Title: 1. 漢字 N1
Tags: JLPT_1 Jouyou_JH JLPT_None Jouyou_6 Jouyou_Names Jouyou_5 Jouyou_4 Jouyou_3 Jouyou_2 Jouyou_None

keyword: I
kanji: 吾
constituent: I, five, mouth
myStory: I have 5 senses.
В моей голове 5 дырок.
heisigStory: There are actually a number of kanji for the word I, but the others tend to be more specific than this one. The key word here should be taken in the general psychological sense of the "perceiving subject." Now the one place in our bodies that all five senses are concentrated in is the head, which has no less than five mouths: 2 nostrils, 2 ears, and 1 mouth. Hence, five mouths = I.
koohiiStory1: I have 5 senses.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ゴ
kunYomi: われ、わが-、あ-
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koohiiStory2: I eat five times at day.

keyword: риск
kanji: 冒
constituent: risk, sun, day, eye
myStory: You´ll risk your eyesight if you look up at the sun.
heisigStory: Remember when you were young and your mother told you never to look directly into the sun for fear you might burn out your eyes? Probably you were foolish enough to risk a quick glance once or twice; but just as probably, you passed that bit of folk wisdom on to someone else as you grew older. Here, too, the kanji that has a sun above and an eye right below looking up at it has the meaning of risk (see frame 12).
koohiiStory1: Don´t look at the sun directly with your eyes, it´s risky!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: おか.す
readingExamples: 冒す (おか.す)
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words: 冒頭(ぼうとう): beginning, start, outset
冒険(ぼうけん): risk, venture, adventure

keyword: компаньон
kanji: 朋
constituent: companion, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, moon2, month2, flesh2, part of the body2
myStory: Under the twin moons of Tatooine, Luke had no COMPANION.
heisigStory: The first companion that God made, as the Bible story goes, was Eve. Upon seeing her, Adam exclaimed, "Flesh of my flesh!" And that is precisely what this character says in so many strokes.
koohiiStory1: My companion and I are like two moons side by side.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: とも

keyword: воспевать
kanji: 唱
constituent: chant, mouth, prosperous, sun, day, tongue wagging, sun2, day2, tongue wagging2
myStory: рот процветает, когда воспевает
heisigStory: This one is easy! You have one mouth making no noise (the choirmaster) and two mouths with wagging tongues (the minimum for a chorus). So think of the key word, chant, as monastery singing and the kanji is yours forever (see frame 11).
koohiiStory1: Someone chanting with their mouth open for two consecutive days.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: とな.える
readingExamples: 唱える (とな.える)
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koohiiStory2: Chants from our mouths are meant to reach the sun and the stars. Stars are just suns just further away so they seem smaller.
words: 合唱(がっしょう): chorus, singing in a chorus
唱える(となえる): to recite, to chant, to call upon

keyword: блеск, чистый, кристалл
kanji: 晶
constituent: sparkle, day, sun, day3, sun3
myStory: В чистом небе сияют три солнца, кристалл переливается под светом
heisigStory: What else can the word sparkle suggest if not a diamond? And if you've ever held a diamond up to the light, you will have noticed how every facet of it becomes like a miniature sun. This kanji is a picture of a tiny sun in three places (that is, "everywhere"), to give the sense of something that sparkles on all sides. Just like a diamond. In writing the primitive elements three times, note again how the rule for writing given in frame 4 holds true not only for the strokes in each individual element but also for the disposition of the elements in the character as a whole.
koohiiStory1: A diamond sparkles as brightly as three suns.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: Sparkle is a forest (#197) of suns!
words: 結晶(けっしょう): crystal, crystallization

keyword: позвоночник
kanji: 呂
constituent: spine, mouth, drop, mouth2
myStory: The spine goes from one opening mouth/opening (mouth/face) to another mouth/opening (genitals). Just think of these openings being enlarged to represent the head and the body. The bottom is bigger because the body is bigger than the face.
heisigStory: This character is rather like a picture of two of the vertebrae in the spine linked by a single stroke.
koohiiStory1: Spine connects head and body.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロ、リョ
kunYomi: せぼね
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words: 風呂(ふろ): bath
風呂敷(ふろしき): wrapping cloth, cloth wrapper

keyword: процветающий
kanji: 昌
constituent: prosperous, sun, day, sun2, day2
myStory: What we mentioned in the previous two frames about 3 of something meaning "everywhere" or "heaps of" was not meant to be taken lightly. In this kanji we see two suns, one atop the other, which, if we are not careful, is easily confused in memory with the three suns of sparkle. Focus on the number this way: since we speak of prosperous times as sunny, what could be more prosperous than a sky with two suns in it? Just be sure to actually SEE them there.
koohiiStory1: If you work from Sun UP to Sun DOWN you will be prosperous.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: さかん
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koohiiStory2: I kept getting this mixed up with meanings like ´fortune´, so here is a fool proof story! Remember the Vulcan salute from ´Star Trek´ (a fiction of the sci-fi genre in which heavenly bodies such as SUNS play a huge role) used with the phrase ´live long and PROSPER´? If that´s not enough of a visual reminder, the Vulcan salute shows the fingers parted in to 2 sets of 2, and visually kind of looks like this kanji if you think about it.

keyword: поднимающееся солнце
kanji: 旭
constituent: rising sun, nine, baseball, sun, day
myStory: Девять планет, на всех солнце встает
heisigStory: This character is a sort of nickname for the Japanese flag with its well-known emblem of the rising sun. If you can picture two seams running down that great red sun, and then imagine it sitting on a baseball bat for a flagpole, you have a slightly irreverent - but not altogether inaccurate - picture of how the sport has caught on in the Land of the Rising Sun.
koohiiStory1: 9am carries with it the rising sun.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョク
kunYomi: あさひ
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koohiiStory2: Nine planets revolve around our rising sun.

keyword: рассвет
kanji: 旦
constituent: nightbreak, sun, one, floor
myStory: It may be easier to think of the keyword "DAYBREAK" or "MORNING" for this kanji (other kanji dictionaries do). Then the mnemonic phrase "SUN rising over the HORIZON" works better. It is an infrequent kanji, but can be found in: 旦夕　（たんせき） morning and evening, or 元旦　（がんたん） New Year´s Day.
heisigStory: While we normally refer to the start of the day as "daybreak," Japanese commonly refers to it as the "opening up of night" into day. Hence the choice of this rather odd key word, nightbreak. The single stroke at the bottom represents the floor (have a peek again at frame 1) or the horizon over which the sun is poking its head
koohiiStory1: A nightbreak happens when the sun rises over the horizon (floor).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン、ダン
kunYomi: あき.らか、あきら、ただし、あさ、あした
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words: 旦那(だんな): master (of house), husband (informal)
一旦(いったん): once, for a moment, one morning, temporarily

keyword: желчный пузырь
kanji: 胆
constituent: gallbladder, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, nightbreak, sun, day, one, floor
myStory: Месяц работаю с зари. Исхожу желчью.
heisigStory: The pieces in this character should be easily recognizable: on the left, the element for part of the body, and on the right, the character for nightbreak, which we have just met. What all of this has to do with the gall bladder is not immediately clear. But all we need to do is give a slight twist to the traditional biblical advice about not letting the sun set on your anger (which ancient medicine associated with the choler or bile that the gall bladder is supposed to filter out), and change it to "not letting the night break on your anger" (or your gall) - and the work of remembering the kanji is done. And the improvement is not a bad piece of advice in its own right, since anger, like so many other things, can often be calmed by letting the sun set on it and then "sleeping it off."
koohiiStory1: The moon has a lot of gall sticking around after sunrise.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: きも
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koohiiStory2: All the month long I have to start working at nightbreak. This really activates my gall bladder (=I get angry).
words: 大胆(だいたん): bold, daring, audacious

keyword: отрезок, промежуток
kanji: 亘
constituent: span, one, ceiling, sun, day, one, floor
myStory: The span of the day is the time between the sun goes up and comes down.
heisigStory: "Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset..." goes the song of the Fiddler on the Roof. You can almost see the journey of the sun as it moves from one horizon (the floor) to its noonday heights in the sky overhead (ceiling) and then disappears over the other horizon - day after day, marking the span of our lives.
koohiiStory1: The sun spans from horizon to horizon in a day.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、カン
kunYomi: わた.る、もと.める

keyword: вогнутый
kanji: 凹
constituent: concave
heisigStory: You couldn't have asked for a better key word for this kanji! Just have a look at it: a perfect image of a concave lens (remembering, of course, that the kanji square off rounded things), complete with its own little "cave." Now all you have to do is learn how to write it.
koohiiStory1: The letter "U" is concavely written.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ
kunYomi: くぼ.む、へこ.む、ぼこ
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koohiiStory2: Concave has a concave shape.
words: 凸凹(でこぼこ): unevenness, roughness, ruggedness
凹む(へこむ): be dented, be indented, yield to, to give, sink, collapse, cave in, be snubbed

keyword: выпуклый
kanji: 凸
constituent: convex
heisigStory: Maybe this helps you see how the Japanese have no trouble keeping convex distinct from concave. Note the odd feeling of the third stroke. If it doesn't feel all that strange now, by the time you are done with this book, it will. There are very few times you will have to write it.
koohiiStory1: When I get vexed, I give people the middle finger.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トツ
kunYomi: でこ
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koohiiStory2: Convex has a convex shape.
words: 凸凹(でこぼこ): unevenness, roughness, ruggedness

keyword: tongue
kanji: 舌
constituent: tongue, thousand, drop, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: Тысяча ртов разделяют один язык.
heisigStory: The primitive for mouth and the character for thousand naturally form the idea of tongue if one thinks of a thousand mouths able to speak the same language, or as we say, "sharing a common tongue." It is easy to see the connection between the idiom and the kanji if you take its image literally: a single tongue being passed around from mouth to mouth.
koohiiStory1: What is in a mouth that permits it to speak a thousand things? Yes, a tongue.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼツ
kunYomi: した
readingExamples: 舌 (した)
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koohiiStory2: Kissing a thousand mouths eventually gets you some tongue.
words: 舌(した): tongue

keyword: измерительная коробка, мера объема - 1,8 л
kanji: 升
constituent: measuring box, thousand, drop, ten, needle
myStory: Стопка с тысячью игл - настоящий кошмар!
heisigStory: This is the character for the little wooden box that the Japanese use for measuring things, as well as for drinking saké out of. Simply imagine the outside as spiked with a thousand sharp needles, and the quaint little measuring box becomes a drinker's nightmare! Be very careful when you write this character not to confuse it with the writing of thousand. The reason for the difference gives us a chance to clarify another general principle of writing that supersedes the one we mentioned in frame 4: when a single stroke runs vertically through the middle of a character, it is written last.
koohiiStory1: It is a thousand or ten? I need my measuring box.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: ます
readingExamples: 升 (ます)
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koohiiStory2: I can fit a thousand needles into my measuring box, but only if I bend the thousand.

keyword: измерение
kanji: 寸
constituent: measurement, glue, drop, ten with a hook
myStory: 1. Капли ловим десяткой с крюком, измеряем.
heisigStory: This kanji actually stood for a small measurement used prior to the metric system, a bit over an inch in length, and from there acquired the sense of measurement. In the old system, it was one-tenth of a shaku (whose kanji we shall meet in frame 1151). The picture, appropriately, represents one drop of a ten (with a hook!).
heisigComment: * As a primitive, we shall use this to mean glue or glued to. There is no need to devise a story to remember this, since the primitive will appear so often you would have to struggle hard NOT to remember it.
koohiiStory1: The decimal system uses drops of ten as a measurement.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スン
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koohiiStory2: Glue two sticks together to make the best measurement. (I always remember the primitive, but never the original keyword.).
words: 寸法(すんぽう): measurement, size, dimension
一寸(ちょっと): (ateji) (adv int) (uk) just a minute, a short time, a while, just a little, somewhat, easily, readily, rather

keyword: очень образованный человек, акупунктурист
kanji: 博
constituent: Dr., ten, needle, acupuncturist, specialty, drop, ten, needle, rice field, brains, glue
myStory: 1. специальность с иглой и каплей масла
2. десять специальностей - очень умный человек!
heisigStory: At the left we have the needle; at the right, the kanji for specialty, plus an extra drop at the top. Think of a Dr. who is a specialist with a needle (an acupuncturist) and let the drop at the top represent the period at the end of Dr. In principle we are trying to avoid this kind of device, which plays on abstract grammatical conventions; but I think you will agree, after you have had occasion to use the right side of this kanji in forming other kanji, that the exception is merited in this case.
heisigComment: * The primitive form of this kanji eliminates the needle on the left and gets the meaning of an acupuncturist.
koohiiStory1: Ten specialties grants you the title of Dr. with a dot.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハク、バク
readingExamples: 博識 (はくしき), 博覧 (はくらん), 博士号 (はくしごう)
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koohiiStory2: Watch for doctor (#1694), the sooner the better! In fact this kanji refers to someone well "learned", with extensive knowledge. This could apply to any kind of field. The kanji 医 ("doctor") is directly related to medicine. I would suggest to take away completely the idea of medicine here, and use a popular character whose name includes the keyword such as "Dr. Who", "Dr. Jekyll", even "Dr. Dobb´s" if you´re into programming.
words: 博士(はかせ): doctorate, PhD
博物館(はくぶつかん): museum

keyword: выдающийся
kanji: 卓
constituent: eminent, magic wand, augury, divinging rod, sunflower, sun, day, ten, needle
myStory: выдающийся маг начинает использовать волшебный жезл рано
heisigStory: The word eminent suggests a famous or well-known person. So all you need to do - given the primitives of a magic wand and a sunflower - is to think of the world's most eminent magician as one who uses a sunflower for a magic wand (like a flower-child who goes around turning the world into peace and love).
koohiiStory1: The most eminent magician is he who learned to use his magic wand early in life.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タク
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koohiiStory2: The eminent sunflower is the one that stands above the others.
words: 食卓(しょくたく): dining table

keyword: только
kanji: 只
constituent: only, mouth, animal legs, eight
myStory: Зверь, имеющий только рот и ноги
heisigStory: When we run across abstract key words like this one, the best way to get an image it to recall some common but suggestive phrase in which the word appears. For instance, we can think of the expression "it's the only one of its kind." Then we imagine a barker at a side-show advertising some strange pac-manlike creature he has inside his tent, with only a gigantic mouth and two wee animal legs.
koohiiStory1: Imagine an animal with only a mouth and legs.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: ただ
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koohiiStory2: My girlfriend insists that the only thing I want from her is what´s between her legs.. She´s drawn me this pictograph to demonstrate. It´s a head and two legs spread apart.. I explain that I also love her breasts, and then she smacks me in the face. I´ll never understand women.. (I keep failing this kanji, hopefully this silly story will help me!).
words: 只(ただ): trivial matter

keyword: вертикальный
kanji: 貞
constituent: upright, magic wand, augury, divining rod, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: устрица может стоять вертикально только с помощь магического жезла
heisigStory: Now take the last primitive, the shellfish, and set a magic wand over it, and you have the kanji for upright. After all, the clam and the oyster are incapable of walking upright. It would take a magician with his wand to pull off such a feat - which is precisely what we have in this kanji.
koohiiStory1: A magic wand is needed to make a clam stand upright.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: さだ
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koohiiStory2: Just the thought of my magic wand on her clam makes my magic wand stand upright.

keyword: страница (п: голова)
kanji: 頁
constituent: page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: Одной каплей из чернил моллюска можно исписать целую страницу.
heisigStory: What we have to do here is turn a shellfish into a page of a book. The one at the top tells us that we only get a rather short book, in fact only one page. Imagine a title printed on the shell of an oyster, let us say "Pearl of Wisdom," and then open the quaint book to its one and only page, on which you find a single, radiant drop of wisdom, one of the masterpiece poems of nature.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji takes the unrelated meaning of a head (preferably one detached from its body), derived from the character for head (Frame 1549).
koohiiStory1: A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ケツ
kunYomi: ぺえじ、おおがい、かしら
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koohiiStory2: One drop of ink from a shellfish can fill a whole page.

keyword: упрямый
kanji: 頑
constituent: stubborn, beginning, two, human legs, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: Ученик упрямо не переворачивает начальную страницу
heisigStory: This character refers to the blockheaded, persistent stubbornness of one who sticks to an idea or a plan just the way it was at the beginning, without letting anything that comes up along the way alter things in the least. The explanation makes "sense," but is hard to remember because the word "beginning "is too abstract. Back up to the image we used two frames ago - Adam and Eve in their Eden - and try again: The root of all stubbornness goes back to the beginning, with two brothers each stubbornly defending his own way of life and asking their God to bless it favorably. Abel stuck to agriculture, Cain to animal-raising. Picture these two with their giant, swelled heads, each vying for the favors of heaven, a stubborn grimace on their faces. No wonder something unfortunate happened!
koohiiStory1: A stubborn person in the beginning gets something into their head and can´t change their mind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガン
kunYomi: かたく
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koohiiStory2: Picture a STUBBORN schoolboy, with his arms crossed and his book still open to the BEGINNING PAGE. Despite the teacher telling him to turn the page, he refuses and keeps his book on the BEGINNING PAGE.
words: 頑固(がんこ): stubbornness, obstinacy
頑丈(がんじょう): solid, firm, stout, burly, strong, sturdy

keyword: посредственный
kanji: 凡
constituent: mediocre, drop, wind
myStory: Капля в море, капля в ветре - все средне, посредственно
heisigStory: While we refer to something insignificant as a "drop in the bucket," the kanji for mediocre suggests the image of a "drop in the wind."
koohiiStory1: A drop of breeze is naught but a mediocre wind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボン、ハン
kunYomi: およ.そ、おうよ.そ、すべ.て
readingExamples: 凡人 (ぼんじん), 凡百 (ぼんひゃく), 平凡 (へいぼん)
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koohiiStory2: Is there anything as mediocre as a drop of piss in the wind?
words: 凡そ(およそ): about, roughly, as a rule, approximately
大凡(おおよそ): about, roughly, approximately, as a rule
平凡(へいぼん): common, commonplace, ordinary, mediocre

keyword: фраза
kanji: 句
constituent: phrase, bound up, mouth
myStory: Слова связаны и вылетают из рта - фраза
heisigStory: By combining the two primitives bound up and mouth, we can easily see how this character can get the meaning of a phrase. After all, a phrase is nothing more than a number of words bound up tightly and neatly so that they will fit in your mouth.
koohiiStory1: Some Japanese phrases are difficult to wrap your mouth around.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ク
readingExamples: 句 (く)
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koohiiStory2: A bound mouth cannot utter a single phrase.
words: 佳句(かく): beautiful passage of literature
語句(ごく): words, phrases
句(く): phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, expression, line, verse, stanza, 17-syllable poem
句読点(くとうてん): punctuation marks
俳句(はいく): 17-syllable poem
文句(もんく): phrase, complaint

keyword: десятидневный период (месяца)
kanji: 旬
constituent: decameron, bound up, sun, day
myStory: Связываем десять дней - декамерон
heisigStory: There simply is not a good phrase in English for the block often days which this character represents. So we resurrect the classical phrase, decameron, whose connotations the tales of Boccaccio have done much to enrich. Actually, it refers to a journey of ten days taken by a band of people - that is, a group of people bound together for the days of the decameron.
koohiiStory1: Hesig should be BOUND for a DAY (or maybe 10 days - a decameron) for calling this Kanji DECAMERON. See martyrdom (#809).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン、シュン
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koohiiStory2: If you bind up ten days, you get a decameron.
words: 下旬(げじゅん): last third of month
上旬(じょうじゅん): first 10 days of month
初旬(しょじゅん): first 10 days of the month
中旬(ちゅうじゅん): second third of a month

keyword: ковш
kanji: 勺
constituent: ladle, bound up, drop
myStory: капли вместе в ковше
heisigStory: If you want to bind up drops of anything - water, soup, lemonade - you use something to scoop these drops up, which is what we call a ladle. See the last drop left inside the ladle?
koohiiStory1: A ladle binds drops together.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャク
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: Forget about the primative ´bound up´. Imagine instead the shape of a ladle and holding it upside down to drink the last DROP (of water).

keyword: глаз быка
kanji: 的
constituent: bull’s eye, white, dove, ladle, bound up, drop
myStory: Белый ковш, как выпуклый глаз быка
heisigStory: The elements white bird and ladle easily suggest the image of a bull's eye if you imagine a rusty old ladle with a bull's eye painted on it in the form of a tiny white bird, who lets out a little "peep" every time you hit the target.
koohiiStory1: I managed to hit the bull´s eye by throwing my white ladle.
jouYou: 4
onYomi: テキ
kunYomi: まと
readingExamples: 的 (まと)
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koohiiStory2: A white, bound up, drop in the center is the bull´s eye. (why Heisig had to use "ladle" instead of the original two primitives that make up "ladle" I´ll never understand!).
words: 静的(せいてき): static
先天的(せんてんてき): a priori, inborn, innate, inherent, congenital, hereditary
知的(ちてき): intellectual
的(てき): -like, typical
的確(てきかく): precise, accurate
動的(どうてき): dynamic, kinetic
的(まと): mark, target
消極的(しょうきょくてき): passive
積極的(せっきょくてき): positive, active, proactive
比較的(ひかくてき): comparatively, relatively
目的(もくてき): purpose, goal, aim, objective, intention

keyword: рыбные кишки
kanji: 乙
constituent: fishguts, fishhook
myStory: рыбный крючок выдирает рыбные кишки
heisigStory: The kanji shown here actually represents the "second" position in the old Chinese zodiac, which the Japanese still use as an alternate way of enumeration, much the same way that English will revert to Roman numerals. Among its many other meanings are "pure," "tasteful," "quaint," and - get this! - fish guts. Since it is a pictograph of a fishhook, it should not be hard to associate it with the key word.
heisigComment: * We will keep fishhook as the primitive meaning. Its shape will rarely be quite the same as that of the kanji. When it appears at the bottom of another primitive, it is straightened out, almost as if the weight of the upper element had bent it out of shape. And when it appears to the right of another element, the short horizontal line that gets the shape started is omitted and it is stretched out and narrowed, all for reasons of space and aesthetics. Examples follow.
koohiiStory1: This is a fish hook, that pulls out the fishguts.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オツ、イツ
kunYomi: おと-、きのと
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koohiiStory2: You cut a fish in a z shape on the belly to make it easier to open the fish and rip out its fish guts silly!
words: 乙(おつ): strange, quaint, stylish, chic, spicy, queer, witty, tasty, romantic, 2nd in rank, second sign of the Chinese calendar

keyword: подкупать
kanji: 賄
constituent: bribe, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, possess, by one’s side, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: Если ты владеешь множеством раковин, ты можешь подкупить кого угодно
heisigStory: To the left we have the primitive for a shellfish, and to the right the kanji we just learned for possess. Keep the connotation of the last frame for the word possess, and now expand your image of shells to include the ancient value they had as money (a usage that will come in very helpful later on). Now one who is possessed by shells is likely to abandon any higher principles to acquire more and more wealth. These are the easiest ones to bribe with a few extra shells.
koohiiStory1: To bribe someone, money is a necessary possession.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ワイ
kunYomi: まかな.う
readingExamples: 賄う (まかな.う)
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koohiiStory2: If you possess enough shellfish, you can bribe anyone.
words: 賄う(まかなう): to give board to, to provide meals, to pay

keyword: дань
kanji: 貢
constituent: tribute, craft, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: Дань - это изготовление заработка денег
heisigStory: A tribute has a kind of double-meaning in English: honor paid freely and money collected by coercion. Simply because a ruler bestows a noble name on a deed is hardly any consolation to the masses who must part with their hard-earned money. Little wonder that this ancient craft of getting money by calling it a tribute has given way to a name closer to how it feels to those who pay it: a tax.
koohiiStory1: This next song is a TRIBUTE to a little SHELLFISH friend of mine who was tragically crushed by an I-shaped table..
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、ク
kunYomi: みつ.ぐ
readingExamples: 貢献 (こうけん), 貢 (みつぐ)
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koohiiStory2: Tribute is the craft of raising money.
words: 貢献(こうけん): contribution, services

keyword: параграф
kanji: 項
constituent: paragraph, craft, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: Изготовление страницы невыполнимо без параграфов
heisigStory: To the right we see a head and to the left an element that means craft. When we think of a paragraph, we immediately think of a heading device to break a text into parts. (Think of the elaborate heads often seen at the start of medieval manuscripts and the task becomes easier still.) Just where and how to do it belongs to the writer's craft. Hence, we define paragraphing as the "heading craft" to remember this character.
koohiiStory1: To write a paragraph is the craft of grouping sentences on a page.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: うなじ
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koohiiStory2: To craft a page well, we need paragraphs.
words: 事項(じこう): matter, item, facts
項目(こうもく): item

keyword: меч (п: кинжал)
kanji: 刀
constituent: sword, dagger
myStory: Меч отрубил палочку в слове カタナ
heisigStory: Although this character no longer looks very much like a sword, it does have some resemblance to the handle of the sword. This is to our advantage, in that it helps us keep make a distinction between two primitive elements based on this kanji.
heisigComment: * In the form of the kanji, this primitive means a dagger. When it appears to the right of another element, it is commonly stretched out and takes the sense of a great and flashing saber, a meaning it gets from a character we shall learn later (Frame 1801).
koohiiStory1: This SWORD is so sharp, it can cut the top part of カ off in カタナ.
jouYou: 2
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: かたな、そり
readingExamples: 刀 (かたな)
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koohiiStory2: If you look really close this kanji looks like a person bending over touching the ground Waiting for someone to put there sword in his ass!
words: 刀(かたな): sword, blade
剃刀(かみそり): razor

keyword: лезвие
kanji: 刃
constituent: blade, drop, sword, dagger
myStory: Капелька крови на лезвии меча
heisigStory: Think of using a dagger as a razor blade, and it shouldn't be hard to imagine cutting yourself. See the little drop of blood clinging to the blade?
koohiiStory1: The part of a sword where a drop of blood can usually be found is the blade.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン、ニン
kunYomi: は、やいば、き.る
readingExamples: 刃 (は)
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koohiiStory2: A drop of blood on the blade of my sword.
words: 刃(は): edge (of a sword)

keyword: сияющий, сияние
kanji: 昭
constituent: shining, sun, day, seduce, summon, sword, dagger, mouth
myStory: Солнце сияло так, что соблазнило Икара
heisigStory: Let the key word suggest shining one's shoes, the purpose of which is to seduce the sun down on them for all to see.
koohiiStory1: Shining is the sun´s seduction.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: The sun was shining so bright that it seduced Icarus and he flew too close.

keyword: улица (п: гвоздь, шип)
kanji: 丁
constituent: street, street, nail, spike
myStory: Две улицы пересекаются Т-перекрестком
heisigStory: The picture here is of a street sign on a long pole: Hollywood and Vine, if you please, or any street that immediately conjure sup the image of a street sign to you.
heisigComment: * Used as a primitive, we change the meaning of the key word and take the shape to signify a nail or a spike. Should it happen, on reviewing, that you find the pictographs get jumbled, then think of jerking a street sign out of the ground and using it as a nail to repair your garage roof.
koohiiStory1: Today, the program "Sesame Street" is brought to you by the letter "T".
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ、テイ、チン、トウ、チ
kunYomi: ひのと
readingExamples: 丁数 (ちょうかず), 落丁 (らくちょう), 二丁目 (にちょうめ)
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koohiiStory2: Two streets make a T-intersection.
words: 丁目(ちょうめ): district of a town, city block (of irregular size)
丁々(とうとう): clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax
庖丁(ほうちょう): kitchen knife, carving knife
丁寧(ていねい): polite, courteous

keyword: Мочь
kanji: 可
constituent: can, mouth, street, street, nail, spike
myStory: Рот на улице спрашивает "Не могли бы вы мне помочь?"
heisigStory: Remember the story about the "Little Engine that Could" when you hear this key word, and the rest is simple. See the determined little locomotive huffing and puffing up the mountain - "I think I can, I think I can...." - spitting railroad spikes out of its mouth as it chews up the line to the top.
koohiiStory1: A mouth on the street asking for things: "Can I get some help?! Can I get directions, Can I have some money? Can you please speak English?!".
jouYou: 5
onYomi: カ、コク
kunYomi: -べ.き
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koohiiStory2: I can eat nails.
words: 可笑しい(おかしい): strange, funny, amusing, ridiculous
可成(かなり): considerably, fairly, quite
可愛い(かわいい): pretty, cute, lovely, charming, dear, darling, pet
可愛がる(かわいがる): to love, to be affectionate
可哀想(かわいそう): poor, pitiable, pathetic
可愛らしい(かわいらしい): lovely, sweet
不可欠(ふかけつ): indispensable, essential
可(か): passable
可決(かけつ): approval, adoption (e.g. motion, bill), passage
可能(かのう): possible, practicable, feasible
許可(きょか): permission, approval
不可(ふか): wrong, bad, improper, unjustifiable, inadvisable

keyword: полость
kanji: 孔
constituent: cavity, child, fishhook
myStory: Ребенка схватили крючком за ногу, чтобы вытащить из пещеры (полости)
heisigStory: Probably the one thing most children fear more than anything else is the dentist's chair. Once a child has seen a dentist holding the x-rays up to the light and heard that ominous word cavity, even though it is not likely to know that the word means "hole" until it is much older, it will not be long before those two syllables get associated with the drill and that row of shiny hooks the dentist uses to torture people who are too small to fight back.
koohiiStory1: The child´s arms flailed around at the sight of the hooked tool the dentist was going to use to fill his cavity.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: あな
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koohiiStory2: I warned him about cavities, but the child is still hooked on sweets.

keyword: сходство
kanji: 如
constituent: likeness, woman, mouth
myStory: Из нижнего 口 женщины появлятся человек, схожий с нею.
heisigStory: Pardon me if I revert to the venerable old Dr. Freud again, but his eye for symbolism is often helpful to appreciate things that more earthy imaginations once accepted more freely but that we have learned to cover over with a veneer of etiquette. For instance, the fact that things like the mouth of a cave served as natural ritual substitutes for the opening through which a woman gives birth. Hence, in order to be reborn as an adult, one may have to pass through the psychological equivalent of the womb, that is, something that bears a likeness to the opening of the woman from whom you were born.
koohiiStory1: Women share a common likeness. Their mouths are always open, whining about this and that.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョ、ニョ
kunYomi: ごと.し
readingExamples: 欠如 (けつじょ), 突如 (とつじょ), 躍如 (やくじょ)
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koohiiStory2: From a woman´s other 口comes a baby with a perfect likeness.
words: 如何(いかが): how, in what way
如何に(いかに): how?, in what way?, how much?, however, whatever
如何にも(いかにも): indeed, really, phrase meaning agreement
如何しても(どうしても): by all means, at any cost, no matter what, after all, in the long run, cravingly, at any rate, surely
突如(とつじょ): suddenly, all of a sudden

keyword: проколоть, прокалывать
kanji: 貫
constituent: pierce, mama, mother, breasts, oyster, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: Проколотое ухо с трудом держит жемчужину от матери-всех-устриц
heisigStory: If one is asked to think of associations for the word pierce, among the first to come to mind is that of piercing one's ears to hold earrings, a quite primitive form of self-mutilation that has survived into the 21st century. The kanji here is read, top to bottom: mama . . . oyster. All you need to do is imagine piercing an ear so that it can hold a mother-of-pearl (actually, a mama-of-pearl) you have just wrested from an oyster.
koohiiStory1: Ariel the Little Mermaid´s clamshell bra was held to her breasts by piercings.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: つらぬ.く、ぬ.く、ぬき
readingExamples: 貫く (つらぬ.く)
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koohiiStory2: The sad fate of Mama shellfish was to be captured and pierced to make an earring.
words: 貫禄(かんろく): presence, dignity
貫く(つらぬく): to go through

keyword: преодолевать
kanji: 克
constituent: overcome, ten, needle, elder brother, teenager, mouth, human legs
myStory: Тинейджер должен преодолеть тягу к наркотикам (иглам)
heisigStory: In this frame we get a chance to use the kanji we just learned in its primitive meaning of teenager. The needle on top indicates one of the major problems confronting the teenager growing up in today's world: drugs. Many of them will fall under the shadow of the needle at some time during those tender years, but only when a whole generation rises up and decides that "We Shall Overcome" the plague, will the needle cease to hangover their heads, as it does in this character.
koohiiStory1: Ten elder brothers can overcome anything.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コク
kunYomi: か.つ
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koohiiStory2: A teenager addicted to heroine must overcome the needle.
words: 克服(こくふく): subjugation, conquest

keyword: вечер (ну да, еще один)
kanji: 汐
constituent: eventide, water, water droplets, water pistol, evening
myStory: Как вечер, только с каплями воды
heisigStory: In the next lesson we will meet the character for morning-tide and the element for drops of water. Meantime we have a perfect blend of picture and idea in this kanji to play on the English word for nightfall, eventide: drops of water inching their way up the shore in the evening.
koohiiStory1: Eventide is just another word for evening, and it has the word tide in it which we associate with water.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セキ
kunYomi: しお、うしお、せい
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koohiiStory2: Drops of water shower the beach as the evening tide approaches: eventide.

keyword: сходство (п: искра, свеча)
kanji: 肖
constituent: resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: Маленькая частица тела в пробе ДНК показывает сходство
heisigStory: The word resemblance should suggest, among other things, a son's resemblance to his father. A "chip off the old block" is the way we often put it, but the character is more simple. It speaks of a little bit of flesh.
heisigComment: * When used as a primitive, the sense of resemblance is replaced by that of spark or candle. (If you want an explanation: the kanji for moon also carries a secondary sense of fire, which we omitted because we are keeping that meaning for other primitives.)
koohiiStory1: Using DNA matching, a very little bit of flesh can be used to show the resemblence between family members.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: あやか.る
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koohiiStory2: Hey baby, it might be a little bit of flesh now, but in a moment it´ll bear a strong resemblance to a candlestick.(nudge nudge, wink wink).

keyword: нитрат
kanji: 硝
constituent: nitrate, stone, rock, resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: Из камня сыпятся искры - азотная кислота! (нитрат)
heisigStory: The word nitrate should immediately suggest a beaker of nitric acid, which, as every high-school chemistry student knows, can eat its way through some pretty tough substances. Here we imagine pouring it over a rock and watching the sparks fly as it bores a hole through the rock.
koohiiStory1: That stone has sparks coming out of it! Someone must have poured nitrate acid on it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: Salpetre is the common name for Nitrate coming from Latin "sal petrae" or stone salt. It is also a component of gun powder so including a candle in this kanji can be quite explosive!

keyword: разгромить, разбивать
kanji: 砕
constituent: smash, stone, rock, ninety, nine, baseball, ten, needle
myStory: Чтобы разбить камень, нужно вдарить по нему девять или десять раз!
heisigStory: We begin with the two elements on the right, baseball and needle. Since they will be coming together from time to time, let us give the two of them the sense of a game of cricket in which a needle is laid across the wicket. Then imagine using a rock for a ball. A smash hit would probably splinter the bat in all directions, and a smashing pitch would do the same with the needle wicket.
koohiiStory1: To SMASH a STONE you need to hit it NINE or TEN times.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: くだ.く、くだ.ける
readingExamples: 砕く (くだ.く), 砕ける (くだ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: The Stones (the Rolling Stones) are 90 aged but they´ve done a new SMASH hit!
words: 砕く(くだく): break, smash
砕ける(くだける): break, be broken

keyword: выравнивать
kanji: 削
constituent: plane, resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: Искры из сабли, когда ее ровняешь
heisigStory: Long before the invention of the carpenter's plane, people used knives and machetes (or here, sabers) to smooth out their woodwork. If you have ever seen the process, you will have been amazed at the speed and agility with which the adept can plane a hunk of wood into shape. Indeed, you can almost see the sparks fly from their sabers.
koohiiStory1: Sparks will fly if you attempt to PLANE your sabre.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク
kunYomi: けず.る、はつ.る、そ.ぐ
readingExamples: 削る (けず.る)
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koohiiStory2: With today´s strict air regulations, carrying a sabre onto a plane could spark quite a commotion.
words: 削減(さくげん): cut, reduction, curtailment
削る(けずる): shave (wood or leather), sharpen, plane, whittle, scrape off, reduce, remove, erase
削除(さくじょ): elimination, cancellation, deletion, erasure

keyword: контейнер, судно
kanji: 器
constituent: utensil, mouth, large, St. Bernard, mouth4
myStory: большой контейнер содержит еды на много ртов
heisigStory: The picture in this kanji is not a pleasant one. It shows a large and fluffy St. Bernard dog stretched out on a table all stuffed and stewed and garnished with vegetables, its paws in the air and an apple in its mouth. At each corner of the table sits an eager but empty mouth, waiting for the utensils to arrive so the feast can begin.
koohiiStory1: Imagine four hungry mouths all sitting around the table. They are all banging their utensils on the table waiting for a big meal to be placed in the centre.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: うつわ
readingExamples: 器 (うつわ)
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koohiiStory2: Note: 器 by itself means container/caliber/vessel. And 食器 means eating utensils ("food container", hehe).
words: 器(うつわ): bowl, vessel, container
器官(きかん): organ (of body), instrument
計器(けいき): meter, gauge
磁器(じき): porcelain, china
聴診器(ちょうしんき): stethoscope
陶器(とうき): pottery, ceramics
兵器(へいき): arms, weapons, ordinance
宝器(ほうき): treasured article or vessel, outstanding individual
楽器(がっき): musical instrument
器械(きかい): instrument
器具(きぐ): utensil
器用(きよう): skillful, handy
受話器(じゅわき): telephone receiver
食器(しょっき): tableware
武器(ぶき): weapon, arms, ordinance
容器(ようき): container, vessel

keyword: вонючий
kanji: 臭
constituent: stinking, nose, drop, eye, large, St. Bernard
myStory: Вонь от большого Эго распространяется
heisigStory: This character is a bit friendlier to the animal world. Our friend the St. Bernard is alive and well, its nose in the air sniffing suspiciously after something stinking somewhere or other.
koohiiStory1: The ST. BERNARD DOG lifted his large NOSE high in the air to find out where the stinking smell comes from.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: くさ.い、-くさ.い、にお.う、にお.い
readingExamples: 臭い (くさ.い)
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koohiiStory2: When I is big, Ego stinking.
words: 生臭い(なまぐさい): smelling of fish or blood, fish or meat
臭い(くさい): stinking
面倒臭い(めんどうくさい): bother to do, tiresome

keyword: изысканный, утонченный
kanji: 妙
constituent: exquisite, woman, few
myStory: Лишь немногие женщины изысканны и утонченны
heisigStory: The primitive for woman is on the left (there and at the bottom of another primitive is where you will always find her), and to the right the element for few. When we refer to a woman as exquisite, we mean to praise her as the sort of person we meet but few and far between. If you are interested in etymologies, it might help to recall that the Latin phrase lying at the root of the English word exquisite carries this same sense of "seeking out" the rare from the ordinary.
koohiiStory1: Exquisite women are few and far between.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ミョウ、ビョウ
kunYomi: たえ
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koohiiStory2: A geisha is an exquisite and delicate (another meaning of this kanji) women, however, even in the past there was only few of them.
words: 巧妙(こうみょう): ingenious, skillful, clever, deft
奇妙(きみょう): strange, queer, curious
微妙(びみょう): delicate, subtle
妙(みょう): strange, unusual

keyword: странный, незнакомый
kanji: 奇
constituent: strange, large, St. Bernard, can, mouth, street, nail, spike
myStory: Странные и незнакомые люди умеют много странного и незнакомого
heisigStory: The elements we are given to work with here are St. Bernard dog and can. Lots of phrases pop to mind to attach these words to the key word, but they end up too abstract because of the word can. It is important in such cases (and there will be plenty of them as we go along) to stick closely to the elements, in this case, mouth and nails. Now all we need do is create a fictitious "Strange But True" column in the Sunday funnies, featuring a St. Bernard whose mouth has been nailed shut because he was hitting the brandy keg around his neck too hard.
koohiiStory1: I find it strange that so many people commit suicide in Tokyo by throwing themselves in front of the train. To me when I look at this kanji, I see a train just about to come out of a tunnel, and above the man waiting for his oppourtunity where he can end it all.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: く.しき、あや.しい、くし、めずら.しい
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a ST. BERNARD DOG carrying a CAN instead of a barrel in rescue missions. How strange!
words: 奇数(きすう): odd number
奇麗(きれい): pretty, clean, nice, tidy, beautiful, fair
奇妙(きみょう): strange, queer, curious

keyword: болото
kanji: 沼
constituent: marsh, water, water droplets, water pistol, summon, seduce, sword, dagger, mouth
myStory: болото, состоящее из воды, соблазняет путника пройти через себя
heisigStory: Unlike the meadow with its cliffs, the marshlands are low and near a source of water that feeds them until they get soggy through and through. Why certain land becomes marshy is probably due to the fact that it felt thirsty, and so tried its best to seduce the water over to its side. But, like most inordinate seductions, the last state of the victim is worse than the first. Hence the slushy marsh.
koohiiStory1: The marshlands near Mordor seduce Frodo into gazing upon them, and he falls into the water--splash!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: ぬま
readingExamples: 沼 (ぬま)
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koohiiStory2: A marsh is where water is seduced into the ground.
words: 沼(ぬま): swamp, bog, pond, lake

keyword: открытое море
kanji: 沖
constituent: open sea, water, water droplets, water pistol, in, stick, mouth
myStory: в середине воды - в открытом море
heisigStory: This kanji could hardly be simpler. The key word open sea readily suggests being out in the middle of a great body of water .Thinking of it in this way should avoid confusion with the kanji for "open," which we will meet later on.
koohiiStory1: Open sea is a lot of water in the middle of nowhere.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
kunYomi: おき、おきつ、ちゅう.する、わく
readingExamples: 沖 (おき)
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koohiiStory2: Water in the middle of the ocean is referred to as open sea.
words: 沖(おき): open sea

keyword: ручей
kanji: 江
constituent: creek, water, water droplets, water pistol, craft
myStory: сотворенная вода - в детстве все делали ручейки?
heisigStory: Unlike the river, the ocean, the lake, and the pond, the creek is often no more then a dribble of water trickling down a small gully. While the geological history of the larger bodies of water is hard to surmise sometimes, all of us know from our childhood how creeks are made. You probably even dug one or two in your time. All you need to do is find a mainstream of water somewhere and dig a little path into dry land. The creek is thus a lesson in water-craft, as this kanji would agree.
koohiiStory1: A CREEK is a small trail of water easily crafted with a stick.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: え
readingExamples: 江 (え)
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koohiiStory2: Creeks are small water, easily crossed with a simple i-beam.

keyword: суп
kanji: 汁
constituent: soup, water, water droplets, water pistol, ten, needle
myStory: Суп из еловых иголок
Суп - это вода плюс (+) ингридиенты
heisigStory: To make soup, one begins with water and then starts adding things to it, often leftovers from the icebox. This is how the thick soup or stew called "seven-in-one" is made. This kanji does it three better, giving us a ten-ingredient soup.
koohiiStory1: To make soup you just take water and add (+) the rest of your ingredients.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ
kunYomi: しる、-しる、つゆ
readingExamples: 汁 (しる)
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koohiiStory2: To make soup you just take water and add ten tasty ingredients.
words: 汁(しる): juice, sap, soup, broth

keyword: волна
kanji: 潮
constituent: tide, water, water droplets, water pistol, morning , mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, ten2, needle2
myStory: eventide там, а тут утренняя волна
heisigStory: Before we get to explaining this character, take a look at it and see if you can figure out the primitive elements on your own.... On the left is the water - that much is easy. On the right we have only one primitive, the kanji for morning learned back in Frame 53. See how an apparently complex kanji falls apart neatly into manageable pieces? To get the meaning of the key word tide, just think of it in connection with the character for eventide that we learned back in Frame 115. Here we have the morning-tide, its complement. By the way, if you missed the question about the number of primitives, it is probably because you forgot what we said earlier about kanji becoming primitives, independently of the pieces that make them up. As a rule, look for the largest kanji you can write and proceed from there to primitives stranded on their own.
koohiiStory1: The morning tide is basically, well, WATER in the MORNING.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: しお、うしお
readingExamples: 潮 (しお)
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koohiiStory2: This is not the eventide, but the water of the morning tide.
words: 潮(うしお): tide

keyword: источник (source)
kanji: 源
constituent: source, water, water droplets, water pistol, meadow, cliff, sun, day, small, little
myStory: вода на лугу есть источник жизни
heisigStory: With the advice of the last frame in mind, it is easy to see water and meadow in this character for source. Both in its etymology (it has a common parent with the word "surge") and in popular usage, source suggests the place water comes from. In this kanji, it is under the meadow, where we just saw it breaking the surface in those bubbly little springs.
koohiiStory1: The water that flows from the meadow is the source of life for the wild antelope.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン
kunYomi: みなもと
readingExamples: 源 (みなもと)
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koohiiStory2: The source of clean water is from the meadow (#134): it comes from that spring at the bottom of the cliff. Pay no attention to Julie Andrews lying face down in spring. The water´s clean. Trust me.
words: 起源(きげん): origin, beginning, rise
語源(ごげん): word root, word derivation, etymology
財源(ざいげん): source of funds, resources, finances
水源(すいげん): source of river, fountainhead
電源(でんげん): source of electricity, power (button on TV etc.)
源(みなもと): source, origin
資源(しげん): resources

keyword: плевок
kanji: 吐
constituent: spit, mouth, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: Изо рта на землю летит плевок
heisigStory: We have here a rather small mouth (it is always compressed when set on the left) next to a much larger piece of dirt. It is not hard to imagine what you might do if you got a mouth full of dirt. As least I know what I would do: spit it out as fast and far as I could!
koohiiStory1: The only things that come out of my MOUTH and onto the GROUND are spit and vomit. Everything else (words, song) floats on the air.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ト
kunYomi: は.く、つ.く
readingExamples: 吐く (は.く)
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koohiiStory2: SPIT goes from my MOUTH to the GROUND.
words: 吐く(つく): to breathe, to tell (lies), to vomit, to disgorge
吐き気(はきけ): nausea, sickness in the stomach
吐く(はく): breathe, tell (lies), vomit

keyword: мыс
kanji: 埼
constituent: cape, soil, dirt, ground, strange, large, St. Bernard, street, nail, spike, mouth
myStory: Неизвестная земля открывается за мысом
heisigStory: The cape pictured here is a jut of land like Cape Cod. The soil on the left tells us we have to do with land, and the strange on the right tells us it is a cape where unusual things go on. Put a haunted house on it, an eerie sky overhead, and a howling wind rustling through the trees, and you have yourself a picture of Cape Strange (or, if you prefer, Cape Odd).
koohiiStory1: This refers to LAND, not the STRANGE gear superheroes wear.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: さき、さい、みさき
readingExamples: 埼 (さい)
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koohiiStory2: Cape Cod "odd" is a land where odd=strange things happen.

keyword: изгородь
kanji: 垣
constituent: hedge, soil, dirt, ground, span, one, ceiling, sun, day, one, floor, one
myStory: Изгородь отрезает один участок земли от другого
heisigStory: The hedge depicted in this frame is the miraculous hedge of briar roses that completely spanned the castle grounds in which Sleeping Beauty lay for a hundred years, so that none but her predestined beloved could find his way through it.
koohiiStory1: Before the Great Wall of China, there was a dirt hedge that spanned across.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: かき
readingExamples: 垣 (かき)
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koohiiStory2: The HEDGE of roses growing from the castle grounds fully spanned the castle walls.
words: 垣根(かきね): hedge

keyword: squared jewel, угол, край
kanji: 圭
constituent: square jewel, ivy, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: Как спрятать драгоценный камень? Закопай его глубоко в земле, пометь плющом
heisigStory: Now I am going to do something unusual. The character in this frame is going to get one meaning and the primitive another, with no relation at all between the two. In time, I hope you will see how helpful this is. The kanji key word, square jewel, depicts a mammoth precious stone, several feet high, made by piling up large heaps of soil on top of one another. Not something you would want to present your betrothed on your wedding day, but a good image for remembering this rare character, used chiefly in personal names nowadays.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, we shall use this character to mean ivy, that creepy vegetation that covers the surface of the ground to form a sort of "second" ground that can get somewhat tricky to walk on without tripping.
koohiiStory1: Piling SOIL upon SOIL for aeons is how SQUARE JEWELS are formed deep in the earth.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ、ケ
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koohiiStory2: How would you stop someone stealing your biggest square jewel? Bury it deep in the soil under ground. Then plant ivy to mark the spot.

keyword: горизонт
kanji: 涯
constituent: horizon, water, water droplets, water pistol, cliff, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: Робинзон Крузо сидел на скале, увитой плющом, и смотрел на горизонт
heisigStory: After seeing a constant horizon of water, water everywhere for months at sea, could there be anything more delightful to the eyes than to look astern and see the ivy-clad cliffs of land on a new horizon? Of course, you'd need the eyes of a stellar telescope to recognize that the vegetation was in fact ivy, but the phrase "ivy-clad cliffs" has such a nice ring to it that we won't worry about such details.
koohiiStory1: Try to reverse Heisig´s story in this Kanji: imagine being trapped in one of those prison towers on an ivy cladcliff like in the movies. From your prison ontop the ivy clad cliff all you can see in the distant horizon is nothing but water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ
kunYomi: はて
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koohiiStory2: From the water, I can see the ivy-clad-cliffs on the horizon.

keyword: воспламенение
kanji: 炎
constituent: inflammation, fire, fire2
myStory: слишком много огня
heisigStory: A fire belongs IN the hearth, not OVER it. When the fire spreads to the rest of the house, we have an inflamed house. And as with any inflammation - including those that attack our bodies - the danger is always that it might spread if not checked. This is the sense behind the reduplication of element for fire, one atop the other.
koohiiStory1: To fight fire with fire would just inflame a situation.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: ほのお
readingExamples: 炎 (ほのお)
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koohiiStory2: An inflammation can often feel like FIRE upon FIRE burning.
words: 炎(ほのお): flame, blaze

keyword: беспокойство, тревога
kanji: 煩
constituent: anxiety, fire, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: голова в огне - повод для тревоги
heisigStory: The existential condition of anxiety that arises from the inevitable frustration of our worldly passions is contained in this character. The head is set afire, causing deep torment of spirit (and a whopper of a headache).
koohiiStory1: An anxiety feels like FIRE in the HEAD.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン、ボン
kunYomi: わずら.う、わずら.わす
readingExamples: 煩雑 (はんざつ), 煩う (わずら.う), 煩わす (わずら.わす)
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koohiiStory2: Many performers get "Michael Jackson anxiety" wherein they fear their head will catch on fire.
words: 煩わしい(わずらわしい): troublesome, annoying, complicated

keyword: тонкий
kanji: 淡
constituent: thin, water, water droplets, water pistol, inflammation, fire, fire2
myStory: если из человека испарить всю воду - он будет очень худым и бледным
heisigStory: The primitives in this kanji read: water . . . inflammation. Taking inflammation in its medical sense, the first water-related inflammation that pops into mind is dehydration, the principal symptom of which is that it makes one shrivel up and look very, very thin. If that is hard to remember, try thinking it backwards: a very thin chap passes by and you imagine him suffering from (being inflamed with) dehydration (hence the element for water).
koohiiStory1: Drink water and burn twice as many calories as you eat... you´ll definitely get thin. Imagine inside your body, all those calories literally being burned from above and below... THAT´s what it takes to become thin.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: あわ.い
readingExamples: 淡い (あわ.い)
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koohiiStory2: Thin girls are twice as hot when they´re wet.
words: 冷淡(れいたん): coolness, indifference
淡水(たんすい): fresh water

keyword: ферма
kanji: 畑
constituent: farm, fire, rice field, brains
myStory: Огонь и поле - ферма
heisigStory: Looking at the primitives, a fireplace and a rice field, we find the essential ingredients for a farm: a warm hearth to sit by at night, and a well-plowed field to grow one's crops in by day.
koohiiStory1: Many farms are created by first setting FIRE over the land to clear the land for the FIELDS.
jouYou: 3
kunYomi: はた、はたけ、-ばたけ
readingExamples: 畑 (はた), 畑 (はたけ)
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koohiiStory2: When creating a farm, the prospective farmer must first set fire to the forest to clear the ground. Only then can he plow the fields. Fire before fields to make a farm.
words: 畑(はたけ): field

keyword: катастрофа
kanji: 災
constituent: disaster, stream, flood, fire
myStory: вода и огонь приносят бедствия
heisigStory: Of all of nature's disasters, this kanji picks out two of the worst: floods and fires. To recall the disposition of the elements, think of nature's solution to nature's own problem: a great flood pouring down over a great forest fire.
koohiiStory1: What a disaster! First a FIRE, then on top of it came FLOODs.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: わざわ.い
readingExamples: 災い (わざわ.い)
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koohiiStory2: Don´t know about Japan, but here in Australia, flooding rivers and bushfires are the most common natural disasters.
words: 災害(さいがい): calamity, disaster, misfortune
戦災(せんさい): war damage
天災(てんさい): natural calamity, disaster
火災(かさい): conflagration, fire
災難(さいなん): calamity, misfortune

keyword: отческий дом (п: компьютер)
kanji: 里
constituent: ri, computer, rice field, brains, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: Земля, где ты впервые отведал рис - отческий дом
heisigStory: That's right - a ri. Don't bother looking it up in your English dictionary; it's a Japanese word for measuring distances. One ri is about 4 kilometers or 2.5 miles. The kanji depicts how the measure came to be used. Atop we see the rice field, and below the element for land. Those four sections you see in the rice field (and which we made mention of when first we introduced the character in frame 14) are actually measurements of land, much the same as farm-sections in the United States have given us the notion of a "country mile." The land division based on the size of a rice field is called a ri.
heisigComment: * To get a more concrete primitive meaning for this kanji, we shall refer to it as a computer, a meaning deriving from the kanji for logic, which we will meet in Lesson 12.
koohiiStory1: The ri is a Japanese way of measuring the area of the GROUND underneath a RICE FIELD.
jouYou: 2
onYomi: リ
kunYomi: さと
readingExamples: 里 (さと)
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koohiiStory2: Hint: Heisig makes here a severe disservice to everyone by using a weird keyword for this character. You´ll save a lot (and I mean, a whole lot) of trouble later by giving it instead its intended meaning: House of the Parents.
words: 郷里(きょうり): birth-place, home town

keyword: чернила
kanji: 墨
constituent: black ink, black, computer, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: Черная земля похожа на порошковые чернила
heisigStory: Besides meaning black ink, this kanji also appears in the word for an inked string that is pulled taut and snapped to mark a surface, much the same as one might used a chalked string. Here it is used to mark off the dirt with black lines for a foot ballgame (played, I presume, on a white field).
koohiiStory1: Theres BLACK on the GROUND...most likely someone spilt some black ink.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク
kunYomi: すみ
readingExamples: 墨 (すみ)
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koohiiStory2: Anyone who has worked with laserjet ink cartridges will know the black ink looks like powdered dirt.
words: 墨(すみ): ink

keyword: карп
kanji: 鯉
constituent: carp, fish, bound up, rice field, brains, oven-fire, barbecue, computer
myStory: Какая рыба могла быть в пруду у отческого дома? Только карп.
heisigStory: These are the same carp you see in Japanese "carp streamers." Only here we find a small home computer or two strung on the line by a father anxious for his son not only to have the courage and determination of a carp swimming upstream, but also the efficiency and memory of a computer. Ugh.
koohiiStory1: Japanese carp are massive fish - they are measured in ri!
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
kunYomi: こい
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koohiiStory2: The fish got carpal tunnel syndrome from the computer(I know it´s lame but it´s hard to find a good story for this).

keyword: рин
kanji: 厘
constituent: rin, cliff, computer
myStory: Компьютер, сброшенный со скалы, стоит ничего, стоит 1 рин.
heisigStory: No doubt you will find it in your heart to forgive me for forcing yet another Japanese word on you in this frame. It is not the last time it will happen in this book, but I can assure you they are used only when absolutely necessary. One rin is equal to about 1/1000 of a yen - or rather was worth that much when it still made economic sense to mint them. While inflation took its toll on this kanji as a monetary unit, it survived with the not at all surprising sense of something "very, very tiny." The kanji shows a cliff with a computer under it, apparently because it has been pushed over into the abyss by someone fed up with the thing. The total market value of one home computer that has fallen over rock and bramble for several hundred feet: about one rin!
koohiiStory1: I threw my Rindows computer off a cliff because it kept crashing. Now, after its last crash, it´s worth less than a rin.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リン
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koohiiStory2: A computer dropped off of a cliff would be worth about 1 RIN.

keyword: логово
kanji: 洞
constituent: den, water, water droplets, water pistol, same, monks, hood, one, mouth
myStory: монах только на воде сидит в своей келье - пещере
heisigStory: The key word den refers to an animal lair hollowed out in the side of a mountain. Now if we keep to the image of the monastic life as an image for same, we can picture a den of wild beasts dressed up in habits and living the common life in a mountain cavern. To bring in the element of water we need only give them a sacred "puddle" in the center of their den, the focus of all their pious attentions.
koohiiStory1: All the animals in the den share the same water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ドウ
kunYomi: ほら
readingExamples: 洞 (ほら)
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koohiiStory2: Den and "cave" also make me think of a monk´s cell. Monks take vows of silence and fast. So a den is where you´d find nothing but water (to drink) and a monk.

keyword: туловище
kanji: 胴
constituent: trunk, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, same, monks, hood, one, mouth
myStory: Часть тела одинаковая у монахов - туловище
heisigStory: The word trunk refers to the part of the body that is left when you have "truncated" all the limbs. I can hardly think of any reason for doing so, unless one were lumberjacking corpses and needed to have them all properly pruned and made the same so they could be floated downstream without causing a body-jam.
koohiiStory1: A trunk, a trunk // The body of a monk // The body of a monk in a trunk, a trunk.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ドウ
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koohiiStory2: Dead flesh all looks the same when you chop off everything but the trunk. Yes, I´m appalled at how gruesome this story is too.
words: 胴(どう): trunk, body, frame

keyword: уважение, почтение
kanji: 尚
constituent: esteem, small, little, alien, glass canopy, hood, mouth
myStory: Маленькая королева носит маленький капюшон. Ее все уважают
heisigStory: Above we see the primitive for little attached to one of those glass canopies you might use to display a family heirloom. The littleness is important, because what is in fact on display is the shrunken, stuffed, and mounted mouth of an esteemed ancestor. We may be used to esteeming the words our forebears leave behind, but here we also esteem the very mouth that spoke them. I leave it to you to imagine a suitable place in your room for displaying such an unusual conversation piece.
koohiiStory1: An especially esteemed alien has three antennae on his helmet.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: なお
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koohiiStory2: Remember that scene from Star Wars, where Luke is wearing that helmet that only his mouth could see, and was swinging at that little thing buzzing around the room? That was Obi-Wan´s trick to get Luke to build his self-esteem, or his confidence in the Force.
words: 高尚(こうしょう): high, noble, refined, advanced
尚(なお): furthermore, still, yet, more, still more, greater, further, less
尚更(なおさら): all the more, still less

keyword: провозглашать, объявлять
kanji: 宣
constituent: proclaim, house, span, one, ceiling, sun, day, one, floor, one
heisigStory: Under the primitive for house we meet the kanji for span. Think of the key word in its religious sense of missionary preaching: "proclaiming the good news to all nations" and "shouting it from the housetops." That should be enough to help you remember this simple kanji, used in fact both for traditional missionary work as well as for one of its contemporary replacements: advertising.
koohiiStory1: You can proclaim your opinions from the comfort of your HOUSE and have it SPAN the entire globe these days via The Internet.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: のたま.う、のたま.わく
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koohiiStory2: I heard young Muslims have to memorise the Koran and proclaim it aloud as a kind of rite of passage. Imagine the SPAN of hours spent under a ROOF practising that! It must surely be worse than trying to get through Heisigs RTK - count yourself lucky.
words: 宣教(せんきょう): religious mission
宣言(せんげん): declaration, proclamation, announcement
宣伝(せんでん): propaganda, publicity

keyword: поздно вечером
kanji: 宵
constituent: wee hours, house, resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: Поздно вечером зажигаем свечу в доме
heisigStory: As the key word hints, the kanji in this frame refers to the late evening or early morning hours, well after one should be in bed asleep. It does this by picturing a house with a candle in it. The reason is obvious: whoever is living there is "burning the candle at both ends," and working night after night into the wee hours.
koohiiStory1: I burn the CANDLE in my HOUSE until the WEE HOURS reviewing the kanji!!!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: よい
readingExamples: 宵 (よい)
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koohiiStory2: I agree with elktapestry. This kanji really means "early evening", not "wee hours" [Heisig really should have done his homework on this and several other characters (e.g., #145 "but of course" -- what the hell???). Oh well.] "Every house lights candles in the EARLY EVENING which stay lit until the wee hours". E.G. 宵の口（よいのくち）early evening; 今宵（こよい）this evening; tonight.

keyword: банкет, вечеринка
kanji: 宴
constituent: banquet, relax, house, sun, day, tongue wagging, woman
myStory: в доме, словно солнца женщины сияют во время банкета
heisigStory: To carry on from the last frame, we note the entire day of work that comes between a woman and her house in preparing for a dinner banquet, pictorially "interrupting" her relaxation.
koohiiStory1: The WOMAN spent all DAY preparing a banquet in the HOUSE.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: うたげ
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koohiiStory2: Under the roof, all day long, the woman prepared for the banquet (this wording helps me remember the order of this kanji´s elements).
words: 宴会(えんかい): party, banquet

keyword: Japanese Judas-tree
kanji: 桂
constituent: Japanese Judas tree, tree, wood, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: Иуда повесился на дереве с шеей, обвязанной плющом
heisigStory: Unless you are a botanist, you are not likely to know what a Japanese Judas-tree looks like, and probably never even heard of it before, but the name is sufficiently odd to make remembering it easy. Using the primitives as our guide, we define it as a tree with ivy growing down its branches in the shape of a hangman's rope.
koohiiStory1: Simple mnemonic : "The Japanese Judas-tree is the tree on which Judas hang himself to the ivy" (Judas the traitor of the Christian bible). Just picture Judas hanging himself, using ivy as a if it was a rope.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: かつら
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koohiiStory2: A tree covered in poison ivy will quickly betray you, thus the name JAPANESE JUDAS-TREE.

keyword: дуб
kanji: 柏
constituent: oak, tree, wood, white, dove
myStory: белое дерево - дуб
heisigStory: This kanji calls to mind the famous myth of the "golden bough." As you may recall, what made the sacred oak in the forest of Diana the Huntress outside of Rome "golden" were the white berries of the mistletoe that grew in the branches of the tree. When the light of the sun shone through them, they turned yellow and the branch to which they clung appeared to be made of gold. (If you don't know the story, take a break today and hunt it down in a dictionary of myth and fable. Even if you forget the kanji - which of course you won't - the story of the mistletoe and the fate it brought to Balder the Beautiful is most memorable.)
koohiiStory1: The wood from oak trees can be used to make barrels in which white wine is aged. What´s more, I love white wine with an oaky flavour...
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ハク、ヒャク、ビャク
kunYomi: かしわ
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koohiiStory2: An oak tree is white, from left to right!

keyword: рамка
kanji: 枠
constituent: frame, tree, wood, ninety, nine, baseball, ten, needle
myStory: деревяшка, повернутая на 90 градусов - рамка
heisigStory: You might think of the frame this character refers to as the sort of frame we have created by drawing a dark line around this kanji and its explanation. Then think of that line as made of very thin wood; and finally note how each time the line bends it forms a 90° angle, thus giving us the nine and the ten.
koohiiStory1: wood at 90 (9 * 10) degrees.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
kunYomi: わく
readingExamples: 枠 (わく)
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koohiiStory2: Nine out of ten picture frames are made out of wood. The rest are made of metal or plastic.
words: 枠(わく): frame, slide

keyword: вершины деревьев
kanji: 梢
constituent: treetops, tree, wood, resemblance, spark, candle, small, little, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: мы ставим свечи на вершину елок
heisigStory: As the days grow shorter and shorter, or so the northern European myth goes, the fear grows that the sun will take its leave of us altogether, abandoning the world to total darkness. Fixing candles to the branches of evergreen trees, it was believed, would lure the sun back (like things attracting like things), whence the custom of the lighted tree that eventually found its way into our Christmas customs. The story is a lot longer and more complex than that, but it should help to fix the image of climbing high up into the treetops to fix candles on the tree.
koohiiStory1: At Christmas time, on the treetops, people used to place great big candles (Now we usually place a star instead).
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: こずえ、くすのき
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koohiiStory2: If you cut off the treetops, they still resemble the trees they used to be part of. Treetops=tree resemblance.
words: 梢(こずえ): treetop

keyword: полка
kanji: 棚
constituent: shelf, tree, wood, companion, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, moon2, month2, flesh, 2, part of the body2
myStory: полка - это деревянный компаньон для книг
heisigStory: One often thinks of books as "good companions," but here it is the shelf we store them on that is the companion. The reasons should be obvious: it is made of the same stuff, wood, and spends a lot more time with them than we do! Here again, be careful not to let the rationality of the explanation get in the way before you turn it into a proper story.
koohiiStory1: A shelf is a wooden companion to books.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: たな、-だな
readingExamples: 棚 (たな)
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koohiiStory2: I think of an Otaku, with a wooden shelf full of anime action figure statures, who are sadly his only companions.
words: 戸棚(とだな): cupboard, locker, closet, wardrobe
棚(たな): shelf
本棚(ほんだな): bookshelves

keyword: абрикос
kanji: 杏
constituent: apricot, tree, wood, mouth
myStory: абрикосы едят прямо когда они падают с деревьев
heisigStory: Since apricots can be eaten just as they fall from the trees, picture this mouth agape at the bottom of a tree (just as the elements have it), waiting for apricots to fall into it.
koohiiStory1: From the tree straight into the mouth is the best way to eat an APRICOT!
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、アン、コウ
kunYomi: あんず
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koohiiStory2: Imagine Totoro sleeping under his tree. As he snores a giant apricot falls nicely into his open mouth and he emits a giant burp of satisfaction. I can hear that music alreay....to - to to - to - ro...

keyword: Павло́вния
kanji: 桐
constituent: paulownia, tree, wood, same, monks, hood, one, mouth
myStory: дерево, которое растет с той же скоростью, что и люди
heisigStory: Since you probably don't know what a paulownia tree is, we shall let the key word suggest the phrase "the Little Brothers of St. Paulownia." It is a short step to associate the tree with the monks to its right. (For the curious, the name of this oriental tree really comes from a Russian princess, Anna Pavlovna.)
koohiiStory1: In Japan, a paulownia (きり）is known as the "princess tree". It was once a traditional TREE planted at the SAME time as the birth of a daughter. It would grow fast enough that, at the time of her wedding, it could be used to make a dresser as a wedding present for her.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ、ドウ
kunYomi: きり
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koohiiStory2: Paulownia is a Japanese tree which looks same as any other tree.
words: 桐(きり): paulownia tree

keyword: грубый, неочищенный
kanji: 朴
constituent: crude, tree, wood, magic wand, augury
myStory: Только что сделанная из дерева палочка грубая, не очищенная от коры
heisigStory: As all magicians who have passed their apprenticeship know, one makes one's wand out of a hazel branch and is careful not to alter the natural form of the wood. For the magic of the wand derives its power from its association with the hidden laws of nature, and needs therefore to be kept in its crude, natural state.
koohiiStory1: Wooden wands are the crudest. They are nothng compared to their carbon fibre equivilents.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク
kunYomi: ほう、ほお、えのき
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koohiiStory2: A beginner magician starts with a crude wooden magic wand. Later he´ll upgrade to magicite, of course.
words: 素朴(そぼく): simplicity, artlessness, naivete

keyword: календарь
kanji: 暦
constituent: calendar, cliff, grove, tree, wood, sun, day, tree2, wood2
myStory: Скалы формируются очень долго, деревья растут побыстрее, солнце встает каждый день
heisigStory: Look at this character in reverse order, from bottom up. First we see the primitive for days, an appropriate enough way to begin a calendar. Next we see a grove of trees growing under a cliff. The laws of nature being what they are, the trees would be stunted under such conditions, unless they were strong enough to keep growing upwards until they passed through the layers of rock and soil, right up to the surface. Now imagine that in those little boxes marking off the days on your wall calendar, you see that very process taking place step by step: 365 or so time-lapse pictures of that grove of trees each month, from January under the cliff to December on top of the cliff. The story is not as complex as it sounds, particularly if you happen to have a calendar nearby and can flip through it with this image in mind.
koohiiStory1: Years-Months-Days: It takes many years for a cliff to form or erode. A tree takes many months to grow. But days pass by regularly - so in this way, we see the movement of time such as with a CALENDAR.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レキ
kunYomi: こよみ、りゃく
readingExamples: 暦 (こよみ)
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koohiiStory2: This is just a picture of a wall calendar with a page for each month. The bottom half has the grid of days, the top half has a pretty picture of a forest this month. The cliff radical here is the top and left edges of the paper. You can see the paper curling up at the lower left where a breeze is trying to turn the page.
words: 還暦(かんれき): 60th birthday
暦(こよみ): calendar, almanac
西暦(せいれき): Christian Era, Anno Domini (A.D.)

keyword: план, предложение
kanji: 案
constituent: plan, relax, house, woman, tree, wood
myStory: Расслабиться на гамаке, подвешенном на дереве - отличный план!
heisigStory: Without much effort, the elements relax . . . tree suggest a hammock strung between two trees in your backyard, and you stretched out in it, hands folded behind your head, planning something or other. After all, it's something we all do from time to time: kick up our legs on the nearest piece of furniture and daydream about the best plan of action to take. Be sure to relate the relaxation to the tree, so that you don't end up with something else in its place (like "legs" or "desk" or "table").
koohiiStory1: I plan to RELAX on top of that TREE.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: アン
kunYomi: つくえ
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koohiiStory2: If you bring a woman to your house, generally its not a good plan to stick your wood up her bottom, she may scream in pain あん!
words: 案じる(あんじる): to be anxious, to ponder
案の定(あんのじょう): sure enough, as usual
議案(ぎあん): legislative bill
法案(ほうあん): bill (law)
案(あん): plan, suffix meaning draft
案外(あんがい): unexpectedly
案内(あんない): information, guidance
提案(ていあん): proposal, proposition, suggestion
答案(とうあん): examination paper, examination script

keyword: всплеск, пена
kanji: 沫
constituent: splash, water, water droplets, water pistol, extremity, one, tree, wood
myStory: конец волны - во всплеске о берег
heisigStory: The splash this kanji refers to is the dash of water against the rocks, with all the foam and spray that this creates. If you think of a splash in this sense as a wave that has run its full course and reached its extremity, namely the seashore, and if you think of it pictorially in your mind's eye, this somewhat rare (but oh so-easy-to-learn) kanji is yours for good.
koohiiStory1: The extremity of a wave of water is the splash.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: マツ、バツ
kunYomi: あわ、しぶき、つばき
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koohiiStory2: A splash is WATER that has reached its EXTREMITY.

keyword: красный, киноварь
kanji: 朱
constituent: vermillion, drop, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: The tree (木) does not yet (未) have exremities (末) of vermilion (朱).
heisigStory: That red-orange color we call vermilion is found in nature during the fall when the leaves lose their sugar and begin to change color. This kanji depicts the very last leaf on a tree in the fall (the drop hung in the first stroke), the leaf that has not yet fallen as it one day must. Look at its color - vermilion. (Well, not really. The truth is, vermilion is made from a mercuric sulfide, but I'm sure you will agree that autumn leaves area lot easier to work with.)
koohiiStory1: It´s autumn: only one vermilion leaf on the tree has not yet fallen.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: あけ
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koohiiStory2: [Cheat] Remember these as a set: The tree (木) is not yet (未)[correction wrong character before] vermilion (朱).

keyword: акции (т.е. финан. инстр.)
kanji: 株
constituent: stocks, tree, wood, vermillion, drop, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: когда деревяшки краснеют - продавай акции!
heisigStory: The stocks bought and sold on the market by the tens of millions each day get their name from a comparison to a healthy tree, in which one takes "stock" in the hopes that it will grow and produce more and more trees like itself. Usually good stocks are referred to as "blue chip," but here we are asked to associate the key word with the color vermilion, perhaps because one can assess the value of a tree from the color of its autumn leaves.
koohiiStory1: Which tree would you buy stocks in - the healthy one on the left, or the one with only one vermilion leaf left on the right?
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: かぶ
readingExamples: 株 (かぶ)
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koohiiStory2: Ideally, one buys stocks when a company is young, "green," and rapidly growing -- then sells them just before the last vermillion leaf falls off, and a period of dormancy or limited growth begins.
words: 株式(かぶしき): stock (company)
株(かぶ): share, stock, stump (of tree)

keyword: терпимый, толерантный
kanji: 寛
constituent: tolerant, house, flowers, look, see, telescope, eye, human legs
myStory: В доме вижу цветы - и становлюсь терпимее
heisigStory: The house of flowers or "hothouse" has become a metaphor for a narrow-minded, biased, and intolerant attitude distrustful of change. Tolerance, in contrast, is open-minded and welcomes novelty. The way to encourage tolerance in those who lack it is first to have them see through their own hothouse attitudes, which is the very counsel we are given in this kanji.
koohiiStory1: A tolerant person will ignore SEEing GRASS (marijuana) in the HOUSE of a friend.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: くつろ.ぐ、ひろ.い、ゆる.やか
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koohiiStory2: To be tolerant is to see flowers (meaning "beautiful things") in every house, instead of looking for drawbacks.
words: 寛容(かんよう): forbearance, tolerance, generosity

keyword: расплывчатый
kanji: 漠
constituent: vague, water, water droplets, water pistol, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard
myStory: местоположение водных гробниц обычно расплывчато
heisigStory: Think of the key word as having to do with something viewed through a haze, or in the twilight and from a distance, so that only its outlines are vaguely discernible. Now we are back again to the essence of the true graveyard. The water may be taken as the sound of waves dashing up against the rocks or the dripping of moisture on cold rock - anything that helps you associate vagueness with the graveyard and keep it distinct from the imitation we met in the last frame.
koohiiStory1: The precise locations of sailors who meet a WATERY GRAVE are vague.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バク
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koohiiStory2: The water in the graveyard has worn away the headstones, so the writing is vague.
words: 漠然(ばくぜん): obscure, vague, equivocal
砂漠(さばく): desert

keyword: могила, гробница
kanji: 墓
constituent: grave, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: цветок, солнце, а под землей - могила
heisigStory: The mounds of soil with crude wooden crosses set at their head suggests those boot-hill graves we all know from cowboy lore. The only odd thing about this kanji is that the soil comes UNDER the graveyard, rather than to its left, where we might expect. Just think of the bodies as "lying under boot-hill" if you have any trouble. By the way, this is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that we learn a kanji whose key word is the same, or almost the same, as a primitive element based on it, but whose shape differs somewhat. There is no cause to worry. By using the primitive in a variety of other characters, as we have done here, the confusion will be averted as a matter of course. In most cases, as here, the primitive element is taken from a part of the fuller kanji.
koohiiStory1: The soil under a graveyard is full of graves.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボ
kunYomi: はか
readingExamples: 墓 (はか)
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koohiiStory2: A grave is a patch of soil in a graveyard.
words: 墓地(はかち): cemetery, graveyard
墓(はか): gravesite, tomb

keyword: мембрана, оболочка
kanji: 膜
constituent: membrane, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard
myStory: Тело трясется на кладбище, как мембрана на барабане
heisigStory: The part of the body first affected by a stroll through a haunted graveyard is the skin, which gets goose bumps. But we save the word "skin" for another kanji, and use the odd word "membrane" here. Think of being so scared through and through that the goose flesh moves from the outside in, giving you goose membranes.
koohiiStory1: In the moonlight of the graveyard I hear a zombie say, MMMMM..EMM...BRANEsssss.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マク
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koohiiStory2: The membranes in your flesh rot when placed in the graveyard.
words: 膜(まく): membrane, film

keyword: саженец
kanji: 苗
constituent: seedling, flowers, rice field, brains
myStory: цветы на рисовом поле? нафига вы посадили саженцы цветов?
heisigStory: To avoid confusion with the image of rice seedlings to appear later, we shall take these seedlings out of their agricultural setting in the rice fields and into the frame of Brave New World surgery, where "ideas" or "values" are being implanted into brains like seedlings to insure a harmonious society. Then you need only imagine them taking root and breaking out into flower right through the tops of the skulls of people walking around on the streets.
koohiiStory1: If you plant seedlings in a FIELD eventually they will FLOWER.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビョウ、ミョウ
kunYomi: なえ、なわ-
readingExamples: 苗 (なえ)
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koohiiStory2: Crap! There are flowers in the rice field... Who let those seedlings get in there?!
words: 苗(なえ): rice seedling

keyword: персиковое дерево
kanji: 桃
constituent: peach tree, tree, wood, portent, turtle
myStory: Персиковый Мальчик... попробуй запомнить
heisigStory: To associate the peach tree with the primitive for a portent, recall the famous Japanese legend of Momotarō, the Peach Boy. It begins once upon a time with a fisherman and his wife who wanted badly to have a child, but none was born to them. Then one day the old man caught a giant peach, out of which jumped a healthy young lad whom they named Peach Boy. Though the boy was destined to perform heroic deeds, his birth also portended great misfortune (how else could he become a hero?). Thus the tree that is associated with a portent of coming evil comes to be the peach tree.
koohiiStory1: The pits of a peach tree look like turtles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: もも
readingExamples: 桃 (もも)
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koohiiStory2: King Koopa consistently captures Princess Peach. Eventually he´s going to run out of castles and just set her in a tree.

keyword: глазеть
kanji: 眺
constituent: stare, eye, portent, turtle
myStory: старуха сделала предсказание, таращась глазом
heisigStory: To give someone the "evil eye" is to stare at them, wishing them evil. The roots of the superstition are old and almost universal throughout the cultures of the world. In this kanji, too, being stared at is depicted as an eye that portends evil.
koohiiStory1: Sauron´s One fiery eye stare at Frodo and it is a sign of portent. Evil will become whomever the eye is staring upon.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: なが.める
readingExamples: 眺める (なが.める)
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koohiiStory2: You lost a staring contest with a turtle because you blinked your eye before he did. (The contest wasn´t fair, because turtles have nictitating membranes, and don´t need to blink so often.) Eye comes first, because stare is most associated with eyes. And compare with challenge (#658) where this same obstreperous turtle challenges you to a finger wrestling contest. (Sibyl´s story with some notes that helped me).
words: 眺め(ながめ): scene, view, prospect, outlook
眺める(ながめる): view, gaze at

keyword: тишина
kanji: 黙
constituent: silence, black, computer, chihuahua, dog, large, drop, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: черные собаки молчат перед нападением
heisigStory: Oddly enough, the character for silence shows us a black chihuahua. Actually, the cute little critter's name is Darkness, as I am sure you remember from the famous song about silence that begins, "Hello, Darkness, my old friend...." Note how the four dots reach all the way across the bottom of the character.
koohiiStory1: The computer won´t stop beeping, which is making the chihauhua bark, and it´s driving this guy insane. The only solution he can come up with is to throw them both on the fire and finally enjoy the silence.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モク、ボク
kunYomi: だま.る、もだ.す
readingExamples: 黙る (だま.る)
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koohiiStory2: Your neighbor is so sick of you playing Led Zeppelin that he takes your copy of the song Black Dog and burns it. Finally, silence in the neighborhood.
words: 沈黙(ちんもく): silence, reticence
黙る(だまる): be silent

keyword: тростник, камыш
kanji: 荻
constituent: reed, flowers, pack of wild dogs, fire
myStory: цветок, похожий на хотдог - камыш
heisigStory: You've no doubt seen cattails, those swamp reeds with a furry flower to them like the tail of a cat. This might just turn out to be a good way to get rid of a troublesome pack of wild dogs: lure them into a swamp of these reeds with the cattail flowers and then set fire to the swamp. Take care to focus on the flower rather than the "cattail" to avoid confusion with frame 259 below.
koohiiStory1: REEDS are the only FLOWERS that WILD DOGS like to FIRE up and smoke while they are playing poker.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: テキ
kunYomi: おぎ
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koohiiStory2: A reed is a flower that looks like a hot dog.

keyword: охота
kanji: 狩
constituent: hunt, pack of wild dogs, guard, house, glue
myStory: охраняйся от своры диких псов - они на охоте
heisigStory: One of the worst problems you have to face when you go hunting is to guard your take from the wild dogs. If you imagine yourself failing at the task, you will probably have a stronger image than if you try to picture yourself succeeding.
koohiiStory1: Actually when hunting it may be a good idea to use a pack of dogs as your personal guard.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: か.る、か.り、-が.り
readingExamples: 狩り (か.り), 狩る (か.る)
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koohiiStory2: After a pack of wild dogs hunt some food, they will guard it fiercely.

keyword: жемчужина
kanji: 珠
constituent: pearl, king, jewel, ball, vermillion, drop, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: красный камень - жемчужина? Ну ок.
heisigStory: Take care to keep the meaning of this kanji distinct from that for jewel. Think of the most enormous pearl you have ever seen, a great vermilion-colored ball sitting on your ring and making it extremely difficult to move without falling over from the weight of the thing.
koohiiStory1: The king of the Oysters produces special Vermillion pearls!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: たま
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koohiiStory2: King Vermillion is a little queer and likes to wear pearl necklaces.
words: 真珠(しんじゅ): pearl

keyword: помешанный, сумасшедший
kanji: 狂
constituent: lunatic, pack of wild dogs, king, jewel, ball
myStory: свора диких псов покусала короля и он стал сумасшедшим!
heisigStory: A lunatic is literally one driven mad by the light of the moon, and the most famous of the "looneys" are the legendary lycanthropes or "wolfmen." Sometimes the transformation is only a temporary phenomenon, sometimes it is permanent. In the latter case, the poor chap takes off on all fours to live with the beasts. To remember this kanji, imagine one of these lycanthropes going looney and setting himself up as king of a pack of wild dogs that roams about and terrorizes innocent suburban communities.
koohiiStory1: Oh no ! A pack of dogs has bitten the king. He has turned into a rabid lunatic !
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: くる.う、くる.おしい、くるお.しい
readingExamples: 狂う (くる.う), 狂おしい (くる.おしい)
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koohiiStory2: Think of King Nebuchadnezzar, who for 7 years lost his sanity and had to live like a wild animal.
words: 狂う(くるう): go mad, get out of order

keyword: император
kanji: 皇
constituent: emperor, white, dove, king, jewel, ball
myStory: белый король - король-только-выше - император
heisigStory: An emperor, as we all know, is a ruler - something like a king but higher in status. The white bird perched above the king, elevating him to imperial heights, is the messenger he sends back and forth to the gods to request advice and special favors, something that white birds have long done in folklore throughout the world.
koohiiStory1: Ancient Rome had Emperors instead of Kings, and they wore white robes. Thus an emperor is a king in white. (make sure you picture a roman emperor not a japanese one and you´ll be ok).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、オウ
readingExamples: 皇帝 (こうてい), 皇室 (こうしつ), 皇后 (こうごう)
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koohiiStory2: The white dove descended on the king and he was promoted to emperor.
words: 皇居(こうきょ): Imperial Palace
天皇(すめらぎ): Emperor of Japan
天皇(てんのう): Emperor of Japan

keyword: показать, предложить
kanji: 呈
constituent: display, mouth, king, jewel, ball
myStory: король раскрыл рот от предложенных угощений
heisigStory: The trick to remembering this character lies in associating the key word with the line from the nursery rhyme about 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie: "Wasn't this a dainty dish to set before the king?" If we think of display in terms of that famous line, and the king with his head thrown back and his mouth wide open as 4 and 20 blackbirds fly in one after the other, we shall have satisfied both the elements and their position.
koohiiStory1: The mouth of the king is displaying his bling.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: What a pathetic display! The king is sprawled on his throne, head back and mouth wide open, fast asleep. We should never have let him drink so much at that banquet last night.
words: 進呈(しんてい): presentation

keyword: пробка [бутылочная]
kanji: 栓
constituent: plug, tree, wood, whole, umbrella, king, jewel, ball
myStory: дерево может полностью перекрыть дорогу, как пробка
heisigStory: Here we think of plug in the sense of a cork or stopper used to seal the mouth of a bottle, water faucet, or something with liquid running out of it. Forgetting the abstract picture of the former frame, let us work with all the primitive units: tree . . . umbrella . . . ball. Imagine a tree with a faucet in the side out of which tennis balls are flowing, bouncing all over the ground by the hundreds. You fight your way up to it and shove your giant beach umbrella into the tree to plug it up.
koohiiStory1: The fat king under his umbrella offers useless advice to the workers. "You´ll need the whole tree to plug that gap". Imagine a grossly fat, incompetent king under a parasol giving annoying advice to sweating workers who know what they´re doing. (I always have trouble bringing up the "whole" primitive. This story reminds me how to build that part. ).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
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koohiiStory2: To plug the hole, you need to use a whole piece of wood - like a cork or something.
words: 栓(せん): stopper, cork

keyword: чугун
kanji: 銑
constituent: pig-iron, metal, gold, before, cow, human legs
myStory: металл перед обработкой - это чугун
heisigStory: Pig iron refers to iron in the crude form in which it emerges from the smelting furnaces. Of all the various forms metal can take, this one shows us metal before it has been refined. Imagine two photographs labeled "before" and "after" to show the process.
koohiiStory1: Pig iron is basic/crude metal, that is, before it has been processed.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
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koohiiStory2: Pig-iron is crude metal (金) before (先) it is refined. If you have trouble with this character, envision a big minotaur (cow head with human legs) as a blacksmith, smelting metals and making swords for war.

keyword: миска, чаша
kanji: 鉢
constituent: bowl, metal, gold, origin, book, tree, wood, one
myStory: металлы и книги - алхимик смешивает их в чаше, пытаясь получить золото
heisigStory: Let bowl suggest a large and heavy golden bowl into which you are throwing all the books you own to mash them into pulp, for some outrageous reason you will have to think up yourself.
koohiiStory1: This is the BOWL of an alchemist: see how he mixes metals in his bowl, as he follows the instructions from his book?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハチ、ハツ
readingExamples: 鉢 (はち), 植木鉢 (うえきばち)
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koohiiStory2: If I was begging with a BOWL, I would want GOLD and BOOKS.
words: 鉢(はち): bowl, pot, basin

keyword: рыбалка (как спорт)
kanji: 釣
constituent: angling, metal, gold, ladle, bound up, drop
myStory: ловить рыбку металлическим ковшом
heisigStory: The character we learned for fishing (Frame 184) refers to the professional, net-casting industry, while the angling of this character refers to the sport. The odd thing is that your angling rod is a golden ladle which you are using to scoop goldfish out of a river.
koohiiStory1: All the people that go to the Japanese festivals to catch fish part time are suckers. Me? I´m a pro. I bring a big-ass golden ladle. I´m a true ANGLING professional.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: つ.る、つ.り、つ.り-
readingExamples: 釣る (つ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine an effeminate Roman 2000 years ago angling with a golden ladle instead of a rod because it matches his eyes and hair better and it impresses the boys. (Why a Roman? Because ´angling´ is just the roman-derived way to say ´fishing´ - use this to distinguish fishing from angling.).
words: 釣り(つり): fishing, angling
釣鐘(つりがね): hanging bell
釣(つり): change (e.g. for a dollar)
釣(つり): fishing
釣り合う(つりあう): balance, be in harmony, suit
釣る(つる): to fish

keyword: надпись
kanji: 銘
constituent: inscription, metal, gold, name, evening, mouth
myStory: имя на металле - надпись на мече
heisigStory: Take inscription in the sense of the name you ask the jeweler to carve on a gold bracelet or inside a gold ring to identify its owner or communicate some sentimental message. It will help if you can recall the first time you had this done and the feelings you had at the time.
koohiiStory1: A piece of metal with a name on it. Well, this is basically the definition of inscription.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: メイ
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koohiiStory2: I imagine ancient Egyptian inscriptions: Pharaohs´ names written in gold.
words: 銘々(めいめい): each, individual

keyword: успокаивать
kanji: 鎮
constituent: tranquilize, metal, gold, true, truth, ten, needle, eye, tool, animal legs, eight
myStory: золото успокаивает правду
heisigStory: The first lie-detector machines of the twentieth century worked by wiring pieces of metal to the body to measure the amount of sweat produced when questions were asked. It was discovered that nervousness produced more sweat, indicating subconscious reactions when the truth was getting too close for comfort. Nowadays, people can take drugs that tranquillize them in such a way as to neutralize the effect of the device, which is why other means have had to be developed.
koohiiStory1: Tranquilize - using a metal syringe to get the truth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チン
kunYomi: しず.める、しず.まる、おさえ
readingExamples: 鎮まる (しず.まる), 鎮める (しず.める)
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koohiiStory2: Enough gold can tranquilize the truth in anyone.

keyword: пересечение, перекресток
kanji: 辻
constituent: crossing, cross, ten, needle, road
myStory: пересечение дорог
heisigStory: Take the first two strokes in the sense we gave them back in frame 10, as the pictograph of a cross, and set it on a road to create a "crossing."
koohiiStory1: Cross-road.
jouYou: Names
kunYomi: つじ
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koohiiStory2: This kanji appears in the remarkable compound, 辻斬り 【つじぎり】 (n): killing a passerby in order to test a new sword. Imagine a cross by the road, at a busy crossing, marking the spot of the unfortunate passerby´s death.
words: 辻褄(つじつま): coherence, consistency

keyword: быстро, быстрый
kanji: 迅
constituent: swift, fishhook, cross, ten, needle, road
myStory: полицейские поймали машину, слишком быстро пересекающую перекресток
heisigStory: Here we see a crossing in the form of a barbed fishhook, suggesting a swifter alternate not only to the roundabouts used in Europe but also to the "cloverleaf" design used on superhighways in the United States.
koohiiStory1: The car went too swiftly through the crossing and was hooked by the cops.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン
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koohiiStory2: In the Heisig version of Frogger, you can image ten giant fish hooks sweeping across the road, with our hapless hero ´froggy´ forced to make a swift crossing or end up as fish bait.
words: 迅速(じんそく): quick, fast, rapid, swift, prompt

keyword: побуждать, побуждение
kanji: 迫
constituent: urge, white, dove, road
myStory: Снежная (белая) дорога принуждает дорожников разгрести снег
heisigStory: To urge someone to do something, you make the way as appealing as possible, perhaps even whitewashing it a bit.
koohiiStory1: When you have the URGE to go to White Castle, you know it´s time to hit the road.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハク
kunYomi: せま.る
readingExamples: 迫る (せま.る)
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koohiiStory2: When you start down the road of cocaine, you´re sure to feel some pretty bad URGEs soon.
words: 圧迫(あっぱく): pressure, coercion, oppression
脅迫(きょうはく): threat, menace, coercion, terrorism
迫害(はくがい): persecution
迫る(せまる): draw near, press

keyword: патруль, патрулировать
kanji: 巡
constituent: patrol, deluge, stream, flood, road
heisigStory: A virtual flood of motorcycle police washing down a road is this kanji's image for a patrol.
koohiiStory1: The cops don´t PATROL anymore - they just flood the road.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
kunYomi: めぐ.る、めぐ.り
readingExamples: 巡る (めぐ.る)
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koohiiStory2: The Venice cops patrol on river roads.
words: お巡りさん(おまわりさん): policeman (friendly term)
巡査(じゅんさ): police, policeman
巡る(めぐる): go around

keyword: колея
kanji: 軌
constituent: rut, car, nine, baseball
myStory: девять человек вытащат машину из колеи
heisigStory: Combine the primary and secondary meanings of this keyword to form your story. Begin with the car whose tires get caught in a rut and spin without going anywhere. Then go onto the baseball team who can't win a game because it has fallen into a rut of losing.
koohiiStory1: My car got so stuck in a rut it required nine people pushing to get it out again.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
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koohiiStory2: I got my car stuck in a rut ! I´m gonna have to call 999 !
words: 軌道(きどう): orbit, railroad track

keyword: прут, ветка
kanji: 条
constituent: twig, walking legs, tree, wood
myStory: все говорят, что у них дерево между ног, а там всего лишь веточка
heisigStory: Geppetto made walking legs for his little Pinocchio from two twigs of a tree, giving him a set of "twiggy" shanks.
koohiiStory1: They all say they have a TREE between their WALKING LEGS but most only have a TWIG.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ、チョウ、デキ
kunYomi: えだ、すじ
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koohiiStory2: Don´t confuse with branch or bough - think of snapping twigs. A twig is always the kind of wood that snaps when the hunter´s walking legs just barely touch it, making a snapping sound that alerts the prey to the hunter´s presence.
words: 箇条書き(かじょうがき): itemized form, itemization
条約(じょうやく): treaty, pact
発条(ばね): spring (e.g. coil leaf)
条件(じょうけん): conditions, terms

keyword: излишний, ненужный
kanji: 冗
constituent: superfluous, crown, weathercock, wind
myStory: сильный (королевский) ветер абсолютно не нужен, когда едешь на велосипеде
heisigStory: Picture a weather vane beneath a regal crown, spinning round and round. It is not only superfluous but makes a perfect ass out of the one who wears it.
koohiiStory1: The king´s crown was blown off by the wind. "Oh well," he said, "it´s just a superfluous symbol.".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
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koohiiStory2: The court jester wears a crown and is full of wind with bad jokes. He is superfluous to the King´s court. This kanji is read as "JOU" and commonly used to create the compound for jou-dan 冗談 (jest or joke) hence court jester. Also jou-go 冗語 (redundancy) and jou-in 冗員 (useless workers) 員-employee (#56).
words: 冗談(じょうだん): jest, joke

keyword: светимость, сияние
kanji: 輝
constituent: radiance, ray, small, little, human legs, army, chariot, crown, vehicle, car
myStory: колесница сияет под лучами
heisigStory: Take advantage of the first syllable of the key word to think of the ray of light to the left. Now add the glittering chariot that is emitting those rays and you have radiance.
koohiiStory1: Rays of light emitted from Apollo´s chariot = radiance. Don´t put the sun into this kanji. The rays are coming from the chariot directly!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: かがや.く
readingExamples: 輝く (かがや.く)
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koohiiStory2: Radiance is an army of rays.
words: 輝く(かがやく): shine, glitter, sparkle

keyword: корона
kanji: 冠
constituent: crown, beginning, two, human legs, glue
myStory: с самого начала короли приклеены к короне
heisigStory: By having the crown pass from one age to the next, a people keeps itself glued to its beginnings.
koohiiStory1: Remember the SUPERFLUOUS CROWN that flew away in the WIND? Well now the king is saying "i should have had the thing GLUED to my head from the BEGINNING".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: かんむり
readingExamples: 冠 (かんむり)
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koohiiStory2: A crown, from the beginning of the new king´s life, is glued to him. He must inherit it.
words: 冠(かん): crown, diadem, first, best, peerless, cap, naming, designating, initiating on coming of age, top character radical
冠(かんむり): crown, cap, first, best, peerless, naming, designating, top kanji radical

keyword: яма, дыра
kanji: 坑
constituent: pit, soil, dirt, ground, whirlwind, top hat, wind
myStory: ветер выдул дыру в земле (яму)
heisigStory: A whirlwind begins to dig its way into the soil like a drill until it makes a deep pit.
koohiiStory1: A whirlwind digs a hole in the ground throwing out lots of dirt until it ends up with a giant pit.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: Tazmanian Devil whirlwinds a pit into the soil. Note: Take care difference between pit and rut.

keyword: получать, наслаждаться, брать
kanji: 享
constituent: receive, tall, top hat, mouth, children
myStory: высокие дети получает больше всего внимания и наслаждаются этим
heisigStory: Tall children receive more attention. Tall children grow up to make better wide receivers. Take your pick, depending on whether you prefer child psychology or American football. At any rate, be sure you have some particular tall child in mind, someone who really was outstanding and always attracting attention, because he or she will come in handy in the next two frames.
koohiiStory1: In basketball however, tall children receive all the attention.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、コウ
kunYomi: う.ける
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koohiiStory2: Tall children receive all the attention. They also make great receivers in football... this kanji also means ´catch´ (therefore a football receiver is a great image).
words: 享受(きょうじゅ): reception, acceptance, enjoyment, being given

keyword: школа экстерна
kanji: 塾
constituent: cram school, receive, tall, top hat, mouth, child, children, round, nine, baseball, drop, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: в современном образовании только в дополнительной школе ты получишь информацию, что Земля - круглая
heisigStory: Cram schools are after-hours educational institutions where kids can do concentrated preparing for their coming entrance examinations or drill what they missed during regular class hours. The exception are the tall children who are out on the school grounds practicing sports, and the fat ones who are out there burning off calories. So this character depicts those who do NOT go to the cram schools, rather than those who do.
koohiiStory1: Welcome to our cram school: you will receive a rounded education on our grounds.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュク
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koohiiStory2: You can receive a well-rounded education if you study at our cram school says the advertisement. "Just come to our school grounds and check it out yourself!".
words: 塾(じゅく): coaching school, lessons

keyword: созревать, зрелый
kanji: 熟
constituent: mellow, receive, tall, top hat, mouth, child, children, round, nine, baseball, drop, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: получи-ка зрелый апельсин!
heisigStory: The tall and fat children from the last frame are here cast into a cauldron over an oven flame until they have sufficiently mellowed that they can return to the normal life of a student.
koohiiStory1: Imagine tall children sitting round the fire toasting marsh-mellows.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュク
kunYomi: う.れる
readingExamples: 熟れる (う.れる)
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koohiiStory2: The cram school (309) tortures its students - especially the tall and fat ones who need to grow up - over a fire until they mellow. (Note that here the keyword ´mellow´ only means to mature, ripen, or acquire skill; not the colloquial meaning of ´chill out´).
words: 成熟(せいじゅく): maturity, ripeness
未熟(みじゅく): inexperience, unripeness, raw, unskilled, immature, inexperienced
熟語(じゅくご): idiom, idiomatic phrase, kanji compound

keyword: павильон, ресторан
kanji: 亭
constituent: pavilion, tall, top hat, mouth, crown, street, nail, spike
myStory: высочайшее здание на королевской улице - павильон
heisigStory: Think of all the pavilions at County Fairs or World Expos you have wandered into or seen advertised in the media, and you will no doubt see rising up among them the towering tall crowned nail (the crown being a revolving restaurant) - that architectural monstrosity that has become a symbol of science and technology at such events.
koohiiStory1: The Pavillion on crown street is the tallest I have ever seen.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ、チン
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koohiiStory2: The tallest Pavilion crowns the street.

keyword: кит
kanji: 鯨
constituent: whale, fish, bound up, rice field, brains, oven-fire, barbecue, capital, tall, top hat, mouth, small, little
myStory: столичная рыба - это кит
heisigStory: The whale swallows a whole school of fish, who turn their new abode into a proper little fish-capital.
koohiiStory1: If fish were cities, the whale would surely be the capital.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲイ
kunYomi: くじら
readingExamples: 鯨 (くじら)
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koohiiStory2: When the whale was first discovered it was the biggest fish people had ever seen. Stories exaggerated its size - people said it was as big as the entire capital city!
words: 捕鯨(ほげい): whaling, whale fishing

keyword: коттедж, хижина
kanji: 舎
constituent: cottage, umbrella, earthenware jar, lidded crock, soil, dirt, ground, mouth
myStory: хижина - это земля под зонтом, и места всего на один рот
heisigStory: A lidded crock with an umbrella overhead gives us a mixture of the modern and the nostalgic in this design for a cottage.
koohiiStory1: The cottage is so small - it has an umbrella for the roof; soil for the floor and room for only one mouth.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ、セキ
kunYomi: やど.る
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koohiiStory2: My vacation cottage is nothing but a hole in the ground covered by an umbrella.
words: 校舎(こうしゃ): school building
田舎(いなか): the country, country side

keyword: джентльмен, самурай (п: самурай)
kanji: 士
constituent: gentleman, gentleman, samurai
myStory: нуууу запомни просто
heisigStory: The shape of this kanji, slightly differing from that for soil by virtue of its shorter final stroke, hints at a broad-shouldered, slender-waisted warrior standing at attention. When feudalism collapsed, these warriors became Japan's gentlemen.
heisigComment: * The primitive meaning reverts to the more colorful image of the samurai, Japan's warrior class.
koohiiStory1: What a handsome gentleman. Standing up so straight, and broad shoulders too!! He´s like a modern samurai!
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
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koohiiStory2: A gentleman has broad shoulders and doesn´t soil himself.
words: 学士(がくし): university graduate
修士(しゅうし): Masters degree program
紳士(しんし): gentleman
同士(どうし): fellow, companion, comrade
兵士(へいし): soldier
博士(はかせ): doctorate, PhD
武士(ぶし): warrior, samurai

keyword: удачи! (п: аэрозольный баллон)
kanji: 吉
constituent: good luck, samurai, mouth
myStory: самурай пожелает другому удачи, всегда
heisigStory: Here we see a samurai standing on a street with an open mouth, which people walk up to and look down deep inside of for good luck.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, we shall take this shape to mean an aerosol can, from the mouth and the very tightly-fitting lid (note how it differs here from the lidded crock).
koohiiStory1: The samurai´s wife gives him a (uhum) before battle for good luck.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キチ、キツ
kunYomi: よし
readingExamples: 吉日 (きちじつ), 吉例 (きちれい), 大吉 (だいきち)
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koohiiStory2: A true samurai gentleman will always mouth, "Good luck" to his opponents before a match.
words: 不吉(ふきつ): ominous, sinister, bad luck, ill omen, inauspiciousness

keyword: крепкий, мужественный
kanji: 壮
constituent: robust, turtle, samurai
myStory: крепкий, как черепаха, мужественный, как самурай
heisigStory: Robust is seen as a turtle turned samurai.
koohiiStory1: Half of a turtle shell as a shield makes a samurai more robust.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: さかん
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koohiiStory2: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are robust gentlemen aren´t they?
words: 壮大(そうだい): magnificent, grand, majestic, splendid

keyword: вилла, гостиница
kanji: 荘
constituent: villa, flowers, robust, turtle, samurai
myStory: мужественные цветы растут на вилле мужественного римлянина
heisigStory: The villa pictured here is filled with exotic flowers at every turn, and has a pair of turtle-samurai standing before its gates.
koohiiStory1: A villa is fancier (decorated with flowers) and more robust than the average.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ、ショウ、チャン
kunYomi: ほうき、おごそ.か
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koohiiStory2: The teenage mutant samurai turtles live in a villa with flowers on the roof so that the neighbours don´t get suspicious.
words: 別荘(べっそう): holiday house, villa

keyword: гавань, порт
kanji: 津
constituent: haven, water, water droplets, water pistol, brush
myStory: вода для кисти - гавань, иначе засохнет
heisigStory: Seeing the tiny boats of poor mortals tossed about in a stormy sea like so many corks, the All-Merciful took its brush and drew little inlets of water where the hapless creatures might seek shelter. And so it is that we have havens.
koohiiStory1: A brush laying in dirty water is a haven for bacteria.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: つ
readingExamples: 津 (つ)
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koohiiStory2: The haven for a BRUSH is in WATER.. Otherwise they get dry and withered and cant be used?!
words: 津波(つなみ): tsunami, tidal wave

keyword: разводить, ухаживать
kanji: 牧
constituent: breed, cow, taskmaster
myStory: беги от быка, когда он страждет разводиться!
heisigStory: When it is time to breed new cattle, the bull is usually willing but the cow is often not. Thus the taskmaster to the right forces the cow into a compromising position, so to speak, so that she and her mate can breed.
koohiiStory1: Imagine a taskmaster giving a cow the command to "start breeding, and start doing it now!", except that the cow takes his advice a bit too literally and starts chasing the taskmaster to carry out this command! instead of finding another cow to breed with. Hence, you see the taskmaster running to the right, trying to stay ahead of the cow.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク
kunYomi: まき
readingExamples: 牧 (まき)
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koohiiStory2: Hint: This is the kanji from which taskmaster is derived. Actually, this kanji has nothing to do with breed, and a lot to do with pastures and shepherds (also for cowboys, japanese and spanish don´t differenciate between animals). Think of a cowboy (taskmaster) who brings his cows to the pasture.
words: 牧師(ぼくし): pastor, minister, clergyman
遊牧(ゆうぼく): nomadism
牧場(ぼくじょう): farm (livestock), pasture land, meadow, grazing land
牧畜(ぼくちく): stock-farming

keyword: агрессия
kanji: 攻
constituent: aggression, craft, taskmaster
myStory: надсмотрщик изготавливает агрессию из самого себя
heisigStory: The special craft of successful taskmasters is their ability to remain constantly on the aggressive, never allowing their underlings a moment to ponder a counter-aggression of their own.
koohiiStory1: Aggression is the craft of a good dominatrix.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: せ.める
readingExamples: 攻める (せ.める)
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koohiiStory2: AGGRESSION is a well-honed craft for any decent taskmaster.
words: 攻め(せめ): attack, offence
攻撃(こうげき): attack, strike, offensive, criticism, censure
攻める(せめる): attack, assault
専攻(せんこう): major subject, special study

keyword: случайность
kanji: 故
constituent: happenstance, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth, taskmaster
myStory: старый надсмотрщик не допускает случайностей
heisigStory: Call it fate or providence or plain old Lady Luck, happenstance is the oldest taskmaster we know. It nearly always has its way.
koohiiStory1: An OLD TASKMASTER is no happenstance (coincidence). The older you get the more rigid in your ways.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: ゆえ、ふる.い、もと
readingExamples: 故 (ゆえ)
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koohiiStory2: Need to disambiguate from enemy (#443) as it´s easy to mix up antique and old here. Let´s think of an accidental president -- he is an old taskmaster who has managed to win the election by happenstance .
words: 故(こ): the late (deceased)
故人(こじん): the deceased, old friend
其れ故(それゆえ): therefore, for that reason, so
何故(なぜ): why, how
故郷(こきょう): home town, birthplace, old or historic village
故障(こしょう): breakdown
事故(じこ): accident

keyword: тюрьма
kanji: 獄
constituent: prison, pack of wild dogs, say, words, keitai, mouth, chihuahua, dog, large, drop
myStory: собаки, везде собаки и крики - тюрьма
heisigStory: Although we did not make note of it at the time, the kanji for dog is also a low-grade term for a spy. And later (Frame 1517) we will meet another association of criminals with dogs. The prison here depicts a pack of wild dogs (the long-timers and hardened criminals) into which the poor little chihuahua (first offender) has been cast. The only thing he has to protect himself against the pack are his shrill and frightened words.
koohiiStory1: The wild dog family visits their cousin in prison. They exchange words over the interphone at the visiting booth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴク
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koohiiStory2: The only thing keeping the new chihuahua inmate from being ´initiated´ by the pack of wild dogs were his quick words in prison.
words: 地獄(じごく): hell

keyword: пересматривать, исправлять
kanji: 訂
constituent: revise, say, words, keitai, mouth, street, nail, spike
myStory: на улице следи за своими словами. если что, пересматривай и исправляй их
heisigStory: After completing the first draft, you revise it by nailing down your words and "hammering" them into shape.
koohiiStory1: Revise, revise and revise until you have all the words nailed down.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: Remember how Martin Luther revised the words of the catholic church and nailed his 95 Theses at the door of the church in Wittenberg?
words: 改訂(かいてい): revision
訂正(ていせい): correction, revision

keyword: наказывать
kanji: 討
constituent: chastise, say, words, keitai, mouth, glue
myStory: слова прилипли - брань на заборе не виснет - наказание следом за бранью
heisigStory: Words spoken to chastise us stick to us like glue in a way no other words can.
koohiiStory1: I said some bad words, and my mother chastised me by washing my mouth out with glue instead of soap!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: う.つ
readingExamples: 討つ (う.つ)
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koohiiStory2: In Colonial New England, people who committed adultery had words glued to them. A famous example is the "A" worn by Hester Prynn for committing adultery (i.e., not being chaste). In this way, words glued to you are supposed to chastise you and prevent further breaches of chastity.
words: 討議(とうぎ): debate, discussion
討論(とうろん): debate, discussion
討つ(うつ): attack, avenge
検討(けんとう): consideration, examination, investigation, study, scrutiny

keyword: императорский указ
kanji: 詔
constituent: imperial edict, say, words, keitai, mouth, summon, seduce, sword, dagger, mouth, mouth2
myStory: 1. Императору не нужен был имперский эдикт, чтобы соблазнить Энакина темной стороной
2. соблазнительная женщина соблазняет массы имперским эдиктом
heisigStory: The imperial edict, spoken with the force of unquestionable law, is made up of words intended to seduce the masses - be it through fear or respect - to follow obediently.
koohiiStory1: The mnemonic "words to seduce the masses" was just too vague and I kept forgetting it. So now instead I picture a seductive female reading aloud the imperial edict to the masses, thus "seducing" the masses.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: みことのり
readingExamples: 詔 (みことのり)
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koohiiStory2: The emperor did not need an imperial edict; his words were more than enough to seduce Anakin to the dark side.

keyword: декламация
kanji: 詠
constituent: recitation, say, words, keitai, mouth, eternity, drop, water
myStory: слова, которые живут вечность, легко продекламировать
heisigStory: Listening to the words of poets reciting their poetry is like being transported for a moment into eternity where the rules of everyday life have been suspended.
koohiiStory1: Listening to the words in a recitation of Vogon poetry is worse than spending an eternity in hell. [Note: I assume those 2 reports are to warn against possible confusion with poem (#346) but how can you confuse Vogon poetry with an actual poem? Anyway, it´s the next frame, so it should be easy to keep them straight... Or maybe there´s a kanji for Vogon in RTK3?].
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エイ
kunYomi: よ.む、うた.う
readingExamples: 詠む (よ.む)
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koohiiStory2: If you study some words for a recitation, there is a good chance they will be stuck in your memory for all eternity.

