The Yakitori Kanji Story – neuroscience approach to Kanji retention

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Below you’ll find the kanji list with radicals broken down. On another page there are also keyword worksheets for testing your recall of the kanji. Both are available in a paperback workbook. AND I am almost done making youtube videos of the entire list. Enjoy!

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Based on a work at http://JapanTree.com/Kanji.

 

1. 一 one
2. 二 two
3. 三 three
4. 了 total
5. child
6. ノ katakana “no”
7. woman く ノ 一
8. like
9. 姦 rape
10. mouth (small box radical)
11. 品 products
12. 丶 dot
13. 言 say
14. 丨 a bow, stick, staff\(a primitive)
15 下 below 一 丨 丶 (T – T)
16 不 un
17 否 no
18 十 ten
19 古 old
20 叶 dream come true
21 計 measure
478 乙 (or 乚) second rank / girl http://rtega.be/chmn/?c= 乙 or 乚
478 乚 second rank (LOSER)
23 匕 dagger spoon katakana ヒ
24 七 seven
25 比 compare
26 叱 scold
27 日 sun, day
28 旨 tasty
29 昆 insect
30 唱 chant
31 晶 crystal
32 旧 former
33 早 early
34 旦 danna (husband)
35 白 white
36 皆 everyone
37 亅 hook
38 水 water 水also氵 katakana フ
39 泉 spring
40 氷 ice
41 永 forever
42 泳 swim
43 泊 stay for the night
44 汁 juice, soup
45 混 mix
46 月 moon (organ)
47 湖 big lake
48 明 bright
49 脂 animal fat
50 胆 gall bladder / daring
51 朝 morning
52 火 fire 火or灬
53 炎 flame
54 淡 faint
55 談 consult
56 丁 block (cube)
57 灯 streetlight
58 可 possible
59 河 stream
60 訂 revise
61 田 rice field
62 町 neighborhood, small town
63 畑 cultivated field
64 胃 stomach
65 入 put/go in
66 人 person 人also亻
67 何 what?!?
68 信 believe
69 化 transform
70 艹 plant radical K140 (䒑 or 艸)
71 花 flower
72 苦 suffer
73 草 grass
74 荷 luggage
75 冂  upside-down box
76 内 the inside
77 肉 meat
78 円 yen/circle
79 巾 hanging towel /scroll
80 市 small city 市 
81 肺 lung
82 姉 older sister
83 目 eye
84 冒 dare
85 帽 hat
86 自 my own
87 亠 lid radical
88 亭 restaurant
89 停 bring to a halt
90 享 enjoyment
91 卒 graduate
92 方 direction / person
93 万 ten thousand
94 訪 formal visit
95 妨 prevent
96 肪 fatty food
97 又 again (stool/stand radical)
98 双 pair
99 奴 servant
100 文 culture/ sentence
101 斉 unison
102 済 economy
103 丩 (looks like numeral 4) http://rtega.be/chmn/?c=
104 収 get
105 叫 shout
106 心 heart 心or忄or⺗
106b 忄 heart (mutation of #106 heart)
107 必 surely
108 怒 get mad
109 息 breath
110 思 think
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103 匸 匸構え(kakushi gamae)
104 亡 dying
105 忙 busy
106 忘 forget
107 盲 blind, ignorant
108 妄 without reason or permission
109 罒 net
110 慢 neglect/ egotistic
111 漫 manga
112 亜 sub- 亜-
113 悪 bad
114 夕 evening katakana タ
115 多 many
116 夢 dream
117 夜 late night
118 液 liquid
119 名 name, famous
120 死 death
121 ト fortune telling katakana toe
122 外 outside
123 上 above
124 卓 dinner table
125 占 fortune teller/ occupy
126 点 point
冖 わかんむり cover (radical K14) http://rtega.be/chmn/?c=
127 宀 (roof radical 宀部 benbu)
128 宅 residence
129 安 cheap / safe
130 字 letter
131 宣 announce
132 喧 fight or quarrel
133 八 eight
134 穴 hole
135 六 six
136 沿 run parallel to 沿
137 ム myself / katakana mu
138 公 public
139 訟 lawsuit
140 台 platform
141 治 cure
142 始 begin
143 怠 lazy
144 能 talent
145 熊 bear
146 態 looks like
147 仏 Buddha
NO 148
149 立 stand up
150 辛 spicy / painful
151 幸 luck, happiness
152 宰 manager
153 泣 cry
154 位 rank
155 音 sound
156 章 emblem / chapter
157 暗 dark
158 意 meaning
159 億 a hundred million
160 憶 recollect
161 門 gate
162 闇 pitch-black darkness 闇-
163 間 a period of time
164 問 question, problem
165 刀 sword 刀or刂
YKS165b ⺈ knife (mutant of #165 sword)
166 前 before
167 切 cut / important
168 召 summon
169 昭 shining / Showa era
170 照 contrast
