Memrise Lesson 31

Study before Lesson 31 quiz.

Transcript

1. rice 丶 drop + 丶 drop + 木 tree Rice is the most important part of the Japanese diet, so Japanese people have a lot of practice eating it. They can pick up just two grains of rice with their wooden chopsticks. Picture the first two strokes as chopsticks— wood, of course—about to pick up rice.
2. come 一 one + 米 rice When I came home, the house and the refrigerator were both empty. Looks like dinner will be just one bowl of rice. 
3. Big Dipper 丶 drop + 丶 drop + 十 ten I can only recognize two constellations: the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross. As an element, we’ll also use this character to mean a more familiar “dipper”—a measuring cup, scooping up drops of liquid or grains of rice.
4. ingredients 米 rice + 斗 measuring cup When cooking Japanese food, your list of tools and ingredients should start with rice and a measuring cup.
5. map 囗 surrounded + 斗 Big Dipper My map was useless: I was surrounded by empty space, with no landmarks! I had to tilt my head up and use the Big Dipper to navigate.
6. utilize 月 moon + 丨 stick NASA utilizes a giant stick to cut the moon in half.
7. graveyard *grass + one Using the image of crosses stuck into the ground, we’ll call this element graveyard. Since the stroke order combines the grass element with a horizontal line (like a floor), you can also picture the mossy ground of a graveyard.
8. once upon a time graveyard + 日 day Once upon a time… so long ago that the people from that time are now in the graveyard. Their days are over, and they will never see the sun again.
9. borrow 亻 person + 昔 once upon a time Whenever a person asks to borrow something from me, I tell them that once upon a time, I let people borrow my things. But they never returned my stuff, so now I don’t.
10. together graveyard + animal legs Normally, you see animal legs together with the rest of the animal, but in this graveyard, there’s nothing but animal legs. Don’t believe me? Let’s go check it out together.
11. companion 亻 person + 共 together Your companion is the person who is always together with you.
12. harbor 氵 water drops + 共 together + 己 snake We decided not to land our ship at Snake Harbor. Together with water, the harbor is also full of snakes—not something I want to spend time together with.