" or "I hate Insane Clown Posse," but like "I detest Hitler and female genital mutilation."
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
detest
Meaning
Hint
Radical
HORNY
977
When you get HORNY, you detest the BUNNIES that tell you close but no cigar! You got dissed, player!
buddhist monk
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SOU The monk is SO wise. A monk is a person who gets enlightenment
(get) (Same-ON)
DESCRIPTION: This is a somewhat formal kanji. Most people just say () for monk in casual conversation. KUNYOMI:
a somewhat formal, official way to refer to a monk (LAZY, F)

- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
a Buddhist monk
Hint
Radical
layer
(corpse) +
ONYOMI: SOU
(get)
978
When ice cube starts killing crackers, the pile of corpses gets layers SO fast it is like, damn, he really doesn't
like crackers. JUKUGO:
( ) (xxx )
all the more. As in, 'He ignores me and it just makes me love him all the more.' (one) + (layer) = (all the more) SUFFIX meaning, 'layer of xxx.' As in, ( = ozone layer) ( SUF)
xxx
( )
- zero stars! -
stratum of society - broke, blue-collar, middle-class, rich, oligarch (story of a building) + (layer) = (stratum of society)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
genus/affiliation BUGS GET layer
Hint
Radical
BUGS have genus and species. Layers GET piled up.
washtub
ONYOMI: RO

RObots don't like to get in the washtub because they will electrocute themselves. Just a regular washtub like you got in your apartment. Or, let's say, TWO tubs (the two squares) connected by a short line of plumbing in the middle there. JUKUGO:
( )
bathrub. I mean tub. A bathtub. ( 1/2 KANA) (wind / the flu / style) + (washtub) = (bathtub)
( )
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outdoor hot springs baths - AKA the best shit ever. (outdoors, public) + (heaven) + (wind / the flu / style) + (washtub) = (outdoor hot springs )
USED IN:
Number: 1616
PK
bureaucracy
979
DESCRIPTION: . . . because it is used in the kanji for bureaucrat, but mostly because it looks like a capital "B." has a straight spine running down the left side- because bureaucrats HOW TO TELL THEM APART: Unlike , are inflexible. Also because the letter "B" has a straight line on the left.
USED IN:
palace
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KYUU
(washtub)
That's a CUTE palace you got there. All those cherubs in the cornices! The princess left her crown in the washtub at the palace.
KUNYOMI:
old-school Japanese palace from the Heian era (BOOBOO: later eras hid their palaces inside stone castles, so you'd say castle instead: )
JUKUGO:
( )
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womb (child) + (palace) = (womb)
federal BUREAUCRACY palace WASHTUB
Radical
The federal government is run by BEURACRATS. There's a WASHTUB in the damn palace.
federal
(crown) +
ONYOMI: KAN
(bureaucracy)
Genghis KHAN's government consisted of a hairy guy and a sword. In the federal government, bureaucrats wear the crowns and have the power. JUKUGO:
( )
a senior bureaucrat - not the kind at the DMV, but the high powered kind that get like
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millions in bribes, kickbacks, and revolving-door funds. (federal) + (coworker) = (senior bureaucrat)
federal BUREAUCRACY palace WASHTUB
The federal government is run by BEURACRATS. There's a WASHTUB in the damn palace.
USED IN:
big hall
ONYOMI: KAN
(eat) + (federal) (Same-ON)

Genghis KHAN's big hall is decorated with yak pelts and skulls. All the federal workers eat in the same big hall. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
movie theater (movie) + (big hall) = (movie theater)
library (diagram/ map) + (write) + (big hall) = (library)
( ) ( )
museum (fine art) + (big hall) = (museum)
a traditional Japanese inn that costs like 300 bones a night. (trip) + (big hall) = (inn)
( ) ( )
admission fee ( NP ) (put/go in) + (big hall) + (ingredients / fees) = (admission fee)
embassy (big) + (use) + (big hall) = (embassy)
981
coffin
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(tree) + (federal) (Same-ON)

Jello Biafra wants to put the federals in a coffin made from trees.
coffin
follow
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TSUI
(bureaucracy)
I move to follow a bureaucrat- I'm HOT (=aTSUI=) on his trail! KUNYOMI: ()
chase - not just cat chases mouse, but also can mean to chase someone in a certain direction, for instance, to drive someone off, or to herd cattle.
JUKUGO:
( )
catch up to (follow) + (stick to) = (catch up to)
( ) ( )
follow after someone all stalker-style.
overtake (follow) + (go beyond) = (overtake)
( )
to deport your Moms because she got naked on top of Tokyo Tower yelling 'Fuck Yamagichi-gumi!' through a bullhorn. (follow) + (release) = (deport)
USED IN:
Number: 1622
982
13 strokes
apply
ONYOMI: KEN
DUPE
(insizzect) + (follow)
KENNY applies his legs to follow a bug. DESCRIPTION: Dictionaries say that both this and the OTHER () mean "to use". No. No!!! Not the case. is the REAL "to use." KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
to be careful or give consideration to. Usually only used with the phrase but even then it's usually hiragana so who cares. (KANA)
( ) ( )
one's allowance ( 1/2 KANA) (small size) + (apply) = (one's allowance)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
apply
bequeath MONEY BUREAUCRATS
Hint
Radical
I bequeath MONEY to my heirs, but the government applies BUREAUCRATS to tax that money.
tube
ONYOMI: KAN
(bamboo) + (federal) (Same-ON)

Genghis KHAN smokes mad weed out of a tube. Bamboo tubes were installed by the federal government to bring water to the countryside.
KUNYOMI: tube - rubber tube, plumbing pipe. Unlike the related kanji , (cylinder) can be bent or flexible.
JUKUGO:
( )
administration or management- you often see this on warning signs: "Don't walk on
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the grass - sincerely, the management", or on Windows " (computer management) (tube) + (reason) = (management)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
cylinder /pipe HITLER tube BEURACRAT
Hint
Radical
HITLER smokes a pipe of hash, but BUEARUCRATS send messages through flexible pneumatic tubes - like in the movie Brazil.
master, teacher
(bureaucracy) +
ONYOMI: SHI JUKUGO:
(small city/dagger radical) (Same-ON)
The bureaucrats are the masters of the small city.
( ) ( )
teacher - more fomal than ( F ) (teach) + (master, teacher) = (teacher) a more formal word for doctor -(you wouldn't say "I need to see the !" - you'd say, "I need to see the ()!) ( NP ) (doctor) + (master, teacher) = (doctor)
( )
master craftsman, who teaches disciples and apprentices. If he's awesome but doesn't have apprentices, you don't use this one. (master, teacher) + (artisan) = (master craftsman)
Number: 1625
(top radical)
mohawk
DESCRIPTION:
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USED IN:
manage (a business)
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: EI
(washtub)
The mohican is the manager of the bath-house patronized by THE FONZ.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to run a business - although usually people use instead.
( ) ( )
open for business (a sign you'll see on every store window) (manage (a business)) + (business) + (middle) = (open for business)
to run your own business. (experience) + (manage (a business)) = (to run your own business.)
labor
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: ROU
(strong)
The boss treats the laborers like ROBOTS In Japan you can see strong construction work punks with mohawks. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
hardships
manual labor (labor) + (to do your job) = (manual labor)
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(suffer) + (labor) = (hardships)
( ) ( )
laborer. proletarian (manual labor) + (professional) = (laborer)
death from overwork (surpass / too much) + (labor) + (death) = (death from overwork)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
glory
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: EI KUNYOMI: ()
(tree)
Fonzie's looking glorious, all with a huge mohawk, standing on top of a tree all going, "EYYYYYYY"
to flourish or become prosperous (usually used about communities - 'The Roman Empire flourished circa 1000 BC!!!')
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
vanity (empty) + (glory) = (vanity)
nutrition (glory) + (cultivate, rear) = (nutrition)
honor : usually used by lower person to higher person. "It's an honor to meet you, sir!" "I'm honored to have a chance to work with you, ma'am." ( F ) (shining) + (glory) = (it's an honor!)
986
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
knowledge
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: GAKU
(child)
The mohican child had a major knowledge of punk, and that was how he stopped being a square and GOT COOL.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
2 meanings: to learn something from a teacher. Also, to learn one random fact (not a whole subject). Unlike you can't by yourself.
( ) ( ) ( )
college. (big) + (knowledge) = (college.)
school (knowledge) + (school) = (school)
student (knowledge) + (life / birth) = (student)
XXX
(XXX )
SUFFIX meaning, the science of XXX. basically it means '-ology.' ( SUF)
( )
science (science) + (knowledge) = (science)
( )
literature (culture/ sentence) + (knowledge) = (literature)

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( )
( ) ( )
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scholarship money (knowledge) + (gold) = (scholarship money)
"miscellaneous knowledge" - the best section to find cheap, weird books at BOOK OFF. (miscellaneous , random) + (knowledge) = (miscellaneous knowledge)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
knowledge MOHICAN
letter cosmos
CHILD THOUSAND
Hint
Radical
bear in mind
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: KAKU
(look)
Please bear in mind that the mohican is looking at your COCK right now. KUNYOMI: ()
* * *
to memorize something. (i.e. for a test, or because you're a spy and you need to remember the password) or bear in mind (to be nicer to Grandma)
() ()
to metaphorically wake someone up - to dissilusion them or make them realize something
someone comes to their senses, wakes up, gets sober, realizes something they thought was not, in fact, true.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
a visual hallucination (illusion) + (bear in mind) = (hallucination)
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a feeling or sense (touch / taste / smell / hearing, etc.) (feeling) + (bear in mind) = (physical sense)
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political party
(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(older brother)
My older brother formed the 'mohican party' , a motley coalition of punks whose slogan was 'Kick The Man with your steel-TOE!' JUKUGO:
( )
the Liberal Democratic Party - the MacArthur and CIA-backed party which has remained almost constantly in control of Japan since the war, by using their secret stash of funds that Tojo stole from Asia. A lot of post-war LDP bigshots were war criminals. Take that, post-Nazi Germany! (my own) + (folk) + (political party) = (LDP) another fine example of Japanese-style sarcasm: (literally 'sweet party') means someone who loves eating candy. Actually, you can use the for many jokes this way. ( SARC) (sweet) + (political party) = (a sweet-tooth)
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( )
( )
the Communist Party. Of course, they're not real communists, any more than the LDP are liberals. I have no idea what the fuck these guys believe in. (with) + (childbirth, production of things) + (political party) = (the Japanese Communist Party.)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
political party OLDER BROTHER all the more assembly hall GROUND DAGGER usual GOATEE
Hint
Radical
My OLDER BROTHER joined a political party. Men with GOATEES are all the more macho. The assembly hall is built on very dangerous GROUND, so it's usual to bring a DAGGER inside.
Number: 1632
989
all the more