171 分 understand / divide / minute
172 剤 type of medicine
173 罰 punishment
174 刃 blade
175 忍 hide / endure
176 認 admit
177 力 strong
178 加 add
179 協 cooperate
180 脅 threaten
181 努 make an effort
182 男 man
183 九 the number 9
184 究 research
185 丸 round
186 熟 get good at
187 執 grasp/persist
188 小 small
188b ⺌ small
188c ⺍ small
189 少 a little (amount)
190 劣 inferiority
191 妙 odd
192 省 ministry / cut down on
193 京 capital
194 涼 cool place
195 景 scene
196 示 show (altar radical)
197 宗 religion
198 寂 lonely
199 督 supervisor
200 幺 Young (radical K54)
201 幼 childhood
202 玄 deep profound
203 畜 raise animals
204 蓄 store or put aside
205 糸 string
206 紹 acquaint
207 線 line
208 綿 cotton 綿
209 細 slender
210 総 general / total 総 
211 索 look up
212 納 to supply
213 紛 ambiguous
214 絹 silk
215 系 group, tribe
216 孫 grandchild
217 係 be involved with
218 干 dry out
219 刊 edition
220 用 utilize
221 肝 liver
222 芋 potato
223 汗 sweat
224 宇 cosmos
225 千 thousand
226 舌 tongue
227 話 conversation
228 活 vivid, lively
229 辞 quit
230 憩 break at work
231 半 half
232 判 judgement
233 伴 accompany
234 平 equality / peace
235 評 art or literary criticism
236 呼 call to someone
237 土 earth
238 里 village
239 量 quantity
240 黒 black
241 童 kid
242 憧 yearn for
243 埋 bury
244 坊 boy / monk
245 吐 puke
246 塾 cram school
247 士 samurai radical
248 仕 work
249 志 intention, volition
250 吉 good omen
251 詰 cram in
252 結 bind
253 誌 magazine
254 耂 old (also 老)
255 老 get old
256 孝 filial piety
257 者 professional
258 著 author
259 緒 together
260 諸 various
261 署 government office
262 暑 hot place
263 煮 simmer/stew
264 隹 turkey
265 焦 char / scorch
266 無 without
267 維 upkeep
268 唯 sole or only
269 誰 who??
270 準 prepare / criteria
271 護 defend
272 馬 horse 隹*
273 止 stop
274 雌 your Moms
275 肯 consent
276 歩 walk
277 渉 interfere
278 紫 purple
279 足 or ⻊foot/ be enough
280 促 peer pressure
281 踏 tread on
282 正 correct
283 是 fer shure
284 定 plan
285 証 proof
286 歪 distort
287 走 run
288 超 exceed/ go over
495 尸 corpse
289 尺 R (old unit of measure)
290 駅 train station
291 昼 noon
292 訳 reason / translation
293 沢 swamp
294 手 or 扌hand
295 択 select
296 推 infer
297 描 depict
298 提 submit a proposal
299 払 pay
300 批 call into question
301 指 finger / point at
302 打 pound
303 招 beckon
304 拐 kidnap
305 担 carry on your back
306 接 directly contact
307 拍 clap
308 挿 insert
309 看 observe/guard
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310 耳 ear
311 取 take
312 最 most
313 撮 photo-shoot 撮-
314 趣 hobby
315 恥 disgrace
316 聞 listen
317 斤 axe
318 折 fold
319 丘 hill
320 哲 philosophy
321 誓 vow
322 訴 accuse
323 竹 ⺮ bamboo
324 筋 muscle
325 簡 simplicity
326  ”Bamboo-key”   乍
327 作 make
328 昨 yesterday
329 ⻌ Moving motion
330 近 near
331 辺 around here/around that time
332 迫 press upon
333 込 get crowded / gets*
334 達 plural/delivery
335 進 progress
336 述 refer to katakana ホ
337 木 tree
338 林 grove
339 森 forest
340 本 book / the real thing
341 体 body
342 休 rest
343 枠 boundary/limit
344 析 analyze
345 策 take measures
346 刺 stab / business card
347 新 new
348 集 collect
349 棚 shelf
350 松 pine
351 枯 wither
352 相 partner
353 箱 box
354 想 idea/imagination
355 禁 prohibition
356 果 fruit / result 果 
357 課 section or lesson
358 菓 sweets/pastry
359 東 east
360 練 practice
361 案 guide/proposal
362 杯 one cup of liquid
363 膝 knee or lap
364 保 guarantee/maintain
365 繰 spin
366 操 manipulate/ chastity
367 染 dye
368 雑 miscellaneous , random
369 禾 wheat
370 稚 childish
371 和 peace/ Japan
372 秘 secret
373 私 me / private
374 秒 one second
375 移 transfer
376 利 handy
377 季 season
378 委 member
379 香 good smell
380 秋 fall
381 愁 sorrow
382 末 the tip
383 未 not yet
384 妹 little sister
385 味 flavor