keyword: поэма
kanji: 詩
constituent: poem, say, words, keitai, mouth, Buddhist temple, soil, dirt, ground, glue
myStory: В буддистком храме молчание очень ценится, поэтому, если решил что-то сказать, скажи в форме... поэмы?
heisigStory: Since silence is treasured so highly at a Buddhist temple the words spoken there must be well-chosen. Perhaps this is why the records of the monks often read to us like poems. Before going on, back up a frame and make sure you have kept poem and recitation distinct in your mind.
koohiiStory1: A poem is a temple of words.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: うた
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koohiiStory2: WORDS used in a TEMPLE must be very well chosen. That´s why most people will speak using a poem if they are SAYING something in a TEMPLE.
words: 詩(し): poem, verse of poetry
詩人(しじん): poet

keyword: согласие
kanji: 諾
constituent: consent, say, words, keitai, mouth, young, flowers, by one’s side, mouth, mouth2
myStory: слова молодых мало значат без согласия родителей
heisigStory: The words of the young do not have legal validity unless backed up by "parental consent."
koohiiStory1: The words of the very young are useless without CONSENT from their elders.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダク
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koohiiStory2: Delores might say, "Yes!", but she´s way too young give any legal consent.
words: 承諾(しょうだく): consent, acquiescence, agreement

keyword: упрек
kanji: 諭
constituent: rebuke, say, words, keitai, mouth, meeting of butchers, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: слова к мяснику - упрек от зооактивиста
heisigStory: The stern tone of a rebuke is seen here in the image of words spoken at a meeting of butchers (See frame 307) waving their choppers at one another and "cutting one another down" as only butchers can.
koohiiStory1: A PETA activist speaks at a meeting of butchers to rebuke them.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユ
kunYomi: さと.す
readingExamples: 諭す (さと.す)
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koohiiStory2: I imagine Socrates gate-crashing a meeting of butchers and REBUKING them: ´You´ve been killing things again; you have, haven´t you?´ while the embarrassed butchers blush and try to hide their knives behind their backs and stand in front of hanging sides of beef.

keyword: 2 (старое канжи)
kanji: 弐
constituent: II, two, arrows, quiver
myStory: две стрелы осталось в колчане
heisigStory: We use the Roman numeral II here to stress that this kanji is an older form of the kanji for two. Think of two arrows in a quiver, standing up like the numeral II.
koohiiStory1: II (older form of writing 2). After shooting one arrow (the dash top left), I have 2 arrows left in my quiver (bottom left).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ニ、ジ
kunYomi: ふた.つ、そえ
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koohiiStory2: Once you have two old arrows left in your quiver, you better start running...!

keyword: грабитель, повстанец, предатель
kanji: 賊
constituent: burglar, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, ten, needle, fiesta
myStory: на фиесте грабитель своровал деньги, используя иглу (отмычку)
heisigStory: From a burglar's point of view, a fiesta is an occasion to takeout the old lock picking needle and break into the unattended safe filled with the family shells (the old form of money, as we saw in frames 84 and 206).
koohiiStory1: Burglars... those guys!!! Burglars only want money (clams) so that they can get needles (drugs) and party (fiesta)!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゾク
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koohiiStory2: After the fiesta, we found out that some burglar had stolen our money, probably breaking in with a lockpick needle...

keyword: плантация, посадка
kanji: 栽
constituent: plantation, Thanksgiving, harvest festival, ten, needle, fiesta, tree, wood
myStory: деревья на земле - их нужно охранять копьем
heisigStory: On a fruit plantation it is the trees that one is particularly grateful for at the time of Thanksgiving. Imagine yourself inviting a few representative trees from the fields and orchards to join you around the table to give thanks.
koohiiStory1: The plantation is where we get our Christmas trees. We pick them out at Thanksgiving to be sure we get a good one.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
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koohiiStory2: During Thanksgiving, all the trees on the plantation celebrate the harvest. It´s a good time for them, too.
words: 栽培(さいばい): cultivation

keyword: класть (на что-то), поднимать, загружать
kanji: 載
constituent: load, Thanksgiving, harvest festival, ten, needle, fiesta, car, vehicle
heisigStory: One loads bales on a wagon or cart in preparation for the great Hay Ride that follows the Thanksgiving dinner each year.
koohiiStory1: After eating a big Thanksgiving dinner, you have to be careful in the car ride home not to drop a load in your pants.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: の.せる、の.る
readingExamples: 載せる (の.せる), 載る (の.る)
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koohiiStory2: After ´Thanksgiving´ dinner, my girlfriend gave me a BJ on the drive back home. I blew my ´load´ and ´soiled´ the ´car´. But it was LOADS of fun! Please report this story if this makes you feel uncomfortable :).
words: 記載(きさい): mention, entry
掲載(けいさい): appearance (e.g. article in paper)
載せる(のせる): to place on (something), to take on board, to give a ride, to let (one) take part, to impose on, to record, to mention, to load (luggage), to publish, to run (an ad)
載る(のる): get on, ride in, board, mount, get up on, be taken in, share in, join, be found in (a dictionary), feel like doing, be mentioned in, be in harmony with, appear (in print), be recorded

keyword: заросший
kanji: 茂
constituent: overgrown, flowers, parade
myStory: парад цветов, праздник цветов
heisigStory: The sense of the key word overgrown is of something growing luxuriously, though not necessarily in excess - in this case a whole parade of weeds (outcast flowers). By way of exception, the flowers take their normal place over the enclosure.
koohiiStory1: The gay parade looks astonishing, as if overgrown with flowers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モ
kunYomi: しげ.る
readingExamples: 茂る (しげ.る)
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koohiiStory2: When your garden gets OVERGROWN, it´s like the plants are mocking you. Here, you can see the roses actually parading around the yard, wilfully choking out the other, more docile plants. Then they actually go and parade down the street!
words: 茂る(しげる): grow thick, luxuriate, be luxurious

keyword: искренность
kanji: 誠
constituent: sincerity, say, words, keitai, mouth, turn into, sword, dagger, parade
myStory: Слова превращаются в действия - это искренность
heisigStory: The sure sign of sincerity is that one's mere words are turned into deeds.
koohiiStory1: Sincerity happens when what you say actually turns into something.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: まこと
readingExamples: 誠 (まこと)
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koohiiStory2: Sincerity is turning your words into actions.
words: 誠実(せいじつ): sincere, honest, faithful
誠(まこと): truth, faith, fidelity, sincerity, trust, confidence, reliance, devotion

keyword: запугивать
kanji: 威
constituent: intimidate, march, women, woman
myStory: Парад женщин, достойных того, чтобы их не запугивали на работе и вообще в жизни
heisigStory: Here we see a march of women demonstrating on behalf of equal rights, something extremely intimidating to the male chauvinist population.
koohiiStory1: The march of women - against intimidation in the workplace - is pretty intimidating in itself!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: おど.す、おど.し、おど.かす
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koohiiStory2: Interesting that this kanji also has the meanings of "dignity" and "threaten." I can see how a march of women in Japan would be seen as intimidating by most men.
words: 威力(いりょく): power, might, authority, influence
権威(けんい): authority, power, influence
威張る(いばる): swagger, be proud

keyword: уничтожать
kanji: 滅
constituent: destroy, water, water droplets, water pistol, march, fire
myStory: вода уничтожает парад огоньков
heisigStory: Picture a march of flames demonstrating against the Fire Department for their right to destroy, but being doused with water by the police riot squads.
koohiiStory1: Water flows down to destroy the march of fire.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: メツ
kunYomi: ほろ.びる、ほろ.ぶ、ほろ.ぼす
readingExamples: 滅びる (ほろ.びる), 滅ぼす (ほろ.ぼす)
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koohiiStory2: Use a water cannon to destroy a line of marching fire monsters. I keep mixing this one up with disaster (#167) and demolition (#400). Remember, you DESTROY monsters (think of the Godzilla movie "Destroy All Monsters!"). Fires and floods are natural DISASTERs. And DEMOLITION is something you carefully do while wearing protective garments. (vaguely based on stefanot´s balrog story).
words: 全滅(ぜんめつ): annihilation
滅びる(ほろびる): to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed
滅ぼす(ほろぼす): to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin
滅茶苦茶(めちゃくちゃ): absurd, unreasonable, excessive, messed up, spoiled, wreaked
滅亡(めつぼう): downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
絶滅(ぜつめつ): destruction, extinction
滅多に(めったに): rarely (with negative verb), seldom

keyword: строительные леса
kanji: 桟
constituent: scaffold, tree, wood, float, fiesta
myStory: на празднике из деревяшек нужно делать леса, чтобы поддерживать все эти украшения
heisigStory: Prior to the use of metal, trees were once cut down and bound together for use as scaffolding material. In the case of this kanji, what is being constructed is not a skyscraper but a simple float.
koohiiStory1: Japanese festival floats are often so tall they need wood scaffolds to be completed. (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5909.html).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン、セン
kunYomi: かけはし
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koohiiStory2: You need a SCAFFOLD made of WOOD to build a FLOAT if it will be several stories high.
words: 桟橋(さんきょう): wharf, bridge, jetty, pier

keyword: монета
kanji: 銭
constituent: coin, metal, gold, float, fiesta
myStory: на празднике больше всего металла в монетах
heisigStory: Those special gold-colored tokens minted each year for the Mardi Gras and thrown into the crowds from people on the floats give us the kanji for coins.
koohiiStory1: Political hopefuls in Rome threw gold COINS from floats when they were campaigning for office.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン、ゼン
kunYomi: ぜに、すき
readingExamples: 銭 (ぜに)
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koohiiStory2: Interesting fact: The Japanese one yen coin is the only coin in the world that can float on water. http://www.hanamiweb.com/floatingyen.jpg.
words: 小銭(こぜに): coins, small change
金銭(きんせん): money, cash

keyword: брод
kanji: 渉
constituent: ford, water, water droplets, water pistol, walk, stop, footprint, few
myStory: вода. ходить. должно запомниться само.
heisigStory: To ford a body of water means to walk across it.
koohiiStory1: The new Ford Jesus. It can do everything except WALK on WATER.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: わた.る
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koohiiStory2: A ford is a place where one can walk through the water, a place only a few footsteps deep.
words: 干渉(かんしょう): interference, intervention
交渉(こうしょう): negotiations, discussions, connection

keyword: повторно
kanji: 頻
constituent: repeatedly, walk, stop, footprint, few, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: постоянно приходится ходить за всякими бумажками
heisigStory: The image of something occurring repeatedly, over and over again, is of having one's head walked on.
koohiiStory1: I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head. I repeatedly walk around hoping this kanji will come into my head.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒン
kunYomi: しき.りに
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koohiiStory2: Are you familiar with the joke about the ditzy secretary who repeatedly walked back and forth forcibly over all the pages of her boss´ most important letters. When confronted she just says "Well you said they needed to be stamped before they´re mailed.".
words: 頻繁(ひんぱん): frequency

keyword: браться, предпринимать
kanji: 企
constituent: undertake, umbrella, stop, footprint
myStory: след ноги под зонтом - кто-то взялся за мокрое дело
heisigStory: To undertake a project is to take some idea floating in the air and stop it so that it can be brought down to earth and become a reality. Here we see some undertaking made to stop under a beach umbrella.
koohiiStory1: Mary Poppins floated down with her umbrella to undertake the job of stopping the children´s misbehaving.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: くわだ.てる、たくら.む
readingExamples: 企てる (くわだ.てる)
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koohiiStory2: The Undertaker is an evil WWE wrestler - he beat his opponent with an umbrella until he stopped moving.
words: 企画(きかく): planning, project
企業(きぎょう): enterprise, undertaking

keyword: сбор
kanji: 賦
constituent: levy, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, warrior, one, stop, footprint, arrow
myStory: воин взимает сбор, это всегда так
heisigStory: A certain portion of shells (money) is collected by the warrior from the local villages as he passes through to defray the costs of keeping the land safe, and this is called a levy.
koohiiStory1: A warrior stands guard at a bridge collecting shells as a levy for any who want to pass.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ、ブ
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koohiiStory2: Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And those good old warrior boys, drinking whiskey and rye, said pay up the clams or you´ll die. Pay up the clams or you´ll die....
words: 月賦(げっぷ): monthly installment

keyword: доказательство
kanji: 証
constituent: evidence, say, words, keitai, mouth, correct, one, ceiling, stop, footprint
myStory: слова должны быть правильными, чтобы выступать как доказательства
heisigStory: Words that testify to the correctness of some fact are classified as evidence. (Here we see a good example of how the more common primitive element takes the "strong" position to the left, even though it has more strokes.)
koohiiStory1: Your words must be absolutely correct if you plan to use them as evidence.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: あかし
readingExamples: 証 (あかし)
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koohiiStory2: If what you say is indeed correct, we could use use your testimony as evidence.
words: 証(あかし): proof, evidence
証言(しょうげん): evidence, testimony
証拠(しょうこ): evidence, proof
証人(しょうにん): witness
証明(しょうめい): proof, verification
保証(ほしょう): guarantee, security, assurance, pledge, warranty

keyword: замок, оковы, кандалы
kanji: 錠
constituent: lock, metal, gold, determine, determined, house, mend
myStory: металл, определяющий твою судьбу - замок
heisigStory: Metal of itself doesn't lock. It needs to be so determined by a locksmith. Now make a concrete image of that.
koohiiStory1: Even if you lock up your GOLD, a DETERMINED thief will get it in the end.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
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koohiiStory2: The best stories for this kanji tend to have a thief in them, which always makes me confuse them with the kanji for burglar (357). So, let´s try this one: My girlfriend wears a metal chastity belt with a lock but I am determined to open it! I must get inside!
words: 手錠(てじょう): handcuffs, manacles

keyword: продолжать
kanji: 赴
constituent: proceed, run, soil, dirt, ground, mend, magic wand, augury
myStory: волшебная палочка заставляет продолжать бежать
heisigStory: In proceeding to a new city or a new job, something in you runs ahead with excitement, and something else holds you back, like a divining rod built into your psyche warning you to check things out carefully before rushing in too wildly.
koohiiStory1: Don´t run into trouble, Dumbledore tells Harry. "Proceed with caution with your wand out.".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: おもむ.く
readingExamples: 赴く (おもむ.く)
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koohiiStory2: While running, my magic wand tells me where to proceed.
words: 赴く(おもむく): to go, to proceed, to repair to, to become
赴任(ふにん): (proceeding to) new appointment

keyword: именно так
kanji: 是
constituent: just so, sun, day, mend
myStory: целый день чинил что-то, чтобы в итоге воскликнуть: "Именно так!"
heisigStory: In this kanji we are shown someone spending an entire day at mending one stocking, because they want the job done "just so." Be sure to make a clear image of a finicky old fusspot to make the abstract idea as concrete as possible.
koohiiStory1: ´Sun´ ´Mend´ - It just so happens that sunshine can mend your gloomy spirits.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼ、シ
kunYomi: これ、この、ここ
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koohiiStory2: My image here is of Fabrice (the guy who runs this website) spending all day obsessively mending the code so this page looks just so....
words: 是正(ぜせい): correction, revision
是非とも(ぜひとも): by all means (with sense of not taking "no" for an answer)
是非(ぜひ): certainly, without fail

keyword: дамба
kanji: 堤
constituent: dike, soil, dirt, ground, just so, sun, day, mend
myStory: дамбу нельзя делать просто так, нужно насыпать землю именно так!
heisigStory: A dike is a successful bit of engineering only if the amount of earth piled up is measured just so for the height and pressure of the water it is meant to contain.
koohiiStory1: Making a dike is all about arranging the soil just so....
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: つつみ
readingExamples: 堤 (つつみ)
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koohiiStory2: The little Dutch boy has his finger stuck in the dike, and that´s the only thing keeping his town from going under. He really really needs to go to the bathroom though, so he devises a plan to carefully add a bit of dirt - there, place individual bits in just so - there, I think it´s good enough. Pull it out -----yes! Success!
words: 堤防(ていぼう): bank, weir

keyword: рождение
kanji: 誕
constituent: nativity, say, words, keitai, mouth, prolonged, drop, stop, footprint, stretch
myStory: слова мамы продлеваются в момент рождения ребенка (АААААА КААААК БОООООЛЬНООООО)
heisigStory: The key word of course calls to mind the feast of Christmas. As the famous poem at the start of St. John's gospel tells us, the nativity we celebrate at Christmas had its origins at the very start of time and governs all of human history: it represents the prolongation of the eternal Word in time and space.
koohiiStory1: Nativity = born, being born. Think of birth as a painful and prolonged event. And of course, all the words and curses being yelled at the soon-to-be father for doing this to her!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
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koohiiStory2: When you are being born ( nativity ), your mother´s WORDS are PROLONGED. (Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis huuuuuuuuuuuuuurtss a lottttttttt~!! Owwwwwww!!!).
words: 誕生(たんじょう): birth
誕生日(たんじょうび): birthday

keyword: краеугольный камень
kanji: 礎
constituent: cornerstone, stone, rock, grove, tree, wood, zoo, critters, tree2, wood2
myStory: камень в фундамент избы, которую постоянно надо чинить
heisigStory: This character depicts a cornerstone as a stone set at the end of a wildlife preserve (the "zoo in the grove").
koohiiStory1: Features like stones and groves of trees are the cornerstones of a happy zoo.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: いしずえ
readingExamples: 礎 (いしずえ)
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koohiiStory2: A zoo which is still under construction is already full of animals. At the moment, only the cornerstone has been set in place. To temporarily keep the animals from escaping, a closely-packed grove of small trees is planted around the stone. (Note that this zoo needs some serious mending.).
words: 基礎(きそ): foundation, basis

keyword: жених
kanji: 婿
constituent: bridegroom, woman, zoo, critters, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: женщина чинит тело жениха (опустим подробности)
heisigStory: What makes a man a bridegroom is obviously a woman and her dowry, here presented as a small zoo (animals were often used for this purpose in earlier societies) and a month away from it all (the "honeymoon").
koohiiStory1: The virgin bridegroom tries to understand the new, mysterious part of his woman´s body - but with little success. It´s a zoo down there! (primitives placement: the part of the body is ´down there´ - the woman is ´left´ unsatisfied).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: むこ
readingExamples: 婿 (むこ)
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koohiiStory2: The only reason anyone talks about a bridegroom is if they´re about to or have just gotten married. Of course, then you have to go on your honeymoon. So you take your woman to the zoo for a month. Pretty cool honeymoon.
words: 婿(むこ): son-in-law

keyword: портной
kanji: 裁
constituent: tailor, Thanksgiving, harvest festival, ten, needle, fiesta, top hat, scarf, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: на празник урожая нужно много нарядов: портному есть чем заняться
heisigStory: You might think here of garment that have been specially tailored for Thanksgiving celebrations to look like traditional Pilgrim garb.
koohiiStory1: The tailor was hard at work making sure all the pilgrims were dressed in their best garments for thanksgiving.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: た.つ、さば.く
readingExamples: 裁く (さば.く), 裁つ (た.つ)
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koohiiStory2: The tailor worked hard after thanksgiving to alter garments so they´d fit people who´d eaten too much at their thanksgiving dinners.
words: 裁く(さばく): to judge
制裁(せいさい): restraint, sanctions, punishment
体裁(ていさい): decency, style, form, appearance, show, get-up, format
独裁(どくさい): dictatorship, despotism
裁判(さいばん): trial, judgement
裁縫(さいほう): sewing

keyword: разрушение
kanji: 壊
constituent: demolition, soil, dirt, ground, poltergeist, BernaE, ten, needle, eye, cross-eyed, net, top hat, scarf, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: иглы в глаза и одежда в пыли и земле - это потому что ты стоишь рядом с сносимым домом
heisigStory: The right half of this character shows a garment woven so fine that it can pass through the eye of a needle, fittingly draped around the slithering, ethereal form of a poltergeist. In this frame, our eerie visitor brushes its robes against a nearby block of apartments and completely demolishes them, razing them to the ground.
koohiiStory1: If you stand too close to a DEMOLITION site, the dust might sting you like NEEDLES in your EYE and get your GARMENTs all dirty.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ、エ
kunYomi: こわ.す、こわ.れる、やぶ.る
readingExamples: 壊す (こわ.す), 壊れる (こわ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Since that needle eye thing turns up a lot, I turned it into Darth Vader. It kinda looks like him to me, with the eye being his metal mouth piece thing. So, Darth Vader swings his cape (his garment) demolishing a nearby building, leaving nothing but a pile of dirt.
words: 破壊(はかい): destruction
崩壊(ほうかい): collapse, decay (physics), crumbling, breaking down, caving in
壊す(こわす): break, destroy
壊れる(こわれる): be broken

keyword: жалкий
kanji: 哀
constituent: pathetic, top hat, scarf, mouth
myStory: высокий шарф - человек пытается согреться - выглядит жалко
heisigStory: A drunken sod in a tattered top hat and soiled silk scarf with a giant mouth guzzling something or other gives us a pathetic character role in which W. C. Fields might find himself right at home.
koohiiStory1: One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so that you can´t see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it´s cool. I think it´s pathetic.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: アイ
kunYomi: あわ.れ、あわ.れむ、かな.しい
readingExamples: 哀れ (あわ.れ), 哀れむ (あわ.れむ)
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koohiiStory2: A poor, homeless child like Oliver Twist, with a hungry open mouth, is pathetic-- in the original sense of the noun "pathos." The tattered tophat and scarf he wears only adds to the pathos.
words: 可哀想(かわいそう): poor, pitiable, pathetic
哀れ(あわれ): helpless, pathos, pity, sorrow, grief, misery, compassion

keyword: обезьяна
kanji: 猿
constituent: monkey, pack of wild dogs, earthenware jar, lidded crock, soil, dirt, ground, mouth, scarf
myStory: свора диких псов напала на плюющих на землю обезьян в шарфах
heisigStory: This clever little monkey has captured an entire pack of wild dogs, locked them inside a lidded crock, and wrapped the whole thing up in a silk scarf to present to the dogcatcher.
koohiiStory1: The MONKEY likes to play hide and seek with the PACK of WILD DOGS by hiding in the LIDDED CROCK. But he is easy to see because the SCARF he always wears is at the base of the LIDDED CROCK.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: さる
readingExamples: 猿 (さる)
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koohiiStory2: To catch a monkey, chase him with wild dogs into a lidded crock, then tie it with a scarf.
words: 猿(さる): monkey

keyword: паруса
kanji: 帆
constituent: sail, towel, mediocre, drop, wind
myStory: из посредственного полотенца можно сделать парус
heisigStory: A sail made of a towel makes a mediocre vessel.
koohiiStory1: When stranded at sea, we needed a Sail. The best we had was a TOWEL, which was MEDICORE, only catching a DROP of WIND.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: ほ
readingExamples: 帆 (ほ)
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koohiiStory2: A towel makes a mediocre sail.

keyword: занавес
kanji: 幕
constituent: curtain, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard, towel
myStory: полотенце на кладбище - как завеса смерти
heisigStory: A dirty towel draped over the entrance to the old graveyard is painted to look like the curtain of death that leads to the otherworld.
koohiiStory1: There is a graveyard outside my house that scares me, so I put a huge towel over the window to serve as a curtain so I can get a good nights sleep.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マク、バク
kunYomi: とばり
readingExamples: 幕切れ (まくぎれ), 天幕 (てんまく), 暗幕 (あんまく)
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koohiiStory2: When you´re dead in the graveyard, "it´s curtains for you.".
words: 幕(とばり): curtain, bunting, act (in play)
幕(まく): curtain, screen

keyword: навес, тент
kanji: 幌
constituent: canopy, towel, limpid, sun, day, ray, small, little, human legs
myStory: полотенце, защищающее от солнечных лучей - тент, навес
heisigStory: A large towel stretched overhead with only a few of the sun's rays breaking through represents a canopy over one's bed.
koohiiStory1: A canopy is a towel to block the suns rays.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: ほろ、とばり
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koohiiStory2: From the Hitch-Hiker´s Guide to the Universe: A towel is useful, among other things, as a canopy to keep out the sun´s rays from your face while napping.

keyword: парча
kanji: 錦
constituent: brocade, metal, gold, napkin, white, dove, towel
myStory: белое полотенце + металл = парча
heisigStory: A strip of white towel and some scraps of metal have the makings of a primitive kind of brocade.
koohiiStory1: Brocade is the art of sewing gold on a white towel.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: にしき
readingExamples: 錦 (にしき)
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koohiiStory2: Never heard of this word before encountering it here. So it turns out that the fanciest brocade in the world is actually a towel used by a Turkish monarch. It´s embroidered with gold and cocaine. Yes, cocaine - what you thought it´d be something else? That is some true art right there. I think a great many people would want to own this towel.

keyword: легкие
kanji: 肺
constituent: lungs, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, market, top hat, towel
myStory: на рынке такие ароматы, что наиболее страдающая часть тела - легкие
heisigStory: One is surprised, strolling through the market, to find among the meats hung out for sale a slab marked: lungs.
koohiiStory1: LUNGS are a PART of the BODY that can be found at any meat MARKET or black MARKET.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハイ
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koohiiStory2: The PART OF THE BODY most important if you work at a MARKET is your LUNGS so that you can shout out at the top of your voice "IRASSHAIMASEEE" to attract customers.
words: 肺(はい): lung

keyword: застаиваться, откладываться
kanji: 滞
constituent: stagnate, water, water droplets, water pistol, sash, buckle, apron, crown, towel
myStory: сосуд, перетянутый поясом, заставляет воду застаиваться
heisigStory: People that have been "sashed" to something (whether their mother's apron strings or a particular job) for too long become like water that has stopped moving: they start to stagnate.
koohiiStory1: History of the first karate blackbelts: In those days, it was often difficult to find fresh, clean water, so samurai usually had to wash their sashes in stagnant puddles. The longer one had been studying martial arts, the older the sash on one´s karate uniform and, therefore, the darker the color. So why weren´t their karate uniforms black too? Never seen a ninja????
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ、テイ
kunYomi: とどこお.る
readingExamples: 滞る (とどこお.る)
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koohiiStory2: A moat is a stagnate ring of water like an obi (sash) of water tied around the castle.
words: 滞納(たいのう): non-payment, default
停滞(ていたい): stagnation, tie-up, congestion, retention, accumulation, falling into arrears
滞る(とどこおる): to stagnate, to be delayed
渋滞(じゅうたい): congestion (e.g. traffic), delay, stagnation
滞在(たいざい): stay, sojourn

keyword: сделано в ...
kanji: 製
constituent: made in…, system, cow, belt, sword, sabre, saber, hat, scarf, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: система угнетения в Китае породила лэйбл "Сделано в Китае"
heisigStory: A label indicating that a garment was made in U.S.A. or Taiwan or Japan is itself a symbol for the systematization of the garment industry.
koohiiStory1: Made in china - a system of exploitation . making garments for nothing.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
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koohiiStory2: A SYSTEMATICALLY made GARMENT will no doubt have MADE IN on the label.
words: 製(せい): -made, make
製鉄(せいてつ): iron manufacture
製法(せいほう): manufacturing method, recipe, formula
作製(さくせい): manufacture
製作(せいさく): manufacture, production
製造(せいぞう): manufacture, production
製品(せいひん): manufactured goods

keyword: гром
kanji: 雷
constituent: thunder, rain, weather, rice field, brains
myStory: представь рисовое поле под ливнем. гром грохочет
heisigStory: The full rumble and roar and terror of thunder is best felt not with your head tucked under your pillow safe in bed, but out in an open rice field where you can get the real feel of the weather.
koohiiStory1: If it´s raining and you´re standing in the middle of a rice field, you´re sure to soon become acquainted with the thunder up close and personal.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ライ
kunYomi: かみなり
readingExamples: 雷 (かみなり)
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koohiiStory2: Thunder is a sure sign of rain coming. When you hear the thunder, you´ve got time to get out of the field before it starts raining.
words: 雷(いかずち): thunder
雷(かみなり): thunder

keyword: иней
kanji: 霜
constituent: frost, rain, weather, inter, Inter Milan, tree, wood, eye
myStory: меж-погодье: вроде и влага (не снег) выпадает, но замерзает
heisigStory: Think of frost as a cooperative venture, an inter-action of the malevolent forces of weather that sit around a conference table and finally decide to allow a very light amount of moisture to fall just before a short and sudden freeze.
koohiiStory1: FROST is kind of an inter-weather, phenomenon, something between rain, snow and freezing temp’s.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: しも
readingExamples: 霜 (しも)
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koohiiStory2: The freezing RAIN formed FROST on the TREE right before your EYES. If you want, frost-y then think Frost Tree to get to the mnemonic. SECOND STORY: FROSTY the snowman? It´s RAIN that FROSTS that can then INTER-act with the kids, till he melts of course.
words: 霜(しも): frost

keyword: привлекательный
kanji: 嬌
constituent: attractive, woman, angel, heavens, mouth, hood, mouth, mouth2
myStory: женщина с небес привлекательна, женщина-ангел - тоже
heisigStory: Associating a particularly attractive woman you know with an angel should be no problem.
koohiiStory1: The most attractive woman in the world is obviously Angelina Jolie.
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: なまめか.しい
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koohiiStory2: The most attractive of women are said to resemble angels. Similarly, angelic women tend to be attractive.

keyword: плакать, стонать
kanji: 泣
constituent: cry, water, water droplets, water pistol, vase, stand up
myStory: вода стонет и плачет, не хочет принимать форму вазы
heisigStory: One cries and cries until one is standing up knee-deep in water (or until one has a vase-full of water).
koohiiStory1: Guys have two ways of watering when they are standing, the less common one is crying.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: な.く
readingExamples: 泣く (な.く)
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koohiiStory2: She stood up to leave the room when her eyes started to water...
words: 泣く(なく): cry

keyword: повелитель, суверен
kanji: 帝
constituent: sovereign, vase, stand up, apron, crown, towel
myStory: монарх в полотенце стоит с короной-вазой
heisigStory: An uncommon, but not altogether unlikely picture of a reigning sovereign has him standing up in his apron, presumably at the behest of HIS sovereign (she who is to be obeyed), who needs help with washing the dishes.
koohiiStory1: The crazy sovereign stands up from his throne, wearing nothing but a crown and a towel. That´s why they try to keep him locked up in the castle away from the public.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: みかど
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koohiiStory2: This one is so tricky for me. The key is to remember that the bottom stroke on the standing element takes those little crown "winglets" on the right and left. The most effective image might be of QEII (who is quite short) using her crown as a kind of stool. She´s standing on her crown rummaging through a high cupboard looking for her apron. I guess the sovereign´s servants have the day off.

keyword: зрачок
kanji: 瞳
constituent: pupil, eye, juvenile, vase, stand up, computer
myStory: в манге герои юные, и зрачок у них в глазах большой
heisigStory: Begin with the double meaning of the key word pupil: "student" and the "the apple of one's eye." Now all you have to do is dwell on the phrase "juvenile of one's eye" (the meaning here) until it provides you with an image.
koohiiStory1: In Japanese comics, the eye´s of juvenilles all have enormouse pupils.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ドウ、トウ
kunYomi: ひとみ
readingExamples: 瞳 (ひとみ)
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koohiiStory2: WARNING: This kanji only means the pupil of the eye. It can be confusing to use a story that has pupil meaning student in it.
words: 瞳(ひとみ): eye, pupil (of eye)

keyword: колокол, гонг
kanji: 鐘
constituent: bell, metal, gold, juvenile, vase, stand up, computer
myStory: металл звенит, чтобы позвать юных в класс
heisigStory: This bell is made of cheap metal, and so badly made that when you ring it, it lets out a noise like the "bellowing" of juveniles who aren't getting their own way.
koohiiStory1: The METAL bell rings to call the JUVENILES to class.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: かね
readingExamples: 鐘 (かね)
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koohiiStory2: The METAL bell rings to call the JUVENILES to COMPUTER class.
words: 釣鐘(つりがね): hanging bell
鐘(かね): bell, chime

keyword: законная жена
kanji: 嫡
constituent: legitimate wife, woman, antique, vase, stand up, hood, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: женщина-старая-ваза
heisigStory: The phrase legitimate wife would have no meaning if there were not such things as "illegitimate wives," taken because one's legal woman has turned into an antique. The very offense of the idea should help you remember the kanji.
koohiiStory1: Legitmate wifes tend to be women who are antiques in contrast to the young bit of illigitmate fluff on the side.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チャク、テキ
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koohiiStory2: Your legitimate wife is like an antique bong. Its not your favorite but you still hit it sometimes...

keyword: враг
kanji: 敵
constituent: enemy, antique, vase, stand up, hood, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth, taskmaster
myStory: надсмотрщик сломал старую вазу. теперь он враг
heisigStory: Picture your most precious antique (it doesn't matter how old it really is, so long as it is the oldest thing YOU own) being knocked over by your most unlikeable taskmaster, and you have a good picture of how people make themselves enemies for life.
koohiiStory1: The taskmaster became my enemy for life when he smashed the antique vase holding my wife´s ashes.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テキ
kunYomi: かたき、あだ、かな.う
readingExamples: 敵 (かたき)
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koohiiStory2: Indiana Jones is an enemy of taskmasters in search of antique artifacts. RTK2: 　テキ　敵地　てきち(enemy territory)...　　　　　　　　　　　Pure Group:　嫡440　適441　滴442 　摘657.
words: 敵(かたき): enemy, rival
素敵(すてき): lovely, dreamy, beautiful, great, fantastic, superb, cool, capital
匹敵(ひってき): comparing with, match, rival, equal
敵(てき): foe, enemy, rival

keyword: ложка (п: +сидеть на земле)
kanji: 匕
constituent: spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: это похоже на ложку
heisigStory: This character, a pictograph of a spoon, is easy enough to remember, provided you keep it distinct from that for seven, where the first stroke is written left to right (the opposite of here) and cuts noticeably across the second.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji can take on the additional meaning of someone sitting on the ground, of which it can also be considered a pictograph. In general, the second stroke does not cut through the first - or if it does in some fonts, only slightly.
koohiiStory1: To remember the primitive meaning, picture someone sitting on the ground performing Seppuku...with a spoon. http://tinyurl.com/co48k.
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: さじ、さじのひ
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koohiiStory2: Not only is stroke order important, but also be sure to note the direction of a stroke. In both ´spoon´ and ´seven´, the first stroke is the horizontal one - but here it is written right to left in a downward flick, while in ´seven´ it is a strong line from left to right.

keyword: потомки
kanji: 昆
constituent: descendants, sun, day, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: сравнивать себя с солнцем могут только неумные потомки
heisigStory: By comparing apes with anthropoids, we not only discover the latter have descended from those progenitors educated in the higher branches, but that the very idea of seeing everything descended from everything else, one way or another, means that there is "nothing new UNDER the sun."
koohiiStory1: Grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
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koohiiStory2: Japanese people have compared themselves as being descendants of the sun. (Amaterasu, the sun godesss). Sun, comparing = descendants.
words: 昆虫(こんちゅう): insect, bug

keyword: жажда
kanji: 渇
constituent: thirst, water, water droplets, water pistol, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связаный человек под солнцем очень хочет воды, его мучает жажда
heisigStory: As you pass by the muchacho taking the siesta, he cries out that he is thirsty and asks for something to drink. So you turn the water hose on him.
koohiiStory1: You awaken from your siesta because you feel extremely thirsty so you go looking for some water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ
kunYomi: かわ.く
readingExamples: 渇く (かわ.く)
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koohiiStory2: The muchacho taking his SIESTA cries out that he is THIRSTY. So you pull out a bottle of WATER and pretend you´re going to give it to him...but then you dump it all on the ground before his eyes. HAHA, sucked in muchacho!!
words: 渇く(かわく): be thirsty

keyword: зрители, аудиенция (у короля)
kanji: 謁
constituent: audience, say, words, keitai, mouth, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный человек под солнцем говорит, собрав много зрителей
heisigStory: Imagine an audience with the emperor or the pope in which all those in attendance are sitting down, leaning against the wall, sleeping like our muchacho on siesta as the honorable host delivers his speech.
koohiiStory1: The talk was so boring the audience took a siesta.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エツ
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koohiiStory2: The man talking during his siesta (in his sleep) is saying strange things and drawing an audience.

keyword: коричневый
kanji: 褐
constituent: brown, cloak, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный человек под солнцем одет в коричневый невзрачный плащ
heisigStory: The color of the serape or cloak of our muchacho on siesta is a dull brown, the color this kanji indicates.
koohiiStory1: Why is my package late? Imagine a UPS driver dressed in BROWN garments taking a siesta. What can BROWN do for you?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ
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koohiiStory2: Mexicans use a cloak (pancho) for their siestas. Their color is usually brown.

keyword: хриплый
kanji: 喝
constituent: hoarse, mouth, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный человек много говорил перед зрителями и охрип
heisigStory: When the muchacho on siesta looks up at you and opens his mouth to talk, his voice is so hoarse that you cannot understand him.
koohiiStory1: If you have a siesta with your mouthopen, you will wake up with a hoarse voice.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ
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koohiiStory2: After taking a siesta, you find that your mouth is hoarse (after all you ARE thirsty remember).

keyword: очень вкусный
kanji: 旨
constituent: delicious, spoon, sitting on the ground, sun, day
myStory: я могу есть это ложкой весь день. так вкусно...
heisigStory: Something is so downright delicious that one spends the entire day with a spoon in hand gobbling it up.
koohiiStory1: Use a spoon to eat a DELICIOUS hot fudge sundae. Duh..
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: むね、うま.い
readingExamples: 旨 (むね)
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koohiiStory2: It´s sooo delicious I could spoon it in all day.
words: 趣旨(しゅし): object, meaning
要旨(ようし): gist, essentials, summary, fundamentals

keyword: Один (старое канжи)
kanji: 壱
constituent: 1 (one), samurai, crown, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: самурай с королевской ложкой - первый среди самураев
heisigStory: The Roman numeral I - like that for II we met earlier in frame 379 - is only rarely used now. In the midst of all the samurai, we notice one in particular sitting on the ground with a crown on his head, indicating that he is "number I" in the current rankings.
koohiiStory1: I am ´the one´ , says the samurai with the crown around his waist and a spoon up his a***.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イチ、イツ
kunYomi: ひとつ
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koohiiStory2: The samurai who has been crowned number one is so good he uses a spoon to fight with rather than a sword.

keyword: одаренность
kanji: 敏
constituent: cleverness, every, reclining, lying down, mother, breasts, taskmaster
myStory: каждый надсмотрщик не может похвастаться одаренностью
heisigStory: Behind every successful taskmaster, the cleverness of a fox to outwit his charges.
koohiiStory1: Every master(or taskmaster) must have some degree of cleverness.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビン
kunYomi: さとい
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koohiiStory2: Cleverness is something every taskmaster must have. Every taskmaster has cleverness.
words: 敏感(びんかん): sensibility, susceptibility, sensitive (to), well attuned to

keyword: слива
kanji: 梅
constituent: plum, tree, wood, every, reclining, lying down, mother, breasts
myStory: Сливы вкусные. Хочется, что каждое дерево было сливой
heisigStory: Behind every Jack Horner's pie maker, a tree full of plums.
koohiiStory1: Plums actually grow on every single tree. What, you didn´t know that? They do. Orange trees, apple trees, cantaloupe trees. Plums are simply mutant fruits that have been installed in the root software of every single tree. I hear that some plum-loving scientists are working on a way to hack every tree´s genetic code so that every tree will bear nothing _but_ plums.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
kunYomi: うめ
readingExamples: 梅 (うめ)
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koohiiStory2: EVERY Japanese person asks you if you like UMEBOSHI. No I say, I prefer to eat my PLUMS fresh from the TREE.
words: 梅干(うめぼし): dried plum
梅雨(つゆ): rainy season, rain during the rainy season
梅(うめ): plum, plum-tree, lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)

keyword: просить, умолять, приглашать
kanji: 乞
constituent: beg, reclining, lying down, fishhook
myStory: человек с крюком вместо руки лежит и просит милостыню
heisigStory: See someone lying down in a public place with a hook in place of a hand, begging a morsel of rice or a few pence.
koohiiStory1: Lying down, Captain Hook is begging to be spared from the ticking crocodile.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コツ、キツ、キ、キケ、コチ
kunYomi: こ.う
readingExamples: 乞う (こ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Men beg lying down. Women beg as hookers.

keyword: готовить, варить
kanji: 炊
constituent: cook, fire, lack, yawn
myStory: отсутствие огня не помешает приготовить бутерброд
heisigStory: Better to picture what happens when you do not pay attention to your work in the kitchen. Here we see a blazing fire and an inattentive, yawning cook who let things get out of control.
koohiiStory1: Japanese cooking sometimes lacks fire, e.g., sashimi.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: た.く、-だ.き
readingExamples: 炊く (た.く)
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koohiiStory2: This character shows the difference between a cook and a chef: a chef prepares food with passion and love; a cook only stands there with a pan over a fire, with no passion and just yawning.
words: 炊事(すいじ): cooking, culinary arts
炊く(たく): boil, cook

keyword: шиповник
kanji: 茨
constituent: briar, flowers, next, ice, lack, yawn
myStory: следующий тип цветов - с колючками - шиповник
heisigStory: Earlier we made mention of the story of Briar Rose (or "Sleeping Beauty," as we called her in frame 165) and drew attention to the briar hedge that grew up all about her castle. But in the second part of the story, these briars blossomed into flowers. Hence her name, Briar Rose. Be careful not to confuse this character with that for thorn (Frame 446).
koohiiStory1: To prevent animals from eating the beautiful flowers in your garden, the best thing to do is to plant briar bushes immediately next to them.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シ、ジ
kunYomi: いばら、かや、くさぶき
readingExamples: 茨 (いばら)
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koohiiStory2: The briar patch may look unremarkable now before it blooms, but there will be flowers next, and it will be beautiful.

keyword: фигура
kanji: 姿
constituent: figure, next, ice, lack, yawn, woman
myStory: следующая женщина точно имеет лучшую фигуру!
heisigStory: This kanji depicts a woman's figure as a sort of second self.
koohiiStory1: The next woman always has a better figure! Thinking like that, you´ll end up alone in an old folks home longing for the good old days!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: すがた
readingExamples: 姿 (すがた)
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koohiiStory2: Whenever I am next to a woman, I can´t help but take notice of her figure.
words: 姿勢(しせい): attitude, posture
姿(すがた): figure, shape, appearance

keyword: консультироваться с (кем-то)
kanji: 諮
constituent: consult with, say, words, keitai, mouth, next, ice, lack, yawn, mouth, mouth2
myStory: всегда имеет смысл выслушать много мнений. поговори со следующим ртом, проконсультируйся
heisigStory: To seek the words of a second mouth is to consult with someone about something.
koohiiStory1: Having a word with the next mouth over, like a neighbor, is usually a good way to consult with somebody for cheap. Because, you know, actual consultants charge huge sums.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: はか.る
readingExamples: 諮る (はか.る)
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koohiiStory2: Consulting with is having words with the next mouth.
words: 諮る(はかる): to consult with, to confer

keyword: компенсация, возмещение
kanji: 賠
constituent: compensation, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, muzzle, vase, stand up, mouth
myStory: когда ты ставишь вазу на чей-то рот (чтобы молчал) с помощью денег, это - компенсация
heisigStory: Picture a clam used as a muzzle to quiet the complaints of a fisherman's widow asking compensation for her husband lost at sea.
koohiiStory1: Compensation is money you give to someone to shut them up (i.e. muzzle their mouth).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
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koohiiStory2: Compensation is a kind of euphemism for hush money here. Money that muzzles.
words: 賠償(ばいしょう): reparations, indemnity, compensation

keyword: культивировать
kanji: 培
constituent: cultivate, soil, dirt, ground, muzzle, vase, stand up, mouth
myStory: "поставить вазу на рот земле" - как бы заставить природу не выеживаться, а выполнять твои хотелки по выращиванию кабачков
heisigStory: The barrel hoops used by many Japanese farmers to stretch clear plastic over row of vegetables in a garden patch in the hopes of cultivating bigger and bigger vegetables is a way of muzzling the soil.
koohiiStory1: To cultivate the land is to tame it, control it. In short, you muzzle it´s unruly, chaotic nature.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
kunYomi: つちか.う
readingExamples: 培う (つちか.う)
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koohiiStory2: The illegal immigrants cultivate the land but are socially and politically muzzled (wear muzzles while they work too).
words: 栽培(さいばい): cultivation

keyword: разделять
kanji: 剖
constituent: divide, muzzle, vase, stand up, mouth, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: "разделять и властвовать", затыкая рты и грозя мечом
heisigStory: To "divide and conquer" you use a saber and a muzzle.
koohiiStory1: When you DIVIDE someone, there is sure to be a lot of screaming. That´s why you should use a MUZZLE before using the SABER.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
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koohiiStory2: Divide and conquer - first you cut them up (saber) , then you shut them up (muzzle).
words: 解剖(かいぼう): dissection, autopsy

keyword: рифма
kanji: 韻
constituent: rhyme, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, employee, mouth, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: работники должны издавать звуки в рифму!
heisigStory: Poetry restricted to verses that rhyme often finds it has to abandon clarity of thought in order to make the rhyme of the words work. In this kanji's picture, one becomes a kind of "sound-employee."
koohiiStory1: What is a RHYME but some SOUND that EMPLOYEES say to get them through work.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン
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koohiiStory2: Dr Seuss´s employee finally rebels against him: "I´m tired of odd sounds all the time, I will not, cannot, speak in RHYME!".

keyword: зеркало
kanji: 鏡
constituent: mirror, metal, gold, mirror, vase, stand up, sun, day, human legs
myStory: ваза, солнце, человек - все отображается в металлическом зеркале
heisigStory: After lakes but before glass, polished metal was used for mirrors. These metal mirrors are recalled in this character for a mirror.
koohiiStory1: Mirror should suggest vanity. Imagine a spoiled girl who gets her parents to buy her a Golden mirror so she can stand in front of it all day vainly admiring her lovely human legs.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、ケイ
kunYomi: かがみ
readingExamples: 鏡 (かがみ)
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koohiiStory2: metal + stand up + sun + legs remember the legend of Amaterasu who retired in a cave. the other Gods brought a MIRROR made of polished METAL at the entrance of the cave. Amaterasu who was STANDING UP saw her image of the SUN and began to dance with her LEGS.
words: 眼鏡(がんきょう): spectacles, glasses
顕微鏡(けんびきょう): microscope
望遠鏡(ぼうえんきょう): telescope
鏡(かがみ): mirror
眼鏡(めがね): spectacles, glasses

keyword: слепой
kanji: 盲
constituent: blind, deceased, perish, top hat, fishhook, eye
myStory: погибший глаз - слепой
heisigStory: If one's eyes perish before death, one remains blind for the rest of life.
koohiiStory1: Deceased eyes! Easy ;).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モウ
kunYomi: めくら
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koohiiStory2: A person with deceased eyes is blind.
words: 盲点(もうてん): blind spot

keyword: заблуждение
kanji: 妄
constituent: delusion, deceased, perish, top hat, fishhook, woman
myStory: женщина погибла из-за своих заблуждений
heisigStory: The "ideal woman" one daydreams about is no more than a delusion. Hence, perish the thought of her.
koohiiStory1: I had a problem with remembering that "deceased" went over the "woman". So, here´s my story: The delusional woman was carrying her deceased husband on her back.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モウ、ボウ
kunYomi: みだ.りに
readingExamples: 妄信 (もうしん), 妄想 (もうそう), 迷妄 (めいもう)
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koohiiStory2: If you think you should perish for that woman, you have a major delusion.

keyword: беспокоить
kanji: 妨
constituent: disturb, compass, direction, woman
myStory: женщину хочется отправить в направлении ..., когда она тебя беспокоит
heisigStory: Imagine a compass that is disturbed every time a woman passes by, sending the needle spinning madly round and round.
koohiiStory1: Capt. Jack Sparrow´s compass gets disturbed every time a beautiful woman walks by him (just picture Keira Knightley in her sexy asian outfit as Elizabeth and the image will be fixed forever).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: さまた.げる
readingExamples: 妨げる (さまた.げる)
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koohiiStory2: One way to Disturb a woman is to give her directions while she is in the middle of driving -- she just can´t take that kind of stress.
words: 妨害(ぼうがい): disturbance, obstruction, hindrance, jamming, interference
妨げる(さまたげる): disturb, prevent

keyword: мальчик
kanji: 坊
constituent: boy, soil, dirt, ground, compass, direction
myStory: маленькие мальчики всегда держат направление на грязную землю
heisigStory: The character for a boy shows us a Boy Scout cleaning the dirt out of his compass - the more dirt, the better.
koohiiStory1: Little boys always head in the direction of mud and dirt.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ボウ、ボッ
readingExamples: 坊主 (ぼうず), 朝寝坊 (あさねぼう), 赤ん坊 (あかんぼう)
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koohiiStory2: Boys thoughts often head in dirty directions.
words: 坊ちゃん(ぼっちゃん): son (of others)
寝坊(ねぼう): sleeping in late
坊さん(ぼうさん): Buddhist priest, monk
坊や(ぼうや): boy
赤ん坊(あかんぼう): baby
朝寝坊(あさねぼう): over sleep

keyword: духи
kanji: 芳
constituent: perfume, flowers, compass, direction
myStory: вчислить направление по цветочному запаху духов
heisigStory: Here we see a special compass used to pick out those flowers most suited for making good perfumes.
koohiiStory1: She used a perfume so strong, that you can track her by following the direction of the smell of flowers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: かんば.しい
readingExamples: 芳しい (かんば.しい)
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koohiiStory2: People always seem to overdo it with their perfume. It seems that whenever I am at school, somebody walks by with their cheap flowery perfume. If I close my eyes, I can actually use that floweriness as a compass - it tells me which direction they´re in.

keyword: тучный
kanji: 肪
constituent: obese, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, compass, direction
myStory: плоть во всех направлениях - слишком много страдающих ожирением
heisigStory: If you eat too much, you may need a compass to find your way around the obese mass of flesh that piles up in the midsection. Compare this with your stories for round (Frame 44) and fat (Frame 494), similar in meaning but distinct in imagery.
koohiiStory1: Flesh in all directions = obese.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
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koohiiStory2: Yo momma so obese, she changed the direction of the moon.
words: 脂肪(しぼう): fat, grease, blubber

keyword: неистовый
kanji: 激
constituent: violent, water, water droplets, water pistol, white, dove, compass, direction, taskmaster
myStory: надсмотрщик нашел свой белый компас разбитым водой и пришел в неистовство
heisigStory: Some cosmic taskmaster hovering overhead whips up the waves to make them dash violently against the shore. In the white foam that covers the water we see a broken compass floating, all that remains of a shipwreck.
koohiiStory1: When the taskmaster found his favorite white compas damaged by water, he became the most violent taskmaster there ever was.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲキ
kunYomi: はげ.しい
readingExamples: 激しい (はげ.しい)
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koohiiStory2: Overnight the slave got Violent and was Set Free. Overnight....Set Free.
words: 激励(げきれい): encouragement
感激(かんげき): deep emotion, impression, inspiration
急激(きゅうげき): sudden, precipitous, radical
激増(げきぞう): sudden increase
刺激(しげき): stimulus, impetus, incentive, excitement, irritation, encouragement, motivation
激しい(はげしい): violent, vehement, intense, furious, tempestuous

keyword: раздевать(-ся)
kanji: 脱
constituent: undress, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, devil, horns, elder brother, teenager, mouth, human legs
myStory: тинейджер-дьяволенок раздевает тело своей подруги
heisigStory: To undress is to expose the flesh and tempt the devil in the eyes of one's onlookers. Ignore the moral if you want, but not the devil.
koohiiStory1: HORNY TEENAGERS love to UNDRESS FLESH.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダツ
kunYomi: ぬ.ぐ、ぬ.げる
readingExamples: 脱ぐ (ぬ.ぐ), 脱げる (ぬ.げる)
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koohiiStory2: Before you undress I should warn you -- the sight of flesh brings out the devil in me.
words: 脱出(だっしゅつ): escape
脱する(だっする): to escape from, to get out
脱退(だったい): secession
脱線(だっせん): derailment, digression
脱ぐ(ぬぐ): take off clothes

keyword: прежде, раньше (п: увеличение)
kanji: 曽
constituent: formerly, increase, horns, rice field, brains, sun, day
myStory: рогатый скот раньше обрабатывал рисовое поле весь день
heisigStory: This primitive (named for its associations with the kanji of the following frame) is composed of a pair of horns growing out of a brain with a tongue wagging in the mouth beneath. Think of "former" in connection with administrators or heads of state who have just left office but continue to make a nuisance of themselves by advertising their opinions on public policy.
heisigComment: * The primitive meaning, increase, comes from the next frame. Always think of something multiplying wildly as you watch.
koohiiStory1: The Artist formerly Known as Prince has the horniest brain around, and I think you can imagine what his wagging tongue is doing...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソウ、ソ、ゾウ
kunYomi: かつ、かつて、すなわち
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koohiiStory2: Formerly, horned animals were used to plough the ricefield, and it took all day. Nowadays it´s done by machine.

keyword: распорка
kanji: 棟
constituent: ridgepole, tree, wood, east, tree, wood, sun, day, tree2, wood2
myStory: деревяшка в доме, указывающая на восток - это распорка
heisigStory: If the piece of wood in the roof known as the ridgepole points east, the sunrise will be visible from the front door.
koohiiStory1: Feng Shui states that the ridgepole of a house should be made of wood and face east.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: むね、むな-
readingExamples: 棟 (むね)
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koohiiStory2: Ok just a note to the ´ridgepole facing east story´ im making up a story to JUSTIFY why that is the case. Assuming that 99% of you guys use the age old story of a ´sun rising through a tree tells you were the east is´, back in those days when people used ridgepoles they wanted to align their houses in such a way that they face the rising sun, so they wake up with a bright day, and wake up early with the sun seeping through in a perpendicular manner( as the ridge pole faces the sun in the morning).
words: 棟(とう): place, section, building

keyword: беременность
kanji: 妊
constituent: pregnancy, woman, porter, drop, samurai
myStory: самурай опустил капельку в женщину и она забеременела
heisigStory: A woman who is in her pregnancy is a bit like a porter, bearing her new companion wherever she goes.
koohiiStory1: A pregnant woman is a porter of her child.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ニン、ジン
kunYomi: はら.む、みごも.る
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koohiiStory2: The gentleman gave the woman a bit of sperm...BAM PREGNANCY!
words: 妊娠(にんしん): conception, pregnancy

keyword: суды
kanji: 廷
constituent: courts, porter, drop, samurai, stretch
myStory: джентльмен слегка растянул правду в суде
heisigStory: Those who rule the courts, the porters of justice and order, are often found to stretch the law to suit their own purposes. Recall the kanji for prolong from frame 419 and keep it distinct.
koohiiStory1: A porter has run away from his master. His punishment is to be stretched out on the rack. So say the courts in this barbaric time.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: The gentleman stretched the truth a bit in court.
words: 法廷(ほうてい): courtroom

keyword: краска
kanji: 染
constituent: dye, water, water droplets, water pistol, nine, baseball, tree, wood
myStory: я использовал воду из девяти разных деревьев, чтобы сделать краску
heisigStory: Water . . . nine . . . tree. From those elements you must compose a plot for the key word, dye. Here, as elsewhere, any of the alternate meanings of the primitives may be used, provided they do not require a position other than that of the kanji in question.
koohiiStory1: To make this dye, I used water and the barks of nine different trees.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: そ.める、-ぞ.め、-ぞめ、そ.まる、し.みる、-じ.みる、し.み、-し.める
readingExamples: 染み (し.み), 染みる (し.みる), 染まる (そ.まる), 染める (そ.める)
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koohiiStory2: The baseball team hangs their freshly dyed dripping jerseys at the top of a tree to dry.
words: 感染(かんせん): infection, contagion
染みる(しみる): to pierce, to permeate
染まる(そまる): to dye
染める(そめる): to dye, to colour
汚染(おせん): pollution, contamination
伝染(でんせん): contagion

keyword: высопоставленное лицо
kanji: 賓
constituent: V.I.P., house, one, ceiling, few, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: в доме, один, мало денег - ВИП
heisigStory: The V.I.P. indicated here is an important guest making a visit. The elements are: house . . . ceiling . . . few . . . shells.
koohiiStory1: This house is reserved to V.I.P. only. If you are not one of the few with enough money to call you that way, keep out!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒン
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koohiiStory2: The V.I.P. visits your house, but your ceiling is too low for his inflated head, which he bumps and hurts. You have to give him your few shells as compensation.

keyword: конский каштан
kanji: 栃
constituent: horse chestnut, tree, wood, Wimbledon, cliff, ten thousand, one, bound up
myStory: дерево растет на скале и оттуда падают десять тысяч каштанов
heisigStory: A tree . . . cliff . . . ten thousand.
koohiiStory1: There are a bunch of HORSE CHESTNUT TREES on top of this CLIFF above the beach. Chestnuts keep rolling off the cliff and falling on people´s heads. So far TEN THOUSAND people have been killed by falling chestnuts, and the Japanese government still ain´t did shit about it.
jouYou: JH
kunYomi: とち
readingExamples: 栃 (とち)
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koohiiStory2: There is a horse chestnut tree that has grown by a cliff for so long, it has deposited 10,000 horse chesnuts that lie at the bottom. Don´t worry over this one too much, you´ll spend so much time trying to figure out the right story for it, you probably won´t forget it.

keyword: жук-светляк
kanji: 蛍
constituent: lightning-bug, schoolhouse, owl, crown, insect
myStory: очень удобно учиться при свете жуков-светляков
heisigStory: Schoolhouse . . . insect.
koohiiStory1: Bugs have to go to school to learn how to become lightning bugs. Only the brightest bugs graduate to become lightning bugs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: ほたる
readingExamples: 蛍 (ほたる)
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koohiiStory2: Q: Who´s the smartest insect in school? A: The lightning-bug. Because he´s so bright! (Image: lightning bug in school with glasses, pocket protector, etc. Maybe even have some cool kids teasing him).
words: 蛍光灯(けいこうとう): fluorescent lamp, person who is slow to react

keyword: змея
kanji: 蛇
constituent: snake, insect, wind chimes, house, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: пока мы кушаем ложкой в доме, насекомых кушает змея
heisigStory: Insect . . . house . . . spoon.
koohiiStory1: A snake eats insects and he does that outside, while we eat another snake in the house and preferably with a spoon.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジャ、ダ、イ、ヤ
kunYomi: へび
readingExamples: 蛇の目 (へびのめ), 蛇腹 (じゃばら), 大蛇 (おろち), 蛇 (へび)
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koohiiStory2: Solid Snake crawled like a bug, infiltrated my house, and took out everyone with a spoon.
words: 蛇口(じゃぐち): faucet, tap

keyword: радуга
kanji: 虹
constituent: rainbow, insect, craft
myStory: на самом деле, насекомые создают радугу
heisigStory: Insect . . . craft.
koohiiStory1: Little is it known that a rainbow is actually created by insects of different colours flying in formation, a craft they have perfected to create the rainbows we see today.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: にじ
readingExamples: 虹 (にじ)
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koohiiStory2: Rainbow is of course created by billions of colored insects (what? you really thought it was an optical illusion?). However I had problems remembering that the insect primitive goes on the left. If you have similar difficulties, try this: rainbow is an Insect-Craft. Mnemonic: I.C. Rainbow (I see rainbow).
words: 虹(にじ): rainbow

keyword: бабочка
kanji: 蝶
constituent: butterfly, insect, Tarzan, generation, tree, wood
myStory: насекомое, которое проводит одно поколении на дереве как кокон - бабочка
heisigStory: Insect . . . generation . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: A butterfly is an insect that appears after spending a generation on a tree as a cocoon.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
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koohiiStory2: Butterflies are insects that like to eat just the flowers but leave the leaves behind. (helps me to think of the kanji for leaves, minus the flower bit).
words: 蝶(ちょう): butterfly

keyword: одинокий
kanji: 独
constituent: single, pack of wild dogs, insect
myStory: нашествие своры диких псов и атака насекомых - вот как выглядит холостяцкое жилье
heisigStory: Think of this key word in connection with bachelorhood. The elements: wild dogs . . . insect.
koohiiStory1: The bachelor´s apartment looked like it had been attacked by a pack of wild dogs. There were even insects in the kitchen. No wonder he´s single!
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ドク、トク
kunYomi: ひと.り
readingExamples: 独り (ひと.り)
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koohiiStory2: A SINGLE guy is a WILD DOG who BUGS many women.
words: 孤独(こどく): isolation, loneliness, solitude
単独(たんどく): sole, independence, single, solo (flight)
独裁(どくさい): dictatorship, despotism
独自(どくじ): original, peculiar, characteristic
独占(どくせん): monopoly
独創(どくそう): originality
独身(どくしん): bachelorhood, single, unmarried, celibate
独特(どくとく): peculiarity, uniqueness, characteristic
独立(どくりつ): independence, self-support
独り(ひとり): alone, unmarried
独り言(ひとりごと): soliloquy, monologue, speaking to oneself

keyword: шелкопряд
kanji: 蚕
constituent: silkworm, heavens, insect
myStory: на небесах нет насекомых, кроме шелкопряда, иначе откуда у небожителей такие тоги?
heisigStory: Heavens . . . insect. Be sure to do something about the position of the two elements.
koohiiStory1: There are no insects in heaven - well, that is, except for silkworms. What, do you expect Jesus to import his fancy robes from China?
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン、テン
kunYomi: かいこ、こ
readingExamples: 蚕 (かいこ)
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koohiiStory2: In China it was believed that the silkworms were insects sent from heaven because of the beautiful material they produced.

keyword: сам, себя (п: +змея)
kanji: 己
constituent: self, snake, self
myStory: змея - символ меня. запомнить
heisigStory: The kanji carries the abstract sense of the self, the deep-down inner structure of the human person that mythology has often depicted as a snake - which is what the kanji shows pictographically. Be sure to keep it distinct from the similar keywords, oneself (frame 36) and I (frame 17).
heisigComment: * As a primitive element, this kanji can be used for the snake - of which it is a pictograph - or any of the various concrete symbolic meanings the snake has in myth and fable.
koohiiStory1: This kanji looks like the "s" of "self", looking at its own reflection in a mirror (reversed sideways), as if pondering about his "self".
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ、キ
kunYomi: おのれ、つちのと、な
readingExamples: 自己 (じこ), 利己 (りこ), 己 (おのれ)
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koohiiStory2: When Superman looks at himself in the mirror, this is what he sees on his chest.
words: 自己(じこ): self, oneself

keyword: королева
kanji: 妃
constituent: queen, woman, snake, self
myStory: женщина-змея
heisigStory: Woman . . . snake.
koohiiStory1: Cleopatra.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: きさき
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koohiiStory2: Be careful you don´t pick up a drag queen at a club - they might look like women, but they have a snake down there!

keyword: плацента
kanji: 胞
constituent: placenta, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, wrap, bound up, snake, self
myStory: кусок тела, оборачивающий ребенка
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . wrap.
koohiiStory1: Imagine a newborn baby, fresh out of the womb, being entirely wrapped by the long piece of flesh, called a placenta, that once fed him.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
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koohiiStory2: Placenta is flesh/part of the body wrapped around the foetus.
words: 細胞(さいぼう): cell (biology)

keyword: пушка
kanji: 砲
constituent: cannon, stone, rock, wrap, bound up, snake, self
myStory: камни заворачивают в тряпочку и кладут в пушку
heisigStory: Stones . . . wrap.
koohiiStory1: Primitive cannons fired stones wrapped with poisonous snakes.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
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koohiiStory2: Cannon = stone projectile wrapped by a barrel.
words: 鉄砲(てっぽう): gun

keyword: пузыри
kanji: 泡
constituent: bubbles, water, water droplets, water pistol, wrap, bound up, snake, self
myStory: вода оборачивает воздух - получаются пузыри
heisigStory: Water . . . wrap.
koohiiStory1: When water forms a bubble, it wraps a pocket of air.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: あわ
readingExamples: 泡 (あわ)
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koohiiStory2: To prevent people from popping bubble wrap for fun, the post office has started filling the bubbles with water.
words: 泡(あわ): bubble, foam, froth

keyword: сухопутная черепаха (п: <нижняя половина> угорь)
kanji: 亀
constituent: tortoise, bound up, eels, sun, day
myStory: голова рыбы и хвост угря - вместе получается сухопутная черепаха (про панцирь умолчим)
heisigStory: This is not a turtle (See frame 250) but a tortoise, however you wish to picture the difference. Let the "bound up" at the to prefer to the head, and the two suns, with a long tail running through it, to the shell.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji is abbreviated to its bottom half, ⻲, and comes to mean eel. (If it is any help, this kanji in its full form can also be remembered through its abbreviation's primitive meaning.)
koohiiStory1: It seems bizarre, but tortoises are a genetic cross with the head of a fish and the tail of an eel. Where the shell comes from, no one knows.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ、キュウ、キン
kunYomi: かめ
readingExamples: 亀 (かめ)
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koohiiStory2: A tortoise is prosperity bound up with a tail. They are very lucky creatures.

keyword: дракон
kanji: 竜
constituent: dragon, vase, stand up, eel, sun, day
myStory: угорь, который может встать - это дракон
heisigStory: Vase . . . eel. In order not to confuse this kanji with the zodiacal sign of the dragon, which we will meet later (Frame 2164) and use as a primitive, you might think here of a paper parade dragon.
koohiiStory1: Have you ever seen an asian DRAGON? it looks like an eel, but can stand up because it has legs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リュウ、リョウ、ロウ
kunYomi: たつ、いせ
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koohiiStory2: If the poor villagers don´t provide him with a vase full of eels each day, the dragon will lay waste to the village.

keyword: водопад
kanji: 滝
constituent: waterfall, water, water droplets, water pistol, dragon, vase, stand up, eel, sun, day
myStory: водяной дракон сидит в пещере под водопадом
heisigStory: Water . . . vase . . . eels. To avoid the confusion mentioned in the previous frame, the character learned there for dragon should not be used as a primitive.
koohiiStory1: The Water Dragon dwells in the waterfall.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ、ソウ
kunYomi: たき
readingExamples: 滝 (たき)
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koohiiStory2: Ever went under a waterfall, vase in hand, trying to catch eels from the water as it pours down?
words: 滝(たき): waterfall

keyword: свинина
kanji: 豚
constituent: pork, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sow, pig
myStory: кусок тела свиноматки - это свинина
heisigStory: Flesh . . . sow.
koohiiStory1: Pork comes from the flesh of a sow.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トン
kunYomi: ぶた
readingExamples: 豚 (ぶた)
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koohiiStory2: One possible pictograph for "sow" primitive: the top line is a feeding trough, the stroke touching it is the head, the long curved stroke is the body (with a little hook at the end for the curly tail), and the four remaining strokes are the sow´s legs.
words: 豚肉(ぶたにく): pork

keyword: преследовать
kanji: 逐
constituent: pursue, sow, pig, road
myStory: свинья преследует убегающую черепаху (#301)
heisigStory: Sows . . . road.
koohiiStory1: In association with consummate (#540), our sow is on the road pursuing a mate.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チク
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koohiiStory2: The pig is on the road in the pursue of the turtle who is trying to escape (#283). (See story on escape (#283) & consummate (#540)).

keyword: подтверждать брачные отношения сексуальным актом
kanji: 遂
constituent: consummate, horns, sow, pig, road
myStory: свинья догнала черепаху и подтвердила брачные отношения
heisigStory: The horns atop the sow suggest a boar at work in the background. Add the element for a road. Now create a story whose meaning is: consummate.
koohiiStory1: This is still Miss Piggy only she´s gotten horny (as she often does) and now she´s pursuing Kermit to help her consummate her desires.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: と.げる、つい.に
readingExamples: 遂げる (と.げる)
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koohiiStory2: In association with pursue (#539), our sow has tracked down a suitable mate, they´ve consummated their relationship, and now the little sow is all grown up into a boar with horns.
words: 遂げる(とげる): to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out
やり遂げる(やりとげる): to accomplish
遂に(ついに): finally, at last

keyword: жениться на ...
kanji: 嫁
constituent: marry into, woman, house, sow, pig
myStory: женщина уходит (или приходит в другой) из дома - выходит замуж
heisigStory: The kanji in this frame demonstrates the traditional Japanese approach to marriage: it is the woman who leaves her family for another household, thus marrying into a man's family.
koohiiStory1: Since the Nihonjin man is hardly ever home, the woman feels more like she´s married into the house than into a relationship.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: よめ、とつ.ぐ、い.く、ゆ.く
readingExamples: 嫁ぐ (とつ.ぐ), 嫁 (よめ)
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koohiiStory2: Traditionally, it was the women who would marry into the households of their husband´s families.
words: 花嫁(はなよめ): bride
嫁(よめ): bride, daughter-in-law

keyword: непреодолимый, подавлять
kanji: 豪
constituent: overpowering, tall, top hat, mouth, crown, sow, pig
myStory: высокая королевская свинья подавляет всех
heisigStory: Tall . . . crowned . . . sow.
koohiiStory1: In Orwell´s ´Animal Farm´ the pigs overpowered every other animals. They crownded themselves as ruler of the farm and walked tall on their rear legs, a crime strictly forbidden in the animal republic.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴウ
kunYomi: えら.い
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koohiiStory2: Ganon, the tall crowned pig, has been overpowering ther land of Hyrule for decades.
words: 富豪(ふごう): wealthy person, millionaire
豪華(ごうか): wonderful, gorgeous, splendor, pomp, extravagance

keyword: кишки
kanji: 腸
constituent: intestines, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, piggy bank, sun, day, piglets
myStory: часть тела, которая никогда не видит солнца - кишечник
heisigStory: Flesh . . . piggy bank.
koohiiStory1: Intestines are the part of the body that is taken out of piglets to make piggy banks. Just imagine factory workers scraping out the intestines of real piglets and packaging them up for little children.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: はらわた
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koohiiStory2: Taking things too literally, you used a real piglet as a piggy bank. Now when you smash it open to get your coins out, you have to dig out your coins from its intestines. ew.
words: 腸(ちょう): guts, bowels, intestines

keyword: овца
kanji: 羊
constituent: sheep, horns
myStory: просто запомнить. король одел рога и хвост, чтобы сойти за овцу
heisigStory: This pictograph shows the animal horns at the top attached to the head (3rd stroke), the front and back legs (strokes 4 and 5) and body (final stroke).
heisigComment: * The primitive meaning of sheep can add the further connotations given in the following frame. As we saw with the cow, the "tail" is cut off when it is set immediately over another element: ⺷. Note the change in stroke order, as exemplified in the following frame.
koohiiStory1: Picture of a sheep run over by a steam roller. Must have been a ram, note the horns.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: ひつじ
readingExamples: 羊 (ひつじ)
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koohiiStory2: Our Lord and King put on ears and a tail to become a lowly sheep for the slaughter.
words: 羊毛(ようもう): wool

keyword: подробный
kanji: 詳
constituent: detailed, say, words, keitai, mouth, sheep
myStory: овца блеет, не может детально все рассказать
heisigStory: Words/speaking . . . sheep.
koohiiStory1: Trembling from head to hoof from such a traumatic experience, the sheep gives a very detailed worded account to the detective about his wolf attack. "We need more details Mr. Sheep. Tell us exactly where the baaad man touched you".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: くわ.しい、つまび.らか
readingExamples: 詳しい (くわ.しい)
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koohiiStory2: Say! detailed sheep, not like that! DE-TAILED sheep. Got it?
words: 詳細(しょうさい): detail, particulars
詳しい(くわしい): knowing very well, detailed, full, accurate

keyword: свежий
kanji: 鮮
constituent: fresh, fish, bound up, rice field, brains, oven-fire, barbecue, sheep
myStory: рыба, которую продают, пока все "считают овец" - самая свежая
heisigStory: Fish . . . sheep.
koohiiStory1: The freshest fish is caught in the middle of the night while most people are "counting sheep." (If you´ve ever been to Tsukiji fish market, you know what I mean).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: あざ.やか
readingExamples: 鮮やか (あざ.やか)
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koohiiStory2: This one´s easy to remember. The kanji gives 2 examples of foods that should be purchased fresh. To remember which foods, take the first letter of fresh, "F", to stand for fish and the final sound of fresh, "SH", to stand for sheep: FreSH. It even puts the primitives in the right order.
words: 鮮やか(あざやか): vivid, clear, brilliant
新鮮(しんせん): fresh

keyword: завистливый
kanji: 羨
constituent: envious, sheep, water, water droplets, water pistol, lack, yawn
myStory: овца, страдающая от отсутствия воды, очень завистлива по отношению к тем, кто живет у реки
heisigStory: Sheep . . . water . . . yawn/lack. Although this character looks rather simple, special care should be taken in learning it because of the proximity of the final two elements to the character for next, which we learned in frame 510. Note, too, that the water comes UNDER the sheep, rather than on its own to the left.
koohiiStory1: A very thirsty sheep, who always lacked water, spends his days watching his fellow sheep (in the farm next door or in another pen) and being very envious of their water.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セン、エン
kunYomi: うらや.む、あまり
readingExamples: 羨ましい (うらや.ましい), 羨む (うらや.む)
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koohiiStory2: Envious of the greener grass on the other side of the fence, the sheep looks down in disgust at his own dry grass lacking water.
words: 羨ましい(うらやましい): envious, enviable
羨む(うらやむ): envy

keyword: исключительно, единственно
kanji: 唯
constituent: solely, mouth, turkey
myStory: кушаешь индейку исключительно на Рождество
heisigStory: Mouth . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: The mouth of a turkey is used solely for saying, "Gobble." Likewise, your mouth, full of turkey, is solely used to gobble it up.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユイ、イ
kunYomi: ただ
readingExamples: 唯一 (ゆいいつ), 唯物論 (ゆいぶつろん), 唯美主義 (ただびしゅぎ)
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koohiiStory2: Sadly my mouth gets to taste turkey solely on Christmas Day.
words: 唯(ただ): free of charge, mere, sole, only, usual, common
唯(たった): only, merely, no more than
唯一(ゆいいつ): only, sole, unique

keyword: обугливаться
kanji: 焦
constituent: char, turkey, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: я не умею готовить, поэтому индейка обуглилась над огнем
heisigStory: Turkey . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: When I put the turkey over the oven fire, it always ends up being charred beyond recognition. I´m not a very good cook.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: こ.げる、こ.がす、こ.がれる、あせ.る
readingExamples: 焦る (あせ.る), 焦がす (こ.がす), 焦がれる (こ.がれる), 焦げる (こ.げる)
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koohiiStory2: Char could be any meat over oven fire. So why is it a turkey in this kanji? Because charred turkey is what sticks out most in your mind as the thing that ruined Thanksgiving dinner.
words: 焦る(あせる): to be in a hurry, to be impatient
焦げ茶(こげちゃ): black tea
焦がす(こがす): burn, scorch, singe, char
焦げる(こげる): burn, be burned
焦点(しょうてん): focus, point

keyword: риф
kanji: 礁
constituent: reef, stone, rock, char, turkey, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: обугленные камни - рифы часто формируются от вулканической активности
heisigStory: Rocks . . . char.
koohiiStory1: Coral reefs are now dying off due to our abuse of the environment and now look like charred stone. For a picture illustrating this, see http://www.nacri.org/images/Hof-dredgingfig8.jpg.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: Reefs are often formed from volcanic rock, or "rock that has been charred".

keyword: квази- (т.е. по-видимому, но не совсем)
kanji: 准
constituent: quasi-, ice, turkey
myStory: замороженная индейка квазихороша, как свежая
heisigStory: Ice . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Quasi-modo, the famous hunchback of Notre-Dame wasn´t actually a hunchback at all!! He used a frozen turkey to make a hunch!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
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koohiiStory2: An iced turkey is only quasi-as-good-as fresh turkey.

keyword: женский (род)
kanji: 雌
constituent: feminine, Prince, this here, stop, footprint, spoon, sitting on the ground, turkey
myStory: прекрати есть индейку ложкой, ешь вилкой и ножом, как представитель женского пола
heisigStory: This character for female forms a pair with that for male, which we will learn later (Frame 804). The elements: footprint . . . spoon . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Stop | spooning | turkeys. Spoon females.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: め-、めす、めん
readingExamples: 雌 (め), 雌 (めす)
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koohiiStory2: To become feminine you must stop using a spoon to eat turkey and use a knife and fork like a proper lady.
words: 雌(めす): female (animal)

keyword: расшевелить, возбудить
kanji: 奮
constituent: stirred up, large, St. Bernard, turkey, rice field, brains
myStory: большая индейка переполошила всех на рисовом поле
heisigStory: St. Bernard dog . . . turkey . . . rice field/brains.
koohiiStory1: The St. Bernard dog pounces on a turkey in a rice field and stirs up all the other birds around. See them all gobble gobbling in fear?
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
kunYomi: ふる.う
readingExamples: 奮う (ふる.う)
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koohiiStory2: Gruesome, but it makes it easy to remember. Here goes: The St. Bernard stirred up a crowd of turkeys and caught one. It bit the head, brains spilling onto the rice field.
words: 興奮(こうふん): excitement, stimulation, agitation, arousal
奮闘(ふんとう): hard struggle, strenuous effort

keyword: грабить
kanji: 奪
constituent: rob, large, St. Bernard, turkey, glue
myStory: большая индейка приклеилась к полу. ее невозможно украсть (ограбить)
heisigStory: Whereas burglary (Frame 381) implies clandestine appropriation of another's property, robbery refers to taking by force. The primitive elements: St. Bernard dog . . . turkey . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the big dogs robbed the family of their Christmas turkey? Well, the following year Ralphie´s mom glued the holiday bird to the kitchen table, just as a precaution.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダツ
kunYomi: うば.う
readingExamples: 奪う (うば.う)
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koohiiStory2: Don´t let the neighbor´s St.Bernard rob tonight´s turkey....glue it to the table if you must.
words: 略奪(りゃくだつ): pillage, plunder, looting, robbery
奪う(うばう): snatch away

keyword: восторг, удовольствие
kanji: 歓
constituent: delight, pegasus, horse, pantomime horse, noon, sign of the horse, turkey, lack, yawn
myStory: индейка забралась на лошадь и кайфует, позевывая. какой восторг!
heisigStory: Again I cannot resist sharing my own associations. If you've ever seen Disney's animated interpretation of classical music, "Fantasia," you will recall what was done there with Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" (the 6th), and the flying horses that figured in it. The mares are bathing in the stream and the stallions begin to gather. As dusk sets in, the flying horses all start yawning and pair off for the night: a perfectly delightful portrait of delight.
koohiiStory1: Imagine a spoiled little girl. Her delight when she gets a Pegasus for her birthday... and then like all spoilt little girls she gets bored of it quickly... hence the yawn.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: よろこ.ぶ
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koohiiStory2: I would be delighted if Japanese lacked the Pegasus kanji.
words: 歓声(かんせい): cheer, shout of joy
歓迎(かんげい): welcome, reception

keyword: сказать
kanji: 曰
constituent: sayeth, pent in, one
myStory: просто запомнить... хотя похоже на язык во рту...
heisigStory: Pent in . . . one. The key word refers to famous sayings of famous people, and is the origin for the primitive meaning of a tongue wagging in the mouth that we learned in frame 12. The size of this kanji, a relatively rare one, is what distinguishes it from day.
koohiiStory1: Sayeth?! Who the hell says "sayeth"? Doesn´t seem quite right...just like this kanji, which is just like "day" but doesn´t seem "quite right.".
onYomi: エツ
kunYomi: いわ.く、のたま.う、のたま.わく、ここに、ひらび
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koohiiStory2: When pent up alone, one sayeth little.

keyword: брак
kanji: 姻
constituent: matrimony, woman, cause, pent in, large, St. Bernard
myStory: женщина - причина брака
heisigStory: Woman . . . cause. Think here of the "state of matrimony" and you will not confuse it with other characters involving marriage, one of which we have already met (Frame 581).
koohiiStory1: Matrimony is the state in which the woman has got you pent in like a dog so that you cannot go after other bitches.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン
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koohiiStory2: When the woman gets angry, she treats her man like a pent in dog (i.e., puts him in the doghouse). It´s a perfect metaphor for the state of matrimony.

keyword: подиум
kanji: 壇
constituent: podium, soil, dirt, ground, Churchill, top hat, -times, pent in, mouth, nightbreak, sun, day, one, floor
myStory: на земле стоит человек в шапке, много раз выступавший до рассвета - стоит он на подиуме
heisigStory: Soil/ground . . . top hat . . . -times . . . nightbreak. With kanji as difficult as this one, it generally pays to toy with the various connotations of its primitives before settling on one image. Aim for as much simplicity as you can.
koohiiStory1: A man on the podium announce the rules for the contest: You must fill a top hat with dirt as many times as you can by nightbreak.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダン、タン
readingExamples: 壇上 (だんじょう), 花壇 (かだん), 文壇 (ぶんだん)
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koohiiStory2: Abraham Lincoln used a simple mound of soil for a podium, when he wore his top hat and gave the speech he had practiced many times until nightbreak. But it was so magnificent that no one noticed.
words: 花壇(かだん): flower bed
壇(だん): platform, podium, rostrum, (arch) mandala

keyword: конопля
kanji: 麻
constituent: hemp, cave, grove, tree, wood, tree2, wood2
myStory: деревья, скрываемые в пещере (чтобы не скурили) - конопля!
heisigStory: Cave . . . grove. If it helps, this is the hemp marijuana comes from.
koohiiStory1: (Image: while Batman is out, Robin is smokin´ a huge doob in a secret corner of the Batcave where he nurtures his hemp grove).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マ、マア
kunYomi: あさ
readingExamples: 麻 (あさ)
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koohiiStory2: Where is the best place to hid your grove of hemp trees? In a cave, you dope!
words: 麻(あさ): flax, linen, hemp
麻酔(ますい): anaesthesia
麻痺(まひ): paralysis, palsy, numbness, stupor

keyword: терпеть
kanji: 忍
constituent: endure, blade, sword, dagger, drop, heart
myStory: терпеть боль от лезвия в сердце
heisigStory: Blade . . . heart. Endure here means long-suffering patience.
koohiiStory1: A ninja must be able to endure the pain of clinging to a ceiling, motionless, for hours at a time, waiting for just the right moment to drop down and thrust the blade of his sword into the hearts of his enemies. By the way, this character is used in the compound 忍者 (ninja) which is why I choose to use ninja as its primitive meaning.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ニン
kunYomi: しの.ぶ、しの.ばせる
readingExamples: 忍ばせる (しの.ばせる), 忍ぶ (しの.ぶ)
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koohiiStory2: Someone with a razor blade stuck in their heart has to endure the pain wherever they go and can tell no one about it.

keyword: траур
kanji: 忌
constituent: mourning, snake, self, heart
myStory: кого-то укусила змея прямо в сердце - по нему теперь траур
heisigStory: Snake . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Remember the tale of Cleopatra? She was MOURNING the loss of her Marc Antony, so she placed the asp SNAKE to her HEART.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: い.む、い.み、い.まわしい
readingExamples: 忌まわしい (い.まわしい), 忌む (い.む)
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koohiiStory2: You are mourning the death of a relative, and it feels as if a snake had bitten into your heart. -- "mourning feels like snake-bitten heart".

keyword: намерение
kanji: 志
constituent: intention, samurai, heart
myStory: самурайские намерения всегда прямы, всегда из сердца
heisigStory: Samurai . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: A samurai´s intentions always come from the heart.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ、シリング
kunYomi: こころざ.す、こころざし
readingExamples: 志す (こころざ.す), 志 (こころざし)
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koohiiStory2: Gentleman always have hearts full of good intentions.
words: 志(こころざし): will, intention, motive
志す(こころざす): to plan, to intend, to aspire to, to set aims (sights on)
志向(しこう): intention, aim
志望(しぼう): wish, desire, ambition
同志(どうし): same mind, comrade, kindred soul
意志(いし): will, volition

keyword: лояльность
kanji: 忠
constituent: loyalty, in, stick, mouth, heart
myStory: в центре сердца лежит лояльность
heisigStory: In the middle of a . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Their true loyalty exists in the middle of their hearts.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
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koohiiStory2: Your loyalty is to what´s in your heart.
words: 忠告(ちゅうこく): advice, warning
忠実(ちゅうじつ): fidelity, faithfulness

keyword: вертел
kanji: 串
constituent: shish kebab, kebab, in, stick, mouth, mouth2
myStory: два куска мяса на вертеле
heisigStory: This pictograph of two pieces of meat on a skewer, a shish kebab, will help us in the next frame.
koohiiStory1: Naka naka , "who´s there?" shish kebab .... "shish kebab who?".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カン、ケン、セン
kunYomi: くし、つらぬ.く
readingExamples: 串 (くし)
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koohiiStory2: This is a pictograph if ever I saw one. Two chunks of meat on a skewer.

keyword: милость
kanji: 恩
constituent: grace, cause, pent in, large, St. Bernard, heart
myStory: большое сердце - причина милости
heisigStory: Take grace in its sense of a favor freely bestowed, not in its meaning of charming manners or fluid movement. The primitives: cause . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Grace here is a favor freely bestowed, like a good deed. So to remember this kanji, go to the local shelter, find a big dog pent up in a small cage and adopt him. That will cause a warm feeling in your heart!
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オン
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koohiiStory2: This kanji tells us that wherever heart is the cause, grace is the consequence. Think of “grace” as a graceful act: something benevolent that comes from the heart.
words: 恩(おん): favour, obligation, debt of gratitude
恩恵(おんけい): grace, favor, blessing, benefit

keyword: соглашение, отвечать
kanji: 応
constituent: apply, cave, heart
myStory: в пещере тебе пришлось заключить соглашение, которое не отвечало велению твоего сердца
heisigStory: Cave . . . heart. The sense of the key word here is of something appropriate that fills a particular need, and hence "applies."
koohiiStory1: In the videogame Zelda, Link enters a CAVE to visit a fairy that will APPLY magic to fill his HEART containers.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ、ヨウ、ノウ
kunYomi: あた.る、まさに、こた.える
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koohiiStory2: [bravo, scottamus!] To apply for the job as a (replacement) Batman, you have to make it to the heart of the cave past all the traps he set up to test you. There, you see a table with the application form on it. Now that you think about it, the ad in the paper did say "Those who don´t make it to the heart of the cave need not apply.".
words: 応急(おうきゅう): emergency
応募(おうぼ): subscription, application
相応(そうおう): suitability, fitness
対応(たいおう): interaction, correspondence, coping with, dealing with
適応(てきおう): adaptation, accommodation, conformity
反応(はんのう): reaction, response
相応しい(ふさわしい): appropriate
一応(いちおう): once, tentatively, in outline, for the time being
応援(おうえん): aid, assistance, help, reinforcement, support, cheering
応じる(おうじる): respond, satisfy, accept, comply with, apply for
応ずる(おうずる): answer, respond, meet, satisfy, accept
応接(おうせつ): reception
応対(おうたい): receiving, dealing with
応用(おうよう): application, put to practical use

keyword: делать перерыв
kanji: 憩
constituent: recess, tongue, thousand, mouth, nose, drop, eye, heart
myStory: язык вывалился, дыхание тяжелое, нужно сделать перерыв
heisigStory: Tongue . . . nose . . . heart. The sense of breath from the last frame should not be used; it could lead you to put only the nose over the heart and leave the tongue off to one side.
koohiiStory1: Recess to me is a school break. At recess some kiddies are comparing their latest body piercings. Tongues and noses are nothing special. The new cool is to have your heart done!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: いこ.い、いこ.う
readingExamples: 憩い (いこ.い), 憩う (いこ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Ah recess; tongues slandering, noses being turned up, and beneath it all, young hearts being broken. Dominant in playgrounds is the noise of tongues, which helps me remember that in this kanji tongue comes first.
words: 休憩(きゅうけい): rest, break, recess, intermission

keyword: одолжение, благоприятствовать
kanji: 恵
constituent: favor, ten, needle, rice field, brains, heart
myStory: волшебника из страны Оз попросили о трех одолжениях: смелость десяти мужчин, мозги для страшилы и сердце для дровосека
heisigStory: Ten . . . fields (or: needle . . . brains) . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Too easy. Imagine the Wizard of OZ. There, the three heroes asked the Wizard for three FAVORS: the lion wanted courage of TEN men, the scarecrow wanted a BRAIN, and the tin man wanted a HEART. Ok, the lion bit is stretching but you have it memorized now, so who cares?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ、エ
kunYomi: めぐ.む、めぐ.み
readingExamples: 恵贈 (けいぞう), 恵与 (けいよ), 恩恵 (おんけい), 恵む (めぐ.む)
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koohiiStory2: Do yourself a favor and take ten minutes to think about your decison...　RTK2:　エ　知恵　ちえ(wisdom)　　　ゴ　互恵　ごけい(reciprocal).
words: 恵み(めぐみ): blessing
恵む(めぐむ): to bless, to show mercy to
恩恵(おんけい): grace, favor, blessing, benefit
知恵(ちえ): wisdom, wit, sagacity, sense, intelligence, advice
恵まれる(めぐまれる): be blessed with, be rich in

keyword: обманывать
kanji: 惑
constituent: beguile, a, pope, fiesta, mouth, one, floor, heart
myStory: девушку обманули на празднике: поцеловали, а потом разбили сердце
heisigStory: The first three elements, fiesta . . . mouth . . . floor, appeared together once already in frame 380. Beneath them, once again, the heart.
koohiiStory1: She was beguiled/mislead by his charm: at the party he kissed her on the mouth, they did it on the floor and thus he stole her heart. Poor girl!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ワク
kunYomi: まど.う
readingExamples: 惑う (まど.う)
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koohiiStory2: The same cowboy from frame # 356 (elements mouth, floor and fiesta), kisses the floor with his mouth, once again, before going to the fiesta. There, he uses his good looks to beguile women (gets them to buy him drinks or such), by playing with their hearts.
words: 疑惑(ぎわく): doubt, misgivings, distrust, suspicion
誘惑(ゆうわく): temptation, allurement, lure
惑星(わくせい): planet
迷惑(めいわく): trouble, bother, annoyance

keyword: меланхолия, тоска
kanji: 憂
constituent: melancholy, summer, head, page, crown, heart, walking legs
myStory: тоска берет, когда ушедший в поход Ричард Львиное сердце потерял голову
heisigStory: Head . . . crown . . . heart . . . walking legs. Two things merit mention here. First, the doubling-up of the last stroke of head with the top of the crown serves to make the whole more aesthetically beautiful. It happens so rarely that the exceptions are easily learned. Second, try to make a single image out of the four elements. (Religious statuary of melancholy figures should offer plenty of suggestions.)
koohiiStory1: Melancholy makes me think of Hamlet cause he was so ´emo´. In order to play up his feelings he bares his head and holds his crown over his heart then walks (on walking legs) around the palace making everyone see how melancholy he is. What a wuss.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: うれ.える、うれ.い、う.い、う.き
readingExamples: 憂い (う.い), 憂い (うれ.い), 憂える (うれ.える)
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koohiiStory2: This is an image of the crucifixion. Jesus is on the cross. His crown of thorns has slipped down and is around his neck, right between his head and his heart. His walking legs can be seen dangling from the cross as well. How MELANCHOLY!
words: 憂鬱(ゆううつ): depression, melancholy, dejection, gloom

keyword: вдова
kanji: 寡
constituent: widow, house, head, page, animal legs, eight, sword, dagger
myStory: в доме у человека в голове кинжал... где-то появилась новая вдова
heisigStory: House . . . head . . . dagger. Immediately we get another instance of a very odd exception. Notice how the final stroke of the head is lengthened, giving the final two strokes a chance to stretch out and make room for the dagger that fits in beneath.
koohiiStory1: The new widow sits in the house, her head in her lap (the extended stroke), her dagger in her husband.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
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koohiiStory2: The house´s head, her husband, was murdered with a dagger. You can still see the drops of blood above the dagger. She is now a widow.

keyword: экстаз
kanji: 悦
constituent: ecstasy, Freud, state of mind, devil, horns, elder brother, teenager, mouth, human legs
myStory: состояние сознания тинейджера-дьяволенка - экстаз от экстази
heisigStory: State of mind . . . devil.
koohiiStory1: ECSTASY alters our STATE OF MIND and makes us DEVILS.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エツ
kunYomi: よろこ.ぶ、よろこ.ばす
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koohiiStory2: The state of mind that horny teenagers are looking for.

keyword: постоянство
kanji: 恒
constituent: constancy, Freud, state of mind, span, one, ceiling, sun, day, one, floor, one
myStory: состояние сознания сохраняется на разных отрезках времени - постоянство
heisigStory: State of mind . . . span.
koohiiStory1: Constancy is holding the same state of mind over a long span of time. (tweaking PepeSeco and mspertus).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: つね、つねに
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koohiiStory2: Data is the epitome of constancy. As a robot, his consistency spans the entire day.

keyword: скорбь, плач
kanji: 悼
constituent: lament, Freud, state of mind, eminent, magic wand, augury, sun, day, ten, needle
myStory: день, когда умер выдающийся волшебник, сознание всех наполнилось скорбью и плачем
heisigStory: To keep this character distinct from others of similar connotation, one need only think of the Prophet Jeremiah whose poetry gave an eminence to the state of mind we call lamentation.
koohiiStory1: When the world´s most eminent magician died, everyone´s state of mind became that of lamentation. He was buried with his famous sun-flower wand in his hand.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: いた.む
readingExamples: 悼む (いた.む)
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koohiiStory2: Data laments that he could never see his eminent father, his creator, ever again. He paints a picture of his father, that looks like a sunflower in the shape of a magic wand.

keyword: просвещенность
kanji: 悟
constituent: enlightenment, Freud, state of mind, I, five, mouth
myStory: мое состояние сознания уж точно просвещенное
heisigStory: I know of an Indian religious sect which teaches that enlightenment is to be had by covering the eyes with one's index fingers, the ears with the thumbs, and the mouth with the little fingers. While these differ a bit from the five holes that we used to represent the "I" (frame 17), the idea of achieving a special state of mind by covering those five places can help you learn this kanji. You might try the position out while you are learning this character.
koohiiStory1: Enlightenment is a state of mind that goes beyond the five senses.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴ
kunYomi: さと.る
readingExamples: 悟る (さと.る)
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koohiiStory2: Data finds enlightenment when he discovers the answer to the question, "Who am I?". (Image: Data meditating in a sitting lotus position).
words: 悟る(さとる): to attain enlightenment, to perceive, to understand, to discern
覚悟(かくご): resolution, resignation, readiness, preparedness

keyword: смущенный, расстроенный
kanji: 慌
constituent: disconcerted, Freud, state of mind, laid waste, wreath, flowers, deceased, perish, top hat, fishhook, stream, flood
myStory: состояние сознания, когда ты видишь опустошение... расстроенное, смущенное
heisigStory: State of mind . . . laid waste.
koohiiStory1: (re: wazzab) The state of mind of the people of New Orleans as they examined their city´s concert hall laid waste can best described as disconcerted.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: あわ.てる、あわ.ただしい
readingExamples: 慌ただしい (あわ.ただしい), 慌てる (あわ.てる)
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koohiiStory2: Data walks in and sees Picard weeping. "What is the matter, Captain?" Picard looks up, and replies that his entire home planet has been laid to waste. Data, the master of tact, offers up this consolation: "Ah. I can see how that would be DISCONCERTing". It turns out that the flow of tears was really just because Picard had lost his chance at getting at some rare (and thus valuable) flowers on his home planet.
words: 慌ただしい(あわただしい): busy, hurried, confused, flurried
慌てる(あわてる): to become confused (disconcerted disorganized)

keyword: раскаиваться
kanji: 悔
constituent: repent, Freud, state of mind, every, reclining, lying down, mother, breasts
myStory: состояние сознание, которое должен испытывать каждый хороший человек - раскаивание
heisigStory: State of mind . . . every (See frame 497).
koohiiStory1: For all have sinned... so everyone´s state of mind should be to repent.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ
kunYomi: く.いる、く.やむ、くや.しい
readingExamples: 悔いる (く.いる), 悔やむ (く.やむ), 悔しい (くや.しい)
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koohiiStory2: When you repent, you heal your state of mind by going over every thing you regret doing.
words: 後悔(こうかい): regret, repentance
悔しい(くやしい): regrettable, mortifying, vexing
悔やむ(くやむ): mourn

keyword: удовольствие
kanji: 愉
constituent: pleasure, Freud, state of mind, meeting, umbrella, butchers, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: состояние сознания на встрече мясников (да и вообще на любой встрече) - удовольствие. "Как приятно тебя видеть!"
heisigStory: State of mind . . . butchers (See frame 307).
koohiiStory1: At the meeting of butchers, in their narrow state of mind, they throw lame jokes around like, ´Oh hello, it´s a pleasure to meat you´, and find this rather pleasing.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユ
kunYomi: たの.しい、たの.しむ
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koohiiStory2: Image : Data attending a meeting of the butchers union. As a joke to begin his speech he says, ´Its a pleasure to MEAT you all.´ (thanx to Shibo & nestOr).
words: 愉快(ゆかい): pleasant, happy

keyword: ленивый, лень
kanji: 惰
constituent: lazy, Freud, state of mind, left-handed, left, by one’s side, craft, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: левая рука, поиграть с плотью, состояние сознания - когда лень делать что-то еще
heisigStory: State of mind . . . left (i.e. "sinister") . . . flesh.
koohiiStory1: When I am in a LAZY state of mind I use my left hand to play with my meat...it feels like someone else is doing it, which is good cause I´m to lazy to get a date.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダ
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koohiiStory2: When in a lazy state of mind, the things you need to do are left for next month.

keyword: смирение
kanji: 慎
constituent: humility, Freud, state of mind, true, truth, ten, needle, eye, tool, animal legs, eight
myStory: Состояние сознания, когда ты готов воспринимать любую правду о себе - смирение
heisigStory: State of mind . . . truth.
koohiiStory1: Humility is the state of mind of accepting the truth about yourself - both favorable and unfavorable. (tweaked version of Raichu´s).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: つつし.む、つつし、つつし.み
readingExamples: 慎む (つつし.む)
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koohiiStory2: Humility is a state of mind when you consider yourself in accordance with the truth (you neither boast nor demean yourself).
words: 慎む(つつしむ): to be careful, to be chaste or discreet, to abstain or refrain
慎重(しんちょう): discretion, prudence

keyword: угрызения совести
kanji: 憾
constituent: remorse, Freud, state of mind, emotion, march, mouth, heart
myStory: когда ты сделал что-то под влиянием эмоций и потом испытываешь угрызения совести
heisigStory: State of mind . . . emotion. Hint: the etymology of "remorse" indicates a memory that returns again and again to "bite at" one's conscience and disturb one's peace of mind.
koohiiStory1: Remorse is the state of mind where I feel bad for what I did while I was tired and emotional!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: うら.む
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koohiiStory2: Tip: If you are confusing this keyword, remorse, with repent (#625) and regret/resentment (#1460), then note that rEMOrse contains EMOtion.

keyword: воспоминание (как действие)
kanji: 憶
constituent: recollection, Freud, state of mind, idea, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, heart
myStory: идеи возвращаются в сознание - ты их вспоминаешь
heisigStory: State of mind . . . idea.
koohiiStory1: Recollection is about bringing ideas back to your mind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オク
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koohiiStory2: Data´s recollection powers are unparalled. He never loses a single idea.
words: 記憶(きおく): memory, recollection, remembrance

keyword: тоскующий
kanji: 慕
constituent: pining, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard, valentine
myStory: тоскующий влюбленный положил валентинку на могилу любимого
heisigStory: Graveyard . . . valentine. Note carefully the stroke order of the valentine primitive.
koohiiStory1: Pining, yearn for... etc. Presumably for lost love. An easy one here, someone standing in the graveyard, placing an old valentine card amonst all the existing tributes.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボ
kunYomi: した.う
readingExamples: 慕う (した.う)
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koohiiStory2: Morticia and Gomez (of the “Addams Family”) are spending their Valentine´s Day at the graveyard, pining for each other´s affection.
words: 慕う(したう): to yearn for, to miss, to adore, to love dearly

keyword: присоединенный
kanji: 添
constituent: annexed, water, water droplets, water pistol, heavens, valentine
myStory: Гавайи...
heisigStory: Water . . . heavens . . . valentine.
koohiiStory1: Hawaii is a little drop of heaven nestled in the waters of the Pacific, most often visited by honeymooners and valentines. It was annexed to the U.S.A. in 1959, and more recently to Japan as well-- albeit only unofficially, and through private commercial holdings.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テン
kunYomi: そ.える、そ.う、も.える、も.う
readingExamples: 添う (そ.う), 添える (そ.える)
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koohiiStory2: Annexed to the U.S.A. in 1898, Hawaii is nestled in the waters of the Pacific, a little drop of heaven, often visited on Valentines.. (from Ihatobu with the date corrected. Hawaii became a state in 1959)...　RTK2:　テン　添付　てんぷ(appendix).
words: 添う(そう): to accompany, to become married, to comply with
添える(そえる): to add to, to attach, to append, to accompany, to garnish, to imitate, to annex

keyword: сочиться
kanji: 泌
constituent: ooze, water, water droplets, water pistol, invariably, heart, stick, drop, fishhook, drop3
myStory: вода неизменно просачивается через любые преграды
heisigStory: Water . . . the invariably divided heart.
koohiiStory1: Anything full of water will invariably begin to ooze.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒツ、ヒ
readingExamples: 分泌 (ぶんぴつ)
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koohiiStory2: When you pierce a heart with a stake, it invariably oozes blood.
words: 泌み泌み(しみじみ): keenly, deeply, heartily

keyword: стеречь
kanji: 看
constituent: watch over, hand, eye
myStory: рука прикрывает глаза от солнца - обозреваем окрестности - сторожим дом
heisigStory: Hand . . . eyes.
koohiiStory1: It´s a hot day of summer with a clear sky, you´re sitting outside a cafe (or maybe on a reclining chair in the garden), and you watch over the kids with a hand covering your eyes from the sunlight (next time, don´t forget the sunglasses).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: み.る
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koohiiStory2: Think of the monster from Pan´s Labrynth, that watched over the poor girl with eyes in the palm of his hands.
words: 看護(かんご): nursing, (army) nurse
看板(かんばん): sign, signboard, doorplate, poster, billboard, appearance, figurehead, policy, attraction, closing time
看病(かんびょう): nursing (a patient)
看護婦(かんごふ): nurse

keyword: натирать
kanji: 摩
constituent: chafe, hemp, cave, grove, tree, wood, hand, tree2, wood2
myStory: если будешь использовать руки вместо камня, когда измельчаешь коноплю, то руки натрешь
heisigStory: Hemp . . . hand.
koohiiStory1: If you grind the hemp without a stone but use your hand instead it will chafe. (Image: "Robin, why are your hands all chafed?" ´Uh... (I´ve been grinding hemp all day)´).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マ
kunYomi: ま.する、さ.する、す.る
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koohiiStory2: When the feds came to bust your little hemp grove, you jumped out the back side of the cave and tried to repel down with a hemp rope. Unfortunately, the rope chafed your hands and you fell .. ouch!
words: 摩擦(まさつ): friction, rubbing, rubdown, chafe

keyword: ЧСВ
kanji: 我
constituent: ego, hand, fiesta
myStory: рука - праздник - эго
heisigStory: Hand . . . fiesta. Note how the second stroke of the hand is stretched across to double up as the first stroke of the tasseled arrow we use for fiesta. Compare to frames 17, 36, and 564.
koohiiStory1: Someone with a huge EGO is too good for any romantic partner and as such has nothing but personal "hand fiestas" with himself every night.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガ
kunYomi: われ、わ、わ.が-、わが-
readingExamples: 我 (わ), 我 (われ)
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koohiiStory2: Did you hear about the guy who had such a big EGO that he threw a fiesta for his left hand?
words: 怪我(けが): injury, get hurt, be injured
自我(じが): self, the ego
我がまま(わがまま): selfishness, egoism, wilfulness, disobedience, whim
我慢(がまん): patience, endurance, perseverance, tolerance, self-control, self-denial
我々(われわれ): we

keyword: праведность
kanji: 義
constituent: righteousness, sheep, ego, hand, fiesta
myStory: женщины слишком праведные, чтобы позволять мужчинам трогать их овечек, что приводит к руко-фиесте
heisigStory: Sheep . . . ego.
koohiiStory1: Righteous Christians are sheep with egos (reworked from raulir, fixes word order to match radical order).
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ
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koohiiStory2: On the other hand, Woman tend to have too much self-righteousness to allow any man to touch their wooly black sheep this results in similar hand fiestas.
words: 義理(ぎり): duty, sense of duty, honor, decency, courtesy, debt of gratitude, social obligation
主義(しゅぎ): doctrine, rule, principle
正義(せいぎ): justice, right, righteousness, correct meaning
定義(ていぎ): definition
意義(いぎ): meaning, significance
義務(ぎむ): duty, obligation, responsibility
講義(こうぎ): lecture

keyword: жертвовать
kanji: 犠
constituent: sacrifice, cow, righteousness, sheep, ego, hand, fiesta
myStory: коровы праведны: они жертвуют нам молоко
heisigStory: Cow . . . righteousness. Do NOT use the image of an animal sacrifice here, as that will have it own character later on.
koohiiStory1: A cow that is righteous sacrifices her milk for the human race.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ、キ
kunYomi: いけにえ
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koohiiStory2: Cows are truly righteous animals. They SACRIFICE their milk so that we can have some. And if they don´t have any left, they give a sheep a hand fiesta (good lord this is going too far) and give us that instead. What righteous cows.
words: 犠牲(ぎせい): sacrifice

keyword: тереть
kanji: 抹
constituent: rub, finger, fingers, extremity, one, tree, wood
myStory: на кончиках пальцев натерлись мозоли / тереть кончики пальцев, согревая от холода
heisigStory: Fingers . . . extremity.
koohiiStory1: I like to RUB my FINGERS over my EXTREMITIES ....like my extremity-ly long, umm, hair.... This has been edited in response to being reported ...you can change "hair" to whatever extremity-ly long body part you like.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マツ
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koohiiStory2: When you´re cold, your RUB your FINGERS over your EXTREMITIES vigorously to warm up a bit. I´d still rather go in for a warm fire and some hot cocoa, though.

keyword: извлекать
kanji: 抄
constituent: extract, finger, fingers, few
myStory: сунь в нее несколько пальцев - извлечешь соки
heisigStory: Fingers . . . a few.
koohiiStory1: You can extract her juices by inserting a few fingers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: The mafia want to extract information from you. You don´t say a word, so out comes the knife. They cut of your fingers until you only have a few left and then you speak.