(mohawk) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
8 strokes SIDEKICK
The Man tries to silence him, but the Mohican punk SHOUTS with his mouth, all the more. 'Fuck you Dad!!!!!!!!!' JUKUGO:
( )
all the more ( KANA) (all the more) + (all over again) = (all the more)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
prize
(all the more) + (shellfish/money)

SHOW me my prize money! I want prize money all the more!
( ) ( )
prize money (prize) + (gold) = (prize money)
to have a 'discriminating eye' for art. To appreciate art or music on some deep, expert level. (expert opinion) + (prize) = (discriminating eye)
( )
any prize which is NOT cold cash money (prize) + (products) = (prize)
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USED IN:
compensate for
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: SHOU
(prize) (Same-ON)
Don't just say you'll compensate me, SHOW me. Give a person a prize to compensate for having won the game. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to compensate for, to make something up to someone (1/2 KANA)
( )
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to pay compensation money, to reimburse (dialect) + (compensate for) = (reimburse)
usual
(all the more) + (small city/dagger radical)

It's usual for communists to stab you with a dagger, all the more if the communist happens to be . . . JOE Stalin!
( )
2 meanings; 1-ordinarily, normally that is the case 2 - I do this all the time!
JUKUGO:
( )
emergency. This is the word on all the emergency exits and emergency firehoses. But you'd never say "I'm having an ! (injustice / mistake) + (usual) = (emergency)
( )
everyday life - you know, on the quotidian tip.

991
(sun, day) + (usual) = (everyday life)
( )
common sense (usual) + (be conscious) = (common sense)
xxx ( xxx)
in an emergency? No! That would be too simple. means, exceedingly or extremely. (injustice / mistake) + (usual) = (exceedingly xxx)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
assembly hall
(all the more) + (earth)
ONYOMI: DOU
I went to the wrong assembly hall and missed a lecture on parasites. . . D'OH! It takes earth to make a hall out of bricks. . . all the more earth if it's an assembly hall ! JUKUGO:
( )
dining hall, cafeteria (eat) + (assembly hall) = (dining hall, cafeteria)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
My OLDER BROTHER joined a political party. Men with GOATEES are all the more macho. The assembly hall is built on very dangerous GROUND,
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so it's usual to bring a DAGGER inside.
morally good
(sheep) + (all the more)
ONYOMI: ZEN ZEN Buddhism is morally good.
You can feel all the more morally good about criticizing the conformist sheep.
KUNYOMI:
goodness; a good deed (LAZY)

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JUKUGO:
( )
improve a thing - your performance in Math class / the economy / the efficiency of the car (renew / improve) + (morally good) = (improve)
( )
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a virtuous person (morally good) + (person) = (a virtuous person)
USED IN:
mend
ONYOMI: ZEN KUNYOMI:
(string) + (morally good) (Same-ON)

It is good to mend frayed cloth with string.
two meanings. 1) to mend clothing, 2) to keep up appearances. (1/2 KANA)
Number: 1639
(bottom radical)
goatee
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(George Michael's Moustache) + USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: a Moustache encircling a mouth. That's why.
circumference
(goatee) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
Number: 1640 8 strokes DUPE, STRONG
(earth)
When I put my SHOE in my mouth, I inadvertently got some earth on the circumference of my goatee. DESCRIPTION: Although is pronounced SHUU, it's STRONG for CHOU. Arg.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
around here. All around me. All around it.(the emphasis is on 360 degrees - all around the circumference or perimeter of someone or something)
( ) ( )
one time around (the lake, the trail , etc.) (one) + (circumference) = (one time around)
perimiter, circumference (circumference) + (surround) = (perimiter)
XXX
(XXX )
XXX-year anniversary ( COUNTER ) (circumference) + (year) = (XXX-year anniversary)
USED IN:
check out
ONYOMI: CHOU
(say) + (circumference)
Margaret CHO checks out ways to restart her career. The cops check out what everyone in the circumference of the crime scene has to say about what went down.
KUNYOMI:
994
to check something out'. Not like years of research, but like to google it or try to find it on a map - to look up in a dictionary, to check tomorrow's weather report. To find out about the blood type of your favorite singer. JUKUGO:
( )
the condition something's in. Can be used with a living thing or object. Always used only with or . Usually emphaizes the LONG TERM condition. Although hungover people have been heard to remark, ! (check out) + (child) = (condition)
( )
an investigation. Emphasizes that there are no correct answers, and implies that the investigators are talking to someone, asking questions directly. (usually used about polls, surveys, and detectives questioning suspects and/or witnesses) (check out) + (inspect) = (investigate)
( )
emphasize (burly) + (check out) = (emphasize)
week
(motion) +
ONYOMI: SHUU
(circumference) (Same-ON)
That hippy hasn't worn SHOES all week!!! Each week the Earth moves around the circumference of the sun!! JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
last week (earlier/ the tip) + (week) = (last week)
this week (now) + (week) = (this week)
the weekend (week) + (the tip) = (the weekend)
( )
one week's time. (one) + (week) + (a period of time) = (one week's time. )
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carve
(circumference) +
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JUKUGO:
(hair)
I carve a statue of Margaret CHO'S hair, by chipping away at its circumference.
carve, (also the verb for get a tattoo)
( )
sculpture- but only the kind that is carved all Michelangelo's David style. The Rodinstyle sculptures that are cast in bronze are OBJETs (that's right, they use a French word.) (carve) + (carve up) = (sculpture)
tall
(beret) +
ONYOMI: KOU
(goatee)
as in : "He was so tall, my eyes were level with his COLON. " A tall man wearing a beret, a mouth and a goatee.
*
tall () ()
KUNYOMI:
* *
I raise up (my voice); I refine or enhance something.
to be raised (in status, popularity. . .expectations are also raised)
JUKUGO:
( ! )
the best (most) + (tall) = (the best)
( )
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hi-klass (tall) + (level) = (hi-klass)
( )
high school student (high school) + (life / birth) = (high school student)
( )
USED IN:
to aim too high, to be over-ambitious. (tall) + (desire) = (aim too high)
turn to face
(goatee) +
ONYOMI: KOU Let's say the dot is a dot of cocaine. So now we can say . . .
(dot)
When your moms turns to face the mirror, she realizes she's got a dot of cocaine stuck on the upper portion of her goatee. Uncomfortable!!
*
()
KUNYOMI:
over there (it's also a slang, street term for 'those guys', the other side)
I turn this way, turn that way.
( or ) to be made for XXX (i.e. shoes for women is shoes) Second meaning: make X face Y. If I train a firehose on a dog, it's hosedog ()
something turns this or that way.
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
direction (direction / method / person) + (turn to face) = (direction)
convert to new ideology, do an about-face. This is important because most of the freaky looking kids you see on the street will all become housewives and salarimen the exact second they turn 23. - making TENKOU what we call a "cultural code word." ( CCW) (roll over) + (turn to face) = (do an about-face)
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xxx
YYY (xxx YYY)
a YYY made for XXXs. Clothes for men. toys for children. magazines for pedophiles.
merchandise
(stand up) +
ONYOMI: SHOU SHOW me the merchandise.
(human legs) +
(goatee)
Slaves are merchandise that stand on human legs and have goatees (usually). KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
business (as in, "How's business?" "Business is slow!")
( )
a business, a line of work: (the camera business, the pimp game, the clock business, etc.) (merchandise) + (sell) = (a business)
( )
items for sale, merchandise (merchandise) + (products) = (items for sale, merchandise)
( )
shopping district. Not quite a mall, but a street with a tin roof, and all the shops are decorated similarly.Like all the stores on that street formed a kind of merchants' association and tried to give their street some atmosphere. (merchandise) + (shop) + (shopping district) = (shopping district.)
bridge
ONYOMI: KYOU
(tree) + (chug) +
as in, Today() I crossed the bridge.
(goatee)
A guy with a goatee stood on the wooden bridge, chugging the water running under it. KUNYOMI:
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bridge
Number: 1648 PK
(top radical)
eye of Sauron
DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
surpass / too much

(motion) +
ONYOMI: KA My CAR surpasses yours.
(eye of Sauron) +
(goatee)
Sauron moves his goatee around too much. It is unnerving. DESCRIPTION: You can put after pretty much any 'masu-minus' verb to mean 'too much'. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
to surpass, literally (be ahead of) or figuratively, (surpass our goals)
spend time on something fun, as like a hobby: spend time with loved ones, or with a rad book or an awesome pet.
JUKUGO:
( )
the past tense (the past) + (form) = (the past tense)
( )
drink too much. But really you can put "SUGI" after pretty much anything. ( SUF) (drink) + (surpass / too much) = (drunk too much!)
XXX ( XXX)
PREFIX (sometimes SUFFIX!) meaning excessive - sometimes as in an overdose of drugs, an excess of personnel, but usually an excess of an attitude or behavior. This prefix is the only time you'll ever see the kanji. ( PRE)
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(surpass / too much) + (excessive) = (excessive XXX)
bone
(eye of Sauron) +
ONYOMI: KOTSU
(moon/organ)
She`s all skin-and-bones but she hides under layers of COATS so her family won't give her shit about being anorexic. Sauron is looking for some Hobbits to steal their organs and bones.
KUNYOMI:
bone
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
USED IN:
break a bone- fracture. (bone) + (fold) = (break a bone)
skeleton ( 1/2 KANA)
slippery
(waterleft) +
KUNYOMI:
(bone)
ONYOMI: KATSU but not really You slipped on the water puddle and broke their bones.
*
JUKUGO:
to slip or pratfall
careful! It's slippery!
( )
smooth, as in trouble-free and effortless. (yen/circle) + (slippery) = (effortless/smooth)