386 米 rice 丶 ノ 丶 ノ
387 迷 perplexed
388 謎 mystery
389 断 decision/judgement/refuse
390 継 succeed / inherit
391 粘 be sticky
392 粋 essence
393 粒 grain
394 粉 powder
395 来 come/future
396 番 number
397 審 judge
398 大 big
399 奥 waaay in back
400 奇 strange
401 寄 get close
402 臭 stinky odor
403 奮 get worked up
404 器 instrument 口口 口口
405 突 thrust
406 央 central
407 映 project, reflect
408 英 heroic
409 犬 dog
410 伏 lay face down
411 黙 shut up
412 然 nature
413 燃 burn
414 太 fat
415 駄 bad quality
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512 廿 twenty 十 一 十 two tens connected at the hip
513 革 leather/revolution 廿
514 靴 shoe
417 漢 Chinese
418 難 difficult
419 勤 be employed at
420 嘆 lament, sigh
421 莫 nothing/emptiness
422 模 model
423 墓 grave
424 暮 make a living
425 募 recruit
426 幕 curtain
427 漠 desert
428 囗 big box/enclosure
429 因 origin /cause
430 恩 kindness
431 菌 bacteria
432 困 trouble
433 囚 prisoner
434 回 rotate / # of times
435 固 hard
436 個 individual
437 井 well
438 囲 surround
439 丼 beef bowl
440 王 king
441 玉 ball
442 国 country
443 宝 treasure
444 理 reason
445 任 have responsibility for
446 妊 pregnant
447 皇 emperor
448 望 desire
449 聖 holy
450 程 extent
451 主 master/mainly
452 契 contract
453 喫 to smoke
454 潔 honorable
455 注 pour / be careful
456 柱 pillar
457 住 dwell
458 駐 stop at
459 害 damage
460 割 divide
461 素 element
462 憲 constitution
463 青 blue
464 請 request
465 清 pure
466 精 spirit
467 晴 good weather
468 情 emotion
470 生 life / birth
471 星 star
472 性 sex / essential nature
473 姓 family name
474 朱 vermilion
475 株 share, stock
469 person-doing-karate-kick-(ninja-kick)-(mutated from 人)
476 遊 play around
477 称 symmetry
478 乙 (second rank)
479 乾 dessicate 十 日 十
480 母 your Moms 丶 一 丶 一 no one puts chuck norris’ mom in a trap-box, no one, NO ONE.
481 毒 poison/ addict
482 毎 every every mom will ninja kick you if you mess with her child.
483 梅 plum I wish every tree was a plum tree
484 海 ocean
485 悔 regret
486 侮 despise
487 中 middle
488 忠 loyalty
489 患 medical patient
490 仲 friendship
491 虫 insect / pest
492 蛇 snake
493 蚊 mosquito
494 騒 make noise
NO 495
496 属 genus/affiliation
497 居 live
498 尼 nun
499 泥 mud
500 尿 urine 尿
501 尻 butt
502 刷 print
503 戸 door
504 所 area / attribute
505 肩 shoulder
506 雇 hire
507 房 wife/cluster
508 戻 return
509 涙 teardrop
510 毛 fur
511 尾 tail
515 甘 sweet 廿
516 某 a certain
517 謀 plot
518 儿 human legs
519 見 look
520 寛 leniency
521 焼 roast / grill
522 境 border
523 現 present time
524 親 parents/kindness
525 兄 older brother
526 克 overcome
527 況 condition
528 競 contest
529 児 baby
530  ハ  animal legs (actually another version of 8) radical K12
531 貝 shellfish (money)
532 買 buy
533 憤 get indignant
534 噴 spew
535 貨 cargo
536 貧 poverty
537 貯 save up
538 賭 bet or stake
539 質 quality
540 賃 rent money
541 貞 chastity
542 偵 detective
543 員 clerk
544 損 harm
545 則 rule
546 側 side of something
547 測 scientific measurment
548 貫 pierce
549 慣 adapt
550 責 blame/responsible for
551 績 achievements
552 積 pile up
553 貴 exalted
554 遺 bequeath
555 兵 soldier
556 浜 beach
557 勹 fishhook (actually radical K20) http://rtega.be/chmn/?c=
558 負 lose
559 魚 fish
560 角 horn/corner
561 触 touch
562 兀 pi
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564 売 sell
565 続 continue
566 読 read
567 窓 window
568 探 look for
569 深 deep
570 具 tool
571 元 original
572 完 complete
573 西 west 西
573b 覀 west (mutant of #573)
574 票 ballot
575 標 sign, mark
576 漂 drift
577 酒 liquor 西
578 酔 drunk 西
579 価 value 西
580 要 important
581 腰 waist
582 煙 smoky
583 オ katakana “O”
584 財 loot
585 材 raw materials
586 閉 close store
587 夫 husband
588 賛 agree
589 替 substitute
590 潜 lurk
591 規 criteria
592 挟 pinch
………..
