Incoming.

Woo. Ok. An update, I took a couple days break from the Kanji, mostly for reviewing what I had already learned. This weekend I started it up again, so I have about 4 postings that need to go up, and they will pretty soon. Soon!

Halfway point! Hurray!

So, today marks the official day 30. I’ve reached 1020 something Kanji. Quite a nice achievement so far, and on par with my pace. I’ll take the day off of new Kanji tomorrow to do a mass review on the thousand I’ve learned so far. The new Kanji will resume on the 30th! So, here’s the ones that completed the fourth digit:

Buddhist Priest: 僧 (A person needs to increase in stature to become a Buddhist Priest)
Hundred Million: 億 (The average number of ideas a person has in their lifetime)
Ceremony: 儀 (Populated by a person filled with righteousness)
Reparation: 償 (Like a prize for a person)
Hermit: 仙 (The person in the mountain)
Sponsor: 催 (Hermits are the main sponsor of the turkey business)
Humanity: 仁 (Can be defined as a conversation between two persons)
Scorn: 侮 (Every person scorns another at one point)
Use: 使 (A person commonly used by others is the office)
Convenience: 便 (When it grows late, a person loses her convenience)
Double: 倍 (A person with a muzzle doubles it’s menacingness)
Tenderness: 優 (A person with melancholy needs to be treated with tenderness)
Fell: 伐 (A person felling a tree for the fiesta)
Inn: 宿 (Run by one person, but can accommodate 100)
Wound: 傷 (A wounded person, reclining over her piggy bank)
Protect: 保 (A person protecting the sacred mouth of the tree)
Praise: 褒 (Much praise for the protector that use top hat and scarf)
Greatness: 傑 (A person with sunglasses near a tree exudes greatness)
Adhere: 付 (A person adheres to an ideology like glue)
Token: 符 (Bamboos that are adhered together are like tokens)
Municipality: 府 (Caves adhered together form a municipality)
Responsibility: 任 (It is the responsibility of the porter to take care of the person)
Fare: 賃 (Money is responsible for paying the fare)
Substitute: 代 (A person for an arrow)
Sack: 袋 (A good substitute for a garment)
Lend: 貸 (Substitute money for a favour)
Change: 化 (A person for a spoon)
Flower: 花 (Change into a flower eventually)
Freight: 貨 (Changing your money for freight)
Lean: 傾 (Leaning your head is changing it’s position from stiff to relaxed)
What: 何 (A person can do what?)
Baggage: 荷 (What are these flowers on my baggage?)
Sagacious: 俊 (A person with a license for walking legs)
Bystander: 傍 (A person standing there, with a crown and pointing a compass to the action)
Long Time: 久 (Like a person, but with something extra)
Furrow: 畝 (Things that have furrows: Top Hats, Rice Fields, You after a Long Time)
Captured: 囚 (A person pent in)
Inside: 内 (A person is technically inside a belt)
Third Class: 丙 (The third class of an airline will be people hanging by a belt from the ceiling)
Design: 柄 (The trees are used for the third class of the airline)
Meat: 肉 (The insides of an assembly line)
Rot: 腐 (Meat in a borough rots quick)
Sit: 座 (The assembly line in the cave, sitting on the soil)
Graduate: 卒 (An assembly line for making people with top hats and a needle)
Umbrella: 傘 (Two assembly lines are required to make umbrellas with needles)

That wraps up the first half of my quest! Woo! Hopefully I’ll be done in time for my girlfriend to return from Japan with her parents!

Catchup: Day 29

Last part of the catchup!

