When looking at defeat 負 [shellfish with the bound up on top]

I thought of this story I heard a long time ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani
Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ) (Heikeopsis japonica) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face which many believed to be the face of an angry samurai hence the nickname Samurai Crab. It is locally believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in The Tale of the Heike.

Or... If you are defeated you will be bound up in a crab [shellfish] for all eternity so sweep the leg already.

I am not sure if it is on the lists, I can't find them and my anki deck doesn't use it.


Any stories for Kanji that you find particularly amusing, clever, interesting whatever.


Also Often what google translate gives and what RTK uses are quite different. Should I be at all worried, or just relax and let the hooks to their job.

I find that the stories that work best for me are the short, sweet ones that sound like a proverb from a Chinese fortune cookie. Some favorites:

"Diarrhea is profitable illness"

"Load up car to take gifts on Thanksgiving"

"Thirsty mouth on march will make water dwindle"

LOL! I tried to make going through RTK1 fun

john555 Wrote:I find that the stories that work best for me are the short, sweet ones that sound like a proverb from a Chinese fortune cookie.

Those are actually of Japanese/American origin, but whatever.

tetsueda Wrote:

john555 Wrote:I find that the stories that work best for me are the short, sweet ones that sound like a proverb from a Chinese fortune cookie.

Those are actually of Japanese/American origin, but whatever.

Yes, whatever.

Dudeist Wrote:Also Often what google translate gives and what RTK uses are quite different. Should I be at all worried, or just relax and let the hooks to their job.

Just let them do their job. They're just hooks like you said, eventually you'll connect the real words and uses to the kanji and you won't need them anymore.

Also for me the best stories were the ones I could picture vividly. I don't think the words, except for the keywords, matter as much as just being able to imagine the story clearly.

cracky Wrote:I don't think the words, except for the keywords, matter as much as just being able to imagine the story clearly.

This is funny, but true. I was taking too much care at certain points to make sure the part names stuck from the story, but in the end, the story (at some point) just became a crutch for later.

[Zgarbas]

A few years after rtk, the only story i remember is 'hitler breeding with a cow' for 牧

Zgarbas Wrote:A few years after rtk, the only story i remember is 'hitler breeding with a cow' for 牧

Hope it was a gentile cow.

I remember almost all the Mr. T ones. They're just so ridiculously stupid that it can't be helped. Why would Mr. T beat up the chihuahua from the Taco Bell commercial? Or elbow the Buddha in the face? He also has an affair with a cow, btw. That guy is nuts. I'm amazed that show was ever allowed on television.

Stansfield123 Wrote:

Zgarbas Wrote:A few years after rtk, the only story i remember is 'hitler breeding with a cow' for 牧

Hope it was a gentile cow.

I remember almost all the Mr. T ones. They're just so ridiculously stupid that it can't be helped. Why would Mr. T beat up the chihuahua from the Taco Bell commercial? Or elbow the Buddha in the face? He also has an affair with a cow, btw. That guy is nuts. I'm amazed that show was ever allowed on television.

Because Mt T despite popular opinion in fact does not pity the fool or any one else.

Dudeist Wrote:Mt T despite popular opinion in fact does not pity the fool or any one else.

When I found out that Data was going to be doing the pitying I was so disappointed in the "RTK Community" that I almost threw my computer in the lake.

SellingTokyo Wrote:

Dudeist Wrote:Mt T despite popular opinion in fact does not pity the fool or any one else.

When I found out that Data was going to be doing the pitying I was so disappointed in the "RTK Community" that I almost threw my computer in the lake.

All the cool kids would throw it on the ground. Like the time my so called girlfriend passed me my cell phone and said it was my dad. It wasn't my dad, it was a cell phone, duh! So I took it and threw it on the ground.