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2	1		one	一	One down, 2041 to go. ;). STORY2: To learn this one kanji, I recommend (#2000) this story : Bambi is in a cave, eating a side-dish of salad when trying to learn the kanjis. As he succeed to learn the kanji for one, you get jealous and decide to shoot him with a slingshot. At this moment you hear the police coming, so you hurriedly burn all the proofs into a fire (so you remove the key-words Bambi, slingshot and fire from recommend). So that when the police arrives, the only remaining clue is a single horizontal bar.
3	2		two	二	Two lines. STORY2: Roman numeral II, written on its side.
4	3		three	三	One + two = three. STORY2: THREE measurements define the female shape: BUST, WAIST, and HIPS. Waist is the smallest, and for most women the HIPS are wider than the chest.
5	4		four	四	FOUR year-olds often put their FOOT (human legs) in their MOUTH - but they are too young to realize. STORY2: I imagine a giant devouring a human in four bites. First the giant bites off the person's head, then he bites the torso, then from the waist to the knees, and finally the giant plucks up the remaining portion of the human legs into his mouth. See the fourth bite falling in there?
6	5		five	五	三 + two vertical lines = 5. STORY2: This Kanji looks like a "3" Kanji with two added vertical lines. 3+2= 5.
7	6		six	六	Indicating 6 parts of the human body: head, body, 2 arms, 2 legs. STORY2: Six-Six-SIX ((666)) Mark of the Beast!! Imagine that dapper old beastly fellow summoning his top hat to himself. See it scamper over to him on a little pair of beastly legs.
8	7		seven	七	This kanji is our good old seven, turned upside down. STORY2: I wrote it upside down so I crossed it out.
9	8		eight	八	"Hachi" (eight) begins with the sound of the katakana "ha", and it's approximately the same character. STORY2: The valcano hasn't erupted for 8 years.
10	9		nine	九	Kinda of looks like the kanji of 1　一 with the kanji of 8 八added. So think of it as 　一＋八＝九. STORY2: Warning - naughty reminder A woman in the doggie style position, waiting for my NINE inches.
11	10		ten	十	Two needles crossing marks the spot, or you can use the Roman character for ten (rotated 45 degrees). STORY2: I scared away ten vampires with a single cross!
12	11		mouth	口	Looks like a huge open mouth. STORY2: Momma used to say: "Keep your trap shut!" This thing is shaped like a trap door.
13	12		day	日	Open the window, new day. STORY2: Picture two halves of a 24-hr period: Day & Night.
14	13		month	月	A month is longer than a day. STORY2: Am I the only one who sees this as someone sticking their ass in the air "mooning" someone (two cheeks of the butt and the legs coming off of it)? The Moon meaning connects well to the meaning of month, considering that months were traditionally measured by the phases of the moon. Also, the mooning "ass" part of it connects well to Hesig's seemingly unconnected "flesh" or "part of the body" meaning (when used in primitive form).
15	14		rice field	田	A rice field divided into four parts. STORY2: Ten people use their mouths to eat the yield of the rice fields.
16	15		eye	目	There are 3 sections. Imagine the outer two being the whites of your eye. The middle is the pupil. Fill it in with imaginary color. STORY2: 目_目.
17	16		old	古	Tombstone and cross on an old man's grave. STORY2: You get OLD fast if you have ten open mouths to feed.
18	17		I	吾	I have 5 senses. STORY2: I eat five times at day.
19	18		risk	冒	Don't look at the sun directly with your eyes, it's risky! STORY2: You'll risk your eyesight if you look up at the sun.
20	19		companion	朋	My companion and I are like two moons side by side. STORY2: Under the twin moons of Tatooine, Luke had no COMPANION.
21	20		bright	明	The sun makes the moon bright. STORY2: The sun and the moon are brightest objects in the day and night, respectively.