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Number: 1652 PK
Sparkles
DESCRIPTION: . . . because it looks like a low-budget firework going off.
USED IN:
ratio
(beret) +
ONYOMI: RITSU
(Eazy) +
(Sparkles) +
(ten)
Can we RE-TOOL that team so it has a better ratio of wins to losses? Eazy-E tries to keep a ratio of one beret to ten sparkles. Any more sparkles and it might get TOO FABULOUS. JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( )
efficient (effective) + (ratio) = (efficient)
probability (make certain) + (ratio) = (probability)
ratio (compare) + (ratio) = (ratio)
bitter flavor
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: JUU
(stop) +
(Sparkles)
Mention JEWs to an Iranian and they make a bitter face like :
1001
This tastes so bitter I have to stop and drink some sparkling water to wash out the taste DESCRIPTION: bitter - Well, not just REGULAR bitter (which is ()), but a really specific KIND of bitterness that only Japanese people can taste! In fact, my Japanese friends could only think of 3 cases where you'd use it: unripe fruit, too-strong green tea, or certain raw persimmons. Shibui can also refer to a sort of sophisticated, cooly sexy older man, such as George Clooney or Keifer Sutherland. What the hell IS it with this word??
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
bitter (1/2 KANA)
( ) ( )
traffic jam (bitter flavor) + (delay / be overdue) = (traffic jam)
the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo (lit. 'bitter valley'which kind of makes sense when you go there and smell it.) (bitter flavor) + (valley) = (Shibuya)
enjoy
(white) +
ONYOMI: GAKU
(Sparkles) +
(big)
RAKU - He was a dork but then he started to enjoy playing ROCK music and he GOT COOL. Enjoy the big white sparkles that come with fireworks.
* * *
to enjoy
KUNYOMI:
I'm looking forward to it!
that is rad!
1002
()
means this is easy and fun. As in, 'My work is easy and fun!' Other example : Q;'You want to pay by debit or credit?' A;"Whichever is easier for you!" (?") (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
music! (sound) + (enjoy) = (music!)
( ) ( )
optimistic (enjoy) + (point of view) + (motivation / '-al') = (optimistic)
entertainment like movies, comic books, Disneyland. . . (entertainment) + (enjoy) = (entertainment)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
medicine FLOWER NO FLOWER enjoy
Hint
Radical
Opium medicine is made from FLOWERS. If you're enjoying life, you don't need medical flowers, so NO FLOWER.
USED IN:
medicine
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: YAKU
(enjoy)
The YAK was enjoying her medicine made from flowers. Actually she had wandered into a field of opium and was just high as hell. KUNYOMI:
( )
JUKUGO:
medicine. refers both to taking legal medcine and drugs.
( )
pharmacy (BOOBOO: sells perscription drugs. . .the regular kind of Wallgreen's ass drug store is ()) (medicine) + (department) = (pharmacy)
( )
1003
sleeping pill
( )
- zero stars! Hint
regular ,intentional poison- as opposed to toxic pollutants or drugs. (poison/ addict) + (medicine) = (poison)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
medicine FLOWER NO FLOWER enjoy
Radical
Opium medicine is made from FLOWERS. If you're enjoying life, you don't need medical flowers, so NO FLOWER.
omen
(human legs) +
ONYOMI: CHOU The omen was a CHOU scary movie!
(Sparkles)
The sparkles from your human legs are an omen or a sign that you're on fire. JUKUGO:
( )
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a sign that something will start soon: (Those clouds on the horizon are a sign a taiphoon is coming) (omen) + (climate/candidate) = (a sign)
omen SPARKLE north HEEL
Radical
SPARKS is an omen of fire, so you better run north on your HEELS.
USED IN:
escape
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(omen)
1004
If you see a bad omen,then get in motion and escape on your tip-TOES KUNYOMI: () ()
*
run away
* *
to escape through luck (escape the death penalty/ there was an earthquake but my house escaped damage)
()
to let something get away an opportunity, or, your prey.
JUKUGO:
( )
refugee; someone who is on the run (escape) + (dying) + (professional) = (refugee)
leap up
ONYOMI: CHOU KUNYOMI: () ()
(foot/ be enough) + (omen) (Same-ON)

When Margaret CHOU taps her foot, it 's an omen that she is about to leap upon her prey.
something jumps up and down.
something bounds really far, like lice! (KANA)

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JUKUGO:
( )
jump rope (rope) + (leap up) = (jump rope)
( )
to jump horizontally, as in the Olympic long jump. (leap up) + (jump) = (to jump horizontally)
look at for a long time while lost in

Number: 1660
1005
thought
(eye) + (omen) (Same-ON)

ONYOMI: CHOU Use your eyes to look for a long time for an omen. KUNYOMI:
11 strokes
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JUKUGO:
to look at something for a long time, while lost in thought. (1/2 KANA)
( )
1) (literally) a view from a high place (unlike related terms or , emphasizes the viewers' location, rather than the thing being looked at) , 2) (figuratively) outlook or prospect for the future. (i.e. job prospects or, the outlook for 2009's stock market) (look at for a long time while lost in thought) + (desire) = (prospect / view)
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challenge
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: CHOU
(omen) (Same-ON)
If you consider an omen to be a kind of sign, then you can say: Gangsters use hand-signs to challenge other. This is known as hitting up" or waving hi." KUNYOMI:
( or ) to challenge someone or something to a win-or-lose battle. Sports or sometimes politics. (challenge the world champ a fight / challenge the system) (1/2 KANA) JUKUGO:
( )
challenge (challenge yourself to do better, test your limits / challenge the system) be defiant or provocative. take the pepsi challenge! (challenge) + (fight) = (challenge)
( )
a contender, challenger
system) be defiant or provocative. take the pepsi challenge! ) + (professional) = (a contender, challenger)
1006
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peach
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(tree) + (omen)
Peaches on a tree are a good omen of sexual fertility in the coming year.
peach
JUKUGO:
( )
a peach-shaped ass. This is considered the ideal feminine shape by Japanese people, since they don't have a lot to work with. Your mom's got a momoshiri, too- it's covered with fuzz. ( KUNKUN ) (peach) + (butt) = (rad booty)
( )
peach color. Duh. ( KUNKUN ) (peach) + (color) = (peach color. Duh.)
Number: 1663 PK
(top radical)
brush/fork
DESCRIPTION:
USED IN:
write
(brush/fork) +
ONYOMI: SHO
Number: 1664 10 strokes DUPE, SUF
(earth) + (sun, day)

1007
Write a survival guide for people who met your mom and Smelled Her Odors. I could write with this brush on the earth all damn day
DESCRIPTION: This kanji is often used as a SUFFIX \, meaning xxx-type-of-document.
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JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI: write (BOOBOO: write a word! To draw a picture, you'd use ())
( )
dictionary (quit) + (write) = (dictionary)
( )
document (write) + (category,type) = (document)
( )
library (diagram/ map) + (write) + (big hall) = (library)
( ) ( )
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receipt (territory) + (get) + (write) = (receipt)
a vow , a pledge (vow) + (promise/ roughly speaking) + (write) = (a vow , a pledge)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
action/ incident MOUTH DAY write
Hint
Radical
Talking is an action you do with your MOUTH, Writing this book is something I do every damn DAY.
USED IN:
action/ incident
ONYOMI: JI
(ten) + (mouth/small box radical) +
(brush/fork)
JESUS was involved in a rather painful incident. Perhaps you've heard about it. The ten radical goes through the mouth radical, so you could say: There was an incident where ten mouths got skewered with forks. KUNYOMI:
1008
this one has a lot of meanings. Usually it means an action, as in 'You did a good thing there,' or 'You did a bad thing.' Sometimes, it means person, though: ! ('I can't stand his koto' means 'I can't stand him!') !('Thank you for remembering my koto') means 'Thanks for remembering me.') JUKUGO:
( )
errands, chores, stuff to do. "I'd love to come to see your performance piece, buttttt I've got (utilize) + (action/ incident) = (errands)
( )
one's job, one's work. ( KUN ON) (work) + (action/ incident) = (one's job, one's work. )
( ) ( )
have a meal. (eat) + (action/ incident) = (have a meal.)
accident - not like you spilled your Coke, but like a traffic accident or a dude getting smeared by a meteorite. (action/ incident) + (breakdown, accident) = (accident)
( )
incident, as in crime or accident. Something you gotta fill out a report if you were a witness. (action/ incident) + (incident) = (incident)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
action/ incident MOUTH DAY write
Hint
Radical
Talking is an action you do with your MOUTH, Writing this book is something I do every damn DAY.
paintbrush
(bamboo) +
ONYOMI: HITSU
(brush/fork)
I take a paintbrush made out of bamboo and paint pictures of shit I saw when I took HITSU of acid. (FYI it was some wild shit)
1009
KUNYOMI:
brush
JUKUGO:
( )
pencil
suddenly
(cave) +
ONYOMI: TOU
(brush/fork) +
I suddenly tripped on my TOES and fell into the mouth of a cave, landing on an upturned fork. Ouch. DESCRIPTION: In China, this meant Tang Dynasty. The Japanese generally use it to mean 'sudden.' The only hint of its Chinese roots is the Japanese word for 'barbarian.' WTF??? I have no idea if this is also how Chinese use it or if that's just Japan making fun of the Tangs. Anyone out there know? JUKUGO:
or ( or )
sudden AND unrelated to whatever came before it. Similar to and , but it emphasizes a random change, emphasizes that there is no cause-and-effect relationship. In other words, is not just a sudden guy jumping out from behind a bush or a sudden thunderstorm. is more like someone apropos of nothing changing the topic of conversation or getting mad for no apparent reason. (suddenly) + (thrust) = (sudden, unexpected)
( )
hairy barbarian! ( ABU, OBSOLETE) (fur) + (suddenly) = (hairy barbarian!)