Person: 人 (Yep)
Assistant: 佐 (The person always by your left side)
However: 但 (That person will always be there at nightbreak)
Dwell: 住 (Dwelling on the candlestick will bring back that person)
Rank: 位 (The vase beside with the persons stands will determine their rank)
Go-Between: 仲 (The person that is always in the middle of things)
Body: 体 (The root of the person)
Remote: 悠 (A person that needs a walking stick, if the taskmaster has heart, will work remotely)
Affair: 件 (The thing between a man and a cow. Yuck)
Attend: 仕 (The regular person is supposed to attend to the samurai’s desire)
Other: 他 (Scorpion is other person)
Prostrated: 伏 (A person in a chihuahua position)
Transmit: 伝 (A person transmitting information with rising smoke)
Buddha: 仏 (The person with an awesome elbow)
Rest: 休 (A person resting on a tree)
Provisional: 仮 (A provisional person is anti stuff)
Chief: 伯 (The person with the white dove)
Vulgar: 俗 (The person in the valley is so normal that it’s vulgar)
Faith: 信 (A person’s words is her faith)
Excellent: 佳 (A person covered in ivy)
Reliant: 依 (A person can rely on their garment for protection)
Example: 例 (A person’s file is an example of their life)
Individual: 個 (An individual is a hardened person)
Healthy: 健 (A person that builds will become healthy)
Side: 側 (A person will always keep her rule at her side)
Waiter: 侍 (The person waiting on the Buddhist temple)
Halt: 停 (A person is halted at the pavilion before entering)
Price: 値 (A person must be very straight about the price they pay)
Emulate: 倣 (A person set free)
Overthrow: 倒 (On the arrival of the person, the government will be overthrown)
Spy: 偵 (An eminent person can become a spy)

That’s it for the catchup. Next post will be day 30, the halfway point!

Catchup: Day 28

Following up on 27 is, surprise surprise, 28:

Incense: 香 (Wheat, when on top of the sun, provides a smell similar to incense)
Seasons: 季 (Kids will play on wheat on all seasons)
Committee: 委 (Women are part of the committee on wheat)
Excel: 秀 (Wheat that grows like a fist will excel in life)
Transparent: 透 (The roadways that excel the most are those that are built transparently)
Entice: 誘 (Words that excel will excite you)
Cereals: 穀 (Samurai Crown Wheat, a part of Missile Corp.)
Germ: 菌 (Like flowers pent in the wheat)
Rice: 米 (Grains of rice everywhere)
Flour: 粉 (Rice parted into flour)
Sticky: 粘 (Sticky rice is used for fortune telling)
Grains: 粒 (Grains of rice are kept in a vase)
Cosmetics: 粧 (In the cave, mixing rice and soil, will lead to cosmetics)
Astray: 迷 (The road to the US of A will lead your astray)
Chic: 粋 (It is chic to play cricket wearing rice)
Provisions: 糧 (A set quantity of rice)
Chrysanthemum: 菊 (A flower that looks like rice bound together)
Core: 奥 (A drop of rice pent in the Saint Bernard’s core)
Number: 数 (A woman counting the number of rice for the taskmaster)
Watchtower: 楼 (The earliest ones were nothing more than a woman on a tree with some rice)
Sort: 類 (The Saint Bernard sorting the rice with his head)
Lacquer: 漆 (To protect from water, lacquer your umbrella with tree rice)
Esquire: 様 (The sheep of the trees, protector of rice, is the squire)
Request: 求 (Like rice, but only a drop)
Ball: 球 (A ball requested is a ball)
Salvation: 救 (A simple request to the taskmaster; salvation)
Bamboo: 竹 (Like two nails)
Laugh: 笑 (Bamboo growing to heaven will make the owner laugh)
Bamboo Hat: 笠 (Like a vase made of bamboo)
Bamboo Grass: 笹 (The generation part of the bamboo)
Muscle: 筋 (A muscle is strong like a bamboo, with the power of flesh)
Box: 箱 (Made of interlocking bamboo)
Writing Brush: 筆 (Like a brush but made of bamboo)
Cylinder: 筒 (The monk keeps a large collection of bamboo cylinders)
Etc. : 等 (Bamboo is just another random part of the Buddhist temple)
Calculate: 算 (Look at the bamboo, and calculate on your two hands to figure it out)
Solution: 答 (Attempting to fit bamboos together)
Scheme: 策 (Bamboos belted to a tree. Figure it out)
Register: 簿 (The acupuncturist registers your bamboo spots with water)
Fabricate: 築 (Fabricated wood is a mediocre craft of bamboo)

29 incoming!