22	21		chant	唱	Someone chanting with their mouth open for two consecutive days. STORY2: Chants from our mouths are meant to reach the sun and the stars. Stars are just suns just further away so they seem smaller.
23	22		sparkle	晶	A diamond sparkles as brightly as three suns. STORY2: Sparkle is a forest (#197) of suns!
24	23		goods	品	Three boxes of goods are devoured by the hungry mouths of waiting consumers. STORY2: Three hungry mouths waiting for the goods to come.
25	24		spine	呂	Spine connects head and body. STORY2: The spine goes from one opening mouth/opening (mouth/face) to another mouth/opening (genitals). Just think of these openings being enlarged to represent the head and the body. The bottom is bigger because the body is bigger than the face.
26	25		prosperous	昌	If you work from Sun UP to Sun DOWN you will be prosperous. STORY2: I kept getting this mixed up with meanings like 'fortune', so here is a fool proof story! Remember the Vulcan salute from 'Star Trek' (a fiction of the sci-fi genre in which heavenly bodies such as SUNS play a huge role) used with the phrase 'live long and PROSPER'? If that's not enough of a visual reminder, the Vulcan salute shows the fingers parted in to 2 sets of 2, and visually kind of looks like this kanji if you think about it.
27	26		early	早	The sun up is early, well before ten. STORY2: An early sun-flower looks like a miniature sun perched on a needlelike stems.
28	27		rising sun	旭	9am carries with it the rising sun. STORY2: Nine planets revolve around our rising sun.
29	28		generation	世	3 tens = generation. STORY2: They SAY a generation is ten+ten+ten years, with the big first ten providing a grounding, and the next ten providing a little more grounding for the final ten. But I wish the next generation didn't always SAY "yo!". (ON reading is SEI, KUN reading is yo).
30	29		stomach	胃	The rice field is harvested once a month to get food for our stomach. STORY2: The stomach is the part of the body that digests food (which, in Japan, is mainly rice).
31	30		nightbreak	旦	A nightbreak happens when the sun rises over the horizon (floor). STORY2: It may be easier to think of the keyword "DAYBREAK" or "MORNING" for this kanji (other kanji dictionaries do). Then the mnemonic phrase "SUN rising over the HORIZON" works better. It is an infrequent kanji, but can be found in: 旦夕　（たんせき） morning and evening, or 元旦　（がんたん） New Year's Day.
32	31		gall bladder	胆	The moon has a lot of gall sticking around after sunrise. STORY2: All the month long I have to start working at nightbreak. This really activates my gall bladder (=I get angry).
33	32		span	亘	The sun spans from horizon to horizon in a day. STORY2: The span of the day is the time between the sun goes up and comes down.
34	33		concave	凹	The letter "U" is concavely written. STORY2: Concave has a concave shape.
35	34		convex	凸	When I get vexed, I give people the middle finger. STORY2: Convex has a convex shape.
36	35		olden times	旧	Age 18 = olden times. STORY2: The old man with a walking stick kept talking of olden times all day long.
37	36		oneself	自	Faced with his clone, our hero valiantly cut a mark on his forehead right above his eye so that his comrades could tell his true oneself from the enemy. STORY2: To use an eyedropper by oneself, aim from above to put a drop into the eye.
38	37		white	白	A white ray is a drop of sun. STORY2: Even a small drop (') of the sun (日) would make you see nothing but white.
39	38		hundred	百	100 turned sideways. {sort of the same as what ashoksaraf said}. STORY2: That dirty ceiling was painted WHITE a hundred times!
40	39		in	中	Pocky goes in the mouth. STORY2: My GF lets me come in her mouth (pictogram).
41	40		thousand	千	It takes many drops of ten to get to a thousand. STORY2: One T = one thousand.
42	41		tongue	舌	What is in a mouth that permits it to speak a thousand things? Yes, a tongue. STORY2: Kissing a thousand mouths eventually gets you some tongue.