keyword: противостоять
kanji: 抗
constituent: confront, finger, fingers, whirlwind, top hat, wind
myStory: в яме противостояние в битве на пальцах
heisigStory: Fingers . . . a whirlwind.
koohiiStory1: Gandalf confronts the evil beast, shouting "you shall not pass!". He holds up a single finger and sends forth a whirlwind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a thumb war. A confrontation of fingers in a whirlwind.
words: 抗議(こうぎ): protest, objection
抗争(こうそう): dispute, resistance
対抗(たいこう): opposition, antagonism
抵抗(ていこう): electrical resistance, resistance, opposition
反抗(はんこう): opposition, resistance, insubordination, defiance, hostility, rebellion

keyword: критика
kanji: 批
constituent: criticism, finger, fingers, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: моя критика стоила мне пальца, когда я сравнил ее готовку с маминой
heisigStory: Finger . . . compare.
koohiiStory1: Think of the two most famous critics, Ebert and Roeper. On their show, they compare thumbs (which are technically fingers) with each other before dispensing criticism.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
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koohiiStory2: My criticism earned me the FINGER when I COMPARED her cooking to my mother´s.
words: 批判(ひはん): criticism, judgement, comment
批評(ひひょう): criticism, review, commentary

keyword: расчистить (землю)
kanji: 拓
constituent: clear the land, finger, fingers, stone, rock
myStory: пальцем раскидать камни, расчищая землю
heisigStory: Fingers . . . rocks.
koohiiStory1: A huge index finger coming down from the sky is kicking boulders of rock, clearing the land. Maybe it´s the finger of God preparing a place for his little people to live.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タク
kunYomi: ひら.く
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koohiiStory2: I imagine clearing the land in order to set up your tent after a long day of backpacking. Using your fingers, you pick up all of the rocks and get them out of the way so that you can get a comfortable night sleep. If you don´t clear the land you can just picture the rock sticking into your back as you toss and turn all night long.
words: 開拓(かいたく): reclamation (of wasteland), cultivation, pioneer

keyword: хлопать (в ладоши)
kanji: 拍
constituent: clap, finger, fingers, white, dove
myStory: так сильно хлопал, что пальцы стали белыми
heisigStory: Fingers . . . white.
koohiiStory1: (Image: the most snooty prim and proper English Lord with white gloves clapping only with his fingers. "Oh bravo old chap. Bravo...").
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハク、ヒョウ
readingExamples: 拍手 (はくしゅ), 拍車 (はくしゃ), 一拍 (いっぱく)
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koohiiStory2: I clapped so hard, my fingers became white.
words: 拍手(はくしゅ): clapping hands, applause

keyword: арестовывать
kanji: 拘
constituent: arrest, finger, fingers, phrase, bound up, mouth
myStory: если покажешь палец полиции и ляпнешь красивую фразу, будешь арестован
heisigStory: Fingers . . . phrase.
koohiiStory1: You approach the thief from behind, stick your finger at his back to fake a gun, and say the phrase "You´re under arrest".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: かか.わる
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koohiiStory2: Giving the police the finger and a colorful phrase is a surefire way to get arrested.
words: 拘束(こうそく): restriction, restraint
にも拘らず(にもかかわらず): in spite of, nevertheless

keyword: похищать
kanji: 拐
constituent: kidnap, finger, fingers, mouth, sword, dagger
myStory: палец ко рту, показать кинжал - клиент готов, можно похищать
heisigStory: Finger . . . mouth . . . dagger.
koohiiStory1: Wrap your FINGERS around someone´s MOUTH to keep them quiet, then put the KNIFE to their throat to ensure their cooperation. This is the best way to KIDNAP someone.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ
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koohiiStory2: After you beckon (#650) someone by seducing them, you kidnap them and hang them upside down (the reversed positions of seduce).
words: 拐う(さらう): to carry off, to run away with, to kidnap, to abduct

keyword: щипок, щипать
kanji: 摘
constituent: pinch, finger, fingers, antique, vase, stand up, hood, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: "пальцы прочь от древней вазы!", - кричала тетушка, зажимая ухо племянника пальцами
heisigStory: Finger . . . antique.
koohiiStory1: My grandma always pinched me with her fingers when i was playing with her antiques. Imagine her fingers, also quite antique, thin, bony and hard, pinching at your hand. "Keep your fingers away from my antiques!!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テキ
kunYomi: つ.む
readingExamples: 摘む (つ.む)
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koohiiStory2: >_< Don´t you hate when your aunt (who is an antique) PINCHES your cheeks with her antique fingers?
words: 指摘(してき): pointing out, identification
摘む(つまむ): to pinch, to hold, to pick up

keyword: вызов (challenge)
kanji: 挑
constituent: challenge, finger, fingers, turtle, portent
myStory: ты наставляешь палец на врага, вызвавшего тебя на дуэль, и говоришь: "победа за мной, ибо так было предсказано"
heisigStory: Fingers . . . portent.
koohiiStory1: Here comes a new challenge, try to kill Bowser, the giant Turtle using jut on finger.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: いど.む
readingExamples: 挑む (いど.む)
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koohiiStory2: You are sure to take a challenge because your victory was portended. So you stand self-confident before your foe, point a finger at him and say "I will prevail, as was long portended!".
words: 挑む(いどむ): to challenge, to contend for, to make love to
挑戦(ちょうせん): challenge, defiance

keyword: застегивать, закреплять
kanji: 括
constituent: fasten, finger, fingers, tongue, thousand, mouth
myStory: ты отказался застегивать ремень в самолете, поперся к стюардессе и начал вытворять разное своим пальцем и языком
heisigStory: Finger . . . tongue.
koohiiStory1: Teacher was always telling us to fasten our lips by pulling a zipper shut with our fingers. It always frightened me because I imagined getting my tongue stuck in the zipper.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ
kunYomi: くく.る
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koohiiStory2: On the plane, you refuse to FASTEN your seatbelt and even go so far as to give the stewardess the finger and stick out your tongue at her. The crew comes and pins you down and forces you to FASTEN it.
words: 一括(いっかつ): all together, batch, one lump, one bundle, summing up
括弧(かっこ): parenthesis, brackets

keyword: размахивать
kanji: 揮
constituent: brandish, finger, fingers, army, chariot, crown, car, vehicle
myStory: военачальник в колеснице размахивает пальцем и кричит "впереееееееед!"
heisigStory: Finger . . . chariot.
koohiiStory1: A military leader in his chariot is brandishing his finger at the enemy, crying "chaaaaaaaaarrrgggeeee!".
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: ふる.う
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koohiiStory2: Think of the movie Gladiator but instead Maximus is brandishing a giant foam brand name (nike, rebok, adidas, whatever) finger like you see at a baseball game. He´s riding in a chariot using the foam finger to kill his enemy.
words: 指揮(しき): command, direction
発揮(はっき): exhibition, demonstration, utilization, display

keyword: предполагать
kanji: 推
constituent: conjecture, finger, fingers, turkey
myStory: мама тыкает пальцем в индейку, гадая (предполагая) что она готова
heisigStory: Fingers . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: In mathematics, a conjecture is a mathematical statement which has been proposed as a true statement, but which no one has yet been able to prove or disprove. Have you heard of the Finger-Turkey conjecture ? It states that if turkeys had fingers, they would be able to count. Be sure to imagine a turkey with fingers at the tip of its wings, counting from one to ten.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: お.す
readingExamples: 推す (お.す)
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koohiiStory2: In the midst of conjecture on whether it was done or not, mom stuck her fingers in the turkey to check.
words: 推進(すいしん): propulsion, driving force
推測(すいそく): guess, conjecture
推理(すいり): reasoning, inference, mystery or detective genre (movie novel etc.)
類推(るいすい): analogy
推薦(すいせん): recommendation
推定(すいてい): presumption, assumption, estimation

keyword: поднимать
kanji: 揚
constituent: hoist, finger, fingers, piggy bank, sun, day, piglets
myStory: в местоположении поднимать пальцем груз
heisigStory: Fingers . . . piggy bank.
koohiiStory1: My piggy bank is so heavy that I cannot HOIST it using just my fingers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: あ.げる、-あ.げ、あ.がる
readingExamples: 揚がる (あ.がる), 揚げる (あ.げる)
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koohiiStory2: Picture a major robbery where some dudes are breaking into a bank to steal their money. They get their man in the vault through the ceiling - now he´s hanging from a rope a few feet from the ground (like in the movies, dodging laser beams). He reports back that he has found the loot, and its all in a large piggy bank in the center of the vault. The alarm sounds and he´s got to think fast. He jams the four fingers of his right hand in the piggy bank slot and tells his team to hoist him up, he´s got the loot!

keyword: предложить (какой-то план)
kanji: 提
constituent: propose, finger, fingers, just so, sun, day, mend
myStory: при починке дома я предложил использовать воооон те доски (показываю пальцем)
heisigStory: Fingers . . . just so.
koohiiStory1: When a man PROPOSES to a lady, he takes her FINGER and places the ring on it JUST SO, and the moment sweeps her away.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ、チョウ、ダイ
kunYomi: さ.げる
readingExamples: 提げる (さ.げる)
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koohiiStory2: I tried to propose to my girlfriend, but the ring was too small to fit her finger. Instead of saying yes, she just uttered an annoyed sigh. So I rushed to the jeweler where he made it bigger. But now it was too big, so I rushed back to make it smaller. This spiel kept going on until the ring was finally just so. Her eyes lit up and she said yes.
words: 前提(ぜんてい): preamble, premise, reason, prerequisite
提供(ていきょう): offer, tender, program sponsoring, furnishing
提携(ていけい): cooperation, tie-up, joint business, link-up
提示(ていじ): presentation, exhibit, suggest, citation
提案(ていあん): proposal, proposition, suggestion
提出(ていしゅつ): presentation, submission, filing

keyword: точка опоры
kanji: 拠
constituent: foothold, finger, fingers, dispose, walking legs, wind
myStory: ветер дует, а ты карабкаешься по скале. висишь на кончиках пальцев, потому что болтающиеся ноги не находят точку опоры
heisigStory: Fingers . . . dispose.
koohiiStory1: When rockclimbing, when your weight disposes of the valuble foothold, all that´s left is your fingers keeping you from death. Meanwhile, your walking legs are left dangling in the wind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ、コ
kunYomi: よ.る
readingExamples: 拠点 (きょてん), 占拠 (せんきょ), 根拠 (こんきょ)
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koohiiStory2: Once you have a good foothold, you can dispose of your fingerhold.
words: 根拠(こんきょ): basis, foundation
証拠(しょうこ): evidence, proof

keyword: набросок, делать набросок
kanji: 描
constituent: sketch, finger, fingers, seedlings, flowers, rice field, brains
myStory: набросок - это "саженец" картины, делаемый пальцами
heisigStory: Fingers . . . seedling.
koohiiStory1: A sketch is a seedling (#234) of things to come. Before the assault, the sergeant draws a sketch of the attack with his fingers in the sand.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビョウ
kunYomi: えが.く、か.く
readingExamples: 描く (えが.く)
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koohiiStory2: I´m bad at drawing, so when I try to sketch the kanji for cat, you can sort of recognize it, but I don´t get the curve of the "wild dogs" just right.
words: 描写(びょうしゃ): depiction, description, portrayal
描く(えがく): draw, paint, sketch, depict, describe

keyword: управлять
kanji: 操
constituent: maneuver, finger, fingers, wooden goods, furniture, goods, mouth, tree, wood, mouth3
myStory: пальцем направляю, куда двигать мебель
heisigStory: Fingers . . . goods . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Tip: goods + wood/tree : This combination of primitives appears four times in Heisig, so it´s worthwhile giving it a name. I suggest "furniture" (a common type of wooden goods). REF: parch (#215) , maneuver (FRAME 671), winding (#1369), seaweed (#2035). Story: Using just a finger you are trying to maneuver your furniture round your room.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ、サン
kunYomi: みさお、あやつ.る
readingExamples: 操る (あやつ.る), 操 (みさお)
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koohiiStory2: Luke skywalker points his fingers and uses the force to maneuver the goods through the tree branches and up over the tree.
words: 操る(あやつる): to manipulate, to operate, to pull strings
操縦(そうじゅう): management, handling, control, manipulation
操作(そうさ): operation, management, processing
体操(たいそう): gymnastics, physical exercises, calisthenics

keyword: выставить (уведомление)
kanji: 掲
constituent: put up (a notice), finger, fingers, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный человек под солнцем. кто-то пальцами выставил уведомление "не развязывать"
heisigStory: Fingers . . . siesta.
koohiiStory1: A muchacho puts up a notice that says “NO FINGER SNAPPING ALLOWED. MUCHACHOS ON SIESTA”. The muchachos are sleeping soundly, completely oblivious to the sound of dogs barking, guitar playing and even gun shots. Now imagine one tourist passing by and snapping his fingers and waking up all the muchachos at once.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: かか.げる
readingExamples: 掲げる (かか.げる)
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koohiiStory2: Just as I was finished putting up a "no siestas" notice on my property, a muchacho gave me the finger, sat down, and promptly fell asleep.
words: 掲げる(かかげる): to publish, to print, to carry (an article), to put up, to hang out, to hoist, to fly (a sail), to float (a flag)
掲載(けいさい): appearance (e.g. article in paper)
掲示(けいじ): notice, bulletin

keyword: заповедь
kanji: 戒
constituent: commandment, two hands, fiesta
myStory: когда Моисей получил десять заповедей в свои две руки, он спустился с горы и устроил праздник
heisigStory: Two hands . . . fiesta.
koohiiStory1: Two hands, fiesta.....when moses received the ten commandments with two hands, he went back down the mountain and threw a fiesta with the jews, celebrating the arrival of the commandments.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ
kunYomi: いまし.める
readingExamples: 戒める (いまし.める)
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koohiiStory2: When Moses returned with the commandments in his hands he saw that his people were throwing a fiesta. At first he was excited. Then he looked around and got pissed. "Awww, c´mon guys. Golden idols? Really?".
words: 警戒(けいかい): warning, admonition, vigilance

keyword: наказать
kanji: 刑
constituent: punish, two hands, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: В некоторых странах наказание за воровство - отсечение мечом обоих рук
heisigStory: Two hands . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: This kanji is for severe punishment. A man has his shackled hands placed on a wood block and they´re chopped off with a saber. No more stealing bread in the Middle East...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
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koohiiStory2: In Arab countries they punish theives by cutting off BOTH HANDS with a SABRE.
words: 刑(けい): penalty, sentence, punishment
刑罰(けいばつ): judgement, penalty, punishment
死刑(しけい): death penalty, capital punishment
刑事(けいじ): criminal case, (police) detective

keyword: из, от (from) (п: кулак)
kanji: 乃
constituent: from, fist, from
heisigStory: This pictograph of a clenched fist is another of the "hand primitives." Take note of its rather peculiar drawing. Try to think of drawing a fist (the primitive meaning) "from" this character to give yourself a connotation for the otherwise abstract key word.
heisigComment: * The primitive meaning is taken from the pictograph: a fist.
koohiiStory1: FROM a pictograph of a thumbs up. That´s how it also gets the primitive meaning of fist.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ナイ、ダイ、ノ、アイ
kunYomi: の、すなわ.ち、なんじ
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koohiiStory2: Think Charlton Heston: "From my cold, dead fists". Speech given to the National Boxing Association, in response to stricter control on boxing gloves.
words: 乃至(ないし): from...to, between...and, or

keyword: портативный
kanji: 携
constituent: portable, finger, fingers, turkey, fist, from
myStory: в кулаке нести индейку, тыкать в нее пальцем - портативный телефон
heisigStory: Fingers . . . turkey . . . fist.
koohiiStory1: This character is the "kei" in "keitai" (cell phone), a word you will no doubt hear often in Japan, since everyone has one. Imagine you´ve just arrived in Japan, but don´t have a cell phone yet, so instead you´re carrying around a portable turkey you can hold in your fist. To dial a number, just poke it with your fingers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: たずさ.える、たずさ.わる
readingExamples: 携える (たずさ.える), 携わる (たずさ.わる)
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koohiiStory2: Because they have no fingers, turkeys must use their fists when dialing on a portable phone.
words: 携帯(けいたい): carrying something
携わる(たずさわる): to participate, to take part
提携(ていけい): cooperation, tie-up, joint business, link-up

keyword: протягивать руку (п: вытянутые руки)
kanji: 及
constituent: reach out, fist, from, drop
myStory: линия дружбы превращает зло в доброту: кулак в протягивание руки помощи
heisigStory: The addition of a final stroke transforms this character from the primitive for a clenched fist into the kanji for reaching out, much as a stroke of kindness can often turn anger into acceptance.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this shall stand for outstretched hands. Only take care not to confuse it with that for beg (Frame 501)
koohiiStory1: I like to think of this as a fist with with brass knuckles because of the extra line. An old school thug reaches out to help you up but then with his other hand ( with the brass knuckles) punches you.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: およ.ぶ、およ.び、および、およ.ぼす
readingExamples: 及び (およ.び), 及ぶ (およ.ぶ), 及ぼす (およ.ぼす)
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koohiiStory2: Reach out and fist someone (Do you see the person primitive?).
words: 及び(および): and, as well as
及ぶ(およぶ): to reach, to come up to, to amount to, to befall, to happen to, to extend, to match, to equal
追及(ついきゅう): gaining on, carrying out, solving (crime)
及ぼす(およぼす): exert, cause, exercise
普及(ふきゅう): diffusion, spread

keyword: справляться (handle)
kanji: 扱
constituent: handle, finger, fingers, reach out
myStory: одна из первый вещей, которые выучивает ребенок, это протянуть руку и схватиться за палец, как за рукоять
heisigStory: Finger . . . outstretched hands.
koohiiStory1: See suck (#689): if it´s too big to handle, just use your fingers instead...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ、キュウ
kunYomi: あつか.い、あつか.う、あつか.る、こ.く
readingExamples: 扱う (あつか.う)
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koohiiStory2: One of the first thing a baby can do with his hand is to reach out and grab your finger as if it was a little handle.
words: 扱い(あつかい): treatment, service
取り扱い(とりあつかい): treatment, service, handling, management
取り扱う(とりあつかう): to treat, to handle, to deal in
扱う(あつかう): to handle, deal with

keyword: длина
kanji: 丈
constituent: length, stick, tucked under the arm
myStory: большая... длина
heisigStory: The length whose measure this kanji depicts extends from the tip of one hand to the tip of the other with arms at full length. Notice the final stroke, which cuts across the vertical second stroke to distinguish it from large (Frame 112).
koohiiStory1: Both a meter and a yard are about one arm-length.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: たけ、だけ
readingExamples: 丈 (たけ)
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koohiiStory2: This kanji reminds me of the kanji for big (I think it looks the same kinda of except for the last stroke). Maybe this works for guys, but when you were growing up you would compare "length" with your friends trying to show how BIG you were. You wouldn´t show "it" but you would spread your arms out as wide as possible to exaggerate your length. Maybe even so wide that you trip (I the 3rd stroke getting pushed over)! I just find it easier to relate this to the previous kanji.
words: 頑丈(がんじょう): solid, firm, stout, burly, strong, sturdy
丈夫(じょうふ): hero, gentleman, warrior, manly person, good health, robustness, strong, solid, durable
丈(たけ): height, stature, length, measure, all (one has)
丈(だけ): only, just, as
成る丈(なるたけ): as much as possible, if possible
丈夫(じょうぶ): good health, robustness, strong, solid, durable, hero, gentleman, warrior, manly person
大丈夫(だいじょうぶ): safe, all right, O.K.

keyword: офицер (должностное лицо)
kanji: 吏
constituent: officer, history, length, stick, one, mouth, tucked under the arm
myStory: один офицер, Наполеон, изменил курс истории
heisigStory: One . . . mouth . . . tucked under the arm.
koohiiStory1: One officer can change the course of history.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
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koohiiStory2: One officer, namely Napoleon, changed the course of history. (Thanks, ayoung24). Napoleon is also my primitive meaning.
words: 下吏(かり): lower official
捕吏(ほり): constable

keyword: снова (п: промежность)
kanji: 又
constituent: or again, crotch
myStory: снова в корабле пробоина
heisigStory: Like the several abbreviations in Roman script to indicate "and" (+, &, etc.), this short two-stroke kanji is used for the similar meaning of or again.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, it will mean crotch, as in the crotch of the arm. Or whatever.
koohiiStory1: After her boyfriend´s crotch has been satisfied, a woman might suggest they cuddle. The boyfriend, on the other hand, might say, "Or again, we could fool around . . . ".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: また、また-、また.の-
readingExamples: 又 (また)
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koohiiStory2: This keyword should really be "again" not "or again" Here is some context: think of the phrase "Jya mata" "じゃ又" which is a farewell similar to "then again". Also "Mata ne" "又ね" and mata ashita (again tomorrow) "又明日"。 Note this kanji is rarely used, most of the time JP people spell it out "mata" except for in the last example: 又明日.
words: 又(また): again, and
又は(または): or, the other

keyword: тутовое дерево
kanji: 桑
constituent: mulberry, crotch, tree, wood, crotch3
myStory: три ребенка сидят на дереве
heisigStory: Crotches, crotches everywhere . . . tree. Hint: think of a group of children playing an original version of "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush."
koohiiStory1: Children going around the mulberry tree singing "This is the way we wash our crotch, wash our crotch, wash our crotch...".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: くわ
readingExamples: 桑 (くわ)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine kids all over the top of a mulberry tree, sitting astride limbs so that their weight is on their crotches. (Mulberry trees have big sprawling limbs that run horizontally or at shallow angles making them easy to climb and sit in. I have an old mulberry in my yard, and my kids are in it constantly).

keyword: защита
kanji: 護
constituent: safeguard, say, words, keitai, mouth, radio caroline, flowers, vessels, turkey, crotch
myStory: корабли, усыпанные цветами, плывут защищать демократию (говорильню)
heisigStory: Words . . . flowers . . . vessels.
koohiiStory1: Think of the flower-vessels as a the Greenpeace vessel “Arctic Sunrise”, only instead of a rainbow there is a big flower painted on the hull (this will come back in seize (#701) and harvest (#908)). Think of “flower-power” and of the “peace” in “Greenpeace” and it will make some sense hopefully. -- In this kanji, we see an inauguration speech being given before the Greenpeace vessel is set afloat and sent to safeguard our planet.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴ
kunYomi: まも.る
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koohiiStory2: (With sarcasm) A Bush speech telling how all the US vessels are always welcomed, covered with flowers and words of gratitude for safeguarding democracy from the evil doers.
words: 介護(かいご): nursing
看護(かんご): nursing, (army) nurse
護衛(ごえい): guard, convoy, escort
弁護(べんご): defense, pleading, advocacy
保護(ほご): care, protection, shelter, guardianship, favor, patronage
養護(ようご): protection, nursing, protective care
看護婦(かんごふ): nurse

keyword: захватывать, схватить
kanji: 獲
constituent: seize, pack of wild dogs, radio caroline, flowers, vessels, turkey, crotch
myStory: свора диких псов захватила корабли, плывущие защищать демократию
heisigStory: A pack of wild dogs . . . flowers . . . vessels. Do not confuse this with the character for arrest (Frame 706).
koohiiStory1: A pack of genetically-modified wild dogs is seized by a group of Greenpeace activists and taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (the flower vessel, see safeguard (#700)).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
kunYomi: え.る
readingExamples: 獲る (え.る)
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koohiiStory2: Customs just seized a crate of poppies (flowers) detected by trained wild dogs who inspected the vessel.
words: 獲物(えもの): game, spoils, trophy
獲得(かくとく): acquisition, possession
捕獲(ほかく): capture, seizure

keyword: парень (неуважительно)
kanji: 奴
constituent: guy, woman, crotch
myStory: кто заботится только о женщинах и своей промежности? парни
heisigStory: Woman . . . crotch.
koohiiStory1: That GUY stole my WOMAN so I kicked him in the CROTCH. (This story helps keep the word "GUY" as someone you hold in contempt).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ド
kunYomi: やつ、やっこ
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koohiiStory2: Guys only care about 2 things: women and their crotch (preferably at the same time).
words: 奴(やっこ): servant, fellow

keyword: рухнуть, идти ко дну
kanji: 没
constituent: drown, water, water droplets, water pistol, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: топя сперму в воде, ты рушишь мечты о девушке
heisigStory: Water . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: (Note: this kanji is more collapse/cave-in/sink (#1888) than humans drowning) A water missile? A torpedo! And when it hits it´s target? The ship collapses then sinks and everyone drowns!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボツ、モツ
kunYomi: おぼ.れる、しず.む、ない
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koohiiStory2: The submarine´s hull was breached after being struck by a torpedo ("water missile"), causing the entire crew to drown.
words: 沈没(ちんぼつ): sinking, foundering
没収(ぼっしゅう): forfeited
没落(ぼつらく): ruin, fall, collapse

keyword: бить, атаковать
kanji: 撃
constituent: beat, tank, car, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch, hand
myStory: в машине помастурбировал, а потом ударил рукой по приборной панели: "какой же я неудачник!"
heisigStory: Car . . . missile . . . hand.
koohiiStory1: Your car has missles?! That beats mine, hands down.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲキ
kunYomi: う.つ
readingExamples: 撃つ (う.つ)
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koohiiStory2: Think 3 methods of attack all combined into 1 kanji: 1. Vehicle to transport troops 2. Once troops have disembarked they have their missiles 3. If they run out of missiles they resort to hand to hand combat to beat the enemy.
words: 襲撃(しゅうげき): attack, charge, raid
衝撃(しょうげき): shock, crash, impact, ballistic
打撃(だげき): blow, shock, strike, damage, batting (baseball)
反撃(はんげき): counterattack, counteroffensive, counterblow
撃つ(うつ): attack, defeat, destroy
攻撃(こうげき): attack, strike, offensive, criticism, censure

keyword: шелуха
kanji: 殻
constituent: husk, samurai, superfluous, crown, wind, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch, wind2
myStory: самурай стали излишними, ненужными, как шелуха на ветру...
heisigStory: Samurai . . . superfluous . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: Samurai´s husk/shell/armour is superflous to missile attacks 甲殻　卵殻　貝殻.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク、コク、バイ
kunYomi: から、がら
readingExamples: 殻 (から)
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koohiiStory2: husk or shell. Japan´s recent history in a nutshell: first the samurai became superfluous and then the Americans started to throw missiles and bombs during WWII.
words: 貝殻(かいがら): shell
殻(から): shell, husk, hull, chaff

keyword: конечность
kanji: 肢
constituent: limb, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, branch, ten, needle, crotch
myStory: части тела, которые ветви - конечности
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . branch.
koohiiStory1: The limbs that this kanji represents are parts of the body that are connected to the trunk, like the main branches to a tree (“arms and legs” is the second meaning of this kanji). In other words, limbs are "flesh branches".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
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koohiiStory2: Limbs are body parts that branch off.

keyword: стебель
kanji: 茎
constituent: stalk, flowers, spool, clod, toilet paper, crotch, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: стебель цветка заворачиваем в туалетную бумагу
heisigStory: Flower . . . spool.
koohiiStory1: Suggestion: Replace "spool" with "toilet paper/roll". Reasons: (1) Toilet paper/roll usually comes on a spool. (2) Toilet paper is used to clean the soil off your crotch. Story: Just get a flower and carefully wrap some toilet paper around its stalk. Spool also appears in suspicious (#716), lightly (#717), diameter (#882), sutra (#1360).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ、キョウ
kunYomi: くき
readingExamples: 茎 (くき)
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koohiiStory2: PRIMITIVE: soiled crotch = soiled underwear. To precent anyone from picking the beautiful flower, the gardner hung soiled underwear on the stalk.
words: 茎(くき): stalk

keyword: подозрительный
kanji: 怪
constituent: suspicious, Freud, state of mind, spool, clod, toilet paper, crotch, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: состояние разума, когда ты видишь туалетную бумагу, волочащуюся за кем-то. подозрительно...
heisigStory: State of mind . . . spool.
koohiiStory1: When you´re suspicious, your state of mind twists round and round like a spool of thread.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ、ケ
kunYomi: あや.しい、あや.しむ
readingExamples: 怪しい (あや.しい), 怪しむ (あや.しむ)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a loud farting sound on The Enterprise (sorry). Everyone looks around trying to find who did it. The one looking most suspicious is Data. His soiled crotch gives him away.
words: 怪獣(かいじゅう): monster
怪我(けが): injury, get hurt, be injured
怪しい(あやしい): suspicious, doubtful

keyword: дядя
kanji: 叔
constituent: uncle, above, small, little, crotch
myStory: моя дядя был одинок в своем доме. он был изящен в воде, поэтому был в команде по синхронному плаванию. Он взялся присматривать за мной как тренер. Но иногда он брал меня чуть-чуть выше промежности....
heisigStory: Above . . . little . . . crotch.
koohiiStory1: Oh come on people - say what we´ve all been thinking: the uncle is that creepy guy towering above a little one´s crotch.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュク
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koohiiStory2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let´s make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team). You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching...
words: 叔父(おじ): uncle (younger than one´s parent)

keyword: тренер
kanji: 督
constituent: coach, uncle, above, small, little, crotch, eye
myStory: моя дядя был одинок в своем доме. он был изящен в воде, поэтому был в команде по синхронному плаванию. Он взялся присматривать за мной как тренер. Но иногда он брал меня чуть-чуть выше промежности....
heisigStory: Uncle . . . eye.
koohiiStory1: Creepy uncle volunteers as gymnastics coach so he can eye the team from below.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トク
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koohiiStory2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let´s make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when COACHing...
words: 監督(かんとく): supervision, control, superintendence

keyword: одиночество
kanji: 寂
constituent: loneliness, house, uncle, above, small, little, crotch
myStory: моя дядя страдал от одиночества в своем доме. он был изящен в воде, поэтому был в команде по синхронному плаванию. Он взялся присматривать за мной как тренер. Но иногда он брал меня чуть-чуть выше промежности....
heisigStory: House . . . uncle.
koohiiStory1: The unmarried uncle´s house is the picture of lonlieness.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジャク、セキ
kunYomi: さび、さび.しい、さび.れる、さみ.しい
readingExamples: 寂滅 (じゃくめつ), 静寂 (せいじゃく), 閑寂 (かんじゃく), 寂 (さび), 寂しい (さび.しい), 寂れる (さび.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let´s make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching...
words: 寂しい(さびしい): lonely

keyword: изящный
kanji: 淑
constituent: graceful, water, water droplets, water pistol, uncle, above, small, little, crotch
myStory: моя дядя страдал от одиночества в своем доме. он был изящен в воде, поэтому был в команде по синхронному плаванию. Он взялся присматривать за мной как тренер. Но иногда он брал меня чуть-чуть выше промежности....
heisigStory: Water . . . uncle.
koohiiStory1: Uncle (the one who is lonely and coaches kids in his spare time) is actually a graceful guy once he hits the water, as he used to be part of the swimming team in his youth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュク
kunYomi: しと.やか
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koohiiStory2: Four straight kanji here with 叔 in it, so let´s make one story: Your UNCLE was full of loneliness (#720) (寂), and he lived by himself. He was naturally graceful (#721) (淑) in the water, and you knew he was once on the Olympic synchronized swimming team. You knew that there was something different about him, but you joined his youth team and he watched over you carefully as coach (#719) (督). It was uncomfortable, though, how your uncle (#718) often touched you just a little above the crotch (叔) when coaching...

keyword: коготь (п: гриф)
kanji: 爪
constituent: claw, vulture
myStory: похоже на коготь птицы
heisigStory: This character is a pictograph of a bird's claw, and from there comes to mean animal claws in general (including human fingernails).
heisigComment: * As a primitive, we shall use the graphic image of a vulture, a bird known for its powerful claws. It generally appears above another primitive, in which case it gets squeezed into the form ⺥.
koohiiStory1: A pictograph of Wolverine´s adamantium claws.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: つめ、つま-
readingExamples: 爪 (つめつま)
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koohiiStory2: Pictograph, see book. * I prefer the primitive meaning of an eagle rather than vulture. Somehow vulture makes me think more about meat and dead corpses than claws. An eagle however immediately brings to my mind the image of an eagle plunging into a stream catching fish in his claws, or that of the great eagles rescuing Bilbo and his party in Jrr Tolkien´s novel “Bilbo the Hobbit”.
words: 爪(つめ): fingernail or toenail, claw, talon, hoof

keyword: нежный, мягкий
kanji: 妥
constituent: gentle, claw, vulture, woman
myStory: грифоженщины сначала мягкие и нежные, но как только им удается окольцевать тебя....
heisigStory: Vulture . . . woman.
koohiiStory1: Overly gentle women are vultures who want to marry you and steal your money - not true but an easy mnemonic!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダ
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koohiiStory2: An eagle must be extra gentle to pick up a dainty woman in its sharp claws.
words: 妥協(だきょう): compromise, giving in
妥結(だけつ): agreement
妥当(だとう): valid, proper, right, appropriate

keyword: убеждать
kanji: 奨
constituent: exhort, leader, turtle, claw, vulture, glue, large, St. Bernard
myStory: большой лидер убеждает убедительнее
heisigStory: Leader . . . St. Bernard dog. Do not confuse with urge (Frame 300).
koohiiStory1: It´s easy to picture a LEADER that uses a BIG dog to EXHORT his people to do more.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ、ソウ
kunYomi: すす.める
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koohiiStory2: Here we have a St.Bernard exhorting the vulture to become the leader in the race against the turtle, but he can´t because of the glue. see leader (#731).
words: 奨励(しょうれい): encouragement, promotion, message, address
奨学金(しょうがくきん): scholarship

keyword: передавать (знания)
kanji: 授
constituent: impart, finger, fingers, accept, birdhouse, birdcage, claw, vulture, crown, crotch
myStory: "примите этот палец, пожалуйста", - передавая палец боссу якудзы
heisigStory: Fingers . . . accept.
koohiiStory1: Please accept this finger, you say, imparting it to your yakuza boss.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュ
kunYomi: さず.ける、さず.かる
readingExamples: 授かる (さず.かる), 授ける (さず.ける)
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koohiiStory2: This character depicts a student and teacher. The teacher imparts his knowledge on the student, pointing the way and guiding with the finger. Meanwhile, the student sits there passively accepting the tutelage of his superior.
words: 授ける(さずける): to grant, to award, to teach
教授(きょうじゅ): teaching, instruction, professor
助教授(じょきょうじゅ): assistant professor
授業(じゅぎょう): lesson, class work

keyword: расширять(-ся)
kanji: 拡
constituent: broaden, finger, fingers, wide, cave, elbow
myStory: если расставить пальцы широко - твоя рука визуально расширится
heisigStory: Fingers . . . wide. The connection with the previous character is very close. Beware.
koohiiStory1: Japanese girls are tight and may require fingers inserted to broaden them and make them wide enough before you can...
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク、コウ
kunYomi: ひろ.がる、ひろ.げる、ひろ.める
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koohiiStory2: Spread your fingers wide to broaden your hand.
words: 拡散(かくさん): scattering, diffusion
拡充(かくじゅう): expansion
拡大(かくだい): magnification, enlargement
拡張(かくちょう): expansion, extension, enlargement, escape

keyword: клапан, вентиль
kanji: 弁
constituent: valve, elbow, two hands
myStory: приходится использовать обе руки и напрягать локти, чтобы открытить приржавевший вентиль
heisigStory: Elbow . . . two hands.
koohiiStory1: Opening a stuck valve requires 2 hands and a lot of elbow grease.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ベン、ヘン
kunYomi: わきま.える、わ.ける、はなびら、あらそ.う
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koohiiStory2: The cubans build a pipe to flood the USA. Castro just has to turn the valve on it, and USA is flooded. Suddenly, CIA agents tackle him from behind, grabbing both his arms. But Castro manages to open the valve with his elbow, by raising the elbow above his head. Success! USA is no more...
words: 勘弁(かんべん): pardon, forgiveness, forbearance
代弁(だいべん): pay by proxy, act for another, speak for another
弁解(べんかい): explanation, justification, defence, excuse
弁護(べんご): defense, pleading, advocacy
弁償(べんしょう): next word, compensation, reparation, indemnity, reimbursement
弁論(べんろん): discussion, debate, argument
弁当(べんとう): lunch box
お弁当(おべんとう): lunch box

keyword: мужской (род)
kanji: 雄
constituent: masculine, Yamanote, by one’s side, elbow, turkey
myStory: мужчина: с одной стороны женщина идет, держась под локоть, в другой руке индейка
heisigStory: By one's side . . . elbow . . . turkey. Its match is in frame 605.
koohiiStory1: Men walk with their elbows out from their sides in a weird turkey trot when they try to appear very MASCULINE. Think of a 70´s pimp walk.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: お-、おす、おん
readingExamples: 雄 (お), 雄 (おす)
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koohiiStory2: Masculine duties are to offer your elbow to the lady by your left side and to cut the turkey on special meals.
words: 英雄(えいゆう): hero, great man
雄(おす): male (animal)

keyword: пренебрегать, пренебрежение
kanji: 怠
constituent: neglect, pedestal, elbow, mouth, heart
myStory: те, кто высоко на пьедестале, пренебрегают сердцами других
heisigStory: Pedestal . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: While standing on the pedestal at the award ceremony, the recipient heartlessly neglected to mention the people that got him there.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
kunYomi: おこた.る、なま.ける
readingExamples: 怠る (おこた.る), 怠ける (なま.ける)
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koohiiStory2: Someone you put on a pedestal will NEGLECT your heart.
words: 怠慢(たいまん): negligence, procrastination, carelessness
怠い(だるい): sluggish, feel heavy, languid, dull
怠る(おこたる): neglect, be off guard, be feeling better
怠ける(なまける): be idle, neglect

keyword: матка
kanji: 胎
constituent: womb, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, pedestal, elbow, mouth
myStory: часть тела, достойная пьедестала - матка, т.к. дает новую жизнь
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . pedestal.
koohiiStory1: The body part feminists like to put on a pedestal is the womb, especially when they hear a man complain about some responsibility. "We give birth, so it´s your duty to do so-and-so".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
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koohiiStory2: If any body part deserves to be put on a pedestal, it is the womb from which new life springs forth.

keyword: кульминация
kanji: 至
constituent: climax, wall, one, ceiling, elbow, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: кульминация берлинской стены была в том, что ее разрушили до земли
heisigStory: Wall . . . soil. The key word allows for the full variety of connotations: to peak, to arrive at the end, and the like.
koohiiStory1: Sexual climaxes don´t always happen on the bed; they sometimes happen against a wall or on the ground!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: いた.る
readingExamples: 至る (いた.る)
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koohiiStory2: The climax of the Berlin Wall affair was the tearing of it to ground.
words: 至って(いたって): very much, exceedingly, extremely
乃至(ないし): from...to, between...and, or
至る(いたる): come, arrive
至急(しきゅう): urgent

keyword: уважительная/смиренная форма глагола "делать"
kanji: 致
constituent: doth, climax, wall, one, ceiling, elbow, soil, dirt, ground, taskmaster
myStory: чтобы достичь кульминации, я смиренно делаю все, что скажет мой сексуальный надсмотрщик
heisigStory: The archaic English form for "does" indicates a humble form of the verb "to do." It is made up of climax and taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: To reach climax I doth the bidding of my dominatrix taskmaster.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チ
kunYomi: いた.す
readingExamples: 致す (いた.す)
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koohiiStory2: This character is used in two very high-frequency words: "you are welcome" (どう致しまして) and the honorific form of onegaishimasu (お願い致します; おねがいいたします). Can´t you just picture this ridiculously polite S&M picture? A businessman, who DOTH the bidding of his taskmistress, is climaxing and yelling out "お願い致します" while she whips and says "どう致しまして". (This kanji also means "to bring about" and "do humbly", which is perfect for this image).
words: 雅致(がち): artistry, good taste, elegance, grace
合致(がっち): agreement, concurrence, conforming to
一致(いっち): coincidence, agreement, union, match, conformity, consistency, cooperation
致す(いたす): do

keyword: отказаться от
kanji: 棄
constituent: abandon, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, buckle, tree, wood
myStory: младенца оставили на вершине горы, выше деревьев, потому что от него отказались
heisigStory: Infant . . . buckle (See frame 444) . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Think of a really loud and annoying baby, you want to abandon it but it keeps coming back...so you take of your belt by the buckle, and buckle the baby to a tree!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: す.てる
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koohiiStory2: As in sash (#415), I treat the one mountain in the middle to mean Mt. Fuji (Japan´s ichiban mountain). Now we see an infant being abandoned on top of Mt. Fuji well above the tree line to die of exposure.
words: 棄権(きけん): abstain from voting, renunciation of a right
廃棄(はいき): annullment, disposal, abandon, scrap, discarding, repeal
破棄(はき): revocation, annulment, breaking (e.g. treaty)
放棄(ほうき): abandonment, renunciation, abdication (responsibility right)
棄てる(すてる): throw away, cast aside, abandon, resign

keyword: удалить
kanji: 撤
constituent: remove, finger, fingers, borstal, bring up, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, taskmaster
myStory: надсмотрщик воспитывает ребенка. Когда ребенок делает что-то не так, ему удаляют палец
heisigStory: Fingers . . . bring up . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: Don´t lay a finger on him, a concerned mother says as the state REMOVES her child away for upbringing by a taskmaster foster home.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テツ
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koohiiStory2: A terrible yakuza taskmaster is bringing up his infant. Every time the infant does something wrong... well, you know what happens to yakuzas when they do something wrong.

keyword: выделять, распределять
kanji: 充
constituent: allot, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, human legs
myStory: сцена на фабрике младенцев: "Хорошие новости! Вашему младенцу выделены ноги!"
heisigStory: Infant . . . human legs.
koohiiStory1: Scene at the baby factory: Manager: "Good news! Your infant has been allotted human legs". Parent to be: "Thanks a lot!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ
kunYomi: あ.てる、み.たす
readingExamples: 充てる (あ.てる)
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koohiiStory2: In China, to prevent too many human legs walking around, couples are alloted only one infant…　RTK2:　ジュウ　補充　ほじゅう(supplement)…　Semi-Pure Group:　銃762　(ﾄｳ): 統1347.
words: 充実(じゅうじつ): fullness, completion, perfection, substantiality, enrichment
補充(ほじゅう): supplementation, supplement, replenishment, replenishing
拡充(かくじゅう): expansion

keyword: ружье
kanji: 銃
constituent: gun, metal, gold, allot, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, human legs
myStory: металла на производство ружей выделяют мнооооого
heisigStory: Metal . . . allot.
koohiiStory1: Everyone is allotted a metal gun (US constitution according to the NRA).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ
kunYomi: つつ
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koohiiStory2: What is a gun but a device for allotting pieces of metal? One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...One for you - BANG!...etc.
words: 銃(つつ): gun
銃(じゅう): gun

keyword: сера
kanji: 硫
constituent: sulphur, stone, rock, lifebelt, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, stream, flood
myStory: сера - это как камень, но воняет она, как поток дерьма от младенца
heisigStory: Rock . . . infant . . . flood.
koohiiStory1: Sulphur is like a rock, but it can stink like a stream of infant doodie.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リュウ
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koohiiStory2: Infants are baptised in streams inorder to prevent their descent into a place of sulphur and brimstone.

keyword: лицензия
kanji: 允
constituent: license, elbow, human legs
myStory: карлик не может получить лицензию на управление машиной, потому что локти и ноги слишком короткие
heisigStory: Elbow . . . human legs.
koohiiStory1: In some Asian kung-fu version of James Bond, the main protagonist has a “License To Kill” with his deadly elbows and human legs. His suit is always stained of red blood at the elbows and lower legs (this to help create an image that distinguish the two elements).
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン
kunYomi: じょう、まこと.に、ゆるす
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koohiiStory2: A midget driver trying to pass the road test to get their driver´s license. Their elbows are too short to turn the wheel and their legs are too short to reach the gas and breaks.

keyword: искушать
kanji: 唆
constituent: tempt, mouth, streetwalker, Ministry of silly walks, John Cleese, license, elbow, human legs, walking legs
myStory: шлюха искушает ртом
heisigStory: Mouth . . . license . . . walking legs.
koohiiStory1: I named the right part legal prostitute has it represents a walker [walking legs] with the license. It´s easy to imagine a legal prostitute tempting a man with her mouth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サ
kunYomi: そそのか.す
readingExamples: 唆す (そそのか.す)
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koohiiStory2: Prostitutes in Amsterdam have a license to show off their walking legs and tempt customers with their mouths.

keyword: головотяпство, неумелая работа
kanji: 拙
constituent: bungling, finger, fingers, exit
myStory: пальцем вынимал деньги из кошелька. уронил. неумелая работа, однако!
heisigStory: Fingers . . . exit.
koohiiStory1: With fingers fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could exit, the bungling husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セツ
kunYomi: つたな.い
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koohiiStory2: Horror movie cliche 769: Bungling victim´s fingers fumble & bungle trying to open the exit door.

keyword: ответвляться, ответвление
kanji: 岐
constituent: branch off, mountain, branch, ten, needle, crotch
myStory: три горы, к каждой ответвляется ветка дороги
heisigStory: Mountains . . . branch.
koohiiStory1: On the left, there are three mountains. The road branches off to each of them. (Note: This kanji is mostly used for branches in the road).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ、ギ
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koohiiStory2: In a lot of Super Nintendo-era RPGs, there are mountain levels to get through. You view them from overhead, so you can see a mazelike path with many branches. Picture your sprite characters at one such fork in the mountain path, as it branches off in two directions.

keyword: горный перевал
kanji: 峠
constituent: mountain peak, mountain, above, below
myStory: гора вверх-вниз
heisigStory: Mountain . . . above . . . below.
koohiiStory1: Heisig mentions at kanjiclinic.com that he wishes he´d chosen mountain pass for this keyword as it´s closer to what the word means. If we do this, the kanji makes complete sense because a mountain pass is just below the mountain top.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
kunYomi: とうげ
readingExamples: 峠 (とうげ)
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koohiiStory2: To the north of Lorien lies the Misty Mountains, and below their towering peaks are the Mines of Moria. The Fellowship of the Ring first tried for the MOUNTAIN PASS that goes above, but were halted by the wizardry of Saruman at Caradhras, and so are forced to take the MOUNTAIN PASS that goes below, through the mountain - a path long feared by Gandalf for the ancient evil that lurks there. Note : the kanji does in fact refer to a "mountain pass".
words: 峠(とうげ): ridge, (mountain) pass, difficult part

keyword: разрушаться, обрушаться
kanji: 崩
constituent: crumble, mountain, companion, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, moon2, month2, flesh2, part of the body2
myStory: 11 сентября башни-близнецы с-гору-размером разрушились
heisigStory: Mountain . . . companion.
koohiiStory1: Sam and Frodo were steadfast companions even as Mount Doom crumbled above them.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: くず.れる、-くず.れ、くず.す
readingExamples: 崩す (くず.す), 崩れる (くず.れる)
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koohiiStory2: September 11. [lol it also has 11 strokes], whoever reported this story is a loser, get alife. This is the best story on the website.
words: 雪崩(なだれ): avalanche
崩壊(ほうかい): collapse, decay (physics), crumbling, breaking down, caving in
崩す(くずす): destroy, pull down, make change (money)
崩れる(くずれる): collapse, crumble

keyword: секретность
kanji: 密
constituent: secrecy, house, invariably, heart, mountain
myStory: дом в горах неизбежно порождает секретность того, что в нем происходит
heisigStory: House . . . invariably . . . mountain.
koohiiStory1: To maintain secrecy, secret societies invariably have to house themselves in the moutains.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ミツ
kunYomi: ひそ.か
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koohiiStory2: To maintain secrecy, secret societies invariably have to house themselves on top of the moutains. (Slight tweak of chamcham´s story, using fuaburisa´s idea for remembering where to put the mountain primitive.).
words: 過密(かみつ): crowded
厳密(げんみつ): strict, close
精密(せいみつ): precise, exact, detailed, minute, close
密か(ひそか): secret, private, surreptitious
密集(みっしゅう): crowd, close formation, dense
密接(みっせつ): related, connected, close, intimate
密度(みつど): density
秘密(ひみつ): secret, secrecy
密(みつ): mystery

keyword: мед
kanji: 蜜
constituent: honey, house, invariably, heart, insect
myStory: домик насекомых неизбежно производит мед
heisigStory: House . . . invariably . . . insect.
koohiiStory1: When I think of honey, I think of a bee hive, which is a HOUSE that INVARIABLY has INSECTS.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ミツ、ビツ
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koohiiStory2: A house with a lot of honey will invariably attract many insects.
words: 蜂蜜(はちみつ): honey
蜜(みつ): nectar, honey

keyword: шторм
kanji: 嵐
constituent: storm, mountain, wind, gnats, drop, insect
myStory: ветер в горах легко становится штормом
heisigStory: Mountain . . . winds.
koohiiStory1: Storm is a full-blown wind that rips the mountains off the ground (you see one flying here).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラン
kunYomi: あらし
readingExamples: 嵐 (あらし)
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koohiiStory2: Winds are gathering at the base of the mountain (note the hint to primitive placement), going up, and turning into a huge mountain storm.
words: 嵐(あらし): storm

keyword: мыс
kanji: 崎
constituent: promontory, mountain, strange, large, St. Bernard, can, street, nail, spike, mouth
myStory: как странная земля, только странная гора
heisigStory: Mountain . . . strange. Hint: you might save yourself the trouble of a story here simply by recalling the kanji for cape (Frame 164) and toying around with the differing images suggested by the key words promontory and cape.
koohiiStory1: This is “Cape Strange” from FRAME 153, only with mountain in place of soil. Interestingly, there is also 碕 which is made of the primitives stone and strange. The three kanjis 碕, 埼 and 崎 all have the same meanings and pronunciations. They have very little uses other than names, for which promontory is the clear winner with over 2300 uses in place and people names, while the other two kanjis account for less than 200 names.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: さき、さい、みさき
readingExamples: 崎 (さき)
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koohiiStory2: A promontory is a small, strange mountain that juts out into the sea.

keyword: часть, разделять, минута
kanji: 分
constituent: part, eight, sword, dagger
myStory: ты входишь в час с кинжалом и разделяешь его на минуты
heisigStory: Go in . . . dagger.
koohiiStory1: When something is entered by a dagger, it ends up being cut in several parts.
jouYou: 2
onYomi: ブン、フン、ブ
kunYomi: わ.ける、わ.け、わ.かれる、わ.かる、わ.かつ
readingExamples: 分解 (ぶんかい), 自分 (じぶん), 水分 (すいぶん), 分別 (ふんべつ), 分銅 (ふんどう), 三十分 (さんじゅうふん), 分かつ (わ.かつ), 分かる (わ.かる), 分かれる (わ.かれる), 分ける (わ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: (This kanji also has the meanings of "understand" and "minute"). It´s important to understand that were you to enter an hour with a dagger and cut it into parts, those parts would be minutes.
words: 一部分(いちぶぶん): a part
十分(じっぷん): 10 minutes
処分(しょぶん): disposal, dealing, punishment
随分(ずいぶん): pretty much, very much
多分(たぶん): perhaps, probably
手分け(てわけ): division of labour
取り分(とりわけ): especially, above all
配分(はいぶん): distribution, allotment
引き分け(ひきわけ): a draw (in competition), tie game
分(ふん): minute
分業(ぶんぎょう): division of labor, specialization, assembly-line production
分散(ぶんさん): dispersion, decentralization, variance (statistics)
分子(ぶんし): numerator, molecule
分担(ぶんたん): apportionment, sharing
分配(ぶんぱい): division, sharing
分母(ぶんぼ): denominator
分離(ぶんり): separation, detachment, segregation, isolation
分裂(ぶんれつ): split, division, break up
申し分(もうしぶん): objection, shortcomings
分かる(わかる): to be understood
幾分(いくぶん): somewhat
区分(くぶん): division, section, compartment, demarcation, (traffic) lane, classification, sorting
水分(すいぶん): moisture
成分(せいぶん): ingredient, component, composition
大分(だいぶ): very, many, a lot
大部分(だいぶぶん): most part, greater part, majority
大分(だいぶん): considerably, greatly, a lot
等分(とうぶん): division into equal parts
何分(なにぶん): anyway, please
引分け(ひきわけ): tie game, draw
分(ぶ): rate, part, percentage, one percent, thickness, odds, chance of winning, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou
分野(ぶんや): field, sphere, realm, division, branch
部分(ぶぶん): portion, section, part
分(ぶん): part, segment, share, ration, rate, degree, one´s lot, one´s status, relation, duty, kind, lot, in proportion to, just as much as
分解(ぶんかい): analysis, disassembly
分数(ぶんすう): (mathematics) fraction
分析(ぶんせき): analysis
分布(ぶんぷ): distribution
分量(ぶんりょう): amount, quantity
分類(ぶんるい): classification
身分(みぶん): social position, social status
養分(ようぶん): nourishment, nutrient
余分(よぶん): extra, excess, surplus
分かれる(わかれる): branch off, diverge from, fork, split, dispense, scatter, divide into
分ける(わける): divide, separate, make distinctions, differentiate (between)
気分(きぶん): mood
十分(じゅうぶん): enough
自分(じぶん): myself, oneself
半分(はんぶん): half
分る(わかる): be understood

keyword: распространение, раздел (диска)
kanji: 頒
constituent: partition, part, eight, sword, dagger, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: часть головы, где я сохраняю канжи, это раздел канжи
heisigStory: Part . . . head.
koohiiStory1: The PART of my HEAD where I remember the KANJI is in the kanji PARTITION.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: わか.つ
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koohiiStory2: The last time I tried to partition a hard drive under Linux, I got a severe migraine that parted my head.

keyword: сосна
kanji: 松
constituent: pine tree, tree, wood, public, eight, elbows
myStory: публичное дерево, дерево, которого много на публике - сосна
heisigStory: Tree . . . public.
koohiiStory1: Following up with the "entering public restrooms" story for the right-hand primitive: public restrooms always reek of pine tree scented disinfectant.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: まつ
readingExamples: 松 (まつ)
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koohiiStory2: A pine tree is a public tree: they are frequently planted in public squares, in commemoration of the respect Conficius held for them.
words: 松(まつ): pine tree, highest (of a three-tier ranking system)

keyword: почтенный старик
kanji: 翁
constituent: venerable old man, public, eight, elbows, feathers, wings
myStory: публичный человек, у которого много перьев на одежде (индейцы) - почтенный старик
heisigStory: Public . . . feathers.
koohiiStory1: The venerable old man is the public figure head of the Native American Village, answering all questions and solving all problems. The higher in rank you get in this tribe, the more feathers decorate you. Imagine this old man covered in beautiful feathers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ
kunYomi: おきな
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koohiiStory2: The venerable old man is using the public restroom in the park where he feeds the pigeons. But, alas, there is no toilet paper! So, he´s caught a pigeon and is using it to wipe his bottom. (note the feathers on the bottom of the kanji, this helps remember placement). Can you see the feathers flying everywhere?

keyword: возбуждать дело, предъявлять иск
kanji: 訟
constituent: sue, say, words, keitai, mouth, public, eight, elbows
myStory: следи за тем, что говоришь в публичном месте, иначе тебе предъявят иск
heisigStory: Words . . . public.
koohiiStory1: Take care what words you say in public lest you be sued.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: [+radical_tyro] Socrates was giving a speech in public. Things were going rather well, until his robe opened a bit and people saw his, well, not-public area. He was promptly sued for public indecency. Certain things shouldn´t be made public in public, you know?
words: 訴訟(そしょう): litigation, lawsuit

keyword: обильный
kanji: 裕
constituent: abundant, cloak, valley, eight, umbrella, mouth
myStory: долина плащей... тут все изобилует плащами
heisigStory: This character shows the typical cloak of valley folk, which, unlike the tailor-made, high-fashion overcoats of city folk, is loose-fitting and free-form. Hence the key word's meaning of abundant.
koohiiStory1: Again using the fact that cleavage in Japanese is called "valley of the chest": a woman with abundant cleavage tightly wraps up her bosom in a form-fitting cloak, but leaving her valley exposed. Another unforgettable image (thank you, thank you, I´ll be here all week).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
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koohiiStory2: Welcome to cloak-valley, the valley where everyone wears cloaks and every shop sells cloaks. Mnemonic : “cloaks are abundant in the valley”.
words: 余裕(よゆう): surplus, composure, margin, room, time, allowance, scope, rope

keyword: свинец
kanji: 鉛
constituent: lead, metal, gold, gully, eight, mouth
myStory: металл, который вливали преступникам в древнем Риме - свинец
heisigStory: Metal . . . gully.
koohiiStory1: Picture the molten lead (the heavy metal) being discreetly drained out of the factory into a gully behind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: なまり
readingExamples: 鉛 (なまり)
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koohiiStory2: Lead -> Dental fillings -> Metal that enters the mouth to fill a hole in a tooth.
words: 鉛(なまり): lead (the metal)
鉛筆(えんぴつ): pencil

keyword: бежать вдоль (река бежит вдоль ж/д путей)
kanji: 沿
constituent: run alongside, water, water droplets, water pistol, gully, eight, mouth
myStory: вода бежит вдоль водопровода
heisigStory: Water . . . gully. The key word is meant to refer to things like rivers and railway tracks that run alongside something else.
koohiiStory1: Water in a gully runs alongside the path.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: そ.う、-ぞ.い
readingExamples: 沿う (そ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Picture one of those idiots that run alongside the bicyclists in the Tour de France trying to give them water. Watch as the cyclist shoves the person into a gully that runs alongside the road.
words: 沿岸(えんがん): coast, shore
沿線(えんせん): along railway line
沿い(ぞい): along
沿う(そう): to run along, to follow

keyword: юбка
kanji: 裳
constituent: skirt, outhouse, small, little, crown, mouth, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: в одеянии типа "юбка" гораздо удобнее ходить в уборную
heisigStory: The key word refers to an ancient skirt once used as part of a woman's costume. The primitives you have to work with are: outhouse . . . garment.
koohiiStory1: Compared to pants, a SKIRT is the GARMENT to be wearing when you want to use one of those Japanese toilets. It makes it so much easier: you just walk in the OUTHOUSE hike it up, and do your business.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: も、もすそ
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koohiiStory2: Haven´t you ever noticed that the men / women signs on the front of outhouses are sometimes very similar? The silhouettes are usually the same, but one will decidedly be wearing a garment in the shape of a SKIRT. Also, we´ve already learned the kanji for "woman", so if the signs are only in kanji you have no right to wander in and claim ignorance, perv!

keyword: воздействовать
kanji: 掌
constituent: manipulate, outhouse, small, little, crown, mouth, hand
myStory: уборная - хорошее место чтобы воздействовать на свое тело рукой
heisigStory: Outhouse . . . hand.
koohiiStory1: If you´re going to manipulate your body with your hand, then go do it in an outhouse, at least!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: てのひら、たなごころ
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koohiiStory2: Instead of magazines, we keep a Rubiks Cube in the outhouse to manipulate with your hands while you do your business.
words: 掌(たなごころ): the palm
車掌(しゃしょう): (train) conductor

keyword: старая женщина, бабушка
kanji: 婆
constituent: old woman, wave, water, water droplets, water pistol, pelt, branch, ten, needle, crotch, hook, woman
myStory: волнистая женщина - старая
heisigStory: Waves . . . woman.
koohiiStory1: An old woman is seen here as a woman with waves (i.e. wrinkles, creases).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バ
kunYomi: ばば、ばあ
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koohiiStory2: You know "The Old Man and the Sea." Well, this is the sequel, "The Old Woman and the Sea Waves.".

keyword: выставлять, открывать (в смысле, делать известным)
kanji: 披
constituent: expose, finger, fingers, pelt, branch, ten, needle, crotch, hook
myStory: ты выставляешь дырки в шкуре, просовывая в нее пальцы
heisigStory: Fingers . . . pelt.
koohiiStory1: You expose holes in a pelt by passing your fingers through them and wiggling them on the other side. The sense of the kanji here is to reveal something that was hidden, to make known, to open your heart (thus revealing it, exposing it to others), express your opinion, etc.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
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koohiiStory2: Think of it in this vulgar way. You really want her to expose her “beaver” pelt, so you have to encourage her with your fingers to expose it.

keyword: мученичество
kanji: 殉
constituent: martyrdom, bones, one, ceiling, evening, decameron, bound up, sun, day
myStory: мученики томились в темнице 10 дней, чтобы закончить свою жизнь в пастях львов, остались только кости
heisigStory: Bones . . . decameron.
koohiiStory1: Think of the early Christian martyrs who suffered martyrdom because of their faith. See them held in cells for 10 days (a decameron) before being fed to the lions. They appear before the chanting Roman crowds as bones to be devoured. Think of what was leftover after the lions finished them off....nothing, not even a pile of bones to bury.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
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koohiiStory2: The boney man martyred himself during his 10 day hunger-strike.

keyword: особенно
kanji: 殊
constituent: particularly, bones, one, ceiling, evening, vermilion, drop, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: красные кости особенно жуткие
heisigStory: Bones . . . vermilion.
koohiiStory1: A t-bone steak is vermilion - particularly if served rare.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: こと
readingExamples: 殊 (こと)
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koohiiStory2: Castlevania -- The vermillion skeletons (bones) are particularly hard because they just keep regenerating.
words: 殊に(ことに): especially, above all
特殊(とくしゅ): special, unique

keyword: увеличивать, прибавлять
kanji: 殖
constituent: augment, bones, one, ceiling, evening, straightaway, ten, needle, eye, fishhook
myStory: хочешь быть проткнутой немедленно? увеличь грудь!
heisigStory: Bones . . . straightaway.
koohiiStory1: Advertisement for Breast Implants -- Tired of nights all alone? Want to get boned straightaway? AUGMENT your breasts and all your troubles will be solved!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショク
kunYomi: ふ.える、ふ.やす
readingExamples: 殖える (ふ.える), 殖やす (ふ.やす)
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koohiiStory2: In the movie “Gattaca”, Vincent Freeman (played by Ethan Hawke) augments his size by straightening his bones (his legs), in order to match up with the genetically “perfect” population, and reach his goal of travelling in space. The stretching of his lower leg bones involved multiplying the bone cells, another sense of this key word.
words: 繁殖(はんしょく): breed, multiply, increase, propagation
殖やす(ふやす): to increase, to add to, to augment
殖える(ふえる): increase, multiply

keyword: расколотый, разорвавшийся
kanji: 裂
constituent: split, file, bones, one, ceiling, evening, sword, sabre, saber, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: кто-то пытался нарядить воинов-скелетов в одежду, но она оказывалась разорвана острыми костями
heisigStory: File . . . garment.
koohiiStory1: They tried issuing the skeleton warriors with proper garments to wear, but they kept getting split by the sharp bones or by their sabres. In the end, it was decided they look scarier naked anyway.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レツ
kunYomi: さ.く、さ.ける、-ぎ.れ
readingExamples: 裂く (さ.く), 裂ける (さ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: Someone takes a sword made of bone to split the garment right down the middle. Very effective.
words: 裂ける(さける): to split, to tear, to burst
破裂(はれつ): explosion, rupture, break off
分裂(ぶんれつ): split, division, break up
裂く(さく): to tear, split

keyword: пылкий, страстный
kanji: 烈
constituent: ardent, file, bones, one, ceiling, evening, sword, sabre, saber, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: колонна шагает прямо в пламя, доказывая, какие они пылкие и яростные
heisigStory: File . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: The nazis were ardent believers in the master arian race, see them marching everyone else into the oven fires, single file.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レツ
kunYomi: はげ.しい
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koohiiStory2: The undead, marching single file, prove how ardent they are be walking across a field of flame. Fun fact, ardent used to mean to burn.
words: 強烈(きょうれつ): strong, intense, severe
猛烈(もうれつ): violent, vehement, rage

keyword: погребение
kanji: 葬
constituent: interment, flowers, death, bones, one, ceiling, evening, spoon, sitting on the ground, two hands
myStory: смерть. цветок в руках у покойника. похороны
heisigStory: Flowers . . . death . . . two hands. Do not confuse with bury (Frame 191).
koohiiStory1: I imagine an interment as a funeral. At this funeral it´s an open casket, and the dead body (death) is holding flowers with both of its hands.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: ほうむ.る
readingExamples: 葬る (ほうむ.る)
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koohiiStory2: During the interment ceremony, the grandchildren placed flowers over the dead body while the widow sat praying with two hands.
words: 葬る(ほうむる): to bury, to inter, to entomb, to consign to oblivion, to shelve
葬式(そうしき): funeral

keyword: подмигивать
kanji: 瞬
constituent: wink, eye, Rose of Sharon, birdhouse, birdcage, claw, vulture, crown, sunglasses, dancing legs, ballerina, evening
myStory: когда ты идешь в домик птиц, с солнечными очками на глазах, ты теряешь способность подмигнуть девушке
heisigStory: Eye . . . birdhouse . . . sunglasses.
koohiiStory1: Imagine Snoopy winking with his big eyes (and a happy smile) standing next to Woodstocks Birdhouse, woodstock being so cool that he wears little sunglasses.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュン
kunYomi: またた.く、まじろ.ぐ
readingExamples: 瞬く (またた.く)
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koohiiStory2: What a dilemna, you wore SUNGLASSES over your EYES when you went to the BIRDHOUSE so you wouldn´t be recognized - but now you can´t WINK at the girl you want!
words: 瞬き(またたき): wink, twinkling (of stars), flicker (of light)
一瞬(いっしゅん): moment, instant
瞬間(しゅんかん): moment, second, instant

keyword: суть, цель
kanji: 趣
constituent: gist, run, soil, dirt, ground, mend, take, ear, crotch
myStory: суть: мы берем деньги и бежим!
heisigStory: Run . . . take.
koohiiStory1: The gist of it is this: We take the money and run!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュ
kunYomi: おもむき、おもむ.く
readingExamples: 趣 (おもむき)
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koohiiStory2: Pickpocket advice: It´s simple, FIRST run, then take. Yeah, that´s the gist of it!
words: 趣(おもむき): meaning, tenor, gist, effect, appearance, taste, grace, charm, refinement
趣旨(しゅし): object, meaning
趣味(しゅみ): hobby

keyword: делать снимок (фото)
kanji: 撮
constituent: snapshot, finger, fingers, utmost, sun, day, take, ear, crotch
myStory: делай снимки большим пальцем
heisigStory: Finger . . . utmost. This character is used for taking photographs. Note how, conveniently, the element for "take" is included in it.
koohiiStory1: Take the utmost care that you don´t have your finger in the way when you take a snapshot.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サツ
kunYomi: と.る、つま.む、-ど.り
readingExamples: 撮る (と.る)
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koohiiStory2: When I learned photography from my dad as a little girl, he explained the basics to me: "when you take a snapshot, be careful not to put your fingers before the lens, and don´t look towards the sun (this was in the days that photographs would be spoiled by direct sunlight).
words: 撮影(さつえい): photographing
撮る(とる): take (a photo), make (a film)

keyword: святой
kanji: 聖
constituent: holy, ear, mouth, king, jewel, ball
myStory: сначала слушает, потом говорит, и при этом выше королей - святой человек
heisigStory: Ear . . . mouth . . . king.
koohiiStory1: The trick for me is to remember that the 耳 is to the left of the 口. However, this is easy because a true holy man uses his ear to listen (i.e., to God or his supplicant) before he opens his mouth to speak, unlike a charlatan who just makes something up. Of course, kings are often true holy men and prophets (e.g., King David in the bible).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ、ショウ
kunYomi: ひじり
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koohiiStory2: A holy man hears with his ears before he speaks with his mouth, which places him higher than a king in people´s esteem.
words: 神聖(しんせい): holiness, sacredness, dignity
聖書(せいしょ): Bible, scriptures

keyword: отважный
kanji: 敢
constituent: daring, street, nail, spike, ear, taskmaster
myStory: носить шип в ухе перед лицом надсмотрщика может только очень отважный человек
heisigStory: Spike . . . ear . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: Only a truly daring Japanese student would wear a spike in his ear under the gaze of the Japanese teacher taskmasters!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: あ.えて、あ.えない、あ.えず
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koohiiStory2: See that ear nailed over there ? It´s the ear of the last person who was too daring with the taskmistress.
words: 敢えて(あえて): dare (to do), challenge (to do)
勇敢(ゆうかん): bravery, heroism, gallantry

keyword: слышать, слушать
kanji: 聴
constituent: listen, ear, stethoscope, camel, ten, needle, eye, cross-eyed, net, heart
myStory: даже если иглы будут в моих глазах, а сердце остановится, я буду продолжать тебя слышать ухом!
heisigStory: Ear . . . needle . . . eye . . . heart. Compare frame 427 for this and the following kanji, and then once again when you get to frame 950.
koohiiStory1: I promise to use my ear to do nothing but listen ... stick a needle in my eye, cross my heart and hope to die! (Intentionally said backwards to get the order of the primitives correct).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ、テイ
kunYomi: き.く、ゆる.す
readingExamples: 聴く (き.く)
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koohiiStory2: Listening to others is different from hearing [1626] with the ear. One must allow the words to pierce through the eyes (the window of the soul) and reach deep into the heart...a symbol of thinking about and contemplating on what was said, not just the sounds of words spoken. A married man while reading his newspaper, his wife going on about something suddenly, says, "You´re not listening to me, are you?" He replies, "I heard every word you said. You said..." “Yes, but you´re not listening.".
words: 聴覚(ちょうかく): the sense of hearing
聴講(ちょうこう): lecture attendance, auditing
聴診器(ちょうしんき): stethoscope

keyword: карман
kanji: 懐
constituent: pocket, Freud, state of mind, poltergeist, BernaE, ten, needle, eye, cross-eyed, net, top hat, scarf, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment
myStory: иглы в глазах, но сознание в одежде: не сперли ли что-нибудь из кармана?
heisigStory: State of mind . . . needle . . . eyes . . . garment.
koohiiStory1: (re: taijuando) When you are in New York City you have to be alert, i.e. in the "New York State of Mind": you need ten eyes to make sure no one will go through your garments and pick your pockets.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ、エ
kunYomi: ふところ、なつ.かしい、なつ.かしむ、なつ.く、なつ.ける、なず.ける、いだ.く、おも.う
readingExamples: 懐かしい (なつ.かしい), 懐かしむ (なつ.かしむ), 懐く (なつ.く), 懐ける (なつ.ける), 懐 (ふところ)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine Darth Vader´s state of mind when he discovers his garment has not pockets. " D O NOT WANT!".
words: 懐く(なつく): to become emotionally attached
懐かしい(なつかしい): dear, desired, missed

keyword: поднимать на смех
kanji: 慢
constituent: ridicule, Freud, state of mind, mandala, sun, day, eye, cross-eyed, net, crotch
myStory: атеист не сдержал разум и поднял на смех мандалу, когда увидел ее
heisigStory: State of mind . . . mandala.
koohiiStory1: I´ll focus on the mandala primitive here. I guess Heisig chose this keyword for phonetic reasons and as a character it´s the "man" in mandara/mandala (曼荼羅). A mandala is a graphic representation of the universe, here split in 3 planes of existance, the sun representing the cosmos, the eye represents the human observer, the crotch represents the animal instincts.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マン
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koohiiStory2: He´ s often ridiculed for having his eye on crotches all day.
words: 怠慢(たいまん): negligence, procrastination, carelessness
我慢(がまん): patience, endurance, perseverance, tolerance, self-control, self-denial
自慢(じまん): pride, boast

keyword: свободный, развязанный
kanji: 漫
constituent: loose, water, water droplets, water pistol, mandala, sun, day, eye, cross-eyed, net, crotch
myStory: Культ Отаку сделал свободную интерпретацию мандала - получилась манга. Буддисты обиделись и смыли ее водой.
heisigStory: Water . . . mandala.
koohiiStory1: One obscure Tibetan sect-- the Otaku cult-- has an unusually loose interpretation of mandala drawing practice. Instead of traditional mandalas they draw mangas (漫画). They then pour water on the image to wash it away, and begin anew.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マン
kunYomi: みがりに
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koohiiStory2: Even NELSON MANDALA dreams of drops of WATER glistening on comic book/ anime girls with LOOSE morals. (This story has been edited in response reports).
words: 漫画(まんが): cartoon

keyword: штраф
kanji: 罰
constituent: penalty, eye, cross-eyed, net, say, words, keitai, mouth, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: если ты посмотрел не туда, еще и ляпнул что-то, то заплати штраф, или тебя зарубят
heisigStory: Eye . . . words . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: For Japanese, when the mind´s eye (the sideways eye) feels guilty for something bad that the body has done, there are two penaltys to choose from. One, you can say I´m sorry. Two, you can commit suicide by sabre. Why, oh why, do so many Japanese executives commit suicide at the first sign of scandal when all the have to do is say I´m sorry to get off the hook. (on yomi: バチ, バツ).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バツ、バチ、ハツ
kunYomi: ばっ.する
readingExamples: 罰金 (ばっきん), 処罰 (しょばつ), 天罰 (てんばつ)
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koohiiStory2: There is a 3-way masterplan for every goalkeeper to prevent a goal at penalty shootout: 1. Look directly into the eyes of the player --- 2. Confuse him by screaming senseless words --- 3. Pull out you your saber and ... (that´s up to you).
words: 刑罰(けいばつ): judgement, penalty, punishment
処罰(しょばつ): punishment
罰(ばち): (divine) punishment, curse, retribution
罰する(ばっする): punish, penalize

keyword: скорее, вернее
kanji: 寧
constituent: rather, house, heart, eye, cross-eyed, net, street, nail, spike
myStory: скорее дом с серцем, чем глаз с иглой
heisigStory: House . . . heart . . . eye . . . spike.
koohiiStory1: A pretty tough kanji. Think of elegant old housewives with English accents dining together at a HOUSE party. The hostess brings out a dish of hors d´oeuvres: a SPIKE of metal with an EYEBALL and a HEART skewered on it. Upon being offered this treat, one of the housewives says in her English accent, "I´d RATHER not.".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ネイ
kunYomi: むし.ろ
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koohiiStory2: Rather a house with a heart than an eye with a spike.
words: 寧ろ(むしろ): rather, better, instead
丁寧(ていねい): polite, courteous

keyword: звонкий (voiced)
kanji: 濁
constituent: voiced, water, water droplets, water pistol, spider, eye, cross-eyed, net, bound up, insect
myStory: если нальешь воды на глаза связанному насекомому, услышишь звонкий протест
heisigStory: The key word for this kanji connotes the "muddying" effect on a soft consonant brought about by vibrating the vocal chords. For example, in English a "j" is voiced while a "sh" is unvoiced. In Japanese, the し is changed to じ when it is voiced. The primitives are: water . . . eye . . . bound up . . . insect.
koohiiStory1: The fly is wrapped in a spiderweb voicing "Help me, Help Me" under the watchful eye of the spider who´s venom is dripping like water from her fangs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダク、ジョク
kunYomi: にご.る、にご.す
readingExamples: 濁す (にご.す), 濁る (にご.る)
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koohiiStory2: Pour water over the eyes of a bound up insect if you want to hear a pitiful buzz that is very similar to a VOICED consanant.
words: 清濁(せいだく): good and evil, purity and impurity
濁る(にごる): become muddy or impure

keyword: кольцо
kanji: 環
constituent: ring, king, jewel, ball, trampoline, eye, cross-eyed, net, one, ceiling, mouth, scarf
myStory: кольцо-драгоценность. око саурона ищет братство кольца, которое прячется под крышами. Голлум бормочет "моя прелесть". Шарф Пиппина.
heisigStory: Jewel . . . eye . . . ceiling . . . mouth . . . scarf. The number of elements is large here, so take extra care. Learn it in conjunction with the next frame, since these are the only two cases in this book where the combination of elements to the right appears.
koohiiStory1: Together with the next kanji, the keywords spell “send back the ring”. First we have a jewel. Next we have the great eye of Sauron searching for the fellowship hiding under the many ceilings during their journey. The fourth and fifth primitives are the mouth of Gollum always mumbling “My preciousss”; and Pippin´s scarf! Placement: the eye appears at the top similarly to how the Great Eye of Sauron is perched atop the Dark Tower.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: わ
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koohiiStory2: In conjunction with send back (#837)....... When I tried to give her the jewel ring, she eyed me, threw it to the floor, opened her mouth and tried to speak, she said nothing. She grabbed her scarf and left.
words: 環境(かんきょう): environment, circumstance
循環(じゅんかん): circulation, rotation, cycle

keyword: отправляться обратно, возвращать(-ся)
kanji: 還
constituent: send back, trampoline, eye, cross-eyed, net, one, ceiling, mouth, scarf, road
myStory: дорога, по которой Фродо и Сэм возвращают кольцо в Ородруин
heisigStory: Road . . . eye . . . ceiling . . . mouth . . . scarf.
koohiiStory1: You´ve probably guessed it by now, this is the road that Sam and Frodo take to send back the ring to Mount Doom! (see previous frame, the jewel is replaced by the road).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: かえ.る
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koohiiStory2: Continued from ring (#836)....... So I´m on the road going to send back the ring minus the jewel, the hit to the floor knocked it out.
words: 還元(かんげん): resolution, reduction, return to origins
還暦(かんれき): 60th birthday
返還(へんかん): return, restoration

keyword: помощь, помогать
kanji: 扶
constituent: aid, finger, fingers, husband
myStory: муж всегда поможет своим пальцем
heisigStory: Fingers . . . husband.
koohiiStory1: Using his finger the husband sometimes is an erotic aid to his partner.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: たす.ける
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koohiiStory2: In Homer Simpsons´ house, the first aid kit is usually used for when he smashes his fingers trying to build something (there are countless Simpsons episodes you can draw from for this).
words: 扶養(ふよう): support, maintenance

keyword: горный поток
kanji: 渓
constituent: mountain stream, water, water droplets, water pistol, claw, vulture, husband
myStory: муж пошел за водой к горному потоку, и там на него напал гриф
heisigStory: Water . . . vulture . . . husband.
koohiiStory1: The Simpsons are on vacation. Homer stops to take a leak in a mountain stream but gets snatched by an eagle. Hear his scream?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: たに、たにがわ
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koohiiStory2: A husband who went fishing at the mountain stream to feed his family, fell in the rapids (we´ll assume this is a large mountain stream). He is saved from the waters by a great eagle. He comes back home with nothing to feed the family, his clothes still dripping wet as he tells his wife of how he was saved by a great eagle, and of course she does not believe him. The story continues in chicken (#1947).

keyword: погружать (в воду)
kanji: 潜
constituent: submerge, water, water droplets, water pistol, exchange, husband, sun, day, tongue wagging, husband2
myStory: воздух меняется на воду, когда подводная лодка погружается в воду
heisigStory: Water . . . exchange.
koohiiStory1: When a submarine or similar vessel SUBMERGES an EXCHANGE of air for WATER takes place in special compartments.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: ひそ.む、もぐ.る、かく.れる、くぐ.る、ひそ.める
readingExamples: 潜む (ひそ.む), 潜る (もぐ.る)
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koohiiStory2: The two husbands exchange for a day on the reality TV show (see exchange (#842)) finally goes underway. One of the two husband´s first job is to fix the water faucet in his new family´s apartment. Unfortunately, he isn´t very good at fixing things and after a few failed attempts the entire apartment is submerged in water.
words: 潜る(くぐる): to drive, to pass through, to evade, to hide, to dive (into or under water), to go underground
潜水(せんすい): diving
潜入(せんにゅう): infiltration, sneaking in
潜る(もぐる): drive, pass through, evade, hide, dive (into or under water), go underground

keyword: альтернативный, трансфер
kanji: 迭
constituent: transfer, alternate, lose, drop, husband, road
myStory: когда я потерялся, я просто иду по альтернативной дороге
heisigStory: To drop . . . road.
koohiiStory1: When you get lost, you just take an alternate road to get back on track.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テツ
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koohiiStory2: When you lose your way, you can always try to tell the wife that you merely took an alternate road. To save time you know. I´m not LOST, I´m just taking an alternate road. Ahem.

keyword: принцесса
kanji: 姫
constituent: princess, woman, retainer, slave
myStory: женщина-раб (Лейя из "Звездных Войн") - принцесса
heisigStory: Woman . . . slave.
koohiiStory1: Princess Leia becomes Jabba´s slave (“princess Leia is a woman slave”).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: ひめ、ひめ-
readingExamples: 姫 (ひめ)
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koohiiStory2: Cinderella: A woman who was a slave who became a princess.

keyword: строгий
kanji: 堅
constituent: strict, loincloth, retainer, slave, crotch, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: строгие родители думают, что тинейджеры - рабы промежности, поэтому сажают их на землю
heisigStory: Slave . . . crotch . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: The strict parent thinks adolescent kids are "slaves to their crotch" (= can´t control their hormones), so he grounds them. Permanently!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: かた.い、-がた.い
readingExamples: 堅い (かた.い)
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koohiiStory2: I´m very strict about not just sleeping with anyone. People who are slaves to their crotches often end up with dirty genitalia and I don´t want to get their VD. (on yomi=ケン).
words: 堅い(かたい): hard (especially wood), steadfast, honorable, stuffy writing

keyword: смотреть на (что-то впереди)
kanji: 臨
constituent: look to, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, goods, mouth, mouth3
myStory: раб смотрит в будущее и мечтает: "однажды я смогу полежать вместе со всеми моими штуковинами - тв, магнитофоном и стиралкой"
heisigStory: Slave . . . reclining . . . goods. The key word suggests both looking ahead to something and "seeing to" what is at hand. Consistent with everything we have learned about the role of the key word, this means that you must choose ONE meaning and stick to it.
koohiiStory1: The slave is look to the future, "One day" he thinks "I will be able to recline with all my goods, a tv, stereo and washing machine, and when that day comes I shall be truly happy" he sighs.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リン
kunYomi: のぞ.む
readingExamples: 臨む (のぞ.む)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a slave(or in this case, a female porn star) looking to her new gangbang film where she reclines and gets all 3 holes filled at the same...........OK. Very vulgar, but I was inspired by raulir´s clever use of "3 holes".........
words: 臨む(のぞむ): to look out on, to face, to deal with, to attend (function)
臨時(りんじ): temporary, special, extraordinary

keyword: прочтение (действие чтения)
kanji: 覧
constituent: perusal, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, look, see, telescope, eye, human legs
myStory: раб лежит на спине и смотрит на звезды. очень долго и кчественно смотрит на звезды, формируя прочтение
heisigStory: Slaves . . . reclining . . . floor . . . see.
koohiiStory1: The slave reclines on the floor at night to watch the stars. Since that´s the only thing the slave is allowed to “read”, he does so very thoroughly and diligently, hence perusal.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラン
kunYomi: み.る
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koohiiStory2: [+scottamus] "Please, come in and peruse this fine selection of slaves, all reclining here on the floor for your perusal. Have a look here": .
words: 閲覧(えつらん): inspection, reading
回覧(かいらん): circulation
観覧(かんらん): viewing
御覧なさい(ごらんなさい): (please) look, (please) try to do
御覧(ごらん): look, inspection, try
展覧会(てんらんかい): exhibition

keyword: отказ, отказываться
kanji: 拒
constituent: repel, finger, fingers, gigantic, Fafner
myStory: женщина отказывается от гигантского пениса! мужчина любезно предлагает пальцы
heisigStory: Fingers . . . gigantic.
koohiiStory1: A woman might be REPELLED by a porn star´s GIGANTIC penis, so he kindly offers to use his FINGERS instead.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ、ゴ
kunYomi: こば.む
readingExamples: 拒む (こば.む)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: Having gigantic fingers is useful to repel insects. You can swat them away a lot easier!
words: 拒絶(きょぜつ): refusal, rejection
拒否(きょひ): denial, veto, rejection, refusal

keyword: быть хуже чем...
kanji: 劣
constituent: inferiority, few, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: в этом дурацком мире если у тебя мало мускулов - ты хуже всех остальных
heisigStory: Few . . . muscles.
koohiiStory1: I have an inferiority complex because I have fewer muscles than everyone else at the gym. They all look like Macho Man Randy Savage (power) to me.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レツ
kunYomi: おと.る
readingExamples: 劣る (おと.る)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: I had trouble remembering the relative position of the components, so now I use this story: Even muscular men have inferiority if they have few things above their muscles (i.e., brain cells).
words: 劣る(おとる): fall behind, be inferior to

keyword: достижение
kanji: 功
constituent: achievement, craft, powered, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: изготовить мускулы, чтобы достичь достижений
heisigStory: Craft . . . power.
koohiiStory1: The great achievements of humankind, were crafts completed by muscle power: the pyramids, the Eiffel tower, etc.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、ク
kunYomi: いさお
readingExamples: 功名 (こうみょう), 功績 (こうせき), 成功 (せいこう)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: All of Arnold Schwarzenegger´s achievements started with him crafting his muscles.
words: 功績(こうせき): achievements, merit, meritorious service, meritorious deed
成功(せいこう): success, hit

keyword: уговаривать
kanji: 勧
constituent: persuade, pegasus, horse, pantomime horse, noon, sign of the horse, turkey, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: не нужно применять к Пегасу силу, нужно его уговорить
heisigStory: Pegasus . . . power.
koohiiStory1: Mnemonic "pegasus persuasion power". I think of the hippogriff from Harry Potter as being like a pegasus. To befriend a hippogriff, you have to persuade it you mean no harm, you can do this if you have "pegasus persuasion power".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン、ケン
kunYomi: すす.める
readingExamples: 勧める (すす.める)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: It would take a powerful argument to persuade me Pegasus was real… RTK2:　カン　勧奨　かんしょう(encouragement)… 　　　　　　　　Semi-Pure Group:　歓570　観572 　(ｹﾝ): 権571.
words: 勧誘(かんゆう): invitation, solicitation, canvassing, inducement, persuasion, encouragement
勧告(かんこく): advice, counsel, remonstrance, recommendation
勧め(すすめ): recommendation, advice, encouragement
勧める(すすめる): recommend, advise, encourage

keyword: вдохновлять, ободрять
kanji: 励
constituent: encourage, Wimbledon, cliff, ten thousand, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: тренер ободряет тебя: "ты силен, ты сможешь покорить эту скалу в 10000 метров высотой"
heisigStory: Cliff . . . ten thousand . . . power.
koohiiStory1: 10,000 Persians are at the base of the cliff, but the leader of the 300 Spartans just flexes his huge muscles and encourages his men by shouting that they have the power to fight them all.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レイ
kunYomi: はげ.む、はげ.ます
readingExamples: 励ます (はげ.ます), 励む (はげ.む)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: People encourage you, giving you the power so you can dive off the 10,000m high cliff into the sea.
words: 激励(げきれい): encouragement
奨励(しょうれい): encouragement, promotion, message, address
励ます(はげます): to encourage, to cheer, to raise (the voice)
励む(はげむ): to be zealous, to brace oneself, to endeavour, to strive, to make an effort

keyword: поздравляю
kanji: 賀
constituent: congratulations, add, power, muscle, arnold, mouth, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: поздравлять лучше, добавляя деньги как подарок
heisigStory: Add . . . shells.
koohiiStory1: When someone at work gets married, you pass around an envelope to which you add some money and a card which you sign with your congratulations.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガ
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: Congratulations are so much better when you add money to them.
words: 祝賀(しゅくが): celebration, congratulations

keyword: воздвигать
kanji: 架
constituent: erect, add, power, muscle, arnold, mouth, tree, wood
myStory: Дженга! ты вынимаешь деревяшки из башни и добавляешь их наверх. Воздвигается очень неустойчивая конструкция
heisigStory: Add . . . trees. Hint: if you ever played with an "Erector Set" or "Tinker Toys" as a child, don't pass up the opportunity to relate it to this kanji's key word and the element for trees.
koohiiStory1: Instant wood. Just add Viagra.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: か.ける、か.かる
readingExamples: 架かる (か.かる), 架ける (か.ける)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: I´m not sure I know about erector sets or tinker toys but I do know about jenga. You play by taking wooden pieces from the middle of a wooden tower and adding them to the top. In this way you erect a very unstable structure.
words: 担架(たんか): stretcher, litter
架空(かくう): aerial, overhead, fiction, fanciful

keyword: подмышка
kanji: 脇
constituent: armpit, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, triceps, power, muscle, arnold, power3, muscle3, arnold3
myStory: в какой части тела наиболее сильный аромат, и где рядом ТРИЦЕПС? В подмышке!
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . muscles (three of which give us "triceps" or "muscles on top of muscles"). You will want to keep the kanji distinct from the one that follows by paying attention to the positioning of the elements.
koohiiStory1: What part of the body has a very, very, very powerful smell? The armpit, of course!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: わき、わけ
readingExamples: 脇 (わき)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: (no important on yomi) The part of Conan´s body that is three times more effective at defeating foes than his muscles are his stinky ARMPITs. [Note: Typically, when the flesh primitive is on the left side it refers to a body part - this helps distinguish in from threaten (#871)].
words: 脇(わき): side

keyword: угрожать, запугивать
kanji: 脅
constituent: threaten, triceps, power, muscle, arnold, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, power3, muscle3, arnold3
myStory: когда ты поднимаешь трицепс, ты явно кому-то угрожаешь
heisigStory: Triceps . . . part of the body.
koohiiStory1: Compare the primitive positions of armpit (#870) and threaten (#871). When your triceps rest alongside your body, they fit snugly against your armpit. When you hold them above your body, however, your posture becomes quite threatening.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: おびや.かす、おど.す、おど.かす
readingExamples: 脅かす (おど.かす), 脅す (おど.す), 脅かす (おびや.かす)
Other fields (not shown on cards):
koohiiStory2: Don´t threaten a warewolf. He´s three times as powerful ON a full moon.　RTK2:　キョウ　脅迫　きょうはく (blackmail)…　Pure Group:　協872.
words: 脅かす(おどかす): to threaten, to coerce
脅す(おどす): to threaten, to menace
脅迫(きょうはく): threat, menace, coercion, terrorism

keyword: следовать, подчиняться
kanji: 従
constituent: accompany, Nelson, column, going, line, horns, mend
myStory: колонну солдат всегда сопровождает повозка, чинящая их вещи, с рогами на крыше
heisigStory: Column . . . animal horns . . . mending.
koohiiStory1: The line of viking soldiers is always accompanied by a horn mending specialist.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ、ショウ、ジュ
kunYomi: したが.う、したが.える、より
readingExamples: 従事 (じゅうじ), 従順 (じゅうじゅん), 服従 (ふくじゅう), 従容 (しょうよう), 従う (したが.う), 従える (したが.える)
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koohiiStory2: I´m going to accompany the horny girl to her room so I can "mend" her.
words: 従業員(じゅうぎょういん): employee, worker
従事(じゅうじ): engaging, pursuing, following
従来(じゅうらい): up to now, so far, traditional
従兄弟(いとこ): male cousin
従姉妹(いとこ): female cousin
従う(したがう): abide (by the rules), obey, follow, accompany

keyword: путешествие
kanji: 往
constituent: journey, Nelson, column, going, line, candlestick, lord, drop, king, jewel, ball
myStory: колонна солдат путешествует по миру со своим господином
heisigStory: Column . . . candlestick. This character has the special sense of journeying to someplace or other.
koohiiStory1: In Medieval Japan, going to see your lord was often a long journey.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ
kunYomi: い.く、いにしえ、さき.に、ゆ.く
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koohiiStory2: The fellowship of the ring is on a long journey through the depths of Khaz Modan. Imagine they walk through the hall of pillars, with only light being from their own candlesticks that. Soon they will meet much more light than they would ever want to...
words: 往復(おうふく): round trip, coming and going, return ticket

keyword: подчинять
kanji: 征
constituent: subjugate, Nelson, column, going, line, correct, one, ceiling, stop, footprint
myStory: колонна солдат насаждает "правильность", подчиняя себе народы
heisigStory: Column . . . correct.
koohiiStory1: America seeks to GO and CORRECT other nations. But really what they do is subjugate them...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
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koohiiStory2: To subjugate is to have somebody stand still and stiff as a column and behave one hundred percent correctly.
words: 征服(せいふく): conquest, subjugation, overcoming

keyword: диаметр
kanji: 径
constituent: diameter, Nelson, column, going, line, spool, clod, toilet paper, crotch, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: колонне солдат нужна туалетная бумага с огромным диаметром
heisigStory: Line . . . spool.
koohiiStory1: Scientists recently measured the diameter of Earth by drilling a deep hole and dropping a line of thread off a humongous spool until it got to the other side.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: みち、こみち、さしわたし、ただちに
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koohiiStory2: Suggestion: Replace "spool" with "toilet paper/roll". Reasons: (1) Toilet paper/roll usually comes on a spool. (2) Toilet paper is used to clean the soil off your crotch. Story: Measure the diameter of a column (maybe Nelson´s Column in London?) using a roll of toilet paper. Spool also appears in stalk (#715), suspicious (#716), lightly (#717), sutra (#1360).
words: 直径(ちょっけい): diameter
半径(はんけい): radius

keyword: благожелательность
kanji: 徳
constituent: benevolence, Nelson, column, going, line, stethoscope, camel, ten, needle, eye, cross-eyed, net, heart
myStory: в редком порыве благожелательности, колонна солдат вытащила иголку из глаза великана и затем, напуганные его силой, они воткнули ее ему в сердце
heisigStory: Going . . . needle . . . eye . . . heart. Refer back now to the note in frame 890.
koohiiStory1: Hearkening back to the kanji for LISTEN... Benevolence is a good listener who is willing to go the distance to help.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トク
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koohiiStory2: In a rare act of benevolence, the Sparten column removes the needle from the cyclops´s eye, and he repays them by eating their hearts.
words: 道徳(どうとく): morals

keyword: проникать
kanji: 徹
constituent: penetrate, Nelson, column, going, line, borstal, bring up, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, taskmaster
myStory: колонна надсмотрщиков проникает в детей, воспитываемых ими
heisigStory: Line . . . bring up . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: The taskmistress in a moment of weakness allowed the man´s column to penetrate her. As punishment he was made to bring up their infant.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テツ
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koohiiStory2: Ha! In this frame, a bunch of taskmasters are lined up to penetrate the kids they raise/bring up! I´m thinking of some priests and choir boys.
words: 徹する(てっする): to sink in, to penetrate, to devote oneself, to believe in, to go through, to do intently and exclusively
徹底(てってい): thoroughness, completeness
徹夜(てつや): all night, all-night vigil, sleepless night

keyword: знак, индикация, признак
kanji: 徴
constituent: indications, sherpa, Nelson, column, going, line, mountain, king, jewel, ball, taskmaster
myStory: если колонна королей шагает в горные копи под присмотром надсмотрщиков - это явный признак переворота
heisigStory: Line . . . mountain . . . king . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: If you see a column of kings being marched up the mountain under a taskmaster´s whip... indications are, there has been a coup.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ、チ
kunYomi: しるし
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koohiiStory2: All indications are that the taskmaster´s son is going to be king of the mountain soon …　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　チョウ 象徴　しょうちょう(symbol)…　　　　Pure Group:　懲888.
words: 象徴(しょうちょう): symbol
徴収(ちょうしゅう): collection, levy
特徴(とくちょう): feature, characteristic

keyword: уголовно наказываемый, уголовный
kanji: 懲
constituent: penal, indications, sherpa, Nelson, column, going, line, mountain, king, jewel, ball, taskmaster, heart
myStory: признак изменившегося сердца - необходимое условия для выхода из уголовно-исправительного учреждения
heisigStory: Indications . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Penal servitude is served until indications show that one has had a change of heart (learned one´s lesson). Easily confused with punish (#679) and penalty (#833). Concentrate on the reasons behind the penal system ("changing people´s hearts" here), instead of the penalty itself or the punishment (revenge) aspect. It may help to note that there´s no sword, but a heart :-) (Note: 懲りる = learn from one´s bad experiences).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: こ.りる、こ.らす、こ.らしめる
readingExamples: 懲らしめる (こ.らしめる), 懲らす (こ.らす), 懲りる (こ.りる)
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koohiiStory2: Judge: You will serve a penal sentence until indications show you have a heart.
words: 懲りる(こりる): to learn by experience, to be disgusted with

keyword: деликатный
kanji: 微
constituent: delicate, sherpa, Nelson, column, going, line, mountain, one, ceiling, human legs, taskmaster
myStory: как отправить колонну неугодных солдат в горные копи? это деликатное дело!
heisigStory: Line . . . mountain . . . ceiling . . . human legs . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: The Column of 300 spartans were in a delicate situation. They had travelled in one line (using only their legs) to the mountain pass to face the fierce Persian task master.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビ
kunYomi: かす.か
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koohiiStory2: Telling your taskmistress (wife) why you are going mountain climbing without her is a delicate situation... "For one thing you have such beautiful legs and I don´t want to risk injuring them honey"...　　　　　　RTK2:　ビ　微笑　びしょう(smile)　"delicate laugh".
words: 微か(かすか): faint, dim, weak, indistinct, hazy, poor, wretched
微笑(びしょう): smile
微量(びりょう): minuscule amount, extremely small quantity
微塵(みじん): particle, atom
顕微鏡(けんびきょう): microscope
微妙(びみょう): delicate, subtle
微笑む(ほほえむ): to smile

keyword: бульвар
kanji: 街
constituent: boulevard, going, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: бульвар, увитый плющом - все равно бульвар
heisigStory: This is the character from which the sense of boulevard mentioned in frame 938 derives. Its elements: boulevard . . . ivy.
koohiiStory1: The boulevard of boulevards, the Champs Elysées, with the Arc de Triomphe covered in ivy to give the champions a heroes´ welcome.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ、カイ
kunYomi: まち
readingExamples: 街頭 (がいとう), 市街 (しがい), 商店街 (しょうてんがい), 街 (まち)
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koohiiStory2: Specifically... ivy boulevard... think hollywood & vine.
words: 街(がい): ~street, ~quarters
街道(かいどう): highway
街頭(がいとう): in the street
市街(しがい): urban areas, the streets, town, city
街(まち): street
街角(まちかど): street corner

keyword: равновесие
kanji: 衡
constituent: equilibrium, boulevard, going, bound up, rice field, brains, large, St. Bernard
myStory: чтобы подвесить гирлянду больших сушеных мозгов на бульваре, нужно хорошее равновесие
heisigStory: Boulevard . . . bound up . . . brains . . . St. Bernard dog.
koohiiStory1: To maintain the social equilibrium in a future dystopian society, the brains of citizens are bound up (hypnotized). The government is using mental wave emitting statues shaped like St. Bernard´s dogs put alongside the boulevards.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: I think BALANCE is an easier keyword. I was walking down a busy French boulevard when between the rushing traffic I saw the wierdest thing. BALANCING on the central crash barrier was a St. Bernard dog, BALANCING a fish on its nose. As I looked closer, I realised it was a trick; it was holding the fish´s tail in its teeth, and only pretending to BALANCE it. (keeps the position of the elements!).
words: 均衡(きんこう): equilibrium, balance

keyword: черновик
kanji: 稿
constituent: draft, wheat, cereal, tall, top hat, mouth, hood, mouth, mouth2
myStory: Пришельцы иногда чертят черновики планов на полях высокой пшеницы
heisigStory: The key word connotes the preliminary composition of a plan or manuscript. Its elements: wheat . . . tall.
koohiiStory1: The first DRAFT of catcher in the rye was actually called "catcher in the TALL WHEAT"...good thing they changed it. I read it in 高校.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: わら、したがき
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koohiiStory2: Aliens often draft their plans for invasion by cutting designs among the tall wheat.
words: 原稿(げんこう): manuscript, copy

keyword: заработок, зарабатывать деньги
kanji: 稼
constituent: earnings, wheat, cereal, house, sow, pig
myStory: твой заработок позволяет тебе приносить домой пшеничный хлеб
heisigStory: Wheat . . . house.
koohiiStory1: Your earnings allow you to bring home your daily bread (made of wheat, naturally).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: かせ.ぐ
readingExamples: 稼ぐ (かせ.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: Hmm, EARNINGS. Think of the popular saying "Bringing HOME the bacon". Here, EARNINGS is the picture "Bringing HOME the bread(WHEAT) and the bacon (PIG).
words: 共稼ぎ(ともかせぎ): working together, (husband and wife) earning a living together
稼ぐ(かせぐ): earn income, to labor

keyword: незрелый
kanji: 稚
constituent: immature, wheat, cereal, turkey
myStory: незрелые индейки фарширует зерном пшеницы, чтобы они визуально становились больше
heisigStory: Wheat . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: I can´t believe I brought you to the fanciest restaurant in town and you asked for turkey on wheat...how immature is that?!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チ、ジ
kunYomi: いとけない、おさない、おくて、おでる
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koohiiStory2: Immature turkeys are stuffed with wheat to make it look bigger.
words: 幼稚(ようち): infancy, childish, infantile
幼稚園(ようちえん): kindergarten

keyword: горе
kanji: 愁
constituent: distress, autumn, wheat, cereal, fire, heart
myStory: осенью у многих тоска на сердце, а у некоторых - вообще горе
heisigStory: Autumn . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: In AUTUMN, the farmer´s HEART is in DISTRESS as to if he has enough crops. Even better, the farmer will experience great DISTRESS in his HEART if his WHEAT catches FIRE!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: うれ.える、うれ.い
readingExamples: 愁い (うれ.い), 愁える (うれ.える)
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koohiiStory2: Here we have distressed (think "gloomy") people with "seasonal mood disorder" during the autumn season. Hence "autumn heart" is distressed (gloomy).
words: 郷愁(きょうしゅう): nostalgia, homesickness

keyword: регулярность, закономерность
kanji: 秩
constituent: regularity, wheat, cereal, lose, drop, husband
myStory: муж регулярно приносит домой пшеницу. закономерность?
heisigStory: Wheat . . . drop.
koohiiStory1: Think of REGULARITY in terms of bowel movements. Enough WHEAT in your diet will help your DROPS with improved REGULARITY.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チツ
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koohiiStory2: Eating plenty of wheat will improve regularity and help you lose weight.
words: 秩序(ちつじょ): order, regularity, system, method

keyword: секрет, скрывать
kanji: 秘
constituent: secret, wheat, cereal, invariably, heart, drop
myStory: пшеница неизменно скрывает в себе что-то секретное
heisigStory: Cereal . . . invariably.
koohiiStory1: The prize at the bottom of a cereal box is invariably a secret decoder ring.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: ひ.める、ひそ.か、かく.す
readingExamples: 秘める (ひ.める)
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koohiiStory2: A young couple meets in secret in the wheat field because their families are enemies. They cross their hearts and swear eternal - even if secret - love. Do not confuse with secrecy (#775).
words: 神秘(しんぴ): mystery
秘書(ひしょ): (private) secretary
秘密(ひみつ): secret, secrecy

keyword: присвоение имени
kanji: 称
constituent: appellation, wheat, cereal, hammock, reclining, lying down, small, little
myStory: маленького ребенка нашли лежащим в пшенице. дали имя "Кларк"
heisigStory: Wheat . . . reclining . . . little.
koohiiStory1: Taking appellation to mean the act of naming, we have the little baby superman reclining in the space craft that landed in a wheat field. Mr. and Mrs. Kent look down and decide to call him Clark. (I also thought of Jesus but he was born in a barn full of hay not wheat).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: たた.える、とな.える、あ.げる、かな.う、はか.り、はか.る、ほめ.る
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koohiiStory2: WHEAT that is RECLINING and LITTLE (small) can´t get the APPELLATION "quality wheat".
words: 称する(しょうする): to pretend, to take the name of, to feign, to purport
名称(めいしょう): name

keyword: грушевое дерево
kanji: 梨
constituent: pear tree, profit, wheat, cereal, sword, sabre, saber, tree, wood
myStory: наиболее профитное дерево - груша
heisigStory: Profit . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: The Japanese pear tree is the most profitable in the world, because it produces its fruit in pairs [sorry for the awful pun].
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
kunYomi: なし
readingExamples: 梨 (なし)
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koohiiStory2: And a profit in a pear tree...12 days of christmas.

keyword: урожай, собирать урожай
kanji: 穫
constituent: harvest, wheat, cereal, radio caroline, flowers, vessels, turkey, crotch
myStory: цветочные корабли приплыли собирать урожай пшеницы
heisigStory: Wheat . . . flowers . . . vessels. Compare frames 756 and 757 for the right side.
koohiiStory1: The harvest of genetically modified crops is taken onboard the Greenpeace vessel (see the flower vessel in safeguard (#700)).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
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koohiiStory2: Wheat is harvested; the grain (flower) is put into vessels for shipping.
words: 収穫(しゅうかく): harvest, crop, ingathering

keyword: колос (растения)
kanji: 穂
constituent: ear (of a plant), wheat, cereal, favour, favor, ten, needle, rice field, brains, heart
myStory: пшеница делает нам одолжение, предоставляя свои колосья
heisigStory: Wheat . . . favor.
koohiiStory1: The pilgrims only had wheat, so they asked the Indians to do them a favor and trade them for some ears of corn.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: ほ
readingExamples: 穂 (ほ)
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koohiiStory2: The "ear of a plant" is the seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn. In other words, it is the part which feeds us. Hence -- "the ear (of a plant) is the favor of the wheat".
words: 穂(ほ): ear (of plant), head (of plant)

keyword: рис (как растение)
kanji: 稲
constituent: rice plant, wheat, cereal, claw, vulture, old days, olden times, stick, sun, day
myStory: в старые времена грифы украли всю пшеницу - пришлось перейти на рис
heisigStory: Wheat . . . vulture . . . olden times.
koohiiStory1: The rice plant is common in Japan because all the wheat was eaten by vultures in the olden times.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ、テ
kunYomi: いね、いな-
readingExamples: 稲 (いね)
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koohiiStory2: It used to be that wheat was grown in Japan. However, this was often stolen by vultures, so in olden times, the gods gave the Japanese the rice plant.
words: 稲光(いなびかり): (flash of) lightning
稲(いね): rice plant

keyword: превосходить (быть исключительным в чем-то)
kanji: 秀
constituent: excel, wheat, cereal, fist, from
myStory: плакат из советской эпохи: "превзойдем Америку по урожаю пшеницы!". нарисован кулак с зажатой пшеницей
heisigStory: Wheat . . . fist.
koohiiStory1: You spend three hours putting all of your wheat sale transaction records into Microsoft Excel, when suddenly it crashes, so you put your fist through the monitor.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: ひい.でる
readingExamples: 秀でる (ひい.でる)
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koohiiStory2: A soviet-era poster for the 5-year plan shouts "Excel" and shows a fist clenching a sheaf of wheat. Wheat/Fist.
words: 優秀(ゆうしゅう): superiority, excellence

keyword: прозрачный
kanji: 透
constituent: transparent, excel, wheat, cereal, fist, from, road
myStory: 1. хочешь быть превосходным на дороге? убедись, что стекла прозрачные
2. превосходный курс мышления прозрачен, понятен для всех
heisigStory: Excel . . . road-way.
koohiiStory1: If you excel in the Mario Kart road, your movements are saved and you can race against yourself as a transparent racer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8CkcrL-k4.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: す.く、す.かす、す.ける、とう.る、とう.す
readingExamples: 透かす (す.かす), 透く (す.く), 透ける (す.ける)
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koohiiStory2: If you want to excel at driving in the roadway, it´s better if your windows and windshield are transparent. Picture the drivers with opaque windshields all wrecked on the side of the road.
words: 透き通る(すきとおる): be or become transparent
透明(とうめい): transparency, cleanness

keyword: переманивать, заманивать
kanji: 誘
constituent: entice, say, words, keitai, mouth, excel, wheat, cereal, fist, from
myStory: если ты превосходен в словах, ты сможешь переманить даже замужнюю женщину
heisigStory: Words . . . excel. Compare beckon (Frame 702), to urge (Frame 300), seduce (Frame 90), and encourage (Frame 931) when choosing your connotation.
koohiiStory1: Think of the smooth talker who EXCELS at using WORDS to entice women (including married women if it makes it easier to remember).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ、イウ
kunYomi: さそ.う、いざな.う
readingExamples: 誘う (さそ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Word and Excel somehow manage to entice people to use them, despite their plethora of bugs.
words: 勧誘(かんゆう): invitation, solicitation, canvassing, inducement, persuasion, encouragement
誘導(ゆうどう): guidance, leading, induction, introduction, incitement, inducement
誘惑(ゆうわく): temptation, allurement, lure
誘う(さそう): invite, call out

keyword: злаки
kanji: 穀
constituent: cereals, samurai, crown, wheat, cereal, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: самурайская королевская пшеница - это злаки для еды. сперма - злаки для производства детей
heisigStory: Samurai . . . crown . . . wheat . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: There are different cereals in different parts of the world. Japan has samurai cereal. Great Britain has Crowned Wheat ... the United States and Russia have Missile cereals.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コク
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koohiiStory2: The samurai crowns wheat as the best cereal, and blows all others up with missiles (he´s a cereal killer).
words: 穀物(こくもつ): grain, cereal, corn

keyword: микроб
kanji: 菌
constituent: germ, flowers, pent in, wheat, cereal
myStory: цветок застрявший в пшенице - бактерия, микроб
heisigStory: Flowers . . . pent in . . . wheat.
koohiiStory1: Can also mean bacteria.....imagine the wheat pent in your fridge growing to the point where they resemble flowers.......I actually had something similar happen to onions...they grew footlong legs after about 2 or 3 years......OR just think of that Cowboy Bebop episode with the lobster in the fridge... :-).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
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koohiiStory2: Actually it means germs as in microorganisms. So for example, you have to keep wheat enclosed so it isn´t exposed to other plants. That way it can´t catch any germs (like fungi) from them.
words: 細菌(さいきん): bacillus, bacterium, germ
黴菌(ばいきん): bacteria, germ(s)

keyword: липкий
kanji: 粘
constituent: sticky, rice, fortune-telling, magic wand, augury, mouth
myStory: гадание с помощью риса: варим рис до липучего состояния, кидаем липкий рис в стену, смотрим след
heisigStory: Rice . . . fortune-telling.
koohiiStory1: This is another way of fortune telling -- throw sticky rice against the wall, and look for the message in whatever sticks.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ネン
kunYomi: ねば.る
readingExamples: 粘る (ねば.る)
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koohiiStory2: CONDI RICE was told by the FORTUNE TELLER that she will get STICKY...
words: 粘り(ねばり): stickyness, viscosity
粘る(ねばる): to be sticky, to be adhesive, to persevere, to persist, to stick to

keyword: косметика
kanji: 粧
constituent: cosmetics, rice, shire, cave, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: рис и земля из пещеры - вот она, древняя косметика
heisigStory: Rice . . . cave . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: Condy Rice is actually white, but she uses special cosmetics made from dirt she found in a cave to appear black - it´s better for the political situation.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: Modern cosmetics are just the descendants of the old RICE flour and CAVE DIRT (´cause it´s darker) used in the past.
words: 化粧(けしょう): make-up (cosmetic)

keyword: шик, стильный
kanji: 粋
constituent: chic, rice, ninety, nine, baseball, ten, needle
myStory: 90 баксов за рис - очень шикарный ресторан
heisigStory: Rice . . . game of cricket. (See frame 121.)
koohiiStory1: In extremely chic restaurants, you have to pay 90 bucks for a bowl of rice.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: いき
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koohiiStory2: Americans think that tattoos with Chinese characters are chic, but nine out of ten times they end up with something trivial tattooed on their arm, like rice.
words: 粋(いき): chic, style, purity, essence
純粋(じゅんすい): pure, true, genuine, unmixed

keyword: припасы
kanji: 糧
constituent: provisions, rice, quantity, nightbreak, sun, day, one, floor, computer
myStory: количество провизии = количество риса
heisigStory: Rice . . . quantity.
koohiiStory1: Imagine Japanese army provisions like obentou boxes, always containing the same quantity of rice. (thanks darg_sama, emphasizing quantity and the nuance of food "rations", "food supply": the kanji also appears in "military provisions" and "army rice").
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ、ロウ
kunYomi: かて
readingExamples: 糧食 (かてしょく), 糧道 (りょうどう), 糧 (かて)
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koohiiStory2: All Japanese provisions contain a certain quantity of rice... they eat it with just about every meal!
words: 食糧(しょくりょう): provisions, rations

keyword: хризантема
kanji: 菊
constituent: chrysanthemum, flowers, rice cooker, bound up, rice
myStory: цветок, как связанный рис - хризантема
heisigStory: Flower . . . bound up . . . rice.
koohiiStory1: Chrysanthemum flower consists of many tiny petals, just like many rice grains bound up together.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キク
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koohiiStory2: [+astgt] Chrysanthemum is a terrorist orginization whose sole objective is to tie up Condi Rice. One day, Condi Rice is standing outside when a group of chrysanthemum agents swoop in from the sides, bound her up with chrysanthemum rope, and dash off. They leave a lone yellow chrysanthemum flower on top of the bound Condi Rice as a sign to let her discoverers know who committed this brave and noble act.

keyword: сторожевая башня
kanji: 楼
constituent: watchtower, tree, wood, rice, woman
myStory: с сторожевой башни очень удобно смотреть за женщинами, таскающими мешки с рисом
heisigStory: Tree . . . rice . . . woman.
koohiiStory1: The young taskmaster (see number (#929)) uses a tree as a watchtower to get a better view of his rice-carrying women. "I can seeeee you! One! Two! Three!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ
kunYomi: たかどの
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koohiiStory2: On the top of the woodmade watchtower we look for our enemies, who will come to steal our rice and our women.

keyword: лак
kanji: 漆
constituent: lacquer, water, water droplets, water pistol, tree, wood, umbrella, grains of rice
myStory: вода падает с дерева на зонт, под которым рис. но рис остается сухим, потому что на зонт нанесен лак
heisigStory: Water . . . tree . . . umbrella . . . grains of rice.
koohiiStory1: LACQUER is a type of WATERY type of liquid used to protect items made from TREES, sort of an UMBRELLA of protection. So protective, you can carry around RICE in the LACQUERED, WOODEN product.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シツ
kunYomi: うるし
readingExamples: 漆 (うるし)
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koohiiStory2: Water is falling from a tree onto the umbrella underneath which is protecting the rice underneath it. But it´s completely dry since the umbrella is lacquered.

