Memrise Lesson 30

Study before Lesson 20 quiz.

Transcript

1. ax 厂 cliff + 丁 nail A picture of an ax, with the vertical lines forming the handle and the horizontal lines, the blade. Or remember: The ax-murder nails his victims under the cliff. Pay attention to stroke order; the first stroke starts at the top right.
2. place 戸 door + 斤 ax You’re going to someone’s house for the first time, so they tell you they’ll stick an ax in the front door so you’ll recognize the place. Can’t miss it…
3. nearby 斤 ax + 辶 road Take a literal short-cut and chop the road with your ax. Now everything is nearby!
4. quality 斤 ax + 斤 ax + 貝 shell The clam seller urges you to test the quality of the shells by hitting them twice with an ax. (Or once with two axes.) They don’t break! What are these shells made of? Good question.
5. saw * A pictograph of a saw: the first stroke represents the handle, and the next four are the blade with its teeth.
6. make 亻 person + 乍 saw To make something, a person uses a saw (or at least he did before factories.)
7. broom * A simple picture of the end of a broom.
8. snow 雨 rain + ヨ broom Snow is rain that can be removed with a broom (though a shovel might work better).
9. hurry 勹 bound up + ヨ broom + 心 heart You’re in a hurry to finish cleaning before guests arrive, so you bind up a bunch of brooms and start sweeping hurriedly with all of them at once, your heart pounding.
10. hit 小 small + ヨ broom Imagine a strange carnival game where you throw a broom at a small target. The target is so small that if you manage to hit it, the game operator says “Wow, really?” (本 当?!)
11. rake * ヨ broom +亅hooked stick A rake is like a broom with hooked sticks instead of bristles, making it easy to rake up fallen leaves. The “bristles” of the broom element can slide down the vertical line in order to fit other elements above, as we will see in 事 matter.
12. matter 一 one + 口 mouth + rake If you tell even one person about this matter, I’ll seal your mouth with this rake.
13. open box * This open box is missing its lid.
14. brush-stroke 一 ceiling + 田 rice field + 凵 open box I can never remember the stroke order for rice field (vertical first, then horizontal!) So I decided to paint it on my ceiling so I’d never forget. Unfortunately, after just one brush stroke, the paint started to drip. I had to put an open box underneath to catch the paint.