43	42		measuring box	升	It is a thousand or ten? I need my measuring box. STORY2: I can fit a thousand needles into my measuring box, but only if I bend the thousand.
44	43		rise up	昇	This kanji does not mean "get up" or "awake." It means rising, like the rising of a salary, or a promotion. STORY: You know that your salary has RISEN UP when your MEASURING BOX has enough dollar bills in it to reach the SUN. STORY2: We Measure the Sun to decide when we should Rise Up out of bed.
45	44		round	丸	Nine plus a drop rounds it off to ten! STORY2: Watch out for plump (#120). Here Heisig could have added a "t" and we would have had a much better keyword : rotund. Rotund is more specific than "round" which begs for confusion with circle (#1811). A dictionary search on "fat" or "round" doesn't yield this kanji, but "rotund" does! Primitive suggestion: the Laughing Buddha is often depicted as a rotund, smiling bald man in robes with a largely exposed pot belly stomach (symbolizing plenitude).
46	45		measurement	寸	The decimal system uses drops of ten as a measurement. STORY2: Glue two sticks together to make the best measurement. (I always remember the primitive, but never the original keyword.).
47	46		specialty	専	After you have chosen your 10 fields of study, measure how good you are at each to find out your specialty. STORY2: 10 brains glued together allows you to specialize in any specialty that you want. Imagine each brain having its own specialty.
48	47		Dr.	博	Ten specialties grants you the title of Dr. with a dot. STORY2: Watch for doctor (#1694), the sooner the better! In fact this kanji refers to someone well "learned", with extensive knowledge. This could apply to any kind of field. The kanji 医 ("doctor") is directly related to medicine. I would suggest to take away completely the idea of medicine here, and use a popular character whose name includes the keyword such as "Dr. Who", "Dr. Jekyll", even "Dr. Dobb's" if you're into programming.
49	48		fortune-telling	占	Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod. STORY2: A great number of people who do fortune-telling are "almost old".
50	49		above	上	A magic wand standing on above the floor. STORY2: Above all else, be grounded if you are going to practice augury (#2103)卜. You could turn yourself into a トoad...　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　ジョウ　以上　いじょう(above)　　　　ショウ　上人　しょうにん(saint).
51	50		below	下	Roots are below the ground. STORY2: A magic wand hanging below the ceiling.
52	51		eminent	卓	The most eminent magician is he who learned to use his magic wand early in life. STORY2: The eminent sunflower is the one that stands above the others.
53	52		morning	朝	There is mist as the moon fades away in the morning. STORY2: Morning has come "ten" hours "early"!!! The "moon" is still in the sky!
54	53		only	只	Imagine an animal with only a mouth and legs. STORY2: My girlfriend insists that the only thing I want from her is what's between her legs.. She's drawn me this pictograph to demonstrate. It's a head and two legs spread apart.. I explain that I also love her breasts, and then she smacks me in the face. I'll never understand women.. (I keep failing this kanji, hopefully this silly story will help me!).
55	54		shellfish	貝	Eye thought I saw a shellfish legging it down the beach! STORY2: Stare at the shellfish, it looks like an eye with legs.
56	55		upright	貞	A magic wand is needed to make a clam stand upright. STORY2: Just the thought of my magic wand on her clam makes my magic wand stand upright.
57	56		employee	員	An employee (member of the company) has to clam up his mouth if he wants keep the job! STORY2: An employee is basically a shellfish with a mouth.
58	57		see	見	As a primitive, this is Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. (the giant eyeball with legs...) Makes for easy stories later on. STORY2: Eyes and legs are all you need to see the world.
59	58		newborn babe	児	In the olden times, a newborn babe came out legs first. STORY2: Only 18 and already got a newborn babe. Young girls are so quick to spread their legs these days...　　　RTK2:　ジ　児童　じどう　(child)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ニ　小児　しょうに(infant).