keyword: спасение (религ.)
kanji: 救
constituent: salvation, request, arrow, grains of rice, taskmaster
myStory: просить у неба спасения от надсмотрщика
heisigStory: Request . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: Like in the biblical sense, someone looks skyward and makes a request for salvation from this horrible taskmaster...
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: すく.う
readingExamples: 救う (すく.う)
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koohiiStory2: For salvation you have to request forgiveness from God (the ultimate taskmaster).
words: 救援(きゅうえん): relief, rescue, reinforcement
救済(きゅうさい): relief, aid, rescue, salvation, help
救い(すくい): help, aid, relief
救助(きゅうじょ): relief, aid, rescue
救う(すくう): rescue from, help out of

keyword: бамбуковая шляпа
kanji: 笠
constituent: bamboo hat, bamboo, vase, stand up
myStory: турист не знал, что это бамбуковая ВАЗА, и носил ее как бамбуковую ШЛЯПУ
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . vase.
koohiiStory1: The bamboo vase was beautifully crafted, but the tourist didn´t know what it was and wore it as a little bamboo hat.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: リュウ
kunYomi: かさ
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koohiiStory2: The bamboo part is easy. Just remember that this kanji refers to those particular bamboo hats that are worn primarily by Buddhist monks, who always seem to stand outside of train stations, collecting alms.

keyword: бамбуковая трава
kanji: 笹
constituent: bamboo grass, bamboo, generation
myStory: младшее поколение бамбука - бамбуковая трава
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . generation.
koohiiStory1: The bamboo generation smokes bamboo grass.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
kunYomi: ささ
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koohiiStory2: “One of the most attractive aspects of bamboo is that it is a renewable resource; it takes less than a year for a stalk to reach maturity, compared to the decades for most trees, whether needle or broadleaf.” -- Mnemonic : "bamboo grass is the next bamboo generation".

keyword: мускул
kanji: 筋
constituent: muscle, bamboo, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: часть тела, дающая силу бамбукаааа!!!
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . part of the body . . . power. Here we see how the primitive meaning of muscle was derived from the kanji for power.
koohiiStory1: Muscle is part of the body that gives strength, and can be both supple and tense like the bamboo.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: すじ
readingExamples: 筋 (すじ)
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koohiiStory2: Lifting BAMBOO STICKS is an old way for your BODY to put on lots of MUSCLE.
words: 粗筋(あらすじ): outline, summary
大筋(おおすじ): outline, summary
一筋(ひとすき): a line, earnestly, blindly, straightforwardly
筋肉(きんにく): muscle, sinew
筋(すじ): muscle, string, line, stripe, plot, plan, sinew

keyword: схема
kanji: 策
constituent: scheme, bamboo, tree, wood, belt
myStory: схема такова: мы обвязываем резинку вокруг пары деревьев, и затем стреляем бамбуковым копьем, как из баллисты
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . belted tree (See frame 446).
koohiiStory1: (Elaboration of jameserb´s story:) A clever scheme from Wile E Coyote -- he ties one of those rubber belts to some trees and uses it to launch a bamboo spear at the roadrunner...
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク
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koohiiStory2: The temples in kyoto belt bamboo around trees in a scheme to protect them from the huge number of tourists. (true story)-----------対策　　たいさく　　measure, countermeasure.
words: 策(さく): plan, policy
政策(せいさく): political measures, policy
方策(ほうさく): plan, policy
対策(たいさく): counter-plan, counter-measure

keyword: реестр
kanji: 簿
constituent: register, bamboo, water, water droplets, water pistol, acupuncturist, specialty, drop, ten, needle, rice field, brains, glue
myStory: специалист должен разбавлять воду цветами, но почему-то делает это с бамбуком. как он попал в реестр специалистов-то?
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . water . . . acupuncturist.
koohiiStory1: Note : the keyword is not a verb, think of a record book. This acupuncturist who uses bamboo in place of flowers to dilute water into his patients (see frame 227), managed somehow to appear on the register of acupuncturists. Chances are, he won´t stay on the register for long. My image is close to that of gorgon´s story.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボ
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koohiiStory2: This doctor dilutes (see 227) his patients with bamboo stalks rather than the flowers of a standard diluting acupuncturist hence he needs to be on the Bamboo Accumpunturist Diltuers (BAD) register. Pumping that much water into a body can be dangerous; see the huge bamboo stems with gallons of water sloshing in and out of the patient.
words: 名簿(めいぼ): register of names

keyword: помощник
kanji: 佐
constituent: assistant, person, left, by one’s side, craft
myStory: слева от героя всегда есть помощник
heisigStory: Person . . . left.
koohiiStory1: Mr T´s assistant is on his left. Why? Because Mr T has this bad habit of suddenly extending his right arm (what with all the boxing that he did), and his assistant got inadvertently punched in the face more than once (ouch). So now his assistant is always to his left side, much safer - "Stay on my left, foo!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サ
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koohiiStory2: On your right is your "right-hand man" that you credit for all your success....on the left...... is your assistant who does all the grunt work and gets no credit for anything...
words: 佐(さ): help

keyword: однако, но
kanji: 但
constituent: however, person, nightbreak, sun, day, one, floor
myStory: герой может очень устать, однако с рассветом он снова рвется в бой
heisigStory: Person . . . nightbreak.
koohiiStory1: However drunk Mr T is when he comes back to his place, he always get up at nightbreak. “I pity da foo who gets up after nightbreak !”, says Mr. T.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: ただ.し
readingExamples: 但し (ただ.し)
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koohiiStory2: MR.T leads a busy life, however he always makes sure to be in bed by NIGHTBREAK, however much he might want to stay up watching A-Team re-runs.
words: 但し(ただし): but, however, provided that

keyword: неизменность, отдаленный
kanji: 悠
constituent: permanence, remote, person, stick, fred astaire, taskmaster, heart
myStory: даже когда героя палкой избивал надсмотрщик, в его сердце была неизменность - любовь к далекой Кэлен.
heisigStory: Person . . . walking stick . . . taskmaster . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T ventured out into a remote area to visit with his wise, old taskmaster who must use a walking stick to get around and originally gave Mr. T the heart to fight crime for the good of the community.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
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koohiiStory2: Yoda, the Jedi with the walking stick who was a hard taskmaster for Luke but who had a big heart, was permanently exiled on the remote planet Dagobah.
words: 悠々(ゆうゆう): quiet, calm, leisurely

keyword: распростертый
kanji: 伏
constituent: prostrated, person, chihuahua, dog, large, drop
myStory: даже герою приходилось быть распростертым, как собака
heisigStory: Person . . . chihuahua.
koohiiStory1: Don´t need a silly story for this one: prostration is when a person puts themselves in a low position like a dog, as an extreme gesture of humility.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フク
kunYomi: ふ.せる、ふ.す
readingExamples: 伏す (ふ.す), 伏せる (ふ.せる)
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koohiiStory2: Mr T has beaten up the chihuahua, who lies prostrated in front of him. "Now," Mr T says, "I quiero some Taco Bell!".
words: 起伏(きふく): undulation
降伏(こうふく): capitulation, surrender, submission

keyword: временный
kanji: 仮
constituent: sham, provisional, person, anti-, demonstration, cliff, crotch
myStory: анти-герой - временный, придет и настоящий герой
heisigStory: Person . . . anti-.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T was offered a job in the Iraq Provisional Authority, but he turned it down, because he´s anti-war. "I pity da fool thinks this sand pit worth invadin´ when our schools be in such sad shape!".
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ、ケ
kunYomi: かり、かり-
readingExamples: 仮面 (かめん), 仮定 (かてい), 仮装 (かそう), 仮 (かり)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T is anti anything provisional. "I pity da foo´ who´s so indecisive that he can´t make nothin´ permanent".
words: 仮(か): tentative, provisional
仮令(たとえ): example, even if, if, though, although
送り仮名(おくりがな): kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word
仮定(かてい): assumption, supposition, hypothesis
仮名(かな): kana, alias, pseudonym, pen name
仮名遣い(かなづかい): kana orthography, syllabary spelling
振り仮名(ふりがな): hiragana over kanji, pronunciation key
片仮名(かたかな): katakana
平仮名(ひらがな): hiragana, 47 syllables, the cursive syllabary

keyword: главный (chief)
kanji: 伯
constituent: chief, person, white, dove
myStory: белый герой - всегда главный герой
heisigStory: Person . . . white dove.
koohiiStory1: If Mr T was white I am sure he would have been commander in chief of the USA, he just the sort of clown Americans love to vote for. (NB: I tried with the indian chief motif but kept adding feathers by mistake).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハク
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koohiiStory2: Mr T was originally supposed to be the chief of the A-Team, but then the producers realized that America didn´t want to see a Black guy as the chief of a prime-time TV show. So here, we see Mr T doing a bunch of cocaine, and then spreading it all over his face to look white, and trying out for the part of Hannibal. The directors were so impressed that they let him stunt double for Hannibal in a few episodes. OR, Mr T chiefin´ on some crack cocaine. You make the call.
words: 伯父さん(おじさん): middle-aged gentleman, uncle
伯母さん(おばさん): aunt

keyword: вульгарный (в смысле, "обычный", "популярный")
kanji: 俗
constituent: vulgar, person, valley, eight, umbrella, mouth
myStory: герой в долине увидел обычные, популярные развлечения
heisigStory: Person . . . valley. The key word should be taken in its older sense of "popular" or "commonplace."
koohiiStory1: Mr. T says, "Don´t be like them valley girls, always speaking vulgar language and acting all vulgar! They ain´t nothing but foos!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゾク
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koohiiStory2: Mr T meets the vulgar (common) people of the valley and participates in the vulgar customs (folkways). Looking at the vulgar (common) people, Mr T says - “I pity you foo!”.
words: 風俗(ふうぞく): manners, customs, sex service, sex industry
民俗(みんぞく): people, race, nation, racial customs, folk customs

keyword: отлично, превосходно
kanji: 佳
constituent: excellent, person, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: "Отлично", - сказал герой, когда ему предложили лезть на стену по плющу
heisigStory: Person . . . ivy. To distinguish from excel (Frame 980), eminent (Frame 52), esteem (Frame 196), and exquisite (Frame 130), give the key word its own unique connotation.
koohiiStory1: Mr T wants to go to an excellent school, so he enrolls in Harvard, an ivy-league school.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
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koohiiStory2: Bill and Ted are walking through medieval Europe when they see a humongous square jewel. "Excellent!" they both yell. But only after grabbing it do they realize it is chained to the neck of Mr. T, who grimaces angrily at them. "Bogus!" they cry, and totally run away.
words: 佳句(かく): beautiful passage of literature

keyword: здоровье, здоровый
kanji: 健
constituent: healthy, person, build, brush, stretch
myStory: герой здоровый, поэтому может строить
heisigStory: Person . . . build.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T in a public service announcement yells, "I´m healthy because every day I build a food pyramid, foo!".
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: すこ.やか
readingExamples: 健やか (すこ.やか)
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koohiiStory2: Mr.T, sir, how do you stay so healthy? I asked. "Simple, foo," he answered, "you gotta build the body up by bodybuilding!".
words: 健在(けんざい): in good health, well
健全(けんぜん): health, soundness, wholesome
健やか(すこやか): vigorous, healthy, sound
健康(けんこう): health, sound, wholesome
保健(ほけん): health preservation, hygiene, sanitation

keyword: официант
kanji: 侍
constituent: waiter, person, Buddhist temple, soil, dirt, ground, glue
myStory: герою приходилось работать и официантом в храме (зеленый чай разносил)
heisigStory: Person . . . Buddhist temple. The key word is deceptively modern, but the kanji is actually another way of writing "samurai." Be careful not to confuse with attend (Frame 1033).
koohiiStory1: Mr. T infiltrates the secret samurai Buddhist temple as a waiter with a tray of green tea. (Careful: attend (#960)).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジ、シ
kunYomi: さむらい、はべ.る
readingExamples: 侍 (さむらい)
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koohiiStory2: Remember the kanji for wait, 待. Well, now we have a waiter, and he´s dropped a dish. See: 侍! 待 crash 侍.
words: 侍(さむらい): Samurai, warrior

keyword: имитировать
kanji: 倣
constituent: emulate, person, set free, compass, direction, taskmaster
myStory: надсмотрщик только сымитировал, что отпускает героя
heisigStory: Person . . . set free.
koohiiStory1: Mr T downloads an emulator so that he can play his favorite game, Pokemon. He plays for a different reason, though - he hates to see them poor little foos in the ball so he spends his entire time setting them free.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: なら.う
readingExamples: 倣う (なら.う)
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koohiiStory2: The black slave who was set free (#496) decides to emulate Mr. T, his role model. He uses his compass to head to Cali to start anew.
words: 倣(ほう): imitate, follow, emulate
模倣(もほう): imitation, copying
倣う(ならう): imitate, follow, emulate

keyword: шпион
kanji: 偵
constituent: spy, person, upright, magic wand, augury, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: герой всегда ходит вертикально, он не шпион, зачем ему скрываться?
heisigStory: Person . . . upright.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is a terrible spy. He walks around upright. "Why should I hide?! I´ve got nothing to be ashamed of!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: NOTE: The second primitive is upright, not eminent. There is an error in the book.

keyword: буддистский жрец
kanji: 僧
constituent: buddhist priest, person, increase, formerly, horns, rice field, brains, sun, day
myStory: герой раньше был монахом
heisigStory: Person . . . increase.
koohiiStory1: While a waiter at the Buddhist temple (see FRAME 976), Mr T increases in wisdom and becomes a Buddhist priest.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T and the artist formerly known as Prince, who by the way is a buddhist, want to form a new heavy metal band. Instead of "Judas Priest" they will be called "Buddhist Priest".
words: 僧(そう): monk, priest

keyword: церемония
kanji: 儀
constituent: ceremony, person, righteousness, sheep, ego, hand, fiesta
myStory: герой праведен, поэтому может проводить церемонии
heisigStory: Person . . . righteousness.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is the master of ceremonies because he is a righteous dude.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T was briefly a rapper, that is an M.C., that is a master of CEREMONIES (the origin of the phrase). But he sang only RIGHTEOUS songs, no cursing or anything like that. (all true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo ).
words: 御辞儀(おじぎ): bow
儀式(ぎしき): ceremony, rite, ritual, service
行儀(ぎょうぎ): manners
礼儀(れいぎ): manners, courtesy, etiquette

keyword: репарация
kanji: 償
constituent: reparation, person, prize, outhouse, small, little, crown, mouth, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: герою не нужны призы (подарки), ему нужна репарация
heisigStory: Person . . . prize.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T says, "This ain´t no prize, foo! This is reparations for slavery!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: つぐな.う
readingExamples: 償う (つぐな.う)
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koohiiStory2: NOTE: do not confuse with compensation (#476)賠. However, 賠 is always used in conjunction 賠償... But 償 is used in various other compounds. Mr. T sold all his jewelry to give as reparations to slave families. The governent tried to honor his charity by giving him a prize, but it was a shitty outhouse filled with clams.
words: 賠償(ばいしょう): reparations, indemnity, compensation
弁償(べんしょう): next word, compensation, reparation, indemnity, reimbursement
補償(ほしょう): compensation, reparation

keyword: отшельник
kanji: 仙
constituent: hermit, person, mountain
myStory: герой однажды ушел в горы - побыть отшельником
heisigStory: Person . . . mountain.
koohiiStory1: A HERMIT is a PERSON who lives in the MOUNTAINS.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン、セント
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koohiiStory2: After living as an hermit (recluse) for a while in the mountains, Mister T becomes an immortal mountain fairy ("fairy" is another meaning of this kanji).
words: 仙(せん): hermit, wizard

keyword: спонсор, организатор
kanji: 催
constituent: sponsor, person, mountain, turkey
myStory: герой - спонсор этой чудесной горной индейки на нашем столе!
heisigStory: Hermit . . . turkey. Note what has happened to the mountain in the element for hermit. In order to make room for the turkey, it was raised and condensed.
koohiiStory1: And now a word from our sponsor. We see Mr. T, doing a sort of George Foreman thing, grilling Mountain Turkeys. "I pity da foo who don´t have a Mr. T grill!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: もよう.す、もよお.す
readingExamples: 催す (もよお.す)
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koohiiStory2: Mister T sponsors a meeting in the mountains (he´s an hermit), talking over a megaphone “I pity da foo who does not come to my event !”. The old turkey comes, and Mister T catches it and cooks it for dinner, muahaha.
words: 開催(かいさい): holding a meeting, open an exhibition
主催(しゅさい): organization, sponsorship
催す(もよおす): to hold (a meeting), to give (a dinner), to feel, to show signs of, to develop symptoms of, to feel (sick)
催促(さいそく): request, demand, claim, urge (action), press for
催し(もよおし): event, festivities, function, social gathering, auspices, opening, holding (a meeting)

keyword: человечность
kanji: 仁
constituent: humanity, person, two
myStory: Герой считает, что два человека могут вести себя человечно по отношению друг с другом
heisigStory: To refer to the fullness of humanity that can only be achieved in dialogue with another (person . . . two), Confucius used this character.
koohiiStory1: The beginning of humanity required at least TWO people. Mr. T and Mrs. T!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン、ニ、ニン
readingExamples: 仁義 (じんぎ), 仁術 (ひとしじゅつ)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T shows his humanity by giving two bucks to every homeless person he sees.

keyword: презирать, презрение
kanji: 侮
constituent: scorn, person, every, reclining, lying down, mother, breasts
myStory: герой презирает каждого, кто служит смерти
heisigStory: Every . . . person.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T has scorn for every fool.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ブ
kunYomi: あなど.る、あなず.る
readingExamples: 侮る (あなど.る)
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koohiiStory2: People full of scorn tend to hate every person (including themselves).
words: 侮辱(ぶじょく): insult, contempt, slight

keyword: валить (деревья)
kanji: 伐
constituent: fell, person, fiesta
myStory: на празднике герой на спор валил деревья Мечом Истины
heisigStory: Person . . . fiesta. Hint: recall the German legend of the English missionary, Saint Boniface, who felled the sacred oak tree dedicated to Thor at Geismar (in lower Hessia), occasioning a great fiesta for the Christians in the neighborhood to mark the defeat of their pagan competition. Be sure to fit your special person into the story if you use it.
koohiiStory1: At a fiesta, Mr. T tries to knock down a large pinata, but in his overly enthusiastic swings to get "the sucka," he actually FELLS the tree the piñata is hanging from, crushing some party goers. “I pity da fools who got crushed by my FELLED tree!”.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バツ、ハツ、カ、ボチ
kunYomi: き.る、そむ.く、う.つ
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koohiiStory2: Mr T at the fiesta fell over blind drunk.
words: 伐(ばつ): strike, attack, punish

keyword: рана, ранение
kanji: 傷
constituent: wound, person, reclining, lying down, piggy bank, sun, day, piglets
myStory: герой получил ранение и упал там, где не солнца
heisigStory: Person . . . reclining . . . piggy bank.
koohiiStory1: If someone doesn't have a fat piggy bank to cover their medical costs and happen to get wounded somewhere, they'll be reclining there forever.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: きず、いた.む、いた.める
readingExamples: 傷む (いた.む), 傷める (いた.める), 傷 (きず)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T gets wounded by reclining on his piggy bank.
words: 火傷(かしょう): burn, scald
傷付く(きずつく): to be hurt, to be wounded, to get injured
傷(しょう): wound, injury, hurt, cut, gash, bruise, scratch, scar, weak point
中傷(ちゅうしょう): slander, libel, defamation
負傷(ふしょう): injury, wound
傷(きず): wound, injury, hurt, cut, gash, bruise, scratch, scar, weak point
火傷(やけど): burn, scald

keyword: защищать, гарантировать
kanji: 保
constituent: protect, person, dumbfounded, mouth, tree, wood
myStory: герой был ошарашен тем, как много людей ему нужно защищать и гарантировать их свободу
heisigStory: Person . . . mouth . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T opens his mouth from the top of the tree saying "I pitty da foo who don´t protect the trees!".
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホ、ホウ
kunYomi: たも.つ
readingExamples: 保つ (たも.つ)
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koohiiStory2: Tip: Heisig later combines mouth and tree into 呆 dumbfounded (#2181). Story: Your person (Mr. T. or whoever) is dumbfounded when told to protect the bad guys rather than fight them.
words: 確保(かくほ): guarantee, ensure, maintain, insure, secure
保つ(たもつ): to keep, to preserve, to hold, to retain, to maintain, to support, to sustain, to last, to endure, to keep well (food), to wear well, to be durable
保育(ほいく): nursing, nurturing, rearing, lactation, suckling
保温(ほおん): retaining warmth, keeping heat in, heat insulation
保管(ほかん): charge, custody, safekeeping, deposit, storage
保険(ほけん): insurance, guarantee
保護(ほご): care, protection, shelter, guardianship, favor, patronage
保守(ほしゅ): conservative, maintaining
保障(ほしょう): guarantee, security, assurance, pledge, warranty
保母(ほぼ): day care worker in a kindergarten nursery school etc.
保養(ほよう): health preservation, recuperation, recreation
保健(ほけん): health preservation, hygiene, sanitation
保証(ほしょう): guarantee, security, assurance, pledge, warranty
保存(ほぞん): preservation, conservation, storage, maintenance

keyword: хвалить
kanji: 褒
constituent: praise, top hat, protect, person, dumbfounded, mouth, tree, wood, scarf
myStory: загадочного защитника в шляпе и шарфе все хвалили
heisigStory: Top hat and scarf . . . protect. Note that the "tree" in protect becomes a wooden pole here.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is praised for his protecting of the trees by being given a top hat and scarf which he wears over his mohawk and chains, respectively.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: ほ.める
readingExamples: 褒める (ほ.める)
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koohiiStory2: An old lady puts a top hat and scarf on her poodle and praises him for how cute he is. The dog thinks, "Someone protect me from this psycho!"...　RTK2:　ホウ　過褒　かほう(excessive praise).
words: 褒美(ほうび): reward, prize
褒める(ほめる): to praise

keyword: величие
kanji: 傑
constituent: greatness, person, sunglasses, dancing legs, ballerina, evening, tree, wood
myStory: герой говорит, что величие не в том, чтобы носить очки, чтобы защититься от солнца, а в том, чтобы посадить деревья и дать защиту всем
heisigStory: Person . . . sunglasses . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: My wise person says greatness does not come from wearing shades (sunglasses) but from planting trees to shade everyone.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケツ
kunYomi: すぐ.れる
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koohiiStory2: Mr T stands in front of you, his greatness radiating out from him so brightly. You need to put on your sunglasses and hide behind a tree to even talk to the guy. "Recognise, foo!".
words: 傑(けつ): excellence
傑作(けっさく): masterpiece, best work, blunder

keyword: плата (за проезд)
kanji: 賃
constituent: fare, responsibility, person, porter, drop, samurai, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: это твоя ответственность - заплатить за проезд деньгами
heisigStory: Responsibility . . . shells/money.
koohiiStory1: It´s your own responsibility to pay the bus fare with the correct number of shells/money.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チン
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koohiiStory2: In Japan they have automatic ticket gates so you cant easily cheat on your train fare. In England however the ticket gates are fairly open. It is a different kind of system. In England you are given the RESPONSIBILITY to put in the right amount of MONEY, but if you are caught cheating, the fines are stiff and you feel like a real CHINCHIN. "un.CHIN".
words: 運賃(うんちん): freight rates, shipping expenses, fare
賃金(ちんぎん): wages
家賃(やちん): rent

keyword: прозорливый
kanji: 俊
constituent: sagacious, person, streetwalker, Ministry of silly walks, John Cleese, license, elbow, human legs, walking legs
myStory: герой прозорливо определил в женщине шлюху
heisigStory: Person . . . license . . . walking legs.
koohiiStory1: The entire town wants to get rid of legal prostitutes, but the sagacious Mr T realizes that they are a benefit to the economy and society. So he lets the sa-geishas stay.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュン
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koohiiStory2: (re: sweetneet) Since he is not very sagacious, Mr. T failed his driver´s license and now needs to resort to his walking legs to get around.

keyword: свидетель
kanji: 傍
constituent: bystander, person, traffic cop, fez, vase, stand up, crown, compass, direction
myStory: герой наблюдал, как император Джегань направляется вглубь Нового Мира
heisigStory: Person . . . stand . . . crown . . . compass.
koohiiStory1: In Japan, the emperor is a bystander - he stands on his crown but can´t really affect the direction of the country. (thx shimouma).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: かたわ.ら、わき、おか-、はた、そば
readingExamples: 傍ら (かたわ.ら)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T is in the street, standing up, wearing an golden crown and a compass in his hand... he´s asking the bystander if they know how to get to buckingham palace (!).
words: 傍ら(かたわら): beside(s), while, nearby

keyword: борозда
kanji: 畝
constituent: furrow, top hat, rice field, brains, long time, mummy, bound up, person
myStory: три типа борозд:
 - на шляпе по кругу
 - на рисовом поле
 - на тебе - ты похож на мумию, настолько старый
heisigStory: Think of the three kinds of furrows shown here in this character - a top hat's rim, a rice field's ridges, and the wrinkles that show you've been around a long time.
koohiiStory1: Using a TOP HAT to make FURROWS in the RICE FIELD takes a LONG TIME!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ、ホ、モ、ム
kunYomi: せ、うね
readingExamples: 畝 (うね), 畝 (せ)
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koohiiStory2: A mummy tries to furrow his brow but realizes that he´s got no head - just a brain with a top-hat on it. So he furrows his brain. [trigger: furrow your brain].

keyword: захваченный (силой в плен)
kanji: 囚
constituent: captured, pent in, person
myStory: человек застрял, захваченный в плен
heisigStory: Person . . . pent in.
koohiiStory1: A person pent in is obviously captured. Imagine a man put inside a wooden box, his evil capturers waiting for ransom money.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: とら.われる
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T can´t be captured. This kanji is lying.

keyword: третий класс
kanji: 丙
constituent: third class, one, ceiling, inside, person, belt
myStory: в полете третьим классом человек бьется головой о потолок, потому что ремни никуда не годятся
heisigStory: Those no-frills flights the airlines offer to attract customers should help create an image from ceiling . . . person . . . belt. The kanji meaning "inside" should not be used because of its proximity to the element for "in."
koohiiStory1: In this third class flight, the seatbelts are so bad that with the slightest turbulence all the persons hit the ceiling. (it´s almost pictographic here!).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
kunYomi: ひのえ
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koohiiStory2: But third class is so small Mr. T´s head hits the celing.

keyword: дизайн
kanji: 柄
constituent: design, tree, wood, third class, one, ceiling, inside, person, belt
myStory: в третьем классе дизайн косит под дерево, но это не дерево
heisigStory: Tree . . . third class.
koohiiStory1: This is a "design" as in a "pattern", not a verb as in "to design". The tree grain design was too expensive for the third class airline to use for the panelling. They just painted it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
kunYomi: がら、え、つか
readingExamples: 柄 (え), 柄 (がら)
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koohiiStory2: Half Way!!!!
words: 間柄(あいだがら): relation(ship)
柄(え): handle, grip
大柄(おおがら): large build, large pattern
小柄(こがら): short (build)
事柄(ことがら): matter, thing, affair, circumstance
人柄(ひとがら): personality, character, personal appearance, gentility
柄(がら): pattern, design

keyword: гнить, гнилой
kanji: 腐
constituent: rot, borough, municipality, cave, adhere, sellotape, person, glue, meat, inside, belt, person, person2
myStory: мясо в пещере пристало к камню и сгнило нафиг
heisigStory: Municipality . . . meat.
koohiiStory1: The rotting meat adheres to the cave walls.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: くさ.る、-くさ.る、くさ.れる、くさ.れ、くさ.らす、くさ.す
readingExamples: 腐らす (くさ.らす), 腐る (くさ.る), 腐れる (くさ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Smaller municipalities are well known for filling their budgets with pork (meat). Thats why they are also well known for being rotten.
words: 腐敗(ふはい): decay, depravity
腐る(くさる): rot, go bad

keyword: зонт
kanji: 傘
constituent: umbrella, umbrella, assembly line, person, ten, needle, person4, assembly line2
myStory: под большим зонтом хоть четыре человека, хоть десять
heisigStory: Umbrella . . . two assembly lines . . . needle.
koohiiStory1: FOUR PERSONS can fit under this UMBRELLA if they are thin as a NEEDLE.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン
kunYomi: かさ
readingExamples: 傘 (かさ)
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koohiiStory2: There are two assembly lines at the umbrella factory. One is responsible for making the top of the umbrella, and the other for making the handle. The two lines cross at the end, where one man tries frantically to jam the sets of parts together.
words: 傘(かさ): umbrella

keyword: мера веса - 3,75 гр (монмэ)
kanji: 匁
constituent: monme, bound up, tucked under the arm
myStory: со связаными руками ты можешь поднять мизинцем только 3,75 гр.
heisigStory: This character obliges us once again to make use of a Japanese key word for want of an English equivalent. It refers to an old unit of weight, equal to about 3.75 grams. The word is only slightly more useful in modern Japanese than cubits and kites are in modern English. Its primitives, if you look closely, are: bound up . . . arm.
koohiiStory1: Dude! What happened to your arm! It´s all bound up! "Yeah man, it´s a bummer... with my arm like this I can only lift one monme!".
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
kunYomi: もんめ、め
readingExamples: 匁 (もんめ)
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koohiiStory2: Dude! What happened to your arm! It´s all bound up! "Yeah man, it´s a bummer... with my arm like this I can only lift one monme!" "You´ll never be able to use your dagger now!" (adapted from ergerg).

keyword: объединять (в смысле, вещи, которые были разделены)
kanji: 併
constituent: join, person, puzzle, horns, two hands
myStory: герой собирает пазл, собирая картинку в одно целое
heisigStory: The sense of the key word is one of joining things together that were previously separate. Its elements: person . . . puzzle.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T furiously works a puzzle in an attempt to join Mensa, the high-IQ society.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
kunYomi: あわ.せる
readingExamples: 併せる (あわ.せる)
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koohiiStory2: Why do I gotta join these two puzzle pieces? I ain´t got time for joining no jigsaw-jabba! Mr. T apparently gets a severe case of crankypants when doing puzzles.
words: 合併(がっぺい): combination, union, amalgamation, consolidation, merger, coalition, fusion, annexation, affiliation, incorporation

keyword: плитка (черепицы, например)
kanji: 瓦
constituent: tile, one, ceiling, cane, stick, drop, fishhook, ice
myStory: T-I-L-E
heisigStory: Ceiling . . . plow . . . fishhook . . . a drop of.
koohiiStory1: Horror scene: Hanging from the ceiling, a plough and fishhook dripping with blood down onto the tiled bathroom floor.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガ
kunYomi: かわら、ぐらむ
readingExamples: 瓦 (かわら)
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koohiiStory2: [true stroke order] First draw T for Tile, which then becomes I. Then draw an ´L´ fish hook with a dash in the middle to make a mediocre ´e´ that few can see.//ガ wa3 와 (wa).
words: 瓦(かわら): roof tile
煉瓦(れんが): brick

keyword: Синтоистский храм
kanji: 宮
constituent: shinto shrine, house, spine, mouth, drop, mouth2
myStory: дом, в котором ты поклонишься, создав нагрузку на позвоночник - синтоистский храм
heisigStory: Way back in lesson 2 we learned the character for spine. The two other characters in which it is used we can now learn together in this and the following frame. Here a Shinto shrine is composed of house and spine.
koohiiStory1: This Shinto shrine is built with human spines. Have you ever seen the ossuary in Sedlec, near Kutna Hora in Czech Republic ? It is a small church entirely decorated with human bones. Do a web search for "sedlec ossuary", it´s quite a sight.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ、グウ、ク、クウ
kunYomi: みや
readingExamples: 宮殿 (きゅうでん), 宮廷 (きゅうてい), 離宮 (りきゅう), 宮 (みや)
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koohiiStory2: A friend of mine made up a rhyme for this one: "house with a spine, Shinto shrine"!
words: お宮(おみや): Shinto shrine
宮殿(きゅうでん): palace

keyword: добродетельный
kanji: 善
constituent: virtuous, sheep, horns, mouth
myStory: человек высоких моральных стандартов не будет затыкать рот даже овцам
heisigStory: Sheep . . . horns . . . mouth. Pay special attention to the writing of this character.
koohiiStory1: Imagine a priest´s teaching: "To achieve virtue one must first submit himself as a sheep to God´s flock, rejecting the horns of Satan and resisting the mouth of Hell.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼン
kunYomi: よ.い、い.い、よ.く、よし.とする
readingExamples: 善い (よ.い)
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koohiiStory2: To be virtuous, a good rule to follow is to put your sheepishness (discretion) over your horns (anger) before using your mouth. In other words, "discretion is the better part of virtue".
words: 最善(さいぜん): the very best
親善(しんぜん): friendship
善良(ぜんりょう): goodness, excellence, virtue
善し悪し(よしあし): good or bad, merits or demerits, quality, suitability
改善(かいぜん): betterment, improvement, incremental and continuous improvement
善(ぜん): good, goodness, right, virtue

keyword: пригорок
kanji: 塚
constituent: hillock, soil, dirt, ground, crown, pig, sow
myStory: королевский свин сидит на пригорке, как царь горы
heisigStory: Soil . . . crown . . . sow. Compare frame 582.
koohiiStory1: There´s already King of the Hill. This is Queen of the Hillock. It´s Ms. Piggy sitting on top of a mound of soil in her crown.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: つか、-づか
readingExamples: 塚 (つか)
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koohiiStory2: The crowned sow (we met her in overpowering) is standing atop her little mound of earth - hillock - the undisputed champeen of all the pigsty.

keyword: наличные деньги
kanji: 幣
constituent: cash, shredder, small, little, belt, taskmaster, towel
myStory: надсмотрщик пытается из грязных полотенец и просто полотенец сделать наличные
heisigStory: Shredder . . . towel.
koohiiStory1: A counterfeiter is using a shredder to shred a towel in order to print up some cash (he needs some rag paper) .
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
kunYomi: ぬさ
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koohiiStory2: In order to create some cash, first you feed a towel through a shredder to get the raw materials. ("Paper" money isn´t plain paper; it´s mostly linen.).
words: 貨幣(かへい): money, currency, coinage
紙幣(しへい): paper money, notes, bills

keyword: злоупотреблять
kanji: 弊
constituent: abuse, shredder, small, little, belt, taskmaster, two hands
myStory: подделывать деньги - это вообще вредная привычка, а двумя руками подделывать - это вообще злоупотребление
heisigStory: Shredder . . . two hands.
koohiiStory1: The Bush administration taskmasters hid their abuse of power by shredding documents as fast as they could using both hands....　　　　　RTK2: 　ヘイ　弊害　へいがい(abuse)...　　　Pure Group:　幣1041.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
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koohiiStory2: You’ve heard of Edward Scissor hands? Well this is Medward Shredder Hands. Instead of nicely trimming your shrubs, he uses his TWO SHREDDER equipped HANDS to ABUSE your plants by shredding them into wood chips.

keyword: кричать
kanji: 喚
constituent: yell, mouth, bound up, four, large, St. Bernard
myStory: четыре огромные собаки вместе заставляют кричать
heisigStory: The mouth on the left is obvious. The rest is harder. Try this: four St. Bernard dogs bound up in a bunch. Together they should supply a clear enough portrait of a yell, provided you are careful to see all four of them. Note how the final stroke of the four is supplied by the long horizontal stroke of the St .Bernard.
koohiiStory1: Think yelp when you hear yell to help dinstinguish this from shout (1508). I think of the sounds that would come from the mouths of the 4 dogs if they were bound up together. I´m imagining lots of yelping.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: わめ.く
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koohiiStory2: Yell? You mean, Old Yeller. Here, we see four St Bernard dogs all yelling for a chance to play a part in Old Yeller. They´re so loud that you have to bound them, and their mouths, up.

keyword: растворяться, плавиться
kanji: 融
constituent: dissolve, tripod, one, ceiling, mouth, hood, human legs, street, nail, spike, insect
myStory: 1. Я растворяюсь от количества примитивов в этом канжи
2. Слева - фотограф со старой вспышкой. В момент съемки насекомое пролетает перед вспышкой, и от жара немедленно растворяется в воздухе
heisigStory: Ceiling . . . mouth . . . hood . . . human legs . . . spike . . . insect. This is the maximum number of elements to appear in any story in the book.
koohiiStory1: I have created the element "old camera" out of the left side of the kanji: from the subject´s point of view, the light is captured by one mouth (the lens). The photographer is under a big hood, we only see his legs, and he is holding a spike in his right hand, which is the shutter release. Now, at the time the photographer takes the photo, a little insect is flying near the flash. The flash is so powerful that the insect is burnt and dissolves in the air.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: と.ける、と.かす
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koohiiStory2: I´ve seen this crazy thing with only one mouth that can dissolve up to 4 nails and an insect at the same time. Sweet! (It´s a venus flytrap, btw).
words: 融資(ゆうし): financing, loan
融通(ゆうずう): lending (money), accommodation, adaptability, versatility, finance
金融(きんゆう): monetary circulation, credit situation

keyword: давать, даровать
kanji: 施
constituent: alms, banner, direction, compass, direction, reclining, lying down, scorpion
myStory: под баннером волонтеры дают противоядие пострадавшим от скорпионов
heisigStory: Banner . . . scorpion.
koohiiStory1: Under their banner, volunteers are requesting alms for scorpion sting victims.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ、セ
kunYomi: ほどこ.す
readingExamples: 施設 (しせつ), 施政 (しせい), 実施 (じっし), 施す (ほどこ.す)
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koohiiStory2: ALMS for the poor cries the beggar under his tattered BANNER. An evil bastard instead drops a SCORPION into his begging bowl.
words: 施行(しぎょう): execution, enforcing, carrying out
施設(しせつ): institution, establishment, facility, (army) engineer
施す(ほどこす): to donate, to give, to conduct, to apply, to perform
実施(じっし): enforcement, enact, put into practice, carry out, operation

keyword: ротация (служащих на неприятном дежурстве)
kanji: 旋
constituent: rotation, banner, direction, compass, direction, reclining, lying down, zoo, critters
myStory: твоя очередь по ротации чинить этот дурацкий баннер!
heisigStory: A banner . . . a zoo. Hint: think of a merry-go-round.
koohiiStory1: A merry-go-round with a big banner on top and below a veritable zoo of bakelite animals on poles in perpertual rotation accompanied by silly music. Giraffes, elephants, zebras, rhinos...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
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koohiiStory2: Don´t confuse with revolve or axis! Think of rotation as a rotation of animals in the zoo - some are on display (in rotation), some are in cages in the back (out of rotation). The ones currently in rotation (on display) are advertised with a large banner.

keyword: не (п: узел)
kanji: 勿
constituent: not, knot, piglet’s tail
heisigStory: First take the primitive meaning of this character: knot. Think of it as the piglet minus its body (the horizontal stroke), that is, the curly tail that looks like a knot. As an exception, we will use the homonym to remember the abstract key word, not.
koohiiStory1: This kanji is NOT a piglett.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: モチ、ブツ、ボツ
kunYomi: なか.れ、なし
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koohiiStory2: The butcher is standing over the piglet. "This is a piglet...(cuts of head)...NOT!".
words: 勿論(もちろん): of course, certainly, naturally

keyword: быть одаренным (подарком)
kanji: 賜
constituent: grant, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, easy, sun, day, knot, piglet’s tail
myStory: "простые" деньги - грант
heisigStory: Shells . . . easy.
koohiiStory1: A grant is easy money.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: たまわ.る、たま.う、たも.う
readingExamples: 賜る (たまわ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Do you want free shells from the government? It´s easy with my new book, "How to Get a Free Grant from the Government!" Call today!
words: 賜る(たまわる): to grant, to bestow

keyword: моча
kanji: 尿
constituent: urine, flag, water
myStory: животные помечают (ставят флаг) свою территорию жидкостью (мочой)
heisigStory: Flag . . . water.
koohiiStory1: Animals use their urine to mark their territory. So for them, their body water works as a flag denoting their "country" (why bother? we all know which story you are going to pick).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ニョウ
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koohiiStory2: Someone is pissing on the American flag, but since the urine is clear it looks like water.
words: 屎尿(しにょう): excreta, raw sewage, human waste, night soil
尿(にょう): urine

keyword: забор
kanji: 塀
constituent: fence, soil, dirt, ground, folding screen, flag, puzzle, horns, two hands
myStory: земли под флагами как пазл - планета Земля, политическая карта - обнесенные заборами
heisigStory: Soil . . . flag . . . puzzle.
koohiiStory1: [fence; wall; (kokuji)] A fence separates one soil from the other. On a large scale, large pieces of soils in the world have a virtual fence called nation. Picture a world map where all countries have their soil with one color, their national flag as the legend and a fence on the borders... don´t you think it looks like a giant puzzle?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ、ベイ
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koohiiStory2: Why the Earth has to be fenced off and flags used to represent each "country" is a puzzle to me - we´re all just monkeys on a big rock spinning round the Sun!
words: 塀(へい): wall, fence

keyword: обувь, одевать обувь
kanji: 履
constituent: footgear, flag, restore, Nelson, column, going, line, fold back, double back, reclining, lying down, sun, day, walking legs
myStory: спишь ты такой в лагере, вдруг бац - тебя будят с новостью, что флаг похитили. Ты быстро одеваешь обувь и бежишь восстанавливать флаг
heisigStory: Flag . . . restore.
koohiiStory1: NOTE: The most common use is in はく, meaning to put on footgear, rather than actual footgear itself. STORY: You are asleep in camp when you are woken up with news that the FLAG has fallen to the enemy. You quickly PUT ON YOUR FOOTGEAR and run off to RESTORE the FLAG.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
kunYomi: は.く
readingExamples: 履く (は.く)
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koohiiStory2: You should never use a flag as a shoeshine cloth to restore your footgear.
words: 履く(はく): to wear, to put on (lower body)
履歴(りれき): personal history, background, career, log
草履(ぞうり): sandals

keyword: хватка
kanji: 握
constituent: grip, finger, fingers, roof, flag climax, wall, one, ceiling, elbow, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: пальцы ухватились за край крыши в отчаянной хватке (сцена из фильма)
heisigStory: Fingers . . . roof.
koohiiStory1: Fingers gripping the roof as your about to fall to your death. Think of an action scene in some movie.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: アク
kunYomi: にぎ.る
readingExamples: 握る (にぎ.る)
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koohiiStory2: (This is the にぎ of sushi). A sushi chef climaxes into a rice ball, wraps it in an American flag, and grips is firm with his fingers to form the "Fuck You America Onigiri.".
words: 把握(はあく): grasp, catch, understanding
握手(あくしゅ): handshake
握る(にぎる): grasp, seize, mould (sushi)

keyword: уступать
kanji: 屈
constituent: yield, flag, exit
myStory: когда солдаты уступают, они выходят с белым флагом
heisigStory: Flag . . . exit.
koohiiStory1: When yielding, soldiers raise the white flag before exiting from the trenches.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: クツ
kunYomi: かが.む、かが.める
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koohiiStory2: If you live in Japan, you are only too familiar with the helpful little man who assists you in getting out of every parking lot or parking garage, standing at the exit, waving his flag to make traffic yield to you.
words: 窮屈(きゅうくつ): narrow, tight, stiff, rigid, uneasy, formal, constrained
屈折(くっせつ): bending, indentation, refraction
理屈(りくつ): theory, reason
退屈(たいくつ): tedium, boredom

keyword: ров
kanji: 堀
constituent: ditch, moat, soil, dirt, ground, yield, flag, exit
myStory: когда ты выкопал много земли своими пальцами, в итоге получается ров
heisigStory: Soil . . . yield.
koohiiStory1: (See dig (#1061)). When soil finally yielded thanks to your digging efforts, what you have is a ditch.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: クツ
kunYomi: ほり
readingExamples: 堀 (ほり)
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koohiiStory2: Ditch / trench. The yielding army abandons it´s patch of soil, leaving behind a landscape of ditchs and trenches. Trench warfare.
words: 堀(ほり): moat, canal

keyword: устанавливать, располагать, чинить (to set)
kanji: 据
constituent: set, finger, fingers, reside, flag, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: там, где ты проживаешь, ты пальцами все устанавливаешь, располагаешь вещи, как тебе нравится, чинишь их
heisigStory: Fingers . . . reside.
koohiiStory1: The man set his finger firmly on the map and said "Here is where they reside, I am certain of it".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ
kunYomi: す.える、す.わる
readingExamples: 据える (す.える), 据わる (す.わる)
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koohiiStory2: Cf. reside (#1063): you set the flag with your fingers on the place where you reside: an old tradition.
words: 据え付ける(すえつける): to install, to equip, to mount
据える(すえる): to set (table), to lay (foundation), to place (gun), to apply (moxa)

keyword: утечка
kanji: 漏
constituent: leak, water, water droplets, water pistol, flag, rain, weather
myStory: в ямку от флага во время дождя утекает вода - в крыше течь
heisigStory: Water . . . flag . . . rain.
koohiiStory1: WATER always LEAKED in the spot left by the FLAG planted in the roof everytime it RAINED. Not too hard to picture a hole left in the ceiling from a flag, now leaking water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ
kunYomi: も.る、も.れる、も.らす
readingExamples: 漏らす (も.らす), 漏る (も.る), 漏れる (も.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Mark the holes where rain water can leak through with little flags.
words: 漏らす(もらす): to let leak, to reveal
漏る(もる): to leak, to run out
漏れる(もれる): to leak out, to escape, to come through, to shine through, to filter out, to be omitted

keyword: мера длины - около 30,3 см (п: shakuhachi, бамбуковая флейта)
kanji: 尺
constituent: shaku, flag, stick
myStory: bRow job
heisigStory: The key word shaku has actually come into English in the word shakuhachi, the ancient Japanese flute that measured "one shaku and eight sun" (the "sun" being about an inch in length). Since the shaku is about one foot in length, this makes about 20 inches. Let the final sweeping stroke be like a tape measure added to the flag.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this will mean the shakuhachi flute.
koohiiStory1: Slang for blowjob and that´s priceless for stories...but also the character looks like the letter R which I think of as standing for RULER (12 inches) other meanings include: rule, measure, length.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャク
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koohiiStory2: Since this is SLANG for BLOW JOB and since it looks like an "R", let´s have the primitive be the R in BROW JOB. :).

keyword: выдохнуться, истощиться (в силе)
kanji: 尽
constituent: exhaust, shaku-hachi, flag, stick, ice
myStory: если в твоей флейте набилось льда, ты очень быстро выдохнешься, пытаясь извлечь из нее звуки
heisigStory: Shakuhachi . . . ice.
koohiiStory1: A women is so exhausted by her "shakuhachi" that see needs to ice her jaw.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン、サン
kunYomi: つ.くす、-つ.くす、-づ.くし、-つ.く、-づ.く、-ず.く、つ.きる、つ.かす、さかづき、ことごと.く、つか、つき
readingExamples: 尽かす (つ.かす), 尽きる (つ.きる), 尽くす (つ.くす)
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koohiiStory2: That´s not ice...it´s my last drops and I´m exhausted! ;).
words: 尽きる(つきる): to be used up, to be run out, to be exhausted, to be consumed, to come to an end
尽くす(つくす): to exhaust, to run out, to serve (a person), to befriend

keyword: болото
kanji: 沢
constituent: swamp, water, water droplets, water pistol, shaku-hachi, flag, stick
myStory: ты прячешься от врагов под водой в болоте. Чтобы дышать, ты используешь флейту
heisigStory: Water . . . shakuhachi.
koohiiStory1: You´re hiding from the enemy underwater in a swamp. To breathe, you have your shakuhachi flute poking up through the surface of the water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タク
kunYomi: さわ、うるお.い、うるお.す、つや
readingExamples: 沢 (さわ)
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koohiiStory2: Sirens in the swamp play eerie music on their shakuhachi flutes to lure you in - you follow the enchanting music then its too late as you get trapped in the swamp!
words: 光沢(こうたく): brilliance, polish, lustre, glossy finish (of photographs)
贅沢(ぜいたく): luxury, extravagance

keyword: переводить (с языка на язык)
kanji: 訳
constituent: translate, say, words, keitai, mouth, shaku-hachi, flag, stick
myStory: чувства можно перевести в слова с помощью флейты
heisigStory: Words . . . shakuhachi.
koohiiStory1: You cannot pretend to translate into words the melody of the shakuhachi!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヤク
kunYomi: わけ
readingExamples: 訳 (わけ)
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koohiiStory2: You all know that ´shakuhachi´ is a slang word for blowjob, right? In this kanji you got a job as a TRANSLATOR for Japanese porno movies. So you sit there all day translating dirty WORDS and watching girls perform SHAKUHACHI. This is the life!
words: 言い訳(いいわけ): excuse, explanation
内訳(うちわけ): the items, breakdown, classification
通訳(つうやく): interpretation
申し訳(もうしわけ): apology, excuse
申し訳ない(もうしわけない): inexcusable
訳(やく): translation
訳す(やくす): translate
翻訳(ほんやく): translate
訳(わけ): reason

keyword: выбирать, счетчик вариантов выбора
kanji: 択
constituent: choose, finger, fingers, shaku-hachi, flag, stick
myStory: собственно, игра на флейте - это умение выбирать нужные дырочки
heisigStory: Fingers . . . shakuhachi.
koohiiStory1: Hand job or "shakuhachi", choose.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タク
kunYomi: えら.ぶ
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koohiiStory2: Depending on where you choose to put your fingers, the shakuhachi will produce a different note.
words: 採択(さいたく): adoption, selection, choice
選択(せんたく): selection, choice

keyword: кисточка (на занавесках)
kanji: 房
constituent: tassel, door, one, ceiling, flag, compass, direction
myStory: когда ты выпускаешься из школы, тебя провожают к дверям, дают компас и шапку с кисточкой
heisigStory: Door . . . compass.
koohiiStory1: Explanation here: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=14684#p14684.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: ふさ
readingExamples: 房 (ふさ)
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koohiiStory2: When you graduate from a school, after they gave you your tassel, they shove you to the door and give you a compass saying "Sayonara & Good Luck out there!" (ボウ).
words: 女房(にょうぼう): wife
文房具(ぶんぼうぐ): stationery
冷房(れいぼう): cooling, air-conditioning
暖房(だんぼう): heating

keyword: веер
kanji: 扇
constituent: fan, door, one, ceiling, flag, feathers, wings
myStory: очень жарко! дверь открыта, обмахиваюсь перьями - веером
heisigStory: Door . . . wings.
koohiiStory1: It´s insanely hot today! I´m standing in the doorway, fanning myself with feathers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: おうぎ
readingExamples: 扇 (おうぎ)
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koohiiStory2: I am a fan of the Doors but I also like the Wings. I have a fan that I take to rock concerts with the picture of each band on the sides.
words: 団扇(うちわ): fan
扇子(せんす): folding fan
扇ぐ(あおぐ): to fan, to flap
扇風機(せんぷうき): electric fan

keyword: очаг
kanji: 炉
constituent: hearth-fire, door, one, ceiling, flag
myStory: за открытой дверь видно огонь - приветливый очаг
heisigStory: Hearth fire . . . door.
koohiiStory1: This hearth is equipped with a fire-proof door. On the kanji you can see somewhat pictographically the fire-proof door keeping the fire behind, and nothing comes under the door primitive, where you would have expected to see another primitive.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロ
kunYomi: いろり
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koohiiStory2: -"Honey? Do we have any wood left for the hearth?" -"Aagh, just use the frickin´ door!".

keyword: оглядываться назад (на прошлое)
kanji: 顧
constituent: look back, employ, door, one, ceiling, flag, turkey, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: когда тебя наняли, оглядывайся назад, первое время за тобой будут следить
heisigStory: Employ . . . head.
koohiiStory1: I was EMPLOYED to give HEAD...when I look back, maybe that was not a wise career move.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: かえり.みる
readingExamples: 顧みる (かえり.みる)
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koohiiStory2: The people we employ are always turning their heads to look back. They don´t want to be caught playing solitare on company time.
words: 顧みる(かえりみる): to look back, to turn around, to review

keyword: раскрывать (информацию)
kanji: 啓
constituent: disclose, bouncer, door, one, ceiling, flag, taskmaster, mouth
myStory: за закрытыми дверями надсмотрщик пытает человека, желая заставить его раскрыть информацию
heisigStory: Door . . . taskmaster . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: Behind closed DOORS, the TASKMASTER tortures to get prisoners to open their MOUTHS and DISCLOSE information.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: ひら.く、さと.す
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koohiiStory2: You signed a non-disclosure agreement with the taskmaster but you opened your mouth as soon as you got out the door!
words: 拝啓(はいけい): Dear (so and so)

keyword: благоприятный
kanji: 祥
constituent: auspicious, altar, sheep
myStory: забить овцу на алтаре для благоприятного ведения войны
heisigStory: Altar . . . sheep.
koohiiStory1: Bringing a sheep to sacrifice on the altar was a sign of an auspicious life. The poor could only afford a pigeon, the more auspicious an expensive sheep for an offering.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: さいわ.い、きざ.し、よ.い、つまび.らか
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koohiiStory2: On this ewe-spicious occasion, you sacrifice a sheep at the altar. —— Sorry, but I really need more than generic altar sacrifices to connect keywords to stories. Sometimes an egregious pun is the only way.

keyword: благосостояние
kanji: 祉
constituent: welfare, altar, stop, footprint
myStory: у каждого алтаря он останавливался и молился о благополучии
heisigStory: Altar . . . footprint.
koohiiStory1: And in front of every altar, she stopped to pray for the welfare of the others.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
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koohiiStory2: Religious Republicans regularly go to the altar to pray for a stop to welfare.
words: 福祉(ふくし): welfare, well-being

keyword: инспекция, смотреть на
kanji: 視
constituent: inspection, altar, see, telescope, eye, human legs
myStory: смотреть на алтарь, чтобы проинспектировать, не появилось ли каких-нибудь странных символов
heisigStory: Altar . . . see.
koohiiStory1: The beaurocracy in Japan is such that even altars need to be inspection approved. A little man with glasses comes once a year to give the altar a "visual once over" as he calls it (perhaps checking for unauthorised symbology?).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: み.る
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koohiiStory2: [inspection; regard as; see; look at] Inspection: you 示 show (#1086) and someone else 見 see (#57).
words: 監視(かんし): observation, guarding, inspection, surveillance
近視(きんし): shortsightedness
視覚(しかく): sense of sight, vision
視察(しさつ): inspection, observation
視点(してん): opinion, point of view, visual point
視野(しや): field of vision, outlook
重視(じゅうし): importance, stress, serious consideration
無視(むし): disregard, ignore

keyword: Nara
kanji: 奈
constituent: nara, large, St. Bernard, altar, show, two, small
myStory: большой алтарь в городе Нара
heisigStory: We choose the city of Nara as the key word in this case because this kanji, frequently used in proper names, appears in Nara; and also because of Nara's famed religious monuments, which help us with the primitives: St. Bernard dog . . . altar.
koohiiStory1: It´s beautiful place, but the dark side of Nara is that they sacrifice St. Bernards on evil altars every night after the tourists leave!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ナ、ナイ、ダイ
kunYomi: いかん、からなし
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koohiiStory2: Nara is just a big show for tourists.

keyword: военный офицер
kanji: 尉
constituent: military officer, flag, altar, show, two, small, glue
myStory: военный офицер приклеен к флагу - алтарю воинской части
heisigStory: Flag . . . altar . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: Of course it had to be the military officer´s idea to glue a national flag to the altar he´s stationed at.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ、ジョウ
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koohiiStory2: Perhaps you have heard about Koizumis controversial visits at the Yasukuni war memorial shrine. It is the japanese flag waving above a small stone altar. A military officer keeps watch here night and day, to honor the dead war heroes, as if he is glued to the ground.
words: 尉(じょう): jailer, old man, rank, company officer

keyword: утешение, развлечение
kanji: 慰
constituent: consolation, military officer, flag, altar, show, two, small, glue, heart
myStory: военный офицер обязан привносить хоть немного утешения в письма родным погибших бойцов
heisigStory: Military officer . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: A military officer must offer consolation to the hearts of the families of his fallen men.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: なぐさ.める、なぐさ.む
readingExamples: 慰む (なぐさ.む), 慰める (なぐさ.める)
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koohiiStory2: This Kanji appears in the word 慰安婦 いあんふ, which was what the infamous WW II "comfort women" were called in Japanese. The story goes something like this: As a way of providing consolation to battle-weary, heartsick military officers and soldiers, the Japanese set up comfort stations (brothels) for their servicemen. (Just to be clear: this is not an endorsement of the practice, just a way to remember the Kanji.).
words: 慰める(なぐさめる): comfort, console

keyword: доброжелательность
kanji: 款
constituent: goodwill, samurai, altar, show, two, small, lack, yawn
myStory: самурай у алтаря зевает. ему скучно слушать проповеди о доброжелательности
heisigStory: Samurai . . . altar . . . yawning.
koohiiStory1: Samuari, altar, yawn The samurai is on the altar, preaching about goodwill. The audience just yawns however, they want to see the man fight!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
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koohiiStory2: For better remembering the placement of the eleements: The samurai kneels before the altar at his wedding ceremony, when some of the attendants lets out a big yawn. He is a kind man and for the day his goodwill benefits everyone. No beheadings.

keyword: воротник
kanji: 襟
constituent: collar, cloak, prohibition, grove, tree, wood, altar, show, two, small, tree2, wood2
myStory: запрет плащей вылился в то, что у всех появился новый фетиш - высокие воротники
heisigStory: Cloak . . . prohibition.
koohiiStory1: A collar is the part of your cloak that, if tightened too tight, will prohibit breathing.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: えり
readingExamples: 襟 (えり)
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koohiiStory2: Collars are prohibited from wizarding cloaks. Blood purists say they´re too muggle.
words: 襟(えり): neck, collar, lapel, neckband

keyword: религия
kanji: 宗
constituent: religion, house, altar, show, two, small
myStory: дом любого алтаря - религия
heisigStory: House . . . altar.
koohiiStory1: I never really did figure out what religion my host family was - all I knew was that they kept an altar in their home.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ、ソウ
kunYomi: むね
readingExamples: 宗教 (しゅうきょう), 宗派 (しゅうは), 改宗 (かいしゅう)
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koohiiStory2: All the RELIGIONS have their own temples, which are houses where they place their altars.
words: 宗教(しゅうきょう): religion

keyword: поклоняться
kanji: 崇
constituent: adore, mountain, religion, house, altar, show, two, small
myStory: люди ходят поклоняться своей религии на гору
heisigStory: Mountain . . . religion.
koohiiStory1: In ancient Greece, it was the religion of the time to adore the gods who live on Mount Olympus.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スウ
kunYomi: あが.める
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koohiiStory2: I would adore the religious people if they just went and threw themselves off a mountain top.
words: 崇拝(すうはい): worship, adoration, admiration, cult

keyword: тереть (на терке)
kanji: 擦
constituent: grate, finger, fingers, guess, house, ritual, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, crotch, altar, show, two, small
myStory: попробуй предлоложить, сколько раз я натер пальцы на терке
heisigStory: Fingers . . . guess.
koohiiStory1: If you mis-guess the cheese you´ll grate your fingers on the cheese-grater (happens to me all the time).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サツ
kunYomi: す.る、す.れる、-ず.れ、こす.る、こす.れる
readingExamples: 擦る (す.る), 擦れる (す.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Ouch! Guess how many fingers I just grated in the grater? (Edit: OR: Ouch! Guess what I just grated in the grater? -- my finger!).
words: 擦る(かする): to touch lightly, to take a percentage (from)
擦れ違い(すれちがい): chance encounter
擦れる(すれる): to rub, to chafe, to wear, to become sophisticated
擦る(こする): rub, scrub
摩擦(まさつ): friction, rubbing, rubdown, chafe

keyword: срывать (цветок)
kanji: 抽
constituent: pluck, finger, fingers, sprout, shoot
myStory: пальцами срываем росток с рисового поля
heisigStory: Fingers . . . sprout.
koohiiStory1: [When I see the word pluck, I think eyebrows, not vegetables. So, to avoid confusing with pick (#733):] Each time this singular, long, wiry black hair starts to sprout out of my chin again, I pluck it with my fingers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
kunYomi: ひき-
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koohiiStory2: If you pluck your fingers, new ones will sprout in their place. (try it ;).
words: 抽選(ちゅうせん): lottery, raffle, drawing (of lots)
抽象(ちゅうしょう): abstract

keyword: рукав
kanji: 袖
constituent: sleeve, cloak, sprout, shoot
myStory: магический плащ с ростками по бокам - зачатки рукавов
heisigStory: Cloak . . . sprout.
koohiiStory1: Imagine some magic cloak, that when worn, has little green sprouts appearing on the sides that grow into sleeves.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: そで
readingExamples: 袖 (そで)
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koohiiStory2: The bad magician says, "As you can see, there´s nothing up my sleeves!" Then he trips over his cloak and brussel sprouts fall everywhere.
words: 袖(そで): sleeve

keyword: в воздухе, воздушное пространство
kanji: 宙
constituent: mid-air, house, sprout, shoot
myStory: росток пробил крышу дома и повис где-то в воздухе, между небом и землей
heisigStory: House . . . shoot.
koohiiStory1: Jack´s beanstalk sprouted up, pushed at the roof and lifted the house so that it hangs in mid-air suspended on the SPROUT.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
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koohiiStory2: Hahaha, the image of walking into a house and finding a sea of brussel sprouts floating mid-air is enough for me to remember. Maybe there´s a magician in the kitchen shouting a reassuring "Don´t mind the sprouts!".
words: 宙返り(ちゅうがえり): somersault, looping-the-loop
宇宙(うちゅう): universe, cosmos, space

keyword: ось
kanji: 軸
constituent: axis, car, sprout, shoot
myStory: машина едет по полю, вдруг росток цепляет за ось колеса, машина летит вперед, вращаясь вокруг уже своей оси
heisigStory: Car . . . shoot.
koohiiStory1: The Germans manufactured so many cars during World War II that it was almost as if they were sprouting from the factories of the Axis.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジク
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koohiiStory2: An absurd image, but what the heck - worked for me. Imagine a car going across a plain at a fast speed. Suddenly a single sprout (the only one to be seen) gets stuck to the car´s wheels, causing the car to fly around its axis.
words: 軸(じく): axis, stem, shaft, axle

keyword: броня (armor) (п: корни (растения))
kanji: 甲
constituent: armour, armor, roots
heisigStory: This kanji reverses the element for sprout, giving the image of roots being sent down into the earth by a seed planted in the rice field. From there you must invent a connection to the keyword, armor.
heisigComment: * The primitive meaning is roots. Important to that word is the image of "pushing downwards," as roots do.
koohiiStory1: Funny.. this appeared to me as a pictograph of a samurai´s armor. Then I looked up images of the samurai armor and it is not even remotely similar. Then I realised it looks in fact like the belly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I somehow associated with the samurai armor because of the "turtle samurai" that appeared earlier. Fits me. The bit that pokes down is to protect the genitals, I guess.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、カン、カ
kunYomi: きのえ
readingExamples: 甲乙 (こうおつ), 装甲車 (そうこうしゃ)
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koohiiStory2: It looks like a bird´s eye view of a tank (modern armor).
words: 甲(きのえ): 1st in rank, first sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, instep, grade A

keyword: мыс
kanji: 岬
constituent: headland, mountain, armour, armor, roots
myStory: бронированная гора: на мысе гора с замком
heisigStory: Like the cape (Frame 164) and the promontory (Frame 840), the headland refers to a jut of land. Its elements: mountain . . . roots.
koohiiStory1: A headland is a mountain that is firmly rooted despite being surrounded on 3 sides by water. (Just like your head is a mountain surrounded by air on 3 sides, a headland!).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: みさき
readingExamples: 岬 (みさき)
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koohiiStory2: Headlands are natural forts; in fact, once men build castles on them, they become armoured mountains. (Gibralter, for example, is basically an armoured mountain).
words: 岬(みさき): cape (on coast)

keyword: вставлять
kanji: 挿
constituent: insert, finger, fingers, thousand, armour, armor, roots
myStory: фермер вставил тысячу корней в землю
heisigStory: Fingers . . . thousand . . . roots. Observe how the writing order does not follow the elements in order, because the final stroke is used for two different elements.
koohiiStory1: A rice farmer´s delicate fingers have inserted 1,000 rooted seedlings into his field.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: さ.す、はさ.む
readingExamples: 挿す (さ.す)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a crazy japanese hentai: multiple fingers and thousand of root-like tentacles are inserting themselves in... well, I think you can fill the rest.
words: 挿す(さす): to insert, put in, graft

keyword: обнаженный
kanji: 裸
constituent: naked, cloak, fruit, rice field, brains, tree, wood
myStory: Адам и Ева съели фрукт и осознали, что наги. Завернулись в ткань - первый плащ
heisigStory: Cloak . . . fruit.
koohiiStory1: Here we have Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden fruit and realizing they were naked, and so clothing themselves in a cloak.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラ
kunYomi: はだか
readingExamples: 裸 (はだか)
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koohiiStory2: Hey honey, I´m naked underneath this cloak. I´ve got some nice melons and a fresh peach waiting for you. Don´t you want to taste my forbidden fruits...?
words: 裸足(はだし): barefoot
裸(はだか): naked, nude, bare

keyword: топор
kanji: 斤
constituent: axe
myStory: вооруженный топором маньяк зарубил жертву под скалой
heisigStory: This character represents a picture of an ax, the two vertical lines being the handle and the horizontal strokes of the blade. Note the writing order carefully.
koohiiStory1: Errata: stroke order in 4th edition is wrong. Top stroke is first.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: おの
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koohiiStory2: The axe-wielding maniac nails a poor victim, right under a cliff. Blood everywhere! (thanks scottamus!).

keyword: рубить, разделять
kanji: 析
constituent: chop, tree, wood, axe
myStory: дерево + топор = нарубить!
heisigStory: Tree . . . ax.
koohiiStory1: We chop down trees with axes to analyze their rings.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セキ
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koohiiStory2: Wood + axe = chop? how much more simple can it get?
words: 分析(ぶんせき): analysis

keyword: философия
kanji: 哲
constituent: philosophy, fold, finger, fingers, axe, mouth
myStory: рот рассказывает о различных философах, а студенты складывают самолетики из бумаги. лекция по философии, да...
heisigStory: Fold . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: A two-hour lesson of philosophy in high school. All the students, bored to death, are folding sheets of paper into planes, love notes or whatever, while the mouth of the teacher is talking about Platon, Kierkegaard and many other notorious philosophers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テツ
kunYomi: さとい、あき.らか、し.る、さば.く
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koohiiStory2: I fold my mouth, therefore I am.
words: 哲学(てつがく): philosophy

keyword: умерший, отправившийся (departed)
kanji: 逝
constituent: departed, fold, finger, fingers, axe, road
myStory: дорога сложилась от землетрясения. очень много умерших
heisigStory: The connotation is of a "dearly departed" who has passed away. The elements: fold . . . road.
koohiiStory1: One of the dearest of Japan´s dearly departed is Sasaki Sadako, who developed Leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima, and became famous for folding more than a thousand paper cranes, never giving up hope. To this day, people in Hiroshima still fold origami cranes in her memory. For this character, let us imagine a parade in her honor, the entire road lined with folded cranes.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: ゆ.く、い.く
readingExamples: 逝く (ゆ.く)
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koohiiStory2: The BIG ONE hits Tokyo. You see a news report of the recently departed victims who died when the roads folded (from the earthquake).

keyword: клятва, клясться
kanji: 誓
constituent: vow, fold, finger, fingers, axe, say, words, keitai, mouth
myStory: сложенные слова
молодожены пишут на листках бумаги свои клятвы о вечной любви, складывают их и прикрепляют на деревья
heisigStory: Fold . . . words.
koohiiStory1: This Japanese couple wrote the vows that they had made to each other onto a piece of paper and then folded it into an origami, and put it somewhere in their appartment. To everybody else it is an origami, but to them it is also a symbol of their vows. -- "the folded words are vows". Note : in this story and a few others I use the image of an origami for the primitive "fold".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: ちか.う
readingExamples: 誓う (ちか.う)
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koohiiStory2: A Japanese wedding tradition is to present each other with origami cranes with their vows written on the BOTTOM.
words: 誓う(ちかう): swear, vow, take an oath, pledge

keyword: временно, на мгновение
kanji: 暫
constituent: temporarily, executioner, chop off, car, axe, sun, day
myStory: когда у тебя нарезали машину топором, ты временно, на несколько дней будешь ходить пешком под солнцем
heisigStory: Chop off . . . days.
koohiiStory1: Your car has been savagely (see steadily) attacked by an ax. It will be some days before your car is fixed. So you are temporarily without car.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ザン
kunYomi: しばら.く
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koohiiStory2: Today is Car Axe Day. The day where you can temporarily (today only) attack cars using an axe without punishment.
words: 暫く(しばらく): little while

keyword: неуклонно
kanji: 漸
constituent: steadily, water, water droplets, water pistol, executioner, chop off, car, axe
myStory: вода неуклонно поднималась в машине, упавшей в реку, но топор спасателя проложил дорогу к спасению
heisigStory: Water . . . chop off.
koohiiStory1: I imagine firemen working steadily to rescue a man from a crashed car. First, they spray it with water; then, they use an axe to break through the window.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼン
kunYomi: やや
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koohiiStory2: Water + Car + Axe: The steadily rising water was filling the car, but the firefighters took their axe and broke the window, getting me out.
words: 漸く(ようやく): gradually, finally, hardly

keyword: отвергать
kanji: 斥
constituent: reject, axe, drop
myStory: дети в школе отвергали меня... пока я не принес топор. видишь капельку крови на нем?
heisigStory: Ax . . . a drop of.
koohiiStory1: The kids at school used to reject me.. Made me feel really bad till I brought my axe to school. See the drop of blood on it?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セキ
kunYomi: しりぞ.ける
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koohiiStory2: The quality expectations are very high in our axe manufacturing facility. If there´s one drop of rust on any axe, it gets rejected.

keyword: обвинение
kanji: 訴
constituent: accusation, say, words, keitai, mouth, reject, axe, drop
myStory: я отвергаю все обвинительные слова в мой адрес
heisigStory: Words . . . reject.
koohiiStory1: I strongly reject the accusation implicit in your words.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: うった.える
readingExamples: 訴える (うった.える)
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koohiiStory2: Words that make you feel rejected.
words: 訴え(うったえ): lawsuit, complaint
訴訟(そしょう): litigation, lawsuit
訴える(うったえる): sue (a person), resort to, appeal to

keyword: лгать, ложь
kanji: 詐
constituent: lie, say, words, keitai, mouth, saw
myStory: когда Пиноккио говорил неправду, его нос увеличивался и ему приходилось использовать пилу
heisigStory: The lie in this character refers to falsehoods and fibs. Its elements: words . . . saw.
koohiiStory1: Pinnochio gets frustrated that every time he utters a word of a lie, his nose grows and he has to get the saw out again.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サ
kunYomi: いつわ.る
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koohiiStory2: Her lies are words that cut not like a knife, no not cleanly, but savagely like a saw.
words: 詐欺(さぎ): fraud, swindle

keyword: наводить справки, расспрашивать
kanji: 尋
constituent: inquire, broom, craft, mouth, glue
myStory: полиция расспрашивала об эротическом скандале. участники попытались метлой вымести эротику, но кое-что осталось приклеенным - скандал удался!
heisigStory: Broom . . . craft . . . mouth . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: The policed inquired into the erotica scandal. They tried to sweep away the evidence, but some of it stuck. (Note: katakana エロ ero in the middle of this kanji is the Japanese word for erotica.).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン
kunYomi: たず.ねる、ひろ
readingExamples: 尋ねる (たず.ねる)
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koohiiStory2: As a verb this means, this means "to ask; to enquire; to search; to look for; to look into; to investigate;". Imagine the police inquiring in an in-depth investigation. They are interrogating a suspect. But the suspect has a crafty mouth and is very sly. He/she also knows when to keep their mouth shut(glued) at the right moments to avoid self-incrimination. As a final measure, the police torture the suspect by tickling him/her with a broom while they inquire.
words: 尋ねる(たずねる): ask

keyword: посягать, вторгаться
kanji: 侵
constituent: encroach, person, French maid, tickle, broom, crown, crotch
myStory: герой посягнул на промежность прислуги с метлой
heisigStory: Person . . . broom . . . crown . . . crotch. Gather the elements on the right into a composite image that can serve you in the next two frames.
koohiiStory1: The parson ENCROACHES on the French maid; driven wild by her little broom, dainty tiara and sinfully short skirt showing her knickers (crotch)!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: おか.す
readingExamples: 侵す (おか.す)
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koohiiStory2: Mr T. hits a condom salesman (broom + crown + crotch) over the head with a broom because the dude ENCROACHed Mr. T´s privates area during the sale.
words: 侵す(おかす): to invade, to raid, to trespass, to violate, to intrude on
侵略(しんりゃく): aggression, invasion, raid
侵入(しんにゅう): penetration, invasion, raid, aggression, trespass

keyword: погруженный, окунуть (все про воду)
kanji: 浸
constituent: immersed, water, water droplets, water pistol, French maid, tickle, broom, crown, crotch
myStory: служанка с метлой окунула ее в ведро с водой
heisigStory: Water . . . broom . . . crown . . . crotch.
koohiiStory1: The French maid draws a bath for her amorous master, but slips and falls in - getting immersed. (thanks to Nukemarine for the French maid image!).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: ひた.す、ひた.る
readingExamples: 浸す (ひた.す), 浸る (ひた.る)
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koohiiStory2: After being hit in the head with the broom, the condom salesman IMMERSED his head in some water.
words: 浸ける(つける): dip in, soak
浸す(ひたす): to soak, to dip, to drench

keyword: очищать, очищение (clean)
kanji: 浄
constituent: clean, water, water droplets, water pistol, contend, bound up, rake
myStory: вода борется с грязью в вечной борьбе за чистоту
heisigStory: Water . . . contend.
koohiiStory1: Bottled water marketers contend to make their version of tap water sound the cleanest.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ、セイ
kunYomi: きよ.める、きよ.い
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koohiiStory2: The water contends against the dirt in the ultimate battle for cleaninless.

keyword: династия Тан
kanji: 唐
constituent: T’ang, cave, rake, mouth
myStory: в пещере нашли древние грабли и череп времен династии Тан
heisigStory: The key word here refers of course to the T'ang Dynasty in China (and not to the name of the drink astronauts take with them into outer space, though this could be useful for the next frame). Its elements: cave . . . rake . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: Two archeologists are in a cave looking at Chinese artifacts from various eras. One picks up a rake and says, "What about this – T´ang, do you think?" The second puts the rake in his mouth and answers, "Yes, it does tang a bit".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: から
readingExamples: 唐 (から)
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koohiiStory2: Screw it, this character refers to the drink. The powdery orange substance is actually found on the floor of tropical caves, where trained aboriginal peoples use wooden rakes to rake the Tang into a pile before putting a bit of it in their mouths to see if it´s tasty or not.

keyword: сахар
kanji: 糖
constituent: sugar, rice, T’ang, cave, rake, mouth
myStory: династия Тан первая начала использовать сахар - разумеется, с рисом
heisigStory: Rice . . . T'ang.
koohiiStory1: Sugar made from rice has a tangy flavour.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
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koohiiStory2: The T´ang are the ones who began using sugar in China--of course, the first thing they tried it on was rice.
words: 砂糖(さとう): sugar

keyword: в своем уме
kanji: 康
constituent: ease, sane, cave, sieve, rake, grains of rice
myStory: пещера + сито. древние люди в пещерах, по мере того как становились все более здравомыслящими, начали использовать сито, чтобы не кушать камешки и веточки
heisigStory: Cave . . . sieve.
koohiiStory1: A psychiatric hospital is located in a CAVE. To determine, which patients are sane and can be released, they are given a SIEVE and asked to empty a bathtub (the sane ones take out the plug and get the water out with ease).
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: People on the cave age became more sane after they started using sieves to avoid eating harmful things with their grains. (This kanji is almost exclusively used to write 健康, health).
words: 健康(けんこう): health, sound, wholesome

keyword: задерживать (преступников)
kanji: 逮
constituent: apprehend, sieve, rake, grains of rice, road
myStory: сито на дороге: пропускает обычных людей, задерживает преступников
heisigStory: Think of apprehending criminals. The elements are: sieve . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Think police roadblocks. They act like road sieves, letting good people through but apprehending criminals.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
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koohiiStory2: In Space Balls, they were combing the desert in order to apprehend Lone Star. Picture Dark Helmet saying "Combing the desert failed, we must now sieve the road!".
words: 逮捕(たいほ): arrest, apprehension, capture

keyword: Италия
kanji: 伊
constituent: italy, person, mop
myStory: герой + швабра. Герой шваброй вытирает присутствие итальянской культуры
heisigStory: Used chiefly in proper names, and given the sound "i," this kanji can be remembered as an abbreviation of Italy, for which it is still used today in Japan. Its primitives: person . . . mop.
koohiiStory1: The "boot" of Italy has gotten Europe all muddy. Who else could mop it up but Mr T?
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: かれ
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koohiiStory2: Here I have Mister T cleaning up with a mop, a real mess of spaghetti, in front of the Piza (in Italy).
words: 伊井(いい): that one, Italy

keyword: суффикс, обозначающий защиту (как waterproof)
kanji: 耐
constituent: proof, comb, glue
myStory: моя расческа - неубиваемая вещь, раст-пруф, вотер-пруф, фаер-пруф. только не идиот-пруф, поэтому друзья вымазали ее в клею и она приклеилась к моим волосам
heisigStory: The key word is a suffix used to indicate "safe from" or "protected against," as in the words rustproof, waterproof, and fireproof. It is composed of: comb . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: [akrodha] My comb is rust-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof. But unfortunately it is not idiot-proof--and I glued it to myself.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
kunYomi: た.える
readingExamples: 耐える (た.える)
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koohiiStory2: I spent $100 recently on this excellent rust-proof, water-proof, fire-proof comb. But two days after having bought it, I left it in my back pocket and sat down, snapping this expensive comb in half! I glued it back together, but now every time I try to comb through my thick hair, it just breaks apart again. I guess my comb is also glue-proof.
words: 耐える(たえる): to bear, to endure

keyword: нужда, спрос
kanji: 需
constituent: demand, rain, weather, comb
myStory: во время дождя спрос на расчески слегка падает
heisigStory: The sense of demand is best captured by thinking of the economic principle of "supply and demand." The primitives: rain . . . comb.
koohiiStory1: Supply and demand is a simple concept: when it rains, the demand for combs goes up to deal with wet hair.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュ
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koohiiStory2: If it´s raining combs, then the demand for them sure does drop.
words: 需要(じゅよう): demand, request
必需品(ひつじゅひん): necessities, necessary article, requisite, essential

keyword: конфуцианство
kanji: 儒
constituent: confucian, person, demand, rain, weather, comb
myStory: герой везде порождает спрос на конфуцианство
heisigStory: Person . . . demand.
koohiiStory1: No more Confucian jibba-jabba! I demand you tell me why it´s raining combs!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュ
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koohiiStory2: One day, Mr. T started reading the little proverbs he found in fortune cookies, and with this newfound wisdom he became a Confucian scholar. He was suddenly in high demand as people came from all over to ask for his sage advice, immensely satisfied with suggestions such as, "You will find happiness with a new love".

keyword: конец (улицы), край
kanji: 端
constituent: edge, vase, stand up, pick-axe, mountain, comb
myStory: когда расческа стоит на краю, она похожа на канжи горы
heisigStory: Vase . . . mountain . . . comb.
koohiiStory1: Have you ever seen those shots in movies where the hero is standing at the edge of a sheer mountain face, hair blowing in the wind? It probably wouldn´t seem so heroic if you saw him ten minutes earlier, when a crew of stylists was carefully combing his hair so it would fall perfectly.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: はし、は、はた、-ばた、はな
readingExamples: 端 (は), 端 (はし), 端 (はた)
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koohiiStory2: When you stand a comb on its edge, it looks like the mountain (#768) kanji.
words: 極端(きょくたん): extreme, extremity
半端(はんぱ): remnant, fragment, incomplete set, fraction, odd sum, incompleteness
先端(せんたん): pointed end, tip, fine point, spearhead, cusp, vanguard, advanced, leading edge
途端(とたん): just (now, at the moment, etc.)
端(はし): edge, tip, margin, point, end (e.g. of street)

keyword: кадет
kanji: 曹
constituent: cadet, one, bend, sun, day
myStory: космический кадет готов использовать солнце для гравитационного маневра
heisigStory: This character is written in the order of its elements: one . . . bend . . . sun.
koohiiStory1: A space cadet eager to make one bend around the sun. (a dangerous maneuver).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ、ゾウ
kunYomi: つかさ、ともがら、へや
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koohiiStory2: Bender lasted just one day in the space cadets.

keyword: встретить, сталкиваться, контакт
kanji: 遭
constituent: encounter, cadet, one, bend, sun, day, road
myStory: близкие контакты третьей степени. космический кадет встретил чужих на дороге
heisigStory: Cadet . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Close encounters of the third kind. The space cadet encounters aliens on the road.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: あ.う、あ.わせる
readingExamples: 遭う (あ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) has an "encounter of the third kind" on the road. Reference to Steven Spielberg´s 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Also a reference to popular stories of people reportedly chased by UFO´s while driving on the road.
words: 遭難(そうなん): disaster, shipwreck, accident
遭う(あう): meet, encounter (often something unpleasant)

keyword: грести, гребля
kanji: 漕
constituent: rowing, water, water droplets, water pistol, cadet, one, bend, sun, day
myStory: кадет в воде гребет во время воинских учений
heisigStory: Water . . . cadet.
koohiiStory1: Bender the cadet (see frame 1172) is rowing, during some army exercise, and he´s very afraid of water (Bender is a robot).
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: こ.ぐ、はこ.ぶ
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koohiiStory2: The space cadet is in training, rowing in the water (see it splash).
words: 漕ぐ(こぐ): to row, to scull, to pedal

keyword: бак, чан
kanji: 槽
constituent: vat, tree, wood, cadet, one, bend, sun, day
myStory: продолжение учений! кадета отправили к дереву, чтобы он сделал бак
heisigStory: Tree . . . cadet.
koohiiStory1: Also as part of some army survival exercise, the cadets (including Bender see frame 1172) are sent into the woods to build a vat (for collecting water for example).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: ふね
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koohiiStory2: Bender the Cadet (kudos to Fuaburisu) is found on an army training exercise, hiding behind a tree, getting drunk on the famous scotch whiskey Vat 69.

keyword: мерный стакан, Большая Медведица
kanji: 斗
constituent: big dipper, measuring cup, big dipper, The Plough, drop, ten, needle
myStory: нуууу... запомнить? риски там на стакане...
heisigStory: The Big Dipper here is of course the constellation of Ursa Major, of which this kanji is a sort of pictographic representation.
heisigComment: * Since we already have a primitive element for a "dipper" - namely, the ladle - we shall let this one stand for a measuring cup. By the way, it would make a rather large one, since the kanji is also used for a measure of about 18 liters!
koohiiStory1: Since the meaning of "big dipper" is rather specific and the sense of measurement seems to be a more common usage, I concentrate on the primative meaning of measuring cup. This is a pictograph, with the first two strokes representing the measuring ticks on the side of the cup.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ト、トウ
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koohiiStory2: Is it just me, or do all of these traditional kanji pictographs look like they were drawn by a retarded bunny rabbit?

keyword: комфортный
kanji: 庸
constituent: commonplace, comfortable, cave, rake, screwdriver, utilise, utilize, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, walking stick
myStory: в пещере можно довольно комфортно жить, если есть хотя бы грабли и отвертка
heisigStory: Cave . . . rake . . . screwdriver.
koohiiStory1: To live a comfortable life, single men need only a cave for living, a rake for cleaning and a screwdriver for fixing.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
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koohiiStory2: When I first moved in to my new cave, all I had was a bed (see bed (#592)). But now I´ve settled in, got myself a few handy things like a rake and a screwdriver, and made myself more comfortable.

keyword: смущенный
kanji: 錯
constituent: confused, metal, gold, once upon a time, storyteller, salad, sun, day
myStory: давным-давно люди стали смущены количеством металла. уж очень просто им убить
heisigStory: Metal . . . once upon a time.
koohiiStory1: A long time ago, people of the world got confused because there were so many kinds of Metal coins. today we only have the euro.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク、シャク
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koohiiStory2: Once upon a time, it was thought that the ancient "art" of alchemy could transform anything into gold. At that time, people were obviously confused about the difference between reality and myth. (Arguably people are still as confused as ever, just about different things now.).
words: 錯誤(さくご): mistake
錯覚(さっかく): optical illusion, hallucination

keyword: сожаление (о чем-то неудачном), жалость (напр., о неудавшемся опыте)
kanji: 惜
constituent: pity, Freud, state of mind, once upon a time, storyteller, salad, sun, day
myStory: состояние сознания о чем-то, произошедшем давным-давно - "какая жалость!"
heisigStory: State of mind . . . once upon a time. The sense of the key word is that of a lost opportunity or bad turn of affairs, as in the phrase "What a pity!"
koohiiStory1: What a pity! My state of mind when i think of the opportunities I missed from once upon a time.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セキ
kunYomi: お.しい、お.しむ
readingExamples: 惜しい (お.しい), 惜しむ (お.しむ)
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koohiiStory2: Data says "What a pity" when he hears that once upon a time there were no robots.
words: 惜しむ(おしむ): to be frugal, to value, to regret
惜しい(おしい): regrettable, disappointing, precious

keyword: отложить (в долгий ящик)
kanji: 措
constituent: set aside, finger, fingers, once upon a time, storyteller, salad, sun, day
myStory: давным-давно наши предки отложили использовать пальцы для еды и стали использовать столовые приборы
heisigStory: Fingers . . . once upon a time.
koohiiStory1: Long ago our ancestors set aside the use of fingers and began to use cutlery. (Raichu,11-7-2006) The way I remember it´s 昔 once upon a time (#1184) rather than 旧 olden times (#35) is that they began to use cutlery to eat salad. (I also think about how when you visit the Medieval Times theme park, which is set in Once upon a time, their gimmick is that you eat with your fingers.).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: お.く
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koohiiStory2: Once upon a time... Oh hell, you´re just too old for this. You close your fairy tale book and set it aside, pushing it away with your fingers.
words: 措置(そち): measure, step

keyword: двадцать
kanji: 廿
constituent: twenty
myStory: поколение без старшего - это двадцатилетние!
heisigStory: The two tens joined at the bottom by a short line is actually the old character for twenty, which we might as well learn since we need its primitive form. It is written the same as salad, except for the shorter final stroke.
koohiiStory1: A generation is 30, one stroke less is twenty.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ジュウ、ニュウ
kunYomi: にじゅう
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koohiiStory2: Ten plus ten is twenty (see generation (#28)).

keyword: простой человек
kanji: 庶
constituent: commoner, caverns, cave, twenty, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: двадцать человек греются у костра в пещере - простые люди
heisigStory: Caverns . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: Commoners have to huddle in caverns around a campfire, while higher class people get heating and central air conditioning in a hotel.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショ
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koohiiStory2: If you are so poor that you are a commoner, you will have to live twenty commoners to a cavern, with only one fire for everyone to share.
words: 庶民(しょみん): masses, common people
庶務(しょむ): general affairs

keyword: прерывать, преграждать, перехватывать
kanji: 遮
constituent: intercept, commoner, caverns, cave, twenty, oven-fire, barbecue, road
myStory: простые люди восстали! они перехватывают правительственные дилижансы на дороге!
heisigStory: Commoner . . . road.
koohiiStory1: The commoners are revolting! We must intercept them on the road before they reach the castle!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: さえぎ.る
readingExamples: 遮る (さえぎ.る)
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koohiiStory2: If don´t want your secret message to be intercepted, make sure your deliveryman is dressed as a commoner while traveling on the road.
words: 遮る(さえぎる): to interrupt, to intercept, to obstruct

keyword: суета, суматоха, спешить
kanji: 奔
constituent: bustle, large, St. Bernard, haystack, ten, needle, needle3, ten3
myStory: чтобы накидать большой стог сена, надо развести суматоху и очень поспешить
heisigStory: The hustle and bustle of this character is depicted by a St. Bernard dog and a haystack.
koohiiStory1: Hustle and bustle = a big St. Bernard dog frisking about in a haystack, knocking it down and spreading the hay about, after the field hands just stacked it up.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホン
kunYomi: はし.る
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koohiiStory2: A bustle is also the name for the big wire-framed skirts that women used to wear. Here´s a St. Bernard dog jammed ass-first into the top of a haystack, looking like some kind of proper Victorian-era lady as he struggles to get out.

keyword: прорываться, прорезываться, извергаться
kanji: 噴
constituent: erupt, mouth, pitchfork, haystack, ten, needle, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, needle3, ten3
myStory: лава, извергающаяся из жерла вулкана угрожает стогам сена и богатству богачей
heisigStory: Mouth . . . haystack . . . clams.
koohiiStory1: History of Pompei: An unexpect eruption and from the mouths of the volcano come lava that threatens the farmers collecting haystacks in the fields and the fisherman catching shells on the coast.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
kunYomi: ふ.く
readingExamples: 噴く (ふ.く)
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koohiiStory2: A bit nasty (but makes the whole thing much easier to remember) is to take the right side and call it a bearded clam. For erupt, you can make your own story about the mouth/opening on the left.
words: 噴出(ふんしゅつ): spewing, gushing, spouting, eruption, effusion
噴火(ふんか): eruption
噴水(ふんすい): water fountain

keyword: гробница
kanji: 墳
constituent: tomb, soil, dirt, ground, pitchfork, haystack, ten, needle, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, needle3, ten3
myStory: после извержения все - сплошная гробница. слой грязи покрывает тела фермеров со стогами сена и богачей с деньгами
heisigStory: Soil . . . haystack . . . clams. In order not to confuse this kanji with that for a grave (Frame 246), something like the image of an Egyptian tomb should be adopted, with all its special connotations.
koohiiStory1: After the eruption all is a tomb. The soil has covered the remains of the farmers gathering haystacks and of the fisherman collecting shells.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
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koohiiStory2: Using soil and hay to make bricks, the Egyptians built the pyramids to entomb the Pharaohs along with all of their money.

keyword: негодующий, возмущенный
kanji: 憤
constituent: aroused, Freud, state of mind, pitchfork, haystack, ten, needle, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, needle3, ten3
myStory: состояние сознания, когда нашел свои деньги под стогом сена
heisigStory: State of mind . . . haystack . . . clams.
koohiiStory1: Note: this word in Japanese has the idea of "indignant". So aroused here refers to being aroused because of anger over some unjust or wrong act, unfairness etc. It doesn´t seem to carry a meaning associated with arousal in the sense of sex or pleasure. So, my story: think of the angry state of mind aroused at finding all your clams buried under your haystack stolen, gone!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
kunYomi: いきどお.る
readingExamples: 憤る (いきどお.る)
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koohiiStory2: Data was aroused/indignant when he saw what the volcano had done to the farmers building their haystacks and the fishermen collecting their shells . The tragedy of it all aroused him so much he didn´t even notice he was feeling emotion.
words: 憤慨(ふんがい): indignation, resentment

keyword: рассвет
kanji: 暁
constituent: daybreak, sun, lofty, strawman, wickerman, haystack, ten, needle, one, human legs, needle3, ten3
myStory: солнце встает за спиной соломенного человечка: рассвет!
heisigStory: Sun . . . straw man.
koohiiStory1: The sun rising beside a straw man in a corn field is a classic cartoon depiction of daybreak.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギョウ、キョウ
kunYomi: あかつき、さと.る
readingExamples: 暁 (あかつき)
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koohiiStory2: The first person to see the sun at daybreak is of course the straw man who stands outside all day.

keyword: супруг
kanji: 伴
constituent: consort, person, half
myStory: половинка героя - Кэлен - его жена
heisigStory: Person . . . half.
koohiiStory1: The person who is your consort is most commonly "your other half".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン、バン
kunYomi: ともな.う
readingExamples: 同伴 (どうはん), 随伴 (ずいはん), 伴う (ともな.う)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T wants to splits himself in half so he can be his own CONSORT.
words: 伴う(ともなう): to accompany, to bring with, to be accompanied by, to be involved in

keyword: небольшие земляные валы между рисовыми полями
kanji: 畔
constituent: paddy-ridge, rice field, brains, half
myStory: валы делят рисовое поле пополам
heisigStory: Rice field . . . half. The key word here refers to the ridges that rise up between the sections of a rice paddy.
koohiiStory1: A PADDY-RIDGE divides the RICE FIELD in HALF.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: あぜ、くろ、ほとり
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koohiiStory2: Think about a large rice field as a big square. Then you draw a line down the middle, halving it into two. Then you draw a line across the middle, halving it again into four... These halvings are paddy-ridges that separate the rice field into separate sections. I dunno the reason why, but that´s how it´s done.

keyword: сфера, диапазон
kanji: 圏
constituent: sphere, pent in, scroll, quarter, snake, self
myStory: прочитав свиток заклинания, ты разрушаешь все в сфере его действия
heisigStory: This key word refers to a realm or orbit, not to a ball. Its elements: pent in . . . scroll.
koohiiStory1: I assosiate scrolls with spell casting, the efect of this spell is pent in a certain sphere of influence, outside it no damage is done.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: かこ.い
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koohiiStory2: [RPG] You´re fighting a powerful enemy. Your mage uses a scroll/quartersnake of protection, and he´s pent in a sphere of protection.
words: 圏(けん): sphere, circle, range

keyword: глицинии
kanji: 藤
constituent: wisteria, flowers, edam, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, quarter, grains of rice
myStory: цветок, луна, четвертинка риса. убейте меня.
heisigStory: Flower . . . moon . . . quarter . . . rice grains.
koohiiStory1: According to legend, the great Ogaki wisteria tree grew and flowered from magical rice grains that were planted under the quarter moon.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ、ドウ
kunYomi: ふじ
readingExamples: 藤 (ふじ)
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koohiiStory2: The wisteria is a type of hanging vine covered with flowers. By the light of the quarter moon, the flowers look like clusters of rice grains.

keyword: делать копию, копия
kanji: 謄
constituent: mimeograph, facsimile, edam, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, quarter, say, words, keitai, mouth
myStory: идиот сидит на факсимильной машине и пытается отправить факсимиле четверти своего тела - задницы - боссу, но в машине есть механизм распознавания, поэтому отправляется только слово "задница"
heisigStory: Moon . . . quarter . . . words.
koohiiStory1: Sending a facsimile to the moon can be problematic only a quarter of the words actually get there.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
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koohiiStory2: As a prank, a guy sits with his butt flesh on the facsimile machine, inserts a quarter, and tries to fax it to his boss. However the facsimile machine has pattern recognition technology and instead of an image of his flesh, it just transmits the word "asshole". Don´t forget it´s flesh, not words, on the left side; the flesh image gets transformed into words.

keyword: притяжательная частица (of)
kanji: 之
constituent: of, Zorro, building blocks, zig-zag
myStory: Z of Zorro
heisigStory: This character is now used chiefly in proper names, and is best learned as the character closest to the hiragana え, though in fact it has no relation to it.
heisigComment: * In order to give this kanji a more concrete meaning when it is used as a primitive element, think of it as referring to building blocks with the hiragana written on them, much the same as the A-B-C blocks you played with as a child.
koohiiStory1: Of all the kanji, this is the only one 之orro can write.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: の、これ、おいて、ゆく、この
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koohiiStory2: The Z of Zorro (and yes he has a hat).

keyword: дерн, лужайка
kanji: 芝
constituent: turf, flowers, of, Zorro, building blocks, zig-zag
myStory: защитить дерн от ходящих зиг загом! там цветы!
heisigStory: Flowers . . . building blocks.
koohiiStory1: Artificial turf made easy: flowers stuck on top of building blocks that you can place anywhere.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: しば
readingExamples: 芝 (しば)
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koohiiStory2: Zorro, with a flower between his teeth for the ladies, defends his turf against evildoers. "This is my turf! And this...is for the lady.".
words: 芝(しば): lawn, sod, turf
芝居(しばい): play, drama
芝生(しばふ): lawn

keyword: дротик, стрела
kanji: 矢
constituent: dart, drop, heavens
myStory: с небес уронили дротик
heisigStory: When shot high into the heavens, the dart gets so small it looks like a mere drop. Although this character could as well mean "arrow," it has no connection with the primitive of that meaning. Hence the new key word.
koohiiStory1: Zeus ran out of lightning bolts and has to drop darts from the heavens.
jouYou: 2
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: や
readingExamples: 矢 (や)
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koohiiStory2: Do not mistake with LOSE 失.
words: 矢(や): arrow
矢っ張り(やっぱり): also, as I thought, still, in spite of, absolutely
矢印(やじるし): directing arrow

keyword: исправлять
kanji: 矯
constituent: rectify, dart, drop, heavens, angel, heavens, mouth, hood, mouth, mouth2
myStory: Купид стреляет в людей стрелами, распространяя любовь... но на деле все становится много хуже. Есть другой ангел, который тоже пускает стрелы, исправляя ситуацию.
heisigStory: Dart . . . angel. Compare your stories for correct (Frame 405), revise (Frame 362), and reformation (Frame 567).
koohiiStory1: Angels have now been given a powerful tool to rectify human behavior instantly, without delay - they have been allowed to drop darts on those who misbehave... spare the dart and spoil the man...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: た.める
readingExamples: 矯める (た.める)
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koohiiStory2: The darts of the angel Cupid are supposed to bring people joy, but usually just make things a lot worse. Here we see another angel flying around shooting people with the anti-darts (antidote), to rectify the situation.

keyword: мудрость
kanji: 智
constituent: wisdom, know, dart, drop, heavens, mouth, sun, day, tongue wagging
myStory: каждый день узнаешь что-то новое - становишься мудрее
heisigStory: Know . . . sun.
koohiiStory1: Wisdom is knowing everything OVER the sun (fools assume everything UNDER).
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チ
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koohiiStory2: Knowing more each day, brings wisdom.

keyword: алебарда
kanji: 矛
constituent: halberd, beforehand
myStory: Мао Цзе Дун всегда носил алебарду
heisigStory: The halberd's battle-ax head and long shaft are depicted here. Take care with the number and order of the strokes.
koohiiStory1: マオ Zedong always carried a halberd.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ム、ボウ
kunYomi: ほこ
readingExamples: 矛 (ほこ)
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koohiiStory2: Make the halberd a heroic warrior (perhaps of scandinavian origin) who weilds this polearm - the most effective, brutal and vicious one - with great skill. He can use it to hook, pierce and chop (the three strokes).
words: 矛盾(むじゅん): contradiction, inconsistency

keyword: туман
kanji: 霧
constituent: fog, rain, weather, task, halberd, beforehand, taskmaster, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: туман - это прекрасная погода, чтобы выполнить нашу задачу
heisigStory: Weather/rain . . . task.
koohiiStory1: This fog is the perfect weather for us to perform our task undetected.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ム、ボウ、ブ
kunYomi: きり
readingExamples: 霧 (きり)
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koohiiStory2: FOG is easy to associate with the RAIN primitive. So think of FOG as a type of RAIN that is slow at the TASK of getting the place wet.
words: 霧(きり): fog, mist

keyword: отряд
kanji: 班
constituent: squad, sword, spear, cutlass, king, jewel, ball, king2, jewel2, ball2
myStory: чтобы быть в мужском отряде, у тебя должны быть яйца и "меч"
heisigStory: Spear . . . two balls.
koohiiStory1: Am I the only one who took this as penis and balls? In order to be in the man-squad, naturally you need to have two balls with your "spear" in the middle there.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
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koohiiStory2: Here we have two kings trying out for the cheer-leading squad. A spear on the floor separates their dancing areas.
words: 班(はん): group, party, section (mil)

keyword: лук
kanji: 弓
constituent: bow
myStory: просто запомнить
heisigStory: This character pictures the bent wooden bow. Later we will learn how to make the bowstring that goes with it (Frame 1490). If you stretch this character out and see the indentation on the left as its handle, the pictography should be clearer.
koohiiStory1: My personification for this primative is Legolas from the Lord of the Rings: a master at the bow. I suppose robin hood etc would work too.
jouYou: 2
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: ゆみ
readingExamples: 弓 (ゆみ)
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koohiiStory2: I have a BOW made from a SNAKE that I BOUND UP. He sure wasn´t happy!
words: 弓(ゆみ): bow (and arrow)

keyword: соболезнования
kanji: 弔
constituent: condolences, bow, walking stick
myStory: воин лежит в могиле с луком и мечом в руках. родным выражают соболезнования
heisigStory: A bow . . . wrapped around a walking stick.
koohiiStory1: Perhaps a pictograph of a soldier´s weapons--his sword and bow-placed ceremonially over his body before burial, while people offer their condolences.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: とむら.う、とぶら.う
readingExamples: 弔う (とむら.う)
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koohiiStory2: Send your condolences to the old geezer whom you shot the walking stick into with your bow. (see pull (#1232)).

keyword: огромный, обширный
kanji: 弘
constituent: vast, bow, elbow
myStory: если ты растянешь лук до крайнего положения локтя, то выстрелишь на огромное расстояние
heisigStory: Bow . . . elbow.
koohiiStory1: If you pull the bow back with your elbow, you can shoot a vast distance.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、グ
kunYomi: ひろ.い
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koohiiStory2: The valley was so vast that if you yelled elbow! you could hear it echo bow, bow, bow.

keyword: префикс для формирования порядковых чисел (номер дома, например)
kanji: 第
constituent: no., bamboo, dollar, bow, stick
myStory: доллар - валюта номер 1 в мире. но! бамбуковые валюты Азии стремятся занять как минимум 2ое место.
heisigStory: The key word No. is the abbreviation for "number." Its elements: bamboo . . . dollar sign.
koohiiStory1: The No. 1 currency in the world is the dollar. But, the Asian nations are fast catching up and may in reality have already surpassed it. So, let the bamboo represent the No. 2 currencies (the yen, etc.). The reverse order (bamboo on top and the dollar on the bottom) is really a look at the future.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダイ、テイ
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koohiiStory2: Bamboo bling is the newest Asian Rapper, No. 1 on the charts right now.
words: 第(だい): ordinal
第一(だいいち): first, foremost, # 1
次第(しだい): order, precedence, circumstances, immediate(ly), as soon as, dependent upon
落第(らくだい): failure, dropping out of a class

keyword: искусный
kanji: 巧
constituent: adroit, craft, snare
myStory: только искусный человек может изготавливать ловушки
heisigStory: Craft . . . snare.
koohiiStory1: Adroit: dextrous, deft, skillful. Snare is a little generic so I´ll use BEAR TRAP, with huge teeth cartoon style that snares you around the ankle. In the crafting of a bear trap, one must be particularly adroit. Otherwise they will become the victim of their down device.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: たく.み、たく.む、うま.い
readingExamples: 巧み (たく.み)
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koohiiStory2: To be adroit one must have mastered the crafting of snares.
words: 巧妙(こうみょう): ingenious, skillful, clever, deft
精巧(せいこう): elaborate, delicate, exquisite
巧み(たくみ): skill, cleverness

keyword: разложение
kanji: 朽
constituent: decay, tree, wood, snare
myStory: животное под деревом попало в ловушку. теперь под деревом разлагается труп
heisigStory: Tree . . . snare. Do not confuse with rot (Frame 1099).
koohiiStory1: This snare isn´t terribly effective, because it´s swinging from a decaying tree. Imagine the tree as being so decayed that when an animal gets caught in the snare, its struggles cause the tree to collapse into a putrid mess.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: く.ちる
readingExamples: 朽ちる (く.ちる)
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koohiiStory2: 枯 wither The decay of an animal in the TREE was from something caught in a SNARE.
words: 朽ちる(くちる): to rot

keyword: гордиться, хвастаться
kanji: 誇
constituent: boast, say, words, keitai, mouth, Batman, large, St. Bernard, chandelier, one, ceiling, snare
myStory: охотник хвастался: "говорю вам, это был большой зверь! но ловушка сломалась и он убежал :("
heisigStory: Words . . . St. Bernard dog . . . ceiling . . . snare.
koohiiStory1: The hunter´s boast: I say, it was a "big one", but the snare broke and it got away. (credit to many others before).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: ほこ.る
readingExamples: 誇る (ほこ.る)
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koohiiStory2: A dog owner boasts about how obedient, not how smart, his Saint Bernard dog is. "Why, my dog will even walk right into a trap if I tell him to. Watch!" With a single word, "go!", his dog obediently runs into a snare trap hanging from the ceiling. In a flash, the dog is netted tightly and swinging from the ceiling. Don´t forget the ceiling!
words: 誇張(こちょう): exaggeration
誇る(ほこる): to boast of, to be proud of
誇り(ほこり): pride

keyword: кто-то (тело и личность)
kanji: 身
constituent: somebody, nose
myStory: кто-то с длинным носом ищет тебя
heisigStory: The key word somebody was chosen to convey the double meaning of this kanji: body and person. Its composition is based on the nose (which, you will recall, is also the kanji for oneself). The extension of the bottom and far right strokes of that element, together with the unusual diagonal stroke, forms the pictograph of somebody with a prominent paunch.
koohiiStory1: Somebody was just looking for you. He had a longnose that reaches down below his mouth, and a long jaw that sticks out past his nose, and a scar across his face. (greenapple,16-3-2006) The way to remember that this is somebody rather than someone (#1256) is that the story is full of body descriptions.
jouYou: 3
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: み
readingExamples: 身 (み)
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koohiiStory2: Somebody was just looking for you. He had a long nose that reaches down below his mouth, and a long jaw that sticks out past his nose, and a scar across his face.
words: 受身(うけみ): passive, passive voice
身体(からだ): the body
中身(なかみ): contents, interior, substance, filling, (sword) blade
生身(なまみ): living flesh, flesh and blood, the quick
身近(みぢか): near oneself, close to one, familiar
身なり(みなり): personal appearance
身振り(みぶり): gesture
刺身(さしみ): sliced raw fish
自身(じしん): by oneself, personally
出身(しゅっしん): person´s place of origin, institution from which one graduated, director in charge of employee relations
心身(しんしん): mind and body
身体(しんたい): body, health
身長(しんちょう): height (of body), stature
全身(ぜんしん): the whole body, full-length (portrait)
独身(どくしん): bachelorhood, single, unmarried, celibate
身(み): body, main part, oneself, sword
身分(みぶん): social position, social status

keyword: стрелять (напр., из лука)
kanji: 射
constituent: shoot, somebody, nose, glue
myStory: выстрелить клеем в кого-то - это весело!
heisigStory: "I shot an arrow into the air, And it landed I know not where" goes the poem. (The poor poet obviously loses a lot of arrows.) This kanji, however, tells us where it did land. Its elements: somebody . . . glued to.
koohiiStory1: You SHOOT SOMEBODY with a GLUE-gun.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: い.る、さ.す
readingExamples: 射る (い.る)
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koohiiStory2: The aim of shooting is to end up with a bullet stuck in someone´s body.
words: 反射(はんしゃ): reflection, reverberation
放射(ほうしゃ): radiation, emission
放射能(ほうしゃのう): radioactivity
射す(さす): to shine, to strike
発射(はっしゃ): firing, shooting, discharge, catapult
陽射(ひざし): sunlight
注射(ちゅうしゃ): inject

keyword: извиняться, извинения
kanji: 謝
constituent: apologize, say, words, keitai, mouth, shoot bang bang, somebody, nose, glue
myStory: ты извиняешься перед тем, в кого выстрелил
heisigStory: Words . . . shoot.
koohiiStory1: Dick Cheney...
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: あやま.る
readingExamples: 謝る (あやま.る)
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koohiiStory2: The famous speech by the man that Dick Cheney shot in the face: "I´m sorry for the trouble I have caused the Vice President".
words: 月謝(げっしゃ): monthly tuition fee
謝絶(しゃぜつ): refusal
感謝(かんしゃ): thanks, gratitude
謝る(あやまる): apologize

keyword: сыновний пиетет
kanji: 孝
constituent: filial piety, old man, child
myStory: сыновний пиетет перед стариком
heisigStory: Old man . . . child.
koohiiStory1: This child has taken filial piety to the next level. He is actually carrying the old man on his shoulders.
jouYou: 6
onYomi: コウ、キョウ
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koohiiStory2: +dilandau23: This child has taken filial piety to the next level. He is actually carrying the old man on his shoulders. There is a picture of a statue depicting this here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_piety.
words: 孝行(こうこう): filial piety

keyword: пытка
kanji: 拷
constituent: torture, finger, fingers, consider, old man, slingshot, catapult
myStory: пытка: "поразмышляй, нужен ли тебе твой палец? мне кажется, что нет"
heisigStory: Fingers . . . consider.
koohiiStory1: In Torture 101 class they teach you to Consider the Fingers as the first part to inflict pain to. Then you can move on to other parts (like feet, groin, head, etc. etc. ; ) ).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴウ
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koohiiStory2: Aaaargh, stop! cries the victim of torture, his fingers being squeezed by the thumb screws. "I´ll consider it," the torturer says coolly, "if you tell me the names of all the agents in your organization.".

keyword: кипятить
kanji: 煮
constituent: boil, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun, day, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: надувную секс-куклу прокипятим, чтобы слегка ее разогреть
heisigStory: Puppet . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: I had a hard time with the next several frame numbers trying to use "puppet." So i thought of "voodoo doll" but then found "love doll" (which is just a special type of puppet) fit well with these 8 frames. Observe: Here I am boiling my love doll over the flames to warm her up a bit...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: に.る、-に、に.える、に.やす
readingExamples: 煮える (に.える), 煮やす (に.やす), 煮る (に.る)
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koohiiStory2: There is a lesser known voodoo practice of boiling a puppet over an oven fire, to really make your victim feel the heat!
words: 煮える(にえる): boil, cook, be cooked
煮る(にる): boil, cook

keyword: знойный
kanji: 暑
constituent: sultry, sun, day, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun2, day2
myStory: твоя секс-кукла умная: под солнцем она жалуется: "какая знойная погода!"
heisigStory: The key word refers to the heat of summer. Its elements: sun . . . puppet.
koohiiStory1: Ahh, a fine sultry day with my love doll under the hot sun. I think she´s getting a tan!
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショ
kunYomi: あつ.い
readingExamples: 暑い (あつ.い)
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koohiiStory2: [from decamer0n] This is the kanji for atsui (暑い) as in hot. If you´ve ever been in Japan in the summer no doubt you have heard hoards of people bellowing "Atsui! Atsui!" Here you are laying with your love doll under the hot sun. Luckily the manufacturers were smart and when the doll got to hot it would bellow "Atsui! It´s so sultry!".
words: 蒸し暑い(むしあつい): humid, sultry
暑い(あつい): hot, warm

keyword: кабан
kanji: 猪
constituent: boar, pack of wild dogs, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun, day
myStory: моя умная кукла настолько классно пахнет, что свора диких псов подумала, что это кабан, и разорвала куклу на куски.
heisigStory: Pack of wild dogs . . . puppet.
koohiiStory1: My love doll is made of special pheremone impregnated vinyl. Unfortunately, a pack of wild dogs mistook her for a wild boar and tore her to pieces. Oh dear!
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョ
kunYomi: い、いのしし
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koohiiStory2: (Image: a pack of wild dogs chasing Pinocchio who´s trying to escape by riding on the back of a boar. See him bouncing around as they race along?).