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594 巣 habitat
595 光 shining
596 単 merely
597 桜 sakura
598 獣 beast 田 一 
599 肖 lucky
600 削 whittle down
601 消 erase
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602 爪 bird claw
602* 爫 bird claw
602* ⺥ bird claw
603 菜 vegetable
604 浮 float
605 受 receive
606 妥 compromise
607 授 instruct
608 採 gather
609 久 been a long time
YKS609b 夂 winter radical
977 冬 winter
610 各 each
611 愛 love
612 客 customer
613 落 fall,drop
614 格 character, aspect
615 絡 get entangled
616 略 abbreviation
617 路 road ⻊(足)
618 条 clause katakana ホ
619 麦 barley
620 酸 sour 西 一
621 乃 ”no” の as kanji (archaic)
622 秀 excel
623 誘 invite / entice
624 透 transparent
625 携 carry in hand
626 及 reach / amount to
627 吸 suck
628 級 level
629 扱 treatment
630 彐 or 彑 pigs head / snout katakana”yo”ヨ
631 穏 tranquil
632 侵 perpetrate
633 浸 immerse
634 緑 green
635 急 urgent
636 当 hit the target
637 帚 broom
638 婦 housewife
639 掃 sweep
640 帰 go back home katakana リ
641 帝 foreign emperor
642 締 tighten
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1535 羽 feathers
644 躍 jump ⻊(足)
645 濯 rinse
646 曜 day of the week
647 工 craft or industry
648 空 air
649 控 abstain
650 紅 dark lipstick red color
651 功 success
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653 巧 adroit
654 与 bestow
655 写 copy
656 汚 dirty
657 極 extreme 木  一 勹 又 一
658 誇 be proud of 一 勹
659 号 ID number
660 考 consider
661 拷 torture
YKS661b 弋 (archery radical. radical K56)
662 式 ritual
663 拭 wipe
664 試 attempt to do
665 武 military
666 代 generation / in place of
667 貸 lend
668 戈 spear (ancient chinese dagger-axe)
669 伐 timmmberrr
670 閥 clique
671 惑 be misguided or tempted  一
672 我 we
673 賊 bandit
674 域 region
675 戦 fight
676 栽 cultivate
677 幾 how much? ノ 丶
678 機 machine
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680 職 employment
681 織 organization / weave
682 識 be conscious
683 匚 container (radical K22)
684 区 ward
685 駆 gallop
686 巨 giant / super huge
687 拒 repel
688 距 distance ⻊(足)
689 臣 vassal
690 堅 solid, steadfast
691 緊 tense
692 賢 clever
693 覧 view    一
694 臨 to confront
695 姫 princess
696 匹 small animal
697 匠 artisan
698 四 the numeral 4
699 喚 exclaim
700 換 exchange
701 欠 lack
702 欧 Europe
703 歌 sing
704 吹 blow
705 炊 cook rice
706 攵 (攴) whip/strike (radical K66)
707 数 integer, to count
708 枚 counter for flat objects
709 敏 agile / sensitive
710 敗 be defeated
711 故 breakdown, accident
712 政 politics
713 放 release
714 教 teach
715 激 intense
716 繁 reproduction
717 攻 attack
718 啇 stem (or Yosemite Sam) 立 冂 古
719 敵 enemy
720 適 suitable
721 滴 drip
722 摘 pluck
723 己 myself 一 丨 一
724 改 renew / improve
725 起 wake up / occur
726 紀 century
727 記 diary
728 配 distribute 西
729 求 demand/ask
730 救 rescue
731 球 sphere
732 厂 cliff (radical K27)
733 厳 strict
734 励 diligence
735 歴 chronicle
736 厚 thick
737 圧 pressure
738 粧 makeup
739 備 furnish
740 灰 ash/ gray
741 産 childbirth, production of things
742 原 original/ high plain
743 源 hot spring / origin 源 
744 反 anti
745 返 return or respond
746 坂 slope
747 板 plank