60	59		beginning	元	In the beginning were just two who walked on human legs. STORY2: In the beginning God created woman, and God asked her how she liked his work. Woman replied, "Well, you know how I have two eyes, two arms, two legs... it seems redundant to have three breasts. It would look more symmetrical with two." God nodded, and the middle breast fell off... and it was good. Woman picked up the breast and said, "Thank you, God! But what do I do with this useless boob?" And God created man. That's why the women today only have two boobs to match their two human legs.
61	60		page	頁	A shellfish carrying a page balanced on its head. STORY2: One drop of ink from a shellfish can fill a whole page.
62	61		stubborn	頑	A stubborn person in the beginning gets something into their head and can't change their mind. STORY2: Picture a STUBBORN schoolboy, with his arms crossed and his book still open to the BEGINNING PAGE. Despite the teacher telling him to turn the page, he refuses and keeps his book on the BEGINNING PAGE.
63	62		mediocre	凡	A drop of breeze is naught but a mediocre wind. STORY2: Is there anything as mediocre as a drop of piss in the wind?
64	63		defeat	負	Tied up, the shellfish had to accept defeat! STORY2: Defeat is defined by a shellfish in binds.
65	64		ten thousand	万	I bound ten thousand dollars together and hid it under the floor. STORY2: We have "one" at the top and if you turn the kanji 90 degrees you will see arabic 4 shich means it has four zeros in front of it!
66	65		phrase	句	Some Japanese phrases are difficult to wrap your mouth around. STORY2: A bound mouth cannot utter a single phrase.
67	66		texture	肌	When you expose your flesh to the wind it gets textured: goosebumps! STORY2: The moon's lack of wind preserves its texture.
68	67		decameron	旬	Hesig should be BOUND for a DAY (or maybe 10 days - a decameron) for calling this Kanji DECAMERON. See martyrdom (#809). STORY2: If you bind up ten days, you get a decameron.
69	68		ladle	勺	A ladle binds drops together. STORY2: Forget about the primative 'bound up'. Imagine instead the shape of a ladle and holding it upside down to drink the last DROP (of water).
70	69		bull's eye	的	I managed to hit the bull's eye by throwing my white ladle. STORY2: A white, bound up, drop in the center is the bull's eye. (why Heisig had to use "ladle" instead of the original two primitives that make up "ladle" I'll never understand!).
71	70		neck	首	The V shape is your neck on top of your collar bone, or the straight line. Yourself, or the rest of your body is below that! STORY2: The mooses neck supports it's big horns and long nose.
72	71		fish guts	乙	This is a fish hook, that pulls out the fishguts. STORY2: You cut a fish in a z shape on the belly to make it easier to open the fish and rip out its fish guts silly!
73	72		riot	乱	The riot police broke up the riot by dragging the rioters away by their tongues with fishooks. STORY2: A tongue with a hook can cause a riot.
74	73		straightaway	直	If you get a needle in your eye that is hooked in there, get to a hospital straightaway. STORY2: I caught a freaky creature with ten eyes on my fish hook, so I threw it back straightaway.
75	74		tool	具	Keep an eye on your tools while you work at the table. STORY2: One tool nobody should be without - a Mordor-type eye that floats over the workbench. It jerks around, monitoring all who come near, and if anyone so much as removes a stapler from the bench - ZAP.
76	75		TRUE	真	A compass is a tool with a needle on top that points to true north. STORY2: Ten tools are all a true craftsman needs.
77	76		craft	工	I consider craft to be one of the harder primitives to use in stories so I've personified it as Bender the crafty robot from Futurama who was designed to bend I-beams. STORY2: I crafty.
78	77		left	左	The LEFT side of my brain posesses the faculties needed for logical crafts, like engineering. STORY2: The left side of my brain, is for crafts.
79	78		right	右	The right hand is for putting food in your mouth. (The other hand is for ass-wiping!). STORY2: Always keep your right to free speech (mouth) by your side!
80	79		possess	有	Possessed by the Earth's gravity, the moon stays by its side. STORY2: By my side I POSSESS a moon of flesh, better known as your big ass!