keyword: берег
kanji: 渚
constituent: strand, water, water droplets, water pistol, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun, day
myStory: секс-кукла на острове, окруженном водой. любовь на берегу и все такое...
heisigStory: The strand referred to here is the stretch of land along a beach or shoreline. Its elements are: water . . . puppet.
koohiiStory1: I was stranded on a desert island surrounded by water for hundreds of miles on end. I wasn´t upset though - I had my love doll! What a great strand of sand to be stranded on - just me and my love doll!
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショ
kunYomi: なぎさ
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koohiiStory2: A lovely romantic walk on the strand, splashing in the water with my love doll.

keyword: азартная игра, авантюра
kanji: 賭
constituent: gamble, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun, day
myStory: я всегда выигрываю деньги у своей секс-куклы, когда мы играем в азартные игры
heisigStory: Shells/money . . . puppet.
koohiiStory1: When we gamble at the shell game, I always win against my love doll.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ト
kunYomi: か.ける、かけ
readingExamples: 賭ける (か.ける)
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koohiiStory2: People who gamble compulsively are like puppets controlled by money.
words: 賭け(かけ): betting, gambling, a gamble
賭ける(かける): to wager, to bet, to risk, to stake, to gamble

keyword: теснина, лощина
kanji: 峡
constituent: gorge, mountain, scissors, husband, horns
myStory: гора-ножницы. теснина - это где природа нарезала горы ножницами
heisigStory: Mountain . . . scissors.
koohiiStory1: A gorge is where God has cut into a mountain with a pair of scissors. (synewave,6-10-2006) http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/197361.html.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、コウ
kunYomi: はざま
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koohiiStory2: A kid cuts a gorge into a paper mountain, with a pair of scissors.
words: 海峡(かいきょう): channel

keyword: стесненный
kanji: 狭
constituent: cramped, pack of wild dogs, scissors, husband, horns
myStory: свора диких псов ждет в комнате в очень стесненных условиях, когда их подстригут ножницами
heisigStory: Pack of wild dogs . . . scissors.
koohiiStory1: A pack of wild dogs, waiting in a very cramped waiting room, to get their hair cut by Edward Scissors Hands, who is very popular.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、コウ
kunYomi: せま.い、せば.める、せば.まる、さ
readingExamples: 狭まる (せば.まる), 狭める (せば.める), 狭い (せま.い)
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koohiiStory2: In a CRAMPED space, a brave man holds off PACK OF WILD DOGS with only a pair of SCISSORS.
words: 狭い(せまい): narrow, confined, small

keyword: командир
kanji: 帥
constituent: commander, maestro, towel
myStory: командир - это военный маэстро, который никогда не выбрасывает полотенце!
heisigStory: Maestro . . . towel.
koohiiStory1: The COMMANDER is a military MAESTRO who never throws in the TOWEL.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
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koohiiStory2: The greatest of them all; Commander James Bond, 007. Here he is the maestro of undressing women, removing the towel from some bond girl. Of course the towel symbolises her last vestige of resistance.

keyword: контраст
kanji: 較
constituent: contrast, car, mingle, top hat, father
myStory: на встрече выпускников все было хорошо, пока речь не зашла про машины. тут все разбились на резко контрастирующие группы: снобы на спорткарах, мамы на минивэнах, и хиппи на велосипедах
heisigStory: Cars . . . mingle.
koohiiStory1: The people I had invited to the party were mingling quite well with one another, until they all suddenly started talking about the cars they own. Pretty soon the crowd divided itself into distinct, contrasting crowds: rich snobs with fancy cars, soccer moms with minivans, and hippies with bicycles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク、コウ
kunYomi: くら.べる
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koohiiStory2: Our world of today, cars mingling on busy streets, is in stark contrast to the one of yesteryear, where it was people who would mingle on the streets.
words: 比較(ひかく): comparison
比較的(ひかくてき): comparatively, relatively

keyword: стимулировать
kanji: 促
constituent: stimulate, person, leg, mouth, mending, mend
myStory: герой стимулирует людей пинком ноги
heisigStory: Person . . . leg.
koohiiStory1: Mr T, ever the optimist, is trying to stimulate Capt Ahab´s wooden leg by rubbing it down. Capt Ahab normally wouldn´t let anyone do that, but he appreciates Mr T´s stimulating conversation.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソク
kunYomi: うなが.す
readingExamples: 促す (うなが.す)
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koohiiStory2: You stimulate a person by giving him a kick.
words: 促す(うながす): to urge, to press, to suggest, to demand, to stimulate, to quicken, to incite, to invite (attention to)
促進(そくしん): promotion, acceleration, encouragement, facilitation, spurring on
催促(さいそく): request, demand, claim, urge (action), press for

keyword: отдаленный
kanji: 距
constituent: long-distance, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, giant
myStory: ты можешь шагнуть очень далеко, если у тебя гигантская деревянная нога
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . gigantic.
koohiiStory1: You can step a long-distance if you have a leg that´s gigantic!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ
kunYomi: へだ.たる、けづめ
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koohiiStory2: You can step a long-distance if you have gigantic wooden legs (stilts).
words: 距離(きょり): distance, range

keyword: роса
kanji: 露
constituent: dew, rain, weather, path, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, each, walking legs, mouth, mouth2
myStory: если рано утром ты отправляешься в путь, ты видишь росу
heisigStory: Rain . . . path.
koohiiStory1: After the rain the path was covered with dew.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロ、ロウ
kunYomi: つゆ
readingExamples: 露出 (ろしゅつ), 露店 (ろてん), 雨露 (あめつゆ), 露 (つゆ)
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koohiiStory2: Dew forms on the path least weathered.
words: 露(つゆ): dew
暴露(ばくろ): disclosure, exposure, revelation
露骨(ろこつ): frank, blunt, plain, outspoken, conspicuous, open, broad, suggestive

keyword: прыжок, прыгать
kanji: 跳
constituent: hop, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, portent, omen
myStory: девочка с деревянной ногой всегда хотела прыгать со всеми, но падала, калечила себя и других. в итоге ее приход стал знамением для остальных - будут потери
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . portent.
koohiiStory1: A girl with a wooden leg always wanted to play hopscotch with the other girls, but every time she tried to hop she´d lose her balance and injure another girl. That´s why the other girls make fun of her and see her presence as a portent to injury.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: は.ねる、と.ぶ、-と.び
readingExamples: 跳ぶ (と.ぶ), 跳ねる (は.ねる)
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koohiiStory2: A turtle with a wooden leg needs to hop to get around.
words: 跳ぶ(とぶ): jump, fly, leap, spring, bound, hop
跳ねる(はねる): jump, leap, prance, spring up, bound, hop

keyword: скачок
kanji: 躍
constituent: leap, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, futon, feathers, wings, turkey
myStory: если хочешь прыгнуть с большой высоты - убедись, что внизу постелен хотя бы футон. иначе будешь с деревянной ногой
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . feathers . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Well, there are weekdays weekday (#576) and there are laundry days laundry (#577), and on February 29th leap day, the manufacturer recommends servicing or replacing your peg leg because they tend to wear out every 4 years.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヤク
kunYomi: おど.る
readingExamples: 躍る (おど.る)
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koohiiStory2: [Story for people following katsuo in making feathers+turkey a ´futon´ primitive] If you´re going to leap from a high place, better hope there´s a futon below -- otherwise you´re going to break your leg at the very least...
words: 活躍(かつやく): activity

keyword: наступать
kanji: 践
constituent: tread, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, parade float
myStory: на празднике, если ты будешь с деревянной ногой, ты будешь всем наступать на ноги
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . parade float.
koohiiStory1: The pirate with the wooden leg chased after the parade float and was run over by the next one, leaving tread marks all over him and his leg.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: ふ.む
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koohiiStory2: Pirates must tread carefully when walking on parade floats, so as not to break through the weak plaster with their wooden legs.
words: 実践(じっせん): practice, put into practice

keyword: шаг
kanji: 踏
constituent: step, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, wednesday, boots, water, sun, day
myStory: следи, куда ставить шаг, когда светит солнце и вода повсюду!
heisigStory: The meaning of this character is virtually identical with that of the last frame. Be sure to come up with distinct connotations suggested by phrases in which each is commonly used. Wooden leg . . . water . . . sun.
koohiiStory1: You have to watch your step when moving your leg on a watery day.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: ふ.む、ふ.まえる
readingExamples: 踏まえる (ふ.まえる), 踏む (ふ.む)
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koohiiStory2: So, we´ve walked on the moon, but it´s going to take a pirate with a wooden leg, with a huge supply of cooling water to land on the sun and take that "one small step for a man".
words: 踏まえる(ふまえる): to be based on, to have origin in
踏切(ふみきり): railway crossing, level crossing, starting line, scratch, crossover
踏む(ふむ): step on

keyword: скользкий
kanji: 滑
constituent: slippery, water, water droplets, water pistol, skeleton, joint, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: скелет довольно скользкий, если его намочить водой
heisigStory: Water . . . skeleton.
koohiiStory1: Don´t give water to a skeleton. When he drinks it, it´ll sluice right through his bones, forcing you to put one of those "Caution - Slippery Floor" signs up on the resultant puddle.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ、コツ
kunYomi: すべ.る、なめ.らか
readingExamples: 滑る (すべ.る), 滑らか (なめ.らか)
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koohiiStory2: Slippery surfaces are very dangerous for skeletons, since their bone feet slip easily... a few drops of water, and zweep! A large mess of bones to pick up and reassemble!
words: 円滑(えんかつ): harmony, smoothness
滑稽(こっけい): funny, humorous, comical, laughable, ridiculous, joking
滑る(すべる): to slide, to slip, to glide
滑らか(なめらか): smoothness, glassiness
滑れる(ずれる): slide, slip off

keyword: костный мозг
kanji: 髄
constituent: marrow, skeleton, joint, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, highwayman, possess, by one’s side, road, moon2, month2, flesh2, part of the body2
myStory: скелет на обочине дороги с плакатом: "обладаю костным мозгом, хочу путешествовать!"
heisigStory: Skeleton . . . possess . . . road.
koohiiStory1: A skeleton is shuffling along the shoulder of the road, so you pull up next to him and ask where he is going. He says he´s going to donate his marrow to the hospital because he got into some financial trouble and lost everything; his marrow is the only thing he still possesses.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ズイ
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koohiiStory2: A skeleton by the side of the road, holding a sign "Possess marrow, will travel". Yeah, it makes no sense but I don´t foget the kanji.

keyword: беда
kanji: 禍
constituent: calamity, altar, jawbone, joint, hood, mouth
myStory: челюстная кость на алтаре - это точно к беде
heisigStory: Altar . . . jawbone.
koohiiStory1: Continued from auspicious (#1088). Once a year, the people pray for a sign from the gods. But if the gods are feeling particularly mischievous, they´ll send down a jawbone to the altar. The people see this as a sign of calamity to come. The gods think of it as an amusing prank.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: わざわい
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koohiiStory2: Calamity Jane went to the altar to confess her sins and the priest´s jawbone fell to the floor...　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　か　禍福　かふく (fortune and misfortune)...　Pure Group: 渦1292　過1293.

keyword: водоворот
kanji: 渦
constituent: whirlpool, water, water droplets, water pistol, jawbone, joint, hood, mouth
myStory: челюсти воды - это водоворот!
heisigStory: Water . . . jawbone.
koohiiStory1: Grampa´s flushing the toilet, when his denture (Jawbone) pops out and gets sucked down the whirlpool!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: うず
readingExamples: 渦 (うず)
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koohiiStory2: A whirlpool is water opening its jaws to swallow anything whole.
words: 渦(うず): swirl

keyword: склон (горы)
kanji: 阪
constituent: heights, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, anti-, demonstration, cliff, crotch
myStory: все, что не на вершина - это склон
heisigStory: This character is used for proper names, much as the English word "Heights" is. Its primitives: pinnacle . . . anti-.
koohiiStory1: If you´re scared of Heights, you don´t want to stay at The Pinnacle; you are anti- The Pinnacle. Primitive: The Pinnacle is a dream-like gated community at the top of a mount. This allows for innumerable stories for all the kanji with this primitive since you have a whole city to work with. Also prevents confusion with "mountain".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: さか
readingExamples: 阪 (さか)
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koohiiStory2: People are being displaced in 大阪 to make room for a new development, Osaka Heights, the pinnacle of modern Japanese housing. An angry mob of protestors are outside with Anti-Osaka Heights signs.

keyword: Африка, льстить
kanji: 阿
constituent: africa, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, can, mouth, street, nail, spike
myStory: с вершины можно увидеть Африку
heisigStory: This kanji, an abbreviation for Africa, is now used chiefly for its sound, "a," not unlike the kanji for Italy and the sound "i" that we met earlier (Frame 1245). Its composite elements are: pinnacles . . . can.
koohiiStory1: Can you see Africa from The Pinnacle? I can! I can!
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ア、オ
kunYomi: おもね.る
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koohiiStory2: A kinda pictogram: ´BoT´, the first 3 letters in ´Botswana´ an African country.

keyword: следовать (за кем-то)
kanji: 随
constituent: follow, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, highwayman, possess, by one’s side, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, road
myStory: я убежал по дороге на вершину, но демон, пытающийся мной овладеть, последовал за мной!
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . possess . . . road.
koohiiStory1: [Image: Follow the ´Yellow-Brick Road´ to success] The pinnacle signifies your personal goal and destination. What you´re seeking to possess lies at the end of the yellow-brick road. You must follow the road to get what you want.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ズイ
kunYomi: まにまに、したが.う
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koohiiStory2: I fled to The Pinnacle for safety, but the demon followed me right up the road!
words: 随分(ずいぶん): pretty much, very much
随筆(ずいひつ): essays, miscellaneous writings

keyword: вспомогательный
kanji: 陪
constituent: obeisance, auxiliary, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, muzzle, vase, stand up, mouth
myStory: на вершине горы очень нужен вспомогательный кислород, иначе ты навеки заткнешь себе рот
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . muzzle.
koohiiStory1: In case of emergency, The Pinnacle has auxiliary guard dogs, but they keep them muzzeled until they´re needed.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
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koohiiStory2: When you climb the pinnacle you´ll need to take a muzzle of auxiliary oxygen.

keyword: выстраиваться (в линию)
kanji: 陳
constituent: exhibit, line up, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, east, tree, wood, sun, day
myStory: когда на востоке встает солнце, все на вершине выстраиваются в линию, встречая рассвет
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . east.
koohiiStory1: Every morning at The Pinnacle, the residents line upon the East side for morning stretches and leisure.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チン
kunYomi: ひ.ねる
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koohiiStory2: Hikers line up to get to the top of that great pinnacle of the East... Mount Fuji. Seriously, they really do! ...probably the only mountain in the world with a queue at the top.
words: 陳列(ちんれつ): exhibition, display, show

keyword: прикрепленный
kanji: 附
constituent: affixed, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, adhere, sellotape, person, glue
myStory: вершина прикреплена к горе
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . adhere.
koohiiStory1: A sign was AFFIXED on the PINNACLE of the Acropolis so that tourists would ADHERE to the rules.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: つ.ける、つ.く
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koohiiStory2: The Pinnacle is firmly affixed to the top of the mount with bubble gum. (adhere (#1000)).
words: 附属(ふぞく): attached, belonging, affiliated, annexed, associated, subordinate, incidental, dependent, auxiliary

keyword: лагерь
kanji: 陣
constituent: camp, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, car
myStory: конечно, лучше устроить лагерь на вершине, если довезет вас машина
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . car.
koohiiStory1: Paparazzi make camp outside of The Pinnacle in their cars, waiting for the celebs to come out.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン
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koohiiStory2: Note: This kanji is most often used in a military context. Story: Here we see an encampment of military vehicles laying siege to The Pinnacle. With other countries being envious of the perfect life they lead there that makes sense. Fortunately, the pinnacle knows how to ward off (#1302) enemies.

keyword: полк
kanji: 隊
constituent: regiment, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, animal horns, sow, pig, wart hog, regimental mascot
myStory: на вершине есть полк кабанов, а вы не знали?
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . animal horns . . . sow.
koohiiStory1: Every regiment of The Pinnacle´s army is lead by a Miss Piggy with a viking helmet on.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
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koohiiStory2: Every regiment of The Pinnacle´s army has an animal name. This regiment is called "Horned Pig Regiment". They´re wearing Wiking helms and are usually cowered in mud.
words: 軍隊(ぐんたい): army, troops
兵隊(へいたい): soldier, sailor

keyword: крушение (самолета), падать (о дожде)
kanji: 墜
constituent: crash, regiment, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, animal horns, sow, pig, wart hog, regimental mascot, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: один из нашего полка кабанов был сбит: он смог катапультироваться, но самолет упал на землю и разбился
heisigStory: Regiment . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: One of the members of our air force regiment has been shot down; he managed to safely eject, but his plane crashed into the ground.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ツイ
kunYomi: お.ちる、お.つ
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koohiiStory2: The regiment led by horny Miss Piggy wearing a viking helmet accidently falls off The Pinnacle and crashes into the ground below. // old story with wrong meaning of regiment: Kermit is so frustrated with horny Miss Piggy´s regimented sex schedule, he throws her off The Pinnacle and she crashes into the ground.
words: 墜落(ついらく): falling, crashing

keyword: высочество
kanji: 陛
constituent: highness, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, soil, dirt, ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: высочество - это вершина по сравнению с грязными обычными людьми
heisigStory: This key word indicates a title of address to royalty. Its elements: pinnacle . . . compare . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: Your highness is the pinnacle of finesse compared to all of us commoners who are but like dirt on the ground.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
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koohiiStory2: His Highness, the main man at the Pinnacle, often compares those who live outside the city´s walls to dirt.

keyword: соседний
kanji: 隣
constituent: neighbouring, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, shoeshine, rice, sunglasses, dancing legs, ballerina, evening
myStory: с вершины падает рис в соседние селения, им приходится носить очки
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . rice . . . sunglasses.
koohiiStory1: America thinks it is the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all neighboring countries through its mirrored, aviator sunglasses.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リン
kunYomi: とな.る、となり
readingExamples: 隣る (とな.る), 隣 (となり)
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koohiiStory2: All the neighboring communities to the Pinnacle have a major problem. The kids at the Pinnacle have a habit of throwing down rice from the city walls in all directions, so people in neighboring communities are forced to wear sunglasses all the time in order to avoid getting rice in their eyes.
words: 隣(となり): next to, next door to

keyword: изолировать
kanji: 隔
constituent: isolate, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, tripod, one, ceiling, mouth, hood, human legs, street, nail, spike
myStory: на вершине всех фотографов изолировали - нечего им фоткать тут!
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . ceiling . . . mouth . . . glass canopy . . . human legs . . . spike. You might want to compare the kanji for dissolve (Frame 1123).
koohiiStory1: The Pinnacle, to me, is a city that makes itself out to be perfect but is filled with dirty secrets that photographers are always trying to reveal (see dissolve (#1044) The city´s councilmen have isolated all professional photographers to make sure they don´t photograph these "dirty secrets". (which are up to your imagination).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
kunYomi: へだ.てる、へだ.たる
readingExamples: 隔たる (ひだ.たる), 隔てる (へだ.てる)
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koohiiStory2: The people of the pinnacle isolate themselves, dissolving any outside friendships.
words: 隔週(かくしゅう): every other week
隔たる(へだたる): to be distant
間隔(かんかく): space, interval
隔てる(へだてる): be shut out, separate, isolate

keyword: скрывать
kanji: 隠
constituent: conceal, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, hideaway, claw, vulture, broom, heart
myStory: на пути к скрытому сердцу Вершины тебя ждет метла с сидящим на ней грифом. жутко, но просто убери их со своей дороги
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . vulture . . . broom . . . heart. Compare the element sat the right to the kanji for calm (Frame 1230).
koohiiStory1: The wheat farmer´s heart is calm (#1147) about the eagle not stealing his crops because of the broom scarecrow. But he still conceals all his wheat at The Pinnacle in case anyone else trys to steal it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン、オン
kunYomi: かく.す、かく.し、かく.れる、かか.す、よ.る
readingExamples: 隠す (かく.す), 隠れる (かく.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Move the broom with a vulture perched on top, and you´ll find the concealed entrance to the heart of The Pinnacle.
words: 隠居(いんきょ): retirement, retired person
隠す(かくす): to hide, to conceal
隠れる(かくれる): hide, be hidden, conceal oneself, disappear

keyword: деградация, ухудшаться
kanji: 堕
constituent: degenerate, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, possess, by one’s side, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, ground, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: демон, который пришел за мной на вершину, проклял землю, она деградировала, ее качество ухудшилось
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . possess . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: Any attempt to possess the pinnacle will degenerate into a land ("ground") war.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダ
kunYomi: お.ちる、くず.す、くず.れる
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koohiiStory2: A degenerate doctor at The Pinnacle is doing illegal abortions. He´s so sick he just throws the aborted fetuses onto the ground far below. And like a possess demon, he keeps some tied to his side on a belt as trophies.

keyword: коллапс
kanji: 陥
constituent: collapse, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, straight-jacket, bound up, olden times, old days, stick, sun, day
myStory: на вершине все очень привязаны к старым временам. однажды это приведет к коллапсу старого уклада
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . bound up . . . olden times.
koohiiStory1: The Pinnacle is actually bound up by supports from olden times. Eventually, they give out, and the whole thing starts to collapse.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: おちい.る、おとしい.れる
readingExamples: 陥る (おちい.る), 陥れる (おとしい.れる)
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koohiiStory2: The Pinnacle is supported by pilings which were bound up in olden times. One day when the bindings rot away, the whole thing will collapse. (tweaking dihutensoa´s story to work a little better for me).
words: 欠陥(けっかん): defect, fault, deficiency

keyword: дыра
kanji: 穴
constituent: hole, house, eight
myStory: дом бесконечности, дом восьми, дом черной дыры
heisigStory: House . . . eight.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji uses an alternate form: the primitive for eight is replaced with that for human legs.
koohiiStory1: A black hole is a "House of Infinity". Infinity is of course represented by a sideways "8", but here we have a Japanese "8" instead.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケツ
kunYomi: あな
readingExamples: 穴 (あな)
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koohiiStory2: Billiards anyone? House rules here state that the first person to pot the eight ball into the hole wins the game.
words: 穴(あな): hole

keyword: изымать, отзывать
kanji: 控
constituent: withdraw, finger, fingers, empty, sky, hole, house, human legs, craft
myStory: пальцами я набрал пин-код на банкомате и изъял немного денег. теперь счет снова пустой
heisigStory: Fingers . . . empty.
koohiiStory1: With my fingers, I punch in my bank code and withdraw some money from my account. And now it´s empty again, as usual!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: ひか.える、ひか.え
readingExamples: 控える (ひか.える)
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koohiiStory2: If you find yourself in a fight with a karate master with no weapons or martial art skills, just your empty fingers, you should withdraw because 空手 (karate="empty hand") is more powerful than 控 (="empty fingers").
words: 控除(こうじょ): subsidy, deduction
控室(ひかえしつ): waiting room
控える(ひかえる): to draw in, to hold back, to make notes, to be temperate in

keyword: затыкать
kanji: 窒
constituent: plug up, hole, house, human legs, climax, wall, one, ceiling, elbow, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: кульминация фильма-катастрофы - главный герой затыкает дыру в корабле
heisigStory: Hole . . . climax.
koohiiStory1: Sticking a plug up your hole will lead to stronger climaxes.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チツ
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koohiiStory2: Here we have a Hole and Climax to mean PLUG UP. This is so butt-f**king easy, pun intended. If you PLUG UP her Hole, she will Climax.
words: 窒息(ちっそく): suffocation

keyword: красть
kanji: 窃
constituent: stealth, hole, house, human legs, cut, seven, sword, dagger
myStory: резать дырку в стене, чтобы украсть ценности
heisigStory: Hole . . . cut.
koohiiStory1: This more commonly means "steal", like how a thief cuts a hole to steal the jewels.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セツ
kunYomi: ぬす.む、ひそ.か
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koohiiStory2: Stealth bombers cut holes through the enemy radar.

keyword: впадина
kanji: 窪
constituent: depression, hole, house, human legs, water, water droplets, water pistol, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: впадина в земле - это ловушка: яма, наполненная водой и прикрытая плющом
heisigStory: Hole . . . water . . . ivy. The depression referred to here is a sunken place in the ground, rather than in one's spirits.
koohiiStory1: A depression is a hole in the ground. Water naturally collects there which provides moisture for vines to grow.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ワ、ア
kunYomi: くぼ.む、くぼ.み、くぼ.まる、くぼ
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koohiiStory2: The depression in the ground become a trap: the hole was filled with water and covered with ivy.

keyword: сжимать, выжимать
kanji: 搾
constituent: squeeze, finger, fingers, tight, hole, house, human legs, saw
myStory: пальцами сжимаешь вымя, но из дырок ничего не льется. тогда ты берешь пилу...
heisigStory: Fingers . . . hole . . . saw.
koohiiStory1: You have trouble squeezing your hand through the hole so you use a saw to enlarge it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク
kunYomi: しぼ.る
readingExamples: 搾る (しぼ.る)
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koohiiStory2: (Thanks DrJones) You squeeze the teats of the cow with your fingers but it´s your first try and you don´t have any milk come through the holes, so you take a saw and cut the teats to make bigger holes. Poor cow, this story squeezes my heart.

keyword: печь (для обжига керамики)
kanji: 窯
constituent: kiln, hole, house, human legs, sheep, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: в этой керамической овце обязательно должна быть дыра, иначе в печи она взорвется
heisigStory: Hole . . . sheep . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: Be sure to put a hole in that ceramic sheep before you put it over the fire. Otherwise, it´ll just explode in the kiln. (If you´ve never done ceramics before, it´s important that the object have a hole in it, or this really will happen.).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: かま
readingExamples: 窯 (かま)
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koohiiStory2: You put the sheep in the hole of the kiln and turn on the flames.

keyword: в трудном положении
kanji: 窮
constituent: hard up, hole, house, human legs, somebody, nose, bow
myStory: трудное положение - это когда никого рядом с тобой нет, живешь в яме, охотишься с помощью лука
heisigStory: Hole . . . somebody . . . bow.
koohiiStory1: Hard up = nothing but your body, living in a hole, with just a bow to hunt for your food.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ、キョウ
kunYomi: きわ.める、きわ.まる、きわ.まり、きわ.み
readingExamples: 窮まる (きわ.まる), 窮める (きわ.める)
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koohiiStory2: Somebody so hard up for cash, the volunteered to explore a black hole with nothing but a bow.
words: 窮屈(きゅうくつ): narrow, tight, stiff, rigid, uneasy, formal, constrained
窮乏(きゅうぼう): poverty

keyword: холм
kanji: 丘
constituent: hill, axe, one, floor
myStory: топор в земле на вершине холма
heisigStory: Since this supposedly pictographic representation of a hill looks like anything but, picture a row of axes driven into the ground up to their heads, and see if that doesn't present a more memorable image of hill - at least a riskier one sliding down!
koohiiStory1: Excalibur is the sword planted in a rock. Lesser known AXCAHILLBUR is the axe planted on top of a hill.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: おか
readingExamples: 丘 (おか)
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koohiiStory2: At Capitol Hill proposals get axed on the floor.
words: 丘陵(きゅうりょう): hill
丘(おか): hill

keyword: высокая гора, пик (горы)
kanji: 岳
constituent: point, hill, axe, one, floor, mountain
myStory: холм на вершине горы добавляет высоты
heisigStory: Think of the key word as referring to proper names of mountains, but do not confuse with mountain pass (Frame 835). The elements are: hill . . . mountain.
koohiiStory1: A point is a extra little hill at the top of a mountain. We´ll call it ´Fireman´s Point´.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガク
kunYomi: たけ
readingExamples: 岳 (たけ)
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koohiiStory2: This actually means a high mountain. So, to cater to the keyword, it´s surely obvious (ahem) that if something gets such a fine title as Point, it must be more magnificent than the average mountain. It´s as if there was a hill on top of an average mountain, adding to its height.
words: 山岳(さんがく): mountains

keyword: берег моря
kanji: 浜
constituent: seacoast, water, water droplets, water pistol, soldier, hill, axe, one, floor, animal legs, eight
myStory: солдаты все-таки дошли до последнего моря
heisigStory: Water . . . soldier.
koohiiStory1: Seacoast -> Coast Guard -> "water soldiers" lined up on the seacoast defending our shores.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒン
kunYomi: はま
readingExamples: 浜 (はま)
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koohiiStory2: Imagine Normandy after the strikes on the beach. The water of the entire seacoast dyed red with the blood of thousands of soldiers.
words: 浜(はま): beach, seashore
浜辺(はまべ): beach, foreshore

keyword: ткать (ткань)
kanji: 織
constituent: weave, thread, spiderman, kazoo, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, fiesta
myStory: спайдермэн в скуке на празднике музыки ткет паутину
heisigStory: Thread . . . kazoo.
koohiiStory1: Spiderman weaves his way through the skyline while listening to his theme song on his ipod. It is played, of course, by kazoos.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショク、シキ
kunYomi: お.る、お.り、おり、-おり、-お.り
readingExamples: 織機 (しょっき), 染織 (せんしょく), 紡織 (ぼうしょく), 織る (お.る)
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koohiiStory2: Play the kazoo magically and the thread will weave itself.
words: 織(おり): weave, weaving, woven item
織物(おりもの): textile, fabric
織る(おる): to weave
組織(そしき): organization, structure, construction, tissue, system

keyword: штопка, починка
kanji: 繕
constituent: darning, thread, spiderman, virtuous, sheep, horns, mouth
myStory: человек с добродеятельным образом мыслей штопает свою одежду нитками сам
heisigStory: Thread . . . virtuous.
koohiiStory1: After a day being virtuouos and keeping the city safe, Spiderman´s outfit is in need of some repair. Luckily, as he can shoot out threads darning is very easy for him to do.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼン
kunYomi: つくろ.う
readingExamples: 繕う (つくろ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Darning is too obscure a word for me, I prefer to just think of it as repair. And obviously, repairing someones broken cloth things is a virtuous thing to do, and you need thread to do it.
words: 繕う(つくろう): to mend, to repair, to fix, to patch up, to darn, to tidy up, to adjust, to trim
修繕(しゅうぜん): repair, mending

keyword: сжиматься, сокращаться
kanji: 縮
constituent: shrink, thread, spiderman, inn, house, person, hundred, one, ceiling, white, dove
myStory: в таверне как-то криво постирали вещи, и все нитки в моем костюме сжались - костюм сел
heisigStory: Thread . . . inn.
koohiiStory1: After spending the night at an inn, spider man discovered to his dismay that his costume had shrunk in the wash, and no longer fit!
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュク
kunYomi: ちぢ.む、ちぢ.まる、ちぢ.める、ちぢ.れる、ちぢ.らす
readingExamples: 縮まる (ちぢ.まる), 縮む (ちぢ.む), 縮める (ちぢ.める), 縮らす (ちぢ.らす), 縮れる (ちぢ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Don´t let the Inn wash your threads, they will shrink them!
words: 短縮(たんしゅく): shortening, abbreviation, reduction
縮まる(ちぢまる): to be shortened, to be contracted, to shrink
圧縮(あっしゅく): compression, condensation, pressure
恐縮(きょうしゅく): shame, very kind of you, sorry to trouble
縮小(しゅくしょう): reduction, curtailment
縮む(ちぢむ): shrink, be contracted
縮める(ちぢめる): shorten, reduce, boil down, shrink
縮れる(ちぢれる): be wavy, be curled

keyword: пышный
kanji: 繁
constituent: luxuriant, cleverness, reclining, lying down, mother, breasts, taskmaster, thread, spiderman
myStory: если ты одаренный, то твое пышное одеяние расшито золотыми нитями
heisigStory: Cleverness . . . thread.
koohiiStory1: Important: Luxuriant does NOT mean luxurious, as the other stories indicate. Definition: abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation. When Venom realized he couldn´t beat Spider-Man in a fair fight, he showed his cleverness by spraying venom all over Spider-Man´s luxuriant garden.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: しげ.る、しげ.く
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koohiiStory2: Venom is covered in a luxuriant and surprisingly clever symbiotic suit, but it´s also the taskmaster for his every evil act.
words: 繁栄(はんえい): prospering, prosperity, thriving, flourishing
繁盛(はんじょう): prosperity, flourishing, thriving
繁殖(はんしょく): breed, multiply, increase, propagation
頻繁(ひんぱん): frequency

keyword: вертикальный
kanji: 縦
constituent: vertical, thread, spiderman, accompany, Nelson, column, going, line, horns, mend
myStory: - спайдермэн сопровождает опасный груз, который можно перевозить только вертикально
- нить сопровождает груз - примитивный уровень для измерения вертикальности
heisigStory: Thread . . . accompany.
koohiiStory1: When Spider-man does his amazing vertical wall climbing, a throng of photographers accompanies him to get a good shot of the action.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ
kunYomi: たて
readingExamples: 縦 (たて)
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koohiiStory2: True vertical can be found by hanging a plumb line - a thread accompanied by a weight.
words: 操縦(そうじゅう): management, handling, control, manipulation
縦(たて): length, height

keyword: затянуть, закрывать
kanji: 締
constituent: tighten, thread, spiderman, sovereign, vase, stand up, apron, crown, towel
myStory: во время отчаяния, когда хочется повеситься на нитке, даже монархам приходится затянуть пояса
heisigStory: Thread . . . sovereign.
koohiiStory1: The sovereign appears to be ruling, but in reality someone behind him (for instance his wife) has a thread around his throat, and if he dares to make a decision she doesn´t like, she starts pulling the thread and tightens it around his throat.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: し.まる、し.まり、し.める、-し.め、-じ.め
readingExamples: 締まる (し.まる), 締める (し.める)
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koohiiStory2: (astridtops) Spiderman managed to get behind the sovereign. (pick your favourite nowadays country ruler who isn´t doing a good job). Spidey has tightend a web around the sovereing´s throat. As long as the sovereign says what spidey whispers, he will be fine. Sovereign yelping : ´ we will draw are troops back! and we will spend more money on healthcare, schools and less on wars!´ Spidey whispering: ´ If you continue at this pace, you might be doing good things AND the people will like you.´.
words: 締め切り(しめきり): closing, cut-off, end, deadline, Closed, No Entrance
戸締り(とじまり): closing up, fastening the doors
取り締まり(とりしまり): control, management, supervision
取り締まる(とりしまる): to manage, to control, to supervise
締切(しめきり): closing, cut-off, end, deadline, Closed, No Entrance
締め切る(しめきる): shut up
締める(しめる): to tie, fasten

keyword: волокно
kanji: 維
constituent: fiber, thread, spiderman, turkey
myStory: нить в индейке - это такие волокна, жесткие
heisigStory: Thread . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Hey, Spidey! Eat that turkey if you want, but make sure you eat some fibers: you want spidey threads, don´t ya?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
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koohiiStory2: If you want to increase your fiber intake, just leave on those threads that are used to sew up the stuffed turkey and eat them too.
words: 繊維(せんい): fibre, fiber, textile
維持(いじ): maintenance, preservation

keyword: марля
kanji: 羅
constituent: gauze, eye, cross-eyed, net, fibre, thread, spiderman, turkey
myStory: марля на глаз из тонкого волокна - очень мило
heisigStory: Eye . . . fiber.
koohiiStory1: Lots of girls in Japan wear gauze patches over one eye made of course white fibers. They think it is cute, and I must admit, I have come to think so too.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラ
kunYomi: うすもの
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koohiiStory2: Rocky won the match but left with a nasty eye injury, and needs some gauze for it. I use a modified version of the Rocky theme song to remember this one -- "the eye and the fiber".

keyword: в общем и целом, править
kanji: 統
constituent: overall, thread, spiderman, allot, infant, toddler, top hat, elbow, human legs
myStory: - спайдермэн выделяет в общем и целом липкую фигню
- нить жизни, выделенная тебе при рождении, в общем и целом определяет твою судьбу
heisigStory: Thread . . . allot.
koohiiStory1: Spidey is alloted the biggest crime fighter jurisdiction in NYC because his OVERALL arrest record is the best.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: す.べる、ほび.る
readingExamples: 統べる (す.べる)
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koohiiStory2: According to Greek mythology, there´s a thread alloted to everyone, and its length is the overall determinant of your fate.
words: 統合(とうごう): integration, unification, synthesis
統治(とうじ): rule, reign, government, governing
統制(とうせい): regulation, control
統率(とうそつ): command, lead, generalship, leadership
系統(けいとう): system, family line, lineage, ancestry, geological formation
大統領(だいとうりょう): president, chief executive
伝統(でんとう): tradition, convention
統一(とういつ): unity, consolidation, uniformity, unification, compatible
統計(とうけい): statistics

keyword: душить
kanji: 絞
constituent: strangle, thread, spiderman, mingle, top hat, father
myStory: спайдермэн ненавидит встречаться. хочет придушить кого-нибудь нитью после
heisigStory: Thread . . . mingle.
koohiiStory1: Spiderman hates going to parties and having to mingle. He wants to strangle someone after just a little small talk.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: しぼ.る、し.める、し.まる
readingExamples: 絞まる (し.まる), 絞める (し.める), 絞る (しぼ.る)
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koohiiStory2: At the elegant cocktail party of VIP's, the spy, dressed like everyone else in formal evening wear, sneaks in and strangles his victim with a very thin wire - a thread. Afterwards he mingles in with the crowd and disappears.
words: 絞る(しぼる): press, wring, squeeze

keyword: связывать
kanji: 結
constituent: tie, thread, spiderman, aerosol, samurai, mouth
myStory: аэрозольный баллончик с синтетическими нитями поможет связать что угодно!
heisigStory: Thread . . . aerosol can.
koohiiStory1: Ok, here, you have to think of the phrase "TIE the knot" , which means a wedding (this kanji is used in the marriage compound 結婚 けっこん ). Now, at US weddings, it ends with the couple driving away with cans being dragged behind the car. So here, think of SPIDERMAN, who will TIE the knot with Mary Jane. At his wedding, Spider THREAD attached (or TIED) to SPRAYCANS are being drug behind the limo as they drive off.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケツ、ケチ
kunYomi: むす.ぶ、ゆ.う、ゆ.わえる
readingExamples: 結ぶ (むす.ぶ), 結う (ゆ.う), 結わえる (ゆ.わえる)
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman and a fan have a competition to see who can tie up the most enemies fastest. Spidey´s using his webs and the fan is using an aerosol can of silly string. So far they are tied.
words: 結核(けっかく): tuberculosis, tubercule
結合(けつごう): combination, union
結晶(けっしょう): crystal, crystallization
結成(けっせい): formation
結束(けっそく): union, unity
妥結(だけつ): agreement
団結(だんけつ): unity, union, combination
結び(むすび): ending, conclusion, union
結び付き(むすびつき): connection, relation
結び付く(むすびつく): to be connected or related, to join together
結び付ける(むすびつける): to combine, to join, to tie on, to attach with a knot
結果(けっか): result, consequence
結局(けっきょく): after all, eventually
結論(けつろん): reason, sum up, conclude
結ぶ(むすぶ): tie, bind, link
結構(けっこう): splendid, nice, wonderful, delicious, sweet, construction, architecture, well enough, tolerably
結婚(けっこん): marriage

keyword: класс (школы - первый, второй, третий..., уровень качества)
kanji: 級
constituent: class, thread, spiderman, reach out, outstretched hands
myStory: руки протянуты к нитям судьбы, в тщетной попытке изменить класс
heisigStory: Threads . . . outstretched hands.
koohiiStory1: This Kanji is the same ones used in the Japanese Language proficiency tests; i.e. ikkyuu (一級) The Kanji doesnt describe class as in a "class of students" or "classroom," but rather a grade of quality or ability. ---------- Spiderman is taking the JLPT Level 1. In desperation he REACHES OUT to grab his friend´s answer sheet next to him, who seems to be doing well. The other test takers are obviously a class above him. Looks like this test is above his class of knowledge.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
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koohiiStory2: We can almost see the outstreched hands of the lower classes wearing just a few threads in this kanji.
words: 階級(かいきゅう): class, rank, grade
等級(とうきゅう): grade, class
同級(どうきゅう): the same grade, same class
学級(がっきゅう): grade in school
級(きゅう): class, grade, rank
高級(こうきゅう): high class, high grade
上級(じょうきゅう): advanced level, high grade, senior
初級(しょきゅう): elementary level

keyword: период, хроника
kanji: 紀
constituent: chronicle, thread, spiderman, snake, self
myStory: в хронике истории нить повествования может извиваться как змея
heisigStory: Thread . . . snake.
koohiiStory1: In a CHRONICLE the THREAD of the story can twist and turn like a SNAKE.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
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koohiiStory2: Worst fan fiction ever....SPIDERMAN joins the CHRONICLES of narnia to battle a big SNAKE!!
words: 世紀(せいき): century, era

keyword: урегулирование
kanji: 納
constituent: settlement, thread, spiderman, inside, person, belt
myStory: спайдермэну делали операцию и оставили внутри ножницы. персоналу больницы пришлось раскошелиться, что урегулировать конфликт
heisigStory: Thread . . . inside.
koohiiStory1: Have you heard about patients who have surgery and the doctor mistakenly leaves a medical instrument INSIDE the patient’s body and proceeds to stitch up the patient’s incisions with stitching THREAD? Can you say “malpractice SETTLEMENT”?　.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ノウ、ナッ、ナ、ナン、トウ
kunYomi: おさ.める、-おさ.める、おさ.まる
readingExamples: 納入 (のうにゅう), 納涼 (のうりょう), 収納 (しゅうのう), 納得 (なっとく), 納豆 (なっとう), 納屋 (なや), 納戸 (なんど), 納まる (おさ.まる), 納める (おさ.める)
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koohiiStory2: Spider-Man was working as a surgeon´s assistant. By accident, he threw his spider webs inside the patient, causing his death. Fortunately, the hospital reached an out-of-court settlement with the victim´s family.
words: 納まる(おさまる): to be obtained, to end, to settle into, to fit into, to be settled, to be paid, to be delivered
納める(おさめる): to obtain, to reap, to pay, to supply, to accept
滞納(たいのう): non-payment, default
納入(のうにゅう): payment, supply
納得(なっとく): consent, assent, understanding, agreement, comprehension, grasp

keyword: прядение
kanji: 紡
constituent: spinning, thread, spiderman, compass, direction
myStory: спайдермэн может прясть свою паутину в любом направлении
heisigStory: For the kanji that means the spinning of thread and other fibers we have the elements: thread . . . compass.
koohiiStory1: Spiderman can spin his webs in any direction.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: つむ.ぐ
readingExamples: 紡ぐ (つむ.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: You keep me spinning right round, baby right round, like a compass baby. Spidey is making a retro 80s music video, spinning right round on his giant compass, singing his favourite song.
words: 紡績(ぼうせき): spinning

keyword: отвлекать
kanji: 紛
constituent: distract, thread, spiderman, part, eight, sword, dagger
myStory: спайдермэн отвлекся, когда ему крикнули: "погоди минуту!", и влетел в здание
heisigStory: Thread . . . part.
koohiiStory1: It is easy for arguments to get distracted from the main thread by a tendency to part threads (splitting hairs).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
kunYomi: まぎ.れる、-まぎ.れ、まぎ.らす、まぎ.らわす、まぎ.らわしい
readingExamples: 紛らす (まぎ.らす), 紛らわしい (まぎ.らわしい), 紛らわす (まぎ.らわす), 紛れる (まぎ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman got distracted when someone yelled, "Spiderman, wait a minute." He turned around and flew into a building. ("part" also means "minute").
words: 紛失(ふんしつ): losing something
紛争(ふんそう): dispute, trouble, strife
紛らわしい(まぎらわしい): confusing, misleading, equivocal, ambiguous
紛れる(まぎれる): to be diverted, to slip into

keyword: сир (обращение)
kanji: 紳
constituent: sire, thread, spiderman, monkey, sun, day, stick
myStory: когда обезьяны увидели мастерство спайдермэна, она немедленно начали называть его "сир"
heisigStory: Thread . . . monkey.
koohiiStory1: Monkeys are very adept at swinging around trees. But when they met Spiderman, who could swing around even better than they could, they all quickly addressed him as sire.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
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koohiiStory2: From the fairy tale ‘emperor’s new clothes.’ sire, i know you say it's made of the finest threads, but i’m afraid someone has made a monkey of you.
words: 紳士(しんし): gentleman

keyword: накапливать
kanji: 累
constituent: accumulate, rice field, brains, thread, spiderman
myStory: когда ты накапливаешь знания в своем мозгу, они создают новые нити связей между нейронами
heisigStory: Rice field . . . threads. Make use of the position of the elements to distinguish this kanji from that of the previous frame.
koohiiStory1: When you accumulate knowledge in your brain, neural pathways are constructed. All those pathways end up like a huge ball of thread tangled together. The more knowledge you accumulate the more threads you throw into the mix!!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ルイ
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koohiiStory2: (dingomick) Venom is upset because Spidey is just that much brainier than he is! He chooses to accumulate as many brains as he can, snatching them out of people´s heads and storing them on top of his own, till there´s just one massive brain on top of his head!

keyword: шнур
kanji: 索
constituent: cord, bishop, cross, ten, needle, crown, thread, spiderman
myStory: оказалось, что спайдермэн - принц! чтобы он не сорвал коронацию другого принца, его запихнули под землю и связали шнуром
heisigStory: Chapel (see frame 930) . . . thread.
koohiiStory1: A coaxial cord has a needle-like pin, a crown cap for screwing it in, and insulation made of thread.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman has been captured and given the ultimate torture: they forced a crown of needles on his head and attached it to an electrical cord, which they are about to plug into an outlet...
words: 捜索(そうさく): search (esp. for someone or something missing), investigation
模索(もさく): groping (for)
索引(さくいん): index, indices

keyword: шелк
kanji: 絹
constituent: silk, thread, spiderman, mouth, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: спайдермэн любит целовать шелковое тело Мэри Джейн
heisigStory: Thread . . . mouth . . . flesh.
koohiiStory1: Silk threads are coming out of the caterpillar's mouth to cover its flesh while it transforms into a cocoon.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: きぬ
readingExamples: 絹 (きぬ)
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koohiiStory2: Spider-man loves to run his mouth all over Mary Jane´s silky flesh.
words: 絹(きぬ): silk

keyword: наматывание, обматывание
kanji: 繰
constituent: winding, thread, spiderman, furniture, goods, mouth, tree, wood, mouth3
myStory: мы обматываем прочными нитями мебель, когда готовим ее к транспортировке
heisigStory: Thread . . . goods . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Winding thread around wooden goods (paper) to ready them for safe transport.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: く.る
readingExamples: 繰る (く.る)
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koohiiStory2: After stopping a bank heist, Spiderman is seen winding his webbing around the stolen goods to trap them in a tree until the police arrive to take them back.
words: 繰り返す(くりかえす): repeat, do over again
引っ繰り返す(ひっくりかえす): turn over, overturn, knock over, upset, turn inside out
引っ繰り返る(ひっくりかえる): be overturned, be upset, topple over, be reversed

keyword: наследовать
kanji: 継
constituent: inherit, thread, spiderman, rice, fishhook
myStory: бедный сын рыбака унаследовал только нить-леску, крючок и немного риса
heisigStory: Thread . . . rice . . . fishhook. Compare frame 1218.
koohiiStory1: A poor chinese fisherman could expect to inherit: the thread for his pole, a hook for catching something to eat, and some rice to live off of. (not concentrating on stroke order, sorry if that throws anyone off). (Adapted from bigloui,12-4-2006).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: つ.ぐ、まま-
readingExamples: 継ぐ (つ.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: Spider-Man is hooked on rice--it´s all he inherited from his Uncle Ben. (thanks Nukemarine).
words: 跡継ぎ(あとつぎ): heir, successor
受け継ぐ(うけつぐ): to inherit, to succeed, to take over
中継(ちゅうけい): relay, hook-up
継ぎ目(つぎめ): a joint, joining point
継ぐ(つぐ): to succeed
継続(けいぞく): continuation

keyword: сродство, близость, влечение
kanji: 縁
constituent: affinity, thread, spiderman, broom, sow, pig
myStory: спайдермэн выметал свинку, которая проявляла нездоровую привязанность к нему
heisigStory: Thread . . . broom . . . sow.
koohiiStory1: There once was a lonely little pig that constantly followed Spiderman, always nuzzling his leg and oinking tenderly. Spiderman finally caved in and decided to keep the little pig under one condition: the pig was to take a broom and sweep up all of Spiderman´s leftover threads after having fought crime. The pig felt such affinity for Spiderman, he happily accepted—and did a good job too.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン、ネン
kunYomi: ふち、ふちど.る、ゆかり、よすが、へり、えにし
readingExamples: 縁 (ふち)
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koohiiStory2: Certain people have an affinity for romantic partners who are handy with thread and a broom - it is of no consequence if they look like pigs. hmm...
words: 縁(えん): chance, fate, destiny, relation, bonds, connection, karma
縁側(えんがわ): veranda, porch, balcony, open corridor
縁談(えんだん): marriage proposal, engagement
縁(ふち): (surrounding) edge

keyword: сетка, сеть
kanji: 網
constituent: netting, thread, spiderman, glass jar, hood, horns, one, deceased, perish, top hat, fishhook
myStory: умершее животное удобно тащить в сетке из нитей
heisigStory: Thread . . . glass canopy . . . animal horns . . . perish.
koohiiStory1: Spiderman traps The Rhino under the hood of his famous netting, where even Rhino´s horns can not break free, in fact if the netting did not dissappear after a few hours then Rhino might even perish in there.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モウ
kunYomi: あみ
readingExamples: 網 (あみ)
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koohiiStory2: You use a 糸 to make a net shaped like a hood. A stray animal got caught in it by its horns and perished.
words: 網(あみ): net, network

keyword: напряженный
kanji: 緊
constituent: tense, loincloth, retainer, slave, crotch, thread, spiderman
myStory: ты был бы напряженным, если бы был рабом и твой хозяин развязал нитки на твоей промежности
heisigStory: Slave . . . crotch . . . thread.
koohiiStory1: Whenever Venom is tense, he loses control of his sex drive and becomes a slave to his crotch.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
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koohiiStory2: You´d be tense too if you were a slave and your owner removed the threads covering your crotch.
words: 緊急(きんきゅう): urgent, pressing, emergency
緊張(きんちょう): tension, mental strain, nervousness

keyword: фиолетовый, пурпурный
kanji: 紫
constituent: purple, Prince, this here, stop, footprint, spoon, sitting on the ground, thread, spiderman
myStory: я остановился и сел на нитки. они были фиолетовыми, теперь я тоже фиолетовый
heisigStory: Footprint . . . spoon . . . thread.
koohiiStory1: Stop sitting for so long - or else you'll get those purple threads (veins) on your legs from bad circulation. [link purple with those huge purple, bulging, crawling, worm-like varicose veins .....].
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: むらさき
readingExamples: 紫 (むらさき)
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koohiiStory2: Why is your ass purple? Well, I stopped and sat for a bit on a pile of thread... (I guess it was freshly dyed).
words: 紫(むらさき): purple, violet (color)

keyword: связывать
kanji: 縛
constituent: truss, thread, spiderman, acupuncturist, specialty, drop, ten, needle, rice field, brains, glue
myStory: спайдермэн узнал, что доктор-спецалист из клиники - Доктор Октопус! он немедленно отправился туда и связал его собственными щупальцами
heisigStory: Threads . . . acupuncturist.
koohiiStory1: Spidey received good word that the acupuncturist working down the road was actually the evil Doctor Octopus! Spidey headed over to the clinic, and trussed the acupuncturist Doc Oc up using the maniac´s own metal limbs!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バク
kunYomi: しば.る
readingExamples: 縛る (しば.る)
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koohiiStory2: Because people are so afraid of the procedure, string has to be used by the acunpunturist to truss up his victims, er, patients.
words: 束縛(そくばく): restraint, shackles, restriction, confinement, binding
縛る(しばる): tie, bind

keyword: соломенная веревка
kanji: 縄
constituent: straw rope, thread, spiderman, eels, sun, day
myStory: нить, которой бесполезно связывать черепаху - соломенная веревка
heisigStory: Thread . . . eels.
koohiiStory1: The tortoise has escaped! We tied it up with a straw rope, but all that´s left of the rope are some torn threads, and the unbound tortoise is nowhere to be found. (Note that the right half here is not "eels". This is (in my opinion) a mistake in the RTK book, as we already decided in waterfall (#537) to refer to the simplified form of dragon as "eels". It is much better to call the right half of this character an "unbound tortoise".).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: なわ、ただ.す
readingExamples: 縄 (なわ)
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koohiiStory2: When Spiderman fights the giant tortoise, he grabs a straw rope from the edges of the sumo ring and swings it at his head. However, the tortoise quickly tucks his head back into his shell to avoid the blow (hence no head on the tortoise).
words: 縄(なわ): rope, hemp

keyword: падать в обморок, слабый
kanji: 幽
constituent: seclude, faint, cocoon, mountain, cocoon2
myStory: путешественник в горах увидел два гигантских кокона и упал в обморок
heisigStory: Two cocoons . . . mountain. Observe how the two vertical strokes of the mountain are extended upwards to serve as a kind of enclosure.
koohiiStory1: The villagers haven´t the faintest idea that giant coccoons resting in the mountain are soon to hatch.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ、ヨウ
kunYomi: ふか.い、かす.か、くら.い、しろ.い
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koohiiStory2: Frodo and Sam fainted in the mountains and the spider wrapped them in cacoons.
words: 幽霊(ゆうれい): ghost, specter, apparition, phantom

keyword: таинственный (п: Гэндальф)
kanji: 玄
constituent: mysterious, top hat, cocoon
myStory: очень загадочный кокон с надетой шляпой
heisigStory: Top hat . . . cocoon.
koohiiStory1: What could be more mysterious than a cocoon in a top hat trying to sneak in...? (Pimitive: GANDALF).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン
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koohiiStory2: The invisible man in his top hat and cocoon of white bandages is the most mysterious man in the world.
words: 玄人(くろうと): expert, professional, geisha, prostitute
玄関(げんかん): entranceway, entry hall

keyword: копить, накапливать
kanji: 蓄
constituent: amass, flowers, livestock, mysterious, top hat, cocoon, rice field, brains
myStory: если у тебя много цветов - ты накопишь мнооого домашнего скота
heisigStory: Flowers . . . livestock.
koohiiStory1: One sneaky farmer wanted to amass a large collection of livestock. We all know that cows like to eat flowers, so he planted lines of flowers leading to his own fields. The livestock followed the lines, eating the flowers one by one, and amassed in his field.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チク
kunYomi: たくわ.える
readingExamples: 蓄える (たくわ.える)
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koohiiStory2: Kobe beef. The Japanese amass a fortune pampering livestock feeding them flowers, offering beer, playing music and giving them massages… RTK2:　チク　蓄電池　ちくでんち(battery cell)…　Pure Group:　畜1384.
words: 蓄積(ちくせき): accumulation, accumulate, store
貯蓄(ちょちく): savings
蓄える(たくわえる): to store

keyword: тетива
kanji: 弦
constituent: bowstring, bow, mysterious, top hat, cocoon
myStory: лук, который может использовать только Гэндальф: на нем нет обычной тетивы
heisigStory: Bow . . . mysterious.
koohiiStory1: A magic bow that only Gandalf can yield: there is no bowstring on it, and he uses his magic to fire arrows.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン
kunYomi: つる
readingExamples: 弦 (つる)
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koohiiStory2: A bow with a mysterious invisible bowstring.

keyword: объятия
kanji: 擁
constituent: hug, finger, fingers, mysterious, top hat, cocoon, turkey
myStory: Гэндальф попытался обнять индейку, а она клюнула его в палец
heisigStory: Fingers . . . mysterious . . . turkey. Note that the top hat is extended across both elements, though it belongs only to the cocoon. This means that you may either use mysterious - as we did here - or take the three elements separately.
koohiiStory1: A mysterious turkey with human fingers wants to hug me... I will never go to Tokyo Disneyland again!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
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koohiiStory2: Imagine Gandalf hugging a turkey....ouch! It bit off his finger!

keyword: питательный, питание
kanji: 滋
constituent: nourishing, water, water droplets, water pistol, double-mysterious, mothballs, horns, one, cocoon, cocoon2
myStory: вода вдвойне загадочна: она и является питанием для нас... и одновременно не питательна совсем
heisigStory: Water . . . double-mysterious. Note the doubling up of the element for top hat in the primitive for mysterious and assign it a special image, as it will come up in the next two frames.
koohiiStory1: Water is doubly mysterious. It´s in all our nourishment...and yet, it´s really not nourishing at all.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジ
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koohiiStory2: Going off the idea of the right side meaning rapid growth/increase of small objects, I´ve decided to make the right side be Gremlins, those little mysterious creatures that double rapidly. Gremlins find water a little too nourishing, as it makes them instantly multiply.

keyword: милость
kanji: 慈
constituent: mercy, double-mysterious, mothballs, horns, one, cocoon, heart, cocoon2
myStory: вдвойне загадочно, что сердце иногда, вопреки всему, оказывается способно на милость
heisigStory: Double-mysterious . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Here we see the DOUBLE-MYSTERIOUS Siamese twins again, at the MERCY of the machines that pump blood through their veins, since the single HEART they share won't do the job...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジ
kunYomi: いつく.しむ
readingExamples: 慈しむ (いつく.しむ)
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koohiiStory2: Here we see the DOUBLE-MYSTERIOUS Siamese twins again, at the MERCY of the machines that pump blood through their veins, since the single HEART they share won´t do the job...

keyword: магнит
kanji: 磁
constituent: magnet, stone, rock, double-mysterious, mothballs, horns, one, cocoon, cocoon2
myStory: вдвойне загадочный камень: магнит!
heisigStory: Stone . . . double-mysterious.
koohiiStory1: A magnet is a rock with two sides; one that mysteriously pushes and one that pulls; doubly mysterious. (see astridtops´ story).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジ
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koohiiStory2: I found some stones on the siamese twins. Turns out the stones were magnetic, and they weren´t siamese twins at all!
words: 磁気(じき): magnetism
磁器(じき): porcelain, china
磁石(じしゃく): magnet

keyword: родословная
kanji: 系
constituent: lineage, stick, drop, thread, spiderman
myStory: одна капля крови спайдермэна может поведать о его родословной
heisigStory: The single stroke added to the beginning of the primitive for thread gives the image of threads woven into a single cord. Hence the meaning, lineage.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, we shall give this kanji the meaning of yarn, as the uniting of many threads into a single strand is most obvious with yarn.
koohiiStory1: A single drop of your blood holds the proof of the unbroken thread of your lineage.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman´s lineage (who his family is etc...) can be found in his DNA in a drop of blood. The villain that gets blood of Spidey will be able to find out who is family and lineage is. be carfefull spidey...
words: 系(けい): system, lineage, group
系統(けいとう): system, family line, lineage, ancestry, geological formation
体系(たいけい): system, organization

keyword: приостановить, состояние приостановки
kanji: 懸
constituent: suspend, prefecture, eye, fishhook, small, little, lineage, stick, drop, thread, spiderman, heart
myStory: в префектуре приостановили исследования генетических заболеваний сердца из-за коррупции
heisigStory: Prefecture . . . yarn . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: The prefecture has suspended all DNA research for heart disease because of corruption. All involved will be suspended by their wrists.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン、ケ
kunYomi: か.ける、か.かる
readingExamples: 懸垂 (けんすい), 懸賞 (けんしょう), 懸命 (けんめい), 懸かる (か.かる), 懸ける (か.ける)
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koohiiStory2: There's a suspension bridge connecting one of the prefectures to the Japanese heartland. The supporting cables of the bridge actually look like DNA double-helices. That's Japan for you!
words: 懸賞(けんしょう): offering prizes, winning, reward
一生懸命(いっしょうけんめい): as well as one can, as hard as one can

keyword: вместо, напротив (напр., напротив, я хочу это сделать)
kanji: 却
constituent: instead, gone, soil, dirt, ground, elbow, stamp
myStory: подделка документов: удаляешь старый штамп, вместо него делаешь другой
heisigStory: Gone . . . stamp.
koohiiStory1: [instead; on the contrary; rather] Gone is the time for stamps - use e-mail instead.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キャク
kunYomi: かえ.って、しりぞ.く、しりぞ.ける
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koohiiStory2: If you tried to attach money to an envelope to pay for postage it would be GONE before it arrived at the post office. That´s why we use STAMPS instead.
words: 却って(かえって): on the contrary, rather, all the more, instead

keyword: голень
kanji: 脚
constituent: skids, shins, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, instead, gone, soil, dirt, ground, elbow, stamp
myStory: голень - часть тела, на которой сидят японцы вместо стула
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . instead. This character has more or less the same meaning as that for leg learned back in frame 1372. It can also indicate the part of the legs from the shins down, which explains the choice of the key word.
koohiiStory1: Shins are the part of the body that one uses instead of one´s eyes, for finding furniture in the dark. (Ouch!).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キャク、キャ、カク
kunYomi: あし
readingExamples: 脚部 (きゃくぶ), 脚本 (きゃくほん), 三脚 (さんきゃく), 脚 (あし)
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koohiiStory2: Shins are the part of the body that Japanese traditionally sit on instead of their asses.
words: 脚色(きゃくしょく): dramatization (e.g. film)
脚本(きゃくほん): scenario

keyword: оптовый
kanji: 卸
constituent: wholesale, horseshoe, horse, pantomime horse, noon, sign of the horse, stop, footprint, stamp
myStory: лошади оставляют глубокие следы на земле, когда везут товары на оптовую продажу. с каждым товаром - штамп соответствия качеству
heisigStory: The left primitive is a union of a horse and footprint. To the right, the stamp.
koohiiStory1: Wholesale refers to the sale of goods in quantity to retailers for resale. When this kanji was invented, large loads of goods needed to be transported by horses who left steep footprints because of the weight they carried. The wholesale goods needed a special stamp to indicate that they were legal for resale.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: おろ.す、おろし、おろ.し
readingExamples: 卸す (おろ.す), 卸 (おろし)
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koohiiStory2: If you need horseshoes (shoes that fit your horse´s footprint), buy them at the wholesale shop. They lick and paste stamps in your membership card so you can get free merchandise later.
words: 卸す(おろす): sell wholesale, grated (vegetables)

keyword: звонок (шаровидный)
kanji: 鈴
constituent: small bell, metal, gold, orders, meeting, chop-seal, hanko
myStory: в гостиницах есть маленькие металлические звонки. позвони - и можешь оставить распоряжение
heisigStory: Gold . . . orders.
koohiiStory1: Some restaurants have a small gold bell to call someone to take customers´ orders.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レイ、リン
kunYomi: すず
readingExamples: 電鈴 (でんれい), 振鈴 (しんすず), 予鈴 (よれい), 鈴 (すず)
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koohiiStory2: In high society, people ring a small golden bell to call their servants and give their orders.
words: 鈴(すず): bell

keyword: имитировать, псевдо-
kanji: 擬
constituent: mimic, finger, fingers, doubt, spoon, sitting on the ground, dart, drop, heavens, chop-seal, hanko, zoo, critters
myStory: стою в сомнениях: смогу ли я сымитировать это своими пальцами (игра теней)
heisigStory: Fingers . . . doubt.
koohiiStory1: Ask a MIMIC to give an impression of DOUBT, and he will no DOUBT scratch his head with his FINGER.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ
kunYomi: まが.い、もど.き
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koohiiStory2: I doubt you can mimic all these animals with just your fingers: http://www.google.com/search?q="Raymond+Crowe"+Letterman (shadow puppets -- you´ll love it!).

keyword: застывать
kanji: 凝
constituent: congeal, ice, doubt, spoon, sitting on the ground, dart, drop, heavens, chop-seal, hanko, zoo, critters
myStory: разве есть сомнения в том, что лед - это застывшая вода?
heisigStory: Ice . . . doubt.
koohiiStory1: I doubt that the jello would congeal sitting on the counter, so I placed it in the icebox.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギョウ
kunYomi: こ.る、こ.らす、こご.らす、こご.らせる、こご.る
readingExamples: 凝らす (こ.らす), 凝る (こ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Is there any doubt that ice is congealed stuff?
words: 凝らす(こごらす): to freeze, to congeal
凝る(こごる): to congeal, to freeze

keyword: шаблон, образец
kanji: 範
constituent: pattern, bamboo, car, fingerprint
myStory: на моей машине новый рисунок в виде бамбука. не трогай пальцами, оставишь отпечатки!
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . car . . . fingerprint.
koohiiStory1: This pattern made of bamboo is for a new model of car designed to leave as small an ecological fingerprint as possible.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
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koohiiStory2: I just had a new bamboo-leaf pattern spray-painted on my car. Don't touch it, you'll leave fingerprints!
words: 規範(きはん): model, standard, pattern, norm, criterion, example
模範(もはん): exemplar, exemplification, exemplum, model, example
範囲(はんい): extent, scope, sphere, range

keyword: неудача, неудачливый
kanji: 厄
constituent: unlucky, cliff, fingerprint
myStory: на краю скалы нашли отпечатки пальцев. кто-то оказался слишком неудачливым
heisigStory: Cliff . . . fingerprint.
koohiiStory1: Seeing some finger prints at the edge of a cliff, I wondered who that unlucky person was.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヤク
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koohiiStory2: Sherlock Holmes is very unlucky: he just fell off a cliff while he was looking around for fingerprints.
words: 厄介(やっかい): trouble, burden, care, bother, worry, dependence, support, kindness, obligation

keyword: адрес
kanji: 宛
constituent: address, house, mailbox, evening, fingerprint
myStory: (современный почтовый ящик - с подсветкой по вечерам и сканером отпечатков пальцев)
твой адрес должен быть и на доме, и на почтовом ящике
heisigStory: House . . . mailbox.
koohiiStory1: Your address should be displayed on your house and mailbox.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: あ.てる、-あて、-づつ、あたか.も
readingExamples: 宛てる (あ.てる)
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koohiiStory2: For the primitive: This is a hi-tech Japanese mailbox, it automatically lights up in the evening, and has a biometric fingerprint scanner. --- Each house´s address, even if it´s hard to see in the evening, is like its own unique fingerprint.
words: 宛(あて): addressed to
宛てる(あてる): to address
宛名(あてな): address, direction

keyword: сад
kanji: 苑
constituent: garden, flowers, mailbox, evening, fingerprint
myStory: современный сад: с подсветкой по вечерам и, так же, как и почтовый ящик, с системой доступа по отпечатку пальца
heisigStory: Flowers . . . mailbox.
koohiiStory1: Japanese "gardens" aren´t anything more than a pot of flowers on top of the mailbox.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン、オン
kunYomi: その、う.つ
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koohiiStory2: My mailbox is actually right in the middle of my garden, which kind of sucks since the mailman has to trample all my flowers to get to it.

keyword: недоброжелательность
kanji: 怨
constituent: grudge, mailbox, evening, fingerprint, heart
myStory: я отношусь к нему недоброжелательно, поэтому я положил ему в почтовый ящик свиное сердце
heisigStory: Mailbox . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: I couldn´t drop my grudge against him. So I put a severed pig´s heart in his mailbox. He got the message.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: エン、オン、ウン
kunYomi: うら.む、うらみ、うら.めしい
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koohiiStory2: To hold a grudge is actually the act of keeping negative feelings you received in the mailbox of your heart.

keyword: ива
kanji: 柳
constituent: willow, tree, wood, blown eggs, sign of the hare, receipt, stamp
myStory: (дерево, знак зайца)
такое дерево, ветви которого висят, как уши зайца
heisigStory: Tree . . . receipt . . . stamp.
koohiiStory1: Having decided to use SIGN OF THE HARE rather than RECEIPT and STAMP my mnemonic goes as follows: The WILLOW is the TREE that droops likes a HARE´s ears.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リュウ
kunYomi: やなぎ
readingExamples: 柳 (やなぎ)
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koohiiStory2: A strange thing about the japanese willow tree is, it grows eggs... but the eggs have no yokes. weird eh?

keyword: развлекать
kanji: 興
constituent: entertain, staples, same, monks, hood, one, mouth, tool, animal legs, eight
myStory: выглядит как дорога в город, где тебя ждут развлечения
heisigStory: Mortar . . . same . . . tool. Be careful to make an image that keeps same in the middle.
koohiiStory1: To me, this looks like a pictograph of a road leading to the big city (see the buildings?) where there are plenty of places to be entertained. Unfortunately in this city, every store is the same: staples. What tools! [ayoung24].
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、キョウ
kunYomi: おこ.る、おこ.す
readingExamples: 興行 (こうぎょう), 復興 (ふっこう), 振興 (しんこう), 興す (おこ.す), 興る (おこ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Photographically, this kanji simply looks like a set of two speakers (the staples primitives) between the sub-woofer (primitive for same) -- all this as a tool to entertain a group of drunks at a club.
words: 興じる(きょうじる): to amuse oneself, to make merry
興業(こうぎょう): industrial enterprise
興奮(こうふん): excitement, stimulation, agitation, arousal
新興(しんこう): rising, developing, emergent
振興(しんこう): promotion, encouragement
復興(ふっこう): revival, renaissance, reconstruction
余興(よきょう): side show, entertainment
興味(きょうみ): interest

keyword: знак птицы (п: бутылка с виски)
kanji: 酉
constituent: sign of the bird, whiskey bottle, west, one
myStory: знак птицы на бутылке виски
heisigStory: Though we shall later encounter the kanji for bird, we introduce this one for the tenth sign of the zodiac mainly because of its use as a primitive, where it has a different meaning.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, it means whiskey bottle. In its pictograph, you can see the loosely corked lid, the bottle and the contents (about one-third full). You might also think of the Spanish "porrón," a decanter shaped like a long-necked bird.
koohiiStory1: The sign of the bird on this whiskey bottle is of course the Famous Grouse blended Scotch.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: とり
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koohiiStory2: Normally birds fly south, but one bird flew west. People were worried about it and kept asking "Is there any sign of the bird – you know, the one that flew west?".

keyword: бармэн
kanji: 酌
constituent: bartending, whiskey bottle, ladle
myStory: очень странный бармэн: фильтрует виски через ковш
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . ladle.
koohiiStory1: At the local pub, their bartending practises are unusual. They serve the whiskey by pouring it from a ladle, like one would from the punch bowl.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャク
kunYomi: く.む
readingExamples: 酌む (く.む)
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koohiiStory2: Ever seen the anime Bartender? Bartending isn´t just about bottles of whiskey, it´s about ladling out advice.
words: 酌む(くむ): serve sake

keyword: брожение, ферментация
kanji: 酵
constituent: fermentation, whiskey bottle, filial piety, old man, child
myStory: секрет брожения передает сыну, который выражает бОльшую сыновнюю почтительность
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . filial piety.
koohiiStory1: The secrets of fermentation are passed to the son who displays the most filial piety.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: Since filial piety is all about respecting ones elders, and the older a whiskey bottle is (i.e. the time it have spent undergoing fermentation) the more respect you should give it, the meaning of this kanji becomes clear. If it doesn´t, sink back some whiskey and it will.

keyword: жестокий, серьезный
kanji: 酷
constituent: cruel, whiskey bottle, revelation, cow, mouth
myStory: если ты кого-то напоишь виски, ты можешь услышать самые жестокие и серьезные откровения
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . revelation.
koohiiStory1: It´s cruel to pour alcohol down a cow´s mouth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コク
kunYomi: ひど.い
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koohiiStory2: There is a saying that a drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts. Be careful about giving someone a bottle of whiskey, you may get some revelations about their cruelty. Of course, they'll just say that it's the whiskey speaking.
words: 残酷(ざんこく): cruelty, harshness
酷い(ひどい): cruel, awful, severe, very bad, serious, terrible, heavy, violent
冷酷(れいこく): cruelty, coldheartedness, relentless, ruthless

keyword: возмещать
kanji: 酬
constituent: repay, whiskey bottle, state, stream, drop, drop3
myStory: если ты вернешь бутылку виски государству- оно возместит тебе его стоимость
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . state.
koohiiStory1: Imagine a different kind of tax refund - instead of money, the state repays you with whiskey.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ、シュ、トウ
kunYomi: むく.いる
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koohiiStory2: Hint: bottle deposit refund - the state will repay the recycling deposit for each alcohol bottle returned.
words: 報酬(ほうしゅう): remuneration, recompense, reward, toll

keyword: молочные продукты
kanji: 酪
constituent: dairy products, whiskey bottle, each, walking legs, mouth
myStory: виски пить каждый день невозможно. лучше пей каждый день молоко
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . each.
koohiiStory1: Imagine if at each supermarket you went to, the section for dairy products was next to the alcohol aisle. so for each wheel of cheese you decide to buy, you get an accompanying bottle of wine...perfect for a "wine & cheese" party. :).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラク
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koohiiStory2: In an attempt to increase sales of dairy products, the grocery store is giving away a free miniature whiskey bottle with each dairy product you buy.
words: 酪農(らくのう): dairy (farm)

keyword: уксус
kanji: 酢
constituent: vinegar, whiskey bottle, saw
myStory: пить алкоголь, который превратился в уксус - это как пилу пропускать по горлу
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . saw.
koohiiStory1: Drinking alcohol that´s turned to vinegar feels like a saw going down your throat.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サク
kunYomi: す
readingExamples: 酢 (す)
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koohiiStory2: I spent ages sawing that whiskey bottle open, but when I got in, it had all turned to vinegar!
words: 酢(す): vinegar

keyword: пьяный
kanji: 酔
constituent: drunk, whiskey bottle, ninety, nine, baseball, ten, needle
myStory: если выпьешь 90тоградусный алкоголь, крайне быстро станешь пьяным
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . baseball . . . needle.
koohiiStory1: God you´re drunk! How many whiskeys did you have? 9? 10?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: よ.う、よ.い、よ
readingExamples: 酔う (よ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Whiskey with 90 percent alcohol will get you drunk. I don´t care who you are.
words: 麻酔(ますい): anaesthesia
酔う(よう): get drunk, become intoxicated
酔っ払い(よっぱらい): drunkard

keyword: кислота, кислый
kanji: 酸
constituent: acid, whiskey bottle, streetwalker, Ministry of silly walks, John Cleese, license, elbow, human legs, walking legs
myStory: проститутка вместо виски держит в бутылке кислоту - на случай самообороны
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . license . . . walking legs.
koohiiStory1: The prostitute carries an old whiskey bottle filled with acid to throw at any difficult Johns.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン
kunYomi: す.い
readingExamples: 酸い (す.い)
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koohiiStory2: Dealing alcohol requires a license, dealing acid requires fast legs (to run from the police).
words: 酸(さん): acid
酸化(さんか): oxidation
酸素(さんそ): oxygen
酸っぱい(すっぱい): sour, acid
酸性(さんせい): acidity

keyword: колебаться
kanji: 猶
constituent: furthermore, waver, pack of wild dogs, chieftain, Molotov cocktail, animal horns, whiskey bottle
myStory: я как-то колеблюсь перед тем как идти в бар, где свора диких псов напивается до чертей
heisigStory: Wild dogs . . . animal horns . . . whiskey bottle.
koohiiStory1: The waver for this kanji means to hesitate. I wavered before going into the bar with a bunch of horned wild dogs drinking whiskey straight out of the bottle.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ、ユ
kunYomi: なお
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koohiiStory2: I wavered when the pack of wild dogs was blocking the way, but then I drank some Red Bull and charged through. (thanks shakkun).

keyword: фасоль (п: стол)
kanji: 豆
constituent: beans, table, one, mouth
myStory: на огне стоит кастрюля с крышкой, на в ней варится фасоль
heisigStory: This kanji depicts a pot of beans, although it looks more like a table on which the pot is resting.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji will mean table.
koohiiStory1: If I eat BEANS, after ONE MOUTHful I fart like some kind of HORNED ANIMAL.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ、ズ
kunYomi: まめ、まめ-
readingExamples: 豆腐 (とうふ), 納豆 (なっとう), 豆 (まめ)
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koohiiStory2: I hate using primitives that are completely unrelated. Let´s call this one Mr. Bean! He´s an easy character to build stories with.
words: 豆(まめ): beans, peas, (as a prefix) miniature, tiny

keyword: барабан (п: <без правой части> барабан)
kanji: 鼓
constituent: drum, samurai, beans, table, one, mouth, branch, ten, needle, crotch
myStory: самурай сидит на столе и бьет веткой в барабан на празднике
heisigStory: The full kanji for the drum adds a branch, apparently to serve as a drumstick, to the primitive for drum.
koohiiStory1: Japanese festivals have drums so big, a samurai has to SIT (not stand) on a table to beat one with a tree branch! http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~hidafyh/furukawayh/gyouji/image/maturi03.jpg.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: つづみ
readingExamples: 鼓 (つづみ)
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koohiiStory2: I really hate the primitive meaning of "table" for "bean." I just use "bean." Anyways, for the DRUM primitive, imagine a SAMURAI who beats on a DRUM with two chopsticks, and a BEAN skewered on each end of the chopstick to produce a better sound. And the obvious story is: "DRUMing on a DRUM with a huge BRANCH".
words: 太鼓(たいこ): drum, tambourine

keyword: лесоматериалы
kanji: 樹
constituent: timber-trees, tree, wood, drum, samurai, beans, table, one, mouth, glue
myStory: все приклеились к экранам телевизоров... по грохот барабанов огромное дерево медленно падает... урааааа, лесоматериалы!
heisigStory: Trees . . . drum . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: The hippies object to trees being cut down for timber. They have glued themselves to the timber-trees and are beating their drums.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュ
kunYomi: き
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koohiiStory2: Everyone likes to see big trees fall down. For this kanji imagine hundreds of spectators glued to their chairs, then a drum roll and then a cry of "timber!!!" as the huge tree crashes to the ground.
words: 樹木(じゅもく): trees and shrubs, arbour
樹立(じゅりつ): establish, create

keyword: котловина, впадина
kanji: 盆
constituent: basin, part, eight, sword, dagger, dish
myStory: кто за минуту сможет разбить столько тарелок, чтобы ими можно было заполнить океанскую впадину?
heisigStory: Part . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: The part of the kitchen sink in which you wash dishes in is the basin.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボン
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koohiiStory2: I'm not an expert, but it seems that as a basin this refers more to an oceanic basin that a kitchen one, and in any case seems most common in reference to the famous O-Bon festival. So, a story: in the O-Bon festival, so many dishes are broken that all the parts have to be thrown into a deep oceanic basin.
words: 盆(ぼん): Lantern Festival, Festival of the Dead, tray
盆地(ぼんち): basin (e.g. between mountains)

keyword: союз, клятва
kanji: 盟
constituent: alliance, bright, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, dish
myStory: союз заключается после того как вы провели день и ночь, угощаясь разными блюдами
heisigStory: Bright . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: In order to form alliances, you should sit down for a meal and eat until your dish is bright or clear; in other words, get to know people first, before you talk business.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: メイ
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koohiiStory2: A new alliance is proclaimed at the end of a meal between officials. As a symbol of their alliance they clean up together one dish, and present it to the photographers. The clean dish under the flash lights appears very bright, and it´s pretty much all you can see on the photo that appears on the next morning´s newspapers, with the title "New alliance, one bright dish!".
words: 同盟(どうめい): alliance, union, league
連盟(れんめい): league, union, alliance

keyword: надзирать
kanji: 監
constituent: oversee, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, dish
myStory: рабы лежали на полу вповалку кто где. надзирающий пришел и поставил блюдо с едой. рабы устроили бой за еду
heisigStory: Slaves . . . reclining . . . floor/one . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: While the slave-buyer is perusing (perusal (#855)) the stack of slaves reclining on the floor, the slaves' overseer supplies them with dishes of gruel -- don't want the slaves starving to death before they can be sold!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
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koohiiStory2: The slaves are reclining on the floor when the overseer comes in. They tell him "We´re not goofing off, a dish fell and broke and we´re cleaning it off the floor".
words: 監視(かんし): observation, guarding, inspection, surveillance
監督(かんとく): supervision, control, superintendence

keyword: чрезмерный, переполнение
kanji: 濫
constituent: overflow, water, water droplets, water pistol, oversee, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, dish
myStory: почему не надзираете за водой? она переполняет резервуар!
heisigStory: Water . . . oversee.
koohiiStory1: Who´s job is it to oversee the water level on the dam? It´ts overflowing!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラン
kunYomi: みだ.りに、みだ.りがましい
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koohiiStory2: The overseer isn´t doing his job and he lets the slaves overflow the sink!
words: 氾濫(はんらん): overflowing, flood
濫用(らんよう): abuse, misuse, misappropriation, using to excess

keyword: проба, образец
kanji: 鑑
constituent: specimen, metal, gold, oversee, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, dish
myStory: следует надзирать за образцами золота, иначе украдут
heisigStory: Metal . . . oversee.
koohiiStory1: The overseer tags his slaves with gold earrings, just like specimens.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: かんが.みる、かがみ
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koohiiStory2: (Thanks bodhisamaya) The authorities are suspicious about the athlete that won GOLD at the olympics. They are now OVERSEEING a thorough drug test, taking all sorts of SPECIMENS.
words: 印鑑(いんかん): stamp, seal
年鑑(ねんかん): yearbook
鑑賞(かんしょう): appreciation
図鑑(ずかん): picture book

keyword: свирепый
kanji: 猛
constituent: fierce, pack of wild dogs, child, dish
myStory: свирепая свора диких псов напала на ребенка, который подошел к их блюду
heisigStory: Wild dogs . . . child . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: The fierce WILD DOG attacked the CHILD who came near his feeding DISH.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モウ
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koohiiStory2: If you want to make your wild dogs fierce, feed them a child. Children are the holy grail of dogfood you know...
words: 猛烈(もうれつ): violent, vehement, rage

keyword: бум (т.е. процветать)
kanji: 盛
constituent: boom, turn into, dish
myStory: пустые тарелки превратились в полные из-за экономического бума
heisigStory: Here boom refers to something that is popular and prospering. Its elements: turn into . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: Japan´s economic boom turned their empty plates into full ones.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ、ジョウ
kunYomi: も.る、さか.る、さか.ん
readingExamples: 盛大 (せいだい), 隆盛 (りゅうせい), 全盛 (ぜんせい), 盛る (さか.る), 盛ん (さか.ん), 盛る (も.る)
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koohiiStory2: The boom of satellite TV has made antennas turn into dishes.
words: 盛る(さかる): to prosper, to flourish, to copulate (animals)
盛装(せいそう): be dressed up, wear rich clothes
盛大(せいだい): grand, prosperous, magnificent
全盛(ぜんせい): height of prosperity
繁盛(はんじょう): prosperity, flourishing, thriving
目盛(めもり): scale, gradations
盛り上がる(もりあがる): to rouse, to swell, to rise
盛り(さかり): summit, peak, prime
盛る(もる): prosper, flourish, copulate (animals)
盛ん(さかん): prosperous

keyword: обижаться
kanji: 恨
constituent: regret, resentment, Freud, state of mind, silver
myStory: состояние разума атлета, когда он получает серебряную медаль - обида
heisigStory: State of mind . . . silver.
koohiiStory1: The athlete´s state of mind is nothing but resentment after getting the silver medal.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
kunYomi: うら.む、うら.めしい
readingExamples: 恨む (うら.む), 恨めしい (うら.めしい)
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koohiiStory2: Data´s greatest resentment is getting a silver medal in Science Olympiad. (Image: Data fuming on the podium muttering about being half robot).
words: 恨み(うらみ): resentment
恨む(うらむ): feel bitter

keyword: мгновенный
kanji: 即
constituent: instant, silver, stamp
myStory: для мгновенной доставки налепи серебряный штамп
heisigStory: Silver . . . stamp.
koohiiStory1: He scratches off the silver stamp and discovers that he is an instant winner.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソク
kunYomi: つ.く、つ.ける、すなわ.ち
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koohiiStory2: For instant postal delivery, buy a silver stamp!
words: 即ち(すなわち): that is, namely, i.e.
即座に(そくざに): immediately, right away
即する(そくする): to conform to, to agree with, to be adapted to, to be based on

keyword: барон
kanji: 爵
constituent: baron, claw, vulture, net, eye, silver, glue
myStory: барон очень подозрительный: всегда смотрит грифьими глазами вокруг, а серебро приклеено к столу
heisigStory: Vulture . . . eye . . . silver . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: The baron is very suspicious, always looking around with vulture eyes and keeping the silver glued to the table so no one can steal it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャク
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koohiiStory2: Here we see an evil baron - a vulture perched on his shoulder, and a siver eye-patch glued to his eye.

keyword: узел, узловой пункт
kanji: 節
constituent: node, bamboo, instant, silver, stamp
myStory: мгновенный способ узнать возраст бамбука - посчитать его узловые пункты
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . instant.
koohiiStory1: Counting the nodes on bamboo is an instant way to tell its age.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セツ、セチ
kunYomi: ふし、-ぶし、のっと
readingExamples: 節約 (せつやく), 季節 (きせつ), 関節 (かんせつ), 節 (ふし)
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koohiiStory2: A certain species of bamboo is considered the fastest growing plant in the world. A new node can be formed in an instant.
words: 節(せつ): node, section, occasion, time
節約(せつやく): economising, saving
調節(ちょうせつ): regulation, adjustment, control
節(ふし): node, section, occasion, time
季節(きせつ): season

keyword: глазное яблоко
kanji: 眼
constituent: eyeball, eye, silver
myStory: серебро глаза - это глазное яблоко
heisigStory: Eye . . . silver.
koohiiStory1: Be careful putting silverware near your eyes: you could lose an eyeball!
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガン、ゲン
kunYomi: まなこ、め
readingExamples: 眼球 (がんきゅう), 眼力 (がんりき), 主眼 (しゅがん), 眼 (まなこ)
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koohiiStory2: Eyeballs made of silver. That´s what they use to play pachinko with, isn´t it?
words: 眼科(がんか): ophthalmology
眼球(がんきゅう): eyeball
眼鏡(がんきょう): spectacles, glasses
近眼(きんがん): nearsightedness, shortsightedness, myopia
眼鏡(めがね): spectacles, glasses

keyword: мелодичный
kanji: 朗
constituent: melodious, halo, drop, silver, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: лунная соната: хорошая луна
heisigStory: Halo . . . moon.
koohiiStory1: [Image: ´Moonlight sonata´] The moon has inspired many good composers (like Ludwig van Beethoven) to write something melodious.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ
kunYomi: ほが.らか、あき.らか
readingExamples: 朗らか (ほが.らか)
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koohiiStory2: A glowing halo surrounds a magnificent full moon. A perfect image of the mythic and melodious music of the spheres.
words: 明朗(めいろう): bright, clear, cheerful
朗読(ろうどく): reading aloud, recitation
朗らか(ほがらか): brightness, cheerfulness, melodious

keyword: блуждающий
kanji: 浪
constituent: wandering, water, water droplets, water pistol, halo, drop, silver
myStory: вода - хорошая штука, когда ты блуждаешь
heisigStory: Water . . . halo.
koohiiStory1: Water is a good thing to have when you´re out wandering.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ
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koohiiStory2: John the Baptist with a halo sprinkling water on people as he´s wandering the wilderness.
words: 浪費(ろうひ): waste, extravagance

keyword: голодный
kanji: 飢
constituent: hungry, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, wind
myStory: ветер унес мою еду, поэтому я теперь голодный
heisigStory: Food . . . wind.
koohiiStory1: The smell of cooked food wafts past you in the wind, making your stomach rumble and feeling hungry.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: う.える
readingExamples: 飢える (う.える)
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koohiiStory2: The wind blew away my food, so now I´m hungry.
words: 飢える(うえる): starve
飢饉(ききん): famine

keyword: голодать, голодный
kanji: 餓
constituent: starve, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, ego, hand, fiesta
myStory: эго заставляет людей не есть еду, быть голодными
heisigStory: Food . . . ego.
koohiiStory1: All those starving models in Hollywood - they want to eat, but their ego (about their appearance and trim look) makes sure they grin and bear it!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガ
kunYomi: う.える
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koohiiStory2: He starves for FOOD but his EGO won´t let him beg.

keyword: украшать
kanji: 飾
constituent: decorate, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, reclining, lying down, towel
myStory: когда мы лежим и кушам, мы хотим, чтобы стол был украшен хотя бы полотенцами
heisigStory: Food . . . reclining . . . towel.
koohiiStory1: [decorate; ornament; adorn; embellish] We decorate a table before eating, reclining a towel over it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショク
kunYomi: かざ.る、かざ.り
readingExamples: 飾る (かざ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Naked sushi: a lady reclining on a towel as decoration for the food laid out on her.
words: 着飾る(きかざる): to dress up
首飾り(くびかざり): necklace
修飾(しゅうしょく): ornamentation, embellishment, decoration, adornment, polish up (writing), modification (gram)
装飾(そうしょく): ornament
飾り(かざり): decoration
飾る(かざる): decorate

keyword: способствовать
kanji: 養
constituent: foster, sheep, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver
myStory: овцы как еда способствуют выживанию волков
heisigStory: Sheep . . . food. The key word has the sense of promoting the development of something, especially in a psychological or spiritual sense.
koohiiStory1: A sheep became the foster parent for a wolf pup, feeding it with milk. This story cannot end well...
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ、リョウ
kunYomi: やしな.う
readingExamples: 養う (やしな.う)
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koohiiStory2: Judy Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs" is what Dr. Hannibal-the cannibal-Lecter would like to eat.
words: 扶養(ふよう): support, maintenance
保養(ほよう): health preservation, recuperation, recreation
養う(やしなう): to rear, to maintain, to cultivate
養護(ようご): protection, nursing, protective care
養成(ようせい): training, development
栄養(えいよう): nutrition, nourishment
休養(きゅうよう): rest, break, recreation
教養(きょうよう): culture, education, refinement, cultivation
養分(ようぶん): nourishment, nutrient

keyword: удовлетворенный
kanji: 飽
constituent: sated, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, wrap, bound up, snake, self
myStory: толстяк удовлетворил свой голод только после того как съел и еду, и упаковку
heisigStory: Eat . . . wrap.
koohiiStory1: My gluttony was only sated after I ate the hamburger AND the wrapper!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: あ.きる、あ.かす、あ.く
readingExamples: 飽かす (あ.かす), 飽きる (あ.きる)
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koohiiStory2: This guy is sated only after eating the hamburger AND its wrapping!
words: 飽和(ほうわ): saturation
飽きる(あきる): get tired of, lose interest in
飽くまで(あくまで): to the end, stubbornly, persistently

keyword: предыдущий
kanji: 既
constituent: previously, silver, waitress
myStory: (серебро+официантка)
официантка подала серебряные столовые приборы, не помытые после предыдущего клиента
heisigStory: Silver . . . waitress. Do not confuse this kanji's key word with before (Frame 263).
koohiiStory1: Distinguish from formerly (#501). Think of previously as "the previous customer" in a restaurant. At a cheap sleazy diner, the waitress gives you unwashed silverware that was previously used by the previous customer. Yuck.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: すで.に
readingExamples: 既に (すで.に)
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koohiiStory2: For the waitress primitive, I don´t really see the receipt. So instead, I imagine a waitress holding a plate above her head, using those legs to weave through the tables.
words: 既婚(きこん): marriage, married
既に(すでに): already, too late

keyword: контур, грубо (говоря), в общих чертах
kanji: 概
constituent: outline, roots, tree, wood, silver, waitress, previously
myStory: корни официантки в общих чертах затерялись где-то в Сибири
heisigStory: Roots . . . waitress. Note that the kanji meaning of the two primitives to the right is not used here because we shall later meet a primitive meaning beforehand and want to preempt any confusion. The same holds true in the following frame.
koohiiStory1: The police tried to draw a chalk outline around the dead waitress, but it was kinda tough with all the tree roots underneath her.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ
kunYomi: おうむ.ね
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koohiiStory2: If you attempted to outline the biography of most famous actresses, you´d find that they have roots working as waitresses before getting their big break.
words: 一概に(いちがいに): unconditionally, as a rule
概説(がいせつ): general statement, outline
概念(がいねん): general idea, concept, notion
概略(がいりゃく): outline, summary, gist, in brief
大概(たいがい): in general, mainly
概論(がいろん): introduction, outline, general remarks

keyword: покаяние, сожаление, печалиться
kanji: 慨
constituent: rue, regret, resentment, Freud, state of mind, silver, waitress, previously
myStory: состояние сознания, когда ты осознаешь, что предыдущий был лучше - печалька, сожаление
heisigStory: Resentment . . . waitress.
koohiiStory1: If you don´t leave some silver as a tip, you will rue the day you earned the resentment of your waitress.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ
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koohiiStory2: The resentment of a waitress who gave up going to college to help her boyfriend (with his tuition). She rues that decision ever since she got dumped by him (just after he graduated).
words: 感慨(かんがい): strong feelings, deep emotion
憤慨(ふんがい): indignation, resentment

keyword: мера площади, примерно 3.31 кв. метра
kanji: 坪
constituent: two-mat area, soil, dirt, ground, even, water-lily, lily pad
myStory: 3,31 кв. метра земли - столько нужно для маленького пруда с лилиями
heisigStory: This kanji belongs to an old Japanese system of measurement and indicates an area of about 36 square feet, or the area taken up by two tatami mats. Its elements: ground . . . water lily.
koohiiStory1: A two-mat area is just about as much ground as you will need for a lily pond.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘイ
kunYomi: つぼ
readingExamples: 坪 (つぼ)
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koohiiStory2: A two-mat area is plenty of space for sleeping in a tent but you won´t be comfortable unless the ground is even.

keyword: оценивать
kanji: 評
constituent: evaluate, say, words, keitai, mouth, even, water-lily, lily pad
myStory: ровные слова - спокойная речь необходима для беспристрастной оценки
heisigStory: Words . . . water lily.
koohiiStory1: Good evaluation should always be words of even fairness.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒョウ
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koohiiStory2: You get an evaluation copy of MS Word because you want to evaluate whether it´s worth buying the full version. At the end of the evaluation period the CD turns into a lilypad so you can´t use it any more (an innovative new copy-protection trick).
words: 好評(こうひょう): popularity, favorable reputation
書評(しょひょう): book review
不評(ふひょう): bad reputation, disgrace, unpopularity
批評(ひひょう): criticism, review, commentary
評価(ひょうか): valuation, estimation, assessment, evaluation
評判(ひょうばん): fame, reputation, popularity, arrant
評論(ひょうろん): criticism, critique

keyword: подрезать (волосы, траву), жать (пшеницу)
kanji: 刈
constituent: reap, sheaf, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: (сноп + меч)
сноп получается, когда подрезаешь стебли мечом
heisigStory: Sheaf . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: A SABRE is used to cut the stalks of plants being REAPED at harvest. They are then combined into a SHEAF.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ、カイ
kunYomi: か.る
readingExamples: 刈る (か.る)
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koohiiStory2: The Grim Reaper´s name is メリ(Mary)…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　Rare or no official Chinese reading.
words: 刈る(かる): cut (hair), mow (grass), clip, shear, trim, prune, harvest, reap

keyword: злодей
kanji: 凶
constituent: villain, sheaf, shovel
myStory: негодяй вырыл яму и прикрыл ее снопом в надежде что кто-то упадет
heisigStory: Sheaf . . . shovel.
koohiiStory1: Here the villain digs a hole with a shovel and covers it with a sheaf, hoping someone will fall in.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
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koohiiStory2: Wolverine (sheaf, see reap (#1488)) takes out a villain who can´t be cut by smacking the crap out of him with a shovel.
words: 凶作(きょうさく): bad harvest, poor crop

keyword: отцеплять, отделять, быть отделенным
kanji: 離
constituent: detach, sheik, top hat, villain, sheaf, shovel, belt, elbow, turkey
myStory: негодяй в шляпе, с локтями на поясе отделяет индейку от стаи :(
heisigStory: Top hat . . . villain . . . belt . . . elbow . . . turkey. This is potentially one of the most difficult characters to remember. Tackle it positively and let the image "sink in" by carrying it around with you today and calling it up in your spare moments.
koohiiStory1: I´ve finally met my arch-rival, the evilest of all villains. Finally, I´m about to fight him. But what´s this? He´s suspiciously quiet. I move to attack him, and his right arm falls off at the elbow. Strange. I walk up to him and detach his left arm. Very strange. I undo his belt, and take off his top hat... BLAST! It was just a decoy turkey!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
kunYomi: はな.れる、はな.す
readingExamples: 離す (はな.す), 離れる (はな.れる)
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koohiiStory2: The left side isn't too hard---a top-hatted villain whose villainy involves belts around elbows? Clearly he's a drug dealer. And the best way to detach yourself from the drug dealer's influence is to go cold turkey.
words: 距離(きょり): distance, range
分離(ぶんり): separation, detachment, segregation, isolation
離す(はなす): part, divide, separate
離れる(はなれる): be separated from, leave, go away, be a long way off
離婚(りこん): divorce

keyword: катальпа (дерево такое)
kanji: 梓
constituent: catalpa, tree, wood, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle
myStory: острое дерево
heisigStory: Tree . . . spicy.
koohiiStory1: The CATALPA is the tree that bears the SPICY Indian bean (NOTE - The Catalpa is also known as the "Indian Bean" due to the bean pods that grow from it).
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: あずさ
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koohiiStory2: The caterpillar´s favorite tree is the catalpa because it tastes spicy.

keyword: управлять, управляющий
kanji: 宰
constituent: superintend, house, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle
myStory: управляющий дома престарелых должен следить, чтобы еда не была слишком острой
heisigStory: House . . . spicy.
koohiiStory1: The superintendent of a Japanese school district needs a spicy relationship at home after watching girls in miniskirts all day.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
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koohiiStory2: The superintendent of an old-age house has to make sure the food is never too spicy.

keyword: стена
kanji: 壁
constituent: wall, ketchup, flag, mouth, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: (кетчуп + земля)
о, это так здорово - положить пакетик с кетчупом на землю и прыгнуть на него! на стене следы кровавого убийства
heisigStory: Ketchup . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘキ
kunYomi: かべ
readingExamples: 壁 (かべ)
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koohiiStory2: Primitive for Ketchup: When the taste is too spicy your mouth has basically given up trying to handle it ..or in other words raised the white flag of surrender. But unlike war , putting Ketchup on it will usually solve the problem. Wall(dingomick); Did anyone else used to put ketchup packets on the ground and jump on them so they spattered on the wall?
words: 壁(かべ): wall

keyword: уклоняться (физически), избегать (ситуации)
kanji: 避
constituent: evade, ketchup, flag, mouth, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle, road
myStory: если кетчуп разлит на дороге, уклоняйся! тормозить поздно!
heisigStory: Ketchup . . . road.
koohiiStory1: You can try and evade them, but they´ll ketchup with you on the road... Sorry, couldn´t resist it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: さ.ける、よ.ける
readingExamples: 避ける (さ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: In order to evade the bear, you lie down on the road, put ketchup on yourself, and play dead.
words: 避難(ひなん): taking refuge, finding shelter
避ける(さける): avoid (situation), ward off, to avert

keyword: дрова
kanji: 薪
constituent: fuel, firewood, flowers, new, red pepper, stand up, vase, tree, wood, axe
myStory: новые цветы растут там, где был лес, который перевели на дрова
heisigStory: Flowers . . . new.
koohiiStory1: New flowers grow in areas of forests which have been chopped down for firewood.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: たきぎ、まき
readingExamples: 薪 (たきぎ)
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koohiiStory2: If your firewood is too new and still has flowers on it, it´s unsuitable for burning. You need drier wood.

keyword: цепкий, упрямый
kanji: 執
constituent: tenacious, happiness, ten, needle, stand up, vase, fat man, musashimaru, nine, baseball, drop, ten2, needle2
myStory: чтобы быть цепким и упрямым, нужно:
 - быть счастливым
 - быть толстым
heisigStory: Happiness . . . fat man.
koohiiStory1: Tenacious-D is happy band led by a fat man. (It´s Tenacious-D time, ya muthafucka´, gwaoh!).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シツ、シュウ
kunYomi: と.る
readingExamples: 執務 (しつむ), 執筆 (しっぴつ), 確執 (かくしつ), 執る (と.る)
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koohiiStory2: To be tenacious, you need to have deep stores of happiness (so troubles don´t discourage you) and you need to be big and round (so hunger doesn´t drive you to give up). The most tenacious person of all time was happy round Buddha!
words: 執着(しゅうじゃく): attachment, adhesion, tenacity
執筆(しっぴつ): writing

keyword: твист
kanji: 糾
constituent: twist, thread, spiderman, cornucopia
myStory: спайдермэн нашел рог изобилия и закрутился в пляс
heisigStory: Thread . . . cornucopia.
koohiiStory1: A cornucopia is a twisted goat's horn decorated with coloured threads.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: ただ.す
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koohiiStory2: [twist; ask; investigate; verify] Stories full of twists are difficult to write, because of the cornucopia of threads the author has to manage.

keyword: занимающий низкое положение
kanji: 卑
constituent: lowly, Wayne Slob, drop, rice field, brains, cornucopia, ten, needle
myStory: люди низкого положения имеют каплю мозгов и все ждут рог изобилия
heisigStory: A drop of . . . brains . . . cornucopia.
koohiiStory1: Lowly people only have a drop of brains and use nothing but 4-letter words.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: いや.しい、いや.しむ、いや.しめる
readingExamples: 卑しい (いや.しい), 卑しむ (いや.しむ), 卑しめる (いや.しめる)
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koohiiStory2: A LOWLY single rice grain, DROPPED in an empty FIELD, can produce a CORNUCOPIA of food.
words: 卑しい(いやしい): greedy, vulgar, shabby, humble, base, mean, vile
卑怯(ひきょう): cowardice, meanness, unfairness

keyword: надгробный камень
kanji: 碑
constituent: tombstone, stone, rock, lowly, Wayne Slob, drop, rice field, brains, cornucopia, ten, needle
myStory: камень для низких положением один - надгробный
heisigStory: Rock . . . lowly.
koohiiStory1: There is a grave of a lowly man with a tombstone made of a simple, small stone. If you bow really low you can read the very small inscription engraved on the stone, it says - “Now that you bowed so low to read this, you are as lowly as I once was”.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: いしぶみ
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koohiiStory2: A STONE makes a LOWLY TOMBSTONE.
words: 碑(いしぶみ): stone monument bearing an inscription

keyword: интимный, близкий
kanji: 睦
constituent: intimate, eye, mini-tractor, rice seedlings, soil, dirt, ground, human legs, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: фермер никогда не был близок с женой - его глаз всегда был сфокусирован на ростках риса в земле
heisigStory: Eye . . . rice seedlings . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: The farmer was never very intimate with his wife. He always kept his eye on his precious rice seedlings in the soil.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク、モク
kunYomi: むつ.まじい、むつ.む、むつ.ぶ
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koohiiStory2: I keep an intimate relationship with my rice seedlings -- I never take my eye from the soil.

keyword: ромбовидный
kanji: 菱
constituent: diamond, flowers, Mao, soil, dirt, ground, human legs, walking legs
myStory: некоторые девушки любят цветы ромбовидные, но если ты решишь подарить росток риса, от тебя просто-напросто сбегут
heisigStory: Named after a diamond-shaped flower (the water caltrop), this key word refers to things shaped like a diamond. Its elements: flower . . . rice seedlings . . . walking legs.
koohiiStory1: Some girls want diamonds, but others will be satisfied with just flowers. However if you think you can win her over with rice seedlings, expect her to get up on her walking legs and walk on out!
jouYou: Names
onYomi: リョウ
kunYomi: ひし
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koohiiStory2: Not a real diamond but a baseball one. No proper bases so we improvise, 1st is a bunch of flowers, 2nd is the pile of rice seedlings and so on... watch the running legs charge around after a big hit!

keyword: мавзолей
kanji: 陵
constituent: mausoleum, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, Mao, soil, dirt, ground, human legs, walking legs
myStory: на Вершине есть мавзолей безымянному фермеру: фигура, идущая по полю и раскидывающая саженцы риса
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . rice seedlings . . . walking legs.
koohiiStory1: Ancient Japanese built a mausoleum for the "unknown rice farmer". It's on the pinnacle of Mt. Fuji, and it has a statue of a guy with huge walking legs planting rice seedlings as he goes.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ
kunYomi: みささぎ
readingExamples: 陵 (みささぎ)
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koohiiStory2: At the pinnicle is a mausolem. The ground is sown with rice seedings to stop the dead from rising on walking legs.
words: 丘陵(きゅうりょう): hill

keyword: знак свиньи (п: желудь)
kanji: 亥
constituent: sign of the hog, acorn, top hat
myStory: жадная свинья пожрала все желуди, да еще и распихала локтями всех людей!
heisigStory: This kanji is the 12th sign of the Chinese zodiac: the sign of the hog. It is best learned by thinking of an acorn-eating hog in connection with the primitive meaning given below.
heisigComment: * The top hat represents the external shape of the acorn, and the unusual but easily written complex of strokes beneath it (which you might also see as distortions of an elbow and person) stands for the mysterious secret whereby the acorn contains the oak tree in a nutshell.
koohiiStory1: A greedy hog in a top hat who has eaten all of the acorns. He even elbows people out of the way to get them.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ、カイ
kunYomi: い
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koohiiStory2: Top Hat + Elbow + Person: The sign of the hog was a very recognizable tattoo - a hog with a big grin in a top hat, sticking his elbow into the person next to him.

keyword: ядро
kanji: 核
constituent: nucleus, tree, wood, sign of the hog, acorn, top hat
myStory: в желуде запечатлено ядро нового дерева
heisigStory: Tree . . . acorn.
koohiiStory1: In the nucleus of the acorn, all the DNA is stored -- the building blocks for a new tree.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
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koohiiStory2: The nucleus of an oak TREE is an ACORN.
words: 核(かく): nucleus, kernel
結核(けっかく): tuberculosis, tubercule

keyword: вышеизложенное, сказанное
kanji: 該
constituent: above-stated, say, words, keitai, mouth, sign of the hog, acorn, top hat
myStory: вышеизложенные слова - это желудь для последующих измышлений
heisigStory: Words . . . acorn.
koohiiStory1: I asked my teacher what this strange word meant, and she furiously replied that it was explained in the above-stated paragraph before throwing an acorn at me!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ
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koohiiStory2: The above-stated words are the acorn from which the following statement grows.
words: 該当(がいとう): corresponding, answering to, coming under

keyword: порицание, осуждение
kanji: 劾
constituent: censure, sign of the hog, acorn, top hat, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: сильно кидаешь желудями в сильного, если осуждаешь его действия
heisigStory: Acorn . . . muscle.
koohiiStory1: Censure is the political equivalent of a "strongly worded letter," according to Cornell's School of Law. It is a flex of muscle by congress against the current president, but it is a very weak one. Imagine censure as congress flexing as hard as it can, only to have a little acorn-sized bump of muscle pop up suddenly.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガイ
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koohiiStory2: Acorn Power is the people´s way to CENSURE a congressman you don´t agree with. Pelt your Senator with acorns today.

keyword: варить (пиво)
kanji: 醸
constituent: brew, whiskey bottle, grass skirt, top hat, eight, six, animal legs, celery, scarf
myStory: девушки в травяных юбках не делают виски. они варят пиво
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . grass skirt.
koohiiStory1: Grass Skirt primitive: Picture some Hawaiian girls, wearing grass skirts and tropical scarfs (or leis), doing a dance. "3, 4, 5, 6 pick up all the celery sticks!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: かも.す
readingExamples: 醸す (かも.す)
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koohiiStory2: A classic alcohol commercial: whiskey being brewed while girls dance around, scantily clad in their grass skirts.

keyword: уступать
kanji: 譲
constituent: defer, say, words, keitai, mouth, grass skirt, top hat, eight, six, animal legs, celery, scarf
myStory: девушка в травяном платье уступила твоим настойчивым просьбам
heisigStory: Words . . . grass skirt.
koohiiStory1: Speaking complicated words to set her head spinning, the island girl in the grass skirt says demurely "I defer (yield) to your judgment, wise one".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: ゆず.る
readingExamples: 譲る (ゆず.る)
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koohiiStory2: I talked to my Japanese spouse, who confirmed that this kanji does not mean "defer" as in "put off, delay". It means "defer" in the sense of "submit" or "yield".
words: 譲歩(じょうほ): concession, conciliation, compromise
譲る(ゆずる): turn over, assign, hand over, transmit, convey, sell, dispose of, yield, surrender

keyword: участок земли
kanji: 壌
constituent: lot, soil, dirt, ground, grass skirt, top hat, eight, six, animal legs, celery, scarf
myStory: моя мечта: купить участок земли на тропическом острове и быть окруженным девушками в травяных юбках
heisigStory: Ground . . . grass skirt. The lot of this key word refers to a portion of land.
koohiiStory1: My dream is to buy a small lot on a tropical island and spend the rest of my days relaxing in a grass skirt.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: つち
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koohiiStory2: On the island of JOU, in order to be considered a lot, a ground must be big enough to grow sufficient grass for a grass skirt.

