johnzep Wrote:胆　
ok, not actually my favorite...but an important one for RTK...it's the one people get to before they have completely bought into the RTK system and say "Why I am learning 'gall bladder' and not something useful"

also the kanji i used as an example to show our acquaintances how the RTK method works if you remember

山

I like the "mountain" (yama) kanji the best because it was one of the first non-number kanji that I learned on my own. In a lot of the articles I've read about how lots of the original chinese characters originated, they usually use "mountain" as an example of how pictographs became highly stylized characters. I always think of the 山まやあ cat too when I see it.

The 器 (utensil) kanji is pretty funny to me too, just because of Heisig's story. That poor, poor St. Bernard...

[ファブリス]

jannahj you will probabyl like this then

やーまーよ　やーまよ！
やまーはーいーきーてーいーるううううう！

The Taste of Tea - Mountain Song

Thanks a lot for that link, ファブリス! Now my brain has officially melted. :o

鬱

It means depression but I don't care, I just think it's cool.

Now that I'm a bit more used to kanji, I think my new favorite is 御. It just feels so... Japanese, somehow.

公, because it looks great next to 園, 園 because it looks great next to 公 . I also like 翁, 総 because it contains 公, which looks great next to 園. I also took particular lighting in 懸, not only because it looks so beautifully complicated, but also because we, who have gone true rtk, can now write it so easily.

In addition, almost every kanji that contains the "shape" primitive.

之 and 機 are cool ones.

The coolest word:
財閥

It sounds so evil!

Zaibatsu was, if I'm not mistaken, also a name of some mischievous gang in GTA 2, so the evil feel may not be quite random

It is not random at all. Just read kaiji and akagi to get THE feeling.

I like anything with the "road/path" primitive. Of which, I suppose, the coolest is probably 導. I also like 魔, which you'll see ten trillion times if you play the classic RPGs in Japanese. Combine the two to get 魔導 (まどう), the Japanese word for magic in FF6. 雰 also looks pretty cool.

As for clever compounds where the Heisig keywords really make a cool image.. 砂漠.

I like 燕 since i think it just looks nice.

I might switch my vote to　魔導　if it sounded a bit more cooler. Because the kanjis rock.
仲魔 is cool too.

mentat_kgs Wrote:I might switch my vote to　魔導　if it sounded a bit more cooler. Because the kanjis rock.
仲魔 is cool too.

You mean 仲間 right? 仲魔 is not a japanese word.

Tobberoth, you underestimate everyone too much. 仲魔 is word play.

For every kanji you make your favourite, you're making the other kanji cry! Shame on you.

nest0r Wrote:For every kanji you make your favourite, you're making the other kanji cry! Shame on you.

片 deserves to cry.

Edit: As does 泪. o_o

jannahj Wrote:Thanks a lot for that link, ファブリス! Now my brain has officially melted. :o

Oh goodness, what the heck is that?

That was an interesting song. I think my brain has melted.

mentat_kgs Wrote:Tobberoth, you underestimate everyone too much. 仲魔 is word play.

hehehe that's a cool word.

I quite like: 暗記 - My 'dark scribe', like the Anki program has become my serpentine Dexter-style companion for memorizing kanji. ^_^

I now have a new favorite kanji: 艆
I don't even care about its meaning. I simply adore it~ ♡

Edit: nest0r >> Oh! (insert slowpoke.jpg) Those are the actual kanji for あんき? That's awesome!

又, the crotch.

Seriously. I've just spent the last 10 minutes straight laughing my ass off over the submitted stories that stem from this primitive. I'm actually crying, I'm laughing so hard. I can't even remember the last time I've done that. <sigh> ahh...I gotta stop for tonight...

ファブリス Wrote:jannahj you will probabyl like this then

やーまーよ　やーまよ！
やまーはーいーきーてーいーるううううう！

The Taste of Tea - Mountain Song

the baseball scene is also awesome. What is this movie about?
i like 亀 just cause lol.

Well.. It is not my favorite Kanji word, but I have been wondering recently about 鉛筆。。。 a "lead pencil"?? But it is really a graphite/carbon pencil. So, did the English "lead pencil" come from 鉛筆? Or the other way around?