- zero stars! Hint
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrest
health
WATER MOVE
Radical
suddenly MOUTH
Drink WATER for your health. The cops MOVE to arrest you. He said something suddenly with his MOUTH.
USED IN:
Number: 1668
1010
16 strokes
sugar
ONYOMI: TOU
SIDEKICK
(rice / America) + (suddenly) (Same-ON)

my TOES are sweet like sugar. Sugar makes rice suddenly taste sweet! JUKUGO:
( )
sugar ( 1/2 KANA) (sand) + (sugar) = (sugar)
arrest
(motion) +
ONYOMI: TAI
(brush/fork) +
(water)
The cop is in motion, waving his fork, chasing the perp across the water to arrest her. He'll chase her all the way to THAIland if he has to. JUKUGO:
( )
arrest (arrest) + (capture) = (arrest )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrest
health
WATER MOVE
Hint
Radical
suddenly MOUTH
health
(cave) + (brush/fork) +
Number: 1670 11 strokes SIDEKICK, PN
(water)
1011
ONYOMI: KOU If you wanna be healthy get your COLON irrigated. I know this holistic specialist named Rainbow Shankar! If you stab the cave wall with a fork, the most pure healthy water comes out. JUKUGO:
( )
health (healthy) + (health) = (health)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
arrest
health
WATER MOVE
Hint
Radical
suddenly MOUTH
discard
(decapitated cow) +
ONYOMI: KI
(brush/fork) +
(tree)
I got drunk and discarded my house-KEY. Now my wife makes me sleep in the yard. If you can deal with the fact that the brush radical is tilted sideways, then have I got a mnemonic for you! I killed the cow with a fork, and discarded the decapitated cow-head in a tree. No one will think to look for it there! JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
renounce, resign, "I don't sell that shit no more, dude." (release) + (discard) = (resign)
dispose of - usually used of specialized garbage: medical waste or nuclear boogers or whatever. ( NP ) (wane) + (discard) = (annul)
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Number: 1672
buddy
7 strokes STRONG
1012

(brush/fork) +
ONYOMI: KUN
My buddy is a raCOON, so I feed his mouth with my fork. DESCRIPTION: strong RADICAL - KUN or GUN.
KUNYOMI:
you (pretty informal)
JUKUGO:
XXX
(XXX )
like saying XXX san. You can use it about any little boys, but once they become highschool age, you generally only use it about your friends. ( KIDS )
( ) ( )
you guys! ( KUNKUN ) (buddy) + (plural/delivery) = (you guys!)
Gentlemen! My friends! (Usually used by an upper person addressing a crowd of lower people, like a speech situation) ( F ) (various) + (buddy) = (Gentlemen!)
USED IN:
flock
ONYOMI: GUN KUNYOMI:
(buddy) + (sheep)
The sheep and all his buddies are moving in a flock and they all have GUNS .
*
() ()
a flock
use this when animals move in a flock all day long.
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use this when people or animals flock to see an exceptional thing
1013
wife
(brush/fork) +
(woman)
He SIGHed when his wife (a woman) chased him with the brush.
my wife (:: a somewhat formal term for someone else's wife)
JUKUGO:
( )
one's wife and children. The word for 'husband and children?' That does not exist in this language. (wife) + (child) = (wife and kids.)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
housewife woman radical is on the LEFT wife FORK
Hint
Radical
The housewife is on the LEFT side, because she gets left behind when her husband goes to work. The wife is holding a FORK because she has a job as a cook.
USED IN:
deeyammn / hella
(chill) +
ONYOMI: Deeyammmn!! Your wife is cold! KUNYOMI:
(wife)
*
dreadful
hella / deeeyammn (1/2 KANA)
battle

1014
(brush/fork) +
ONYOMI: SOU Why you gotta be SO violent?
(fishhook)
Two midgets fighting a battle with the most fearsome weapons they can lift; a brush and a fish-hook.
KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
competition. Unlike the synonym (), emphasizes a feeling of battle, a lack of rules, and only can escalate to physical violence.
( )
war (fight) + (battle) = (war) unless you're talking about a literal foot-race, does not mean a game. It refers to competing within a framework (usually business or academic). The best score on the test, the salesman who sold the most this month. (contest) + (battle) = (competition)
( )
( )
USED IN:
an argument or controversy (make a case for) + (battle) = (argument)
quiet
ONYOMI: SEI
(blue) + (battle)
Please SAY it quietly, so you don't wake the baby. Fish battling in the blue ocean are quiet- compared to birds or apes battlin'.
* ( )
quiet
1015
KUNYOMI:
JUKUGO:
( )
cool-headed, calm person - someone who doesn't panic when the shit goes down. (cold thing) + (quiet) = (cool-headed)
double-duty
(beauty) +
ONYOMI: KEN
(brush/fork) +
??? (???)
KENNY does double-duty as a . . . . I got nothing. What the hell! This doesn't look like anything! It kiiiiind of looks like beautiful () but split in half, and the two halves are being stabbed with a fork. So the fork does double-duty: it can help you eat salad, or it can help you cut a beautiful person in half. KUNYOMI:
( xxx yyy ) to combine xxx and yyy , to double as (i.e. she's a maid who doubles as a bodyguard) JUKUGO:
( )
a second-job. moonlighting. (double-duty) + (business) = (moonlighting. )
AB
(AB )
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to use something both as A and B. (double-duty) + (utilize) = (use as A and B)
USED IN:
eww!!
ONYOMI: KEN
(woman) + (double-duty) (Same-ON)

The woman hated doing double-duty. She wanted a monogamous relationship.
( !! )
KUNYOMI:
Ewww! No way!(what you say) (1/2 KANA, KIDS)
Use this word when telling about how a third party had a bad reaction to something: "He was like, eww!"
1016
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JUKUGO:
(!)
the most common word for hate (1/2 KANA)
( )
mood (bad mood: !) (machine) + (eww!!) = (mood)
( : )
a very general term for any kind of hurtful speech - from sarcasm or snarky comments, mean-spirited arguments, to outright belligerence. (eww!!) + (flavor) = (hurtful speech)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
young lady KICK IN THE NUTS

You say eww because GIRLS are gross.
eww!! modesty
Hint
GIRL TALK
Radical
But you are modest when you TALK to them, because young ladies will KICK YOU IN THE NUTS.
young lady
ONYOMI: JOU KUNYOMI: ()
(woman) + (six) + (double-duty) +

( )
(kick in the nuts)
The young lady is a woman does double-duty as a dominatrix who kicks JOE Stalin in the nuts six times!
young lady - a bit formal. Has the nuance of an eligible single daughter of a rich family. A flattering word used when picking up girls. Usually used on women up to 20 years old, but if you're 70 you can use it to a 40 year old single woman. (F)
JUKUGO:
( )
a hostess (literally, "cabaret lady")
eww!! modesty
GIRL TALK
Radical
1017
You say eww because GIRLS are gross. But you are modest when you TALK to them, because young ladies will KICK YOU IN THE NUTS.
modesty
ONYOMI: KEN JUKUGO:
(say) + (double-duty) (Same-ON)

Modest things you say do double-duty: they make you look humble but they also cause people to respect you more for being so modest.
( )
Along with Sonkeigo, Kenjougo is half of Japanese formal speech: When talking to your superiors, you use kenjougo to refer to your own humble actions. ( CCW, F ) (modesty) + (concessions) + (language) = (humble formal japanese)
( ) ( )
modest - this is a word you use about others. "She's got a very modest attitude." (modesty) + (empty) = (modest) To downplay your own skills in front of others. You don't ever say "I -ed." or "He -ed." or "She's really -ish." Normally it's only used like : "Please don't . We both know you're rad," or "He declined the offer out of modesty."
LOOKALIKES: Meaning

You say eww because GIRLS are gross.
eww!! modesty
Hint
GIRL TALK
Radical
But you are modest when you TALK to them, because young ladies will KICK YOU IN THE NUTS.

1018
build
(write) +
MUTANTS: ONYOMI: KEN KENNY built a ladder out of Hell, which is why he kept coming back to life. The Mutant Radical for build looks like the MR for motion ( side. So! In order to build that building, you'll need to write 3 blueprints. KUNYOMI: () ()
MR
(buildbottom)
buildbottom
), but the 'build' guy has the number '3' on the
* *
I build some shit
to be erected
JUKUGO:
( )
any kind of building - western OR japanese. ( KUNKUN ) (build) + (animal / thing) = (building)
( )
architect
(architect)
( ) ( )
architecture. So help me God I'll never spell that word right. (build) + (architect) = (architecture)
one's principles, one's public position. (i.e. never drinking tang, being anti-abortion) (as opposed to , one's private feelings) ( CCW, KUNKUN ) (build) + (before) = (The way one behaves in public)
USED IN:
healthy
(personleft) +
(build) (Same-ON)
1019

ONYOMI: KEN Health builds a person! DESCRIPTION: I've never seen this kanji outside of the jukugo - so maybe study the jukugo instead of learning the kanji separately. JUKUGO:
( )
health (healthy) + (health) = (health)
prolong
(correct) +
ONYOMI: EN
(buildbottom)
If a guy's schlong is getting prolonged, you can tell that he's ENjoying something. If you want me to build this building correctly, you'll have to prolong the deadline. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to lengthen or extend (the life of a sick person)(the deadline) (your stay in a hotel). Also, to procrastinate. More used with time than physical length.
( )
extension or prolonging, in time. Also means,to extend a linear thing by building it longer. A bit more official than the related term (). (prolong) + (long / boss) = (prolonging)
( )
postpone (prolong) + (period of time) = (postpone)
( )
USED IN:
to outlive others, to survive a fucked event (life / birth) + (prolong) = (outlive)
birthday / birth

1020
(say) + (prolong)
ONYOMI: TAN That baby was born with a sunTAN. He said he wants to prolong his birthday so he gets presents forever. JUKUGO:
( )
birthday If you want to say Happy Birthday, you'd just say ! (!). However, if you're asking someone what day is their birthday, you'd add ' like this: () ( FP )
day) = (birthday)
( )
the birth of (figurative) (i.e. Miles Davis' "birth of the cool" album) (birthday / birth) + (life / birth) = (birth)
garden
(cave) +
ONYOMI: TEI TAKE this garden and shove it?!!! Build the king a garden in a cave. KUNYOMI:
(buildbottom) +
(king)
a garden - (BOOBOO: not the kind that grows vegetables, which is () A is like a garden in your front yard of flowers or decorative plants.)
JUKUGO:
( )
the family you are living with. (home) + (garden) = (the family you are living with.)
Number: 1687 STRONG

