I always had trouble with remembering 肖 for some reason and every time I saw the answer I was like "That b*****d kanji again!"-- and it ended up sticking and I can remember it easily now. It especially helped with "wee hours" -- 宵 -- "My b*****d neighbours kept me up until the wee hours again with their loud music.".

...Anyone else done something like this?

That kinda helped me look like a freak in certain situation.

Besides that, a mild "shit", seems to work very well. Maybe is someway to tell our mind it is not doing the stuff it should the right way.

I work much better with a reward system, tought.

Btw, I have serious trouble with the tou of hontou. I knew it is hit instantly. But when I see the keyword hit in the tests, I never remember the kanji. The same for agression keyword. This anoys me a lot.

mentat_kgs Wrote:Btw, I have serious trouble with the tou of hontou. I knew it is hit instantly. But when I see the keyword hit in the tests, I never remember the kanji. The same for agression keyword. This anoys me a lot.

How about this(if you don't already know), 当 is also used in this word 当たる(あたる) which means to hit. You can look at it more like "to hit the mark(and get a question right), rather than to hit someone.　攻　is used in 攻撃(こうげき) which means attack. I'm sure you can see the connection 工　gives the reading こう.

Whow, I'll put that together with my story. Tks yukamina!

Whenever possible, I simplify these cards for myself by adding a japanese keyword in parentheses. It may seem like cheating, but all's fair in love and war. (What do you call a kanji war? Kanjihad!)

I also used 当たる (あたる) as a keyword for 当. If you ever watched Urusei Yatsura, the main character is named Ataru, it's a pun because he has bad luck and is always being "hit" by comical misfortunes.

A story that makes me laugh every time... 崩 (Crumble)

ergerg Last edited: 7-8-2006
5 Your climbing a MOUNTAIN with your COMPANION, and are running out of food. You quickly stuff the last cookie into you mouth, mumbling "That's the way the cookie CRUMBLES".

The thought of screwing over your companion half way up a mountain for a cookie with the cheesy catchphrase made me laugh, and it stuck, because crumble in the sense i imagined it first isnt in the story first.

只 only, as i said in another thread, cos its the only kanji that looks like that

I would say for "to hit", remember it as in "to hit the lottery". I'd write it for you now, but I'm on my phone and lacking an IME.

What's really cool is when you look up one in the dictionary, and the reading just "sticks". That's happened to me a couple of times. Today I remembered ながい for some reason. (長）

snispilbor Wrote:What do you call a kanji war? Kanjihad!

Along these lines, I find really, really bad puns help me remember some kanji when a story just doesn't work. :)

Just for the record, I remembered hit and agression this time.

aircawn Wrote:

snispilbor Wrote:What do you call a kanji war? Kanjihad!

Along these lines, I find really, really bad puns help me remember some kanji when a story just doesn't work.

I decided to try your method and.... I feel kind of ashamed I could create such a bad pun...

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(Keep in mind the primative Elbow i personally chose Pickaxe and make dwarf stories)

Dwarves are private people, and we often wonder what they eat... turns out they pickaxe their way to the surface and eat wheat-a-picks.

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