Anyhow, I just finished watching １ポンドの福音 (One Pound Gospel), and I absolutely LOOOOOOOVED it! Seriously! I'd heard from people that it was only so-so, and, since it was about boxing and nuns, I wasn't convinced. I'm glad I finally found the time to start it, though, as I absolutely ADORED it! Kamenashi was adorable beyond words. And I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed at the end. I want more!!!!
Now, I've started 夏の恋は虹色に輝く (Summer love shines like a rainbow), and it's okay so far. But I've always kind of thought that Matsumoto Jun looks like a sewer rat, and this drama is no exception. Also, I feel like the female lead does NOT look the part she's playing at all. She just seems to old for it, somehow. I dunno, there's just something. . . wrong about her.
Anyhow, this is NOT about the dramas I've been watching. It's about the KANJI I've been learning. And I have been learning!
召 - seduce
昭 - shining
I imagine the sun sending giant rays down to people, shining on them, seducing them. People are seduced by the shining of the sun.
則 - rule
副 - vice-
別 - separate
丁 - street, nail
町 - village
可 - can
頂 - place on a head
子 - child
孔 - cavity
I have a bit of trouble with this one. If I see the word cavity, I can write it. But looking at it, I couldn't remember what it was. I think of a child in the dentist's office. He has a big hole is his tooth and is super afraid because the dentist is coming at him with a giant hook to take out what's in the hole.
了 - complete
女 - woman
好 - fond
如 - likeness
This one is somewhat vulgar. When a child comes out of a woman's hole, it is a likeness of her and the man that made it.
母 - mother
貫 - pierce
呪 - curse
克 - overcome
If I had 10 teenage older brothers, I would be OVERCOME by big brothers, overcome by teenagers. Agh!
小 - little
少 - few
大 - large
多 - many
Many moons ago. . .wait, I don't remember what happened many moons ago. It's so far away that it's clouded in my memory.
夕 - evening
汐 - eventide
外 - outside
名 - name
石 - stone, rocks
If a little bit of flesh is the same, there is a resemblance
硝 - nitrate
砕 - smash
Take a rock and throw it down, SMASH it into 9 pieces; no, that's not enough, 10 pieces!
砂 - sand
妬 - jealous
削 - plane (i.e. shave wood)
光 - ray
太 - plump
器 - utensil
臭 - stinking
嗅 - sniff
If this is ACTUALLY how the kanji is written, with a drop to make the bottom right kanji dog and not big, it's written wrong in the book.
妙 - exquisite
省 - focus
厚 - thick
奇 - strange
川 - stream
州 - state
順 - obey
水 - water
氷 - icicle
永 - eternity
Find eternity in a drop of water
泉 - spring
腺 - gland
原 - meadow
願 - petition
泳 - swim
沼 - swamp
沖 - open sea
汎 - inter-
The wind goes around the WHOLE word, picking up drops of water in one place and dropping them off in another. Very INTER-continental!
江 - creek
A CREEK is WATER that has been CRAFTED into what it is.
I actually had to look up quite a few of the kanji this time, to know their pronunciations to be able to type them. And some of them didn't seem to have the meaning that Heisig has given them at all. I wonder if I should be worried about what I'm learning. At the same time, the meanings that he has given them have really helped me in remembering how to write some of the ones where the meanings are what they should be. Still, I'm nervous. And I wonder if I shouldn't try to remember them with their proper meanings. It just seems weird that he would give them meanings that don't exist. Like 召. According to him, it means seduce. According to jdic, it means a summons or a call.
That's all for today. Wish me luck in my continued kanji learning journey! I'm off to watch more Natsu no Koi ha Nijiiro ni Kagayaku!
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