1021
(left radical)
shish kebab
(spear) +
??? (???)
DESCRIPTION: A long spear with a bunch of shit impaled on it = shish kebab!!! ITADAKEMASU! strong for SEN
USED IN:
coin
(gold) +
ONYOMI: SEN
(shish kebab) (Same-ON)
SENDing coins in the mail is dumb because they get stolen. Asian coins have a hole in the middle, so I take my gold coins and put em on a stick like a shish kebab!
KUNYOMI:
coin (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
coin ( FP ) (small size) + (coin) = (coin)
( )
public bath (coin) + (hot water) = (public bath)
shallow
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: SEN
(shish kebab) (Same-ON)
I SEND my shish kebab to the bottom of the shallow water and hope to spear a fish! DESCRIPTION:Me being me, I wanted to use all the jukugo in my textbook- lots of cool words to bash shallow people and superficial, self-important trendy douchebags. But after 5 years of everyone telling me that, 'No one uses those words!' I've reluctantly decided not to put them here.
1022
KUNYOMI:
shallow
remain behind
(shhh) +
ONYOMI: ZAN
(shish kebab)
After all the people have died (or been eaten) nothing but ZANbies will remain behind. Ssssh!! Don't tell him I left his shish kebab behind at the picnic. KUNYOMI: () ()
* *
I leave it behind.
*
JUKUGO:
it remains behind
the remaining (food on the plate); the remainder (of the kittens which were not adopted)
( )
"That's too bad." - kind of informal ; say this when someone didn't enjoy a movie they went to, or couldn't come to your party because they got the flu. (remain behind) + (concern) = (That's too bad!!)
( ) ( )
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overtime work (remain behind) + (business) = (overtime work)
bank balance. You don't need to know this. ( KUN ON) (remain behind) + (tall) = (bank balance.)
Number: 1691
(top radical)
UFO
).
DESCRIPTION: OK, so according to my system of radicals, this is ten () + nets (

1023
But frankly, fuck my system. This looks like an old '50s flying saucer with an antenna or perhaps a ray-gun on top.
USED IN:
listen to
(ear) +
(UFO) +
ONYOMI: CHOU No one listens to Margaret CHOU.
(bottomheart)
With all your heart, take your ear and listen to what the UFO has to say KUNYOMI:
deliberately listen to for minutes at a time (to a preacher's sermon, a college lecture, a shitty techno song)
JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! Hint
wiretap, bug (steal by stealth) + (listen to) = (wiretap)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
listen to break nostalgia virtue
EAR GROUND HEART GO
Radical
You listen with your EARS. You break a TV on the hard GROUND. You are nostalgic with your HEART. You GO along the path of virtue.
break
(earth) +
(UFO) +
(cloth)
1024
ONYOMI: KAI That KITE-eating tree broke my KITE! The cloth fell from the UFO and broke when it hit the earth. KUNYOMI: () ()
I smash something , I break something.
something doesn't work anymore: your TV, your PSP, your dishwasher. Call the repair-person!
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
fragile thing (break) + (animal / thing) = (fragile thing)
a collapse- said of a building, but also (figuratively) like 'The collapse of communism.'
(collapse) + (break) = (collapse)
( )
Destruction. Ususaly used about bombs, or 'President Bush destroyed the economy,'. . . pretty much the same circumstances you'd use the English word. (BOOBOO: you can't use with this one, for some reason. It's one of those nouns you can't verb) (rend) + (break) = ( Destruction.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
EAR GROUND HEART GO
Radical
nostalgia
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: KAI - don't bother.
(UFO) +
(cloth)
My heart aches with nostalgia, for the days when UFOs were made out of cloth. KUNYOMI:
1025
()
*
feel nostalgic for Hint Radical
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
EAR GROUND HEART GO
refrain / be prudent TRUTH nostalgia UFO
Meaning
Hint
Radical
Refrain from speaking the TRUTH to a person nostalgic for UFOs. Actually the space invader days were pretty bad but why argue?
virtue
(goleft) +
ONYOMI: TOKU
(UFO) +
(bottomheart)
It is virtuous and good-hearted to give the aliens a TOKE of your J when you go to a UFO. JUKUGO:
( )
morals in general - universal principles like "don't cheat, don't kill" - as opposed to your own personal rules, like "I don't smoke, I don't watch Julia Roberts films." When newspapers talk about "moral education in the classroom," they use . (street) + (virtue) = (moral principles)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
EAR GROUND HEART GO
Radical
You listen with your EARS. You break a TV on the hard GROUND. You are nostalgic with your HEART.
1026
You GO along the path of virtue.
Number: 1696 PK
(big radical)
tiger
DESCRIPTION: Comes from kanji for tiger ()
USED IN:
play
(tiger) +
ONYOMI: GEKI KUNYOMI:
(sword) +
(pigbottom)
This is a play about a tiger killing a pig with a sword - it was so exciting the audience GETS KEYED up.
a play, a drama, a show (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
dramatic (play) + (motivation / '-al') = (dramatic)
drama troupe (play) + (group) = (drama troupe)
comedy (rejoice) + (play) = (comedy)
tragedy (opp: comedy!)

1027
(sad) + (play) = (tragedy)

empty
consideration THINK SWORD play STOMACH epidermis HEDGEHOG SNOUT oppress
THINK of others - be considerate. Don't play with that SWORD. Your epidermis is in the tiger's STOMACH. The HEDGEHOG is inside an empty tiger.
consideration
(tiger) +
ONYOMI: RYO
(think)
Give some consideration to those around you and Regulate Your Odor please. When you think, give some consideration to the tiger please. JUKUGO:
( )
CULTURAL CODE WORD in full effect. Meaning, it's such a uniquely Japanese concept there is no ready English equivalent. means to be diplomatically, politely refuse, to regretfully decline. For example, "You want the last donut?" "Hell yes!" is not . But, "No way I don't want it, it smells!" is also not . "Thanks but I'm full now." is the answer, since it means, "We both know I want it, but since I abstained from it, you owe me one, now! The favor-ball is back in my court!" Used most commonly in two situations: 1) : meaning, 'Act casual. Eat the last pie. Don't wait for all the food to be served. Sit wherever. Make yourself at home.' 2) it's often seen on signs telling you not to do something: XXX ('Please refrain from doing XXX') ( CCW, F ) (far) + (consideration) = (regretfully decline or enjoin from)
1028
( ) ( )
to give consideration to (distribute) + (consideration) = (to give consideration to)
to consider carefully -to take into account the special circumstances. (consider) + (consideration) = (consider)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
empty
Hint
Radical
empty
(tiger) +
ONYOMI: RYO Regret Your Own empty life. The tiger felt empty so it ate the hedgehog. JUKUGO:
(hedgehog)
( ) ( )
modest - this is a word you use about others. "She's got a very modest attitude." (modesty) + (empty) = (modest)
vanity (empty) + (glory) = (vanity)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
empty
consideration THINK SWORD play STOMACH epidermis HEDGEHOG
Hint
Radical
1029
oppress
SNOUT
USED IN:
oppress
(tiger) +
ONYOMI: GYAKU
(snout)
Oppression is the opposite (=, pronounced GYAKU) of freedom. The tiger's snout oppressed you by biting your ass.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
Tyrant oppresses the people
( )
domestic violence, or some other bitterly bad but small-scale situation. (oppress) + (wait) = (violent oppression)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
empty
consideration THINK play SWORD STOMACH epidermis HEDGEHOG SNOUT oppress
Hint
Radical
epidermis
1030
(tiger) +
ONYOMI: FU
(stomach)
When I was a teenager, my epidermis was FUCKED up with acne. Your epidermis is inside the tiger's stomach - because you got ate! JUKUGO:
( )
a doctor word for skin. most people just say '' () ( NP ) (skin) + (epidermis) = (skin)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
empty
Hint
Radical
lie
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + (empty)

A mouth that tells lies is empty of truth.
a lie (1/2 KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
liar!!
( )
to lie
1031
lie
rumor ESTEEM
It's not smart to lie to the TIGER. Rumors wreck your self-ESTEEM.
TIGER
Number: 1703 PK
(right radical)
lame
DESCRIPTION:I guess you could think of it as a lame human, where the horizontal is the arms, the left-side diagonal is a twisted leg, and the right-side vertical stroke is a cane.
USED IN:
sink
(waterleft) +
ONYOMI: CHIN The lame man sank in water up to his CHIN. KUNYOMI: () ()
(lame)
* *
it's sinking
I sank (the enemy ship.)
JUKUGO:
( )
silence. (BOOBOO: not to be confused with ()). means a quiet place. is like a awkward hush that falls over the crowd when your mom's g-string fell off at the superbowl. (sink) + (shut up) = (bad kind of silence)
( )
sink. (sink) + (downfall) = (sink.)
Number: 1705
get a job, you bum!
2 strokes
1032
(capital) +
ONYOMI: SHUU KUNYOMI: ()
(lame)
The lame person put on his (pediatric) SHOES and set out to get a job in the capital.
to have a job. ( = to find a job)
JUKUGO:
( )
USED IN:
to find a job (finally!) (get a job, you bum!) + (employment) = (find job)
kick
ONYOMI: SHUU
(foot/ be enough) + (get a job, you bum!) (Same-ON)