81	80		bribe	賄	To bribe someone, money is a necessary possession. STORY2: If you possess enough shellfish, you can bribe anyone.
82	81		tribute	貢	"This next song is a TRIBUTE to a little SHELLFISH friend of mine who was tragically crushed by an I-shaped table.". STORY2: Tribute is the craft of raising money.
83	82		paragraph	項	To write a paragraph is the craft of grouping sentences on a page. STORY2: To craft a page well, we need paragraphs.
84	83		sword	刀	This SWORD is so sharp, it can cut the top part of カ off in カタナ. STORY2: If you look really close this kanji looks like a person bending over touching the ground Waiting for someone to put there sword in his ass!
85	84		blade	刃	The part of a sword where a drop of blood can usually be found is the blade. STORY2: A drop of blood on the blade of my sword.
86	85		cut	切	The seven samurai used their swords to cut their opponents. STORY2: Seven swords cut better than one.
87	86		seduce	召	A man is easily seduced by a mouth to his "sword.". STORY2: To seduce is to make a sword of one's mouth.
88	87		shining	昭	Shining is the sun's seduction. STORY2: The sun was shining so bright that it seduced Icarus and he flew too close.
89	88		rule	則	When you have both money and the power of the sword, you can make the rules. STORY2: If you've got CRABs on your SABER, then you didn't follow the rules of safe sex!
90	89		vice-	副	The wealthy guy with the sword standing next to the king, that's the vice-roy who does all the dirty work. STORY2: Vice-president Cheney: a wealthy saber rattler.
91	90		separate	別	I don't know about you but to me this seems like someone's head is about to be separated from his body. You can see he's kneeling and his mouth is wide open gasping for the last breath he will ever take. STORY2: A wise old samurai keeps his hostages (with their mouths bound up to keep them quiet) in a separate room from his sabers. Putting them together would be a silly mistake.
92	91		street	丁	Today, the program "Sesame Street" is brought to you by the letter "T". STORY2: Two streets make a T-intersection.
93	92		village	町	Actually this means town, like one that has lots of streets and is surrounded by all the rice fields. STORY2: Getting this one confused with Town is easy, so remember it with this rhyme. "Pillage the village, for the rice and and the tea." the street primitive on the right looks like a 't'.
94	93		can	可	A mouth on the street asking for things: "Can I get some help?! Can I get directions, Can I have some money? Can you please speak English?!". STORY2: I can eat nails.
95	94		place on the head	頂	If I put a street sign on my head what do I get ? A place on the head ! STORY2: NAILS - place directly on the forehead, NAILS - place directly on the forehead, NAILS - place directly on the forehead, 　　　The HEAD ON commercial nails it into your head......
96	95		child	子	A child who is ten will still ask for his ma (top looks a bit like katakana ma). STORY2: A pictograph of a child, with arms outstretched for mother (or perhaps because she is chasing a rat?). Note that this kanji occupies the first space on the Zodiac circle, and is the sign for the rat (such as 2008!).
97	96		cavity	孔	The child's arms flailed around at the sight of the hooked tool the dentist was going to use to fill his cavity. STORY2: I warned him about cavities, but the child is still hooked on sweets.
98	97		complete	了	The experiment was a complete failure! The child was made without any arms! STORY2: A child with the arms inside the blanket will be completely wrapped up.
99	98		woman	女	To remember the order of strokes, remember a female ninja is called a "kunoichi". That is, く(hiragana) ノ(katakana) 一(kanji, ichi=one). STORY2: My mother taught me that a woman should always sit with her legs crossed (but the arms can be stretched out).
100	99		fond	好	A woman is fond of her child. STORY2: Jane Fonda carrying a Vietnamese child. Pro-war protesters hold signs, "I'm not fonda Jane!"...　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　RTK2:　コウ　好評　こうひょう(favorable criticism).