Memrise Lesson 43

Study before Lesson 43 quiz.

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1. red 土 soil + 刀 sword + animal legs Imagine a more grisly version of Little Red Riding Hood: in order to look more human, the wolf uses a sword to cut off two of his animal legs, spilling drops of red blood on the soil. Note: the top of 刀 sword overlaps with the bottom of soil, so we only see the lower lines. As an element, we simplify the top of red: 亦 . We’ll call this version apple, a red fruit with a short stem.
2. strange 亦 apple + 夂 walking legs A very strange sight: an apple with walking legs, running away from the person who wants to eat it! In Japan, it’s considered strange to eat an apple (or any other food) while walking. Be polite and sit down to eat!
3. reason A sprout growing in a rice field—that’s the reason we plant rice.
4. yellow graveyard + 由 reason + animal legs Why is the graveyard fenced off with yellow tape? The reason is that they found a bunch of dismembered animal legs.
5. sideways 木 tree + 黄 yellow Imagine a tree full of so many yellow bananas that it falls over sideways.
6. comma This rare kanji is the name for a design called the tomoe, made up of comma shapes. Remember it as a picture of a comma; the middle line can symbolize the way that commas split up a sentence. As an element, we’ll call it mosaic—small square tiles that make a pattern.
7. color 勹 bound up + 巴 mosaic Look into a kaleidoscope to see a bound up mosaic of color.
8. discontinue 糸 thread + 色 color The fashion line was discontinued because the makers ran out of colored thread.