Catchup: Day 27

Alright. Today is officially the day I hit 30 days, and the halfway point of my quest. Sitting at just over 1000 Kanji right now. But work and other things have been taking my time, so I’ll do all updates from 27 to 30 today. One by one. Here we go, batch 1:

Going: 行 (Like a river on an aqueduct, going from one area to the other)
Rhythm: 律 (A very synthetic idea, painting the rhythm of the sound in a column using a brush)
Restore: 復 (A wound double backing on itself, going towards restoration)
Gain: 得 (A column gaining a new coat of glue every night break)
Accompany: 従 (The animal horns that accompany you going on your journey will mend you)
Junior: 徒 (Junior executives are put in a line and told to run)
Wait: 待 (You will wait in line when going to the Buddhist temple)
Journey: 往 (Going on a journey? Please, go with your candlestick)
Subjugate: 征 (When Caesar subjugated the Gauls, a column was erected to correctly portray his achievements)
Diameter: 径 (A line around a spool can give the diameter of it)
He: 彼 (The guy who goes around wearing nothing but a pelt)
Duty: 役 (The duty of the missile is to just keep going)
Benevolence: 徳 (Going around in spite of a needle in your eye or your heart is a sign of benevolence)
Penetrate: 徹 (The taskmaster will bring you up to the line before penetrating your mind)
Indications: 徴 (The line of the mountain king indicates his task master)
Penal: 懲 (The penal system is like a line to the heart)
Delicate: 微 (The mountain taskmaster has a line on his ceiling from which hangs a delicate pair of human legs)
Boulevard: 街 (A beautiful boulevard, covered in vines)
Equilibrium: 衡 (Equilibrium in the boulevard is reached by having a brain bound up and hanging on one side, and a St. Bernard dog on the other side)
Draft: 稿 (The first draft of a manuscript is written using tall pens made of wheat)
Earnings: 稼 (Your earnings are measured in wheat, and are stored in your house)
Extent: 程 (Please, display the extent of your fortune by showing all your wheat)
Tax: 税 (Like a hungry devil, always taking a bit of your wheat)
Immature: 稚 (Only immature turkeys eat the wheat)
Harmony: 和 (Harmony is achieved when, and only when, the wheat is in the mouth)
Shift: 移 (A shift happens when you have many wheat plants in your farm. You are now a big farmer)
Second: 秒 (You can only have few wheat in a second)
Autumn: 秋 (The season when the wheat is on fire)
Distress: 愁 (When autumn comes, your heart feels distressed if you’re lonely)
Private(I): 私 (Only I can have my own private wheat on my elbow)
Regularity: 秩 (Wheat drops it’s fruit with a certain regularity)
Secret: 秘 (All boxes of cereal invariably contain some secret)
Appellation: 称 (No matter how strong your appellation, the wheat will only recline a little)
Profit: 利 (Cutting wheat with a saber will yield profit)
Pear Tree: 梨 (The tree that gives a lot of profit)
Harvest: 穫 (Harvesting the wheat, you fashion a vessel to carry the wheat flowers)
Ear of a Plant: 穂 (It’s what you have to find if you wanna ask for a favour from the wheat)
Rice Plant: 稲 (Wheat was mistaken as a rice plant by the vulture in olden times)

On to the next catchup.

26

日 26 now.一日 left to catch-up on the blog. 三 real 日 until the halfway milestone. Here we 行!

