Memrise Lesson 10

Study before Lesson 10 quiz.

Transcript

1. grass * This element often appears in kanji involving plants, flowers, and other vegetation. Remember it as two shoots of grass poking up through the ground, with their roots beneath them. Element meanings: grass, flowers. It always appears above another element.
2. young 艹 grass + 右 right Picture a young child carrying a bunch of flowers in her right hand. Or think of Alice in Wonderland: “The flowers on the right will make you younger. The ones on the left will make you older.”
3. dog 大 large + 丶 drop Picture a large dog like a St. Bernard. Such big dogs are always hot and panting, so add a drop of drool.
4. cow ￥ Picture a cow’s face: The drop on the left is a horn. The first horizontal line is the top of the head; the second is the eyes. The vertical line adds the other horn and the nose. Note that the stroke order changes when cow appears as a left-hand element: the second horizontal line is drawn last and slanted up. Above another element, the bottom stroke is cut short, as in 告 or 先.
5. special 牜 cow + 寺 temple In India, the cow is a special animal—it can even wander into a temple.
6. before 牛 cow + 儿 human legs I’ve never seen a cow with human legs before!
7. umbrella * We will borrow the name for this element from the kanji for ‘umbrella’ 傘, but it’s not hard to see it as a cross-section of an open umbrella.
8. jammed in umbrella +丿curved stick +丨stick Here we see an umbrella with a curved handle on the left, but someone has jammed in a second stick. Or remember it as an umbrella with a J and I Jammed In.
9. world 田 rice field + 介 jammed in The world today has more than 7 billion people. There aren’t enough rice fields to feed all the people who are jammed in.
10. tea 艹 grass + umbrella + 木 tree I like to enjoy my tea while sitting on the grass under an umbrella with a wooden pole.