Yo, there are some juicy threads about some of these same kanji already. Try to mine them and you will find great information.

Tought for "discard" I guess there is no thread.

I imagine it as: You are playing cards with our familiy in the shed (I use shed as my keyword for the right part of it). When your sister noticed you were stealing she bit your finger. And you had to discard that card.

I used to have that problem too, and still do for a few other kanji as well. I'm lazy as anything, so when that happens I don't really try to fix it too hard. If I can't remember which is which, I just write down both, and if either are correct I count it as a passed. The kanji basically mean the same thing, anyway, so I don't get caught up on matching an artificial English keyword as long as I legitimately remember how to write them. I'm much more interested in knowing how to write them from a trigger than on their prescribed meanings, anyway - even if it's the wrong trigger.

I discard a brochure advertising a new-age, finger-shaped cottage made by someone.  I discard the brochure because I don't want to spend my time in a finger-shaped cottage.

The cottage is just like a finger sticking out of the ground and pointing into the sky.  The finger nail is like a window.

well, this ain't pretty, but in the rare times that I fail a card for the 3rd time, I go "hardcore", which means, I make up a pornographic story for it... and I use the elements as metaphors for sexual parts... Yes, it is not nice to suggest something like this, but.... I never failed those cards again after doing this (._.)... sorry guys.

Last edited by bebio (2009 January 02, 7:40 pm)

I always discard the cottage cheese when I find fingers in it! @_@

That worked for me. Ugh.