hard gay - everyone's favorite anti-hero.  (watch a few youtube videos and youll never forget)

I used unicycle, which made sense because I used stool instead of crotch. I found it a pretty easy and versatile image to work with.

I thought of protesters, and for some reason used the image of Homer's mum from The Simpsons. Anti-establishment douche Julian Assange might be a contemporary alternative. As long as you remember instantly, I don't think the image you use for a radical is that important. It's better to pick something that will combine better with other radicals to make memorising more complicated characters easier.

I used "against"
It meant the same thing to me, but "against" just stuck better.

But, I had a leg up, because I knew it from 反対

bonus is that the inside, 又 is "again"

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I actually used a personally story that wouldn't be so helpful, but along the line of protestors and stuff like that, I would think that the image of a hippie or an anarchist (anti-war or anti-government) might be strong enough to be a useful primitive.

mafried wrote:

But for some reason any story involving specific characters doesn't stick for me. Hard Gay, Clint Eastwood, Julian Assange, and the others are all good suggestions though.

Uh-oh, you better get used to it - an insane number of stories from 900 onwards involve either Mr T or Spider-man (you'll see).

Just imagine that person doing or using the keyword, it should be instant recall! oh well, good luck!

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aphasiac wrote:

Uh-oh, you better get used to it - an insane number of stories from 900 onwards involve either Mr T or Spider-man (you'll see).

Just imagine that person doing or using the keyword, it should be instant recall! oh well, good luck!

No, they involve 糸 or 亻

For me that is 'thread' and 'human-being'. I actually am familiar most of these kanji from my previous studies. I tried both Spiderman and Mr. T, and it neither one worked. Maybe it's something funny about my memory, but I generally don't pay attention to who is doing something in a story. I did borrow some imagery though--I usually think of spider webs for 糸, and for 亻 it is always an important part of the story that somebody is involved, just not important who.

YMMV.

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aphasiac wrote:

mafried wrote:

But for some reason any story involving specific characters doesn't stick for me. Hard Gay, Clint Eastwood, Julian Assange, and the others are all good suggestions though.

Uh-oh, you better get used to it - an insane number of stories from 900 onwards involve either Mr T or Spider-man (you'll see).

Just imagine that person doing or using the keyword, it should be instant recall! oh well, good luck!

Yeah, I agree that characters/people are a great thing to use. Like provisional made me think of a provisional driver's license, so 仮 is Snoop Dog giving Homer's mum a driving lesson. I have a lot of settings and small objects as well, and sometimes they combine really cohesively with a character or two to make the kanji practically impossible to forget.