I got a job kicking you with the SHOE on my foot. Not only that, but I have full medical and dental WTF why did they bother?
KUNYOMI:
kick (KANA)
JUKUGO:
( )
to dis someone so casually that it adds to the dis. To win a game too easily, to reject a complaint, to just look at someone like 'Who are you and why are you breathing my air?' (one) + (kick) = (dis and dismiss)
- zero stars! -
Number: 1707 PK
pine cone
DESCRIPTION: Because it's round, spikey, and has a little stem up top.
1033
USED IN:
carve up
(pine cone) +
ONYOMI: KOKU
(sword)
Scarface Tony Montana carves up his COKE before snorting it. I carved the pine cone with my sword.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
carve up
( )
sculpture- but only the kind that is carved all Michelangelo's David style. The Rodinstyle sculptures that are cast in bronze are OBJETs (that's right, they use a French word.) (carve) + (carve up) = (sculpture)
( ) ( )
to arrive late for school or work. (slow / late) + (carve up) = (arrive late )
the situation is grave, serious, and worsening. Used with something that was kind of ill to begin with, and if you don't act now it'll get much worse. (deep) + (carve up) = (grave situation)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
You cough with your MOUTH. The seed is the nucleus of a TREE, but you carve with a SWORD. My words correspond to what I SAY.
1034
You whittle a what?? a CARROT,dummy.
nucleus
(tree) +
KUNYOMI:
(pine cone)
ONYOMI: KAKU The pine cone is the nucleus of the tree, from which new trees start. Similarly, the COCK is the nucleus of the human male. (cf. every female stand-up comic)
nucleus or kernel (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
nuclear weapons (nucleus) + (arms , armament) = (nuclear weapons)
clitoris - not a word you'd use in most conversations, but I'm including it anyway because the literal translation is so irresistable: hidden nucleus! How boss is that? ( SARC) (shady) + (nucleus) = (clitoris)
- zero stars! -
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
correspond to
1035
(say) +
ONYOMI: GAI JUKUGO:
(pine cone)
That GUY said something rude, which corresponds to him getting a pine cone upside the head.
( )
correspond to (correspond to) + (hit the target) = (correspond to )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
cough
ONYOMI: KUNYOMI:
(pine cone) (Same-ON)
He's coughing because he's got a pine cone lodged in his mouth. Someone do a Heimlich!
cough (KANA)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
You cough with your MOUTH. The seed is the nucleus of a TREE,
1036
but you carve with a SWORD. My words correspond to what I SAY. You whittle a what?? a CARROT,dummy.
this
ONYOMI:
Number: 1712 - zero 3 strokes stars! OBSOLETE, PK, SOLO
This leg is kneeling. The other leg is straight. That's right: the RUSSIAN DANCE!!! WHAT IS THE RUSSIAN DANCE? THIS IS:
EVERYBODY RUSSIAN DANCE!!!!!!!!! DESCRIPTION: is an obsolete form of 'kore', meaning 'this'. - nowadays, is almost always written in kana! However, it's still useful as a radical, so you should learn it.
KUNYOMI: is an obsolete form of 'this' (OBSOLETE)

- zero stars! -
USED IN:
shoddy
ONYOMI: BOU
(this) + (one/line radical)

Your BOWLing is hella shoddy, Dude. Let's say that the extra line here is a cane. So now we can say . .. Her Russian dancing is so shoddy she has to use a cane. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
meager or scarce RESOURCES: forests, natural gas. Opportunities are scarce. Someone's experience or knowledge of a subject is scanty. Also can mean 'shoddy' (1/2 KANA)
1037
( )
a broke motherfucker (can be used as a noun or adjective) (poverty) + (shoddy) = (poor)
lawn
(flowertop) +
(this)
SHE wants THIS flower to grow in her lawn.
grass , usually used like this: (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
( )
lawn ( FP ) (lawn) + (life / birth) = (lawn)
that
(eye) +
(animal legs) USED IN:
Number: 1715 STRONG, OBSOLETE
DESCRIPTION: OK, now you learned the obsolete kanji for so now you get to learn the obsolete kanji for ! Same deal: it's still useful . . . as a radical.
flag
ONYOMI: KI KUNYOMI:
(rifle) +
(that) (Same-ON)
If you are leading a charge into battle, you gotta wave your flag in that direction.
1038
flag
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
dupe LACK basis EARTH period of time MONTH flag DIRECTION
Radical
Dupe someone with a LACK of brains. The EARTH is fundamental to life. A MONTH is a period of time. The flag blows in the DIRECTION of the wind.
basis
ONYOMI: KI KUNYOMI:
(that) (Same-ON) + (earth)

Q: on what basis do you believe Ice Cube is wack? On what grounds? A :on the basis that he made "several" rhyme with "she-devil" and "apple" rhyme with "Snapple."
foundation or basis (the manga is based on the anime which was based on the videogame which was based on a true story) (NUBI)
JUKUGO:
xxx (xxx ) to be based on xxx
( )
the basics (the emphasis is: the minimum knowledge) Also means fundamentally (emphasizing the essential bits that various things or ideas have in common) (basis) + (book / the real) + (motivation / '-al') = (the basics)
( )
criterion - the basis for judging a sex partner, potential job applicant, which songs to buy, etc. Also 'standard' ; standard wages, standard price, standard medical ethics. (basis) + (prepare / criteria) = (a standard )
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
dupe
Hint
LACK
Radical
1039
EARTH basis period of time MONTH DIRECTION flag

period of time
ONYOMI: KI JUKUGO:
(that) (Same-ON) + (moon/organ)

That month was the period of time when we studied KEYS.
or ( or )
Expectations. For example, ! ( !) We lost this time, but I expect we'll win next time! (period of time) + (wait) = (expectations)
( ) ( )
semester (knowledge) + (period of time) = (semester)
period of time, usually several months. Or years. Precise, socially constructed time, not seasons or shit. is more like summer vacation. You are forbidden to enter Japan for a period of five years. (period of time) + (a period of time) = (period of time)
( )
period of time - refers to a natural or social phenomenon : rainy season, the time that you can see fall leaves, the humid time of year. (time) + (period of time) = (natural period of time)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Dupe someone with a LACK of brains. The EARTH is fundamental to life.

1040
A MONTH is a period of time. The flag blows in the DIRECTION of the wind.
dupe
ONYOMI: GI
(lack) + (that)
You can dupe geese with this handy GEESE-call. just put it to your lips and BLOWWWWW!!! That dupe had a lack of brains. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
to dupe or swindle someone (1/2 KANA)
( )
fraud
enormous
ONYOMI: JIN
(small animal) + (that)

MC JIN(the most famous Chinese-American rapper) has enormous talent so maybe don't battle him if you are still rhyming "wack " with "crack." That small animal has enormous nipples. DESCRIPTION: Although pronounced JIN, it's strong for KAN. KUNYOMI:
1041
*
- zero stars! -
egregious (error), outrageous (impudence!), gross (negligence), ungodly (amount of sebum on the linoleum)
JUKUGO:
( )
ginormous, gigantic, fucking huge - almost always used about disasters. "The gigantic earthquake killed 1,000 dudes." (enormous) + (big) = (fucking huge disaster)
USED IN:
perception
(enormous) + (strong)
People perceive Genghis KHAN as being enormous and strong. But he's actually really sensitive.
a hunch, as in ' .' ('I have a hunch . . ') (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
a misunderstanding - like the related term , but is a little smaller. If I'm reading and confuse one kanji with a similar looking kanji, that's . But if I see my fiancee with her cousin from out of town, and assume she's having an affair and punch the guy, that's (perception) + (different and therefore wrong) = (misunderstanding)
( )
forgive, tolerate, stand by and let a motherfucker get away with. ( 1/2 KANA) (perception) + (dialect) = (tolerate)
tolerate
ONYOMI: KAN
(enormous) + (earth)
Genghis KHAN can't tolerate the earth because it's too enormous. (he's kind of an agoraphobic)
KUNYOMI:
1042
tolerate, in a moral sense. Can't tolerate racism or "that kind of conduct."
Number: 1723 PK
(left radical)
fang
DESCRIPTION: It looks like a backwards "R", but it means "fang." Sorry- I really don't have a story.
USED IN:
heresy
(fang) +
ONYOMI: JA
(town)
Is it heretical to worship satan in Germany? JA!! In that town it is heresy to worship the fang. JUKUGO:
( )
to interrupt. Often heard in the phrase: !('May I come in?') Used with co-workers or friends who are busy. Not used when you go to a store or someone's house. ( 1/2 KANA) (heresy) + (devil) = (interrupt)
( )
a common cold, the flu ( FP , 1/2 KANA) (wind / the flu / style) + (heresy) = (a common cold, the flu)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical

1043
already
(good) +
ONYOMI: KI My good dog has my house-KEY already in his fangs all ready when I get home from work! JUKUGO:
(fang)
( )
already, as mentioned before ( KANA)
( )
already married (already) + (marriage) = (already married)

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XXX ( XXX)
- zero stars! -
the existing XXX (already) + (be aware of) = (the existing XXX)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
USED IN:
elegant
ONYOMI: GA JUKUGO:
I GOT to have a turkey fang - it is the most elegant accessory of high society this season.
( )
- zero stars! -
elegant, graceful, refined (kindhearted/excel) + (elegant) = (refined)
general concept

1044
(tree) + (already)
ONYOMI: GAI Most GUYS already understand the general concept of trees. Even though they might not be able to explain photosynthesys in detail. JUKUGO:
( )
to make a sweeping generalization. (usually used in the negative: (I don't want to generalize, but. . . ) ) (one) + (general concept) = (generalize)
( )
concept (general concept) + (concern) = (concept)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
deplore
(leftheart) +
ONYOMI: GAI JUKUGO:
(already)
I deplore that GUY already, with all my heart!!!
( )
- zero stars! -
resentment, burning slow anger. (get indignant) + (deplore) = (resentment, burning slow anger.)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
1045
bent dagger
(right radical)
Number: 1729 OBSOLETE

USED IN:
DESCRIPTION: OBSOLETE kanji which used to mean "barracks." I think of this as a dagger ) so dull it has a bent blade. So let's call it "bent dagger."
epitome
ONYOMI: JUN
(string) + (bent dagger)

The weather in JUNE is the epitome of spring. Using string to try and mend a bent dagger is the epitome of stinginess. JUKUGO:
( ) ( )
the essence of something. Pure pleasure! Pure blood! Pure honor! (epitome) + (essence) = (essence)
the simple kind of X as opposed to the complicated kind (not rude). Also, simpleminded, mouth-breathing person (pretty rude). (merely) + (epitome) = (simple version)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
GOLD dull epitome STRING
Hint
Radical
GOLD is a dull metal (compared to steel), but STRING is the epitome of knitting.
dull
1046
(gold) + (bent dagger)

ONYOMI: DON DON Quixote's spear got dull from stabbing windmills all day. Your dagger is so dull it gets bent even trying to cut soft gold. KUNYOMI:
*
JUKUGO:
dull like not sharp (not dull as in dumb)
( )
dimwitted, insensitive, thick-headed, sarcasm-proof (dull) + (feeling) = (dimwitted)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
GOLD dull epitome STRING
Hint
Radical
GOLD is a dull metal (compared to steel), but STRING is the epitome of knitting.
opposite
(motion) +
ONYOMI: GYAKU
(bent dagger)
You'll note that the bent dagger radical is bent to the left, rather than the right. Because this kanji means opposite! So now we can say . . . Whichever way you move,I'll move the opposite ! KUNYOMI: ()
to counter-react, to do the opposite of what you're supposed
JUKUGO:
xxx ( xxx)
this is a prefix, meaning "opposite of"- you can put it in front of any word, the way you'd use "Bizarrrro" ( PRE)
XXX ( XXX) ( )
upside-down or inside-out xxx ( 1/2 KANA)
the opposite effect from what you'd intended.