Placement: 置 (Your eyes must be looking straight to get the proper placement)
Penalty: 罰 (The overseer, wording out the punishment measured by sabers)
Rather: 寧 (I’d rather leave my heart at the house than my eye at the spike)
Voiced: 濁 (The poor bound up insect, with water in its eye, voicing his request for mercy)
Ring: 環 (With the proper ring, it will make her mouth drop, her eyes light up, and her scarf go to the ceiling)
Send Back: 還 (Without the ring, you’ll be sent back on the roadway)
Husband: 夫 (The head of something large)
Aid: 扶 (A husband using his fingers to provide aid to his wife by opening the pickle jar)
Mountain Stream: 渓 (A vulture carrying a husband, who is dropping water as he flies, begins the mountain stream)
Standard: 規 (The husband, seeing the properties, measuring them up to his standard)
Exchange: 替 (Two husbands, conversing the entire day, exchanging ideas)
Approve: 賛 (Two husbands, approving the purchase of shells for the local harbor)
Submerge: 潜 (An exchange between the water and the air)
Lose: 失 (The moment the husband drops his wallet on the ground)
Iron: 鉄 (Metal dropping on the furnace)
Alternate: 迭 (Lose yourself in a roadway, you’ll have to alternate between them to find the correct way)
Retainer: 臣 (The slave, beaten so badly, his eye popped out of the frame)
Princess: 姫 (A woman with a slave must be a princess)
Storehouse: 蔵 (The destination of the parade of slaves wearing flowers on their heads)
Entrails: 臓 (The storehouse of the body, made of flesh)
Intelligent: 賢 (Intelligent slaves were marked with a shellfish on their crotches)
Strict: 堅 (To be strict to a slave meant to punish his crotch with soil)
Look To: 臨 (A reclining slave, looking ahead to the goods)
Perusal: 覧 (A reclining slave, on the floor, just seeing what’s up)
Gigantic: 巨 (A slave so big his eyes popped even more)
Repel: 拒 (You need a pretty good finger to repel gigantic things)
Power: 力 (Like a blade, but more)
Male: 男 (Has the power to make rice fields)
Labor: 労 (The power applied at the schoolhouse)
Recruit: 募 (The recruits have to show their power at the graveyard)
Inferiority: 劣 (Inferior beings possess few power)
Achievement: 功 (Making a good craft will help you achieve power)
Persuade: 勧 (You need great power to persuade an unicorn to do your bidding)
Toil: 努 (Males need to use their muscle while toiling at work)
Encourage: 励 (Imbues someone with the muscle of ten thousand cliffs)
Add: 加 (Use your muscle to add food to someone’s mouth)
Congratulations: 賀 (Add shells to someone’s bank account to congratulate them)
Erect: 架 (Apply all your muscular power to the trees in order to erect wood houses)
Armpit: 脇 (The flesh of your body near your triceps)
Threaten: 脅 (Flex your triceps near someone’s flesh to threaten them)
Co-: 協 (Being someone’s co-something can be as painful as a needle in the triceps)

それは everything for now. 27 coming up in a couple of hours, after I do my daily review.

25日目

25日目, coming right now. 26 and 27 will follow. Didn’t have the 時 to update yesterday, so today would have been solely 27, but 27 and 26 have to come up together:

Prize: 賞 (The shellfish in the outhouse is a good prize for those with stomach aches)
Party: 党 (What is a political party if not an outhouse populated by human legs?)
Public Chamber: 堂 (The land where the outhouse is built is part of the public chamber)
Usual: 常 (It is usual to find a towel in the outhouse)
Skirt: 裳 (A skirt originated as a garment to be used when going to the outhouse)
Manipulate: 掌 (You really have to use your hands to manipulate the tools at the outhouse)
Pelt: 皮 (Usually hung on a branch near a wall)
Waves: 波 (The pelt of the water)
Old Woman: 婆 (When a woman reaches old age, she becomes attracted to the waves)
Expose: 披 (Use your fingers to expose the pelt of the animal prior to working)
Rend: 破 (A rock was used to rend the pelt into strips to make clothing)
Incur: 被 (A garment made of pelt will incur the wrath of PETA)
Remainder: 残 (Bones are the remainder of the float parade)
Martyrdom: 殉 (Bones of the martyr are lying on the ground for a decameron)
Particularly: 殊 (Vermilion-colored bones are particularly tough to find)
Augment: 殖 (The straightening of one’s bones will be the first augmentation available)
File: 列 (Nothing is more effective at lining people into a single file than a threat to saber them in the bone)
Split: 裂 (Filing the garment by their quality will split your clothing into tiers)
Ardent: 烈 (A file of oven fires will make things quite ardent)
Death: 死 (After the death of the cow, its bones were turned into spoons)
Interment: 葬 (After death, inter your friends with two hands, leaving some flowers around)
Wink: 瞬 (Someone winking at you, wearing sunglasses, you can’t see their eyes. Birdhouse)
Ear: 耳 (Similar to an Eye, but not really)
Take: 取 (Take your ear off my crotch!)
Gist: 趣 (Take a run, you’ll get the gist of it quickly)
Utmost: 最 (It is of utmost importance to take a little sun everyday)
Snapshot: 撮 (It’s of utmost importance to use your fingers in order to take a snapshot)
Shame: 恥 (You didn’t put your ear to your heart. Shame!)
Post: 職 (You need a fine ear if you wanna take the post of kazoo player)
Holy: 聖 (Whatever the King says through his mouth or hears with his ear, is holy)
Daring: 敢 (It is quite daring to put a spike on your Taskmaster’s ear)
Listen: 聴 (Listening with your ear will avoid a needle in your heart and eye)
Pocket: 懐 (Putting needles on your garment’s pocket, keeps you in a good state of mind. Also, eyes)
Ridicule: 慢 (Those who use mandala will be ridiculed by those in a superior state of mind)
Loose: 漫 (The water mandala has a very loose effect on the psyche)
Buy: 買 (Look at the shellfish before buying!)