keyword: девушка
kanji: 嬢
constituent: lass, woman, grass skirt, top hat, eight, six, animal legs, celery, scarf
myStory: девушка в травяной юбке
heisigStory: Woman . . . grass skirt.
koohiiStory1: Conversation at a party: A: "Who is that lass?" B: "Which one?" A: "The woman wearing the grass skirt." B: "Alas, I don´t know".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: むすめ
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koohiiStory2: Two Irishmen visit Hawaii and see a woman wearing a grass skirt and nothing else. "That´s some lassie," says one to the other. "But alass Danny Boy, you can´t be bringing her home.".
words: 嬢(じょう): young woman
お嬢さん(おじょうさん): daughter (polite)

keyword: начальный, элементарный
kanji: 素
constituent: elementary, grow up, thread, spiderman
myStory: 1. нить жизни растет из базовых элементов
2. струнная теория: нити растут везде
heisigStory: Grow up . . . thread.
koohiiStory1: This kanji has nothing to do with elementary school - it means element, elemental, basic, bare. Imagine the thread as a thread connecting all life, starting from the basic elements and growing up into everything.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ、ス
kunYomi: もと
readingExamples: 素材 (そざい), 元素 (げんそ), 平素 (へいそ)
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koohiiStory2: This is a pictogram of string theory. Strings are the most elementary particles of matter, which then grow up to become matter itself.
words: 簡素(かんそ): simplicity, plain
元素(げんそ): chemical element
酸素(さんそ): oxygen
質素(しっそ): simplicity, modesty, frugality
素敵(すてき): lovely, dreamy, beautiful, great, fantastic, superb, cool, capital
素早い(すばやい): fast, quick, prompt, agile
素晴らしい(すばらしい): wonderful, splendid, magnificent
素材(そざい): raw materials, subject matter
素っ気ない(そっけない): cold, short, curt, blunt
素朴(そぼく): simplicity, artlessness, naivete
炭素(たんそ): carbon (C)
素人(しろうと): amateur, novice
水素(すいそ): hydrogen
素直(すなお): obedient, meek, docile, unaffected
素質(そしつ): character, qualities, genius
要素(ようそ): element

keyword: выпрашивать, ходатайствовать
kanji: 請
constituent: solicit, say, words, keitai, mouth, blue, grow up, moon, flesh
myStory: у голубой крови - господ - обычно ходатайствуют и выпрашивают
heisigStory: Words . . . blue.
koohiiStory1: People who try to solicit you to buy things come up to you and just start taking out of the blue
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ、シン、ショウ
kunYomi: こ.う、う.ける
readingExamples: 請求 (せいきゅう), 請願 (せいがん), 申請 (しんせい), 請ける (う.ける), 請う (こ.う)
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koohiiStory2: That door-to-door salesman can stand outside ringing my doorbell until he´s blue in the face. There´s a big sign on my front door, and the words clearly say "No Soliciting".
words: 強請る(ねだる): to tease, to coax, to solicit, to demand
要請(ようせい): claim, demand, request, application
申請(しんせい): application, request, petition
請求(せいきゅう): claim, demand, application, request

keyword: облигация
kanji: 債
constituent: bond, person, blame, grow up, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: герой обвиняется за подделку облигаций! (чтоооооооооо?!)
heisigStory: Person . . . blame. The key word refers to financial bonds.
koohiiStory1: Bonds are guarnteed by the government so if they fail there is one person you can blame - the prime minister!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T´s plot of world domination is foiled. Who is to blame? Bond. James Bond.
words: 負債(ふさい): debt, liabilities

keyword: маринование
kanji: 漬
constituent: pickling, water, water droplets, water pistol, blame, grow up, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: вода обвиняется в том, что маринады стухли
heisigStory: Water . . . blame.
koohiiStory1: When pickling you MUST use distilled water! When it doesn´t come out right, generally it is the water that is to blame.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: つ.ける、つ.かる、-づ.け、-づけ
readingExamples: 漬かる (つ.かる), 漬ける (つ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: Bad water is to blame for the process of pickling.
words: 漬ける(つける): soak, pickle

keyword: сумка
kanji: 俵
constituent: bag, person, surface, grow up, scarf
myStory: герою некогда заботиться о поверхности своей сумки
heisigStory: Keep this kanji distinct from that for sack (Frame 1081). Its elements are: person . . . surface.
koohiiStory1: Superficial people (ie those who are only concerned about the surface) are obsessed with expensive bags.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒョウ
kunYomi: たわら
readingExamples: 俵 (たわら)
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koohiiStory2: Do you know why every person in Japan has a Louis Vuitton bag? After the 1985 JAL air crash that killed 520 people (the world´s worst). An image on tv of the crash showed Louis Vuitton bags (whose LV logo covered surface was somehow impervious) litering the crash site. From that point on they stuck in Japanese people´s mind´s as durable and high quality. (True story).
words: 土俵(どひょう): arena

keyword: незагрязненный, непорочный
kanji: 潔
constituent: undefiled, water, water droplets, water pistol, flick knife, grow up, sword, dagger, thread, spiderman
myStory: маленькая девочка росла в криминальном районе. она всегда таскала с собой кинжал на веревке, даже когда купалась. в итоге добилась своего - осталась непорочной
heisigStory: Water . . . grow up . . . dagger . . . thread. Do not confuse with upright (Frame 58).
koohiiStory1: To ensure she remained undefiled, a young girl growing up in a rough area always kept a dagger concealed under her threads, even when she went into the water.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケツ
kunYomi: いさぎよ.い
readingExamples: 潔い (いさぎよ.い)
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koohiiStory2: (rgravina) To ensure she remained undefiled, a young girl growing up in a rough area always kept a dagger concealed under her Spiderman underwear (to remember the position of thread), even when she went into the water.
words: 簡潔(かんけつ): brevity, conciseness, simplicity
清潔(せいけつ): clean
不潔(ふけつ): unclean, dirty, filthy, impure

keyword: залог, заклад
kanji: 契
constituent: pledge, flick knife, grow up, dagger, large, St. Bernard
myStory: когда ты рос и тебя поймали с кинжалом, кто-то большой внес за тебя залог
heisigStory: Grow up . . . dagger . . . St. Bernard dog. The connotation of this character should be kept distinct from that for vow (Frame 1214) and promise (Frame 1462).
koohiiStory1: Imagine a totalitarian regime where, while growing up, you have to pledge allegiance to the flag at dagger-point and with St. Bernard guard dogs watching you.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: ちぎ.る
readingExamples: 契る (ちぎ.る)
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koohiiStory2: In order to pledge into her sorority, Alice had to stab a St. Bernard with a dagger. (Come on! DO it, Alice!).
words: 契機(けいき): opportunity, chance
契る(ちぎる): to pledge, to promise, to swear
契約(けいやく): contract, compact, agreement

keyword: контролировать, управлять
kanji: 轄
constituent: control, car, harm, mansion, house, grow up, mouth
myStory: кто-то причинил вред машине, и она вышла из-под контроля!
heisigStory: Car . . . harm. Hint: the image of an auto going "out of control" may help keep this key word distinct from others like it, such as manipulate (Frame 864).
koohiiStory1: The roads are icy, and a whole bunch of cars have spun out of control! Luckily, it was just a couple of dents; nobody was harmed.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カツ
kunYomi: くさび
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koohiiStory2: Control is very important! Especially when operating a car. Few people realize the harm they can cause just by losing control of their car for a second. Tremendous harm. Stay in control!

keyword: конституция
kanji: 憲
constituent: constitution, mansion, house, grow up, eye, cross-eyed, net, heart
myStory: конституция:
1. ты можешь жить и расти в своем доме
2. никто за тобой не наблюдает
3. никто не насилует твое сердце
heisigStory: The key word refers to the fundamental guiding principles of a government or other organization. Its elements: House . . . grow up . . . eyes . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: The constitution is important. At least my parents thought so. In the house where I grew up, it was framed on the wall. Under the watchful (sideways) eye of my mother, we had to study it until we knew it by heart.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
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koohiiStory2: The constitution states the following rights: You may live in your own house and grow up. And you will never be watched by big brother's eye so they cannot control your heart (your believes).
words: 憲法(けんぽう): constitution

keyword: жертвоприношение животного
kanji: 牲
constituent: animal sacrifice, cow, life, This is Your Life, cell, drop, grow up
myStory: взять жизнь коровы и принести ее в жертву
heisigStory: Cow . . . cell.
koohiiStory1: Animal sacrifice = taking the life of a cow.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
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koohiiStory2: In the 21st century, animal sacrifice is no longer really necessary. We can take a single cell from a cow, with no harm to the cow. We create a viable cell line from this single cell, and feed the resulting biomatter into a furnace at the exact rate necessary to appease the gods.
words: 犠牲(ぎせい): sacrifice

keyword: горб (холма или верблюда)
kanji: 隆
constituent: hump, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, walking legs, life, This is Your Life, cell, drop, grow up
myStory: ты идешь, преодолевая горбы холмов, и наконец видишь Вершину - новая жизнь началась!
heisigStory: This character, used for everything from little humps of hills to camel humps, easily suggests the hunch on the pig's back and hind parts where the best cuts of meat are to be found (and hence the English expression for luxury, "living high off the hog.") The elements we have to work with are: pinnacle . . . walking legs . . . cell.
koohiiStory1: You are struggling to the top across the humps, but you suddenly see the pinnacle and you feel new life in your walking legs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リュウ
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koohiiStory2: A woman takes her bra off and what happens? Nine months later the hump in her belly pops out between her legs as a new life.

keyword: вершина, пик
kanji: 峰
constituent: summit, mountain, Segway, Macbeth, walking legs, bushes
myStory: (гора + идущие ноги + кусты)
(гора + заостренный)
заостренная часть горы - это пик
heisigStory: Mountain . . . walking legs . . . bushes.
koohiiStory1: Walking legs over "bushes" needs to have a primitive meaning of its own. It appears in several kanji, such as 縫 sew (#1563), 逢 tryst (#2417), 蜂 bee (#2687), and 鋒 sword´s point (#2768), and it is clumsy to work bushes and walking legs into every story. "Pointy" works fairly well: the walking legs are stuck on top of the pointy part of the bush; and for this character: a summit is the pointy end of a mountain.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: みね、ね
readingExamples: 峰 (みね)
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koohiiStory2: Upon reaching the summit of the mountain, I noticed my walking legs were all gouged up from walking through prickly bushes.
words: 峰(みね): peak, ridge

keyword: шить, пришивать, стежок
kanji: 縫
constituent: sew, thread, spiderman, tryst, Segway, Macbeth, walking legs, bushes, road
myStory: заостренной иглой я шью дорожку ниток (стежки)
heisigStory: Thread . . . walking legs . . . bushes . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Pointy primitive; with a pointy needle you sew a road (-------) of threads.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: ぬ.う
readingExamples: 縫う (ぬ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Good thing I brought some thread, cause I need to sew my pants that I tore up walking through the bushes (see summit (#1562)) before we hit the road to go back down the mountain.
words: 裁縫(さいほう): sewing
縫う(ぬう): sew

keyword: долголетие
kanji: 寿
constituent: longevity, bushes, glue
myStory: садовник пытался продлить долголетие куста, приклеивая опавшие листья
heisigStory: Bushes . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: In an attempt to increase a bush's longevity, an incompitent gardener glues all the leaves back on that have fallen off. Maybe he should have tried watering it instead.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジュ、ス、シュウ
kunYomi: ことぶき、ことぶ.く、ことほ.ぐ
readingExamples: 寿 (ことぶき)
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koohiiStory2: This old China man glued shrubs to his body. The added intake of oxygen from the shrubs was, according to him, the secret of his longevity. Sometimes he would sit all day in meditation without moving, and the locals believed the old man had actually turned into a shrub !
words: 寿命(じゅみょう): life span

keyword: литье (металла)
kanji: 鋳
constituent: casting, metal, gold, longevity, bushes, glue
myStory: долговечность металла зависит от качества литья
heisigStory: Metal . . . longevity. As you probably guessed from the elements, the key word refers to the casting of metals.
koohiiStory1: We take a casting because metal will have much greater longevity than the original.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ、イ、シュ、シュウ
kunYomi: い.る
readingExamples: 鋳る (い.る)
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koohiiStory2: They made a metal casting of the Chinese man who glued shrubs to himself to increase his longevity. It´s now sold around the world as it´s thought that having one will increase your own longevity..

keyword: камелия
kanji: 椿
constituent: camellia, tree, wood, springtime, bonsai, sun, day
myStory: первое дерево, цветущее весной - камелия
heisigStory: Tree . . . springtime.
koohiiStory1: The tree of spring. Fact: Camellia are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their very early flowering, often among the first flowers to appear in the late winter [early spring?].
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チン、チュン
kunYomi: つばき
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koohiiStory2: Anyone who´s lived in Japan knows camellia are by far the first tree of spring to flower. And how can you miss those shockingly pink flowers!

keyword: мирный
kanji: 泰
constituent: peaceful, bonsai, grains of rice
myStory: мирная жизнь: бонсай для хобби и рис для еды
heisigStory: Bonsai . . . rice grains.
koohiiStory1: If you look into Japanese gardens they seem so peaceful - with their small bonsais and the white stones looking like rice grains.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
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koohiiStory2: Simplistic and peaceful life: A bonsai to trim and enough rice to eat...　RTK2:　タイ　泰国　たいこく (Thailand).

keyword: музицировать
kanji: 奏
constituent: play music, bonsai, heavens
myStory: на небесах хорошо: растет бонсай, можно музицировать вечность
heisigStory: Bonsai . . . heavens.
koohiiStory1: When you play music to them, your bonsai will grow like they are in heaven.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: かな.でる
readingExamples: 奏でる (かな.でる)
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koohiiStory2: In heaven you are surrounded by bonsai trees (full-sized ones fall through the clouds) while you play music on your harp. I always have trouble remembering that the bonsai tree is on top, so think of them growing on top of the clouds.
words: 吹奏(すいそう): playing wind instruments
演奏(えんそう): musical performance

keyword: посвящать (свою жизнь служению богу)
kanji: 奉
constituent: observance, dedicate, bonsai, cornstalk
myStory: (бонсай + стебель кукурузы)
чтобы стать монахом, ты должен посвятить свою жизнь бонсай - для просвещенности, и выращиванию кукурузы - для еды
heisigStory: Bonsai . . . cornstalk. Use a ritualistic, religious meaning.
koohiiStory1: To join the temple, you have to dedicate yourself to raising bonsai for enlightenment, and cornstalks for sustenance.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ、ブ
kunYomi: たてまつ.る、まつ.る、ほう.ずる
readingExamples: 奉納 (ほうのう), 奉仕 (ほうし), 信奉 (しんぽう), 奉る (たてまつ.る)
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koohiiStory2: A Japanese farmer who was growing corn tried to dedicate himself to the god of corn (in the hope it would bring better harvests). He had a little room with prayer beads, incense, etc. One day he brought an offerand that he thought would please the god of corn : a bonsai - corn (a corn plant turned into a bonsai). The god was infuriated and yelled at him "HOW DARE YOU TORTURE MY CORN IN SUCH WAYS!". The End.
words: 奉る(たてまつる): to offer, to present, to revere, to do respectfully
奉仕(ほうし): attendance, service

keyword: стипендия, плата
kanji: 俸
constituent: stipend, person, observance, dedicate, bonsai, cornstalk
myStory: герой посвятил себя работе - и получал хорошую плату (стипендию)
heisigStory: Person . . . dedicate.
koohiiStory1: The stipend is given to the student-PERSON who has come to Japan DEDICATED to study.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
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koohiiStory2: People who are highly dedicated to their jobs get good salaries/stipends.

keyword: сдержанный
kanji: 謹
constituent: discreet, say, words, keitai, mouth, cabbage, flowers, mouth, grow up
myStory: (слова + капуста)
капустные слова: сдержанные и скромные
heisigStory: Words . . . cabbage.
koohiiStory1: Muttering words of gratitude for a wonderful meal, I discreetly slipped my cabbage under the table for the dog.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: つつし.む
readingExamples: 謹む (つつし.む)
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koohiiStory2: Cabbage primitive: When a cabbage is growing up, you must put it in your mouth before it flowers, because that´s when it becomes bitter. Seriously, it´s called ´bolting´ or something. When you´re discreet, you try to make your words like a cabbage: well-layered, but in an unassuming way.

keyword: вздох, оплакивать
kanji: 嘆
constituent: sigh, mouth, scarecrow, flowers, mouth, husband
myStory: вздох изо рта пугала: "эх, висеть мне тут всю мою недолгую жизнь"
heisigStory: Mouth . . . scarecrow.
koohiiStory1: A sigh escapes the mouth of the scarecrow, who laments: "...if I only had a brain, I could learn kanji".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: なげ.く、なげ.かわしい
readingExamples: 嘆かわしい (なげ.かわしい), 嘆く (なげ.く)
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koohiiStory2: I will let out a huge sigh of relief from my mouth when I learn the last kanji.
words: 嘆く(なげく): to sigh, to lament, to grieve

keyword: пышность, великолепие
kanji: 華
constituent: splendor, flowers, silage, ten, needle
myStory: (цветок + силос + игла)
великолепные цветы иногда приходится пускать на силос, потому что десять детей
heisigStory: Flower . . . silage . . . needle.
koohiiStory1: The Queen of England taking a walk round a village: ´Excuse me, I couldn´t help noticing the splendour of the flowers in your garden. Simply splendid. Ten out of ten.´ The villager gruffly replies: ´No it ´aint. It´s all muck. An´ I´m gonna cut it all down and sell it to the farmer for silage.´.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ、ケ
kunYomi: はな
readingExamples: 華美 (かび), 繁華 (はんか), 栄華 (えいが), 華 (はな)
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koohiiStory2: (I'm substituting greenhouse for silage. It is also full of all types of plants, and the shape resembles the windows that cover the building to let in the light.) See the splendor of the roses filling the greenhouse, beauty atop a stem of needles (thorns).
words: 華奢(かしゃ): luxury, pomp, delicate, slender, gorgeous
華美(かび): pomp, splendor, gaudiness
華々しい(はなばなしい): brilliant, magnificent, spectacular
華やか(はなやか): gay, showy, brilliant, gorgeous, florid
豪華(ごうか): wonderful, gorgeous, splendor, pomp, extravagance

keyword: сонный
kanji: 睡
constituent: drowsy, eye, droop, drop, silage, walking cane, stick, one, floor
myStory: наши глаза свисают, когда мы сонные
heisigStory: Eyes . . . droop.
koohiiStory1: Our eyes droop when we are drowsy.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
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koohiiStory2: Hint : the eyes of Droopy Dog (see droop (#1582)). When you are drowsy you have "droopy eyes". That is, you have Droopy´s eyes!
words: 睡眠(すいみん): sleep

keyword: шпиндель
kanji: 錘
constituent: spindle, metal, gold, droop, drop, silage, walking cane, stick, one, floor
myStory: металлюка, которая виснет - шпиндель
heisigStory: Metal . . . droop.
koohiiStory1: Wasn´t it a cursed spindle that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on? Therefore the spindle was the metal that caused her to droop and eventually sleep for 100 years.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: つむ、おもり
readingExamples: 錘 (つむ)
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koohiiStory2: Spindle: the needle that drops on an LP record player. This is made of metal. It droops. Viola.

keyword: избыток, излишек
kanji: 剰
constituent: surplus, ride, wheat, cereal, silage, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: ты едешь перерабатывать пшеницу в силос и по пути на тебя нападают грабители, отбирая у тебя излишек пшеницы
heisigStory: Ride . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: If you go for a ride and find a saber beside you, perhaps you got into an Army surplus jeep.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョウ
kunYomi: あまつさえ、あま.り、あま.る
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koohiiStory2: Remember the wheat we cut with scythes (farmer's equivalent of a saber) for profit (#906)?　Well, we harvested too much and have to use the surplus for silage. 過剰 (かじょう) : excess.
words: 過剰(かじょう): excess

keyword: перелагать в стихи
kanji: 吟
constituent: versify, mouth, now, clock
myStory: чтобы перелагать в стихи, из твоего рта должны вылетать слова с определенной частотой
heisigStory: As we have already learned characters for poem (Frame 370), chant (Frame 21), and song (Frame 508), it is important to protect this key word with an image all its own. Its elements are the same as those above; only the position has changed: mouth . . . clock.
koohiiStory1: Versify this kanji as follows: Hickery dickery dock, the mouth ran by the clock.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギン
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koohiiStory2: To versify, words of rhythm needs to shoot out of your MOUTH with a CLOCK-like regularity.
words: 吟味(ぎんみ): testing, scrutiny, careful investigation

keyword: арфа
kanji: 琴
constituent: harp, king, jewel, ball, now, clock, king2, jewel2, ball2
myStory: два короля бились за арфу. в итоге они просто встроили в нее часы, чтобы играть поровну
heisigStory: A pair of jewels . . . clock.
koohiiStory1: Two kings were fighting over a beautiful koto (harp). So they had a clock built into it that would measure how long each one played it. That way they could be sure none played it more than othe other.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キン
kunYomi: こと
readingExamples: 琴 (こと)
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koohiiStory2: Jesus is coming soon. Prepare to meet the king of kings now. Practice your harp playing skills all future angels!...　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　キン　琴線　きんせん("heart strings").
words: 琴(こと): koto (Japanese harp)

keyword: тень (Инь)
kanji: 陰
constituent: shade, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, now, clock, rising cloud, two, elbow, wall
myStory: 3 типа тени:
1. от горы;
2. от башни с часами;
3. от облака
heisigStory: Just as the sunshine (Frame 1397) represents the masculine principle in nature (Yang), the shade stands for the feminine principle (Yin). Its elements are: pinnacle . . . clock . . . rising cloud.
koohiiStory1: There are three types of shade: 1. natural (a high pinnacle), 2. man-made buildings (a clock tower), 3. meteorological (a cloud).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン
kunYomi: かげ、かげ.る
readingExamples: 陰 (かげ), 陰る (かげ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Frosty the snowman is running around the pinnacle, staying in the shade. As he looks at his clock to see how much longer he can last, small clouds rise (steam) from his body. Nooo, Frosty!
words: 陰気(いんき): gloom, melancholy
日陰(ひかげ): shadow
陰(かげ): shade, shadow, other side

keyword: пролог, предисловие
kanji: 序
constituent: preface, cave, beforehand
myStory: предисловие человеческой истории было заранее написано в пещерах
heisigStory: Cave . . . beforehand.
koohiiStory1: The preface to all human history was written beforehand in caves.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョ
kunYomi: つい.で、ついで
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koohiiStory2: Rename the "beforehand" part to be glove (because you have to wear gloves beforehand if you want to wield the halberd, which is why this primitive is an incomplete halberd). The story: a winter morning. A textbook author is holed up in his tiny office, a veritable cave. He wants to start his masterpiece textbook by first writing the preface. But he can´t get started. He sits and stares at empty paper until evening. It gets cold and he puts on gloves, shivering, but still unable to start his preface.
words: 秩序(ちつじょ): order, regularity, system, method
順序(じゅんじょ): order, sequence, procedure

keyword: одновременно
kanji: 兼
constituent: concurrently, animal horns, rake, stick, stick2
myStory: кто-то пытается одновременно пахать граблями в разные стороны. фигня какая-то
heisigStory: At the top we have the animal horns and the single horizontal stroke to give them something to hang onto. Below that, we see one rake with two handles. Finally, we see a pair of strokes splitting away from each of the handles, indicating that they are both splitting under the pressure. The composite picture is of someone holding down two jobs concurrently, using the same kit of tools to move in two different directions and ending up in a mess. Take the time to find this sense in the kanji and it will be easy to remember, despite initial appearances.
koohiiStory1: Our ninja hero, disguised as a gardener with a rake, is suddenly attacked from both left and right concurrently by bulls with animal horns. Our hero lets out a blood-curdling scream and tears his rake handle vertically in half, so he now has two wooden staffs (split rake handle) to fight with. He grips each staff (left side and right side) and rams it into the horns of the charging bulls. The force of each charging bull causes the tips of each staff to split again (split bottom of each rake handle).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: か.ねる、-か.ねる
readingExamples: 兼ねる (か.ねる)
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koohiiStory2: You decide to take the bull by the horns and do both chores concurrently, grabbing your double-handled rake before attempting to clean up both your´s and your neighbours´ garden. But unfortunately, it´s not long until your rake splits in two.
words: 兼ねて(かねて): simultaneously
気兼ね(きがね): hesitance, diffidence, feeling constraint, fear of troubling someone, having scruples about doing something
兼用(けんよう): multi-use, combined use, combination, serving two purposes
兼業(けんぎょう): side line, second business
兼ねる(かねる): hold (position), serve, be unable, be beyond one´s ability, cannot, hesitate to, combine with, use with, be impatient

keyword: неприязнь
kanji: 嫌
constituent: dislike, woman, concurrently, animal horns, rake
myStory: если будешь встречаться с двумя женщинами одновременно, то явно вызовешь неприязнь
heisigStory: Woman . . . concurrently.
koohiiStory1: Naturally, if you´re dating more than one woman concurrently, they will certainly dislike each other!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン、ゲン
kunYomi: きら.う、きら.い、いや
readingExamples: 嫌悪 (けんお), 嫌疑 (けんぎ), 嫌 (いや), 嫌う (きら.う)
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koohiiStory2: Attempting to court two women concurrently will make them both dislike you.
words: 嫌がる(いやがる): hate, dislike
機嫌(きげん): humour, temper, mood
嫌う(きらう): hate, dislike, loathe
好き嫌い(すききらい): likes and dislikes, taste
嫌(いや): disagreeable, detestable, unpleasant, reluctant
嫌い(きらい): dislike, hate

keyword: серп
kanji: 鎌
constituent: sickle, metal, gold, concurrently, animal horns, rake
myStory: металлюка, которой можно и резать людей, и жать пшеницу - серп, коса
heisigStory: Metal . . . concurrently.
koohiiStory1: This is a special sickle with metal blades on both sides. It can cut many things concurrently!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レン、ケン
kunYomi: かま
readingExamples: 鎌 (かま)
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koohiiStory2: The gold sickle of the USSR flag represents both leaders and workers laboring concurrently.

keyword: скромный
kanji: 謙
constituent: self-effacing, say, words, keitai, mouth, concurrently, animal horns, rake
myStory: когда ты скромный, ты не говоришь одновременно с кем-то
heisigStory: Words . . . concurrently.
koohiiStory1: When you are self-effacing you use words to concurrently bring yourself down and make yourself look better.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
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koohiiStory2: Though the man´s words were self-effacing, his actions concurrently made it clear that his modesty was false.
words: 謙る(へりくだる): to deprecate oneself and praise the listener
謙虚(けんきょ): modesty, humility
謙遜(けんそん): humble, humility, modesty

keyword: сделка
kanji: 廉
constituent: bargain, cave, concurrently, animal horns, rake
myStory: когда кто-то одновременно встретился в пещере - это сделка
heisigStory: Cave . . . concurrently.
koohiiStory1: Stores don´t want you to know it, but if you find the secret cave, they run bargains there concurrently to their regular prices. (Image: pulling a certain level in a store to find the "bargain cave).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レン
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koohiiStory2: If you have several sellers competing concurrently, one will cave in and give you a bargain…　RTK2:　レン　廉売　れんばい(bargain)…　MIXED GROUP: 鎌1599　(ｹﾝ): 兼1597　嫌1598　謙1600.

keyword: ценность, цена
kanji: 価
constituent: value, person, old west
myStory: герой на Западе имеет особую ценность
heisigStory: Person . . . Old West.
koohiiStory1: In the West, people have no value. Only money is important.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ、ケ
kunYomi: あたい
readingExamples: 価 (あたい)
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koohiiStory2: What might it mean for a person in the old west to be of value? Their face is on a "Wanted!" poster, of course. Imagine the reward...
words: 価格(かかく): price, value, cost
価値(かち): value, worth, merit
高価(こうか): high price
定価(ていか): established price
評価(ひょうか): valuation, estimation, assessment, evaluation
物価(ぶっか): prices of commodities, prices (in general), cost-of-living

keyword: голосование
kanji: 票
constituent: ballot, old west, altar, show, two, small
myStory: на Западе люди часто голосуют по принципу разделения по вере
heisigStory: Old West . . . altar.
koohiiStory1: In the Old West there were no ballot boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the gunslingers, the ballots were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn´t fight in the church.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒョウ
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koohiiStory2: In western political elections (US), peoples ballots will often depend on religion and at which altar the prospective president prays.
words: 票(ひょう): label, ballot, ticket, sign
投票(とうひょう): voting, poll

keyword: дрейф
kanji: 漂
constituent: drift, water, water droplets, water pistol, ballot, old west, altar, show, two, small
myStory: фанатик украл результаты голосования и выкинул их в воду, наблюдая, как они дрейфуют прочь. а полиция уже рядом...
heisigStory: Water . . . ballot.
koohiiStory1: In Florida, Bush through Kerry´s ballots into the water, watching them drift away and setting the whole country adrift.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒョウ
kunYomi: ただよ.う
readingExamples: 漂う (ただよ.う)
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koohiiStory2: The political fanatic stole all the ballots and dumped them in the stream. He calmly watched them drift away as the cops came to a screech behind him.
words: 漂う(ただよう): to drift about, to float, to hang in air

keyword: указательный столб
kanji: 標
constituent: signpost, tree, wood, ballot, old west, altar, show, two, small
myStory: деревья используются как указательные столбы, чтобы показать, куда ехать для голосования
heisigStory: Tree . . . ballot.
koohiiStory1: Trees were frequenly used as signposts in those days, indicating where one had to go to cast their ballots.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒョウ
kunYomi: しるべ、しるし
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koohiiStory2: Large wooden signposts are planted on peoples lawns, with the faces of their representatives all saying: "Vote [1] Me!" for the upcoming ballot.
words: 座標(ざひょう): coordinate(s)
標語(ひょうご): motto, slogan, catchword
標識(ひょうしき): sign, mark
標準(ひょうじゅん): standard, level
標本(ひょうほん): example, specimen
目標(もくひょう): mark, objective, target

keyword: каштан
kanji: 栗
constituent: chestnut, old west, tree, wood
myStory: западное дерево - каштан
heisigStory: Old West . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Chestnut tree, west nut tree.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リツ、リ
kunYomi: くり、おののく
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koohiiStory2: The cowboy climbed the tree to see where they were in the woods. The poor guy chose a chestnut tree. ouch ouch.

keyword: переход, перенос
kanji: 遷
constituent: transition, old west, large, St. Bernard, snake, self, road
myStory: индейцы на западе, когда переносили свое поселение подальше от белых, шли по дороге осторожно, чтобы не наступить на большую змею
heisigStory: West . . . St. Bernard dog . . . snake . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Since the days of the Old West, traveling has transitioned from trying not to step on big snakes to driving on big roads.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: うつ.る、うつ.す、みやこがえ
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koohiiStory2: The west has gone through quite a transition, gone are the days when dogs and snakes roamed the desert, it´s all roads and casinos now.
words: 変遷(へんせん): change, transition, vicissitudes

keyword: опрокидывать
kanji: 覆
constituent: capsize, old west, restore, Nelson, column, going, line, fold back, double back, reclining, lying down, sun, day, walking legs
myStory: опрокинув в битве бледнолицых, индейцы Запада восстановили свое государство
heisigStory: West . . . restore.
koohiiStory1: The U.S.S. Old West has capsized, and all the cowboys on board are trying to restore her upright.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フク
kunYomi: おお.う、くつがえ.す、くつがえ.る
readingExamples: 覆う (おお.う), 覆す (くつがえ.す), 覆る (くつがえ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Remember Oregon Trail? Remember how you had to float your wagon across rivers to get to the Old West? Well, sometimes that wagon capsizes. Once that happens you´d better quickly head to the nearest town to restore.
words: 覆す(くつがえす): to overturn, to upset, to overthrow, to undermine
覆面(ふくめん): mask, veil, disguise
覆う(おおう): cover, hide, conceal, wrap, disguise

keyword: камфорное дерево
kanji: 楠
constituent: camphor tree, tree, wood, south, ten, needle, belt, happiness, ten, needle, stand up, vase, ten2, needle2
myStory: дерево юга - камфорное дерево
heisigStory: Tree . . . south.
koohiiStory1: We traveled to southern Japan just to see a camphor tree. It´s what we came for.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ナン、ダン、ゼン、ネン
kunYomi: くす、くすのき
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koohiiStory2: Trivia: Cinnamomum camphora is native to Taiwan, southern Japan, southeast China and Indochina,.

keyword: предложение, предлагать
kanji: 献
constituent: offering, south, ten, needle, belt, happiness, ten, needle, stand up, vase, chihuahua, dog, large, drop, ten2, needle2
myStory: на Юге тебе могут предложить собаку как еду
heisigStory: South . . . chihuahua.
koohiiStory1: A South Korean street vendor is offering chihuahu snacks.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン、コン
kunYomi: たてまつ.る
readingExamples: 献上 (けんじょう), 献身的 (けんしんてき), 文献 (ぶんけん)
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koohiiStory2: If you go to someones place and the food sucks, you lower it down south of the table as an offering to their dog.
words: 貢献(こうけん): contribution, services
献立(こんだて): menu, program, schedule
文献(ぶんけん): literature, books (reference)

keyword: проверка, ревью
kanji: 閲
constituent: review, gates, devil, horns, elder brother, teenager, mouth, human legs
myStory: дьяволенок в воротах ада проверяет записи - достаточно ли ты злой, чтобы войти
heisigStory: Gates . . . devil. Keep the connotation of this key word distinct from those of inspection (Frame 1174), revise (Frame 362), and perusal (Frame 919).
koohiiStory1: A little devil at the gates of hell reviews your record to see if you´re evil enough to get in.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エツ
kunYomi: けみ.する
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koohiiStory2: As I was reviewing for my exam at a quiet saloon, the devil popped out of nowhere and offered to make sure I pass. But I told him no way, since that´s cheating. Besides, I´m just reviewing things I already know. I won´t fail. But he kept insisting, so I kicked him and sent him crashing through the entrance gates.
words: 閲覧(えつらん): inspection, reading

keyword: клика, клан
kanji: 閥
constituent: clique, gates, fell, person, fiesta
myStory: ты сможешь пройти через двери на праздник героя только если ты в его клане
heisigStory: Gates . . . fell.
koohiiStory1: You only get through the gates into that person's fiesta if you are in the same clique.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バツ
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koohiiStory2: The felled souls of the world, cut down like trees, pass through the gates of hell and join the clique.

keyword: башня
kanji: 閣
constituent: tower, gates, each, walking legs, mouth
myStory: каждая башня имеет ворота
heisigStory: Gates . . . each.
koohiiStory1: To keep this distinct from other kanji such as "watchtower" and "pagoda", I use the mnemonic "towering tower". -- In some old 8-bit kung-fu videogame, with a plot similar as Bruce Lee´s last, unfinished movie, the hero must break through a gate at each level of the towering tower, fighting with opponents using various styles of kung-fu until he meets the finale at the topmost level of the "towering tower".
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
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koohiiStory2: Remember the two towers from lord of the rings... each has it´s own - very difficult to master - entrance gate.
words: 内閣(ないかく): cabinet, (government) ministry

keyword: свободное время, досуг
kanji: 閑
constituent: leisure, gates, tree, wood
myStory: за деревянными воротами салуна тебя ждет нехитрый досуг
heisigStory: Gates . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: Imagine the gates the Garden of Eden, the ultimate land of leisure. You´re not allowed in, but if you peek through you can see trees.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
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koohiiStory2: Imagine Leisure Suit Larry walking through the saloon doors with wood in his pants, hoping to get lucky.
words: 長閑(のどか): tranquil, calm, quiet

keyword: мокрый
kanji: 潤
constituent: wet, water, water droplets, water pistol, intercalate, gates, king, jewel, ball
myStory: король вышел из ворот... и стал мокрым от дождя
heisigStory: Water . . . gates . . . king.
koohiiStory1: Forgetting about the moat, the king stepped out of his gate and landed in the water. Needless to say he got wet.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
kunYomi: うるお.う、うるお.す、うる.む
readingExamples: 潤む (うる.む), 潤う (うるお.う), 潤す (うるお.す)
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koohiiStory2: (I had the same idea as Dingomick) I imagine some prankster who put a bucket full of water on top of the huge gates, so that it would fall on the king as he came through them. See the king now, between the gates, all wet, dripping drops of water.
words: 潤う(うるおう): to be moist, to be damp, to get wet, to profit by, to be watered, to receive benefits, to favor, to charm, to steepen
利潤(りじゅん): profit, returns

keyword: колонна
kanji: 欄
constituent: column, tree, wood, gates, east, tree, wood, sun, day, tree2, wood2
myStory: колонны поддерживают Великие Двери Востока
heisigStory: Tree . . . gates . . . east.
koohiiStory1: [column; handrail; blank; space] I think about oriental (eastern) Torii gates: they have two supporting columns made of wood.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラン
kunYomi: てすり
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koohiiStory2: A column of text scratched on a black tree beside the gates of Hell: To the East lies The Beast.
words: 欄(らん): column of text (as in a newspaper)

keyword: драться, война
kanji: 闘
constituent: fight, gates, beans, table, one, mouth, glue
myStory: хорошая вчера была драка! одного парня приклеили к столу и выкинули через двери салуна
heisigStory: Gates . . . table . . . glue. Do not confuse with contend (Frame 1238).
koohiiStory1: During the saloon brawl, one guy got glued to a table and was tossed out through the saloon gates. But he really wanted to fight, so he ran back through those gates (with the table still glued to his back) only to be tossed out again. Imagine him repeatedly running in and being tossed back out.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
kunYomi: たたか.う、あらそ.う
readingExamples: 闘う (たたか.う)
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koohiiStory2: Food fight! Look, beans are stuck to the gates like glue.
words: 戦闘(せんとう): battle, fight, combat
奮闘(ふんとう): hard struggle, strenuous effort

keyword: склад
kanji: 倉
constituent: godown, meeting, single gate, umbrella, stable door, mouth
myStory: в складе при доках есть много входов и много ворот
heisigStory: The single gate is used here not in order to represent one gate, but many of them, indeed a meeting of gates. Add mouth (as an entrance here) and you end up with godown. That should help keep this character distinct from warehouse (Frame 633).
koohiiStory1: A godown is a dockside warehouse. This is actually a meeting of large doors and mouths. The stroke order is the same as door, not gates, just with the top stroke moved down into the now larger door.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: くら
readingExamples: 倉 (くら)
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koohiiStory2: Note: this is not gate but actually a variation of door and is written as such, with the vertical stroke last not first.
words: 倉庫(そうこ): storehouse, warehouse

keyword: происхождение
kanji: 創
constituent: genesis, godown, meeting, single gate, umbrella, stable door, mouth, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: люди так хотели sega genesis, что захватили склад силой оружия
heisigStory: Godown . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: Back in the day the people were so excited to get hold of the Sega genesis they looted the godown with sabers.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ、ショウ
kunYomi: つく.る、はじ.める、きず、けず.しける
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koohiiStory2: I prefer to have girls Godown on my sabre to prevent unwanted GENESIS of babies............創造　そうぞう (creation).
words: 創刊(そうかん): launching (e.g. newspaper), first issue
創作(そうさく): production, literary creation, work
創造(そうぞう): creation
創立(そうりつ): establishment, founding, organization
独創(どくそう): originality

keyword: хайку
kanji: 俳
constituent: haiku, person, un-, jail cell, prison bars
myStory: герой сидел в тюрьме и писал хайку от нечего делать
heisigStory: This character is used for the haiku, the 17-syllable poem that is one of Japan's best-known literary forms. Its elements: person .. . jail cell.
koohiiStory1: I pity the fool/ Who put me in this jail cell/ I pity the fool. (Credit taijuando).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハイ
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koohiiStory2: I pity the fool/ Who put me in this jail/ I pity the fool.
words: 俳優(はいゆう): actor, actress, player, performer
俳句(はいく): 17-syllable poem

keyword: отвергать, отказываться
kanji: 排
constituent: repudiate, finger, fingers, un-, jail cell, prison bars
myStory: он протянул пальцы к своей любимой через решетку камеры, но она отказалась от него и ушла
heisigStory: Fingers . . . jail cell.
koohiiStory1: When ordered to go to the jail cell, the defendant gave the judge the finger and said he repudiated all that the legal system stood for if they were going to send an innocent man like him to jail.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハイ
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koohiiStory2: He reached his fingers through the bars of his jail cell, trying to touch his beloved. But she repudiated him and left.
words: 排除(はいじょ): exclusion, removal, rejection
排水(はいすい): drainage

keyword: товарищ
kanji: 輩
constituent: comrade, un-, jail cell, prison bars, car
myStory: ты сидишь в тюремной камере, но твой товарищ по коммунистической партии пробивает стену тюрьмы машиной! проблема: твоя камера на этаж выше
heisigStory: Jail cell . . . car.
koohiiStory1: Some man jailed in Russia, is freed by his comrade (from the Communist party perhaps), who crashes into the jail cell with a vehicle.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハイ
kunYomi: ともがら、 -ばら、 やかい、 やから
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koohiiStory2: (+fuaburisu) But it´s the wrong jail cell! Your comrade is one floor above.
words: 後輩(こうはい): junior (at work or school)
先輩(せんぱい): one´s senior

keyword: передняя дверь
kanji: 扉
constituent: front door, door, one, ceiling, flag, un-, jail cell, prison bars
myStory: единственный путь из тюрьмы - отсидеть до конца срока и выйти через переднюю дверь
heisigStory: Door . . . jail cell.
koohiiStory1: The only way out of a jail cell is to serve your time and walk out the front door. There are no other doors.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: とびら
readingExamples: 扉 (とびら)
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koohiiStory2: An old man serving a very long jail sentence painted a life-like door at the back of his jail cell, hlafway open, with the blue sky, clouds, etc, as some kind of symbol of freedom. Every time the prison officers come to take him they ask him to come to the door. The old man with a grin always answers "Which door?", looking at his painted door with a grin. And the prison officer always answer, sighing - "The front door !".
words: 扉(とびら): door, opening

keyword: маркиз, лорд, даймё
kanji: 侯
constituent: marquis, person, key, dart, drop, heavens
myStory: герой получил ключ от Народного Дворца и золотую стрелу, когда стал Лордом Ралом
heisigStory: Person . . . key . . . dart. Hint: the pun suggested by the pronunciation of the key word and the primitive for key may come in helpful.
koohiiStory1: Marquis Keydartee (make-believe french name, Key+dart+T).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: (Going off various) Mr. T. is made a marquis and given the key to the city. But somebody disagrees with it and assassinates him with a dart.

keyword: горизонтальный, широта (географ.)
kanji: 緯
constituent: horizontal, thread, spiderman, locket, stick, key, mouth, monocle, sunglasses with one lens missing
myStory: спайдермэн любил рассматривать медальон горизонтально
heisigStory: Thread . . . locket.
koohiiStory1: The thread that holds the locket around my neck is choker-length so it stays horizontal.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: よこいと、ぬき
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koohiiStory2: Hint : this kanji also means "latitude", which are the horizontal lines on a globe. Do you remember James Heisig's story for frame 175 "black ink" ? Here a cartographer on a ship, is using his "thread locket" to mark horizontal lines on a map. He pulls a chalked thread from the locket, and snaps it to mark horizontal lines. Imagine the "thread-locket" in the shape of a globe, filled with dark powder and a little bobbin of thread.
words: 経緯(いきさつ): details, whole story, sequence of events, particulars, how it started, how things got this way, complications, position
緯度(いど): latitude (geography)

keyword: защита
kanji: 衛
constituent: defence, boulevard, going, locket, stick, key, mouth, monocle, sunglasses with one lens missing
myStory: для предмета "защита от темных искусств" ты идешь на магический бульвар и покупаешь зачарованный медальон
heisigStory: Boulevard . . . locket. Do not confuse with ward off (Frame 1399), protect (Frame 1072), guard (Frame 198), or safeguard (Frame 756).
koohiiStory1: [defense; protection] For "defense against the dark arts" class, you go the magical boulevard and buy an enchanted locket.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エイ、エ
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koohiiStory2: Since it was in the middle of the boulevard, everyone could see she hit the man only in self-defense, as he was trying to steal her valuable locket.
words: 衛生(えいせい): health, hygiene, sanitation, medical
護衛(ごえい): guard, convoy, escort
守衛(しゅえい): security guard, doorkeeper
防衛(ぼうえい): defense, protection, self-defense
衛星(えいせい): satellite
自衛(じえい): self-defense

keyword: Корея
kanji: 韓
constituent: korea, mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, locket, stick, key, mouth, monocle, sunglasses with one lens missing, ten2, needle2
myStory: страна туманов и медальонов - Корея
heisigStory: As with Italy (Frame 1245) and Africa (Frame 1391), this character simply abbreviates the full name of Korea. Its elements: mist . . . locket.
koohiiStory1: There´s a young Korean male actor, Yon-sama, famous amongst middle-aged Japanese women. Extremely famous. Read about his affect on Japan/Korean relations on Everything2.com. In any case, women just flipped over this guy, traveled to Korea to see his home, started taking Korean language classes, etc. So, imagine here the misty eyes of the Japanese women as they clutch their lockets with Yon-sama´s picture inside watching his Korean romantic mini series called "Winter Sonata".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: から、いげた
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koohiiStory2: This character represents the flag of South Korea: a locket (circular taegeuk) in the middle of the mist (white background). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Korea.

keyword: печень
kanji: 肝
constituent: liver, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, dry, clothesline
myStory: печень - это часть тела, которая будет очень рада, если ты будешь вести сухой (трезвенный) образ жизни
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . dry.
koohiiStory1: Well you all know that the liver is the part of the body that would be quite grateful if you led a dry lifestyle (i.e. no alcohol).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: きも
readingExamples: 肝 (きも)
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koohiiStory2: The slaughterhouse prefers to ship dried liver to the supermarkets (can you imagine boxes soaked in blood on the truck that delivers them?). Imagine them lifting the slabs of flesh and hanging them on the clothesline to dry.
words: 肝心(かんじん): essential, fundamental, crucial, vital, main

keyword: ствол дерева, главная линия (чего бы то ни было)
kanji: 幹
constituent: tree trunk, mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, umbrella, dry, clothesline, ten2, needle2
myStory: туман. дождь. народ столпился под стволом дерева, используя его как зонт для того чтобы оставаться сухими
heisigStory: Mist . . . umbrella . . . dry. The meaning of this key word extends beyond tree trunks to represent the main stem or line of anything from railway lines to managerial staffs. This should help distinguish it from the stories used earlier for book (Frame 224) and body (Frame 1030), both of which made use of the image of a tree trunk, as well as the kanji for trunk (Frame 194).
koohiiStory1: A fine mist is falling, and so everyone gathers around near the tree-trunk, effectively using the rest of the tree as an umbrella in order to keep dry.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: みき
readingExamples: 幹 (みき)
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koohiiStory2: By astridtops - In the rainy mist, Totoro is standing in front of a tree-trunk at the bus stop, under the umbrella he just received. Look at him smiling: even when the big drops fall, he remains dry! Great story...which I get to by thinking: tree-trunk->TT ->Tonari no Totoro. I also imagine Mickey Mouse is there too as the KUNyomi for this kanji is みき.
words: 幹(かん): (tree) trunk
幹線(かんせん): main line, trunk line
幹部(かんぶ): management, (executive) staff, leaders
新幹線(しんかんせん): bullet train

keyword: картофель
kanji: 芋
constituent: potato, flowers, potato
myStory: если на твоем картофеле цветут цветы, ешь его быстрее!
heisigStory: Flowers . . . potato.
koohiiStory1: If your potatos are growing flowers and those little hooked roots, you should either buy less or eat them faster.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ウ
kunYomi: いも
readingExamples: 芋 (いも)
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koohiiStory2: If your potatoes are growing flowers, you need to store them in a more dry place, like hanging them on hooks so they don´t accumulate moisture on the floor.

keyword: постепенно, понемногу
kanji: 徐
constituent: gradually, Nelson, column, going, line, scales, too much, umbrella, potato, small
myStory: солдаты весят много, поэтому переходят мост постепенно, понемногу
heisigStory: Line . . . scale.
koohiiStory1: You can´t expect weight loss to happen overnight. You should limit going to the scale to weigh yourself to once a day or once a week, in order to observe the anticipated weight loss gradually.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョ
kunYomi: おもむ.ろに
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koohiiStory2: I set up a column chart next to my scales so I could record my weight gradually changing.
words: 徐行(じょこう): going slowly
徐々(そろそろ): gradually, steadily, quietly, slowly, soon
徐々に(じょじょに): slowly, little by little, gradually, steadily, quietly

keyword: присваивать, присуждать
kanji: 叙
constituent: confer, scales, too much, umbrella, potato, small, crotch
myStory: он победил в конкурсе "Самая Тяжелая Задница". Ему был присужден приз
heisigStory: Scale . . crotch. The key word has to do with conferring ranks, titles, and awards. It should not be confused with bestow (Frame 1335) or impart (Frame 795).
koohiiStory1: Amazed at the weight of his crotch, they conferred every honor upon him. (Image: guy with his junk on a scale getting a medal pinned to his chest/around his neck/being knighted, etc.).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョ
kunYomi: つい.ず、ついで
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koohiiStory2: If there is such a thing as too much crotch, the guy who gets that much should have an honor conferred upon him.

keyword: диагональ
kanji: 斜
constituent: diagonal, scales, too much, umbrella, potato, small, mmeasuring cup, big dipper, The Plough, drop, ten, needle
myStory: мерная кружка слишком тяжелая - старые весы изгибаются по диагонали
heisigStory: Scale . . . measuring cup.
koohiiStory1: The main bar of an old-fashioned scale(balance) will be very diagonal if you place a giant measuring cup on one side.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
kunYomi: なな.め、はす
readingExamples: 斜め (なな.め)
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koohiiStory2: The constellation of libra (meaning " scales" in latin) is diagonal to the handle of the big dipper.
words: 傾斜(けいしゃ): inclination, slant, slope, bevel, list, dip
斜面(しゃめん): slope, slanting surface, bevel
斜(はす): aslant, oblique, diagonal
斜め(ななめ): obliqueness

keyword: стремнина, быстрина
kanji: 瀬
constituent: rapids, water, water droplets, water pistol, trust, bundle, Chaplin, tree, wood, mouth, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: ты никогда не можешь доверять воде в стремнинах
heisigStory: Water . . . bundle . . . head.
koohiiStory1: You need complete trust in your water guide to attempt Class 5 rapids.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ライ
kunYomi: せ
readingExamples: 瀬 (せ)
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koohiiStory2: You can never trust the water in the rapids, it will do everything it can to pull you under. Imagine a line of natives with bundles upon their heads all fighting the rapids to cross the river.
words: 瀬戸物(せともの): earthenware, crockery, china

keyword: имперский указ
kanji: 勅
constituent: imperial order, bundle, Chaplin, tree, wood, mouth, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: имперский указ - это целая связка мощи
heisigStory: In order to keep this character distinct from that for an imperial edict (Frame 366), we must draw again on a pun. Think of the order here as a mail order or an order of pizza phoned in by the Emperor for delivery to the imperial palace. Then it will not be hard to put together bundle and muscle to form a story about an imperial order.
koohiiStory1: This is an imperial order for pizza. To deliver the huge bundle of pizzas to the emperor, the pizza boy needs huge muscles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョク
kunYomi: いまし.める、みことのり
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koohiiStory2: Imperial order carries quite a bundle of executive power.

keyword: отдалять, чужой (об отношениях)
kanji: 疎
constituent: alienate, zoo, critters, stop, footprint, bundle, Chaplin, tree, wood, mouth
myStory: это настолько странное канжи, что его отдалили от остальных
heisigStory: Zoo . . . bundle. Note that the element for zoo is flattened out on the left just as leg (Frame 1372) had been. This is the only time we will meet this form in this book.
koohiiStory1: [True story] In Osaka the homeless (the alienated) live in large numbers around the city zoo. Picture them in winter all bundled up in rags trying to keep warm, alienated from the society, living literally worst than the animals in the zoo who at least are bundled in their natural furs and have pens to live in sheltered from the elements.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ、ショ
kunYomi: うと.い、うと.む、まば.ら
readingExamples: 疎い (うと.い), 疎む (うと.む)
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koohiiStory2: This kanji is so strange that it was alienated at the kanji zoo. The bundle of joy stork bundles this kanji up and takes it to a kanji foster home.
words: 疎か(おろそか): neglect, negligence, carelessness
過疎(かそ): depopulation

keyword: организовать
kanji: 整
constituent: organise, bundle, Chaplin, tree, wood, mouth, taskmaster, correct, one, ceiling, stop, footprint
myStory: в Японии ты должен организовать свертки с мусором сам и правильно, иначе надсмотрщик не примет их
heisigStory: Bundle . . . taskmaster . . . correct.
koohiiStory1: Recycling in Japan, you have to make sure all your bundles are organized correctly otherwise the taskmasters won´t accept them.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: ととの.える、ととの.う
readingExamples: 整う (ととの.う), 整える (ととの.える)
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koohiiStory2: When a bundle of taskmasters organize something chances are it won´t be done correctly because they are constantly arguing.
words: 整然(せいぜん): orderly, regular, well-organized, trim, accurate
整列(せいれつ): stand in a row, form a line
整える(ととのえる): to put in order, to get ready, to arrange, to adjust
整数(せいすう): integer
整備(せいび): adjustment, completion, consolidation
整理(せいり): sorting, arrangement, adjustment, regulation
調整(ちょうせい): regulation, adjustment, tuning
整う(ととのう): be prepared, be in order, be put in order, be arranged

keyword: меч
kanji: 剣
constituent: sabre, saber, awl, fit, meeting, umbrella, mouth, person, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: ледоруб против меча!
heisigStory: Awl . . . saber. As we promised way back in frame 87, here at last is the kanji on which the primitive element of the same name is based.
koohiiStory1: If it helps, make the awl primitive ice pick instead. They´re basically the same thing. This kanji is an easy David vs. Goliath story of the icepick vs. the saber...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: つるぎ
readingExamples: 剣 (つるぎ)
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koohiiStory2: Every self-respecting ninja knows the story of "The Awl and the Sabre". According to the legend, a woman once defended herself by using an awl against a sabre! She used to work all day with that awl. However, the bandit using the sabre had no skill. And thus the awl beat the sabre. And from there the saying goes : "The sabre is powerless against the awl, if one can´t use the sabre.".
words: 真剣(しんけん): seriousness, earnestness

keyword: осмотр (доктором)
kanji: 検
constituent: examination, tree, wood, awl, fit, meeting, umbrella, mouth, person
myStory: зверский медицинский осмотр: деревянной палкой и ледорубом
heisigStory: Tree . . . awl.
koohiiStory1: After intense cross-examination from the prosecutor, the tree confessed to murdering the wood-pecker with an awl... "He just kept at it, he kept poking at me with that beak, so I thought I'd see how HE liked it!!" The autopsy examination revealed at least a dozen puncture wounds, what a brutal case.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: しら.べる
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koohiiStory2: Don´t confuse with exam (#1278), test (#354), evaluate (#1487). Think of examination as a doctor´s examination. You´re having problems getting wood in bed. You go in for a doctor´s examination. The doctor shoves an icepick into your manhood as part of the examination.
words: 検事(けんじ): public prosecutor
探検(たんけん): exploration, expedition
点検(てんけん): inspection, examination, checking
検査(けんさ): inspection (e.g. customs, factory), examination
検討(けんとう): consideration, examination, investigation, study, scrutiny

keyword: скудный, экономичный
kanji: 倹
constituent: frugal, person, awl, fit, meeting, umbrella, mouth, person, person2
myStory: герой находится во льдах со своим ледорубом. питание тут крайне скудное
heisigStory: Person . . . awl.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is as frugal as they come. He uses his one ice pick for everything: to eat, pick his teeth, clean his toilet, kill people, cook, etc.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: つま.しい、つづまやか
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koohiiStory2: Khatzumoto needs to be frugal after spending all his money on Japanese media and none on food. His waist has shrunk and he needs a new belt, but being frugal he just punches another hole with his awl.
words: 倹約(けんやく): thrift, economy, frugality

keyword: отличная служба, заслуга (медаль за заслуги)
kanji: 勲
constituent: meritorious deed, move, heavy, thousand, ri, computer, power, muscle, arnold, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: - Прометей передвинул огонь от богов людям
 - отличная служба для пожарного - передвинуть девицу из огня
heisigStory: Move . . . oven fire. So as not to confuse this kanji with the general character for merit (Frame 1369), you may associate the key word with military decorations and medals of distinction, both of which it is used for.
koohiiStory1: A meritorious deed? Like moving a damsel in distress out of a fire, maybe.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: クン
kunYomi: いさお
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koohiiStory2: Prometheus did a meritous deed for humanity by MOVING FIRE from the gods to us humans.

keyword: сталкиваться
kanji: 衝
constituent: collide, boulevard, going, heavy, thousand, ri, computer
myStory: на бульваре два тяжелых грузовика столкнулись
heisigStory: Boulevard . . . heavy.
koohiiStory1: Two heavy trucks in a game of chicken collide while racing toward each other on the boulevard.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: つ.く
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koohiiStory2: 衝 【しょう】 (n) (1) important point (e.g. on a route); (2) important role (responsibility, etc.); (3) (astronomical) opposition. STORY:Two HEAVY trucks are playing a game of chicken on the BOULEVARD. However, they both missed the IMPORTANT POINT: that they have to turn in different directions. Naturally, they COLLIDE when they both turn in the same direction. (ty dingomick).
words: 衝撃(しょうげき): shock, crash, impact, ballistic
衝突(しょうとつ): collision, conflict

keyword: душистый, ароматный
kanji: 薫
constituent: fragrant, flowers, heavy, thousand, ri, computer, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: тяжелые, наполненные соком цветы дают более насыщенный аромат, когда их сжигают
heisigStory: Flowers . . . heavy . . . oven fire. Do not confuse with incense (Frame 977) or perfumed (Frame 532).
koohiiStory1: Do you know how they make those FRAGRANT air fresheners? Well you take some FLOWERS, compress them with a HEAVY weight, and put them on an OVEN FIRE for a while... (cmp perfume (#493)).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: クン
kunYomi: かお.る
readingExamples: 薫る (かお.る)
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koohiiStory2: The heavier the flowers the stronger their fragrance when you burn them.

keyword: глупый
kanji: 痴
constituent: stupid, sickness, hospital, know, dart, drop, heavens, mouth
myStory: конечно, пещерный человек ничего не знает, поэтому он глупый!
heisigStory: Know . . . sickness.
koohiiStory1: Of course caveman is stupid. He doesn´t know anything. He´s a caveman!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チ
kunYomi: し.れる、おろか
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koohiiStory2: This kanji shows stupidity as a "knowledge-sickness". Everybody can be stupid at times, and it usually happens because of a lack of experience. Hence the stupidity is a "knowledge sickness".
words: 愚痴(ぐち): idle complaint, grumble

keyword: оспа
kanji: 痘
constituent: pox, sickness, hospital, beans, table, one, mouth
myStory: у пещерного человека ужасная оспа. по всему телу у него пустулы, как фасоль
heisigStory: Sickness . . . beans.
koohiiStory1: Caveman has horrible pox. They look like edamame beans oozing bight green paste.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
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koohiiStory2: Pox is a sickness which symptoms include bean-shaped bumps on the skin.

keyword: симптомы
kanji: 症
constituent: symptoms, sickness, hospital, correct, one, ceiling, stop, footprint
myStory: пещерный человек смог-таки правильно диагностировать симптомы и определить болезнь!
heisigStory: Sickness . . . correct.
koohiiStory1: Once you have all the symptoms right, you have correctly identified the sickness.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: A sickness can only be correctly diagnosed if the symptoms are identified correctly.
words: 症(しょう): illness
症状(しょうじょう): symptoms, condition

keyword: быстро
kanji: 疾
constituent: rapidly, sickness, hospital, dart, drop, heavens
myStory: если в тебя выстрелить отравленным дротиком, то болезнь разовьется быстро
heisigStory: Be sure to keep this character distinct from quick (Frame 1799) and swift (Frame 298). Picture a succession of poison darts (the sort that inflict sickness) flying out rapid-fire from a blowgun, so that "rapid-fire" can conjure up the proper image.
koohiiStory1: I picture a sick caveman, and two people rapidly blowing darts at him. One is blowing poison darts, the other is blowing antidote darts. Will the sick caveman live or die? Depends on how rapidly they fire.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シツ
kunYomi: はや.い
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koohiiStory2: If shot with a poison dart, sickness develops rapidly.

keyword: понос
kanji: 痢
constituent: diarrhea, sickness, hospital, profit, wheat, cereal, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: болезнь, которая вызывает ПРОФИТ у владельцев туалетов - диарея
heisigStory: Sickness . . . profit.
koohiiStory1: For a country full of pay-per-use public toilets, sudden diarrhea is certainly the most profitable sickness!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
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koohiiStory2: Caveman doesn´t have any skills, so he sells his diarrhea as chili to peasant wheat farmers for an amazing profit.
words: 下痢(げり): diarrhoea

keyword: эпидемия, эпидемический
kanji: 疫
constituent: epidemic, sickness, hospital, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: болезнь, которая передается через сперму, может вызвать эпидемию - СПИД
heisigStory: Sickness . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: Sickness-missiles are being engineered by bio-terrorists to spread epidemics all over the world. Imagine seeing footage of a place where those sickness-missiles are built : rows after rows of missiles, and if you look closely on each is inscribed in tiny letters the name of different sickness such as "flu", "plague", etc.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エキ、ヤク
readingExamples: 疫病 (えきびょう), 悪疫 (あくえき), 防疫 (ぼうえき)
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koohiiStory2: SICKNESS / MISSILE ** Hint: True fact about biochemical warfare: in the medieval and ancient world, SICKNESS in the form of the corpses of those who had died from some EPIDEMIC or plague were often hurled at the enemy via the crude MISSILE launchers of the time. [C].

keyword: привычка (вредная)
kanji: 癖
constituent: mannerism, sickness, hospital, ketchup, flag, mouth, spicy, stand up, vase, ten, needle
myStory: пещерный человек имеет дурную привычку мазать все кетчупом
heisigStory: Sickness . . . ketchup.
koohiiStory1: Caveman has a bad mannerism of putting ketchup on everything he eats. I guess that´s ok since raw mammoth can´t be too good...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘキ
kunYomi: くせ、くせ.に
readingExamples: 癖 (くせ)
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koohiiStory2: This mannerism is a sickness of the modern generation. It was only recently that we started putting ketchup on everything.
words: 癖(くせ): a habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice), peculiarity

keyword: убежище, приютить, прятать
kanji: 匿
constituent: hide, box, young, flowers, right, by one’s side, mouth
myStory: молодые любят прятаться в коробках - это их убежище
heisigStory: Box . . . young.
koohiiStory1: Young kids likes to hide in cardboard boxes. (Primitive: CARDBOARD BOX, especially kids playing with them.).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トク
kunYomi: かくま.う
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koohiiStory2: Note that stroke order with box primitive is as follows: first horizontal line, then enclosed element, and then a hook (it´s incorrect in 4th edition).

keyword: ремесленник
kanji: 匠
constituent: artisan, box, axe
myStory: ремесленник-кузнец складывает свежевыкованные топоры в коробку
heisigStory: Box . . . ax.
koohiiStory1: Hint: Artisan/Ax Def: An artisan is a skilled manual worker; a craftsperson. Here we see his tools represented by the artisan's ax stored in his toolbox.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
kunYomi: たくみ
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koohiiStory2: We here have the axe-man who´s an artisan at making sculptures with his axe... The only thing is, he never shows anyone, keeping all his sculptures inside a box down in the basement. He doesn´t want any attention.

keyword: шарнир
kanji: 枢
constituent: hinge, tree, wood, ward, box, sheaf
myStory: в дереве ты увидел петли и понял, что это секретная дверь! за ней ты нашел Xbox
heisigStory: Tree . . . ward.
koohiiStory1: Make sure you install the hinge the right way. If it opens treeward (= tree ward), you won't be able to get the fence open, make sure it opens houseward.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スウ、シュ
kunYomi: とぼそ、からくり
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koohiiStory2: You notice a hinge on a tree and realize there´s a secret door. You open it up to find an Xbox!!!
words: 中枢(ちゅうすう): centre, pivot, mainstay, nucleus, backbone, central figure, pillar, key man

keyword: штурм, ударять, бить
kanji: 殴
constituent: assault, ward, box, sheaf, missile, cruise missile, wind, crotch
myStory: увидел сперму на своем Xbox и пошел бить старшего брата
heisigStory: Ward . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: The biggest assault on Japan during WW2 is when the wards in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wiped out by nuclear missiles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ
kunYomi: なぐ.る
readingExamples: 殴る (なぐ.る)
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koohiiStory2: In this hospital ward, the personnel is assaulted by missiles. Think of a ward where crazy old people assault the personnel because they don´t like the food, they don´t want to take their medicines, they want to go home, etc. The patients use whatever they can get their hands on as missiles.
words: 殴る(なぐる): to strike, to hit

keyword: сдерживать, подавлять
kanji: 抑
constituent: repress, finger, fingers, stamp album, box, stamps
myStory: подавление диссидентов: отрезаешь членам их семей пальцы, кладешь в маленькие коробочки и шлешь по почте. с штемпелем, разумеется
heisigStory: Fingers . . . box . . . stamps.
koohiiStory1: They would repress dissents by cutting off their fingers and mailing them to relatives in small boxes (of course including stamps for proper postage).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨク
kunYomi: おさ.える
readingExamples: 抑える (おさ.える)
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koohiiStory2: A true stamp collecting nerd won´t be able to repress the urge to get his fingers on the latest box of collector stamps!
words: 抑圧(よくあつ): check, restraint, oppression, suppression
抑制(よくせい): suppression

keyword: лицевой стороной вверх, почтительно смотреть на, уважать
kanji: 仰
constituent: face up, person, stamp album, box, stamps
myStory: на героя почтительно смотрели, когда он пришел на почту отправить коробку
heisigStory: This character is used both for lying on one's back faceup, and for looking up to someone with respect and awe. Its elements: person . . . box . . . stamps.
koohiiStory1: Mr T with the post package at the post office: ´these stamps don´t stick to the box, foo´ Postguy:´ Try it again but this time with the stamp, face-up.´.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギョウ、コウ
kunYomi: あお.ぐ、おお.せ、お.っしゃる、おっしゃ.る
readingExamples: 仰視 (ぎょうし), 仰天 (ぎょうてん), 仰角 (ぎょうかく), 仰ぐ (あお.ぐ), 仰せ (おお.せ)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T, his "acting career" in its twilight, must now FACE-UP to the fact that his mug will never appear on a BOX of cereal or on a STAMP.
words: 仰ぐ(あおぐ): to look up (to), to respect, to depend on, to ask for, to seek, to revere, to drink, to take
仰っしゃる(おっしゃる): to say, to speak, to tell, to talk
信仰(しんこう): (religious) faith, belief, creed

keyword: ясность, прозрачность (о воздухе, воде)
kanji: 澄
constituent: lucidity, water, water droplets, water pistol, ascend, teepee, wigwam, beans, table, one, mouth
myStory: чем выше поднимаешься в толще воды, чем прозрачнее и яснее она становится
heisigStory: Water . . . ascend.
koohiiStory1: Scuba divers know that when you ascend in the water, your lucidity increases (For non-divers, the deeper you go, the more you become mentally impaired by nitrogen narcosis, every 50 feet is like drinking one martini). Scuba divers also know that as you ascend in the water, the lucidity of the water improves, too.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: す.む、す.ます、-す.ます
readingExamples: 澄ます (す.ます), 澄む (す.む)
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koohiiStory2: A few drops of acid/peyote and the Indians obtain lucidity on their vision quest, as if they were floating in the lucid sky.
words: 澄ます(すます): to clear, to make clear, to be unruffled, to look unconcerned, to look demure, look prim, put on airs
澄む(すむ): to clear (e.g. weather), to become transparent

keyword: упразднять, отменять
kanji: 廃
constituent: abolish, cave, dicharge, teepee, wigwam, two, human legs
myStory: рабы были выпущены из пещеры, когда упразднили рабство
heisigStory: Cave . . . discharge.
koohiiStory1: Slaves have been discharged from the caves where they were kept thanks to the abolition of slavery.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハイ
kunYomi: すた.れる、すた.る
readingExamples: 廃る (すた.る), 廃れる (すた.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Guns were abolished, so gun enthusiats left for the hills to discharge their guns in caves.
words: 荒廃(こうはい): ruin
廃れる(すたれる): to go out of use, to become obsolete, to die out, to go out of fashion
廃棄(はいき): annullment, disposal, abandon, scrap, discarding, repeal
廃止(はいし): abolition, repeal

keyword: коллега
kanji: 僚
constituent: colleague, person, pup tent, large, St. Bernard, sun, day, small, little
myStory: (герой + палатка)
коллега по работе помогает герою поставить палатку
heisigStory: Person . . . pup tent. Choose some connotation of the key word that will keep it distinct for you from companion (Frame 19), friend (Frame 760), consort (Frame 1287), and comrade (Frame 1765).
koohiiStory1: A colleague implies someone that you share work with, such as in your company or profession, etc. Here your colleague helps you to erect your pup tent during a company outing. Note: Heisig's warning to keep this distinct from other similiar kanji such as companion (#19), friend (#704), consort (#1203) and comrade (#1637). That is why I chose to have the person element pictured as someone (the colleague in this case) helping with the work of building the pup tent.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T began working in a japanese compagny. As he sees that his colleague accept to do some extra work during the week-end and even sleep at the office, he says to them: "I pity da fool who work during week-end! You might as well install a pup tent in the office and forget about your home".
words: 官僚(かんりょう): bureaucrat, bureaucracy
同僚(どうりょう): coworker, colleague, associate

keyword: общежитие
kanji: 寮
constituent: dormitory, house, pup tent, large, St. Bernard, sun, day, small, little
myStory: общежитие - это что-то между палаткой и своим домом
heisigStory: House . . . pup tent.
koohiiStory1: A dormitory is right in the middle between living in a house and living in a pup tent.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ
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koohiiStory2: This guy would rather use his pup-tent as a house, than sleep in the dormitory. So he effectively turned that pup-tent into a house by getting a postal address for it etc. (just to emphasize house).
words: 寮(りょう): hostel, dormitory

keyword: вырезать (по дереву)
kanji: 彫
constituent: carve, circumference, running track, glass hood, earthenware jar, lidded crock, soil, dirt, ground, mouth, shape
myStory: все начинали вырезать по дереву с формы круга
heisigStory: The two primitives here, circumference and shape, belong naturally to the special connotations that differentiate carving from engraving (see frame 1639).
koohiiStory1: A lathe is used to carve a shape with circumference into wood or metal.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: ほ.る、-ぼ.り
readingExamples: 彫る (ほ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Start with a circumference and carve away until you get the shape you want.
words: 彫刻(ちょうこく): carving, engraving, sculpture
彫る(ほる): carve, engrave, sculpture, chisel

keyword: тень, силуэт
kanji: 影
constituent: shadow, scenery, sun, day, capital, tall, top hat, mouth, small, little, shape
myStory: потрясающий пейзаж... только какая-то странная форма сбоку... это что, силуэт гризли?!
heisigStory: Scenery . . . shape.
koohiiStory1: The sun over the capital cast a shadow with the same shape.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エイ
kunYomi: かげ
readingExamples: 影 (かげ)
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koohiiStory2: You're out hiking looking at the SCENERY, suddenly out of the corner of your vision you see a large SHADOW's indistinct SHAPE... could it be a grizzly? (cmp shade (#1592)).
words: 影響(えいきょう): influence, effect
影(かげ): shade, shadow, other side
撮影(さつえい): photographing

keyword: кедр
kanji: 杉
constituent: cedar, tree, wood, shape
myStory: дерево, которое сохраняет свою форму - кедр
heisigStory: Tree . . . shape.
koohiiStory1: Cedar is an evergreen tree that keeps its SHAPE all year long. That is, it doesn´t loose its needles/leaves in the winter.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン
kunYomi: すぎ
readingExamples: 杉 (すぎ)
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koohiiStory2: Cedar is a wood that keeps its shape. (This is true, it's rot resistant.).
words: 杉(すぎ): Japanese cedar

keyword: раскрашивать
kanji: 彩
constituent: coloring, claw, vulture, grab, tree, wood, shape
myStory: когда ты ухватил форму рисунка в своем сознании, можешь раскрашивать
heisigStory: Vulture . . . tree . . . shape.
koohiiStory1: In Sydney we occasionally get exotic birds. You first notice a colouring in a tree. You look more carefully and you make out the shape of a bird (here represented by its claws).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: いろど.る
readingExamples: 彩る (いろど.る)
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koohiiStory2: When coloring something in you grab the crayon of choice to fill in the shapes.
words: 色彩(しきさい): colour, hue, tints

keyword: явный, открыто выраженный
kanji: 彰
constituent: patent, badge, vase, stand up, sunflower, early, sun, day, ten, needle, shape
myStory: форма значка шерифа явно показывает, кто есть кто тут
heisigStory: Badge . . . shape. The key word is synonymous with "clear" or "openly expressed."
koohiiStory1: The shape of a sheriff´s badge makes it patent who he is.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ
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koohiiStory2: It was patently absurd when the fellow tried to arrest me--his badge was the wrong shape: a vase and a sunflower? Come now.

keyword: парень
kanji: 彦
constituent: lad, vase, stand up, cliff, shape
myStory: парень стоит на вершине скалы, смотрит в будущее и размышляет на формой этого своего будущего
heisigStory: Vase . . . cliff . . . shape.
koohiiStory1: A lad standing on the top of a cliff, looking into the far, and thinking how to shape his future.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン
kunYomi: ひこ
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koohiiStory2: A young lad is standing atop a cliff, looking at the writhing shape of his fallen lass below.

keyword: должен (сделать)
kanji: 須
constituent: ought, shape, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: я должен изменить форму твоей головы. извини...
heisigStory: Shape . . . head. This is the only time that shape is placed to the left of its relative element, the head.
koohiiStory1: Why, I OUGHT to RESHAPE your HEAD...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ス、シュ
kunYomi: すべから.く、すべし、ひげ、まつ、もち.いる、もと.める
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koohiiStory2: Since this Kanji is exceptional, the shape ought to be on the left side. Got that into your head?

keyword: раздуваться, разбухать
kanji: 膨
constituent: swell, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, drum, samurai, beans, table, one, mouth, shape
myStory: если твое тело раздулось и похоже на форму барабана, то ты либо беременна, либо толстая!
heisigStory: Part of the body . . . drum . . . shape. Compare expand (Frame 1199).
koohiiStory1: This kanji does not mean swell as in a inflammation. There is a different kanji for that meaning (腫れる). This kanji means swell as in, a tire swelling/expanding, your income swelling/expanding, dough swelling/expanding, etc. Johnskb's story is best b/c it does not involve swelling in the sense of inflammation, just general expansion of the stomach. STORY: "If a PART OF your BODY begins to SWELL/EXPAND and resembles the SHAPE of a bass DRUM, you’re either pregnant or in desperate need of a diet.".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: ふく.らむ、ふく.れる
readingExamples: 膨らむ (ふく.らむ), 膨れる (ふく.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Which part of your body can change shape and, when it does, swells up and throbs like a drumb? Hmmm...
words: 膨れる(ふくれる): to get cross, to get sulky, to swell (out), to expand, to be inflated, to distend, to bulge
膨脹(ぼうちょう): expansion, swelling, increase, growth
膨らます(ふくらます): swell, expand, inflate, bulge
膨らむ(ふくらむ): expand, get big, become inflated
膨大(ぼうだい): huge, bulky, enormous, extensive, swelling, expansion

keyword: надломленный, печальный
kanji: 惨
constituent: wretched, Freud, state of mind, nonplussed, visit, elbow, large, St. Bernard, shape
myStory: состояние сознания, когда тебе не к кому сходить в гости - печаль
heisigStory: A state of mind . . . visit.
koohiiStory1: Whenever I have to visit the relatives... that puts me in one hell of a wretched state of mind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サン、ザン
kunYomi: みじ.め、いた.む、むご.い
readingExamples: 惨劇 (さんげき), 悲惨 (ひさん), 陰惨 (いんさん), 惨め (みじ.め)
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koohiiStory2: Data feels wretched because he has no family to visit.
words: 悲惨(ひさん): misery
惨め(みじめ): miserable

keyword: дисциплина
kanji: 修
constituent: discipline, person, stick, fred astaire, taskmaster, shape
myStory: надсмотрщик в форме быстро поднял дисциплину в герое своей палкой
heisigStory: Person . . . walking stick . . . taskmaster . . . shape.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is a harsh taskmaster who will discipline you (beat you into shape) with his walking stick.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ、シュ
kunYomi: おさ.める、おさ.まる
readingExamples: 修飾 (しゅうしょく), 修養 (しゅうよう), 改修 (かいしゅう), 修まる (おさ.まる), 修める (おさ.める)
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koohiiStory2: You may not have known it, but Mr. T is into discispline. Not just self discipline, in order to get into shape, but what he really likes is when the Task master spanks him with her walking stick. Don´t tell Mr. T I told you. I pity da fool, and da fool would be me!!!
words: 改修(かいしゅう): repair, improvement
修学(しゅうがく): learning
修行(しゅうぎょう): pursuit of knowledge, studying, learning, training, ascetic practice, discipline
修士(しゅうし): Masters degree program
修飾(しゅうしょく): ornamentation, embellishment, decoration, adornment, polish up (writing), modification (gram)
修了(しゅうりょう): completion (of a course)
専修(せんしゅう): specialization
必修(ひっしゅう): required (subject)
研修(けんしゅう): training
修正(しゅうせい): amendment, correction, revision
修繕(しゅうぜん): repair, mending
修理(しゅうり): repairing, mending

keyword: осмотр (медицинский)
kanji: 診
constituent: check up, say, words, keitai, mouth, parasol, umbrella, shape
myStory: доктор на последнем медицинском осмотре рекомендовал начинать носить зонтик от солнца. рак кожи - такое дело
heisigStory: Words . . . umbrella . . . shape. The key word refers to a medical examination.
koohiiStory1: At my last check-up, the doctor said to me: "Start carrying a parasol, or you might get skin cancer. You've been tanning too much!" [Umbrella over shape = parasol].
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: み.る
readingExamples: 診る (み.る)
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koohiiStory2: The doctor at my checkup was expressing words of concern about my umbrella shaped gut.
words: 診療(しんりょう): medical examination and treatment, diagnosis
聴診器(ちょうしんき): stethoscope
診察(しんさつ): medical examination
診断(しんだん): diagnosis
診る(みる): (medicine) examine

keyword: фамильный герб
kanji: 紋
constituent: family crest, thread, spiderman, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly
myStory: шотландцы вышивают нитями свой фамильный герб на пледах
heisigStory: Thread . . . plaid.
koohiiStory1: The Scottish weave their family crests with thread on plaid fabric.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モン
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koohiiStory2: A family crest sown on to a garment with thread sometimes has a Latin sentence as a motto.

keyword: комар
kanji: 蚊
constituent: mosquito, insect, sentence, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly
myStory: - комар знает только одно предложение: бзззз
 - комары очень любят шотландцев на килтах: самые вкусные места легкодоступны
heisigStory: Insect . . . plaid.
koohiiStory1: The mosquito (an insect) knows only one sentence: Bzzzzz.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ブン
kunYomi: か
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koohiiStory2: Mosquitoes are the insect who love Scots in plaid kilts because it makes for easy access to the best parts.
words: 蚊(か): mosquito

keyword: выверенный, отрегулированный
kanji: 斉
constituent: adjusted, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly, two, fenceposts, cabers
myStory: шотландский вратарь отрегулировал себя, точнее, две штуки между своих ног
heisigStory: Plaid . . . fenceposts . . . two. Do not confuse with just so (Frame 414).
koohiiStory1: The Scotsman goalkeeper adjusted himself. He reached down and adjusted the two things between his skinny fencepost legs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ、サイ
kunYomi: そろ.う、ひと.しい、ひと.しく、あたる、はやい
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koohiiStory2: HINT: this kanji as a primitive can mean goalkeeper. The "fence posts" are goalposts, and the two goalkeepers wear plaid uniforms (this kanji also means uniform as in even), making them uniform with each other and distinguishing them as goalkeepers from the rest of the team.
words: 一斉(いっせい): simultaneous

keyword: доза
kanji: 剤
constituent: dose, adjust, adjusted, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly, two, fenceposts, cabers, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: если доза из аптеки слишком большая, я мечом регулирую ее
heisigStory: Adjust . . . saber. Think of this as a dose of medicine.
koohiiStory1: When my medicine dose is way too large, I adjust it by cutting it into smaller pieces with my saber.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ザイ、スイ、セイ
kunYomi: かる、けず.る
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koohiiStory2: We had to adjust his dose slightly, after he went on a rampage with a sabre.
words: 洗剤(せんざい): detergent, washing material

keyword: очищение (религ.)
kanji: 斎
constituent: purification, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly, fenceposts, cabers, altar, show, two, small
myStory: люди молятся (говорят предложения) у алтаря, надеясь на очищение
heisigStory: Plaid . . . fenceposts . . . altar. This is a "religious" purification, which distinguishes it from the simple kanji for pure (Frame 1659).
koohiiStory1: Purification? I think of Japanese during new year's eve praying(saying sentences) in front of Itsukushima's shrine torii(fenceposts) and its altar. They expect to enter the new year totally purified.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: とき、つつし.む、ものいみ、い.む、いわ.う、いつ.く
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koohiiStory2: Kind of vulgar, but here the SCOTSMAN got tired of adjusting himself so decided try PURIFICATION. Sadly, he did it by straddling the ALTAR with his skinny LEGS.
words: 書斎(しょさい): study

keyword: торжественный, серьезный, официальный
kanji: 粛
constituent: solemn, rake, fenceposts, cabers, rice
myStory: монахи остаются серьезными, выметая граблями рис на забор
heisigStory: Rake . . . rice . . . fenceposts. Take special care to draw this character in the same order as the primitive. Note too, that the fourth stroke for rice is already taken care of by the fourth stroke of rake.
koohiiStory1: Even though it´s a maddening task, the monks stay solemn as they rake rice between the fenceposts.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュク、スク
kunYomi: つつし.む
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koohiiStory2: Note: This is not sieve as it has a full rice and not rice grains and the hook is missing from rake. Also the given stroke order is incorrect (fenceposts should come last).

keyword: база (бейсбольная)
kanji: 塁
constituent: bases, rice field, brains, sparkler, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: (поле + бенгальский огонь + земля)
играем в бейсбол на рисовом поле, бенгальские огни в земле для обозначения баз
heisigStory: The kanji of this frame refers to the four bases that are placed at the corners of a baseball infield. The elements: field . . . sparkler . . . ground.
koohiiStory1: Playing baseball in a rice field with sparklers stuck into the ground to act as bases.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ルイ、ライ、スイ
kunYomi: とりで
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koohiiStory2: The traditional New Year´s baseball game in Japan is held at midnight in a rice field. They stick sparklers in the ground for the bases so they can be seen, and to be more festive.

keyword: соотношение, коэффицент
kanji: 率
constituent: ratio, mysterious, question mark, top hat, cocoon, sparkler, ten, needle
myStory: Гэндальф настолько любил фейерверки, что соотношение их в его вещах к остальной поклаже было 10 к 1
heisigStory: Mysterious . . . sparkler . . . ten. Do not confuse with proportion (Frame 1673).
koohiiStory1: It´s quite mysterious how each sparkler gives of sparkles at a precise ratio of ten to one. Physicists have been studying this effect for decades, known as the Sparkler Effect, and using it to explain why stars look like sparklers in the night sky.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソツ、リツ、シュツ
kunYomi: ひき.いる
readingExamples: 率先 (そっせん), 引率 (いんそつ), 軽率 (けいそつ), 率いる (ひき.いる)
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koohiiStory2: It's mysterious how there's always a ratio of ten sparklers to one package.
words: 軽率(けいそつ): rash, thoughtless, careless, hasty
効率(こうりつ): efficiency
率直(そっちょく): frankness, candour, openheartedness
統率(とうそつ): command, lead, generalship, leadership
倍率(ばいりつ): diameter, magnification
率いる(ひきいる): to lead, to spearhead (a group), to command (troops)
比率(ひりつ): ratio, proportion, percentage
確率(かくりつ): probability
能率(のうりつ): efficiency
率(りつ): rate, ratio, proportion, percentage

keyword: вяжущий (вкус)
kanji: 渋
constituent: astringent, water, water droplets, water pistol, stop, footprint, sparkler
myStory: вода поможет остановить вкус бенгальских огней на языке
heisigStory: Water . . . footprint . . . sparkler.
koohiiStory1: I think that Heisig meant this as the "slightly bitter but fresh" meaning that it can have to describe foods like lemons (しぶい). So imagine a guy trying a cocktail (water), feeling like he´s been kicked in the face (footprint) and sparks are flying from his tongue. ´How did it taste?´. ´Hmm, yes, slightly bitter, but fresh".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ、シュウ
kunYomi: しぶ、しぶ.い、しぶ.る
readingExamples: 渋 (しぶ), 渋い (しぶ.い), 渋る (しぶ.る)
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koohiiStory2: If you eat something astringent water will stop the sparkly sensation in your mouth.
words: 渋い(しぶい): tasteful (clothing), "cool", an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, sullen, bitter (taste), grim, quiet, sober, stingy
渋滞(じゅうたい): congestion (e.g. traffic), delay, stagnation

keyword: заместительный
kanji: 摂
constituent: vicarious, finger, fingers, ear, sparkler
myStory: если ты будешь неосторожен с бенгальскими огнями, тебе придется искать что-то заместительное для уха и пальцев
heisigStory: Fingers . . . ear . . . sparkler. Do not confuse with substitute (Frame 1080).
koohiiStory1: Now that I´m a responsible adult, I have to get my vicarious thrills from watching stupid people put sparklers up to their ears and burn their fingers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セツ、ショウ
kunYomi: おさ.める、かね.る、と.る
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koohiiStory2: I put my fingers in my ears to avoid going deaf while getting a vicarious thrill from watching kids light off sparklers and fireworks on Chinese New Year.

keyword: помилование, прощение
kanji: 赦
constituent: pardon, red, taskmaster
myStory: ты уже красный от собственной крови, и умоляешь надсмотрщика о помиловании
heisigStory: Red . . . taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: The student blushed until his face was red, so the schoolmaster decided to pardon him.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャ
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koohiiStory2: There aren´t many pardons given by the Red taskmasters in China. 80% of the world´s death penalties are performed there...　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　シャ　赦免　しゃめん(pardon).

keyword: варвар
kanji: 蛮
constituent: barbarian, apple, insect
myStory: варвары едят яблоки даже с насекомыми-червяками внутри
heisigStory: Apple . . . insects.
koohiiStory1: The barbarian picks an apple from above and eats it even though there is a worm (insect) in it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バン
kunYomi: えびす
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koohiiStory2: Barbarians eat apples with worms still in them.

keyword: схватывать, хвататься
kanji: 把
constituent: grasp, finger, fingers, mosaic
myStory: японские законы требуют замещать мозаикой то, что порноактриса схватила пальцами
heisigStory: Fingers . . . mosaic.
koohiiStory1: Japanese censorship laws require pornos to use a mosaic screen, so you can´t see what the porno chick is grasping with her fingers (but you can assume, neetch).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハ、ワ
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koohiiStory2: Your fingers grasp the Rubic´s cube... if only your brain could too.
words: 把握(はあく): grasp, catch, understanding

keyword: глянцевый, блестящий
kanji: 艶
constituent: glossy, bountiful, bend, beans, table, one, mouth, colour, color, bound up, mosaic
myStory: чтобы передать обильный, насыщенный цвет, нужно использовать глянцевую бумагу
heisigStory: Bountiful . . . color.
koohiiStory1: To print something with bountiful colour, they use glossy paper.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: つや、なま.めかしい、あで.やか、つや.めく、なま.めく
readingExamples: 艶 (つや)
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koohiiStory2: Glossy prints bring out bountiful colors more so than matte...　　　　　RTK2:　エン　艶聞　えんぶん(love affair).
words: 艶(えん): charming, fascinating, voluptuous
艶(つや): gloss, glaze

keyword: удобрение, потолстеть
kanji: 肥
constituent: fertilizer, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, mosaic
myStory: если ты болен, часть твоего тела будет продуцировать удобрение в форме затейливой мозаики
heisigStory: Flesh . . . mosaic.
koohiiStory1: PART OF YOUR BODY excretes something that is commonly used for FERTILIZER. Sometimes this process is slow, so you solve a RUBIK´S CUBE while you sit and wait.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: こ.える、こえ、こ.やす、こ.やし、ふと.る
readingExamples: 肥える (こ.える), 肥やし (こ.やし), 肥やす (こ.やす), 肥 (こえ)
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koohiiStory2: If you´re sick, a part of your body may produce fertilizer that makes a colorful mosaic.
words: 肥料(ひりょう): manure, fertilizer

keyword: темно-синий
kanji: 紺
constituent: navy blue, thread, spiderman, sweet, wicker basket, picnic basket
myStory: спайдермэн нашел, что сладость школьниц скрывается под темно-синими юбочками
heisigStory: Thread . . . wicker basket.
koohiiStory1: Thanks raulir - As many Japanese perverts know, navy blue threads conceal school girl sweetness underneath.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
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koohiiStory2: Much like Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Spiderman failed to heed Willy Wonka´s warnings, and upon chewing on the 3 course meal chewing gum turned a very navy shade of navy blue.
words: 紺(こん): navy blue, deep blue

keyword: такой-то, имярек
kanji: 某
constituent: so-and-so, sweet, wicker basket, picnic basket, tree, wood
myStory: две девушки сидят с корзинкой сладких печенек на вершине дерева и обсуждают Имярька
heisigStory: The key word here refers to the adjective for an unspecified person or thing. Its elements: wicker basket . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: I had the same idea as fuabrisu. A generic person is described here as having body sort of like a tree trunk and head sort of like a wicker basket.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ
kunYomi: それがし、なにがし
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koohiiStory2: Two girls with a lollipop in a tree gossiping´ so-and so did this.´ ´really? so-and what did she do´ ´ o she is sooo wrong..´.

keyword: сговариваться, тайно замышлять
kanji: 謀
constituent: conspire, say, words, keitai, mouth, so-and-so, sweet, wicker basket, picnic basket, tree, wood
myStory: переговариваются об Имярьке... сговариваются у него за спиной, значит...
heisigStory: Words . . . so-and-so.
koohiiStory1: I imagine a clique of catty girls conspiring against a another girl...they are exchanging lots of words, chatting about how so-and-so girl is now up to such-and-such (gasp!), and how they will spread the word about it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ、ム
kunYomi: はか.る、たばか.る、はかりごと
readingExamples: 謀略 (ぼうりゃく), 無謀 (むぼう), 首謀者 (しゅぼうしゃ), 謀る (はか.る)
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koohiiStory2: You might hear the words of someone conspiring... "If you do so-and-so...".

keyword: медиатор, посредник
kanji: 媒
constituent: mediator, woman, so-and-so, sweet, wicker basket, picnic basket, tree, wood
myStory: женщина неплохо выступает медиатором между мной и Имярьком
heisigStory: Woman . . . so-and-so.
koohiiStory1: The woman 女 hoped her friend would act as mediator to set her up with the guy she liked. She didn't mention his name, just referred to him as "A certain unnamed person -- I'll call him 'Mr. So-and-So 某' ...."
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
kunYomi: なこうど
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koohiiStory2: The two little gossiping girls with their lollipops are having a fight. Now an adult woman (mom or teacher) has to come between them an serve as a mediator.

keyword: обман
kanji: 欺
constituent: deceit, bushel basket, hamper, animal legs, eight, lack, yawn
myStory: (плетеная корзина + зевать)
он сбежал, используя обман. страж зевал, а он спрятался под плетеной корзиной
heisigStory: Bushel basket . . . yawn.
koohiiStory1: He escaped using deceit. That is, he ran past while the guard was yawning and hid in the bushel basket.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ
kunYomi: あざむ.く
readingExamples: 欺く (あざむ.く)
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koohiiStory2: Every day, a smuggler takes bushel baskets on donkeys across the border. But the border patrols can never arrest him for lack of evidence no matter how much they search the bushel baskets: they can´t find whatever he is smuggling. What was his deceit? He was smuggling donkeys!
words: 欺く(あざむく): to deceive
詐欺(さぎ): fraud, swindle

keyword: шахматная фигура
kanji: 棋
constituent: chess piece, tree, wood, bushel basket, hamper, animal legs, eight
myStory: деревянные фигурки шахмат кидают в плетеную корзину, чтобы отсортировать позднее
heisigStory: Tree . . . bushel basket.
koohiiStory1: Tree + Bushel Bucket: Chess pieces carved from trees were tossed into a bushel bucket for sorting into sets.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: ご
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koohiiStory2: Ever seen those huge chess games in parks? The large wooden chess pieces need to be carted in a shopping trolley.
words: 将棋(しょうぎ): Japanese chess

keyword: национальный флаг
kanji: 旗
constituent: national flag, banner, compass, direction reclining, lying down, bushel basket, hamper, animal legs, eight
myStory: национальный флаг-баннер страны, гордящейся производством корзинок
heisigStory: Banner . . . bushel basket.
koohiiStory1: The national flag of Croatia. It's a banner with the Croatian coat of arms, commonly referred to as the Chessboard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Croatia).
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: はた
readingExamples: 旗 (はた)
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koohiiStory2: The national flag is the banner of a country; stored in a whicker basket at night and taken out to the flagpole in the morning.
words: 旗(はた): flag

keyword: Го (игра)
kanji: 碁
constituent: go, bushel basket, hamper, animal legs, eight, stone, rock
myStory: корзинка с камнями для игры в го
heisigStory: Bushel basket . . . stones. The key word refers to the Japanese game played with black and white colored stones on a lined board.
koohiiStory1: Go is chess played with stones.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴ
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koohiiStory2: The ignorant gaijin put a rook on top of his opponent´s stone when playing Go, much to the consternation of the Japanese players.
words: 碁盤(ごばん): Go board
碁(ご): go (board game)

keyword: основы, счетчик основ
kanji: 基
constituent: fundamentals, bushel basket, hamper, animal legs, eight, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: корзина, стоящая на земле. это база, основа нашей новой деревни
heisigStory: Bushel basket . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: Fundamentals of chess: use the rooks to protect your ground.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: もと、もとい
readingExamples: 基 (もと), 基 (もとい)
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koohiiStory2: A Bushel-basket full of earth contains the fundementals of farming. i.e. earth.
words: 基金(ききん): fund, foundation
基準(きじゅん): standard, basis, criteria, norm
基(もとい): basis
基礎(きそ): foundation, basis
基地(きち): base
基盤(きばん): foundation, basis
基本(きほん): foundation, basis, standard
基(もと): basis
基づく(もとづく): be grounded on, be based on, be due to, originate from

keyword: чрезвычайно, очень
kanji: 甚
constituent: tremendously, bushel basket, hamper, equal, human legs
myStory: эта корзина чрезвычайно тяжелая. ее вес равен тонне
heisigStory: Bushel basket . . . equal. Note how the first stroke of equal doubles up with the sixth stroke of the bushel basket, and how the animal legs of the bushel basket are dropped to make room for the human legs of equal.
koohiiStory1: It´s a tremendous match between the two chess-players. They are clearly eachother´s equal.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジン
kunYomi: はなは.だ、はなは.だしい
readingExamples: 甚だ (はなは.だ), 甚だしい (はなは.だしい)
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koohiiStory2: These two bushel baskets are tremendously huge. But not only they are huge, they are also perfectly equal in size.
words: 甚だ(はなはだ): very, greatly, exceedingly
甚だしい(はなはだしい): extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous

keyword: интуиция
kanji: 勘
constituent: intuition, tremendously, bushel basket, hamper, equal, human legs, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: у него была чрезвычайно сильная интуиция
heisigStory: Tremendously . . . muscle.
koohiiStory1: Intuition is a tremendously powerful resource of the mind.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
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koohiiStory2: Using Zareon´s story for the previous frame "tremendously"... The two chessplayers who are eachother´s equals are so good at chess that they don´t have to even move a muscle. Their brain power does it for them. Furthermore, they don´t even have to think, really. Their intuition takes control. This is: extreme chess.
words: 勘弁(かんべん): pardon, forgiveness, forbearance
勘(かん): perception, intuition
勘定(かんじょう): calculation, settlement of an account, allowance
勘違い(かんちがい): misunderstanding, wrong guess

keyword: выдерживать, выстоять
kanji: 堪
constituent: withstand, soil, dirt, ground, tremendously, bushel basket, hamper, equal, human legs
myStory: эта земля чрезвычайно ценна для нас. мы выстоим!
heisigStory: Soil . . . tremendously.
koohiiStory1: Because I hid myself behind a huge dirt barrier I dug, I was able to withstand the tremendous nuclear blast.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン、タン
kunYomi: た.える、たま.る、こ.らえる、こた.える
readingExamples: 堪える (た.える)
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koohiiStory2: Plain old soil can withstand tremendous amounts of pressure.
words: 堪える(こたえる): to bear, to stand, to endure, to put up with, to support, to withstand, to resist, to brave, to be fit for, to be equal to
堪える(こらえる): to bear, to stand, to endure, to put up with, to support, to withstand, to resist, to brave, to be fit for, to be equal to
堪える(たえる): to bear, to stand, to endure, to put up with, to support, to withstand, to resist, to brave, to be fit for, to be equal to
堪らない(たまらない): intolerable, unbearable, unendurable

keyword: ценный, драгоценный
kanji: 貴
constituent: precious, Takanohana, purse, in, one, floor, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: (кошелек + деньги)
в твоем кошельке очень ценные вещи: деньги
heisigStory: Purse . . . shells.
koohiiStory1: Inside your purse is all of your money and your keys (き) etc. All of your precious valuables.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: たっと.い、とうと.い、たっと.ぶ、とうと.ぶ
readingExamples: 貴い (たっと.い), 貴ぶ (たっと.ぶ), 貴い (とうと.い), 貴ぶ (とうと.ぶ)
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koohiiStory2: Frodo kept the precious in the purse but did a switch with some worthless shells when he went to sleep. Heres gollum opening the purse "ahhh my preciousssssss.....why you m***** *****!!!!!.
words: 貴女(あなた): you, lady
貴族(きぞく): noble, aristocrat
貴い(たっとい): precious, valuable, priceless, noble, exalted, sacred
貴重(きちょう): precious, valuable

keyword: завещать, оставлять после себя
kanji: 遺
constituent: bequeath, precious, Takanohana, purse, in, one, floor, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, road
myStory: Бильбо завещал ДРАГОЦЕННОСТЬ Фродо, обрекая его на долгую дорогу к Ородруину
heisigStory: Precious . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Bequeath is an odd old word, isn´t it? Basically, it just deals with how I want my precious possessions dealt out, after I die, later down the road. "Being of sound, but antiquated, mind, I bequeath this to you!".
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ、ユイ
kunYomi: のこ.す
readingExamples: 遺棄 (いき), 遺産 (いさん), 遺失 (いしつ)
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koohiiStory2: Bilbo bequeathes the "PRECIOUS" to Frodo, who will carry it on the long ROAD to Mordor.
words: 遺跡(いせき): historic ruins (remains relics)

keyword: ничто, небытие
kanji: 無
constituent: nothingness, reclining, lying down, tub, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: хорошо лежать в горячей ванне, думая о ничто...
heisigStory: This character is the Japanese character for the supreme philosophical principle of much Oriental thought: nothingness. Make use of the oaken tub from the previous frame, and add to that the oven fire at the bottom.
koohiiStory1: When I enter the wooden tub heated by flames in the onsen, I can let all my worries slip away and be submerged into nothingness.
jouYou: 4
onYomi: ム、ブ
kunYomi: な.い
readingExamples: 無名 (むめい), 無理 (むり), 皆無 (かいむ), 無い (な.い)
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koohiiStory2: In a hot tub you can relax and have your stress vanish into nothingness.
words: 感無量(かんむりょう): deep feeling, inexpressible feeling, filled with emotion
ご無沙汰(ごぶさた): not writing or contacting for a while
台無し(だいなし): mess, spoiled, (come to) nothing
無難(ぶなん): safety, security
無礼(ぶれい): impolite, rude
無意味(むいみ): nonsense, no meaning
無口(むくち): reticence
無効(むこう): invalid, no effect, unavailable
無言(むごん): silence
無邪気(むじゃき): innocence, simple-mindedness
無線(むせん): wireless, radio
無駄遣い(むだづかい): waste money on, squander money on, flog a dead horse
無断(むだん): without permission, without notice
無知(むち): ignorance
無茶(むちゃ): absurd, unreasonable, excessive, rash, absurdity, nonsense
無茶苦茶(むちゃくちゃ): confused, jumbled, mixed up, unreasonable
無念(むねん): chagrin, regret
無能(むのう): inefficiency, incompetence
無闇に(むやみに): unreasonably, absurdly, recklessly, indiscreetly, at random
無用(むよう): useless, futility, needlessness, unnecessariness
無論(むろん): of course, naturally
有無(うむ): yes or no, existence, presence or absence marker
無し(なし): without
無沙汰(ぶさた): neglecting to stay in contact
無事(ぶじ): safety, peace, quietness
無(む): nothing, nil, zero
無限(むげん): infinite
無視(むし): disregard, ignore
無地(むじ): plain, unfigured
無数(むすう): countless number, infinite number
無駄(むだ): futility, uselessness
無料(むりょう): free, no charge
無くす(なくす): lose
無くなる(なくなる): be lost
無理(むり): compulsion

keyword: грубый
kanji: 粗
constituent: coarse, rice, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: почему эта полка такая грубая? потому что она сделана из риса
heisigStory: Rice . . . shelf.
koohiiStory1: Japanese carpenters don't use sandpaper, they use rice-paper(rice glued on to some paper). Here the carpenter is using the coarse paper to smooth out the shelf he's making.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: あら.い、あら-
readingExamples: 粗い (あら.い)
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koohiiStory2: Ugh, why does this shelf feel so coarse? Because it´s made of rice, of coarse! Get it? Of coarse?? Hahahahahahahahahah god i hate my life.
words: 粗筋(あらすじ): outline, summary
粗い(あらい): coarse, rough
粗末(そまつ): crude, rough, plain, humble

keyword: тариф
kanji: 租
constituent: tariff, wheat, cereal, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: на пшеницу в этом году такой высокий тариф, что она не появляется на полках супермаркетов
heisigStory: Wheat . . . shelf.
koohiiStory1: The EU and US impose such high tariffs on food imports that third world wheat (the most basic of staples) never reaches first world supermarket shelves.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
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koohiiStory2: According to Henshall, this kanji originally represented the harvested rice (the wheat primitive) that farmers paid as a tithe. Its meaning today would seem to be very similar. Imagine the farmer putting aside some of his harvested wheat on a shelf in order to pay the tariff to his lord.

keyword: мешать
kanji: 阻
constituent: thwart, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: низкорослость японцев мешает им снимать вещи с верхних полок
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . shelf.
koohiiStory1: Keeping porn on the pinnacle of a bookshelf can thwart snooping kids (thanks bodhisamaya).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: はば.む
readingExamples: 阻む (はば.む)
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koohiiStory2: The shortness of the Japanese thwarts their attempts to reach the topmost (pinnacle) shelf without grabbing a chair.
words: 阻止(そし): obstruction, check, hindrance, prevention, interdiction
阻む(はばむ): to keep someone from doing, to stop, to prevent, to check, to hinder, to obstruct, to oppose, to thwart

keyword: с наилучшими пожеланиями
kanji: 宜
constituent: best regards, house, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: у меня накопилось столько открыток с наилучшими пожеланиями, что мне пришлось купить новый дом, где есть только полки под это самые открытки
heisigStory: This kanji, a polite way of expressing one's best regards to another. Its elements: house . . . shelf.
koohiiStory1: It seems like every time my Japanese friends send me their best regards, they accompany them with a gift. Over time, I´ve gotten so many that I had to buy a second house which contains nothing but several fancy shelves. Each shelf is dedicated to a certain friend of mine and contains every last one of their presents.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ
kunYomi: よろ.しい、よろ.しく
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koohiiStory2: We have a shelf in our house where we put Christmas cards from people who send best regards for the holiday season...　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ギ　便宜主義　べんぎしゅぎ(opportunism).
words: 適宜(てきぎ): suitability
どうぞ宜しく(どうぞよろしく): pleased to meet you
便宜(べんぎ): convenience, accommodation, advantage, expedience
宜しく(よろしく): well, properly, suitably, best regards, please remember me
宜しい(よろしい): good

keyword: партитура
kanji: 譜
constituent: musical score, say, words, keitai, mouth, universal, row, sun, day
myStory: партитура - это один из универсальных языков
heisigStory: Words . . . universal.
koohiiStory1: Musical scores are in a universal language.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
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koohiiStory2: A musical score can be read, but not like ordinary words. Music is a universal language.
words: 楽譜(がくふ): score (music)

keyword: появляться
kanji: 顕
constituent: appear, sun, day, row, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: под солнцем в ряд сушаться головы разбойников, появившихся на моей земле незваными гостями
heisigStory: Sun . . . row . . . heads.
koohiiStory1: Somebody's head appears from behind the laundry in a row drying under the sun
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: あきらか、あらわ.れる
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koohiiStory2: Clouds were covering the sky for months now. Rows upon rows of people spent whole days with their heads turned upwards, waiting for sun to appear.
words: 顕微鏡(けんびきょう): microscope

keyword: стройный
kanji: 繊
constituent: slender, thread, spiderman, Thanksgiving, harvest festival, ten, needle, fiesta, row
myStory: в конце праздника плодородия все становятся в ряд и меряют веревкой талии друг друга. кто оказался стройнее всех - тот и выиграл награду за воздержанность
heisigStory: Thread . . . Thanksgiving . . . row.
koohiiStory1: At the end of Thanksgiving it's tradition for everyone to stand in a row and measure their waist with a strip of thread. Whoever is the most slender wins the leftovers.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
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koohiiStory2: At the time of Thanksgiving, there´s a row of all sorts of food on the table, which you mustn´t eat if you want to stay as slender as a thread.
words: 化繊(かせん): synthetic fibres
繊維(せんい): fibre, fiber, textile

keyword: духи (жители мира духов)
kanji: 霊
constituent: spirits, rain, weather, two, row
myStory: когда у тебя дождь все льет и льет, несколько дней кряду, ты начинаешь молиться духам о солнце
heisigStory: Rain . . . two . . . row. This character will refer only to the inhabitants of the "spirit world," and not to moods or temperaments, for which we will learn another character in frame 2030.
koohiiStory1: After raining for two days in a row, you plead with the SPIRITS for some relief. (Adapted from johnskb,21-5-2006).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レイ、リョウ
kunYomi: たま
readingExamples: 霊感 (れいかん), 霊魂 (れいこん), 霊長類 (れいちょうるい), 霊 (たま)
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koohiiStory2: When it rains, two worlds come together and spirits can be seen in the forest, dancing in a row.
words: 幽霊(ゆうれい): ghost, specter, apparition, phantom

keyword: пощечина
kanji: 撲
constituent: slap, finger, fingers, upside down in a row, husband
myStory: если ты не выбрал профессию - нет денег - и посмел притронуться к женщине - получишь пощечину
heisigStory: Fingers . . . upside down in a row . . . husbands.
koohiiStory1: After a row husbands take their wives upsides down over the knee and slap them with their fingers on the bottom (if that doesn´t get me banned…).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク
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koohiiStory2: Here we have badly behaving HUSBANDs, whose wives have had them hung UPSIDE DOWN IN A ROW. Each wife approaches her HUSBAND, berates him, gives him a sharp SLAP in the face and, Three-Stooges style, pokes him in the eyes with her FINGERS.
words: 相撲(すもう): sumo wrestling

keyword: Я (молодой мужчина)
kanji: 僕
constituent: me, person, upside down in a row, husband
myStory: герой выбрал профессию: "Я теперь лесной проводник!"
heisigStory: This key word is yet another synonym for "I," somewhat more familiar in tone. As a rule, it is a word that boys and men use to refer to themselves. Its elements: person . . . husbands . . . in a row upside down.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T also finds himself as one of the HUSBANDs, whose wives have had them hung UPSIDE DOWN IN A ROW. But when his wife comes up to punish him, he pleads, “It’s ME, Baby. I wasn’t behaving badly like these other foo’s.”.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボク
kunYomi: しもべ
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koohiiStory2: Building on johnskb: Although it goes against the Heisig method, this story is a lot easier to remember when you know it´s the kanji for "boku." Males usually use either "boku" or "ore" (instead of "watashi") to refer themselves. "Boku" is slightly boyish and soft; "ore" is rough & tough. Mr. T would definitely use "ore" -- but when he´s one of the husbands hung upside down in a row about to be punished by his wife, he puts on a sweet act and switches to "boku" when he pleads "come on baby, it´s ME!".
words: 僕(しもべ): manservant, servant (of God)
僕(ぼく): I (used by men with close acquaintances)

keyword: отличающийся, отличие, необычный
kanji: 異
constituent: uncommon, rice field, brains, strung together, salad, animal legs, eight
myStory: мозги хоть работают и сообща, вместе, но они все равно отличаются по образу мыслей
heisigStory: Brains . . . together.
koohiiStory1: Brains together with beauty is an uncommon combination.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: こと、こと.なる、け
readingExamples: 異 (こと)
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koohiiStory2: It´s uncommon to find a pair of together twins who are connected at the brain! When such a set does turn up, they are inevitably showcased on TV.
words: 異議(いぎ): objection, dissent, protest
異見(いけん): different opinion, objection
異性(いせい): the opposite sex
異動(いどう): a change
異論(いろん): different opinion, objection
驚異(きょうい): wonder, miracle
差異(さい): difference, disparity
異常(いじょう): strangeness, abnormality, disorder
異なる(ことなる): differ, vary, disagree

keyword: крыло
kanji: 翼
constituent: wing, feathers, wings, uncommon, rice field, brains, strung together, salad, animal legs, eight
myStory: перья только на крыльях! необычно!
heisigStory: Feathers . . . uncommon.
koohiiStory1: The thing about feathers is that they usually cover the entire bird. A creature with feathers only on its wings would be very uncommon.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨク
kunYomi: つばさ
readingExamples: 翼 (つばさ)
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koohiiStory2: WINGS without any FEATHERS would be an UNCOMMON site. Well, unless you like to eat chicken WINGS alot.
words: 翼(つばさ): wing

keyword: потоп
kanji: 洪
constituent: deluge, water, water droplets, water pistol, strung together, salad, animal legs, eight
myStory: много воды вместе - это потоп
heisigStory: Water . . . strung together.
koohiiStory1: Lots of water coming together is called a deluge.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: A real deluge of water, as if all water worked together, as if strung together haphazardly.
words: 洪水(こうずい): flood

keyword: уважение, благоговение
kanji: 恭
constituent: respect, strung together, salad, animal legs, eight, valentine
myStory: если хочешь оставаться с девушкой, ты должен выразить ей уважение через валентинку
heisigStory: Strung together . . . valentine.
koohiiStory1: If you wanna stay together you have to show your valentine respect.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: うやうや.しい
readingExamples: 恭しい (うやうや.しい)
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koohiiStory2: As I like Aretha Franklin's song "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", I cut out each of the letters from pieces of card, then string them all together and send it to her as a valentine.