1047
(opposite) + (an effect) = (the opposite effect )

- zero stars! -
compared to
ONYOMI: I JUKUGO:
Number: 1733 5 strokes BETA, PK
You could think of it as a boot (on the left) kicking a high-heeled SHOE (right) and sending the buckle of the hi-heel flying (top): thus: I compared my Dr. Martens to your $2,000 designer heel, and I won.
xxx
(xxx )
other than xxx / except for xxx. (compared to) + (outside) = (other than xxx)
( )
2 meanings. usually said when you finish ordering something (food, copies, condoms) ; 'That'll be all.' It also means, "on top of all that" or "more than" (used like xxx or sometimes also xxx) ( JERK) (compared to) + (above) = (more than / that's all)
( )
USED IN:
previously, earlier, beforehand (compared to) + (before) = (beforehand)
resemble
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: JI KUNYOMI:
(compared to)
If you'll compare that person to JESUS, you'll find a superficial resemblance. . . But he's just a dirty hippy.
( or ) to resemble; to take after someone - usually used of parents and children, rather than 'Hey he looks like Afrika Bambatta!' Usually it is used in one of 2 idioms: or ) JUKUGO:
or ( or ) those clothes look good on you. (resemble) + (to suit) = (suit)

1048
( ) ( )
to impersonate ( FP , KANA) (animal / thing) + (truth) + (resemble) = (to impersonate)
to bite someone's style, to impersonate ( FP ) (truth) + (resemble) = (bite the style)
to be told / consent
(child) + (water)
ONYOMI: SHOU If you SHOW me the report, I will be told.
Think of this as plus water , but half of water is on the left of child, and half on the right. Thus: As a child moses, was told not to part the bath-water.
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
(business - speak) What you say when you have heard an understood a proposal. Does not neccesairly mean you agree. Another example of Japanese deliberate ambiguity. (NP)
( )
comply/ accept
( )
to agree in theory (business - speak). Stronger than ().
is what you say when you have heard and understood a business proposal, and you agree with it. It doesn't necessarily mean that you will sign the contract or do whatever the person says; merely that you want to work together with them to accomplish these goals, in theory, after 100 more meetings. ( F , CCW) (to be told / consent) + (know) = (to agree in theory)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NEPTUNE humid to be told / consent
Hint
Radical
Steam looks like Neptune - check his furrowed eyebrows and big beard - Neptune's steam is humid ocean spray. I was told that I wasn't Neptune!
USED IN:
1049
humid
(flowertop) +
ONYOMI: JOU KUNYOMI: () ()
(to be told / consent)
I was told that JOE Stalin's flower only grows in a humid climate.
* *
to be humid (BOOBOO: 90% of the time, people say "! instead)
to cook with steam. Boring! No stars!

- zero stars! -
JUKUGO:
( )
humid (humid) + (hot place) = (humid)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
NEPTUNE humid to be told / consent
Hint
Radical
Steam looks like Neptune - check his furrowed eyebrows and big beard - Neptune's steam is humid ocean spray. I was told that I wasn't Neptune!
Number: 1737 PK
(left radical)
FFFFFoolio
DESCRIPTION: . . .because it looks like the English letter "F" and plus "foolio" is fun to say. Plus, I already used "fuck"
USED IN:
Number: 1738
step / stairs
9 strokes BETA
1050

(FFFFFoolio) +
ONYOMI: DAN Glen DANzig throws Foolio down a flight of stairs for making fun of Danzig's new-age synthesizer band,Black Aria . DESCRIPTION: And again some Spoonerized jukugo! JUKUGO:
(throw)
( ) ( )
stairway (story of a building) + (step / stairs) = (stairway)
under normal circumstances (normal) + (step / stairs) = (under normal circumstances)
( )
a step in a process. A measure, as in "We're taking steps to reduce your mother's underarm emanations." Also a palindrome of stairway! (step / stairs) + (story of a building) = (step/phase)
( )
the second step (in a plan for world domination) (rank or number in series) + (two) + (step / stairs) = (second step )
interest
(FFFFFoolio) +
ONYOMI: KYOU, KOU
(same) +
(animal legs)
TODAY () my COLON is really interesting! Let's call that weird thing on the right side BIZARRO Foolio, because it's the same as regular Foolio but a mirror image. Thus, we can say: I'm interested in Foolio, but at the same time interested in BIZARRO Foolio. JUKUGO:
( )
interest in something xxx : an intriguing xxx
1051
: I'm interested in it! ! : I'm not interested!
(interest) + (flavor) = (interest)
( )
to improvise! (immediately) + (interest) = (to improvise!)
free time
(sun, day) +
radical)
ONYOMI: KA
(FFFFFoolio) +
(mouth/small box radical) + (again/crotch
On a sunny day, if I have the free time, me and Foolio go on a CAR ride. He's rapping with his mouth, and I'm grabbing my crotch. KUNYOMI:
free - not busy. People sometimes use this sarcastically, as if to say, "He has too much time on his hands." or "Get a life." ! (1/2 KANA, SARC)
JUKUGO:
( )
Free time ( KUNKUN ) (free time) + (time) = (Free time)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
Hint
Radical
Number: 1741 - zero 16 strokes stars! -
1052
ancient Chinese dragon

(stand up) + (moon/organ) + ??? (???)
ONYOMI: RYUU Same ON-yomi as regular dragon ()
PN, OBSOLETE
This looks difficult but it's easy: the left side is 'stand' () and the right side really looks like a dragon standing up on its hind legs, facing right!! DESCRIPTION: MEAN-A-LIKES: - ancient Chinese dragon - regular dragon (TURTLE) The ancient Chinese one is mostly used in peoples' names. But you also have to learn it in order to learn the next kanji.
USED IN:
onslaught
(kick in the nuts) +
(ancient Chinese dragon) +
(beret)
anyone with a beret
An ancient Chinese dragon kicking
in the nuts with both SHOES? That is an onslaught, my friend.
*
attack JUKUGO:
( )
- zero stars! -
assault ( NP ) (onslaught) + (charge) = (assault)
Number: 1743
<<< ku klux klan

DESCRIPTION: . . .because it is 3x the 'ku' katakana.
USED IN:
1053
patrol
(motion) +
ONYOMI: JUN The KKK moves on patrol around here in June.
<<< (ku klux klan)
*
JUKUGO:
KUNYOMI:
to travel around, or (metaphorically) to come round: the seasons rotate, leap year comes round once every four years.
( ) ( )
patrol (patrol) + (rotate / times) = (patrol)
pilgrimage (in Japan, this means traveling a mountain road and visiting one temple after another, rather than going to one central holy shrine like Jerusalem or Mecca) (F) (patrol) + (polite) = (pilgrimage)
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disaster
<<< (ku klux klan) + (fire)

You SIGH as 2 disasters strike your birthday party - KKK plus a fire.
*
JUKUGO:
a personal misfortune: house burned down, father had a stroke
( ) ( )
natural disaster - earthquake, fire, flood, your mother's flattus, etc. (disaster) + (damage) = (natural disaster)
a slightly more newspaper-ish word for a harmful blaze. ( NP ) (fire) + (disaster) = (disaster fire)
( )
this means disaster - not in the sense of earthquakes or tsunami. Disaster in the
1054
sense of 'How was your trip to Tahiti?' 'Oh my god, it was a total disaster!!! First we missed the plane, then I got an infection, then on top of all that our hotel was run by zombies!' carries the sense of a bunch of random unconnected misfortunes. It never rains, but it pours, kind of thing. (disaster) + (difficult) = (disaster)
the Wu dynasty of China

DESCRIPTION: No disrespect to the Wu Tang, but this kanji is not so useful.
Number: 1746
OBSOLETE, STRONG
Why bother with it? Because you need this one for "apologize," which, this being Japan, is pretty useful. Actually to me this looks more like Kraftwerk than Wu Tang, because the box is a head, the diagonal line looks like two arms -- right raised up and left plunked down, and the bottom part is clearly a keyboard that the little guy is playing. So I guess if you can imagine the GZA playing a keyboard while making up some beats, there you go.
Speaking of "go," this kanji is strong RADICAL FOR "GO".
USED IN:
mistake
ONYOMI: GO
Number: 1747 14 strokes DUPE, F
(say) + (the Wu dynasty of China) (Same-ON)

You can make FIVE () mistakes, but then you are fired. It's a mistake to say that the Wu Tang is something to fuck wit. KUNYOMI:
* *
JUKUGO:
to make a mistake- Basically this is a more formal version of ! Used by older folks instead of , but you can use it if you're talking about a miscalculation or if you took the wrong course of action/ a failed policy. (F)
a mistake (F)
1055
( )
a misunderstanding- often used about situations (a la TV sitcoms) or when you misread someone's feelings. (mistake) + (solve / untie) = (misunderstanding)
( )
a typo (mistake) + (letter) = (tpo)
entertainment
ONYOMI: GO Women listen to the Wu for entertainment. JUKUGO:
(woman) + (the Wu dynasty of China) (Same-ON)

( )
entertainment like movies, comic books, Disneyland. . . (entertainment) + (enjoy) = (entertainment)
melon
Strong for KO.
Number: 1749 OBSOLETE, PK, STRONG
DESCRIPTION: I'm calling this radical "melon" because it's a very rare kanji for watermelon ( ) Plus it looks like a big "M"!
USED IN:
isolation
ONYOMI: KO JUKUGO:
(child) + (melon) (Same-ON)

