Memrise Lesson 34

Study before Lesson 34 quiz.

Transcript

1. father The stereotypical Japanese father spends most of his time in a business suit; here he is tying his tie. The two drops show the collar of his white shirt.
2. school 木 tree + 亠 top hat + 父 father My father used to take me to school every day and stand beside a tree until I went into the school building, waving and wearing a top hat. I was so embarrassed I stopped going to school.
3. walls * A stylized B for ‘building’—a structure made up of walls. Like a wall, this element can appear on either the left or the right side of the kanji.
4. perfect 宀 house + 元 origin In the beginning, Adam and Eve (at the time, the only two people with human legs) had a perfect home in Eden.
5. institution 阝 walls + 完 perfect The Institute spent all their money on research, and now there’s no budget left for a new building. “We’ll take anything,” the director says. “If it has walls, it’s perfect.” Fight our cultural institutions and break down walls to create the perfect society.
6. section 立 stand + 口 mouth +阝walls In my office, every section and department has its own cubicle, separated by walls. To talk to people in a different section, I have to stand up and speak over the walls so they can hear the words from my mouth.
7. sky 宀 house + 儿 human legs + 工 artificial I love the sky, so my dad promised to paint the all the ceilings in our house with an artificial sky. Whenever I walk into the room, the first thing I see is his human legs on a step stool. We will use the top half of sky as an element, meaning sky or empty:
8. research sky + 九 nine Researchers may say that there are eight planets in our solar system (= sky), but I’m a big fan of the ninth planet, Pluto. As far as I’m concerned, there will always be nine.