keyword: колодец
kanji: 井
constituent: well
myStory: колодец. как на картинке. колодец закрыт решеткой
heisigStory: Recalling that there are no circular strokes, and that the shape of the square and the square within a square (Frame 630) have already been used, it should be relatively easy to see how this character can be consider a pictograph of a well.
koohiiStory1: I nearly died by falling in a well. Actually, on two separate occasions. I´m glad to see they´ve added these fence posts. Now the well will be much safer.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セイ、ショウ
kunYomi: い
readingExamples: 油井 (ゆい), 市井 (しせい), 井 (い)
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koohiiStory2: Have you ever seen an old fashioned japanese well? == http://cruises.about.com/od/southeastasiacruise1/ig/Osaka-Japan/Ancient-Well-at-Osaka-Castle.htm.
words: 伊井(いい): that one, Italy
天井(てんじょう): ceiling, ceiling price
井戸(いど): water well

keyword: Азия
kanji: 亜
constituent: Asia, roman two, mouth
myStory: в Азии люди используют II палочки для того, что отправлять еду в рот
heisigStory: In this kanji, the abbreviation for Asia, you should be able to see the character for mouth behind the Roman numeral II.
koohiiStory1: In Asian countries, people use II chopsticks to get things into their mouths. Just imagine someone shoving a piece of sushi into their mouths with chopsticks.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ア、アシア
kunYomi: つ.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: A mouth barred up and not aloud to speak freely is the sign of asia (korea, China, pakistan etc).
words: 亜科(あか): suborder, subfamily

keyword: подписка (на журнал), покупать
kanji: 購
constituent: subscription, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, funnel, cone, celery, again
myStory: подпишись на журнал - деньги будут улетать как в воронку
heisigStory: Shells . . . funnel. The key word is meant to suggest magazine subscriptions and the like.
koohiiStory1: Subscription is like a money funnel, because the receiving end is small (just one company) and the other end is wide (the whole country).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
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koohiiStory2: My subscription to Money magazine came with a free coin funnel.
words: 購読(こうどく): subscription (e.g. magazine)
購入(こうにゅう): purchase, buy
購買(こうばい): purchase, buy

keyword: водосточный желоб
kanji: 溝
constituent: gutter, water, water droplets, water pistol, funnel, cone, celery, again
myStory: по водосточному желобу вода убегает, как в воронку
heisigStory: Water . . . funnel.
koohiiStory1: A gutter funnels water.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: みぞ
readingExamples: 溝 (みぞ)
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koohiiStory2: A gutter takes the water that falls as rain and funnels it off to where it can be dealt with appropriately.
words: 溝(こう): 10^38, hundred undecillion (American), hundred sextillion (British)

keyword: этика, мораль
kanji: 倫
constituent: ethics, person, post-it note, meeting, scrapbook, glass canopy, hood, flowers
myStory: герой на встречу принес с собой альбом со сводом этических норм, которые он хочет воплотить в жизнь
heisigStory: Person . . . meeting . . . scrapbook.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T talks about ethics at the academic conference. "I pity the fool who gets caught plagarizing someone else´s stuff!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リン
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T has no ethics at the scrapbooking convention. He´ll do whatever it takes to beat all those ladies.

keyword: пристрастный, неравнодушный
kanji: 偏
constituent: partial, person, fishfinger, door, one, ceiling, flag, scrapbook, glass canopy, hood, flowers
myStory: герой был очень неравнодушен к своему списку этических норм в альбоме, поэтому, когда их отвергли, обиделся и хлопнул дверью
heisigStory: Person . . . door . . . scrapbook. The sense of the key-word is that of having a bias or preference for someone or something.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T is partial to konbini hentai. He reads them for hours every day after work at his local konbini. (Primitive: KONBINI HENTAI, all the magazines(scrapbooks) by every konbini door in Japan).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘン
kunYomi: かたよ.る
readingExamples: 偏る (かたよ.る)
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koohiiStory2: Mr. T is very partial to hentai comic books. I know because he dropped a pile of them when I accidentally bumped into him at the door to kinokuniya!
words: 偏る(かたよる): to be one-sided, to incline, to be partial, to be prejudiced, to lean, to be biased
偏(へん): side, left radical of a character, inclining, inclining toward, biased
偏見(へんけん): prejudice, narrow view

keyword: везде
kanji: 遍
constituent: everywhere, fishfinger, door, one, ceiling, flag, scrapbook, glass canopy, hood, flowers, road
myStory: в Японии, на любой улице, в какую бы дверь магазина ты не зашел - везде будет манга
heisigStory: Door . . . scrapbook . . . a road.
koohiiStory1: Go down the road in Japan and you will find comics EVERYWHERE, newpaper stands, 7-11, Tsutaya, even the supermarket. Comics are everywhere here along the road.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヘン
kunYomi: あまね.く
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koohiiStory2: Go down any road in Japan and you´ll find konbini hentai everywhere.
words: 普遍(ふへん): universality, ubiquity, omnipresence

keyword: код, кодекс
kanji: 典
constituent: code, bend, tool
myStory: кодекс (как свод правил) используется как инструмент сгибания воли людей
heisigStory: We introduce this character here because of its connection to the book-related kanji treated above. It is based on the character for bend (frame 1256), whose last stroke is lengthened to coincide with the first stroke of the element for tool.
koohiiStory1: Coding is a tool which you can use to bend the computer to your will.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テン、デン
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koohiiStory2: Think "codex" (mnemonic help) or "code of laws", or even Leonardo Da Vinci´s code. Here I see a codex as a tool used to bend the masses into submission. Picture a huge codex book lifted down on crowds to bend them down in submission. Another: if you bend to the code without asking questions, you are a tool!
words: 原典(げんてん): original (text)
百科事典(ひゃっかじてん): encyclopedia
百科辞典(ひゃっかじてん): encyclopedia
古典(こてん): old book, classic, classics
典型(てんけい): type, pattern, archetypal
辞典(じてん): dictionary

keyword: фамильное имя
kanji: 氏
constituent: family name, drop, fishhook, fishhook2
myStory: Ft => Family title => Family name
heisigStory: Pay close attention to the stroke order of the elements when learning to write this character. The elements: a long drop . . . fishhook . . . a one . . . fishhook.
koohiiStory1: Looks a bit like Ft => Family title => Family name.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: うじ、-うじ
readingExamples: 氏 (うじ)
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koohiiStory2: The family name is important to me! Drop me from a building, torture me with a fishhook, I´m keeping my one family name. Hook me with a second fishhook, I refuse to change my family name.
words: 氏(うじ): family name
氏(し): family name, lineage
氏名(しめい): full name, identity

keyword: оказывать сопротивление
kanji: 抵
constituent: resist, finger, fingers, calling card, family name, one, floor
myStory: когда кто-то протягивает тебе визитную карточку, сопротивляйся желанию использовать ее для очистки грязи из-под ногтей пальцев!
heisigStory: Fingers . . . calling card.
koohiiStory1: Japan business etiquette tip: When someone hands you a business card, resist the impulse to fiddle around with it with your fingers, and by all means resist the urge to use the card to pick gunk from under your fingernails. Just examine it carefully, ask politely about the (few by now) kanji that you don´t know, and put it away carefully in a location that shows your counterparts how important they are to you.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: Most japanese find it impossible to resist pushy businessmen in Japan when they push their damned business cards into your fingers.
words: 大抵(たいてい): usually, generally
抵抗(ていこう): electrical resistance, resistance, opposition

keyword: залив
kanji: 浦
constituent: bay, water, water droplets, water pistol, dog-tag, arrowhead, screwdriver, utilize, utilise
myStory: все солдаты хотят после войны посидеть на берегу залива, посмотреть на заходящее солнце
heisigStory: Water . . . dog tag.
koohiiStory1: The water of the bay washes all the dog tags up after the battle.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホ
kunYomi: うら
readingExamples: 浦 (うら)
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koohiiStory2: Otis Redding is sitting on the dock of the bay, looking over the water while clutching the dog tags of his fallen friend from Vietnam.

keyword: камыш
kanji: 蒲
constituent: bulrush, flowers, bay, water, water droplets, water pistol, dog-tag, arrowhead, screwdriver, utilize, utilise
myStory: камыш - это цветок, который растет у залива
heisigStory: Flowers . . . bay.
koohiiStory1: Bulrush was the flower that you could see near almost all bays in japan before the japanese started putting concrete everywhere. Just check how many percent of Japan´s coastline that is concretised... you´ll be surprised.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ホ、ボ、フ、ブ
kunYomi: がま、かば、かま
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koohiiStory2: The bulrush is a flower that grows around bays. http://www.meltonrossnewbarnetby.co.uk/images/bulrush.jpg.

keyword: магазин
kanji: 舗
constituent: shop, cottage, little-thatch, umbrella, earthenware jar, lidded crock, soil, dirt, ground, mouth, dog-tag, arrowhead, screwdriver, utilize, utilise
myStory: у нормальных зданий обычно нет вывесок, а у магазинов - есть
heisigStory: Cottage . . . dog tag. The key word refers to the noun, not the verb.
koohiiStory1: A shop in an impoverished country is just a cottage with a dog tag identifying it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホ
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koohiiStory2: Normal cottages (舎 actually means a building) don´t have tags advertising their names, but shops do.
words: 舗装(ほそう): pavement, road surface

keyword: резиденция
kanji: 邸
constituent: residence, calling card, family name, one, floor, city walls
myStory: визитная карточка посла приглашает на Вершину, в резиденцию посла
heisigStory: Calling card . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: The business card says his residence is just to the left of the city walls. Can you find it? Yep, got it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: やしき
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koohiiStory2: So fed up am I, I´ve finally built city walls around my residence to keep these Japanese from soliciting me with their business cards.
words: 邸宅(ていたく): mansion, residence

keyword: ограждение, огороженное место
kanji: 郭
constituent: enclosure, receive, tall, top hat, mouth, child, children, city walls
myStory: Вершина наконец-таки получила ограждение от внешних угроз
heisigStory: Receive . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: The city finally received the enclosure that it desperately needed, city walls to protect it against attacks from the tall kids.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
kunYomi: くるわ
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koohiiStory2: Even the tall kids can´t get out of the enclosure that is the city walls.

keyword: округ, район
kanji: 郡
constituent: county, old boy, mop, mouth, city walls
myStory: дружище не может выбраться из своего округа из-за городских стен
heisigStory: Old boy . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: The old boy had never been outside of his own county because he couldn't get over the city walls.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: グン
kunYomi: こうり
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koohiiStory2: The old boys of Hazard COUNTY never got past the city walls.
words: 郡(ぐん): country, district

keyword: родина
kanji: 邦
constituent: home country, bushes, city walls
myStory: родина с севера защищена колючими кустами, с юга - стеной
heisigStory: Bushes . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: He reminisced about his home country: "Ah, back in my home country, the bushes grew so high that they covered the city walls!".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: くに
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koohiiStory2: It's easier if you think of the USA as the HOME COUNTRY. To the northern border you have it protected by BUSHES, while to south you have it protected by CITY WALLS (or a 800 mile long fence).
words: 連邦(れんぽう): commonwealth, federation of states

keyword: родной город
kanji: 郷
constituent: home town, cocoon, silver, city walls
myStory: родной город - это там, где ты вылез из кокона (родился), и где твои волосы стали серебриться. ну, и это город со стенами
heisigStory: Cocoon . . . silver . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: Your hometown is where you broke out of your cocoon (born), and where you left when your hair was silver (died), your whole life was spent inside the city walls.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ、ゴウ
kunYomi: さと
readingExamples: 郷里 (きょうり), 郷土 (きょうど), 異郷 (いきょう)
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koohiiStory2: Your home town is where you earned enough silver to enable you to break out of your giant cocoon (leave home) and explore outside the city walls.
words: 郷愁(きょうしゅう): nostalgia, homesickness
郷里(きょうり): birth-place, home town
故郷(こきょう): home town, birthplace, old or historic village

keyword: эхо
kanji: 響
constituent: echo, home town, cocoon, silver, city walls, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day, tongue wagging
myStory: мой родной город - город-призрак, все звуки производят эхо
heisigStory: Hometown . . . sound.
koohiiStory1: People´s voices are like echoes of sounds from their hometowns....you can always tell where they´re from by how they talk.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: ひび.く
readingExamples: 響く (ひび.く)
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koohiiStory2: My hometown is a ghost town, any sounds echoes and echoes.
words: 反響(はんきょう): echo, reverberation, repercussion, reaction, influence
影響(えいきょう): influence, effect
響き(ひびき): echo, sound, reverberation, noise
響く(ひびく): to sound, echo, reverberate

keyword: сын
kanji: 郎
constituent: son, halo, good, drop, silver, city walls
myStory: сын - хороший человек, который растет, чтобы защищать городские стены
heisigStory: Halo . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: The daughter is a good girl that grows up to be a woman. The son is a good boy that grows up to defend the city walls.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ、リョウ
kunYomi: おとこ
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koohiiStory2: A good son stays within the city walls so he can care for his parents…　RTK2:　ロウ　新郎　しんろう(bridegroom)…　Pure Group:　廊1852.

keyword: коридор
kanji: 廊
constituent: corridor, cave, son, halo, good, drop, silver, city walls
myStory: в коридоре играет сын, воображая, что он в пещере
heisigStory: Cave . . . son.
koohiiStory1: Your son plays in the corridor pretending he´s exploring a cave.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロウ
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koohiiStory2: (ロウ) I think of the corridor found in the cave that Yoda made Luke Skywalker walk through as part of his Jedi training in Empire Strikes Back. It was in this corridor that Luke met Darth Vadar, cut off his head and found himself behind Darth Vadar´s mask. An early little hint that Luke was Darth Vadar´s son.
words: 廊下(ろうか): corridor

keyword: щит
kanji: 盾
constituent: shield, drag, ten, needle, eye
myStory: ты нарисовал десять страшных глаз на щите, чтобы пугать врагов, но щит настолько тяжелый, что тебе приходится волочить его за собой
heisigStory: Dragging . . . ten eyes.
koohiiStory1: You paint 10 huge eyes on your shield to scare the enemy, but consequently your shield is so big and heavy that you have to drag it.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
kunYomi: たて
readingExamples: 盾 (たて)
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koohiiStory2: From Wikipedia: "If a Spartan hoplite were to return to Sparta alive and without his shield, it was assumed that he threw his shield at the enemy in an effort to flee; an act punishable by death or banishment." Picture the enemy of a Spartan soldier poking his eyes out with a sewing needle and trying to steal his shield. However, the Spartan desperately clutches on, and is dragged around for a while, preferring to die than to lose his shield.
words: 盾(たて): shield, buckler, escutcheon, pretext
矛盾(むじゅん): contradiction, inconsistency

keyword: последовательный
kanji: 循
constituent: sequential, Nelson, column, going, line, shield, drag, ten, needle, eye
myStory: солдаты идут последовательно в ряд со щитами
heisigStory: Line . . . shield.
koohiiStory1: This is mostly used in the word 循環, "circulation" (of buses through their routes, of blood, etc). So I think of a column of little Roman soldiers with their shields marching sequentially through the veins of a person, as an anthropomorphization of the immune system.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
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koohiiStory2: A column of shielded soldiers advancing sequentially to avoid revealing the size of their army (Think "Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers" from Star Wars).
words: 循環(じゅんかん): circulation, rotation, cycle

keyword: фракция
kanji: 派
constituent: faction, water, water droplets, water pistol, caveman, drag, person, rag
myStory: (вода + волочить + тряпка)
(вода + зомби)
зомби разделились на разные фракции, одна из которых - водяные зомби
heisigStory: Water . . . drag . . . rag. Back in frame 1127 we indicated that this latter radical would come up once again, as it does in this and the following two frames.
koohiiStory1: Drag + rag gave me trouble until I came up with zombie for it. The zombie population became more diverse, separating into different factions. One of them being the water Zombies.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハ
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koohiiStory2: The radical faction is almost eliminated, sir. They´re living in the sewers dressed in rags and dragging their supplies.
words: 特派(とくは): send specially, special envoy
派(は): clique, faction, school
派遣(はけん): dispatch, send
派手(はで): showy, loud, gay, flashy, gaudy
立派(りっぱ): splendid, fine, handsome, elegant, imposing, prominent, legal, legitimate

keyword: вена, пульс
kanji: 脈
constituent: vein, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, caveman, drag, person, rag
myStory: для зомби, после крови, вены - самая вкусная часть тела
heisigStory: Part of body . . . drag . . . rag.
koohiiStory1: The vein is the part of the body most lusted after by the flesh hungry zombies (drag & rag - see revenantkioku frame 1855).
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ミャク
kunYomi: すじ
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koohiiStory2: To get blood drawn from a vein you present the part of the body to the nurse, and they drag an alcohol swab (rag) across the vein.
words: 山脈(さんみゃく): mountain range
脈(みゃく): pulse
文脈(ぶんみゃく): context

keyword: массы, большое количество
kanji: 衆
constituent: masses, blood, drop, dish, Carol in rags person, rag, drop3
myStory: массы зомби, забрызганные кровью
heisigStory: Blood . . . drag . . . rag.
koohiiStory1: Masses of zombies, splattered with blood. (any zombie movie).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ、シュ
kunYomi: おお.い
readingExamples: 衆寡 (しゅうか), 民衆 (みんしゅう), 聴衆 (ちょうしゅう)
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koohiiStory2: When the masses are hurt, say in a natural disaster like an earthquake, they can be seen everywhere dragging their bloody rags.
words: 観衆(かんしゅう): spectators, onlookers, members of the audience
衆(しゅう): masses, great number, the people
衆議院(しゅうぎいん): Lower House, House of Representatives
大衆(たいしゅう): general public
公衆(こうしゅう): the public

keyword: бандероль
kanji: 逓
constituent: parcel post, drag, cornstalk, belt, road
myStory: почему бандероли приходят в таком плохом состоянии? потому что почтальону дают кучу бандеролей и два полотенца - давай, волочи это кучу по дороге
heisigStory: Drag . . . cornstalk . . . belt . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Picture a crude drag-sled - in this case, made from cornstalks that have been belted together - filled with parcels, that the postman drags along behind him down the road along his delivery route.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: かわ.る、たがいに
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koohiiStory2: (I prefer 2 towels over cornstalk and belt) - Have you ever wondered why your parcels always end up in such bad condition when you get them? Or why you never get them at all? That´s because you´ve never looked at how they´re actually delivered - each postman is given a load of parcel post and 2 towels to drag them down the road on.

keyword: ковать
kanji: 鍛
constituent: forge, metal, gold, grade, staple gun, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: чтобы металл получил высокий уровень качества, его нужно проковать
heisigStory: Metal . . . grade.
koohiiStory1: As a discriminating metalsmith, I use the highest grade metals when forging such precision devices as staple guns and missiles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: きた.える
readingExamples: 鍛える (きた.える)
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koohiiStory2: Metal has to be forged many times over in order to reach a high grade.
words: 鍛える(きたえる): to forge, to drill, to temper, to train, to discipline

keyword: императрица
kanji: 后
constituent: empress, drag, one, ceiling, mouth
myStory: слово на букву "F" часто вылетает изо рта императрицы
heisigStory: Drag . . . one . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: The empress is cruel. Normally she´ll violently pull her servants by the ear when they´ve failed to follow orders. But one time she dragged this one guy around the palace by the mouth. She must have been really angry—ever since that moment, he´s never been seen again.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ、ゴ
kunYomi: きさき
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koohiiStory2: The F word often comes out of the mouth of the empress.

keyword: фантом, иллюзия
kanji: 幻
constituent: phantasm, cocoon, clothes hanger, coat hanger
myStory: (кокон + вешалка для одежды)
после выступления Призрак Оперы вешает шляпу на крючок и отправляется спать в кокон
heisigStory: Cocoon . . . clothes hanger.
koohiiStory1: After the play, The Phantasm of the Opera hangs up his cape on a clothes hanger and returns to his cocoon to sleep.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン
kunYomi: まぼろし
readingExamples: 幻 (まぼろし)
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koohiiStory2: You open your closet and find strange, glowing cocoons sitting on your clothes hangers... definitely a phantasm!

keyword: режиссер
kanji: 司
constituent: director, clothes hanger, coat hanger, one, mouth
myStory: режиссер орет: "так, звезда приехала? не вешай одежду на крюк, играй прямо так, немедленно"
heisigStory: Clothes hanger . . . one . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: The porn director has one big mouth. "Don´t bother putting your clothes on a hanger, just get started.".
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: つかさど.る
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koohiiStory2: The director sticks a clothes hanger in each actor´s mouth and hangs them from the ceiling until he needs them.
words: 司法(しほう): administration of justice
上司(じょうし): superior authorities, boss
司る(つかさどる): to rule, to govern, to administer
司会(しかい): chairmanship

keyword: приручать (животное)
kanji: 飼
constituent: domesticate, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, director, Ken Russel, clothes hanger, coat hanger, one, mouth
myStory: после того как режиссера употребили в качестве еды дикие львы, продюсер решил сначала приручить этих кошек
heisigStory: Eat . . . director. The sense is of rearing of animals.
koohiiStory1: When you DOMESTICATE a animal, you are the DIRECTOR of it´s life and what it EATS.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: か.う
readingExamples: 飼う (か.う)
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koohiiStory2: After a pride of hungry lions ate the director, the producer decided to tone down his documentary and film domesticated cats instead.
words: 飼育(しいく): breeding, raising, rearing
飼う(かう): keep, raise, feed

keyword: наследник
kanji: 嗣
constituent: heir, mouth, scrapbook, glass canopy, hood, flowers, director, Ken Russel, clothes hanger, coat hanger, one, mouth
myStory: мой рот открылся в изумлении, когда я узнал, что я наследник не только альбома с картинками, но и поста директора крупной компании
heisigStory: Mouth . . . scrapbook . . . director.
koohiiStory1: The lawyer called all the heirs into a meeting. Everybody else received cars, property, and the like. When it got to be my turn the lawyer informed me I would be receiving a scrapbook. My mouth dropped open. A scrapbook?! No Ferrari, no mansion, ...scrapbook?! Turns out the scrapbook was of my great uncle's company, and I had been named the new director of the multi-million dollar business. My mouth literally hit the scrapbook when I learned I'd be director.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
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koohiiStory2: My mouth hung open when I found out I was the heir to not only my father's scrapbooks, but he also left me as director of the company.

keyword: лайнер
kanji: 舶
constituent: liner, boat, white, dove
myStory: белый корабль - это лайнер
heisigStory: The type of boat connoted by this key word is a large oceangoing liner. The important thing here is to work with the elements boat and dove to make an image distinct from that of the former frame. Don't count on size alone to distinguish the boat from the liner.
koohiiStory1: The most famous LINER is the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sunk. Just imagine that huge LINER strucking an even huger mass of white ice.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハク
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koohiiStory2: A liner is to boat as an emperor (#261) is to a king (#255), or a chief (#967) is to a person (#951): in each case we need only add white to the latter in order to get the former.
words: 船舶(せんぱく): ship

keyword: поднос
kanji: 盤
constituent: tray, carrier, boat, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch, dish
myStory: штука, которая несет общие блюда - поднос
heisigStory: Carrier . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: What do you call a "CARRIER" of DISHes? A TRAY.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バン
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a restaurant set in Disney´s Fantasia or maybe in Harry Potter´s university, where dishes are magically landing and taking off of a carrier tray.
words: 碁盤(ごばん): Go board
基盤(きばん): foundation, basis
地盤(じばん): the ground
算盤(そろばん): abacus

keyword: транспортер, конвеер
kanji: 搬
constituent: conveyor, finger, fingers, carrier, boat, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: если работник не соблюдает технику безопасности на заводе, то его пальцы могут стать общественным достоянием и быть унесены конвеером
heisigStory: Fingers . . . carrier.
koohiiStory1: When workers neglect workplace safety, their fingers get cut off and carried away by the conveyor belt, which looks like a ´finger carrier´ in that case.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
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koohiiStory2: During WWII, morse code was the primary means of communication from sea. The morse code specialist was the conveyor of messages to and from the crew of the carrier, using his fingers to tap out the secret messages. (This works especially well for 搬送周波数 carrier frequency and 搬送波 carrier wave, being the radio waves/frequencies used in morse code).
words: 運搬(うんぱん): transport, carriage

keyword: военный корабль
kanji: 艦
constituent: warship, boat, oversee, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, dish
myStory: корабль, на котором есть надзиратель - это военный корабль
heisigStory: Boat . . . oversee.
koohiiStory1: The warship towers over the smaller benign boats, overseeing their safe path from port to port.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
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koohiiStory2: A warship is a boat that oversees the seas. Think of it as the patroller of the ocean.
words: 軍艦(ぐんかん): warship, battleship

keyword: гребная шлюпка
kanji: 艇
constituent: rowboat, boat, courts, porter, drop, samurai, stretch
myStory: в старые времена суды часто наказывали преступников тем, что отправляли их работать на гребных судах
heisigStory: Boat . . . courts.
koohiiStory1: Rowboats are a classic way to court (go on a date with) someone...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テイ
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koohiiStory2: Courts in olden times would often punish convicts by sentencing them to a life of being the rower crew for large rowboat ships (there were no engines or boilers back then)... Yo ho, Yo ho....

keyword: дыня
kanji: 瓜
constituent: melon, claw, vulture, elbow
myStory: если ты схватишь когтями дыньки девушки, она заедет тебе локтем
heisigStory: The only thing that distinguishes this from the claw is the addition of the elbow, made by doubling up the third stroke and adding a fourth.
koohiiStory1: 何これ???? ok, sorry to be crude... if you claw at a girls melons, she is gonna give you the elbow.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: カ、ケ
kunYomi: うり
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koohiiStory2: Vegetarian vultures are fighting for a melon, each trying to elbow its way to it with claws.

keyword: дуга
kanji: 弧
constituent: arc, bow, melon, claw, vulture, elbow
myStory: если ты хочешь пронзить дыню стрелой, дуга лука будет больше или меньше в зависимости от того, как дыня далеко
heisigStory: Bow . . . melon.
koohiiStory1: When you use a bow to shoot a melon, the arc varies depending on how far away you are.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
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koohiiStory2: Joan of Arc ("arc" also means "bow" in french) is practicing with a bow, shooting at melons in a distant field.
words: 括弧(かっこ): parenthesis, brackets

keyword: сирота, человек без друзей
kanji: 孤
constituent: orphan, child, melon, claw, vulture, elbow
myStory: сирота никогда не узнает сладость материнской дыньки
heisigStory: Child . . . melon.
koohiiStory1: An orphan will never know the joys on sucking on his mother´s melons........
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
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koohiiStory2: Unlike the celebrated story of Momotaro the peach boy, no one knows the story of the melon boy who was left an orphan.
words: 孤児(こじ): orphan
孤独(こどく): isolation, loneliness, solitude
孤立(こりつ): isolation, helplessness

keyword: кокон
kanji: 繭
constituent: cocoon, flowers, hood, stick, thread, spiderman, insect
myStory: шелкопряд жрет цветы, делает из них нити и из нитей делает кокон
heisigStory: Though it's a good thing that the primitive for cocoon has been radically abbreviated from this, its full form as a kanji, the story it holds is a charming one. The silkworm (insect) eats the leaves of the mulberry bush (the flowers), digests them and transforms them into thread with which it spins about itself, in mystic wisdom, its own coffin (the hood). The dividing line that separates the two elements helps the picture of the little worm cutting itself off from contact with the outside world, but as a character stroke, it is a clear exception.
koohiiStory1: This is a simple two-column manga showing the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a cocoon. First, the caterpillar gets under a large flower (bees tend to hang around flowers, which scare away other predators). Then, in the first frame, we see the caterpillar (insect). Then, a bar separating this frame from the next frame (remember that Japanese manga run the other way!), in which we see the insect covered with thread, making a beautiful cocoon.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: まゆ、きぬ
readingExamples: 繭 (まゆ)
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koohiiStory2: The magic flower is the reason why Spider-Man ended up miniaturized and confined inside a hood-like cocoon together with an insect. Now, only a walking stick separates them both.

keyword: выгода
kanji: 益
constituent: benefit, animal horns, one, floor, animal legs, eight, dish
myStory: выгода иметь рога и быстрые ноги в том, что животное не станет блюдом для кого-то еще!
heisigStory: Poised over the dish here is a pair of animal horns that are attached to a pair of animal legs by a single horizontal stroke.
koohiiStory1: The benefit of having sharp horns and fast legs is that an animal can get to the food dish first.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エキ、ヤク
kunYomi: ま.す
readingExamples: 有益 (ゆうえき), 利益 (りえき), 益する (まする), 益 (やく)
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koohiiStory2: The benefit of being an animal with horns and fast legs is in keeping it from becoming a dish for the other animals! (shaydwyrm).
words: 収益(しゅうえき): earnings, proceeds, returns
益々(ますます): increasingly, more and more
有益(ゆうえき): beneficial, profitable
利益(りえき): profits, gains, (political, economic) interest

keyword: свободное время
kanji: 暇
constituent: spare time, sun, day, hobby, staples, mouth, box, crotch, box2
myStory: (день + скрепки во рту + коробка наизнанку + промежность)
уникально, запомнить
heisigStory: The element for day on the left is logical enough. Next to it we see staples being held in mouth (one stroke is doubled up), indicating working in one's hobby or handicrafts at home on one's spare time. The small box at the top right is facing backwards, or more properly "inside out." Finally, we have the crotch at the bottom.
koohiiStory1: Some jackass-like people have way too much spare time. You can find video´s of them all over the internet, if you like such things, you can watch it all day. You see them stapling their mouths shut, or throwing eachother upside down in boxes or kicking each other in the crotch.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: ひま、いとま
readingExamples: 暇 (ひま)
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koohiiStory2: Tip: The complex right side of this kanji appears twice more in Heisig. He later names it "hobby". REF: shrimp (#2689), haze (#2779).
words: 暇(いとま): free time, leisure, leave, spare time, farewell
余暇(よか): leisure, leisure time, spare time
休暇(きゅうか): holiday, day off, furlough
暇(ひま): free time, leisure, leave, spare time, farewell

keyword: раскладывать
kanji: 敷
constituent: spread, arrowhead, rice field, brains, compass, direction, taskmaster
myStory: стрелы разложены по всему рисовому полю. надсмотрщик заставил меня искать их с компасом во всех направлениях
heisigStory: At the top we have the arrowhead whose vertical line joins it to the rice field (or brains) below it. Beneath it, the compass; and to the right, the taskmaster.
koohiiStory1: Instead of being glued to one specialty (#46) 専, I decided to spread my attention in many directions 方, and be a taskmaster at none.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: し.く、-し.き
readingExamples: 敷く (し.く)
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koohiiStory2: Arrowheads are spread all over the field. The taskmaster profiteerer forces you to find them all using a compass.
words: 屋敷(やしき): mansion
座敷(ざしき): tatami room
敷地(しきち): site
敷く(しく): spread out, to lay out, take a position
風呂敷(ふろしき): wrapping cloth, cloth wrapper

keyword: пар
kanji: 汽
constituent: vapor, water, water droplets, water pistol, landed fish, reclining, lying down, one, floor, fishhook
myStory: пар - почти как дух, только без души
heisigStory: Think of this character as a sibling of that for spirit. Simply replace sheaves with drops of water on the left in order to get vapor.
koohiiStory1: Water vapor almost looks like a spirit but has no soul.
jouYou: 2
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
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koohiiStory2: Wolverine disappears into water vapor, seemingly his spirit dissipating into nothingness.
words: 汽船(きせん): steamship
汽車(きしゃ): train (locomotive)

keyword: снижение, ослабление
kanji: 衰
constituent: decline, pathetic, stick, top hat, scarf, mouth
myStory: жалкий человек еще больше опустился и стал бомжом с палкой во рту
heisigStory: Let this key word connote the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. It shows a fellow in a top hat and scarf, trying hard to look happy by putting a walking stick in his mouth sideways to twist his face into a grotesque but semi permanent smile.
koohiiStory1: If you thought that the dude in 哀 was pathetic, you haven´t seen him after his decline. Here he is carrying a stick around in his mouth like a dog, begging people to throw it for him. Note that the mouth is closed only after the stick goes in, as is only logical.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: おとろ.える
readingExamples: 衰える (おとろ.える)
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koohiiStory2: If you thought that the dude in 哀 was pathetic, you haven´t seen him after his decline. Here he is carrying a stick around in his mouth like a dog, allowing people to rent him and play catch with him for money!
words: 衰える(おとろえる): to become weak, to decline, to wear, to abate, to decay, to wither, to waste away
老衰(ろうすい): senility, senile decay

keyword: сокровенный
kanji: 衷
constituent: inmost, ten, needle, mouth, scarf
myStory: жалкий человек поделился сокровенными чувствами из глубины души в баре  какому-то незнакомцу...
heisigStory: Between the top hat and the scarf you will see the character for in which is truncated at the bottom so as not to interfere with the scarf. You can think of this character forming as a pair with that of the former frame: there the in (the walking stick in the mouth) was set on its side; here it is set upright.
koohiiStory1: The guy from pathetic (#401) shared his inmost feelings with a girl and she rammed a walking stick down his throat. It ruptured his inmost organs.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
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koohiiStory2: Besides making money from acting like a dog (see decline), the pathetic man has risked his inmost internal organs by becoming a cane swallower!
words: 折衷(せっちゅう): compromise, cross, blending, eclecticism

keyword: гегемония (владычество одной нации над другой)
kanji: 覇
constituent: hegemony, old west, leather, flowers, car, mouth, ten, needle, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: на Диком Западе американцы устроили гегемонию над индейцами. индейцам искусство выделки кожи и ориентирование по луне не помогло
heisigStory: Old West . . . leather . . . moon.
koohiiStory1: In the old west, animal skins were made into leather and their flesh was eaten, thus using the whole animal, which viewed from the animal side could be taken as humans asserting complete hegemony over them. All your base are belong to us.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハ、ハク
kunYomi: はたがしら
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koohiiStory2: In the Old West, cowboys had hegemony OVER the Indians despite their leathercraft and ability to navigate by the moon.

keyword: давать
kanji: 呉
constituent: give, mouth, chair, tool, animal legs
myStory: старенький граммофон дает жару!
heisigStory: The complex of strokes in this kanji is unusual and difficult, because of the fourth stroke, which is rare (see frames 33 and 34). The mouth and tool are already familiar.
koohiiStory1: Picture of a person facing you. 口 is the head. His right arm is raised (your left), to give you something from a tray 一. His legs ハ are below the tray. 呉れる、くれる, to give: 伯父がこの時計を呉れました, "My uncle gave me this watch." Following -て form of another verb, means "to do the favor of": 窓を開けて呉れませんか, "Won't you open the window [do the favor of opening/kindly open the window]?" Usu. written in hiragana.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴ
kunYomi: く.れる、くれ
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koohiiStory2: I see this as a pictograph of an old-style phonograph - a stand, record, crank and bell (the mouth). Even the primitives work out - a tool with a crank which plays music out of the bell mouth. Imaginge giving one of these old and beautiful phonographs to a classical or jazz music buff!
words: 呉れる(くれる): to give, to let one have, to do for one, to be given

keyword: отдых, развлечения
kanji: 娯
constituent: recreation, woman, give, mouth, chair, tool, animal legs
myStory: женщина может давать мужчине отдых
heisigStory: Woman . . . give.
koohiiStory1: A woman gives up her recreation time in order to raise a family.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴ
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koohiiStory2: Typical male fantasy of recreation: women "giving it up".
words: 娯楽(ごらく): pleasure, amusement

keyword: корзина (bin)
kanji: 函
constituent: bin, snare, sparkler, shovel
myStory: ловушка с бенгальским огнем в ней, запрятанная в корзину для бумаг - чудесный розыгрыш для офиса
heisigStory: This is the character from which the element for shovel derives. Within it comes the element for snare, with the sparkler surrounding it.
koohiiStory1: Damn racoons ill show them. I put a snare in the bin as well as a few phosphorous sparklers so as to scare the shit out of the buggers as they rummage through my bin.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: はこ、い.れる
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koohiiStory2: (thegeezer3) Damn racoons... I´ll show them. I´ll put a SNARE in the BIN as well as a few SPARKLERS so as to scare the shit out of the buggers, then hit them with a SHOVEL.

keyword: бивень
kanji: 牙
constituent: tusk
myStory: выглядит как слон с бивнем
heisigStory: If you play with this primitive's form with pencil and paper, you will see that it begins with a box-like shape, and ends with the final two strokes of the halberd, a convenient combination for the tusk protruding from the mouth of an animal.
heisigComment: * Since this kanji has 4 strokes, you would expect that as a primitive it would also have 4 - but in fact it has 5 in the following two frames (the second stroke between divided into 2 strokes) and reverts to 4 again in frame 2056.
koohiiStory1: The kanji looks like an elephant with tusks. the box is the elephant´s eye. The final stroke is the tusk.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガ、ゲ
kunYomi: きば、は、きばへん
readingExamples: 牙 (きば)
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koohiiStory2: He stored the tusks into a box, along with the broken halberds.

keyword: почка, побег, бутон
kanji: 芽
constituent: bud, flowers, tusk
myStory: зародыш цветка - почка, бутон - выглядит как маленький бивень
heisigStory: Flowers . . . tusk.
koohiiStory1: Buds while they´re still small tend to be tusk-shaped.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガ
kunYomi: め
readingExamples: 芽 (め)
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koohiiStory2: Zoo keepers are baffled as to why the tips of the elephant´s tusks keep budding into flowers.
words: 発芽(はつが): burgeoning
芽(め): sprout

keyword: нехороший, несправедливый
kanji: 邪
constituent: wicked, tusk, city walls
myStory: нехороший мэр построил стену города из бивней
heisigStory: Tusk . . . city walls.
koohiiStory1: The wicked queen builds her city walls out of menacing tusks.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジャ
kunYomi: よこし.ま
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koohiiStory2: As everyone knows, rhinoceroses and elephants are often killed for the value of their TUSKS. Here we see a WICKED city mayor who has had countless elephants killed just to make his CITY WALLS out of TUSKS.
words: お邪魔します(おじゃまします): Excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you
邪魔(じゃま): obstacle, intrusion
無邪気(むじゃき): innocence, simple-mindedness
風邪(かぜ): common cold

keyword: элегантный
kanji: 雅
constituent: gracious, tusk, turkey
myStory: индейка с бивнями. это неожиданно... элегантно
heisigStory: Tusk . . . an old turkey.
koohiiStory1: Goodness gracious! Such an elegant turkey with a tusk. This mnemonic is meant to join RtK´s keyword with a better proposition. Heisig could have used "elegant" here, which is not confounded so easily with graceful (#721), and accurately represents the character´s meaning (it is also the chosen keyword in Kodansha´s Kanji Learner´s Dictionary).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ガ
kunYomi: みや.び
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koohiiStory2: To not confuse it with grace (#606) or graceful (#721), think of the phrase "Goodness gracious." Like: "Goodness gracious! A turkey with tusks!".
words: 雅致(がち): artistry, good taste, elegance, grace

keyword: объяснение
kanji: 釈
constituent: explanation, animal tracks, drop, rice, shaku-hachi, flag, stick
myStory: (следы животного + бамбуковая флейта)
 - как ты объяснишь обилие следов животных вокруг нашей палатки?
 - ну, я играл на флейте, это их привлекло. наверное
heisigStory: Animal tracks . . . shakuhachi.
koohiiStory1: Animal track primitive: As expected, animal tracks were left in place of the trail of rice I´d purposely dropped the night before. EDIT - also try the footprint for a primitive meaning, the classic symbol of detective films. STORY: This shakuhachi player is so talented, he can do interpretations of animal noises too. They´re so realistic he soon has animal tracks leading straight to wherever he´s playing.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シャク、セキ
kunYomi: とく、す.てる、ゆる.す
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koohiiStory2: An interpretive dance of some kind where somebody follows animal tracks, a shakuhachi providing the soundtrack, suggesting the tracker's thoughts and intentions.
words: 解釈(かいしゃく): explanation, interpretation

keyword: слушание, разбирательство
kanji: 審
constituent: hearing, house, dice, animal tracks, drop, rice, rice field, brains
myStory: в здании суда на слушании адвокат сделал свой ход. послушаем теперь сторону обвинения...
heisigStory: The hearing referred to in this character relates to trials in the courts. The elements: house . . . dice.
koohiiStory1: At your divorce hearing the judge tells you to roll dice to see who keeps the house. ("I can´t believe what I´m hearing!" you say).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: つまび.らか、つぶさ.に
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koohiiStory2: In the courthouse the judge decides your hearing with a roll of the dice.
words: 審議(しんぎ): deliberation
審査(しんさ): judging, inspection, examination, investigation
審判(しんばん): refereeing, trial, judgement, umpire, referee
不審(ふしん): incomplete understanding, doubt, question, distrust, suspicion, strangeness, infidelity
審判(しんぱん): refereeing, trial, judgement, umpire, referee

keyword: переворачивать, переворот
kanji: 翻
constituent: flip, dice, animal tracks, drop, rice, rice field, brains, feathers, wings
myStory: твой ход! переворачивай перья на игральной доске! под одним из перьев - награда или наказание
heisigStory: Dice . . . feathers.
koohiiStory1: Flipping the bird: After finding out the dice is crooked, you kindly present the middle feather to the dealer.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ホン、ハン
kunYomi: ひるがえ.る、ひるがえ.す
readingExamples: 翻す (ひるがえ.す), 翻る (ひるがえ.る)
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koohiiStory2: When the birds out the back are playing dice, they flip their feathers (not their finger) at their opponents.
words: 翻訳(ほんやく): translate

keyword: феодальный клан
kanji: 藩
constituent: clan, flowers, water, water droplets, water pistol, dice, animal tracks, drop, rice, rice field, brains
myStory: в клане четкая очередь, кто поливает цветы сегодня
heisigStory: Flowers . . . water . . . dice.
koohiiStory1: This character refers to feudal clans that were abolished in 1871 (Meiji 4) in favor of prefectures (廃藩置県), and thus were predecessors of the modern prefectures. As we know from 落, flowers and water drops each have their own way of falling. This character says that clans´ location was decided in the way flowers, water drops and dice fall: at random. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28country_subdivision%29.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ハン
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koohiiStory2: In the particular clan depicted by this character, each member has to take his or her turn watering the flowers.

keyword: снижение, уменьшение
kanji: 耗
constituent: decrease, christmas tree, fur
myStory: настоящая ель и настоящий мех со временем уменьшают свою пышность, искусственные - нет
heisigStory: Christmas tree . . . fur.
koohiiStory1: The amount of "fur" (needles) on a Christmas tree decreases, until it doesn´t look all that good.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: モウ、コウ、カウ
readingExamples: 消耗 (しょうもう)
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koohiiStory2: Real fur coats and real christmas trees are dereasing the last couple of years. Plasctic chrismas trees and fake fur it is nowadays.
words: 消耗(しょうこう): exhaustion, consumption
消耗(しょうもう): exhaustion, consumption

keyword: хвост
kanji: 尾
constituent: tail, flag, fur
myStory: держим меховой флаг - хвост - пистолетом!
heisigStory: Flag . . . fur.
koohiiStory1: A dog waves its furry tail like a flag.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビ
kunYomi: お
readingExamples: 尾 (お)
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koohiiStory2: A FLAG of FUR is a TAIL.
words: 尾(お): tail, ridge
尻尾(しっぽ): tail (animal)

keyword: поручать, доверять (что-то материальное кому-то)
kanji: 託
constituent: consign, say, words, keitai, mouth, lock of hair
myStory: когда ты поручаешь что-то кому-то, то, помимо слов, ты берешь у него локон волос. если что не так, через жуткий ритуал вуду ты вернешь свою собственность
heisigStory: Words . . . lock of hair.
koohiiStory1: When you consign a matter to someone, you get their word and a lock of their hair (to be used in a voodoo ritual if they don´t keep their word).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タク
kunYomi: かこつ.ける、かこ.つ、かこ.つける
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koohiiStory2: In "The Lord of the Rings", Galadriel consigned a lock of her hair to Gimli the dwarf, along with some wise words.
words: 委託(いたく): consign (goods (for sale) to a firm), entrust (person with something), commit

keyword: делать
kanji: 為
constituent: do, so, strange building, tail feathers
myStory: SO YOU wanna DO it? и птица-самка подняла свое хвостовое оперение
heisigStory: This character rightly belongs to the previous lesson, but we held it until now because of the final element, the tail feathers. After the drop at the outset, the next three strokes are completely novel and should be given special attention.
koohiiStory1: In this kanji, you can see 3 katakana characters: ソ, ユ, and then ユ again followed by TAIL FEATHERS. STORY: "So (ソ) you (ユ) wanna DO it?" "Only if you (ユ) do" says the female bird as she raises her TAIL FEATHERS.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: ため、な.る、な.す、す.る、たり、つく.る、なり
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koohiiStory2: Do me from behind, says the bird, as she shakes her tailfeathers.
words: 行為(こうい): act, deed, conduct
為来り(しきたり): customs
その為(そのため): hence, for that reason
為さる(なさる): to do
為替(かわせ): money order, exchange
為る(する): do, try, play, practice, cost, serve as, pass, elapse
所為(せい): act, deed, one´s doing
為(ため): for, in order to
為す(なす): accomplish, do
為る(なる): change, be of use, reach to

keyword: ложь, лгать
kanji: 偽
constituent: falsehood, person, do, so, strange building, tail feathers
myStory: чего герой точно не делает - он не лжет, и не терпит ложь
heisigStory: Person . . . do.
koohiiStory1: A person who claims he didn't do something while he actually did, is telling a falsehood.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ、カ
kunYomi: いつわ.る、にせ、いつわ.り
readingExamples: 偽る (いつわ.る), 偽 (にせ)
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koohiiStory2: It depends on what your definition of do, uh, is, says Mr. T giving falsehood about his affair with a peacock.
words: 偽造(ぎぞう): forgery, falsification, fabrication, counterfeiting

keyword: удлинять
kanji: 張
constituent: lengthen, bow, long
myStory: британские лучники в погоне за совершенством удлиняли и удлиняли лук - в итоге получился длинный английский лук
heisigStory: Bow . . . long.
koohiiStory1: The longbow is follows the design of a standard bow, only it has been lengthened.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: は.る、-は.り、-ば.り
readingExamples: 張る (は.る)
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koohiiStory2: Legolas recieves spam telling him that his can lengthen his "bow"...he smirks...he know´s it´s already long enough.
words: 嵩張る(かさばる): to be bulky, to be unwieldy, to grow voluminous
誇張(こちょう): exaggeration
突っ張る(つっぱる): to support, to become stiff, to become taut, to thrust (ones opponent), to stick to (ones opinion), to insist on
張り紙(はりがみ): paper patch, paper backing, poster
矢っ張り(やっぱり): also, as I thought, still, in spite of, absolutely
威張る(いばる): swagger, be proud
拡張(かくちょう): expansion, extension, enlargement, escape
緊張(きんちょう): tension, mental strain, nervousness
主張(しゅちょう): claim, request, insistence, assertion, advocacy, emphasis, contention, opinion, tenet
出張(しゅっちょう): official tour, business trip
張り切る(はりきる): be in high spirits, be full of vigor, be enthusiastic, be eager, stretch to breaking point
張る(はる): to stick, paste, put, affix, stretch, spread, strain, stick out, slap, be expensive, tighten
引っ張る(ひっぱる): pull, draw, stretch, drag
欲張り(よくばり): avarice, covetousness, greed

keyword: блокнот
kanji: 帳
constituent: notebook, towel, long
myStory: В древнем Китае книги были в форме длинных свитков. А блокноты были просто как длинные полотенца.
heisigStory: Towel . . . long.
koohiiStory1: In ancient China books were rolled-up scrolls of paper. So notebooks were nothing more than long towels.
jouYou: 3
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: とばり
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koohiiStory2: Students, for this class, your notebook will be a towel. Make sure it´s extra long though, we´ll have a lot of writing.
words: 几帳面(きちょうめん): methodical, punctual, steady
帳(とばり): curtain
通帳(つうちょう): passbook
手帳(てちょう): notebook

keyword: разбухать
kanji: 脹
constituent: dilate, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, long
myStory: если примешь виагру, часть твоего тела разбухнет и удлинится
heisigStory: Flesh . . . long.
koohiiStory1: Taking Viagra let´s your blood vessels dilate...resulting in a body part getting long.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: は.れる、ふく.らむ、ふく.れる
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koohiiStory2: Staying out in the dark moonlit sky for a long time, your pupils dilate.
words: 膨脹(ぼうちょう): expansion, swelling, increase, growth

keyword: раскрывать, развертывать
kanji: 展
constituent: unfold, flag, salad, hairpin, safety-pin
myStory: Салат был упакован в флаг, который был зафиксирован заколками. настала пора пикника, разверни флаг и давай кушать
heisigStory: Flag . . . salad . . . hairpin.
koohiiStory1: Unfold flag, take out the salad, pin the flag down with hairpins and have a picnic.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: テン
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koohiiStory2: You use an American flag to wrap up a salad for a picnic and bind it with a hairpin. Now imagine unfolding it to open up the bounty you´ve fixed up for yourself.
words: 進展(しんてん): progress, development
展示(てんじ): exhibition, display
展望(てんぼう): view, outlook, prospect
展開(てんかい): develop, expansion (opposite of compression)
発展(はってん): development, growth
展覧会(てんらんかい): exhibition

keyword: потеря, скучать, отсутствие
kanji: 喪
constituent: miss, soil, dirt, ground, mouth, hairpin, safety-pin, mouth2
myStory: я рано потерял своих родителей. здесь они лежат, под большим крестом. я принес заколки для украшения
heisigStory: Soil . . . two mouths . . . hairpin. Hint: see spit (Frame 162). The key word carries the wide range of meanings readily associated with it: error, loss, absence, and so on.
koohiiStory1: I miss my parents dearly. Here they lay, under a big cross, their mouths side by side. I stick hairpins in their graves. CAREFUL: the stroke order/primitive order is: ten, L mouth, R mouth, hairpin. "Soil" is not drawn in its stroke order.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: も
readingExamples: 喪 (も)
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koohiiStory2: This kanji means miss as in "miss a (dearly departed) person", not as in "miss a target".　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Here the dearly departed has been buried in the ground, with her favourite hairpin in place of a gravestone, and two mourners stand around crying with open mouths.

keyword: гнездо
kanji: 巣
constituent: nest, owl, fruit, rice field, brains, tree, wood
myStory: умная сова делает гнездо из фруктов: можно не так сильно беспокоиться о еде
heisigStory: Owl . . . fruit.
koohiiStory1: The nest atop of a tree contains the fruit of the owl: its offspring.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: す、す.くう
readingExamples: 巣 (す)
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koohiiStory2: The wise old OWL makes her nest out of FRUIT, carving out the middle for her chicks, because then it´s less work: no running back & forth to get food!
words: 巣(す): nest, rookery, breeding place, beehive, cobweb, den

keyword: Зен
kanji: 禅
constituent: zen, altar, simple, owl, rice field, brains, ten, needle
myStory: алтарь простоты - он всегда с тобой - просто погрузись в медитацию
heisigStory: Altar . . . simple.
koohiiStory1: Knowing ZEN’s emphasis on “nothingness,” it’s not hard to envision a ZEN ALTAR being quite clean and SIMPLE.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゼン、セン
kunYomi: しずか、ゆず.る
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koohiiStory2: Simple-minded blond girl (see frame 1928) is very good at Zen, which isn´t surprising since she doesn´t think much. She has this bad habit of meditating perched on the main temple altar, which infuriates the Zen buddhists. When they get up to her and tell her rudely to step down the altar, she just smiles and teases them : "Not very zen are you ?". Who would have thought simple-minded blond girl would teach the Zen buddhists a lesson !
words: 禅(ぜん): Zen (Buddhism)

keyword: пуля
kanji: 弾
constituent: bullet, bow, simple, owl, rice field, brains, ten, needle
myStory: лук - это сложно. пуля - это просто
heisigStory: Bow . . . simple.
koohiiStory1: Hunting with a bow is too complicated. I´m switching to something simpler--using a bullet.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダン、タン
kunYomi: ひ.く、-ひ.き、はず.む、たま、はじ.く、はじ.ける、ただ.す、はじ.きゆみ
readingExamples: 弾 (たま), 弾む (はず.む), 弾く (ひ.く)
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koohiiStory2: The bow was a weapon for simple times, but nowadays it has been replaced by bullets.
words: 弾力(だんりょく): elasticity, flexibility
爆弾(ばくだん): bomb
弾く(はじく): to flip, to snap
弾む(はずむ): to spring, to bound, to bounce, to be stimulated, to be encouraged, to get lively, to treat oneself to, to splurge on
弾(たま): bullet, shot, shell
弾く(ひく): play (piano, guitar)

keyword: вишневое дерево
kanji: 桜
constituent: cherry tree, tree, wood, owl, woman
myStory: дерево, которое несет в себе мудрость совы и женственность - вишневое дерево
heisigStory: Tree . . . owl . . . woman.
koohiiStory1: I was taking a picture of my girlfriend under the cherry tree during 花見, when an owl happened to poop on her at the exact moment the shutter snapped. It´s really my favorite picture , just don´t tell her that.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ、ヨウ
kunYomi: さくら
readingExamples: 桜 (さくら)
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koohiiStory2: The tree in Japan that represents both wisdom (the owl) and femininity (the woman). This is a sakura (さくら), or cherry tree.
words: 桜(さくら): cherry blossom, cherry tree

keyword: животное, зверь
kanji: 獣
constituent: animal, owl, rice field, brains, one, mouth, chihuahua, dog, large, drop
myStory: сова охотится на рисовом поле. там очень много разных зверей, но у совы один рот, поэтому она решила схватить небольшую собаку. бедная сова.
heisigStory: Owl . . . rice field . . . one . . . mouth . . . chihuahua.
koohiiStory1: The owl looks for its prey in the rice field. It sees so many potential animals to eat but since it only has one mouth, it decides that the tasty looking chihuahua will be its meal for tonight. (adapted from Copycatken,1-9-2006).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュウ
kunYomi: けもの、けだもの
readingExamples: 獣 (けもの)
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koohiiStory2: I have a strange story for this one but it works. I imagine a owl getting into a rice field which serves as a boxing ring. His opponent is a little chihuahua. The fight starts, the owl takes one punch to the mouth and is out cold. In the chihuahua´s corner is that coach from Rocky saying "Your an ANIMAL!!". A vivid image of this story works pretty well for me.
words: 怪獣(かいじゅう): monster
獣(けだもの): beast, brute

keyword: строгий, суровый
kanji: 厳
constituent: stern, owl, cliff, daring, spike, ear, taskmaster
myStory: сова сурово смотрит со скалы на отважного человека. сможет ли он выдержать испытание мудрой совы?
heisigStory: Owl . . . cliff . . . daring.
koohiiStory1: This represents a stern looking owl, perched up on a cliff. This cliff is quite famous for daring individuals to cliff dive off of, but is any of them daring enough to threaten the owl?
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゲン、ゴン
kunYomi: おごそ.か、きび.しい、いか.めしい、いつくし
readingExamples: 厳格 (げんかく), 厳重 (げんじゅう), 威厳 (いげん), 厳か (おごそ.か), 厳しい (きび.しい)
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koohiiStory2: The daring mouse gets a stern look after he climbs onto the owl´s cliff...　RTK2:　ゲン　厳禁　　げんきん　("Strickly Prohibited!")　　　　　　　　　　　ゴン　華厳経　けごんギョウ(Avatamsaka Sutra).
words: 厳か(おごそか): austere, majestic, dignified, stately, awful, impressive
厳密(げんみつ): strict, close
厳重(げんじゅう): strict, severe, firm, strong, secure, rigour
厳しい(きびしい): strict

keyword: цепь
kanji: 鎖
constituent: chain, metal, gold, small, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: металлическая цепь корабля вся усеяна маленькими раковинами
heisigStory: Metal . . . little . . . shells. We have saved this character until no win order to draw attention to the visual difference between the owl and little. By now your eyes should be so accustomed to these apparently infinitesimal differences that the point is obvious.
koohiiStory1: The chain on this chainsaw is made of little metal shells.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サ
kunYomi: くさり、とざ.す
readingExamples: 鎖 (くさり)
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koohiiStory2: A gold chain with small seashells hanging on it is in fashion these days.
words: 封鎖(ふうさ): blockade, freezing (funds)
閉鎖(へいさ): closing, closure, shutdown, lockout, unsociable
鎖(くさり): chain

keyword: повышать
kanji: 挙
constituent: raise, owl, tool, hand
myStory: что возносит человечество над остальными видами? мудрость совы, использование инструментов, и руки
heisigStory: Owl . . . tool . . . hand.
koohiiStory1: The owl was asked to raise his hand if he needed anything, but he had a wing, not a hand! So he made a tool that looked like a hand which he used when he needed to raise his hand. For raiseing, owl has a tool hand.
jouYou: 4
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ
kunYomi: あ.げる、あ.がる、こぞ.る
readingExamples: 挙がる (あ.がる), 挙げる (あ.げる)
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koohiiStory2: What raises mankind above others is the wisdom of an owl, the use of tools, and his hand with an opposable thumb. (compare with reputation (#1939)).
words: 挙げる(あげる): to raise, to fly, to give (an example)
一挙に(いっきょに): at a stroke, with a single swoop
選挙(せんきょ): election

keyword: репутация, честь
kanji: 誉
constituent: reputation, owl, tool, say, words, keitai, mouth
myStory: репутация совы взлетела до небес, когда она сделала инструмент, чтобы говорить с людьми
heisigStory: Owl . . . tool . . . saying.
koohiiStory1: This owl´s reputation skyrocketed after he created a tool in order to speak human words.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨ
kunYomi: ほま.れ、ほ.める
readingExamples: 誉 (ほまれ)
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koohiiStory2: By word of mouth, owl-luring tool (raise (#1938)) gained a reputation of amazingly effective and reliable device.
words: 名誉(めいよ): honor, credit, prestige

keyword: охота на дичь
kanji: 猟
constituent: game hunting, pack of wild dogs, anemometer, owl, wind, cornstalk
myStory: свора диких псов охотится на дичь - крысы
heisigStory: Pack of wild dogs . . . owl . . . wind . . . cornstalk.
koohiiStory1: [game-hunting; shooting; game; bag] According to unicode.org and wwwjdic, 鼡 and 鼠 (mouse (#2065)) are variants. So, for 鼡 (which I´ll call rat) I have: an owl, flying in the wind, can easily spot a rat even if it´s hiding in the cornstalks. Now 猟 is easy: wild dogs are having fun by game-hunting rats.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ、レフ
kunYomi: かり、か.る
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koohiiStory2: The WILD DOGS are GAME HUNTING the OWL who flies like the WIND through the CORN STORKS.

keyword: журавль
kanji: 鶴
constituent: crane, turkey house, bird
myStory: птенец жил у индеек, и все над ним потешались - нескладный он был. а когда вырос, стал прекрасной птицей - журавлем
heisigStory: Turkey house . . . bird. The first element appears on only one other occasion, back in frame 609.
koohiiStory1: Do you know how cranes came to be? Well, they used to keep the poor bird cooped all the time. But the crane really wanted to be free, so it would always streatch its head and neck out of the coop trying to be free.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
kunYomi: つる
readingExamples: 鶴 (つる)
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koohiiStory2: The original version of the "Ugly Duckling" was about a crane who grew up in a turkey coop. All the other birds made fun of it for not having a wattle or a snood or fanning its tail...

keyword: ворон
kanji: 烏
constituent: crow, drop, mouth, one, tail feathers
myStory: не бывает ворон белого цвета
heisigStory: The only thing that distinguishes this character from that for bird is the omission of the one stroke that makes it white. Which is logical enough, when you consider that there are no crows of that color.
koohiiStory1: The book´s story is just fine, but I found a kanji dictionary explanation also interesting: As crows are all black, it´s hard to see where their eyes are (black on black), so a stroke is removed from the part in the pictograph where the eyes would be.
jouYou: Names
onYomi: ウ、オ
kunYomi: からす、いずくんぞ、なんぞ
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koohiiStory2: A crow is a bird, but not a white one. MEANING: write bird, but skip writing one in white.

keyword: виноградная лоза
kanji: 蔦
constituent: vine, flowers, bird
myStory: птицы любят виноградную лозу - там можно и спрятаться, и покушать
heisigStory: Flower . . . bird.
koohiiStory1: In the jungle there is a flowery vine called hedera rhombea that attracts humming birds by the dozens. They scoot around the flowers sucking up nectar off the vine.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チョウ
kunYomi: つた
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koohiiStory2: Note : if you´ll remember we already have a primitive for "ivy", but it was completely made up from the "square jewel" kanji. The kanji here refers to ivy, or vine, and is used in a particular compound for "Hedera rhombea", which is a type of ivy native to Japan. This vine here produces a lot of flowers, and attracts many small birds, which is sure to cheer up even the most depressed Japanese gardener.

keyword: голубь
kanji: 鳩
constituent: pigeon, nine, baseball, bird
myStory: голубь - это такая птица, девять представителей которой могут обосрать все что угодно
heisigStory: Baseball . . . bird.
koohiiStory1: Feed one pigeon and nine more birds will be swarming you immediately…　RTK2:　On list of rare or no official Chinese reading.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キュウ、ク
kunYomi: はと、あつ.める
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koohiiStory2: Imagine some pigeons going to see a baseball game. They would surely be the only birds there!

keyword: курица
kanji: 鶏
constituent: chicken, claw, vulture, husband, bird
myStory: есть мужья, похожие на грифов, но большинство все-таки похоже на цыплят
heisigStory: Vulture . . . husband . . . bird.
koohiiStory1: There are two types of birds often compared to husbands. Yes there are a few vultures out there, but most husbands are CHICKENS. 鶏 【にわとり】 (n) (domestic) chicken, (P) 鶏肉 【けいにく】 (n) chicken meat, (P).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: にわとり、とり
readingExamples: 鶏 (にわとり)
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koohiiStory2: The vulture´s husband is a chicken...heck...who am I to judge their interspecies love? They´re both birds so its cool.

keyword: тепло
kanji: 暖
constituent: warmth, sun, day, migrating ducks, claw, vulture, one, friend
myStory: (солнце + мигрирующие утки)
мигрирующий утки следуют за солнцем в поисках тепла
heisigStory: Unlike the character for warm weather learned earlier (Frame 1560), this kanji and its key word can also refer to the warmth of human congeniality. Its elements are: sun . . . migrating ducks.
koohiiStory1: Note: Just confirming Heisig has confused these two characters. This is used primarily for weather and climate (and colours).
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダン、ノン
kunYomi: あたた.か、あたた.かい、あたた.まる、あたた.める
readingExamples: 暖か (あたた.か), 暖かい (あたた.かい), 暖まる (あたた.まる), 暖める (あたた.める)
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koohiiStory2: A massive group of migrating ducks is blocking the warmth of the sun as they pass over your house/barbecue/picnic. Their formation is so humongous they block the warmth for a good 10 minutes while they pass over. Mnemonic for the migrating ducks primitive : the migrating ducks stick together like the best of friends, flying together as one (fifth stroke), they are not easy prey for the great eagles / vultures.
words: 暖まる(あたたまる): to warm oneself, to sun oneself, to warm up, to get warm
暖める(あたためる): to warm, to heat
温暖(おんだん): warmth
暖房(だんぼう): heating
暖かい(あたたかい): warm, mild, genial

keyword: красивая женщина
kanji: 媛
constituent: beautiful woman, woman, migrating ducks, claw, vulture, one, friend
myStory: женщина настолько прекрасна, что мигрирующие утки мигрируют к ней, а не к солнцу
heisigStory: Woman . . . migrating ducks.
koohiiStory1: You want to know about a beautiful woman? There´s a woman that´s so beautiful, the birds migrate to her instead of the sun!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: ひめ
readingExamples: 媛 (ひめ)
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koohiiStory2: As I saw the most beautiful woman on Earth, a flock of migrating ducks passed by and let their poop fly. That just ruined the moment...

keyword: содействовать
kanji: 援
constituent: abet, finger, fingers, migrating ducks, claw, vulture, one, friend
myStory: ты содействуешь мигрирующим уткам, показывая пальцем направление на юг
heisigStory: Fingers . . . migrating ducks.
koohiiStory1: You abet the escape of migrating ducks by pointing them the way.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: エン
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koohiiStory2: Aiding and abetting: You are accuse of abetting a drug dealer, by smuggling drugs in migrating ducks. Of course, this means you have to stick your fingers in their mouths.
words: 救援(きゅうえん): relief, rescue, reinforcement
援助(えんじょ): assistance, aid, support
応援(おうえん): aid, assistance, help, reinforcement, support, cheering

keyword: ослаблять, ослабевать ("слакать")
kanji: 緩
constituent: slacken, thread, spiderman, migrating ducks, claw, vulture, one, friend
myStory: кабель сильно натянулся под весом мигрирующих уток, но, когда они улетели, снова провис и ослаб
heisigStory: Thread . . . migrating ducks.
koohiiStory1: [slacken; loosen; relax; lessen; be moderate; ease] The thread in this story is a cable line, something like a power or phone line. The thread was tense with all the migrating ducks perched on it, but got back to being slackened when the entire flock flew away. (darg_sama-modified,2-11-2005).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カン
kunYomi: ゆる.い、ゆる.やか、ゆる.む、ゆる.める
readingExamples: 緩い (ゆる.い), 緩む (ゆる.む), 緩める (ゆる.める), 緩やか (ゆる.やか)
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman is a slacken off. He lays around all day in the park watching migrating ducks...　RTK2:　カン　緩和　かんわ(mitigation).
words: 緩和(かんわ): relief, mitigation
緩む(ゆるむ): to become loose, to slacken
緩める(ゆるめる): to loosen, to slow down
緩やか(ゆるやか): lenient
緩い(ゆるい): loose, lenient, slow

keyword: принадлежать
kanji: 属
constituent: belong, flag, gnats, drop, insect, belt
myStory: (флаг + мошки + пояс)
все эти мошки принадлежат к насекомым-террористам. они ходят с флагами и носят пояса со взрывчаткой
heisigStory: Flag . . . gnats (see frame 563) . . . with a belt.
koohiiStory1: These bugs BELONG TO an extremist group promoting insect independence. They are parading the FLAG of their group, the Nationalist GNATS, and wearing explosives BELTS for their planned terrorist war.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゾク、ショク
kunYomi: さかん、つく、やから
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koohiiStory2: This FLAG BELONGS to the terror group called the GNATS, oftern seen wearing explosive BELTS. My opinion is they all BELONG in jail.
words: 所属(しょぞく): attached to, belong to
付属(ふぞく): attached, belonging, affiliated, annexed, associated, subordinate, incidental, dependent, auxiliary
金属(きんぞく): metal
属する(ぞくする): belong to, come under, be affiliated with, be subject to
附属(ふぞく): attached, belonging, affiliated, annexed, associated, subordinate, incidental, dependent, auxiliary

keyword: вверять
kanji: 嘱
constituent: entrust, mouth, belong, flag, gnats, drop, insect, belt
myStory: мой рот принадлежит тебе! ты можешь доверить мне любые свои секреты!
heisigStory: Mouth . . . belong.
koohiiStory1: Entrust is to confer trust in someone else. My mouth belongs to you and your secret is safely entrusted with me.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショク
kunYomi: しょく.する、たの.む
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koohiiStory2: If you entrust me with something, my mouth belongs to you.

keyword: интервью
kanji: 遇
constituent: interview, talking cricket, brains, insect, belt, road
myStory: по дороге на интервью я встретил Джимини Крикета - и он дал мне несколько дельных советов
heisigStory: Talking Cricket . . . road.
koohiiStory1: On the road to my interview I accidentally bump into Jiminy Cricket who gives me some good advice.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: グウ
kunYomi: あ.う
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koohiiStory2: I was finally able to score an interview with the wisest being around: Jiminy Cricket. However, his schedule is really packed, so they had to squeeze me in while his tour bus rode between gigs. In fact, it was really short---after a few miles I was kicked out of the bus and stranded in the middle of the interstate. But man, it was worth it!
words: 境遇(きょうぐう): environment, circumstances
待遇(たいぐう): treatment, reception

keyword: глупый
kanji: 愚
constituent: foolish, talking cricket, brains, insect, belt, heart
myStory: сердце Джимини Крикета обливается кровью, когда он видит, какой ты глупый, Пиноккио!
heisigStory: Talking Cricket . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: Don´t be foolish! says Jiminy Cricket as he lashes you with his belt. Follow logic, like me, not your heart.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: グ
kunYomi: おろ.か
readingExamples: 愚か (おろ.か)
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koohiiStory2: I simply imagine Jiminy Cricket jumping all over the place, like a mad man, yelling "yeeeeehaaaaa!". Maybe he just fell in love? Mnemonic - "Jiminy Cricket has a foolish heart".
words: 愚か(おろか): foolish, stupid
愚痴(ぐち): idle complaint, grumble

keyword: лепка (лепка из глины, вырезание из дерева)
kanji: 塑
constituent: model, first day of the month, mountain goat, horns, mountain, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: легенда гласит, что, если ты оставишь фигурку горного коза, вылепленную из земли, под светом луны на месяц, то земля станет плотью
heisigStory: This kanji depicts the art of modeling clay or wood into a figure of your choice. The elements for composing it are: mountain goat . . . moon . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: This guy is such a gifted sculptor. He can model a MOUNTAIN GOAT and a MOON with just SOIL mold.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソ
kunYomi: でく
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koohiiStory2: A legend says that if you model a mountain goat (with tail and everything) from dirt and leave to the light of the moon on the first day of the month (#2846), the dirt will became flesh. (blackstockc).

keyword: гора
kanji: 岡
constituent: mount, glass canopy, hood, mountain goat, horns, mountain
myStory: под стеклянным колпаком статуэтка горного козла на вершине горы
heisigStory: Here we see a mountain goat "mounted" under a glass canopy. In this and the following frames, think of a particular Mount you know.
koohiiStory1: White mount , Fuji mount , olympus mount whatever ....The choice is yours but wherever you go they sell those snowglobe souvenir : under a GLASS HOOD you can see the mount with a MOUTAIN GOAT standing on top of it .... So kitsch you just can´t forget it .
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: おか
readingExamples: 岡 (おか)
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koohiiStory2: This has the same meaning as 丘, so my "Mount" is a hill with mountain goats on it under a glass canopy. It´s obviously an effort by the locals to add some Mount atmosphere to their hill. As a primitive, it has the meaning "sturdy" (really), which Heisig has not used for some reason, but I will. The glass canopy must be pretty sturdy to keep the goats inside (bulletproof glass, I´m sure).

keyword: линь, канат
kanji: 綱
constituent: hawser, thread, spiderman, mount
myStory: спайдермэн ткет такой прочный канат из своей паутины, что им можно обвязывать горы
heisigStory: Thread . . . Mount.
koohiiStory1: A sturdy thread is equally obviously hawser (heavy rope). (see previous frame).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: つな
readingExamples: 綱 (つな)
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman saves Japan from floating away by tying Mt. Fuji to mainland Asia using a hawser made of web.
words: 横綱(よこづな): sumo grand champion
綱(つな): rope

keyword: крепкий, сильный, двужильный
kanji: 剛
constituent: sturdy, mount, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: гора очень крепкая - можешь бить ее мечом сколько угодно, ей ни жарко, ни холодно
heisigStory: Mount . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: Mount everest is very sturdy, you can hit it all day with a saber and it wont even wobble.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ゴウ
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koohiiStory2: Anything sturdy in Japan is associated with Mount Fuji. Perhaps this is because it´s symmetry is believed to make it rather sturdy itself, unlike all those crooked mountains that are around and tend to fall apart (think rock slides, avalanches, etc.). Here we see Sturdy-brand sabers with Mount Fuji engraved on the blade.

keyword: гончарные изделия, фарфор
kanji: 陶
constituent: pottery, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, bound up, tin can, noon, sign of the horse, shovel
myStory: На Вершине, еду кладут не в консервные банки, а связывают и гладут в разнообразные гончарные изделия
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . bound up . . . tin can.
koohiiStory1: Pottery is used for food preservation, the pinnacle of which today is food bound up in tin cans.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
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koohiiStory2: This chinese man was making the best china pottery in all of ... China. For some reason he insisted on working at the top of a pinnacle, away from the distractions of the world. He kept in touch with the local people, and took orders, through bound tin cans (tin cans bound with rope, the children's version of the telephone).
words: 鬱陶しい(うっとうしい): gloomy, depressing
陶器(とうき): pottery, ceramics

keyword: махать, трясти
kanji: 揺
constituent: swing, finger, fingers, condor, claw, vulture, king, mountain
myStory: (палец + кондор)
кондор: кондор как гриф, только больше в два раза и живет в горах
я размахиваю пальцами туда-сюда, пытаясь отогнать кондора
heisigStory: Fingers . . . condor.
koohiiStory1: Primitive: A condor is like a vulture but twice the size and lives in mountainous regions (+1 Elphalpo). Story: I swing my fingers back and forth, trying to fend off the attacking condor.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: ゆ.れる、ゆ.る、ゆ.らぐ、ゆ.るぐ、ゆ.する、ゆ.さぶる、ゆ.すぶる、うご.く
readingExamples: 揺さぶる (ゆ.さぶる), 揺すぶる (ゆ.すぶる), 揺する (ゆ.する), 揺らぐ (ゆ.らぐ), 揺る (ゆ.る), 揺るぐ (ゆ.るぐ), 揺れる (ゆ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: For the condor primitive: A condor is like a vulture, but twice as big and it lives near mountains (a suitable place for such a majestic bird). For swing: I´m sitting on a swing when a condor comes by and picks up the whole swing set with its big finger-like claws and now I´m swinging in mid-air. Weeeeeeeee!!!!!
words: 動揺(どうよう): disturbance, unrest, shaking, trembling, pitching, rolling, oscillation, agitation, excitement, commotion
揺さぶる(ゆさぶる): to shake, to jolt, to rock, to swing
揺らぐ(ゆらぐ): to swing, to sway, to shake, to tremble
揺れる(ゆれる): shake, quake

keyword: песнопение во время Noh
kanji: 謡
constituent: noh chanting, say, words, keitai, mouth, condor, claw, vulture, king, mountain
myStory: no chanting! ни слова больше! вы что, не знаете, что такие песнопения могут спровоцировать атаку кондоров?!
heisigStory: Words . . . condor.
koohiiStory1: Noh chanting?!? I meant "NO CHANTING!" Now all you, just shut up! Not another word! Don´t you know that chanting can provoke attacks from the local condor? So, no chanting, and especially no Noh chanting.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: うた.い、うた.う
readingExamples: 謡う (うた.う), 謡 (うたい)
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koohiiStory2: Picture guy dressed in a condor mask up on stage during Noh performance chanting some words nobody understands.
words: 歌謡(かよう): song, ballad
民謡(みんよう): folk song, popular song

keyword: насчет, что касается
kanji: 就
constituent: concerning, capital, tall, top hat, mouth, small, little, understandably, chihuahua with one human leg
myStory: в столицы ходили слухи насчет экспериментов по созданию собаки с человеческими ногами. эксперимент прошел так себе - получилась собака с одной человеческой ногой
heisigStory: Capital . . . chihuahua with a human leg in place of one of its paws.
koohiiStory1: In the capital they have been having hearings concerning bioethics and bioengineering they call as their first witness a chihuahua with one human leg.
jouYou: 6
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ、ジュ
kunYomi: つ.く、つ.ける
readingExamples: 就任 (しゅうにん), 就寝 (しゅうしん), 去就 (きょしゅう), 就く (つ.く), 就ける (つ.ける)
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koohiiStory2: Ahem...CONCERNING your recent science fair project, it was a CAPITAL idea, but the CHIHUAHUA with a HUMAN LEG is freaking out the other contestants!
words: 就業(しゅうぎょう): employment, starting work
就任(しゅうにん): inauguration
就職(しゅうしょく): finding employment, inauguration
就く(つく): settle in (place), take (seat, position), study (under teacher)

keyword: общительный, открытый
kanji: 懇
constituent: sociable, skunk, silver, heart
myStory: (скунс + серебро + сердце)
скунсы очень общительные, предлагая доступ к своему серебряному сердцу каждому
heisigStory: Skunk . . . silver . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: The skunk here is Pepe LePew of Looney Tunes fame. He´s a very sociable skunk, as far as skunks go, but instead of having a "heart of gold" he has a heart of silver (since he always finishes second in the game of love).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
kunYomi: ねんご.ろ
readingExamples: 懇ろ (ねんご.ろ)
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koohiiStory2: The skunk here is Pepe LePew of Looney Tunes fame. He´s a very sociable skunk, as far as skunks go, but instead of having a "heart of gold" he has a heart of silver.

keyword: открытие новых рисовых полей
kanji: 墾
constituent: groundbreaking, skunk, silver, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: на открытие нового рисового поля приперся серебряный скунс. ноги разбегающихся гостей очень хорошо вспахали землю.
heisigStory: The groundbreaking referred to here is not for the erection of new buildings but for the opening of farmlands. The elements: skunk . . . silver . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: It was the groundbreaking of the new farm, but there was an uninvited guest to the ceremony. It was a famous skunk, the one with the familiar silver stripe. The feet of the crowd rushing from the ceremony site churned up the soil very nicely. The ceremony was ruined but the groundbreaking was a great success.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
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koohiiStory2: I got sprayed by a skunk, so no one is helping me with the groundbreaking of my farm. On a positive note, I found silver laying all over the soil. Mine all mine!

keyword: оправдание (нехватки вежливости) (п: кролик)
kanji: 免
constituent: excuse, village stocks, rabbit, bound up, human legs
myStory: Кролик из "Алисы в стране чудес" оправдывается за опоздание перед Королевой
heisigStory: This character is used for excusing oneself for a failure of courtesy. The elements are: bound up . . . sun (oddly enough, laid on its side) . . . human legs.
heisigComment: * For the primitive meaning, we shall refer to this character as a rabbit, for which the old form of the character is 兔.
koohiiStory1: Obviously this is the rabbit from Alice, excusing himself and rushing away on his legs, as he has a binding day schedule. This is at the same time an image, with bound=ears, day=head and legs are just legs. The image is used in rabbit (#2093).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: メン
kunYomi: まぬか.れる、まぬが.れる
readingExamples: 免れる (まぬか.れる)
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koohiiStory2: What is the rabbit´s excuse for being such a jerk? Well he was bound up for a whole day while being stepped on by peoples human legs in some make-up labratory. Yeah I think I can excuse him after knowing that.
words: 御免ください(ごめんください): May I come in?
御免なさい(ごめんなさい): I beg your pardon, excuse me
免れる(まぬかれる): to escape from, to be rescued from, to avoid, to evade, to avert, to elude, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to get rid of
免除(めんじょ): exemption, exoneration, discharge
御免(ごめん): your pardon, declining (something), dismissal, permission
免許(めんきょ): license, permit, certificate
免税(めんぜい): tax exemption

keyword: ускользать, избегать
kanji: 逸
constituent: deviate, elude, village stocks, rabbit, bound up, human legs, road
myStory: несмотря на то, что Кролик опоздал, он избежал гнева Королевы, потому что Алиса в этот момент появилась в замке
heisigStory: Rabbit . . . road.
koohiiStory1: Word play to differentiate elude/evade: elude ~= e-lewd. Alice is following Mr. Rabbit on the road. Mr. Rabbit flashes her in a lewd way and disappears, completely eluding her.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イツ
kunYomi: そ.れる、そ.らす、はぐ.れる
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koohiiStory2: Even though the white rabbit was late, he eluded the wrath of the the Queen of Hearts because Alice was coming up the road.
words: 逸らす(そらす): to turn away, to avert
逸れる(それる): stray from subject, get lost, go astray

keyword: пони
kanji: 駒
constituent: pony, team of horses, phrase, bound up, mouth
myStory: лошадь постоянно повторяет фразу: "где мои пони?"
heisigStory: Team of horses . . . phrase. In American slang, a pony is an underground translation of a classical text, which students who cannot manage the difficult phrases of the original language consult and pass on from one generation to the next.
koohiiStory1: The new My Little Ponies show is all about magic horses who utter cute catch phrases.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ク
kunYomi: こま
readingExamples: 駒 (こま)
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koohiiStory2: A particular My Little Pony has a string that when you pull it, it repeats the same dumb phrase like "I love you".

keyword: наездник, счетчик наездников
kanji: 騎
constituent: equestrian, team of horses, strange, large, St. Bernard, street, nail, spike, mouth
myStory: наездники заставляют лошадей делать странные вещи на соревнованиях
heisigStory: Team of horses . . . strange.
koohiiStory1: Equestrian events are where you get horses to do strange things.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
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koohiiStory2: If the equestrian team used trojan horses, it would be really strange.

keyword: управлять, ездить, ехать
kanji: 駆
constituent: drive, team of horses, ward, box, sheaf
myStory: на Иксбоксе есть симулятор лошади, где ты можешь ездить на ней, управлять ей
heisigStory: Team of horses . . . ward.
koohiiStory1: You have to be craaazzzzyy to drive a buggy led by a team of horses through a ward of Tokyo!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ク
kunYomi: か.ける、か.る
readingExamples: 駆ける (か.ける), 駆る (か.る)
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koohiiStory2: You use teams of horses to drive you and your carriage around the ward.
words: 駆け足(かけあし): running fast, double time
駆けっこ(かけっこ): (foot) race
駆ける(かける): to run (race esp. horse), to gallop, to canter

keyword: шумливый
kanji: 騒
constituent: boisterous, team of horses, crotch, insect
myStory: лошадь начала вести себя весьма шумливо, когда ее в промежность укусило насекомое
heisigStory: Team of horses . . . crotch . . . insect.
koohiiStory1: Or more precisely: the team of horses are getting boisterous because one of them got bitten in the crotch by a horse fly. The kanji also means to roar, make up noise, to kick up a fuss and to make merry. Perhaps it is exactly the etymology behind this kanji.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: さわ.ぐ、うれい、さわ.がしい
readingExamples: 騒ぐ (さわ.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: The hidden Greeks inside the Trojan Horse are getting boisterous as one of them is bitten in the crotch by a nasty insect. If they don´t shut up, the Trojans will hear them...
words: 騒動(そうどう): strife, riot, rebellion
騒がしい(さわがしい): noisy
騒ぎ(さわぎ): uproar, disturbance
騒音(そうおん): noise
騒々しい(そうぞうしい): noisy, boisterous
物騒(ぶっそう): dangerous, disturbed, insecure
騒ぐ(さわぐ): make a noise

keyword: обременительный
kanji: 駄
constituent: burdensome, team of horses, plump, large, St. Bernard, drop
myStory: если пассажир толстый, то для лошади это весьма обременительно
heisigStory: Team of horses . . . plump.
koohiiStory1: If a passenger is too plump and heavy, its too burdensome for the horse.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ダ、タ
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koohiiStory2: If your horses get so plump to be good for nothing they just become burdensome.
words: 駄作(ださく): poor work, rubbish
無駄遣い(むだづかい): waste money on, squander money on, flog a dead horse
下駄(げた): wooden clogs
駄目(だめ): no, no good, hopeless
無駄(むだ): futility, uselessness

keyword: удивляться
kanji: 驚
constituent: wonder, awe, flowers, phrase, bound up, mouth, taskmaster, team of horses
myStory: люди благоговеют и удивляются мастерству наездника
heisigStory: Awe . . . team of horses.
koohiiStory1: You stand in AWE at the 8th WONDER of the world, a huge TROJAN HORSE.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: おどろ.く、おどろ.かす
readingExamples: 驚かす (おどろ.かす), 驚く (おどろ.く)
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koohiiStory2: This is another word for surprise. 驚く＝おどろく= surprise. The Trojans stood in awe of the magnificent Trojan Horse that they thought was a gift. But imagine their surprise (wonder) when a bunch of Greeks came rushing out of it! (To further cement the connection between the primitives, if needed: It´s a wonder that the Trojans managed to speak keigo 敬語 even then, saying "わたくしたちを殺さないでください!!お願い致します!!").
words: 驚き(おどろき): surprise, astonishment, wonder
驚異(きょうい): wonder, miracle
吃驚(びっくり): be surprised, be amazed, be frightened, astonishment
驚かす(おどろかす): surprise, frighten, create a stir
驚く(おどろく): to surprise

keyword: пылкий, сердечный
kanji: 篤
constituent: fervent, bamboo, team of horses
myStory: пылкую лошадь не надо подгонять бамбуковой палкой, она и так несется во всю прыть
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . team of horses.
koohiiStory1: A fervent horse doesnt need to be whipped with a bamboo stick during a race, it will go fast by itself.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トク
kunYomi: あつ.い
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koohiiStory2: A fervent history otaku rebuild the the Trojan Horse. But since he was Japanese, he used bamboo instead of normal wood.

keyword: инфляция
kanji: 騰
constituent: inflation, edam, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, quarter, team of horses
myStory: конина (вырезка из четвертинки лошади) каждый год увеличивается в цене из-за инфляции
heisigStory: Meat . . . quarter . . . team of horses.
koohiiStory1: Flesh+quarter=McDonald´s quarter pounder. Due to inflation, McDonald´s has had to start making quarter pounders out of horse meat.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トウ
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koohiiStory2: Every quarter moon, the cost of a trojan horse rises one quarter by inflation.
words: 沸騰(ふっとう): boiling, seething

keyword: тигр
kanji: 虎
constituent: tiger, magic wand, augury, cliff, hook, diced, seven, human legs
myStory: уникально, запомнить
магическая палка + скала + разрезанный + человеческие ноги
heisigStory: The kanji in this frame recalls the famous Bengali fable about the group of magicians (the magic wand) who decided to make a tiger. It seems that each of them knew how to make one part of the beast, so they pooled their talents and brought all the pieces (diced into pieces) together, at which point the fabricated tiger promptly ate its makers up (the bodiless human legs). Whatever the parable's significance for modern civilization and its arsenals, it should help with this kanji. Oh yes, we should not forget that cliff-like element. Think of it as an abbreviation of the primitive for zoo (the first and fourth strokes, actually), in order to fit the tiger somewhere into the picture. In fact, the abbreviation is perfectly logical, since the bottom elements usurp the room for the rest of the primitive for zoo.
heisigComment: * As a primitive element itself, the human legs are also swallowed up, but the meaning of tiger is kept, and the whole serves as a roof for what comes beneath 虍, giving the tiger something else to eat.
koohiiStory1: Magic wand + first two strokes of pelt (皮) + diced + human legs. A wizard who turns people he doesn´t like into newts with his magic wand goes for variety - he has always wanted a tiger pelt - but things go awry when the tiger promptly dices and eats him, leaving only a pair of legs. (a fitting end for a wicked wizard).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: とら
readingExamples: 虎 (とら)
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koohiiStory2: Tigger, the tiger, (from Pooh stories) is happy to have found a magic wand. Using it he can bounce up to a the top of a cliff, seven times as high as some human legs could bounce. Tigger thinks "Its great to be a tiger!
words: 虎(とら): tiger

keyword: пленник
kanji: 虜
constituent: captive, tiger, male, rice field, brains, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: пленных мужчин кидают тиграм
heisigStory: Tiger . . . man.
koohiiStory1: Captive men are thrown to the tigers. I think you can imagine something else is done to captive women...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョ、ロ
kunYomi: とりこ、とりく
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koohiiStory2: Tip: To avoid confusing keyword captive with captured (#1018) note that captive contains "ti" for tiger.
words: 捕虜(ほりょ): prisoner (of war)

keyword: пустота
kanji: 虚
constituent: void, tiger, row
myStory: тигры стоят в ряд, отправляя души жертв в пустоту
heisigStory: Tigers . . . row.
koohiiStory1: In Japanese folklore there is no hell, but there is the void. There, a row of tigers waits in the blackness to devour those souls who have failed in their spiritual life.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キョ、コ
kunYomi: むな.しい、うつ.ろ
readingExamples: 虚無 (きょむ), 虚偽 (きょぎ), 空虚 (くうきょ)
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koohiiStory2: Warning to Sigfreid and Roy: Your entertainment contract will be null and void unless you can make all the tigers stand in a row.
words: 謙虚(けんきょ): modesty, humility

keyword: резвость
kanji: 戯
constituent: frolic, void, tiger, row, fiesta
myStory: тепловая смерть Вселенной приближается! за ней будет пустота. что делать? порезвиться напоследок на празднике!
heisigStory: Void . . . fiesta.
koohiiStory1: This is a story about the end of the universe. The universe is turning into a featureless void. There´s nothing we can do about it except for throw a fiesta and frolic a little bit before it´s all over.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ、ゲ
kunYomi: たわむ.れる、ざ.れる、じゃ.れる
readingExamples: 戯れる (たわむ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Sigfreid and Roy´s contract having been voided, the tiger is free to frolic about at the fiesta.
words: 悪戯(いたずら): tease, prank, trick, practical joke, mischief
戯曲(ぎきょく): play, drama
不山戯る(ふざける): to romp, to gambol, to frolic, to joke, to make fun of, to flirt

keyword: тревога, страх
kanji: 虞
constituent: uneasiness, tiger, give, mouth, chair, tool
myStory: я что-то чувствую тревогу, когда даю тигру стейк
heisigStory: Tiger . . . give.
koohiiStory1: I feel a sense of uneasiness about giving this HUGE tiger a steak.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: グ
kunYomi: おそれ、おもんぱか.る、はか.る、うれ.える、あざむ.く、あやま.る、のぞ.む、たの.しむ
readingExamples: 虞 (おそれ)
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koohiiStory2: My dear friend, a Bengali merchant, gave me a tiger as a birthday present. I felt uneasiness, knowing that I´ll have to reject it. Or was it horror?

keyword: обдумывать
kanji: 慮
constituent: prudence, tiger, think, rice field, brains, heart
myStory: подумай-обдумай все хорошенько, перед тем как приближаться к тигру
heisigStory: Tiger . . . think.
koohiiStory1: Real meaning: "to ponder". You have to think with prudence (ponder carefully) about approaching a tiger, as is evident from 虎.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョ
kunYomi: おもんぱく.る、おもんぱか.る
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koohiiStory2: You have to think with prudence about approaching a tiger. If not, it will eat your brains and heart. Thanks raulir.
words: 配慮(はいりょ): consideration, concern, forethought
遠慮(えんりょ): diffidence, restraint, reserve
考慮(こうりょ): consideration, taking into account

keyword: тиранить, угнетать
kanji: 虐
constituent: tyrannize, tiger, one, box
myStory: тигр тиранит всех окружающих своими когтями
heisigStory: Tiger . . . box with a one in it (or a backwards broom, if that makes it easier).
koohiiStory1: Here we see the evil tyrannizing tiger. What is on his chest? A giant E, for EVIL, of course.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギャク
kunYomi: しいた.げる
readingExamples: 虐げる (しいた.げる)
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koohiiStory2: The "E" shape actually means claws here, and the real etymology is a tiger tyrannizing other animals with its claws (the etymologies actually make sense once in a blue moon!). I think of the claws here as two hooks, representing the front paws. (stroke order of that part: 二＋last of 直).

keyword: олень
kanji: 鹿
constituent: deer, cave, antlers, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: уникально, запомнить
heisigStory: Drawn on the walls of a complex of caves near Niaux in southern France are a number of animal likenesses dating from the Upper Paleolithic period. Among them we find pictures of deer, some of them showing men in deer masks. By comparing their drawings to real deer, Stone Age people hoped to acquire power over the animal in the hunt; and by comparing themselves to the deer, to take on that animal's characteristics. But time has locked with a "double-key" (the extra stroke through the element for key) the real secret of this art form from us, and we can only surmise such meanings. But more important than the enigmas of the troglodytic mind is the way in which caves, a double-key, and comparing gives us the kanji for deer.
heisigComment: * As a primitive, this kanji is abbreviated much the same as the tiger was: the lower element is dropped to leave room for a replacement. Its meaning, however, remains the same. There are a very few cases (see frame 2158) in which there is no abbreviation. When this happens, we may keep the image suggested by the above explanation: painting of a deer.
koohiiStory1: Bambi wanders into a cave and sees a side order of salad and 2 spoons...but what´s the main course?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ロク
kunYomi: しか、か
readingExamples: 鹿 (しかか)
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koohiiStory2: Santa´s reindeer, Rudolf, opens a nightclub in a cave. It´s popular with all the deer and reindeer in the world. The cave speciality is a salad w/ dressing on the side. There is no other deer club that can compare. How many other deer nightclubs are there?
words: 馬鹿馬鹿しい(ばかばかしい): stupid
馬鹿らしい(ばからしい): absurd
馬鹿(ばか): fool, idiot, trivial matter, folly

keyword: рекомендовать, рекомендация
kanji: 薦
constituent: recommend, flowers, deer, cave, antlers, slingshot, catapult, tail feathers
myStory: в ресторане:
 - что вы порекомендуете отведать?
 - могу рекомендовать салат из цветов, оленину и филе птиц
heisigStory: Flowers . . . deer . . . one . . . tail feathers. Note the doubling up in these last two elements as in frame 2091.
koohiiStory1: Customer in restaurant asks you (waiter) what you recommend: "I recommend ze deer or ze 'eadless chicken. And I recommend you garnish it wiz some flowers." (let last six strokes = headless chicken).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: すす.める
readingExamples: 薦める (すす.める)
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koohiiStory2: It is recommended that deers stick to eating flowers. If they try to eat birds, they may end up choking on them, like this one here. Note that the head (白) is gone and the visible part of the body which is normally written with a stroke of the head must by necessity be drawn with a stroke of the tail.
words: 推薦(すいせん): recommendation

keyword: ликование
kanji: 慶
constituent: jubilation, deer, cave, antlers, crown, heart, walking legs
myStory: король Ричард Львиное Сердце привез много оленины. его войско ликует
heisigStory: Deer . . . crown (note the doubling up) . . . heart . . . walking legs. You may recall that we met the relative primitives at the bottom here before, in the kanji for melancholy (Frame 663).
koohiiStory1: The hunter experienced jubilation when the deer with melancholy walked up to him and said, "just shoot me, whats the point in running. Everyone dies someday..."
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: よろこ.び
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koohiiStory2: Bambi was melancholy at the death of his mother, but is now in jubilation as he´s made friends with thumper.
words: 慶び(よろこび): joy, delight, rapture, pleasure, gratification, rejoicing, congratulations, felicitations
慶ぶ(よろこぶ): be delighted, be glad

keyword: прекрасный, красивый
kanji: 麗
constituent: lovely, one, ceiling, mediocre, deer, cave, antlers, compare, ceiling2, mediocre2, compare2
myStory: две посредственности, свисающие с потолка, не затмят красивого оленя
heisigStory: The painting of a deer itself with its form and color is enough to fill the bill for an image of something lovely. But to give a bit of contrast, we see two mediocre drawings from a later age on two patches of ceiling above. Note that the drop in mediocre has been lengthened somewhat and the second stroke drawn down straight.
koohiiStory1: The anthropologist made an exact deer painting from the cave ceiling on the ceiling of his house. Too bad they´re both mediocre. All his wife could say was, "How...lovely.".
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レイ
kunYomi: うるわ.しい、うら.らか
readingExamples: 麗しい (うるわ.しい)
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koohiiStory2: Lovely bambi.... pictographe : just take a look at those innocent open eyes (part 1 it´s not more far fetched than seeing mediocre in it) with thin eyebrows what a lovely deer ...(part 2).
words: 奇麗(きれい): pretty, clean, nice, tidy, beautiful, fair

keyword: медведь
kanji: 熊
constituent: bear, ability, elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, spoon, sitting on the ground, oven-fire, barbecue, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: медведи имеют способность гулять над огнем
heisigStory: Elbow . . . meat . . . spoon ATOP spoon . . . oven fire.
koohiiStory1: Most don´t know it, but bears have the ability to walk on fire. They´re invincible creatures!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ
kunYomi: くま
readingExamples: 熊 (くま)
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koohiiStory2: Note : I don´t know why James Heisig put "bear" ahead of "ability" (next frame), but I sugget to skip this, learn the next kanji ("ability") then go back here and use ability as a primitive.

keyword: отношение (к чему-то)
kanji: 態
constituent: attitude, ability, elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, spoon, sitting on the ground, heart, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: сердце способно относиться к людям по-разному
heisigStory: Ability . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: This guy has an attitude problem – lots of ability, but his heart´s not in it.
jouYou: 5
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タイ
kunYomi: わざ.と
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koohiiStory2: Having a good attitude means believing in your heart that you have the ability to do anything - like memorizing more than 2000 kanji, for example.
words: 形態(けいたい): form, shape, figure
実態(じったい): truth, fact
態勢(たいせい): attitude, conditions, preparations
態々(わざわざ): expressly, specially, doing something especially rather than incidentally
事態(じたい): situation, present state of affairs, circumstances
状態(じょうたい): current status, condition, situation, circumstances, state
態度(たいど): attitude, manner

keyword: знак тигра
kanji: 寅
constituent: sign of the tiger, house, caterpillar, one, ceiling, sprout, shoot, animal legs, eight
myStory: тигр съел все желтое в доме
heisigStory: House . . . ceiling . . . sprout . . . animal legs. Compare, and do not confuse with, the kanji in frame 1887.
koohiiStory1: I don't know why but when I read sign of the tiger I get the "eye of the tiger song" stuck in my head. So I see rocky training in his house. Hes hitting the ceiling (no punching bag) eating brussel sprouts to keep in good health and running with only the animal legs his dog.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: イン
kunYomi: とら
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koohiiStory2: The sign of the tiger is that he´s eaten all of the yellow (#1750) salad in the house.

keyword: знак дракона
kanji: 辰
constituent: sign of the dragon, cliff, two, hairpin, safety-pin
myStory: дракона пришпилили двумя заколками к скале
heisigStory: Cliff . . . two . . . hairpins.
koohiiStory1: I'm going with the Mortal Kombat Symbol, as it's the closest thing to a sign of the dragon I know. In that game, there's a place called the pit to which you can throw your opponent on round two, but only with a hairpin punch.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン、ジン
kunYomi: たつ
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koohiiStory2: The kid said "I don´t believe you! Dragons don´t exist!" so we made a little surprise for him: we pinned a huge dragon (it was just a sign really) on a nearby cliff. "Whoaaa! Dragon!" the kid said. "But why won´t it move?" "I tell you why, cause it´s pinned there with two hairpins" I thought to myself.

keyword: смущать, стеснять
kanji: 辱
constituent: embarrass, sign of the dragon, cliff, two, hairpin, safety-pin, glue
myStory: если дракона приклеить к земле, то, если он попытается взлететь, то не сможет, и очень смутится
heisigStory: Sign of the dragon . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: If you get too close to a fire-breathing dragon, your skin can turn red from the burn. When someone is embarrassed, it's as though they have this sign of the dragon stuck to their face.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジョク
kunYomi: はずかし.める
readingExamples: 辱める (はずかし.める)
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koohiiStory2: The sign of the dragon falls off the cliff, to our great embarassment (see sign of the dragon (#2008)) We should have glued it there!
words: 侮辱(ぶじょく): insult, contempt, slight

keyword: трясти
kanji: 振
constituent: shake, finger, fingers, sign of the dragon, cliff, two, hairpin, safety-pin
myStory: когда видишь дракона, твои пальцы начинают трястись
heisigStory: Fingers . . . sign of the dragon.
koohiiStory1: Your mother shakes herfinger violently - no, no, no - no Mortal Kombat today!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: ふ.る、ぶ.る、ふ.り、-ぶ.り、ふ.るう
readingExamples: 振る (ふ.る), 振るう (ふ.るう)
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koohiiStory2: If you're talking to someone and notice that theirfingers are starting to shake, it's often a sign of the dragon being behind you where the other person can see him coming.
words: 振興(しんこう): promotion, encouragement
振動(しんどう): oscillation, vibration
久し振り(ひさしぶり): after a long time
不振(ふしん): dullness, depression, slump, stagnation
振り(ふり): pretence, show, appearance
振り出し(ふりだし): outset, starting point, drawing or issuing (draft)
身振り(みぶり): gesture
振り仮名(ふりがな): hiragana over kanji, pronunciation key
振る(ふる): wave, shake, swing, sprinkle, cast (actor), allocate (work)
振舞う(ふるまう): behave, conduct oneself, entertain

keyword: беременная
kanji: 娠
constituent: with child, woman, sign of the dragon, cliff, two, hairpin, safety-pin
myStory: беременная женщина подобна дракону... лучше ее не злить
heisigStory: Woman . . . sign of the dragon. The key word is a synonym for pregnant, whose character we met earlier (Frame 546). Although the two kanji are often used together, they should be kept distinct.
koohiiStory1: A woman who is with child can't be sacrificed to the dragon; virgins only need apply.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
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koohiiStory2: The woman hides the dragon from poachers under her shirt, pretending she's with child. "Seen any sign of the dragon?" ask the poachers. "Nope, haven't seen him," replies the woman.
words: 妊娠(にんしん): conception, pregnancy

keyword: губы
kanji: 唇
constituent: lips, sign of the dragon, cliff, two, hairpin, safety-pin, mouth
myStory: у китайских драконов довольно большие губы у рта
heisigStory: Sign of the dragon . . . mouth.
koohiiStory1: Sign of the Dragon + Mouth: Lips need chapstick during the wintertime so they don't look like the sign of the dragon who kissed you on the mouth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シン
kunYomi: くちびる
readingExamples: 唇 (くちびる)
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koohiiStory2: As I approached her lips, I began to sense the sign of the dragon breath coming from her mouth, and I almost fainted.
words: 唇(くちびる): lips

keyword: огр, тролль, демон
kanji: 鬼
constituent: ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow
myStory: капля мозгов, большие ноги и локти, чтобы крушить. огр.
heisigStory: Drop of . . . brains . . . human legs . . . elbow.
koohiiStory1: 鬼(おに) is not a ghost. An ogre or a troll would be a more fitting translation. Such a thing has but a drop of brains and uses its legs and elbows as deadly weapons (a concept which should be familiar from the license (#765) to kill). I'll use "ogre" for this.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: おに、おに-
readingExamples: 鬼 (おに)
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koohiiStory2: A ghost, or oni, wandering slowly on its human legs, searching for brains to eat. What looks like an elbow here is actually a pictoral representation of the forked tail protruding out of its rear.
words: 鬼(おに): ogre, demon

keyword: уродливый
kanji: 醜
constituent: ugly, whiskey bottle, ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow
myStory: огр слишком уродлив, чтобы идти на свидание, поэтому он просто напивается в баре
heisigStory: Whiskey bottle . . . ghost.
koohiiStory1: The ugly oni can´t get a date so he drinks sake by himself at the bar.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: みにく.い、しこ
readingExamples: 醜い (みにく.い)
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koohiiStory2: Drinking too much whisky can make you as ugly as an oni.
words: 醜い(みにくい): ugly

keyword: душа
kanji: 魂
constituent: soul, rising cloud, two, elbow, wall, ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow, elbow2
myStory: даже огр имеет душу, которая после его смерти, как поднимающееся облако, воспаряет к небесам
heisigStory: Rising cloud of . . . ghosts.
koohiiStory1: When you die, your SOUL either goes to the RISING CLOUDS (heaven) or to the ONI (hell, the devil).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: コン
kunYomi: たましい、たま
readingExamples: 魂 (たましい)
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koohiiStory2: When we die, our soul rises up in a ghostlike rising cloud of mist up to heaven (we hope) (Adapted from darg_sama,28-10-2005).
words: 魂(こん): soul, spirit

keyword: ведьма
kanji: 魔
constituent: witch, hemp, cliff, grove, tree, wood, ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow, tree2, wood2
myStory: ведьма продала мне немного конопли, чтобы я увидел огров
heisigStory: Hemp . . . ghost. Take care not to confuse with the primitive of the same name we learned earlier (Frame 458).
koohiiStory1: This modern version of the witch lives in some hippie community. She smokes a lot of hemp, and spends the day talking to ghosts, which not surprisingly appears only to her.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: マ
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koohiiStory2: The witch sold me some hemp that made me see ghosts don´t do drugs.
words: お邪魔します(おじゃまします): Excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you
誤魔化す(ごまかす): to deceive, to falsify, to misrepresent
邪魔(じゃま): obstacle, intrusion
悪魔(あくま): evil spirit, devil, demon

keyword: очарование
kanji: 魅
constituent: fascination, ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: огры еще не покинули мир, потому что он имеет потрясающее очарование
heisigStory: Ghost . . . not yet.
koohiiStory1: Ghosts have not yet left the world, they must still have a deep fascination with their past life on Earth.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ミ
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koohiiStory2: Here the "Ghostbusters" founder talks about his fascination for ghosts (picture Dan Arkroyd in the movie if that helps). He says he has a fascination for ghosts ever since he saw one as a teenager. Since then he´s been scouring all of the world, trying to capture them on tape, on video... A journalist asks "When will it end ? Aren´t you tired of chasing ghosts ?" "Oh no, not yet ! Not until I become a ghost myself anyway !".
words: 魅力(みりょく): charm, fascination, glamour

keyword: глыба
kanji: 塊
constituent: clod, soil, dirt, ground, ghost, oni, drop, brains, rice field, human legs, elbow
myStory: одно из оружий огров - кидать глыбы земли во врагов
heisigStory: Soil . . . ghost.
koohiiStory1: Without any weapons, our only defense was to throw clods of dirt at the advancing oni horde. (Adapted from dingomick because zombie was used as a primitive for drag+rag).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カイ、ケ
kunYomi: かたまり、つちくれ
readingExamples: 塊 (かたまり)
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koohiiStory2: All too often I find myself vaccuming clods of dirt with my Dirt Devil.
words: 塊(かたまり): lump, mass, clod, cluster

keyword: атака, нападать
kanji: 襲
constituent: attack, old dragon, vase, stand up, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, slingshot, catapult, snake, self, three, cloth, clothes, clothing, garment, dragon*
myStory: дракон в одеяния - боевой дракон - напал на враждебное войско
heisigStory: Vase . . . meat . . . slingshot (doubled up with) snake . . . three . . . garment. The top half of this character is the old form for the kanji in frame 575.
koohiiStory1: The top 16 strokes are the chinese radical for "dragon". Joining up both meanings of the radical we can name the top part of this kanji "imperial dragon". Two-headed snakes do exist as biological curiosities, and they look a bit like a slingshot (with the heads splitting at a junction). Our imperial dragon here, the pet of a Chinese emperor, is a rare "three-headed slingshot-snake" kept in a vase and fed with meat. When the emperor attacked neighbours, his army wore the imperial dragon garment.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: おそ.う、かさ.ね
readingExamples: 襲う (おそ.う)
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koohiiStory2: You attack an old dragon 龍 and take his clothes. REF: dragon [old] (#2981).
words: 襲う(おそう): to attack
襲撃(しゅうげき): attack, charge, raid

keyword: упрекать
kanji: 嚇
constituent: menacing, upbraid, mouth, incandescent, red, red2
myStory: когда тебе говорят упрёки, ты становишься вдвойне красным
koohiiStory1: To upbraid someone, you criticize them in a menacing way. In other words, you jaw at them with your MOUTH until both sides of their face turn RED (hence the double-red).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カク
kunYomi: おど.かす
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koohiiStory2: Tip: Heisig later names 赫 "red + red" as incandescent (#2908). Story: "So the boss upbraided you, huh?". "Yep, his mouth was incandescent.

keyword: королевское множественное число (обращение)
kanji: 朕
constituent: majestic plural, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, golden calf, horns, heavens
myStory: только королевским особам можно гладить тело цербера
koohiiStory1: The queen is not happy. "We (majestic plural) are not amused that the hunger for the flesh of the wooly mammoth has caused it's extinction. Poor Charles is particularly upset.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チン
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koohiiStory2: The king says "Only We are allowed to partake of the flesh of the golden calf.".

keyword: атмосфера
kanji: 雰
constituent: atmosphere, rain, weather, part
myStory: часть небес, которая ответственна за погоду - атмосфера
koohiiStory1: The part of the sky that is responsible for weather and rain is known as the atmosphere. It only occupies part of the sky though.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: フン
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koohiiStory2: (This is atmosphere as in ambiance, mood). Rain is only part of the atmosphere for a romantic porch date. Food, music, and candles are the rest.
words: 雰囲気(ふんいき): atmosphere (e.g. musical), mood, ambience

keyword: пункт, счетчик предметов
kanji: 箇
constituent: item, bamboo, harden, pent in, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: твердыми бамбуковыми палочками удобно считать предметы
koohiiStory1: Dragon Quest - You find a hardened bamboo stick, perfect for a weapon, but you can´t pick it up because your items are full.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: カ、コ
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koohiiStory2: You´ve entered in a chinese shop where apparently the only item in sale is old, dusty, hardened bamboo (for construction for example). It looks like these items have been there forever. Asking the clerk if anything else is available, he doesn´t understand and instead asks - "Two items? Three items?" (the kanji is a counter for items) - thinking you want to buy something.
words: 箇所(かしょ): passage, place, point, part
箇条書き(かじょうがき): itemized form, itemization
箇箇(ここ): individual, separate

keyword: закалка
kanji: 錬
constituent: tempering, metal, gold, east, tree, wood, sun, day
myStory: восточные мечи славятся закалкой металла
koohiiStory1: In the East, especially Japan ...there are masters of tempering metal to great strength....on the Spring of Trivia show in Japan I saw how a Japanese sword ...actually split flying bullets...all because of special Eastern tempering techniques.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レン
kunYomi: ね.る
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koohiiStory2: Tempering should be done with the metal facing east. (If not, the metal may pick up the earth´s magnetic field).