748 仮 provisional
749 販 transaction
750 戊 sickle
751 成 become
752 誠 sincerity
753 越 go beyond
754 蔵 traditional storehouse
755 臓 internal organ
756 歳 years old
757 滅 annihilate
758 威 terrible majesty
759 城 castle
760 幻 illusion
761 気 mood ノ 丶
YKS761b 夬 “bend-the-bow” decisive its decisive victory, the guy with the big hook is the winner
762 決 decide
763 快 pleasant
NO 764
765 減 decrease
766 感 feeling
767 憾 regrettable
768 同 same
769 筒 cylinder /pipe
770 司 administer
771 伺 formal visit / question
772 詞 part of speech
YKS773 t-shirt
774 旅 trip
775 派 faction/bling
776 脈 vein
777 袁 robe
778 遠 far
779 園 public park
780 環 environment   衣
NO 781
782 衣 cloth
783 表 express
784 依 depend on
785 袋 sack
786 裁 trial
787 褒 praise
788 裏 backside
789 哀 pitiful
790 衰 decline,wane
791 良 good
792 娘 daughter
793 退 retreat 退
794 浪 wander
795 眼 eyeball
796 恨 hold a grudge
797 根 root
798 阝 town
799 限 limit
800 郷 one’s hometown
801 響 echo
802 階 story of a building
803 障 impede
804 院 institution
805 防 ward off
806 陥 entrapped
807 都 major city
808 隠 hide
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809 咅 spit out
810 部 section
811 剖 dissect
812 倍 double
813 丬 split wood (radical K90)
814 壮 robust
815 装 dress up
816 状 circumstance
817 寝 go to bed 冖 又
818 北 north
819 背 stature / back of the body
1196 牛 cow
821 制 system
822 製 mass production
823 告 inform
824 造 produce
825 酷 horrendous 西
826 先 earlier/ the tip
827 洗 wash
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頁 leaves of page/ face
829 面 front surface / face
830 百 hundred
831 憂 grieve
832 優 kindhearted/excel
833 宿 lodge at 宿
834 縮 contract / shrink 宿
835 石 rock
836 砂 sand
837 砕 pulverize
838 礎 foundation
839 山 mountain
840 岩 boulder
841 帯 belt
842 滞 delay / be overdue
843 催 sponsor
844 崩 collapse
845 密 hard to see
846 幽 occult
847 岸 shore
848 炭 carbon
849 岳 mount
850 鳥 bird
851 島 island
852 鳴 animal cry
853 豆 bean 丶一ノ
854 喜 rejoice
855 嬉 stoked
856 頭 head
857 夏 summer
858 願 beseech
859 頑 stubborn
860 頃 around that time
861 頂 summit/climax
862 額 amount of money / forehead
863 類 category,type
864 題 topic
865 顧 look back on
866 傾 lean
867 項 item/paragraph
868 川 river
869 順 sequence
870 州 state 丶丶
871 訓 kunyomi
872 荒 go wild / rough
873 慌 be in a rush
horns丶ノ
䒑 plant (already learnt)
875 首 neck
876 道 street
877 税 tax 丶ノ
878 説 explain 丶ノ
879 脱 get naked 丶ノ
880 磁 magnet
882 ¥ yen ten plants can sell for a little money
881 羊 sheep with a little yen you can buy one sheep
883 南 south
884 鮮 fresh
885 詳 expert
886 洋 Pacific Ocean / the West
887 遅 slow / late
888 差 discriminate
889 着 wear / arrive
890 養 cultivate, rear
891 義 righteousness
892 儀 politeness
893 議 discussion
894 様 important person
895 天 heaven two people (lovers) are in heaven
896 添 append
897 笑 laugh
898 呑 chug
899 关 ecstasy (a plant from heaven) the plant’s heavenly fruit have me in an ecstasy.
900 送 send
901 咲 bloom
902 関 connected to
903 巻 roll up
904 圏 range / area of influence
905 券 certificate, cupon
906 勝 win

 

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