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Kanji - Lessons 6-10
Flashcards for use with Remembering the Kanji.
20
Language - Japanese
Not Applicable
11/09/2004

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Term
Child

95
Definition
子
Term
Cavity

A child's worst fear: a gleaming hook, come to fish around in a CAVITY.

96
Definition
孔
Term
Complete

A child's arms and legs have been tucked away into a back-sack -- a COMPLETE job well done.

97
Definition
了
Term
Woman

A graceful pictograph of a WOMAN.

98
Definition
女
Term
Fond

Is there anything one can be more FOND of than a sweet woman child?

99
Definition
好
Term
Likeness

(Freudian symbolism.) A man is reborn as an adult when he enters the passage that has a LIKENESS of his mother's womb.

100
Definition
如
Term
Mama

The outline of woman can be found here, but it has been expanded to look like the breasts that make her a MAMA.

101
Definition
母
Term
Pierce

PIERCING an ear with a mama of pearl earring.

102
Definition
貫
Term
Elder Brother

A teenager. A this stage, he is something akin to a large mouth on a pair of lanky legs.

103
Definition
兄
Term
Overcome

A needle hanging over a teenager. OVERCOMING a drug addiction.

104
Definition
克
Term
Little

Three LITTLE drops. They're oh so LITTLE, LITTLE LITTLE.

105
Definition
小
Term
Few

The fourth drop is a further belittling of what is already little -- making it a FEW of something little.

106
Definition
少
Term
Large

Pictograph of a person trying to make himself LARGE by spreading his limbs and taking up more space.

107
Definition
大
Term
Many

"MANY moons ago..." Two moons lacking the final stroke because they are partially hidden in the clouds of time.

108
Definition
多
Term
Evening

EVENING sounds romantic, kind of like a moon with a cloud floating over it (and obscuring it's final stroke).

109
Definition
夕
Term
Eventide

Drops of water inching their way up the shore in the evening.

110
Definition
汐
Term
Outside

OUTSIDE in the evening air, a magician has left his wand to make it much more powerful.

111
Definition
外
Term
Name

A NAME is a word spoken into a newborn baby's ear in the evening, by its father's mouth.

112
Definition
名
Term
Stone

A mouth under a cliff is a cave, with a STONE rolled in front of it, like in Ali Baba. A rock on top is toppling over.

113
Definition
石
Term
Resemblance

"A chip off the old block," or in this case, "A little bit of flesh," is used to describe a family resemblance.

114
Definition
肖
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