Meaning: a mouth Reading: ク、コウ、くち(ぐち) 口調(クチョウ): a tone of voice; a manner of talking異口同音(イクドウオン): unanimously 口論(コウロン): a dispute,…
目
Meaning: an eye, a pivot Reading: モク(モッ)、ボク、め、ま 目標(モクヒョウ): a target, a goal目下(モッカ): now, currently注目(チュウモク): attention, recognition名目(メイモク): a name, a…
正
#正 is listed under the radical of #とめへん(止). Apparently 止 has a meaning of a foot and with 一 (one) added, 正 means to advance straight forward, from which …
茶
Meaning: tea Reading: チャ、サ 茶色(チャいろ): brown colour茶室(チャシツ): a tea house, a tea room茶目(チャめ): mischievousness, a practical joke茶碗(チャワン): a rice…
黒
Meaning: black Reading: コク、くろ(ぐろ) 黒衣(コクイ): black clothes黒板(コクバン): a blackboard, a chalkboard暗黒(アンコク): darkness, blackness大黒柱(ダイコクばしら): the central pillar, a breadwinner 黒(くろ):…
白
#白 is listed under its own radical 白. My dictionary says it is a pictograph but it lists 3 different…
赤
#赤 is listed under its own radical but its original form was the combination of 大 (big) and 火 (fire)…
好
#好 is made of おんなへん(女) and 子 (a child), i.e., a girl or a young woman, from which the meaning…
広
#広 is made of #まだれ(广) and ム. 広 used to be an informal variant of 廣. 黃, which is the…
楽
#楽 is listed under the radical of #木 but it is a pictograph depicting various musical instruments placed on the…
近
#近 is made of #しんにょう/#しんにゅう with 斤. 斤’s original meaning is “an axe” but it also means “a small amount,”…
長
#長 is a character and it makes its own radical although characters with that radical are not part of the…
安
#安 is made of #うかんむり and 女 (female). うかんむり is associated with a house – “having a woman in the…
高
Although #高 looks as if it is made of many different parts, it makes its own radical and it is…
少
#少 is listed under the radical of #小. With one stroke added to 小, 少 is a logo-graph which depicts…
多
#多 is listed under the radical of #ゆうべ(夕/evening). With 2 夕 put together, 多 means something that continues unlimitedly from…
古
#古 is listed under the radical of #くち(口/mouth), 口 combined with 十 (10), 古 means “something which has passed down…
新
#新 is listed under the radical of #おのづくり(斤). 斤 means “an axe” so 新’s original meaning was “to cut down a tree,” from which the meaning of “new” was developed.
小
#小 used to have 3 short strokes and is a logograph to mean “small.” It makes its own radical. meaning:…
大
#大 is a pictograph that depict a person with all limbs spread out, from which it means “big.” 大 itself…