Done!
26 日目 coming up soon!

24 Days

Day 24. Boom:

Exit: 出 (Over there, near the two mountains)
Mountain: 山 (Yep, that sure does look like one)
Bungling: 拙 (A fire in the theater. You are at the exit. Excited, your fingers bungle your escape attempt)
Boulder: 岩 (A large mountain, made up of stones everywhere)
Charcoal: 炭 (A mountain covered in ashes is a good source of charcoal)
Branch Off: 岐 (The path through the mountain branches off in several ways)
Mountain Peak: 峠 (The mountain peak sits above the ground but below the sky)
Crumble: 崩 (A mountain crumbling down over the companion)
Secrecy: 密 (A house in the mountain is invariably full of secrets)
Honey: 蜜 (Houses will invariably attract insects with honey)
Storm: 嵐 (The wind blowing in the mountain is a sign of a storm)
Promontory: 崎 (Is a strange mountain formation)
Enter: 入 (Through the left)
Crowded: 込 (You are mad to attempt to enter a crowded roadway)
Part: 分 (The dagger going into the body, parting it in two)
Poverty: 貧 (Parting with your money will leave you in poverty)
Partition: 頒 (The head of the partition parts the job up for the people)
Public: 公 (When going into a public space, make sure your elbows are in the right place)
Pine Tree: 松 (A tree that is commonly found in public areas)
Venerable Old Man: 翁 (A venerable old man is identified in public by his feathers)
Sue: 訟 (Careful with the words you use in public, they can lead to a process)
Valley: 谷 (When going into the mouth of the valley, please bring an umbrella)
Bathe: 浴 (Contrary to popular belief, the water in the valley is proper for bathing)
Contain: 容 (A house so large it can contain an entire valley)
Melt: 溶 (Melted ice contains a lot of water)
Longing: 欲 (Inside a valley, yawning, is someone longing for you)
Abundant: 裕 (The cloakc of the valley people is made from material abundant to the area)
Lead: 鉛 (It’s a metal commonly found in gullies)
Run Alongside: 沿 (A stream of water, running alongside the gully)

25, coming right up.

Day 23

Day 23, followed shortly  by 24, and we will be up to speed on my notebook progress. Once I reach 1000, I’ll make a version of my memory game available for play, so anyone can try it out. Eventually pushing it for free on the App Store and Google Play. Here we go:

Pay: 払 (Pay with your arm, from your finger to your elbow)
Wide: 広 (The width of the cave is about an elbow)
Broaden: 拡 (To broaden said wide cave, use extend your fingers outwards)
Mineral: 鉱 (Wide reserves of metals are made out of minerals)
Valve: 弁 (Lock your elbows and put your two hands on the valve to turn it)
Masculine: 雄 (The masculine turkey has an elbow by his side)
Pedestal: 台 (A statue, of elbows coming out of the mouth on the floor)
Neglect: 怠 (Putting your heart on a pedestal will lead to neglect of yourself)
Reign: 治 (The water king, reigns his water kingdom from a pedestal)
Commence: 始 (Love does not commence when you put women on a pedestal)
Womb: 胎 (The flesh of the body that should be put on a pedestal, for it’s life-giving abilities)
Window: 窓 (After the explosion, looking you of the window, you see an elbow, a heart and a pair of human legs)
Gone: 去 (Someone buried on the ground, his elbows is all we can see, is gone)
Method: 法 (You need a precise method to make the water be gone from your basement)
Meeting: 会 (To have a meeting, you need walls)
Climax: 至 (The climax of the planet earth is the tall wall of soil that is the Himalaya)
Room: 室 (Inside the house, the climax is best reached inside a room)
Arrival: 到 (The arrival of the saber on the enemy’s body is the climax of the battle)
Doth: 致 (The climax of the workplace is when someone makes the taskmaster do something)
Mutually: 互 (Kinda looks like a squared Yin Yang)
Abandon: 棄 (An infant, abandoned in the forest, tied to a tree with a buckle)
Bring Up: 育 (Bring up your infant pigs properly, so you can get good bacon meat)
Remove: 撤 (Bring up a touchy subject to the taskmaster, and he’ll remove you from the work using his finger)
Allot: 充 (Allot time to spend with your infant kids, so they can learn to walk on their human legs)
Gun: 銃 (Allots metal to be thrown to your enemy)
Sulfur: 硫 (Dear god! The baby in the flood mixed with stone resulted in sulfur!)
Current: 流 (Oh no! Now the flood current is taking the infant away in the water)
License: 允 (The two vital components to get your driver’s license: Proper elbow positioning and use of your human legs)
Tempt: 唆 (Pacman, walking on human legs, mouth wide open, being tempted to take the license off your hands)

That’s it. Day 24 will be up later today, and balance will be restored. After today, I’ll have around 6 days to learn 200 Kanji, around 33 per day, so I can reach half of my goal. Hurray!

Pushing to the Limit: Day 22

Alright, almost done with the alignment, here’s what I had for day 22.

Throw:投 (A giant robot, with fingers that turn into missiles, throwing them everywhere)
Drown: 没 (When a missile falls into water, it drowns 😦 )
Establishment: 設 (To fight the establishment, you have to use missiles made of words)
Beat: 撃 (Beating a car using the missile you hold in your hand)
Husk: 殻 (In the age of samurai, missile was deemed superfluous in that husk of age)
Branch: 支 (Like a needle poking at your crotch)
Skill: 技 (It takes a lot of skill to use your fingers to play music with the branches)
Bough: 枝 (A bough is composed of the branches of trees)
Limb: 肢 (The branches of the flesh)
Stalk: 茎 (Like the spool of the flower, unraveling into new leaves)
Suspicious: 怪 (The state of mind of suspicion causes your mind to unravel theories like a spool unraveling itself)
Lightly: 軽 (A car driving slowly, lightly, is like a spool slowly unraveling)
Uncle: 叔 (Upright, few, crotch. Make of that what you will)
Coach: 督 (The uncle with his watchful eye, coaching the little league team)
Loneliness: 寂 (Your uncle, sitting at home after the divorce, feeling alone)
Graceful: 淑 (The uncle, gracefully standing over the water)
Anti- : 反 (Don’t hit the cliff with your crotch. It hurts)
Slope: 坂 (The anti-soil)
Plank: 板 (The anti-tree, for tree huggers)
Return: 返 (The return is similar to an anti-roadway)
Marketing: 販 (Is anti-consumer and pro-money)
Claw: 爪 (It’s a claw. Just look at it)
Gentle: 妥 (A vulture, gentling carrying the woman to her home)
Milk: 乳 (The fledglings have to carry the milk using hooks)
Floating: 浮 (The band of fledglings, floating on the water)
Leader: 将 (To be the leader of the race, the turtle glued itself to the vulture)
Exhort: 奨 (The Saint Bernard is the Exhorted Leader)
Pick: 採 (The vulture picking the fruits off a tree using his fingers)
Vegetable: 菜 (The flowers that the vultures eat off the tree)
Accept: 受 (The birdhouse must accept the crotch of the bird)
Impart: 授 (Always impart feelings with accepting fingers)
Love: 愛 (A birdhouse will always be there for the bird, returning home on walking legs, heart beating happily to be at home)

Phew. Only one more posting to be done, and everything will be aligned!