keyword: соблюдать (напр., условия сделки)
kanji: 遵
constituent: abide by, revered, Mother Teresa, chieftain, Molotov cocktail, animal horns, whiskey bottle, glue, road
myStory: ты должен соблюдать ПДД, они запрещают нажираться в стельку, приклеиваться к седлу и ехать по дороге, хоть ты и уважаемый тип!
koohiiStory1: You must abide by the revered rules of the road! No devil´s brew and stay glued to your lane in the road!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ジュン
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koohiiStory2: Even the most revered person must still abide by the rules of the road -- no exceptions are granted to anyone.

keyword: уходить, бросать (дело)
kanji: 罷
constituent: quit, eye, cross-eyed, net, ability, elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: эй! не смотри на меня свысока! я способен бросить все и уйти, и мучайтесь с этим дерьмом сами!
koohiiStory1: Hey, screw you! Don´t you look down on me! I have the ability to quit anytime I want!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヒ
kunYomi: まか.り-、や.める
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koohiiStory2: My eye doesn´t seem to have the ability to quit staring at her...　　　　　RTK2:　ヒ　罷業　ひぎょう(a walkout).

keyword: барак, казарма, полицейская станция
kanji: 屯
constituent: barracks, earthworm, drop, shovel, fishhook
myStory: в бараках много червей
koohiiStory1: The game characters from Worms sleep in their barracks at night.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: トン
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koohiiStory2: Earthworm jim sleeps in a barracks because he is a soldier... apparently.

keyword: более того
kanji: 且
constituent: moreover, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: у меня много полок для книг. более того, книги стоят и на полу тоже
koohiiStory1: Moreover is a literary term to shelve what you had just been talking about, to come back to it later.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショ、ソ、ショウ
kunYomi: か.つ
readingExamples: 且つ (か.つ)
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koohiiStory2: Same as darg_sama. Play on words. I imagine visiting someone who has an impressive collection of medals and trophies (chess champion, for example). After spending an hour showing you all the trophies in the glass shelf, you think "Whew! It´s over." ... but the person says "... and wait, there´s "moreover" !", pointing at more trophies lined atop the glass shelf.
words: 且つ(かつ): yet, and

keyword: морские водоросли
kanji: 藻
constituent: seaweed, flowers, water, water droplets, water pistol, furniture, goods, mouth, tree, wood, mouth3
myStory: я делаю мебель из морских растений. из водорослей в том числе
koohiiStory1: Goods + wood = paper. You know how nori, ie: seaweed, comes in sheets for putting in your ramen or for your sushi? Well that's because it's water paper! Seaweed is also a sea flower of sorts, so it all just works out.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: も
readingExamples: 藻 (も)
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koohiiStory2: Let wooden goods = furniture. Then: Walking along the sea shore you see some washed-up furniture with water (waves) splashing against it. From a distance it looks like flowers are growing out the top, but as you get closer you see it is in fact seaweed.
words: 藻掻く(もがく): to struggle, to wriggle, to be impatient

keyword: раб
kanji: 隷
constituent: slave, samurai, altar, show, two, small, sieve, rake, grains of rice
myStory: доброжелательный раб с готовностью просеивает зерна риса
koohiiStory1: In an attempt to free them from being slaves to their desires, the samurai stands behind the altar likening a clear mind to a sieve that lets only the purest thoughts through.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: レイ
kunYomi: したが.う、しもべ
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koohiiStory2: Careful: retainer (#848). Think of slave in the virtual sense (a slave to your passions). The samurai is standing on the altar lecturing about goodwill (see goodwill (#1097)). He notices the boredom of most of the crowd. However some audience members are attentive about the message of goodwill. The samurai views his sermon as a sieve of character: those of good character pass through and see the merit; those of poor character - slaves to their passions - are blocked from understanding.

keyword: исцеление, лечить
kanji: 癒
constituent: healing, sickness, hospital, in the nick of time, meeting of butchers, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sword, sabre, saber, heart
myStory: мы дрались с пещерным человеком, но он был очень силен! это было похоже на бойню во время встречи мясников. к счастью, прист вылечил наши сердца
koohiiStory1: (Think rpg!) We were in dire need of healing. Our party was fighting the cavemen, but we didn't fare too well. It was more like a butcher's meeting than a fight... just as they were about to pierce my heart, luckily a priest came along and used his healing spell in the nick of time (#2433).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユ
kunYomi: い.える、いや.す
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koohiiStory2: Note: meeting of butchers + heart are later combined into 愈 in the nick of time (#2433). Story: For healing to take place, you must catch the sickness in the nick of time.

keyword: киноварь
kanji: 丹
constituent: rust colored, cinnabar, ship´s funnel
myStory: ржавая лодка с отвалившимся носом как будто покрыта киноварью
koohiiStory1: How about a rusty cinnabar colored dilapidated boat, found abandoned somewhere. The smoke-stack and the keel have fallen off...
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: に
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koohiiStory2: Rusty old boat with the bottom and top missing.

keyword: лагуна
kanji: 潟
constituent: lagoon, water, water droplets, water pistol, mortar, tail feathers
myStory: (вода + ступка + птичий хвост)
уникально, запомнить
koohiiStory1: Right part: mortar bound up over oven fire, comprising boiling cauldron. Lagoon is a shallow pond, thus easily warmed by sun, large-scale equivalent of a boiling cauldron.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: セキ
kunYomi: かた、-がた
readingExamples: 潟 (かた)
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koohiiStory2: I stapled both sides of some tail feathers to a waterfall towering over the lagoon to give it a more tropical feel…　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　On list of rare or no official Chinese reading.

keyword: знак коровы
kanji: 丑
constituent: sign of the cow, dagger, two
myStory: корова не умерла от одного удара кинжала, пришлось воткнуть и второй
koohiiStory1: Pictograph of a stanchion, which includes two vertical posts to restrain cows so they can be milked, with a horizontal stroke showing the number of cows per stanchion: one. A stanchion is a great symbol for the SIGN OF THE COW, since modern, domesticated cows are often stanchioned in barns.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: チュウ
kunYomi: うし
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koohiiStory2: 77 cows behind a fence.

keyword: знак зайца
kanji: 卯
constituent: sign of the hare, blown eggs
myStory: это примитив + похоже на уши зайца
koohiiStory1: You know how missing childrens´ pictures often appear on milk cartons? Well here we have a missing hare. His concerned family is having his picture printed on the backs of receipts and even on stamps. So far, however, there has been no SIGN OF THE HARE.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ボウ、モウ
kunYomi: う
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koohiiStory2: rabbit ears.
words: 卯(ぼう): fourth sign of Chinese zodiac (The Hare 5am-7am east February)

keyword: знак змеи
kanji: 巳
constituent: sign of the snake, mosaic with bit missing
myStory: змея любит тырить кусочки мозаики
koohiiStory1: The 巳nd! Thanks all.
jouYou: Names
jlpt: 1
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: み
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koohiiStory2: The snake likes stealing pieces from mosaics, so if you notice your mosaic has a piece missing, that’s a sign of the snake.

keyword: стеклянный
kanji: 璃
constituent: crystal, king, jewel, ball, sheik, top hat, villain, sheaf, shovel, belt, elbow
myStory: негодяй в шляпе с пояском на локте похитил драгоценность... она оказалась стеклянной
heisigStory: This kanji refers to one of the seven classical stones of China. Its elements: jewel . . . top hat . . . villain . . . belt . . . elbow.
koohiiStory1: Michael Jackson is the king of pop, wearing his crystal rhinestone glove (see detach (#1492).
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リ
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koohiiStory2: In my story for detatch detach (#1492), the left side primitive was junkie. The top-hatted villian of society with a belt around their elbow. Here, the junkie is getting a fix of crystal meth: the jewel in the crown of today´s drugs.

keyword: хвастливое указание на себя (myself)
kanji: 俺
constituent: myself, person, dachshund, large, St. Bernard, eel, sun, day
myStory: герой стукнул себя в грудь: "это я убил гигантского угря!"
heisigStory: The key word refers to a very familiar way of referring to oneself, typically used by men. Its component elements: person . . . St. Bernard . . . eel.
koohiiStory1: I did it all by myself! Mr T stands there proud as holding a moray eel in his hand. He´s brought down terrorist organisations, drug syndicates, but gets all worked up when catching a fish... what a guy.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: エン
kunYomi: おれ、われ
readingExamples: 俺 (おれ)
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koohiiStory2: As astridtops mentions, this is "Ore". In Japanese r = l, so could write it "Ole". So picture a bullfight with person as the matador and a dachshund replacing the bull. The crowd keep shouting "Ole! (Ore)".
words: 俺(おれ): I (ego) (boastful first-person pronoun)

keyword: ступка
kanji: 臼
constituent: mortar, back to back staples
myStory: ступкой можно измельчить даже скрепки в металлическую пыль
heisigStory: The image here is of back-to-back staples. The mortar referred to in this key word is a stone or wooden basin used for grinding with a pestle.
koohiiStory1: I removed all the back to back staples and grinded them in a mortar to create metal dust.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キュウ、グ
kunYomi: うす、うすづ.く
readingExamples: 臼 (うす)
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koohiiStory2: The mortar bomb exploded, ripping the sun in half.

keyword: ломать, уничтожать
kanji: 毀
constituent: break, mortar, soil, dirt, ground, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: (я знаю, это бред)
если ступкой ты измельчишь землю  добавишь туда сперму, то все сломаешь
heisigStory: Mortar . . . soil . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: To "break the soil" is to make a symbolic gesture that indicates the beginning of construction. Like when a politician in a hardhat gets a shovel and lifts a piece of dirt. This particular project is behind schedule, so to speed things up, they blow it up with mortar and an air-to-ground missile.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: こぼ.つ、こわ.す、こぼ.れる、こわ.れる、そし.る、やぶ.る
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koohiiStory2: Place your mortar on solid ground before firing missiles from it, otherwise it will break.

keyword: позвоночник
kanji: 脊
constituent: spinal column, I Ching, Master Po, umbrella, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: наиболее важная, славная часть тела - позвоночник
heisigStory: The spinal column has sprouted out of the flesh of your back into an umbrella that you always have with you, rain or shine. The pair of 2s on each side are the "ribs" of the umbrella. Take care to keep your image of the key word distinct from that for spine (Frame 24).
koohiiStory1: Look, says the teacher in biology class. "The spinal column holds your flesh together, just like the metal rod of this umbrella (he demonstrates this with an umbrella covered in I-Ching symbols) holds the umbrella together".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セキ
kunYomi: せ、せい
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koohiiStory2: A pictograph of a spinal column. The umbrella representing the shoulder blades, the I Ching as the shoulder muscles and the part of the body as the spine itself.

keyword: императорская печать
kanji: 璽
constituent: imperial seal, let it be, noren, one, ceiling, eight, towel, stitching, patchwork quilt, jewel, earring
myStory: оттиск императорской печати даже грязное полотенце превращает в сокровище
koohiiStory1: The imperial seal is usually an impressive mark made with a jewel. However when the letter arrives it has been raining on it and you see that the drops of rain have been transformed into little x’s where some animal legs have run over it.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジ
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koohiiStory2: Primitives (to give correct stroke order): tool bench, towel, 4 Xs, jewel. Story: the Imperial Seal is like a kind of coat-of-arms the Emperor can stamp on stuff. Picture that coat-of-arms as depicting a big jewel (say, a diamond) with a motto on a banner above it saying 'let it be (#2074)'. (The emperor must have been a huge Beatles fan).

keyword: чарующий
kanji: 妖
constituent: bewitched, woman, sapling
myStory: женщины с неба, очевидно, чарующи
heisigStory: You are bewitched by a woman who is, of course, a witch.
koohiiStory1: If you don´t want to get bewitched (and who would?), then avoid any woman you see carrying what might appear to be a sapling. It´s really a wand in disguise, and if you´re not aware you might get bewitched.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: あや.しい、なま.めく、わざわ.い
readingExamples: 妖しい (あや.しい)
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koohiiStory2: I was bewitched by the woman fairy (like an angel, but not as tall).

keyword: орошать, плодородие
kanji: 沃
constituent: irrigate, water, water droplets, water pistol, sapling
myStory: вода с небес орошает и приносит плодородие
heisigStory: Suffering from a drought, the farmers call on a witch who conjures up water to irrigate their crops.
koohiiStory1: You use water to irrigate your saplings.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヨウ、ヨク、オク
kunYomi: そそ.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: A fairy needs a lot of water to irrigate those beating wings, so you have make sure they drink a lot to be well irrigated (see bewitched (#2078).

keyword: тренировка, тренироваться, думать о
kanji: 稽
constituent: training, wheat, cereal, understandably, chihuahua with one human leg, delicious, spoon, sitting on the ground, sun, day
myStory: пшеница восхитительна после целого дня тренировки с чихуахуа с одной человеческой ногой
heisigStory: Wheat . . . chihuahua with one human leg . . . delicious.
koohiiStory1: After a hard day of training, wheat is understandably delicious.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: かんが.える、とど.める
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koohiiStory2: After training hard and eating Wheaties for months, you are understandably thrilled to sink your spoon into a delicious hot fudge sundae.
words: 滑稽(こっけい): funny, humorous, comical, laughable, ridiculous, joking
稽古(けいこ): practice, training, study

keyword: схватывать, игральная кость
kanji: 采
constituent: grab, claw, vulture, tree, wood
myStory: гриф схватил индейку с дерева
heisigStory: Vulture . . . tree.
koohiiStory1: You ever wondered why this appeared as a primitive in so many RTK1 kanji? Well, you should know that once a vulture grabs hold of a tree, he can never let go. Even Heisig couldn´t shake him loose.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サイ
kunYomi: と.る、いろどり
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koohiiStory2: A common meaning for this kanji is ´DICE´. --- Ever wonder what vultures do up in the trees? They play DICE. But of course, being vultures, they are always grabbing the dice away from each other.

keyword: убийство клинковым оружием, обезглавливание, нарезать
kanji: 斬
constituent: chop off, executioner, car, axe
myStory: нарезаем машину топором
heisigStory: Car . . . ax.
koohiiStory1: A "chop shop" is a place where stolen cars are taken, and parts chopped off with an axe, to be sold.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ザン、サン、セン、ゼン
kunYomi: き.る
readingExamples: 斬る (き.る)
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koohiiStory2: I wanted a convertible so I chopped off the top of my car with an axe.
words: 斬る(きる): murder, behead

keyword: полотенце
kanji: 巾
constituent: towel
myStory: запомнить
heisigStory: This character depicts a bolt of cloth wrapped around a pole. From there it gets its meaning of a towel.
koohiiStory1: If it looks like a towel, speaks like a towel and walks like a towel... I wonder why Heisig didn´t include this one (as an actual kanji) in RtK 1.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キン、フク
kunYomi: おお.い、ちきり、きれ、はば
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koohiiStory2: Primative from RTK1.
words: 布巾(ふきん): tea-towel, dish cloth
雑巾(ぞうきん): dust cloth

keyword: мелочь, пустяк, чуть-чуть
kanji: 僅
constituent: trifle, person, cabbage, flowers, mouth, grow up
myStory: для героя схомячить целый кочан капусты - мелочь, пустяк
heisigStory: Person . . . cabbage.
koohiiStory1: To a big guy like Mr. T, eating a whole cabbage at once is nothing. "What? a cabbage? That's just a trifle, foo, where's the meat?".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キン、ゴン
kunYomi: わずか
readingExamples: 僅 (わずか)
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koohiiStory2: To MR.T swallowing a whole CABBAGE is no more than a TRIFLE.
words: 僅(きん): a little, small quantity
僅か(わずか): only, merely, a little, small quantity

keyword: партнер
kanji: 侶
constituent: partner, person, spine, mouth, drop, mouth, mouth2
myStory: герой ощущает местоположение парнера позвоночником
heisigStory: Person . . . spine.
koohiiStory1: Mr. T don´t take a partner, especially one with no spine. "I pity da foo got no spine", he says.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: リョ、ロ
kunYomi: とも
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koohiiStory2: As a PARTNER, I want a PERSON with a strong SPINE.

keyword: техника, навык
kanji: 伎
constituent: performing artist, person, branch, ten, needle, crotch
myStory: почти как "палец-ветка". Герою нужен навык, чтобы держаться за ветку
heisigStory: Person . . . branch.
koohiiStory1: Mr T is dancing and singing and all that, but he´s doing it on a branch. All that talent and can still still keep his balance? That´s a real performing artist.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ギ、キ
kunYomi: わざ、わざおぎ
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koohiiStory2: (note: this is the ´ki´ from kabuki).//The performing artist is a person doing Kabuki theater and dancing around with a branch in his hand.

keyword: потрясающе, чудесно
kanji: 凄
constituent: nifty, ice, wife, ten, needle, rake, woman
myStory: жена умеет делать мороженое из льда! чудесно!
heisigStory: Ice . . . wife.
koohiiStory1: His wife has a nifty way of making all types of ice cream in her home freezer.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セイ、サイ
kunYomi: さむ.い、すご.い、すさ.まじい
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koohiiStory2: Sugoi! Sugoi! Ice Wife Sugoi!
words: 凄い(すごい): terrible, dreadful, terrific, amazing, great, wonderful, to a great extent
物凄い(ものすごい): earth-shattering, staggering, to a very great extent

keyword: плавление, металлургия
kanji: 冶
constituent: metallurgy, ice, pedestal, elbow, mouth
myStory: ледяной пьедестал рано или поздно расплавится. Лучше железный трон, но нужна металлургия
heisigStory: Ice . . . pedestal.
koohiiStory1: The secrets of metallurgy and smithing: get your redhot metal and bang it against the pedestal as an anvil. Then cool it quickly with lots of ice.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ヤ
kunYomi: い.る
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koohiiStory2: An ICE PEDESTAL is useless in METALLURGY since it will just melt.

keyword: храм
kanji: 刹
constituent: moment, sheaf, tree, wood, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: для возведения храма тебе нужны:
1. снопы пшеницы (еда)
2. деревья (стоительный материал)
3. мечи (для защиты)
heisigStory: The key word here is the noun meaning "a breif moment." Its elements: sheaf . . . tree . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: The kendo artist takes a brief moment to practice his skills: he throws sheafs over the tree and tries to cut them with his saber when they come down again.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セチ、セツ、サツ
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koohiiStory2: Wtf moment? This kanji means temple. Wooden x-men statues with sabres guard the entrance to the Professor Xavier temple. Might help if you imagine the two x-men as Wolverine and Sabretooth.

keyword: отрываться, отслаиваться, облезть
kanji: 剥・剝
constituent: peel off, dustpan, broom, grains of rice, sword, sabre, saber
myStory: саблей можно чудесно отслоить как рис, так и метлу
heisigStory: Broom . . . rice grains . . . saber.
koohiiStory1: Peel off the outside of the broom that sweeps up rice grains to reveal a saber.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ハク、ホク
kunYomi: へ.ぐ、へず.る、む.く、む.ける、は.がれる、は.ぐ、は.げる、は.がす
readingExamples: 剥がす (は.がす), 剥ぐ (は.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: A multi-purpose broom! It cleans, it sweeps (rice!), it hits! In fact, peel off the mahogany exterior to uncover a sabre! It slices, it dices, it kills!
words: 剥がす(はがす): to tear off, to peel off, to rip off, to strip off, to skin, to flay, to disrobe, to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect
剥ぐ(はぐ): to tear off, to peel off, to rip off, to strip off, to skin, to flay, to disrobe, to deprive of
剥げる(はげる): to come off, to be worn off, to fade, to discolor
剥す(はがす): tear off, peel off, rip off, strip off, skin, flay, disrobe, deprive of, detach, disconnect
剥く(むく): peel, skin, pare, hull

keyword: аромат, душистый
kanji: 匂
constituent: aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный сидящий на земле через несколько дней приобретет неповторимый аромат
heisigStory: You will have to imagine "capturing" a favorite aroma by having it gagged and bound up in a spoon.
koohiiStory1: The muchacho sits down bound up to enjoy his own aroma.
jouYou: JH
kunYomi: にお.う、にお.い、にお.わせる
readingExamples: 匂う (にお.う)
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koohiiStory2: If you bind up a person and let him sit for several days, an unpleasant aroma will result.
words: 匂い(におい): odour, scent, smell, stench, fragrance, aroma, perfume
匂う(におう): be fragrant, smell, to stink, glow, be bright

keyword: согнутый
kanji: 勾
constituent: flexed, bound up, elbow
myStory: твои локти связали, тебя самого согнули
heisigStory: Bound up . . . elbow. Think of this key word in the sense of something that has been nabbed or cought.
koohiiStory1: Your elbow is bound up so that your biceps will stay flexed.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ、ク
kunYomi: かぎ、ま.がる
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koohiiStory2: My elbow was bound up in a cast, making it impossible to keep it flexed.

keyword: высмеивать
kanji: 嘲
constituent: derision, mouth, morning , mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, ten2, needle2
myStory: Утреннее дыхание после попойки ведёт к высмеиванию
heisigStory: The bad feeling created by words spoken in derision often leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the one who speaks them, kind of like the foul aftertaste that follows a night before of too much of the wrong stuff - or what we call morning mouth.
koohiiStory1: When I wake up, I am always late, so I hurry to work. With a bad case of perpetual morning breath, I am the subject of derision at my office whenever I open my mouth.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チョウ、トウ
kunYomi: あざけ.る
readingExamples: 嘲る (あざけ.る)
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koohiiStory2: If morning breath emanates from your mouth, you are subject to derision!

keyword: горло, быть подавленным
kanji: 咽
constituent: windpipe, mouth, cause, pent in, large, St. Bernard
myStory: причина во рту: болит горло, и от этого ты подавлен
heisigStory: Mouth . . . cause.
koohiiStory1: You can´t breathe very well, so the doc looks inside your mouth to find the cause. "Oh, I see the cause of your windpipe blockage. There´s a St Bernard penned up in there!".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イン、エン、エツ
kunYomi: むせ.ぶ、むせ.る、のど、の.む
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koohiiStory2: Imagine a group of windpipes chatting: “That mouth is the cause of all my problems, you know, always breathing in germs, etc.”.

keyword: горло
kanji: 喉
constituent: throat, mouth, marquis, person, key, dart, drop, heavens
myStory: лорды иногда бывают геями и используют рот для "глубокой глотки"
heisigStory: Mouth . . . marquis.
koohiiStory1: I think of "clearing your throat". Some stuffy guy opens his mouth to clear his throat so the marquis can speak.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: のど
readingExamples: 喉 (のど)
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koohiiStory2: The Marquis de Sade was kinda gay. He used to mouth down a lot of deep-throat action.
words: 喉(のど): throat

keyword: слюна
kanji: 唾
constituent: saliva, mouth, droop, drop, silage, one, floor
myStory: слюна свисает из рта
heisigStory: Mouth . . . droop.
koohiiStory1: When some people are sleeping, their mouths droop open, and saliva drips out.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ダ、タ
kunYomi: つば、つばき
readingExamples: 唾 (つば)
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koohiiStory2: Saliva drools from a mouth that droops. つば.
words: 唾(つば): saliva, sputum

keyword: проклятие
kanji: 呪
constituent: curse, mouth, elder brother, teenager, mouth, human legs, mouth2
myStory: Проклятие на старшего брата, чтобы он наконец заткнулся
heisigStory: For some reason, the inventor of this kanji associated a curse with the mouth of an older brother. I leave it to you to decide if he is on the giving or receiving end of the sorcery.
koohiiStory1: Caution: this means a spell, not to swear. I put a curse on my elder brother so that he can never open his mouth.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジュ、シュ、シュウ、ズ
kunYomi: まじな.う、のろ.い、まじな.い、のろ.う
readingExamples: 呪う (のろ.う)
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koohiiStory2: Your older brother´s mouth often curses.

keyword: песня, баллада
kanji: 唄
constituent: pop song, mouth, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: моллюски из рта - популярная песня!
heisigStory: There is a lot of money to be made of one's songs are "popular." This is depicted here as a stream of clams spewing out of the mouth of someone performing a pop song.
koohiiStory1: The new generation of pop songs have no depth. They just mouth empty lyrics to get money. Not like the pop songs of my day.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: バイ
kunYomi: うた、うた.う
readingExamples: 唄 (うた)
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koohiiStory2: A new way for sluts to use their mouths to make alot of money.

keyword: ругать
kanji: 叱
constituent: scold, mouth, diced, seven, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: в детстве не донес ложку до рта - пролил на себя суп - тебя ругают
heisigStory: Recall some particularly harsh scolding you got as a child in school. This character has you sitting on the ground in the corner as your teacher stands over you, her mouth wide open as she reprimands you in front of the entire class.
koohiiStory1: A kid gets scolded if they don´t put the spoon properly into their mouth when eating.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シツ、シチ
kunYomi: しか.る
readingExamples: 叱る (しか.る)
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koohiiStory2: If I got scolded, I could expect a spoon of castor oil in my mouth.
words: 叱る(しかる): scold

keyword: завалена (piled high)
kanji: 堆
constituent: piled high, soil, dirt, ground, turkey
myStory: перед Рождеством земля завалена трупами индеек
heisigStory: Soil . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: After our pre-Thanksgiving massacre, we piled high all the turkey corpses atop the soil of the farmyard.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: タイ、ツイ
kunYomi: うずたか.い
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koohiiStory2: During the Turkey Holocaust (this is what the animal kingdom calls Thanksgiving - they have really short memories and thus don´t recall that it actually happens every single year), turkeys are killed en masse, and their bodies are piled high. To keep them from tumbling down, a pile of dirt is piled high right next to them to keep them standing upright so that they will be fresh when it is time to eat them.

keyword: вкладывать (инкрустировать)
kanji: 填・塡
constituent: stuff up, soil, dirt, ground, true, truth, ten, needle, eye, tool, one, animal legs, eight
myStory: Витрина инкрутсирована камнями, и повествует правду о далеких землях
heisigStory: When we hear the world inlay, we usually think of setting precious stones in pieces of jewelery, but the primitive elements here suggest truth being inlaid in the soil. You might think instead of the cosmic wisdom that inlaid the truth of the universe in the stuff of the earth.
koohiiStory1: In a hole in the ground, the body of the victim was placed. And then the killer stuffed it up so that the truth would not be found out, he hoped.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: テン、チン
kunYomi: は.まる、は.める、うず.める、しず.める、ふさ.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: I stuffed up his mouth with dirt to keep the truth from coming out.
words: 填まる(はまる): to get into, to go into, to fit, to be fit for, to suit, to fall into, to plunge into, to be deceived, to be taken in, to fall into a trap, to be addicted to, to be deep into
填める(はめる): to get in, to insert, to put on, to make love

keyword: завистливый
kanji: 妬
constituent: jealous, woman, stone, rock
myStory: Женщина хочет камень на ее пальце, чтобы все завидовали
heisigStory: It should not be hard to leep from the key word to the image of a woman who is jealous of the rock that another woman is sporting on the third finger of her left hand.
koohiiStory1: The jealous woman bashed the brains in of the guy who betrayed her, with a stone.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ト、ツ
kunYomi: ねた.む、そね.む、つも.る、ふさ.ぐ
readingExamples: 妬む (ねた.む)
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koohiiStory2: Every woman wants a huge stone on her finger to make her friends jealous.
words: 嫉妬(しっと): jealousy
妬む(ねたむ): to be jealous, to be envious

keyword: завидовать
kanji: 嫉
constituent: envy, woman, rapidly, sickness, hospital, dart, drop, heavens
myStory: пубертат... девочка, которая наиболее быстро начнет становиться девушкой, вызовет зависть всех остальных девочек
heisigStory: Woman . . . rapidly.
koohiiStory1: If you go through women rapidly you will be the object of envy.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シツ
kunYomi: そね.む、ねた.む、にく.む
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koohiiStory2: Ah, puberty ... the girl that starts her journey towards womanhood the most rapidly will become the subject of envy from all her classmates.
words: 嫉妬(しっと): jealousy

keyword: блокировать
kanji: 塞
constituent: block up, Baba Yaga’s hut, house, celery, animal legs, soil, dirt, ground
myStory: было так холодно, что трубы были заблокированы льдом. мы утеплили их землей.
heisigStory: House . . . celery . . . animal legs . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: The A/C wasn´t making the house cold because the filters had been blocked up with dirt.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソク、サイ
kunYomi: ふさ.ぐ、とりで、み.ちる
readingExamples: 塞がる (ふさ.がる), 塞ぐ (ふさ.ぐ)
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koohiiStory2: It was so cold (#1526), the pipes blocked up with ice. After removing the ice, we insulated them with soil.
words: 塞がる(ふさがる): be plugged up, be shut up
塞ぐ(ふさぐ): stop up, close up, block (up), occupy, fill up, take up, stand in another´s way, plug up, shut up

keyword: ягодицы
kanji: 尻
constituent: buttocks, flag, nine, baseball
myStory: девять флажков за такие ягодицы!
heisigStory: Flag . . . baseball team.
koohiiStory1: The baseball team stick flags in their buttocks and wave them at the opposing team to put them off.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: しり
readingExamples: 尻 (しり)
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koohiiStory2: I wonder if this story will be flagged for saying i give her buttocks a score of 9.
words: 尻尾(しっぽ): tail (animal)
尻(しり): buttocks, bottom

keyword: утес, крутой обрыв
kanji: 崖
constituent: bluffs, mountain, cliff, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2
myStory: стою внизу, смотрю вверх, на гору. я залезу по плющу, но друг говорит мне: "вот это крутой утес! очень обрывисто"
heisigStory: Mountain . . . cliff . . . ivy.
koohiiStory1: Standing at the base of the bluffs I announce, "I´m going to climb those ivy-covered cliffs, and then the mountain on top of them." My friends don´t believe me, "He bluffs!" they say.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガイ、ゲ、ギ
kunYomi: がけ、きし、はて
readingExamples: 崖 (がけ)
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koohiiStory2: The ivy-covered cliff we saw on the horizon (#157) ... the sheer beauty of the mountain that overlooks these bluffs is enough to make you want to swim for shore yourself!
words: 崖(がけ): cliff

keyword: все больше и больше
kanji: 弥
constituent: more and more, bow, hammock, reclining, lying down, small, little
myStory: если немного прилечь, то можно оттягивать тетиву все больше и больше
heisigStory: Bow . . . reclining . . . little.
koohiiStory1: The bow dug more and more into the small of his back as he reclined on it. Will someone please tell the idiot to get up?
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ミ、ビ
kunYomi: いや、や、あまねし、いよいよ、とおい、ひさし、ひさ.しい、わた.る
readingExamples: 弥 (や)
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koohiiStory2: If I recline back, I can pull my bow open a little more and more.

keyword: толкать
kanji: 挨
constituent: shove, finger, fingers, elbow, dart, drop, heavens
myStory: в пабе кто-то толкнул игрока в дартс под локоть, когда дротик почти вылетел из пальцев. воткнулся кому-то в зад
heisigStory: Fingers . . . elbow . . . dart.
koohiiStory1: In the busy pub, one of the dart players shoved his dart into my elbow by accident when it nearly slipped out of his fingers.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: アイ
kunYomi: ひら.く
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koohiiStory2: Your fingers slip when someone´s elbow shoves you, causing you to drop the dart you were about to throw. But as you can see, their elbow is very small, so you decide they´re too weak to shove back.
words: 挨拶(あいさつ): greeting

keyword: скручивание
kanji: 捻
constituent: wrenching, finger, fingers, wish, wishbone, now, clock, heart
myStory: выкручивать пальцы, загадывая желания
heisigStory: This kanji does not refer to the tool but to the act of twisting. Its elements: fingers . . . wish.
koohiiStory1: Ever try WRENCHING a bolt with just your FINGERS? Trust me, you´ll WISH you had a wrench for WRENCHING to save your FINGERS.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ネン、ジョウ
kunYomi: ね.じる、ねじ.る、ひね.くる、ひね.る
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koohiiStory2: I have an unfortunate habit of wrenching off other people’s fingers when I pull a wishbone with them.
words: 捻子(ねじ): screw, helix, spiral
捻じれる(ねじれる): to twist, to wrench, to screw
捻る(ひねる): turn (a switch) on or off, twist, puzzle over

keyword: вытирать, утирать
kanji: 拭
constituent: wipe, finger, fingers, style, arrow, craft
myStory: вытираем нос пальцевым стилем
heisigStory: Fingers . . . style.
koohiiStory1: Why carry a handkerchief? I wipe my nose finger-style.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ショク、シキ
kunYomi: ぬぐ.う、ふ.く
readingExamples: 拭う (ぬぐ.う), 拭く (ふ.く)
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koohiiStory2: If you are going to wipe your nose with your fingers, better do it in a grand style.
words: 手拭い(てぬぐい): (hand) towel
拭く(ふく): wipe, dry

keyword: стащить (кошелек)
kanji: 捉
constituent: nab, finger, fingers, leg, mouth, mend
myStory: я почувствовал палец на моей ноге, когда кто-то попытался стащить мой кошелек
heisigStory: Fingers . . . leg.
koohiiStory1: I felt a finger on my leg as someone tried to nab my wallet.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソク、サク
kunYomi: とら.える
readingExamples: 捉える (とら.える)
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koohiiStory2: Fingers nabs Davy Jone´s wooden leg: Argh! Bring me back me leg, ya scurvy dog!

keyword: быть неизбежным
kanji: 拶
constituent: imminent, finger, fingers, stream, flood, evening
myStory: болят пальцы... вечером будет дождь, который неизбежно приведет к наводнению
heisigStory: Fingers . . . flood . . . evening.
koohiiStory1: The old lady said that there was a flood imminent, because her fingers hurt in the evening.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: サツ
kunYomi: せま.る
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koohiiStory2: The Dutch boy put his finger in the dam holding back imminent danger from flood waters until evening.
words: 挨拶(あいさつ): greeting

keyword: делать успехи
kanji: 捗
constituent: make headway, finger, fingers, walk, stop, footprint, few
myStory: пальцы гуляют по Желтым Страницам, бизнес делает успехи
heisigStory: Let your fingers do the walking as you make headway through the Yellow Pages in search of something hard to find.
koohiiStory1: Come on people, the only way to make headway in this business is to let your fingers do the walking! bust out the yellow pages and dial as many numbers as possible, surely someone is a sucker for a cold call sell.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チョク、ホ
kunYomi: はかど.る
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koohiiStory2: Thing from the Addams Family has difficulties in making headway because, well, he has no head. Only walking fingers.
words: 捗る(はかどる): to make progress, to move right ahead (with the work), to advance

keyword: тосковать (по кому-то)
kanji: 憧
constituent: yearn, Freud, state of mind, juvenile, vase, stand up, computer
myStory: юные постоянно тоскуют по друг другу
heisigStory: Think of the state of mind you were in as a child with a particularly juvenile yearning.
koohiiStory1: A paedophile´s state of mind is to yearn for juveniles.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ショウ、トウ、ドウ
kunYomi: あこが.れる
readingExamples: 憧れる (あこが.れる)
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koohiiStory2: A juvenile´s state of mind tends to go apeshit when they see something they yearn for. Usually involving jumping up and down, tantrums, and other bullshit. (Imagine giving them a big backhand across the face.).
words: 憧れ(あこがれ): yearning, longing, aspiration
憧れる(あこがれる): long for, yearn after, admire, be attracted by

keyword: пузыриться, кипеть
kanji: 湧
constituent: bubble up, water, water droplets, water pistol, courageous, courage, chop-seal, hanko, male, rice field, brains, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: ну, кто имеет мужество прыгнуть в кипящую воду?
heisigStory: Water . . . courage.
koohiiStory1: The courageous man who went into the water to save a drowning victim couldn´t be seen, except by the air that bubbled up.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ユウ、ヨウ、ユ
kunYomi: わ.く
readingExamples: 湧く (わ.く)
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koohiiStory2: Bubble up the WATER and see who has the COURAGE to jump into it.
words: 湧く(わく): boil, grow hot, get excited, gush forth

keyword: песчинки
kanji: 沙
constituent: grains of sand, water, water droplets, water pistol, few
myStory: немного воды - и из песчинок возникает замок
heisigStory: We have already learned the kanji for sand (Frame 122), so let's use it to remember the character for grains of sand. Instead of the "few stones" that make for nice sand, here we have a few drops of water, one for each grand of sand - a beach in perfect ecological balance.
koohiiStory1: Wet sand is simply sand but to see beautiful grains of sand, the water must be few.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: サ、シャ
kunYomi: すな、よなげる
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koohiiStory2: Near the water is one of the few places you will find grains of sand.
words: ご無沙汰(ごぶさた): not writing or contacting for a while
無沙汰(ぶさた): neglecting to stay in contact

keyword: похотливость
kanji: 淫
constituent: lewd, water, water droplets, water pistol, claw, vulture, porter, drop, samurai
myStory: гриф делает что-то похотливое с самураем, поэтому я разлил их водой
heisigStory: Water . . . vulture . . . porter.
koohiiStory1: The vulture is on top of the porter and appears to be commiting a lewd act, so I throw water over the pair of them.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イン
kunYomi: ひた.す、ほしいまま、みだ.ら、みだ.れる、みだり
readingExamples: 淫ら (みだ.ら)
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koohiiStory2: Claw marks across the porters back from engaging in lewd acts in the shower. He is tipped well for carrying the lady´s bags to her room.

keyword: широко распространенный
kanji: 氾
constituent: widespread, water, water droplets, water pistol, fingerprint
myStory: широко распространенное поверье, что вода смывает отпечатки пальцев
heisigStory: Water . . . fingerprint.
koohiiStory1: It´s a widespread belief that they cannot find fingerprints on a body that has been deposited in the water.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: ひろ.がる
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koohiiStory2: It´s a widespread belief that water takes away fingerprints.
words: 氾濫(はんらん): overflowing, flood

keyword: тонуть
kanji: 溺
constituent: drowning, water, water droplets, water pistol, weak, bow, ice, bow2, ice2
myStory: слабый в воде начинает тонуть
heisigStory: Water . . . weak. Do not confuse the meaning of this key word with "Drown" (Frame 763), which is closer to "founder."
koohiiStory1: Weak people placed in the water start drowning. Get some strength in those arms and learn how to swim!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: デキ、ジョウ、ニョウ
kunYomi: いばり、おぼ.れる
readingExamples: 溺れる (おぼ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: Weak swimmers drowning in the water.
words: 溺れる(おぼれる): be drowned, indulge in

keyword: отмывать
kanji: 汰
constituent: cleanse, water, water droplets, water pistol, plump, large, St. Bernard, drop
myStory: полным людям приходится часто отмываться от пота
heisigStory: This character can mean both to cleanse and to make dirty. We will choose the latter and imagine someone who is displeasingly plump going to a skinny spa whose medicinal waters promise to cleanse him of his unwanted corpulence. Picture him sitting in the spa as the pounds melt away, leaving a greasy scum on top of the water.
koohiiStory1: I couldn´t find any reference to this kanji as meaning cleanse. It seems to be most often used in the following compound 沙汰（さた）to mean affair. The other meanings seem to be closer to ´select´ so maybe Heisig meant cleanse in the ethnic sense here.. I´m going to use the keyword "selection", as in natural selection. Story: natural selection first began in the water, and those that were too plump were selected out.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: タ、タイ
kunYomi: おご.る、にご.る、よな.げる
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koohiiStory2: Water is used to cleanse a plump man´s colon.
words: ご無沙汰(ごぶさた): not writing or contacting for a while
無沙汰(ぶさた): neglecting to stay in contact

keyword: крушить, раздавить
kanji: 潰
constituent: defile, water, water droplets, water pistol, precious, Takanohana, purse, in, one, floor, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: потеря ценной воды разрушила мои надежды на выживание в пустыне
heisigStory: Water . . . precious.
koohiiStory1: Man continues to defile precious water and it may prove to be his downfall (Think of Exxon, BP, etc.).
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カイ、エ
kunYomi: つぶ.す、つぶ.れる、つい.える
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koohiiStory2: ...Faramir and Frodo watched the tiny creature far below. "Shall we shoot him?" Faramir asked. "This Gollum has defiled the waters of the Forbidden pond, looking for his Precious, and for that the penalty is death"...
words: 潰す(つぶす): smash, waste
潰れる(つぶれる): be smashed, go bankrupt

keyword: пан- (напр., паназиатский)
kanji: 汎
constituent: pan-, water, water droplets, water pistol, mediocre, wind, drop
myStory: вся вода в мире - посредственная
heisigStory: The sense of the key word here is the "all-inclusive" we find in terms like "Pan-American Games." (It is also the character used in mathematics for "partial" as in partial differentials, in case you are a math major and want to take your story in that direction.) Instead of a water sports event that brings together the best talent, think of a meet of the region's most mediocre athletes, many of whom cannot even tread water. Now try to find a sponsor for the "Pan-Mediocre Water Sports Competition."
koohiiStory1: Yeah, all our water is fairly mediocre, but if we work together in some pan-continental union, we can make some better water! As if.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ハン、ブ、フウ、ホウ、ホン
kunYomi: ただよ.う、ひろ.い
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koohiiStory2: This is pan- as in the prefix meaning "all". I think of Pangea as being a mediocre continent with water covering the rest of the planet. This was before it broke up into the first-class, well-distributed continents we got now.

keyword: котел, чайник
kanji: 釜
constituent: cauldron, father, metal, gold
myStory: отец не хочет лезть в металлический котел - упирается ногами
heisigStory: Father . . . metal. Note the stroke overlap between father and metal.
koohiiStory1: Your father uses his legs to stop himself from being put in a metal cauldron.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: かま
readingExamples: 釜 (かま)
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koohiiStory2: Whilst on holiday, my father was captured by cannibals and put in a metal cauldron.
words: 釜(かま): iron pot, kettle

keyword: направлять на
kanji: 狙
constituent: aim at, pack of wild dogs, shelf, my bookshelves
myStory: свора диких псов направила на шкаф свой взор - там лежит еда
heisigStory: Pack of wild dogs . . . shelf.
koohiiStory1: When her home was invaded by a pack of dogs, the little girl climbed on the shelf and aimed various items at the dogs below.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソ、ショ
kunYomi: ねら.う、ねら.い
readingExamples: 狙う (ねら.う)
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koohiiStory2: I think the dogs purposely aim at your shelves to deal the most damage.
words: 狙い(ねらい): aim
狙う(ねらう): to aim at

keyword: ослабленный, ослабляться, исчезать
kanji: 萎
constituent: numb, flowers, committee, wheat, cereal, woman
myStory: комитет задушил цветок проверками, и он сначала стал ослабленным, а потом увял
heisigStory: Flowers . . . committee.
koohiiStory1: Oh, the committee´s in for a surprise: I put some nightshades into their drinks. They´ll be numb for sure, probably worse.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: な、しお.れる、しな.びる、しぼ.む、な.える
readingExamples: 萎える (な.える)
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koohiiStory2: The keyword numb makes no sense. I choose 萎む（しぼむ）"to fade away". A girl lies in a wheat field at the same time every day. A photo is taken every day showing this scene and a time lapse video shows the wheat growing through the year until the wheat is tall and the top sprouts to look like its flowers. At this point, the girl can no longer be seen in the photos and she fades away.
words: 萎びる(しなびる): to wilt, to fade
萎む(しぼむ): to wither, to fade (away), to shrivel, to wilt

keyword: прикрывать (с целью спрятать)
kanji: 蔽
constituent: cover over, flowers, shredder, small, little, belt, taskmaster
myStory: ты прикрываешь шредер (на котором ты распиливал полотенца с целью сделать наличные) цветами, когда к тебе постучались в дверь
heisigStory: Flower . . . shredder.
koohiiStory1: You cover over the shredder with flowers when the FBI comes a-knockin´.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヘイ、ヘツ、フツ
kunYomi: おお.う、おお.い
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koohiiStory2: The taskmaster arranges flowers to cover over the rags she makes us clean with.

keyword: фитиль
kanji: 芯
constituent: wick, flowers, heart
myStory: подарить девушке цветок - как зажечь фитиль к ее сердцу
heisigStory: Flowers . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: My favorite are heart shaped candles that smell like sweet flowers. The trick is to find one with a thick wick, they give off the most flower scent (but burn the quickest).
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シン
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koohiiStory2: Giving a girl flowers is like lighting the wick to her heart.
words: 芯(しん): core, heart, wick, marrow

keyword: индиго
kanji: 藍
constituent: indigo, flowers, oversee, retainer, slave, reclining, lying down, one, floor, dish
myStory: за цветами цвета индиго надо надзирать - все их норовят нарвать
heisigStory: Flowers . . . oversee.
koohiiStory1: Indigo flowers have to be overseen because they are often picked for their beauty.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ラン
kunYomi: あい
readingExamples: 藍 (あい)
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koohiiStory2: Traditionally, 青 blue (#1534) could be used to describe blue OR green. However, two kanji that describe the hues specifically are 藍 and 緑. This kanji is the "blue" counterpart of green (#1371). Story: The overseer, master of the slaves, wore a cloak dyed with indigo, and flowers in his hair.
words: 藍褸(ぼろ): rag, scrap, tattered clothes, fault (esp. in a pretense), defect, run-down or junky

keyword: мучить, запугивать
kanji: 苛
constituent: bullying, flowers, can, mouth, street, street, nail, spike
myStory: цветы могут страдать
heisigStory: A nosegay of flowers make a nice gift, but if those flowers are poison oak, they can amount to bullying. Be sure to emphasize the word can when you repeat this little phrase to yourself.
koohiiStory1: How many flowers can I stuff in your nostrils? Well I´m just gonna have to go and see. Bullying at its worst!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: いじ.める、さいな.む、いらだ.つ、からい、こまかい
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koohiiStory2: Flowers, you ask if they can feel pain, do you? ^stomp^ ^stomp^ ^stomp^ They sure -can-!! ^stomp^ ^stomp^ ^stomp^ ^stomp^ ^stomp^ ^stomp^!!
words: 苛める(いじめる): to tease, to torment, to persecute, to chastise

keyword: крышка
kanji: 蓋
constituent: lid, flowers, gone, soil, dirt, ground, elbow, dish
myStory: когда крышку с блюда подняли, цветочный аромат ушел от блюда
heisigStory: Flowers . . . gone . . . dish.
koohiiStory1: The lid of this dish is gone! Now the whole room smells of the flowers that were used in the cooking.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガイ、カイ、コウ
kunYomi: ふた、けだ.し、おお.う、かさ、かこう
readingExamples: 蓋 (ふた)
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koohiiStory2: When the magician lifted the LID, the flowers were gone from the dish.
words: 蓋(がい): cover, lid, cap
目蓋(まぶた): eyelid
蓋(ふた): cover, lid, cap

keyword: поносить
kanji: 蔑
constituent: revile, flowers, eye, cross-eyed, net, march
myStory: цветам очень не нравятся парады, они их поносят, как бабки на скамейке
heisigStory: The verbal abuse involved in reviling those who do not deserve it can be compared to a march of flowers in full boom having an eyeball of nastiness cast over them (literally, of course).
koohiiStory1: They gays were reviled by society, so they put flowers above their eyes and marched around.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ベツ
kunYomi: ないがしろ、なみ.する、くらい、さげす.む
readingExamples: 蔑む (さげす.む)
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koohiiStory2: In Northern Ireland, bitter religious groups revile their opponents by marching defiantly under their very eye, holding flowers that symbolize their beliefs.
words: 軽蔑(けいべつ): scorn, disdain

keyword: кудзу (пуэрария)
kanji: 葛
constituent: kudzu, flowers, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground
myStory: связанный человек под солнцем уснул и оказался увит плющом, кудзой
heisigStory: Kudzu is a word taken over from Japanese to name the crawling vines that creep up and completely take over trees. Seeing it at its worst in the Georgia countryside makes it easy to understand why it has a reputation as the "plague of the South." From there it should not be hard to arrange the primitives, flowers and siesta into a memorable image.
koohiiStory1: Flower, siesta: The muchacho was not careful. He passed the warning signs and decided to hold a siesta in the kudzu field. The kudzu grew so fast, he was completely covered by it in a few hours and not able to escape. Now, the kudzu flowers mark his grave.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カツ、カチ
kunYomi: つづら、くず
readingExamples: 葛 (くず)
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koohiiStory2: The muchacho takes a siesta under the flowers of the kudzu.

keyword: скромный
kanji: 遜
constituent: modest, grandchild, child, lineage, drop, thread, spiderman, road
myStory: дедушка не был скромен, рассказывая о своем внуке: "он на дороге к успеху!"
heisigStory: Grandchild . . . road.
koohiiStory1: My parents aren´t at all modest about their grandchildren, at every opportunity they take them on the road showing them off to their friends!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソン
kunYomi: したが.う、へりくだ.る、ゆず.る
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koohiiStory2: He wasn´t at all modest when telling us about his grandchildren - "They´re all on the road to success" he said.
words: 謙遜(けんそん): humble, humility, modesty

keyword: щель
kanji: 隙
constituent: chink, pinnacle, parthenon, acropolis, small, little, sun, day, small2, little, 2
myStory: даже на вершине горы даже маленькие лучи солнца мало проникают в трещины и щели
heisigStory: Pinnacle . . . little . . . sun . . . little. Note that the form of the first element for little given here is the simpler form that has become standard in general-use characters (See Frame 110). For the time being, until typesetting fonts have made the adjustment, the official approved drawing has the drops similar to the bottom little.
koohiiStory1: There was only one chink in his plan. Even standing atop the highest pinnacle, standing above even the sun, the little man was still just as little as when he was under the sun.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ゲキ、キャク、ケキ
kunYomi: すき、す.く、す.かす、ひま
readingExamples: 隙 (すき)
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koohiiStory2: Man those little chinks can do anything! They were the first to build rockets, and by launching one off the top of the highest pinnacle in China, one little chink was the first to ride above the sun, and see all the little chinks below!
words: 隙間(すきま): crevice, crack, gap, opening

keyword: неясный
kanji: 曖
constituent: equivocal, sun, love, birdhouse, birdcage, claw, vulture, crown, love birds, heart, walking legs
myStory: любовь солнца двусмысленна: оно и греет, и сжигает
heisigStory: Sun . . . love.
koohiiStory1: The sun´s love is equivocal: it warms yet burns us.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: アイ
kunYomi: くら.い
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koohiiStory2: 曖昧。 On a sunny day, a guy professes his love to a girl he admires. But she gives him the common equivocal response, "Let´s just be friends.".
words: 曖昧(あいまい): vague, ambiguous

keyword: темный, глупый
kanji: 昧
constituent: obscure, sun, not yet, one, tree, wood
myStory: когда нет еще солнца - темно
heisigStory: The most obscure ideas are those that the sun of reason has not yet dawned on. Be sure to give the sun a professorial demeanor, complete with spectacles and a pipe.
koohiiStory1: Something that is obscure has not yet been brought before the light of day.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: マイ、バイ
kunYomi: くら.い、むさぼ.る
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koohiiStory2: ´Can´t you go outside and get some sun?´ ´Not yet, I have to learn all these obscure RTK3 kanji!´.
words: 曖昧(あいまい): vague, ambiguous

keyword: лучезарный, процветающий, успешный
kanji: 旺
constituent: effulgent, sun, day, king, jewel, ball
myStory: Солнечный король успешен, лучезарен и процветающ
heisigStory: The radiant, effulgent splendor of he sun makes it king of all the planets and other stars. Just to be sure you don't take this too abstractly, picture the sun seated on a throne, flourishing its scepter this way and that.
koohiiStory1: The Sun King (Louis XIV) was known for his effulgent reign.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: オウ、キョウ、ゴウ
kunYomi: かがや.き、うつくし.い、さかん
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koohiiStory2: [+katsuo] This is the Sun King. Sayeth Wikipedia: "The Sun King (in French le Roi Soleil) because of the idea that, just as the planets revolve around the Sun, so too should France and the court revolve around [the king] ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France). And just like the sun, he was quite effulgent and actually emitted sunlight.

keyword: почка (орган)
kanji: 腎
constituent: kidney, loincloth, retainer, slave, crotch, moon, month, flesh, part of the body
myStory: часть тела, если больна, заставляет быть рабом промежности - почка
heisigStory: Slave . . . crotch . . . flesh.
koohiiStory1: When the sex slave misbehaves, threaten to sell his body parts starting with his kidney.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジン
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koohiiStory2: If you have a weak KIDNEY, you´ll become a SLAVE to your CROTCH´s need to pee. Oh well, it´s just a weakness of the FLESH.

keyword: бедро
kanji: 股
constituent: thigh, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, cruise missile, missile, wind, crotch
myStory: часть тела, откуда вылетает сперма - бедро
heisigStory: Flesh . . . missile.
koohiiStory1: Where´s my flesh missile? Between my thighs, naturally...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: また、もも
readingExamples: 股 (また)
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koohiiStory2: My thigh is the part of the body that my missile smacks against.
words: 股(また): groin, crotch, thigh

keyword: колено
kanji: 膝
constituent: knee, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, tree, wood, umbrella, grains of rice
myStory: часть тела, покрываемая лаком - колено
heisigStory: Flesh . . . tree . . . umbrella . . . rice grains.
koohiiStory1: Before lacquer (#932) was made with water, it was made by draining this body part of fluid: the knee!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シツ
kunYomi: ひざ
readingExamples: 膝 (ひざ)
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koohiiStory2: Back in ancient Japan, people didn´t have knee pads for things like rollerblading and such (what, come on. Ninjas on rollerblades. Ultimate 90s flashback). Instead, they would simply dip their knees in laquer, and wait until it dried (hence the flesh, and the abscence of any drops of water). Unfortunately, this meant that you would have to wait about 30 minutes after deciding to go rollerblade until you could actually do it (took some time to dry) - and removing it was a serious pain.
words: 膝(ひざ): knee, lap

keyword: локоть
kanji: 肘
constituent: elbow, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, glue
myStory: Локтем вляпался в клей
heisigStory: Instead of the familiar "grease" we usually associate with the elbow of someone hard at work, the kanji gives us a part of the body that has been glued to its task.
koohiiStory1: Sometimes I get carried away and do elbow curls until the point where my forearm snaps off! When that happens I simply pull out the glue and re-attach the elbow to my flesh.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チュウ
kunYomi: ひじ
readingExamples: 肘 (ひじ)
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koohiiStory2: Picture two Siamese twins glued together at the elbow.
words: 肘(ひじ): elbow

keyword: железа
kanji: 腺
constituent: gland, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, spring, white, dove, water
myStory: Источник жидкостей в теле - железа
heisigStory: Dig into your flesh and pull out a lymph gland. Now give it a squeeze and watch the spring of lymph spout out of it.
koohiiStory1: A body part that acts like a spring for hormones is a gland.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セン
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koohiiStory2: When adrenaline glands release hormones, the body springs into action.

keyword: опухоль
kanji: 腫
constituent: tumour, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, heavy, thousand, ri, computer
myStory: тяжелая и бесполезная часть тела - опухоль
heisigStory: Flesh . . . heavy.
koohiiStory1: A tumor is a useless body part that is nothing but heavy.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シュ、ショウ
kunYomi: は.れる、は.れ、は.らす、く.む、はれもの
readingExamples: 腫らす (は.らす), 腫れる (は.れる)
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koohiiStory2: When flesh clumps together and gets heavy, it forms a tumor.
words: 腫れる(はれる): to swell (from inflammation), to become swollen

keyword: маленький обеденный столик
kanji: 膳
constituent: dining tray, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, virtuous, sheep, horns, mouth
myStory: человек высоких моральных стандартов никогда не позволит себе касаться руками тела официантки, принесшей ему еду на маленьком обеденном столике
heisigStory: Flesh . . . virtuous.
koohiiStory1: Some people insist that the serving maids who bring in the dining trays are especially virtuous and never let any man touch their flesh.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ゼン、セン
kunYomi: かしわ、すす.める、そな.える
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koohiiStory2: The virtuous vegan will not touch this dining tray because it has had a piece of meat on it.
words: 膳(ぜん): (small) table, tray, meal

keyword: подушка
kanji: 枕
constituent: pillow, tree, wood, garter, crown, human legs
myStory: деревянные подушки помогут тебе не утонуть
heisigStory: Tree . . . crown tied around leg of person.
koohiiStory1: The guy who was thrown into the river to sink was given one last request. "If I´m gonna be sleeping with the fishes," he said, "can I at least have a pillow? I´m real sensitive." The mafia bosses laughed. "Look, my doctor said I can only use wooden pillows, I have a real serious condition. Can I at least die comfortable-like?" The mafia dudes said fine, and let him have his pillow. They tossed him the river and drove off...and after a minute, he bobbed to the top, thanks to his floating wood pillow.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チン、シン
kunYomi: まくら
readingExamples: 枕 (まくら)
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koohiiStory2: WOODEN PILLOWS do not sink (#1888) in water.
words: 枕(まくら): pillow, bolster

keyword: стул
kanji: 椅
constituent: chair, tree, wood, strange, large, St. Bernard, street, nail, spike, mouth
myStory: В Японии не сидят на стульях, поэтому стул - странный способ использовать древесину
heisigStory: Instead of making a chair out of wood from a tree, this kanji has us making the whole tree into a chair, which looks most strange sitting in your living room where the sofa used to be.
koohiiStory1: To the Japanese, the first time they saw a chair, it looked like a strange use of wood! Probably why they still like to sit on the floor...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イ
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koohiiStory2: A strange kind of tree grows in the shape of a chair.
words: 椅子(いす): chair

keyword: хурма
kanji: 柿
constituent: persimmon, tree, wood, market, top hat, towel
myStory: рыночное дерево - хурма
heisigStory: Imagine a village market with stalls set up around an immense persimmon tree with watermelon-sized fruit. If it weren't for the fact that the tree is sacred to the village, people would get impatient as the persimmons fall from the tree and wreak havoc on buyers and sellers alike.
koohiiStory1: Nobody buys persimmons at the market, because there´s a tree in the middle where you can pick them for free.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: かき、こけら
readingExamples: 柿 (かき)
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koohiiStory2: The guy at the market says: I´ll give you one persimmon tree per every Simon you bring me!

keyword: балка (строит.)
kanji: 桁
constituent: girder, tree, wood, going
myStory: бульвар строится из деревянных балок
heisigStory: Tree . . . going.
koohiiStory1: Girders are support beams that are nowadays mostly made out of steel. But in the ancient houses that are placed at the boulevard the girders will be made out of wood.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ
kunYomi: けた
readingExamples: 桁 (けた)
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koohiiStory2: When the wooden girders start to snap, the workmen shout "Run! Let´s go!".
words: 桁(けた): column, beam, digit

keyword: колючий
kanji: 梗
constituent: spiny, tree, wood, grow late, Ameratasu, one, ceiling, sun, tucked under the arm
myStory: когда становится поздно, деревья из кошмаров становятся колючими
heisigStory: This character refers originally to a deciduous, rough tree that grows on mountain plains. From this it gets the secondary sense of rugged or spiny. Its primitive elements: tree . . . grow late.
koohiiStory1: I learned this one from the movie Evil Dead, but when it grows late, trees change shape and become spiny creatures! Lesson: don´t go out at night.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コウ、キョウ
kunYomi: ふさぐ、やまにれ、おおむね
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koohiiStory2: With the safety of darkness as it grows late, spiny little insects start crawling out of the trees.

keyword: каштан низкорослый
kanji: 椎
constituent: sweet oak, tree, wood, turkey
myStory: каштан настолько низкорослый, что индейка может подпрыгивать и сбивать каштаны
heisigStory: Tree . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Why is the sweet oak so sweet? Not sure, but to me it tastes just like turkey (with gravy and cranberry sauce!) Now that is sweet.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ツイ、スイ
kunYomi: つち、う.つ
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koohiiStory2: Sweeter than Shiit~ake? Turkeys gobble Shiitake mushrooms椎茸 off the sweet oak tree. 　http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyhare/13963627/.

keyword: частокол
kanji: 柵
constituent: palisade, tree, wood, tome
myStory: армия умных студентов построила частокол из дерева, чтобы защитить свои тома
heisigStory: Tree . . . tome.
koohiiStory1: A palisade is a "fence of stakes especially for defense," usually the stakes are very strong, set closely together, and pointed on top. Tome can be seen as a pictograph of several close-set wooden stakes, braced by one horizontal bar.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: サク、サン
kunYomi: しがら.む、しがらみ、とりで、やらい
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koohiiStory2: An army of scholars build a wooden palisade to protect their precious tome of literature.
words: 柵(さく): fence, paling

keyword: жаркое, жарить
kanji: 煎
constituent: roast, in front, horns, butcher, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sword, sabre, saber, oven-fire, barbecue
myStory: жаркое жарят прямо перед вами
heisigStory: Think of roasting the guest of honor at a party - literally, in front of an oven-fire.
koohiiStory1: In many asian restaurants, meat is roasted right in front of you over flames.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: せん.じる、い.る、に.る
readingExamples: 煎る (い.る)
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koohiiStory2: At the roast, they make the roastee sit in front of everyone else, over the flames to speak, as the comedians roast him a new one!
words: 煎る(いる): to parch, to fry, to fire, to broil, to roast, to boil down (in oil)

keyword: лазурный
kanji: 瑠
constituent: marine blue, king, jewel, ball, detain, receipt, dagger, sword, rice field, brains
myStory: короля задержали, кто-то в синих (лазурных) беретах
heisigStory: Jewel . . . detain.
koohiiStory1: “The king has been detained by some marines!” “How do you know they were marines?” “Because they were wearing marine blue.”.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ル、リュウ
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koohiiStory2: The king was detained, by men in marine blue; Must be the marines, planning a coup. (thx Katsuo/gavmck).

keyword: точки, в крапинку
kanji: 斑
constituent: speckled, king, jewel, ball, sentence, plaid, kilt, Billy Connolly, king2, jewel2, ball2
myStory: на пледе куча маленьких шаров-точек - получился плед в крапинку
heisigStory: Ball . . . plaid . . . ball.
koohiiStory1: Speckled is a pattern, like plaid, but with lots of little balls all over the place.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ハン
kunYomi: ふ、まだら
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koohiiStory2: The sentences exchanged between the two kings got more and more heated, finally leading to a fight which left the whole area speckled with blood.
words: 斑(ぶち): spots, speckles, mottles

keyword: играть с (чем-то)
kanji: 弄
constituent: tinker with, king, jewel, ball, two hands
myStory: с шариком возиться двумя руками
heisigStory: Jewel . . . two hands.
koohiiStory1: The king used both hands to tinker with himself in his spare time.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ロウ、ル
kunYomi: いじく.る、ろう.する、いじ.る、ひねく.る、たわむ.れる、もてあそ.ぶ
readingExamples: 弄ぶ (もてあそ.ぶ)
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koohiiStory2: Picture the king holding a large pan in his two hands and tinkering with it, wishing he could lead the itinerant life of a tinker. As a rhyme: The king, he uses his two hands, To tinker with his pots and pans . . .
words: 弄る(いじる): to touch, to tamper with

keyword: игрушка, играть
kanji: 玩
constituent: toy, king, jewel, ball, beginning, two, human legs
myStory: самая первая драгоценность - игрушка
heisigStory: If, at some aboriginal level, Toys Я Us, then the archetypal ball must have been there at the beginning, before evolving into beach balls, ping-pong balls, rugby balls, and marbles.
koohiiStory1: The ball was the only thing that people at the beginning of time had to use as a toy. Poor cavemen.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガン
kunYomi: もちあそ.ぶ、もてあそ.ぶ
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koohiiStory2: And so it was, the ball marked the beginning of all the toys that were to come.

keyword: страх, испуг, опасаться
kanji: 畏
constituent: apprehensive, rice field, brains, hairpin, safety-pin
myStory: (поле + заколка для волос)
девушка боялась пойти домой, потому что потеряла заколку для волос. вот глупая-то
heisigStory: Field . . . hairpin.
koohiiStory1: The girl was apprehensive about going home, having lost her precious hairpin in the paddy field. But then, it wasn't like she'd lost both, just ONE...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: おそ.れる、かしこ.まる、かしこ、かしこ.し
readingExamples: 畏れる (おそ.れる)
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koohiiStory2: I ran out of Q-tips...then I noticed a hairpin lying on the counter that was about the same size as a Q-tip. I was apprehensive at first, but I thought "what the hell". Unfortunately I ended up stabbing my brain!
words: 畏まりました(かしこまりました): certainly!

keyword: худеть
kanji: 痩
constituent: lose weight, sickness, hospital, Buddha’s hand, monkey, sun, day, stick, crotch
myStory: самый страшный способ похудеть - подцепить дезинтерию из промежности обезьяны
heisigStory: Sickness . . . monkey . . . crotch.
koohiiStory1: The most horrific way to lose weight is from that devastating sickness that came from a monkey's crotch.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソウ、チュウ、シュウ、シュ
kunYomi: や.せる
readingExamples: 痩せる (や.せる)
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koohiiStory2: The poor monkey obviously had a sickness. He was scratching his crotch the whole time and when he started to lose weight heavily, the caretakers knew they couldn´t save him anymore.
words: 痩せる(やせる): lose weight

keyword: шрам, след
kanji: 痕
constituent: scar, sickness, hospital, silver
myStory: страная болезнь: если серебро коснется кожи, оно оставляет шрам
heisigStory: Sickness . . . silver.
koohiiStory1: I suffer from silver-sickness, that is, if anything made of silver even touches my skin it leaves a scar.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コン
kunYomi: あと
readingExamples: 痕 (あと)
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koohiiStory2: I got sick and needed surgery, but the silver lining is that now I have these awesome scars I can show off!

keyword: очевидный
kanji: 瞭
constituent: obvious, eye, pup tent, large, St. Bernard, sun, day, small, little
myStory: разуй глаза, видишь, нас много, а палатка маленькая! очевидно, что мы не влезем!
heisigStory: Eye . . . pup tent.
koohiiStory1: Open your eyes, it's obvious that not all of us can fit into that small puptent!
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: リョウ
kunYomi: あきらか
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koohiiStory2: It´s obvious that the pup tent with a huge eye on the side belongs to the dark lord Sauron.
words: 明瞭(めいりょう): clarity

keyword: бровь
kanji: 眉
constituent: eyebrow, flag, stick, eye
myStory: флажки над глазами, показывающие наши эмоции - брови
heisigStory: The flag here has an extra vertical stroke in it. Think of it as an eyebrow pencil stuck in the eye.
koohiiStory1: The eyebrows hover over the eyes like a divided flag.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ビ、ミ
kunYomi: まゆ
readingExamples: 眉 (まゆ)
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koohiiStory2: Pictograph: opera glasses over eyes ビ ミ まゆ.
words: 眉(まゆ): eyebrow

keyword: пещера
kanji: 窟
constituent: cavern, hole, house, human legs, yield, flag, exit
myStory: яма сдалась напору времени и превратилась в пещеру
heisigStory: Hole . . . yield.
koohiiStory1: After Osama blew a hole in NY, the counterreaction forced him to yield and retreat into caverns.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: クツ、コツ
kunYomi: いわや、いはや、あな
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koohiiStory2: In "The Empire Strikes Back", the Milennium Falcon flies into a large hole, of what they think is a cavern, because they don´t want to yield to the forces of the Empire. Turns out it´s not a cavern at all, actually...

keyword: манжета, подкладка (одежды)
kanji: 裾
constituent: hem, cloak, reside, flag, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth
myStory: кто-то проживает в подкладке твоего плаща. не желаешь ли почистить его?
heisigStory: Cloak . . . reside.
koohiiStory1: Something is residing in the hem of your cloak. Maybe you should consider cleaning it? キョ コ すそ cuff; hem; foot of mountain.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キョ、コ
kunYomi: すそ
readingExamples: 裾 (すそ)
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koohiiStory2: If you reside in the slums, you start off as a small child with a very large cloak. As you grow it gets hemmed. The rich kids just get new cloaks.
words: 裾(すそ): (trouser) cuff, (skirt) hem, cut edge of a hairdo, foot of mountain

keyword: корзина, клетка
kanji: 篭・籠
constituent: cage, bamboo, dragon, vase, stand up, eel, sun, day
myStory: бамбуковая корзина или клетка не удержит дракона!
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . dragon. Note that the older (and still official) form of this kanji uses the old character for dragon 龍, which is good to learn and is fun to write in any case. It is made up of five primitive elements: vase . . . flesh . . . slingshot . . . fishhook (enclosure) . . . three.
koohiiStory1: The only cage that can keep a dragon is made of bamboo.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ロウ、ル
kunYomi: かご、こ.める、こも.る、こ.む
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koohiiStory2: A bamboo cage won´t hold a dragon!
words: 篭る(こもる): to seclude oneself, to be confined in, to be implied, to be stuffy

keyword: палочки для еды
kanji: 箸
constituent: chopsticks, bamboo, someone, puppet, sooty, old man, sun, day
myStory: кукла не может есть палочками для еды из бамбука. любая щепка - и прокол обеспечен
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . puppet.
koohiiStory1: Bamboo, lovedoll: At dinner, my lovedoll decided to eat her meal the Japanese way using chopsticks. But well, what a problems she had getting those bamboo shoots into her mouth (which should not be that difficult, I would say!).
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チョ、チャク
kunYomi: はし
readingExamples: 箸 (はし)
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koohiiStory2: I´ve always wanted to use bamboo chopsticks to eat sushi off a naked woman. Unfortunately, there is no woman in my life, so this love doll will have to do.
words: 箸(はし): chopsticks

keyword: разойтись по швам
kanji: 綻
constituent: come apart at the seams, thread, spiderman, determine, determined, house, mend
myStory: качество нитки определяет, разойдется ли одежда по швам
heisigStory: Thread . . . determine.
koohiiStory1: Even though his costume is coming apart at the seams as he chases the bad guys, Spiderman is still determined to catch them.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: タン
kunYomi: ほころ.びる
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koohiiStory2: Spiderman´s costume has come apart at the seams and here he is, mending it in his house, determined to make it stronger than before.
words: 綻びる(ほころびる): to come apart at the seams, to begin to open, to smile broadly

keyword: фальшборт
kanji: 舷
constituent: gunwale, boat, mysterious, top hat, cocoon
myStory: наиболее загадочная часть корабля, видившая многочисленные самоубийства - фальшборт
heisigStory: Boat . . . mysterious.
koohiiStory1: The gunwale is perhaps the most mysterious part of a boat for it is neither a gun nor a whale.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ゲン
kunYomi: ふなべい、ふなばた
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koohiiStory2: Gunwale (rhymes with "tunnel") is the top edge of the side of a boat, for example the widened lip on the sides of a canoe. The mysterious origin of this part of a boat comes from the strengthened sides of warships that used artillery (it means "gun ridge").

keyword: пчела
kanji: 蜂
constituent: bee, insect, Segway, Macbeth, walking legs, bushes
myStory: насекомое с заостренным жалом - пчела
heisigStory: Insect . . . walking legs . . . bushes.
koohiiStory1: A bee is an insect with a pointy (see summit (#1562)) stinger.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ホウ
kunYomi: はち
readingExamples: 蜂 (はち)
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koohiiStory2: The insect that interrupted our tryst (#2417) was a bee!
words: 蜂蜜(はちみつ): honey

keyword: оскорбление
kanji: 罵
constituent: insult, eye, cross-eyed, net, team of horses
myStory: если ты высокомерно смотришь на кого-то, не слезая с лошади - это оскорбление
heisigStory: Eyeball . . . team of horses.
koohiiStory1: In ancient Japan, the most grievous insult was to poke a rival´s horse in the eye (consider how rare an expensive a steed was in those days). It was the final step in preparation for a duel to the death.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: バ
kunYomi: ののし.る
readingExamples: 罵る (ののし.る)
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koohiiStory2: In Japan, is is considered insulting to look at someone from atop your horse. You have to step down and face people properly.
words: 罵る(ののしる): to speak ill of, to abuse

keyword: смиренно принять, брать
kanji: 戴
constituent: accept humbly, Thanksgiving, harvest festival, ten, needle, fiesta, uncommon, rice field, brains, strung together, salad, animal legs, eight
myStory: на празднике плодородия необычно видеть как люди смиренно принимают еду. обычно все хомячат как варвары
heisigStory: Thanksgiving . . . uncommon.
koohiiStory1: At Thanksgiving, it’s uncommon for people to accept humbly the food: most people just dig in.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: タイ
kunYomi: いただ.く
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koohiiStory2: You´re invited to a Thanksgiving party in Japan! Awesome! You´re so happy that your Japanese friends are trying to make you feel at home (you´ve been homesick recently). You sit down to the table, and they bring out some..uh...uncommon food. Really uncommon. Like just imagine the most uncommon Thanksgiving food ever, and that´s what you´re given (i don´t know, a frisbee or something?). Of course, you have to be Japanese and accept humbly their food.

keyword: загадка
kanji: 謎
constituent: riddle, say, words, keitai, mouth, astray, rice, road
myStory: слова, котрые заставляют нас блуждать по своему собственному разуму - загадка
heisigStory: Words . . . astray.
koohiiStory1: Words meant to lead you astray are those of a riddle.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: メイ、ベイ
kunYomi: なぞ
readingExamples: 謎 (なぞ)
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koohiiStory2: I led Socrates astray with my riddle. He quit philosophizing and thought only about the riddle.
words: 謎(なぞ): riddle, puzzle, enigma

keyword: кто, кто?
kanji: 誰
constituent: who?, who, say, words, keitai, mouth, turkey
myStory: ты один в темноте. вдруг услышал странный шум. "кто там?", - спросил ты. А это индейка кулдычет
heisigStory: Words . . . turkey.
koohiiStory1: Do you remember that song where they say "Who let the turkeys out!? Gobble.. gobble.. gobble"?
jouYou: JH
onYomi: スイ
kunYomi: だれ、たれ、た
readingExamples: 誰 (だれ)
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koohiiStory2: [who; someone; somebody] You´re alone when, suddenly, you think you hear someone speaking. "Who´s there?", you say, but there is no answer. Then you find out it was only a turkey gobbling. You feel relieved (and ashamed to tell this story). (Based on raulir).
words: 誰(たれ): adjectival suffix for a person
誰(だれ): who
誰か(だれか): someone, somebody

keyword: посетить храм
kanji: 詣
constituent: visit a shrine, say, words, keitai, mouth, delicious, spoon, sitting on the ground, sun, day
myStory: восхитительные речи можно услышать в храме, давай его посетим
heisigStory: Here you "savor your words" as something delicious when you describe your recent visit to a shrine or pilgrimage site.
koohiiStory1: To fat, effete Japanophiles (cheerily munching on 肉まん in the back of the tour bus) hearing the words of the tour guide "Now we will visit a shrine" elicits squeals of joy. "Oooooh, how absolutely delicious!".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ケイ、ゲイ
kunYomi: けい.する、まい.る、いた.る、もう.でる
readingExamples: 詣でる (もう.でる)
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koohiiStory2: You visit a shrine to say your wishes and offer delicious offering to the gods.

keyword: сдаваться, отрекаться
kanji: 諦
constituent: give up, say, words, keitai, mouth, sovereign, vase, stand up, apron, crown, towel
myStory: монарх говорит неправильные слова: я устал, я ухожу
heisigStory: The key word renunciation has to do with the wisdom and clarity of mind in knowing when to "let go." This is what makes the words of acquiescense sovern.
koohiiStory1: The words of the sovereign king inspire the people: never give up! Never surrender! Okay...maybe it wasn´t a king.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: テイ、タイ
kunYomi: あき.らめる、あきら.める、つまびらか、まこと
readingExamples: 諦める (あきら.める)
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koohiiStory2: Anytime I think to give up Japanese, I remember giving my word that I would become sovereign of Japanese! And I watch あきら to get pumped about it. Note: to give up - 諦める is read あきらめる).
words: 諦め(あきらめ): resignation, acceptance, consolation
諦める(あきらめる): give up, abandon

keyword: разъяснять
kanji: 詮
constituent: elucidate, say, words, keitai, mouth, whole, umbrella, king, jewel, ball
myStory: говори все, разъясни
heisigStory: Think of elucidating as presenting something in whole words, as distinct from broken fragmented sentences.
koohiiStory1: Words that tell you the results of the whole story really elucidate.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: せん.ずる、かい、あき.らか
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koohiiStory2: Elucidate me. Tell me, in your own words, the whole story.

keyword: выражение лица, самообладание
kanji: 貌
constituent: countenance, skunk, badger, white, dove, human legs
myStory: у человека было очень сложное выражение лица, когда приперся скунс и пометил белые ноги человека
heisigStory: Skunk . . . white . . . human legs.
koohiiStory1: Anyone who watched a looney tunes cartoon know those kind of scene : pepe embraces a poor kitty mistaken for a SKUNK and the smell of pepe make the unfortunate girl loose all countenance : she turns WHITE then runs as fast as her LEGS can carry her . So much for cat s dignity and countenance.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ボウ、バク
kunYomi: かたち、かたどる
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koohiiStory2: The shocked countenance on girl's face when Pepe started to hump her white legs.

keyword: вставлять, приклеивать
kanji: 貼
constituent: affix, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, fortune-telling, magic wand, augury, mouth
myStory: Китайский ресторан, рядом доска объявлений. Последний писк моды: предсказание пихаешь в раковину и оставляешь.
heisigStory: The key word in this frame has do with posting bills to a billboard. In this case, the billboard is standing at the exit to a Chinese restaurant displaying the latest alternative to the tradition fortune-telling cookies. Look closely and you will see rows of leftover shells of clams with little slips of paper sticking out of them posted to the billboard.
koohiiStory1: Fortune teller writes your fortune on a piece of paper and tells you to affix it to a shell and throw into the ocean for it to come true. Picture licking the back of the shell like a stamp and affixing it to the fortune.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: テン、チョウ
kunYomi: は.る、つ.く
readingExamples: 貼る (は.る)
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koohiiStory2: I gots a fix for your current bad luck: just pass some extra clams over to the fortune teller, and they will make sure you have a very bright fate instore.
words: 貼る(はる): to stick, paste

keyword: взятка, взяточничество
kanji: 賂
constituent: graft, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, each, walking legs, mouth
myStory: каждый имеет цену - взяточничество повсюду!
heisigStory: To those who believe in the inevitability of graft in government, everything has a price - or as this character has it, to each office its outlay of shells.
koohiiStory1: It might sound simple to bribe someone, but then you have to graft the guy above him and the guy below him, and soon you´re just giving shells to each and everyone!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ロ
kunYomi: まいな.い、まいな.う
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koohiiStory2: When I was caught by the police doing some graft (graffiti), I gave each cop some clams and told them to be on their way. 賄賂【わいろ】 bribe.

keyword: пинать
kanji: 蹴
constituent: kick, wooden leg, mouth, stop, footprint, concerning, capital, tall, top hat, mouth, small, little, understandably, chihuahua with one human leg, mouth2
myStory: - что насчет пирата с деревянной ногой?
 - а, его выпинали отсюда - буянил много
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . concerning.
koohiiStory1: The soccer player was concerned that his peg leg would affect his ability to kick.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シュク、シュウ
kunYomi: け.る
readingExamples: 蹴る (け.る)
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koohiiStory2: I kick with my FEET in the CAPITAL of all the ONE LEGGED CHIHUAHUAS. It is such a great fun, since they cannot kick me back! lol.
words: 蹴飛ばす(けとばす): to kick away, to kick off, to kick (someone), to refuse, to reject
蹴る(ける): kick

keyword: самогон
kanji: 酎
constituent: hooch, whiskey bottle, glue
myStory: в бутылке виски был явно самогон - уж очень сильно я липну к земле...
heisigStory: This kanji is used for thick, low-grade saké made from various kinds of grains. Its primitives are: whisky bottle . . . glue.
koohiiStory1: While the keyword is "hooch", this usually means 焼酎. It has similar effect as whiskey and sniffing glue has: you get intoxicated.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チュウ、チュ
kunYomi: かも.す
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koohiiStory2: This thick, illicitly-made beverage is actually just whiskey mixed with glue!

keyword: пробуждаться, пробуждение
kanji: 醒
constituent: awakening, whiskey bottle, star, sun, day, life, This is Your Life, cell, drop, grow up
myStory: проснулся посреди ночи, голова болеть - рядом бутылка виски, на небе звезды - еще спать и спать
heisigStory: Whisky bottle . . . star.
koohiiStory1: On awakening the first thing I notice is a (nearly empty) whiskey bottle by my bed. Then I see the stars are still shining. “I think I’ll go back to sleep and try awakening again later.”.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セイ
kunYomi: さ.ます、さ.める
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koohiiStory2: You´ll need an awakening after the whiskey bottle makes you see stars.

keyword: лапша
kanji: 麺
constituent: noodles, barley, grow up, walking legs, mask, hundred, one, ceiling, drop, pent in, eye
myStory: я всегда ем ячменную лапшу в маске, чтобы не забрызгать лицо
heisigStory: Barley . . . mask.
koohiiStory1: +sgrant: I always eat barley noodles with a mask on - it stops them splashing in your face. However it bareley helps. Also everyone else grows up from his table and uses his walking legs to get the hell out of here.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: メン、ベン
kunYomi: むぎこ
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koohiiStory2: There is a certain restaurant in West-Shinjuku that serves its noodles made of BARLEY in a MASK instead of a plate. I love these theme-restaurants!

keyword: горшок
kanji: 鍋
constituent: pot, metal, gold, jawbone, joint, hood, mouth
myStory: металлический горшок с челюстными костями вместо ручек. бррррр.
heisigStory: Metal . . . jawbone.
koohiiStory1: A gruesome kind of cauldron that Snape might have used is a metal pot in the shape of a skull.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カ
kunYomi: なべ
readingExamples: 鍋 (なべ)
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koohiiStory2: A metall pot with non-thermoconductive jawbones as handholds.
words: 鍋(なべ): saucepan, pot

keyword: ключ
kanji: 鍵
constituent: key, metal, gold, build, brush, stretch
myStory: самый важный металл при любом строительстве - это ключ
heisigStory: The golden key you have been presented by the mayor gives you access to all the buildings in the city.
koohiiStory1: The metal thing you need in order to enter things you build is a key.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ケン
kunYomi: かぎ
readingExamples: 鍵 (かぎ)
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koohiiStory2: 鍵盤key (#2761) ケン, かぎ ... Parts: 金, 建 ... Story: The most important Metal in any building is the lock on the front door, and without a key you ain´t getting in. This kanji means both lock and key to most Japanese people. 錠前 is technically the word for lock but it´s not used in daily conversation. ... 熟語: ... cf: 錠前.
words: 鍵(かぎ): key

keyword: темнеть, темнота
kanji: 闇
constituent: pitch dark, gates, sound, vase, stand up, sun, day
myStory: за воротами ада нет ни звука, ни света, непроглядная тьма
heisigStory: Gates . . . sound.
koohiiStory1: I like to think of a horror movie where the protagonists enter a graveyard when suddenly their flashlights go out and it becomes pitch dark, whereupon they hear the sound of the gate creaking shut behind them.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: アン、オン
kunYomi: やみ、くら.い
readingExamples: 闇 (やみ)
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koohiiStory2: Through the gates of hell there is no sound, no light, its all pitch dark.
words: 無闇に(むやみに): unreasonably, absurdly, recklessly, indiscreetly, at random
闇(やみ): darkness, the dark, black-marketeering, dark, shady, illegal

keyword: немедленно, вдруг
kanji: 頓
constituent: immediate, earthworm, drop, shovel, fishhook, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: если отрезать голову земляному червю, он вдруг куда-то сильно заторопится
heisigStory: Earthworm . . . head.
koohiiStory1: Ever chopped the head off an earthworm? Notice how it will grow back immediately! Beware the killer earthworms...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: トン、トツ
kunYomi: にわか.に、とん.と、つまず.く、とみ.に、ぬかずく
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koohiiStory2: When someone in the barracks tells you to come immediately, you´ll lose your head for sure トン トツ にわか.に とん.と つまず.く とみ.に ぬかずく suddenly; immediately; in a hurry.

keyword: время, около этого времени
kanji: 頃
constituent: about that time, spoon, sitting on the ground, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: заводишь будильник на семь утра - около этого времени он бьет тебя ложкой по голове
heisigStory: When Uncle Bob starts his comic routine of sticking spoons on his head, you know it is about that time to come up with a reason to excuse yourself.
koohiiStory1: An alarm clock with a unique design: You set it for, say, 7:00 am, and at about that time the clock reaches out with a spoon and hits you on the head.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ケイ、キョウ
kunYomi: ころ、ごろ、しばら.く
readingExamples: 頃 (ころ)
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koohiiStory2: After spooning for hours it´s about that time he got some head. Dayum woman.
words: 頃(けい): time, about, toward, approximately (time)
この頃(このごろ): recently
年頃(としごろ): age, marriageable age, age of puberty, adolescence, for some years
日頃(ひごろ): normally, habitually
一頃(ひところ): once, some time ago
頃(ころ): time, about, toward, approximately (time)
近頃(ちかごろ): lately, recently, nowadays
手頃(てごろ): moderate, handy

keyword: щеки
kanji: 頬・頰
constituent: cheek, scissors, husband, horns, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight
myStory: в голове ножницами очень удобно резать щеки
heisigStory: Scissors . . . head.
koohiiStory1: Your cheeks contain your jawbones, which are known as the "scissors of the head.".
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キョウ
kunYomi: ほお、ほほ
readingExamples: 頬 (ほお)
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koohiiStory2: The Joker from Batman had his cheeks cut with scissors to give him that eternal smile. Now the Joker isn´t right in the head.
words: 頬(ほお): cheek (of face)
頬っぺた(ほっぺた): cheek

keyword: подбородок, челюсть
kanji: 顎
constituent: chin, mousetrap, mouth, one, ceiling, snare, head, page, one, ceiling, drop, shellfish, clam, oyster, eye, animal legs, eight, mouth2, one2
myStory: в голове у тебя есть одна ловушка под ноздрями - челюсть с подбородком
heisigStory: Two mouths . . . ceiling . . . snare . . . head.
koohiiStory1: Your chin is the part of your head under your nostrils that forms the double snare that is your jaw.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガク
kunYomi: あご、あぎと
readingExamples: 顎 (あご)
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koohiiStory2: Left side is crocodile primative. crocodile´s head´s most prominent feature is his jaw.
words: 顎(あご): chin

keyword: приманка, кормить животных
kanji: 餌
constituent: feed, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, ear
myStory: еда из ушей - еда для животных, приманка
heisigStory: Food . . . ear. The sense of the key word here is that of bait or feed for animals.
koohiiStory1: Food made of ears is animal feed.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ジ、ニ
kunYomi: え、えば、えさ、もち
readingExamples: 餌 (ええさ)
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koohiiStory2: Do you know Mike Tayson favorite feed? Ears! He eats ears!
words: 餌(えさ): bait, feed

keyword: mochi (пирожное)
kanji: 餅
constituent: mochi, eat, food, umbrella, good, halo, drop, silver, puzzle, horns, two hands
myStory: еда-пазл. запомнить
heisigStory: Mochi is the glutinous rice the Japanese pound into cakes. Its primitives are: food . . . puzzle.
koohiiStory1: Call your friend and he answers the phone "Mochi, mochi!" whatever he is eating sure is making it hard to understand. I will puzzle over the content of our conversation for some time to come.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヘイ、ヒョウ
kunYomi: もち、もちい
readingExamples: 餅 (もち)
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koohiiStory2: Mochi ice cream is a puzzling food, I still have no idea how they get that ice cream in there, but it sure tastes good.
words: 餅(もち): sticky rice cake

keyword: подножие горы
kanji: 麓
constituent: foot of a mountain, grove, tree, wood, deer, cave, antlers, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2
myStory: олени пасутся в лесах у подножия горы
heisigStory: Grove . . . deer.
koohiiStory1: Many deer can be found in the grove at the foot of a mountain.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ロク
kunYomi: ふもと
readingExamples: 麓 (ふもと)
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koohiiStory2: Deer are well known for frolicking in groves of trees. However, they are not well known for actually watching where the heck they are bounding about. Here we have a bunch of dead deer bodies that you find at the foot of a mountain. You are trying to figure why there are so many dead deer in one spot, and then you trace a line up the mountain - leaves and such are scattered all the way up...to a grove. Looks like they hopped through some leaves to their doom.
words: 麓(ふもと): foot, the bottom, base (of a mountain)

keyword: темный, Аид
kanji: 冥
constituent: hades, crown, sun, day, six
myStory: на шестой день Бог создал человека, и человек пал в Ад
heisigStory: The key word in this frame refers to the underworld, the world of the dead. By way of the classic Greek association, it is also used for the "dwarf planet" Pluto. Since no one knows precisely when this part of the cosmos was finished, we may imagine it as the crowning deed of day six of the creation.
koohiiStory1: The beast of hades one day will wear a crown, and the number of the beast is 666.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: メイ、ミョウ
kunYomi: くら.い
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koohiiStory2: In Hades you have to work six days a week before crowning it with something vaguely resembling a weekend. Oh wait, that´s Japan.

keyword: растяжение связок
kanji: 挫
constituent: sprain, finger, fingers, sitting in meditation, assembly line, person, soil, dirt, ground, person2
myStory: сидя в медитации на земле, я получил растяжение связок пальцев
heisigStory: Fingers . . . assembly line . . . soil.
koohiiStory1: I sprained my fingers when I sat in meditation (by sitting in a strange position).
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ザ、サ
kunYomi: くじ.く、くじ.ける
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koohiiStory2: I sprained in my finger doing a complicated mudra while sitting in meditation.

keyword: идти вверх по течению
kanji: 遡
constituent: go upstream, first day of the month, mountain goat, horns, mountain, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, road
myStory: на горном козле ты приехал по дороге к реке. под светом луны (потому что мероприятие незаконное) ты ловишь лосося, идущего вверх по реке
heisigStory: Mountain goat . . . moon . . . road.
koohiiStory1: You decide to go salmon fishing, so you ride a mountain goat to the top of the road. Under the light of the moon, as it's illegal, you catch the salmon going upstream.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソ、サク
kunYomi: さかのぼ.る
readingExamples: 遡る (さかのぼ.る)
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koohiiStory2: In this kanji we see a mountain goat that decided to go upstream along a road, but for some reason it will only go upstream when the full moon is up. It's actually stubborn like a mountain goat about not going upstream along the road at any other period of time. The road itself is also very confused about this.
words: 遡る(さかのぼる): go back, go upstream, make retroactive

keyword: бодрящий
kanji: 爽
constituent: bracing, large, St. Bernard, sheaf, sheaf4
myStory: четыре больших стога травы бодрят :D
heisigStory: The sense of the key word is of something refreshing and invigorating. It is made up of the St. Bernard and a pair of sheaves on each side.
koohiiStory1: The St Bernard is bracing itself for an operation requiring four stitches.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ソウ
kunYomi: あき.らか、さわ.やか、たがう
readingExamples: 爽やか (さわ.やか)
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koohiiStory2: St. Bernard dog had a refreshing bracing bath and now is shaking all the water out of his fur. The drops are thrown in all direction and that's why the have an x shape in the pictogram.
words: 爽やか(さわやか): fresh, refreshing, invigorating, clear, fluent, eloquent

keyword: восстание (erection)
kanji: 勃
constituent: erection, bishop, cross, ten, needle, crown, child, power, muscle, arnold
myStory: королевский ребенок, томящийся в темнице под землей, использует силу, чтобы поднять восстание против захватчиков
heisigStory: If you think of the ten as a little "cross" sitting atop the root of a house where we are used to seeing the "chimney" (drop), then you have the image of a chapel. (This combination will appear once more in this book: Frame 1465.) To complete the picture for uprising, add: child . . . muscles.
koohiiStory1: An erection can shoot like a needle from its crown and has the power to make a child.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ボツ、ホツ
kunYomi: おこ.る、にわかに
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koohiiStory2: The erection is the crowned needle that´s got the power to make children.

keyword: останки, труп
kanji: 骸
constituent: remains, skeleton, joint, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, sign of the hog, acorn, top hat
myStory: в разложивших останках человека среди костей нашли желуди. видимо, человек умер от голода
heisigStory: Skeleton . . . acorn.
koohiiStory1: The remains consisted of a skeleton which had the remains of some acorns in its stomach area. Whether it died from eating the acorns remains to be seen.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ガイ、カイ
kunYomi: むくろ
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koohiiStory2: Hint: The remains of a chipmunk.

keyword: горевать, родственники
kanji: 戚
constituent: relatives, half-uncle, above, small, little, parade
myStory: полу-дядя ведет парад родственников в скорби
heisigStory: If you think of a parade of particularly disagreeable relatives, it should not be hard to imagine them as large bodies with little pea-brains above.
koohiiStory1: Your half-uncle is leading a parade of your relatives. (Note: 上 + 小 makes up part of "uncle" 叔, so I´ve called it "half-uncle".).
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ソク、セキ
kunYomi: いた.む、うれ.える、みうち
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koohiiStory2: Your uncle organizes a parade of all your relatives, which he himself is only half in because he´s busy taking pictures of it.
words: 親戚(しんせき): relative

keyword: миска
kanji: 丼
constituent: domburi, well, drop
myStory: я уронил миску еды в колодец :(
heisigStory: Donburi is a bowl of rice with eel or meat on it. The character is a pictograph, perhaps designed by someone who felt that the portion of meat he was served with his bowl of rice looked to be no more than a tiny drop in the well.
koohiiStory1: A little one is eating a domburi while standing over, looking down into, a WELL. He drops it, and it falls down & down until it looks like nothing more than a DROP, landing at the bottom of the well!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: トン、タン、ショウ、セイ
kunYomi: どんぶり
readingExamples: 丼 (どんぶりどん)
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koohiiStory2: I drop a domburi down into the well for the goblin living there.
words: 丼(どんぶり): porcelain bowl, bowl of rice with food on top

keyword: пригород столицы
kanji: 畿
constituent: capital suburbs, cocoon, rice field, brains, fiesta, cocoon2
myStory: интересно, сколько рисовых полей в пригороде столицы - Токио?
heisigStory: Two cocoons . . . field . . . fiesta.
koohiiStory1: People aside, I wonder how many rice fields there are in the capital suburbs.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キ
kunYomi: みやこ
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koohiiStory2: How many brains does it take to run the capital suburbs?

keyword: большой холм
kanji: 阜
constituent: large hill, maestro, ten, needle
myStory: маэстро живет на большом холме и может играть хоть на десять децибелл
heisigStory: Maestro . . . needle.
koohiiStory1: The maestro lives on top of a large hill so that he can play music at over ten decibels without anyone giving a damn.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: フ、フウ
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koohiiStory2: Note to those who have not got this far in the book: This is the full kanji for the Pinnacle primitive (i.e. only the left-hand version of the primitive). The full kanji for the City Walls primitive is city walls (#2180). Beyonce went for an invigorating walk up a large hill on a summer´s afternoon. Since the grass was so lush and cool, she took off her sandals and immediately stepped on a used hypodermic needle. 岐阜県　ぎふけん Gifu Prefecture.

keyword: что?
kanji: 那
constituent: interrogative, sword, dagger, two, city walls
myStory: если ты пришел с двумя клинками за спиной к городским воротам, ожидай нескольких вопросов
heisigStory: Sword . . . two . . . city walls. Used classically to indicate an interrogative part of speech, this character is used chiefly now for its sound.
koohiiStory1: If you arrive with two swords at the city walls, expect some interrogatives before they´ll let you in.
jouYou: JH
jlpt: 1
onYomi: ナ、ダ
kunYomi: なに、なんぞ、いかん
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koohiiStory2: Interrogation at the city walls: "Any weapons, question mark." "Just a blade." "Why the two scratches on the blade, question mark." "To remind me that I cut off my other ear too, exclamation mark (exclamation (#2680)).".
words: 旦那(だんな): master (of house), husband (informal)

keyword: канцелярские товары
kanji: 箋・䇳
constituent: stationery, bamboo, float, fiesta, float*, fiesta2
myStory: на два праздника нужно СТОЛЬКО бамбука для канцелярских товаров...
heisigStory: Bamboo . . . float. Note that the drawing of the primitive for float uses the abbreviated form that has become standard in the general-use kanji and as we met it earlier (Frames 393-95). Until such time as typesetting fonts make the adjustment, only the older form has been approved. Here we have opted for the simpler, avant garde drawing.
koohiiStory1: Note: the spelling should be stationery (= paper, office supplies), not stationary (= not moving). The error is in the original book.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: セン
kunYomi: ふだ
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koohiiStory2: The two fiestas communicated to each other on their respective floats by using bamboo stationery.
words: 便箋(びんせん): writing paper, stationery

keyword: глоссарий
kanji: 彙
constituent: glossary, broken broom, mutual, crown, fruit, rice field, brains, tree, wood, broom*
myStory: как чинить сломанную метлу, как стать королем, и как собирать фрукты - все написано в словаре
heisigStory: The top primitive of this character is actually an old form of broom. The remaining elements are: crown . . . fruit.
koohiiStory1: People who read the glossary are mutually exclusive (exclude the top line of mutually (#757) ) from those who eat crowned fruit イ はりねずみ same kind 語彙.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: イ
kunYomi: はりねずみ
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koohiiStory2: I was having mutual difficulties in my relationship. She was always the one wearing the crown and I was the one picking the fruit. In order to fix the problem I checked the glossary for "mutual difficulties" but found nothing. I guess we´re going to have to mutually end our relationship.
words: 語彙(ごい): vocabulary, glossary

keyword: вдыхать, нюхать
kanji: 嗅
myStory: Рот воняет: не хочется нюхать
heisigStory: You have seen those scratch'n'sniff advertisements for perfumes. This one is for a mouthwash that replaces one stinking oder with another.
koohiiStory1: Your mouth stinks: you need to sniff your breath.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: キュウ
kunYomi: か.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: You open your mouth and gasp for air, 1 sniff of that stinking chihuahua is too much. *Edited thecite's to reflect the keyword in the supplement.

keyword: метафора
kanji: 喩・喻
myStory: метафора: рот - это скопление маленьких мясников
heisigStory: People who try to sound literary often end up butchering the language. Here we see a meeting of butchers whose mouths are producing the metaphors.
koohiiStory1: Metaphorically speaking, all the equipment in your mouth is basically just a meeting of butchers, designed to pulverize whatever meat you put in there.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ユ
kunYomi: さと.す、 たと.える
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koohiiStory2: Metaphor: A good metaphor flows from the mouth like the meeting of flesh and saber, smoothly piercing the listener with its meaning. But a bad metaphor is like when you barely nick the flesh and only spill two drops of blood or when your saber doesn't penetrate at all but rather bends into a くく shape when you whack the flesh. (Note: This story incorporates both the traditional form of the kanji (口＋兪) and the simplified form (口＋俞)) .

keyword: некролог
kanji: 訃
myStory: волшебной палочкой можно заставить умершего сочинить некролог о себе
heisigStory: The words of this obituary work like a magic wand, conjuring up the desceased.
koohiiStory1: Obituary. As a famous man lay dying, the media were already preparing the words of his obituary until a magician, with a wave of his wand, restored the man back to health.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: フ
kunYomi: しらせ
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koohiiStory2: In the Harry Potter world, obituary's are magical. If you wave your wand over them you can hear the person's last words. Creepy!

keyword: печатные буквы (т.е. квадратные канжи)
kanji: 楷
myStory: все деревья одинаково читаемы в печатных буквах
heisigStory: The key word refers to kanji that are written in full, squared form, as opposed to cursive writing which is more flowing andabbreviates some of the strokes. Here block letters are pictured as tidy rows of trees that are all the same size and can be read easily by all, whatever calligraphic skills they possess.
koohiiStory1: Block letters (as opposed to cursive) are rigid and lifeless like wood; they're all the same size so that all can read them.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カイ
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koohiiStory2: all the hiragana are in "block letters" on wooden blocks, like children's toys.

keyword: гармония, порядок
kanji: 諧
myStory: все слова гармоничны
heisigStory: The harmoney of "a place for everything and everything in its place" is applied here to the orderliness of all the words one speaks.
koohiiStory1: To have orderliness, your words must be in all the right places.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: カイ
kunYomi: かな.う、 やわ.らぐ
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koohiiStory2: 起立(きりつ)！ Hearing these words, all the students immediately stand at attention. The orderliness of classes in Japan is incredible.

keyword: сваривать (металл), ограничение (свободы)
kanji: 錮
myStory: сваривая металлические детали, мы ограничиваем их свободу относительно друг друга
heisigStory: Metal . . . harden.
koohiiStory1: You weld metal in the knowledge that it will harden again.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: コ
kunYomi: ふさ.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: By welding metal and then subjecting it to refrigeration, it will become very hard by the process known as annealing.

keyword: эгоистичный
kanji: 恣
myStory: эгоистичный человек думает только о своем сердце, на сердце следующего человека ему наплевать
heisigStory: Second . . . heart.
koohiiStory1: A selfish person doesn't care about the next person's heart, only their own.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: ほしいまま
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koohiiStory2: Selfish lover breaks your heart and moves on to the next lover. (And yawns with a heart of ice at your suffering).

keyword: тревожный, беспокойный, быть напуганным
kanji: 惧
myStory: я беспокоен, когда вижу странные инструменты
heisigStory: State of mind . . . tool.
koohiiStory1: My mind found the tool disquieting.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ク
kunYomi: おそ.れる
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koohiiStory2: Its disquieting to my state of mind when tools are arranged messily.

keyword: жаждать
kanji: 憬
myStory: Очень хочу иметь красивый вид из окна моего дома
heisigStory: State of mind . . . scenery.
koohiiStory1: My mind hankers for sunrise over the capital.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ケイ
kunYomi: あこが.れる
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koohiiStory2: I'm in a state of mind where I hanker to see the sun over the capital for some nice scenery for a change (no more rain!)

keyword: дергать
kanji: 拉
myStory: отдергивать пальцы от вазы с печеньками. надеюсь, никто не заметил
heisigStory: The sense of this key word is to pull or jerk, as in opening a door or making "ramen" noodles. Its elements: fingers . . . vase.
koohiiStory1: He quickly yanked his fingers out of the vase. Maybe no one noticed the attempt to steal the cookies...
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ラ、 ラツ、 ロウ
kunYomi: くだ.く、 ひし.ぐ、 らっ.する
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koohiiStory2: He yanked his finger out of the vase upon discovering it had a venus fly trap in it.

keyword: быть высокомерным
kanji: 傲
myStory: ... и надсмотрщик лишь высокомерно посмеялся, вывалив землю на пытающегося сбежать героя
heisigStory: Person . . . soil . . . compass . . . taskmaster. You may, of course, take the character for emulate from the previous frame as the basis for this kanji, adding to it only the element for soil.
koohiiStory1: He showed his arrogance as he poured dirt on those who tried to emulate him.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ゴウ
kunYomi: あなど.る、 おご.る
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koohiiStory2: Your arrogance has soiled your attempt to emulate such an honorable effort.

keyword: след
kanji: 踪
myStory: след разрушений тянется за пиратами и религиозными фанатиками
heisigStory: Wooden leg . . . religion. The key word refers to a trail of footprints or tracks left behind.
koohiiStory1: A trail of destruction is left by pirates and religion invaders.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ショウ、 ソウ
kunYomi: あと
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koohiiStory2: The followers of the crazy satanic religion are following the footprints of the escaped human sacrifices who fled from the altar.

keyword: подробный (напр., не грубое измерение)
kanji: 緻
myStory: Спайдермэн попросил подробностей у надсмотрщика в момент кульминации
heisigStory: The key word should be taken to mean minute, detailed, or nuanced. Its primitive elements are: thread . . . doth.
koohiiStory1: THREAD, DOTH. fine THREADS DOTH make fine cloth. Think of a Shakespearean character stating this to someone else. Picture fine threads on one side of the picture and an aftershot of a fine cloth.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: チ
kunYomi: こまか.い
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koohiiStory2: fine: If the thread doth fit through the eye of the needle, it is fine thread indeed.

keyword: нефритовый диск с дырой посередине
kanji: 璧
myStory: кетчуп на драгоценности проедает в ней дыру
heisigStory: The holed gem to which this kanji refers is a flat, circular object of about a foot in length, made of stone or glass and having a large hole in the middle. It's elements: ketchup . . . ball.
koohiiStory1: Even more valuable and perfect (完璧) than a holed gem is a delicious meatball (ball = たま = 玉) with ketchup. Yum!
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヘキ
kunYomi: たま
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koohiiStory2: It's a little known fact that ketchup is highly corrosive and is used to cut holes into gemstones so they can be put onto chains. This kanji shows a piece of Jade with a blob of ketchup on the top eating a hole through it.

keyword: сжимать
kanji: 摯
myStory: упрямо зажат в руке предмет
heisigStory: Of the many and widely different meanings of this kanji, we select the verbal meaning of clasp, which fits in well with its primitive elements: tenacious . . . hand.
koohiiStory1: When you clasp something you tenaciously 執 hold on to it with your hand 手, te. 真摯、しんし, sincerity, earnestness.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シ
kunYomi: いた.る
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koohiiStory2: This kanji shows Santa Claus (refer to frame tenacious (#1506)) clasping the reins of his deers with his hands, holding onto dear life as he almost falls off his carriage.

keyword: жаждать
kanji: 貪
myStory: все, что ты желаешь сейчас - может быть куплено за деньги
heisigStory: Clock . . . shellfish.
koohiiStory1: Whatever you covet at the moment (now), can be bought with money. Well, _almost_ anything....
jouYou: JH
onYomi: タン、 トン
kunYomi: むさぼ.る
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koohiiStory2: One begins one's life coveting money. One ends one's life coveting time -- those precious seconds ticking away on the clock. Remember to always put time over money (in this kanji and in life).

keyword: содрогаться, дрожать (от страха)
kanji: 慄
myStory: каштан дрожит от страха, когда к нему приближаются Сотрясатели Деревьев
heisigStory: State of mind . . . chestnut.
koohiiStory1: Shudder. If chestnut trees were sentient, shudder would be their state of mind as the tree shaker approaches. Note: Tree shakers are used commercially to harvest nuts and cider apples. A tree shaker makes a tree shudder causing all the ripe chestnuts to fall.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: リツ
kunYomi: おそ.れる、 おのの.く、 ふる.える
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koohiiStory2: shudder: You’re in the state of mind of shuddering with fear when the chestnut tree is falling over towards you.

keyword: горький, пикантный
kanji: 辣
myStory: в попытке избавиться от горечи сунул в рот пучок чего-то острого. стало только хуже
heisigStory: Spicy . . . bundle.
koohiiStory1: The bitter taste was so awful that I put whole bundle of spice in my mouth to get rid of it.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ラツ
kunYomi: から.い
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koohiiStory2: I'm rather bitter that someone stole my spice bundle.

keyword: припухлость, опухоль, нарыв
kanji: 瘍
myStory: у пещерного человека нехватка солнца, поэтому он постоянно болеет странными болезнями, вызывающими припухлости и нарывы на коже
heisigStory: Sickness . . . piggy bank.
koohiiStory1: His sickness caused numerous carbuncles, which when emptied by the doctors also emptied his piggy bank.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ヨウ
kunYomi: かさ
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koohiiStory2: The witches piggy bank was cursed with a spell causing any thief who stole it's contents to fall ill. The illness would result in the victim being covered from head to toe in a mass of carbuncles. Crime doesn't pay!

keyword: вскармливать
kanji: 哺
myStory: мать нескольких детей навешивает на тех, кого покормила, маячки для отслеживания животных, чтобы не перепутать
heisigStory: Mouth . . . dog tag.
koohiiStory1: The scaredy-cat soldier puts his dog tags in his mouth and suckles them nervously. It sounds like he's a suckling infant.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ホ
kunYomi: はぐく.む、 ふく.む
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koohiiStory2: suckle: this mother had heptuplets. Wow! But she had to put dog tags on the mouths of her babies to keep track of which ones had been suckled.

keyword: уныние, мрачность
kanji: 鬱
myStory: я сижу среди немногих оставшихся от большого леса деревьев в короне из консервных банок, наблюдая за бульдозером, изменяющим форму окружающего пейзажа. эта картина вгоняет меня в уныние
heisigStory: Learning this character will take a little doing. Before we start, it is a good idea to keep the key word distinct from melancholy (Frame 663), with which it combines to create the psychological condition of depression (a metaphor based on the hollow or sinking of the material depression we met in Frame 1421).
The picture of gloom begins with a small grove of trees, under which we see a crown made out of used tin cans. Next (the lower half of the kanji) we find a combination that appears only a few times in modern characters and only once in those treated in the volumes of Remembering the Kanji. It is composed of a shovel with a sheaf dotted with small drops on all sides. Think of it as a large scoop shovel attached to the front of a bulldozer, whose driver is singing: ♪ "Bulldozing in the sheaves, bulldozing in the sheaves..." ♪ The drops represent the chaff flying about as the sheaves are tossed about by the heavy machinery.
There is someone sitting on the ground alongside, watching as the machinery makes its way around the neighboring farmland - and it's you, wearing your tin-can crown. You feel overwhelmed by the impending doom as the invasion of agro-business draws closer and closer to the grove, the only patch of woods that remains of what once was a vast forest. The whole scene represents a re-shaping of the natural environment that brings the heavy weight of gloom down upon you.
A bit much, perhaps, but there are enough elements to allow for any number of other combinations.
koohiiStory1: The pixie, wearing a tin can crown, watches from the middle of the grove, the sparkling villain approach. She sits down in gloom wondering if she belongs amongst the trees, for she has never seen such a beautiful shape.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: ウツ
kunYomi: うっ.する、 しげ.る、 ふさ.ぐ
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koohiiStory2: The context of gloom here refers to an environmental disaster that humans make. The story begins at a GROVE with TIN CANS shaped like CROWNS which are really soda cans. They belonged to workers who bulldozes (or SHOVELS) lots and lots of SHEAVES with DROPS of its pieces. Afar, a boy is SITTING while watching the workers reSHAPING the environment. His face now has a very gloomy expression.

keyword: унижать
kanji: 羞
myStory: овца была унижена знаком коровы на коже и попыталась поскорее отрастить шерсть, чтобы скрыть этот знак
heisigStory: Wool . . sign of the cow.
koohiiStory1: The sheep had his coat shaven in the winter and a sign of th cow branded on him. How humiliating.
jouYou: JH
onYomi: シュウ
kunYomi: すすめ.る、 はじ.る、 は.ずかしい
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koohiiStory2: [+melchan] The sheep was humiliated by being branded with the sign of the cow (which is a major insult to anyone, even sheep) and tries to cover it up with it's wool.

keyword: брить
kanji: 剃
myStory: братец дурак, бреется мечом
onYomi: テイ
kunYomi: まい、 そ.る、 す.る
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words: 剃る