The isolated child sat in the corner eating watermelon.
( )
1056
loneliness, solitude (isolation) + (solitary) = (solitude)
( ) ( )
isolation (isolation) + (stand up) = (isolation)
orphan (isolation) + (baby) = (orphan)

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arc
ONYOMI: KO
(bow) + (melon) (Same-ON)

A KODOMO shoots a melon with her bow by calculating the arc of the arrow correctly.
KUNYOMI:
an arc of a circle (LAZY)
JUKUGO:
( )
parenthesis, or anything shaped like a parenthesis

- zero stars! -
deed
??? (???)
ONYOMI: I I do the deed of learning 2,000 kanji. KUNYOMI:
Number: 1752 9 strokes PK, BETA
WHAT THE HELL is this shit??? It looks hella different from anything else, so it should be easy to remember.
( xxx ) () for the sake of XXX (1/2 KANA) JUKUGO:
XX
it's xxx's fault that . . . ( KANA, FP )

1057
(XX )
(area / attribute) + (deed) = (xxx's fault)
( )
one's behavior. Basically the same as ()but a little more formal. Usually used in newspapers or discussions of trials. ( NP ) (go) + (deed) = (deed)
USED IN:
fake
(personleft) +
ONYOMI: GI KUNYOMI:
(deed)
A person did a bad deed : making counterfeit GEESE
* ( xxx )
JUKUGO:
a small deception, a white lie. Lying about your age. Lying on your resume (BOOBOO: not to be confused with the related terms (decieve to be mean) and (criminal fraud)
PREFIX meaning, 'fake-' (PRE)

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( )
counterfeit ( KUNKUN ) (fake) + (animal / thing) = (counterfeit)
( ) ( )
camouflage (including, of course, animals!) ( NP ) (fake) + (dress up) = (camouflage)
a forgery (fake) + (produce) = (a forgery)
fusion
ONYOMI: YUU
(one/line radical) + (mouth/small box radical) + ??? (???) + (insizzect)

1058
YOU dissolve one bug in your mouth. DESCRIPTION:Most of the words you can make using this kanji involve LITERAL fusion: atomic physics or chemistry. But unless you are a scientist as well as a genius at Japanese, most of the time you encounter this kanji, it'll be in a word about FIGURATIVE fusion: the co-mingling of money in the stock market. JUKUGO:
( )
financing, financial. (gold) + (fusion) = (financing, financial.)
( ) ( )
someone who is accommodating of your needs. ( FP ) (fusion) + (pass) + (handy) = (accomodating)
getting financing or funding or a business loan (usually in return for taking the banker and his friends from the Ministry of Finance out for some hostess action and $3,000 sake). (and possibly 'accidentally' losing a golf game or two) ( NP ) (fusion) + (capital (as in $$$)) = (getting financing)
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LOOKALIKES: Meaning
segregate TOWN fusion
Hint
Radical
INSECT
The racist government segregates all the foreigners to a different TOWN. I fuse all the INSECTS in my delicious 'bug-shake.'
segregate
(town) +
ONYOMI: KAKU KUNYOMI:
(mouth/small box radical) + ??? (???)
That town is a bunch of segregationist COCKS.
*
JUKUGO:
to partition, to separate
( )
to quarantine people - or :() an official policy to keep people in concentration camps, like USA did to Japanese-Americans during the war, or like Israel is doing in Palestine. (segregate) + (divorce / physical distance between things) = (quarantine / put in internment camps)
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xxx ( xxx) ( )
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PREFIX:every other (week, month, year, etc.) ( PRE) (segregate) + (week) = (every other xxx)
a small physical distance or gap - a literal space between two things: between two close-together buildings, say, or between the train and the platform. (a period of time) + (segregate) = (small gap)
LOOKALIKES: Meaning
segregate TOWN fusion
Hint
Radical
INSECT
The racist government segregates all the foreigners to a different TOWN. I fuse all the INSECTS in my delicious 'bug-shake.'
skill
ONYOMI: SAI JUKUGO:
Number: 1756 2 strokes PK, BETA
You SIGH when you realize you'll never have the skills to be a real MC.
( )
genius (heaven) + (skill) = (genius)
/ ( / )
talent, skill of a person (skill) + (talent) = (talent)
cross-stroke goes LEFT skill robust cross-stroke goes RIGHT
Radical
The cross-stroke for talent goes to the left. Say to your self, "I got so much skillz, I take on all rappers until I am the only rapper LEFT." "The RIGHT-wing in America is still very robust, despite systematically passing legislation that economically devastates their constituency."
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robust
ONYOMI: JOU JOE Stalin had a robust dictatorship going there for a while.
KUNYOMI:
height; stature
JUKUGO:
( )
literally, 'No problem.' But, don't believe a Japanese if they say this. A salariman can get drunk, stumble into the street, get his legs cut off by a bus, and still claim to be 'daijoubu.' ( CCW) (big) + (sturdy, firm,healthy) = (No problem.)
( )
sturdy, firm,healthy (robust) + (husband) = (sturdy, firm,healthy)
cross-stroke goes LEFT skill robust cross-stroke goes RIGHT
Radical
The cross-stroke for talent goes to the left. Say to your self, "I got so much skillz, I take on all rappers until I am the only rapper LEFT." "The RIGHT-wing in America is still very robust, despite systematically passing legislation that economically devastates their constituency."
worship
(handleft) +
ONYOMI: HAI
??? (???)
Do you worship Manowar's brand of hairy-chested, anthemic, self-referential metal? HAI! hand ()and some ridiculous totem-pole-looking thing I've never seen before. so we can say. . . Your praying hands worship the totem pole! KUNYOMI:
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JUKUGO:
literally, to pray at a Shinto temple(BOOBOO: not used for Christians, Buddhists, etc.). Figuratively, to worship the ground someone walks on.
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( )
polite way to begin a letter: "Dear Sir" ( F )
( )
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go to a temple to pray ( NP ) (admit defeat / visit) + (worship) = (go to a temple to pray)
reciprocal
(five) (Same-ON)
ONYOMI: GO JUKUGO:
Two number 5s , giving each other a reciprocal 69er!
zzz ( zzz) ( ) ( )
they xzz each other. ( 1/2 KANA)
mutual, reciprocal. ( NP ) (partner) + (reciprocal) + (motivation / '-al') = (mutual, reciprocal.)
alternately (combine) + (reciprocal) = (alternately)
gorgeous
ONYOMI: REI BENDER IS GORGEOUS
Plus he's gonna zap you with a gorgeous RAYgun!
KUNYOMI:
gorgeous, graceful. (NP)

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JUKUGO:
( )
beautiful - (now you know why it is a 'na-adjective' despite ending in : it was actually a jukugo in the past!) (usually KANA, so just two stars) ( KANA)
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one/line radical

ONYOMI: ICHI, ITSU DESCRIPTION:

Number: 1 1 stroke PK, DUH, PN

one more time! (one) + (times) = (one more time!)

together (one) + (together) = (together)

the best! Number one! ( NEO ) (one) + (number) = (number one!)

Number: 2 2 strokes DUH

two people ( FP ) (two) + (person) = (two people)

February ( KANA) (two) + (moon) = (February)

(also sometimes pronounced *) three things. Yes, it's got 2 pronunciations

can you guess?!???

(three) + (person) = (can you guess?!???)

March ( KANA) (three) + (moon) = (March)

triangle (three) + (horn/corner) = (triangle)

the 'one' radical child NO 'one' radical total beforehand katakana MA

(one/line radical) + (total)

child ( KUNKUN ) (child) + (accompany) = (child)

chair ( FP , 1/2 KANA)

wheelchair ( NEO , KUNKUN ) (car) + (chair) = (wheelchair)

the 'one' radical child NO 'one' radical total beforehand katakana MA

3 strokes PK, SYMBOLIC

Number: 8 9 strokes FR, ABU, BETA

rape ( FP ) (burly) + (rape) = (rape)

statuatory rape ( NP ) (law) + (plan) + (rape) = (statuatory rape)

incest ( ABU) (near) + (parents/kindness) + (partner) + (rape) = (incest)

bestiality ( ABU) (beast) + (rape) = (bestiality)

necrophilia ( ABU) (death) + (rape) = (necrophilia)

mouth/small box radical

3 strokes PK, DUH, SYMBOLIC, PN, JERK RADICAL

bank account (bank) + (mouth) + (sit) = (bank account)

population (person) + (mouth) = (population)

pester someone, usually for sex (mouth) + (explain) = (pester)

Number: 10 9 strokes BETA, PN, DUH

(mouth/small box radical)

artworks. (make) + (products) = (artworks.)

No 'BIG' products instrument BIG

A tuba is a BIG instrument.

Number: 11 7 strokes SYMBOLIC half the time

(one/line radical) + (three) + (mouth/small box radical)

advice (save) + (say) = (advice)

I lower it (1/2 KANA)

subway (area) + (below) + (iron) = (subway)

diarrhea (below) + (diarrhea) = (diarrhea ) USED IN:

Number: 13 4 strokes BETA, PRE

(below) + (one/line radical)

unease (un) + (cheap / safe) = (unease)

inconvenient (un) + (convenient / poop) = (inconvenient)

an affair - cheating (un) + (principles) = (affair)

(un) (Same-ON) + (mouth/small box radical)

Number: 15 2 strokes PK, COUNTER

JEWS gave us the ten commandments, the foundation of Western morality.

ten yen. (ten) + (yen/circle) = (ten yen.)

(ten) + (moon) = (October)

the ten commandments. ( FP ) (ten) + (admonish / commandment) = (the ten commandments.)

(ten) + (mouth/small box radical)

- zero stars! LOOKALIKES: Meaning Hint Radical

early SUN NO SUN old village RICE FIELD

dream come true

Number: 17 5 strokes SOLO

(mouth/small box radical) + (ten)

dream come true TEN GROUND puke

Number: 18 9 strokes DUPE

Measure SATAN!!!!! (say + ten) He's just huge, dude!!