畑

Field Fires
Originally uploaded by preilley.

Field

• polje (plural: polja)
  

畑（はたけ） - field
hatake

田（た）畑（はた） - the fields
tahata

畑

火 + 田 = 畑
Imagine a burnt field or the slash-and-burn method of cultivation.

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Radical: 田
Stroke Count: 9
音： -
訓： はた・はたけ
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回

Spirals on pink
Originally uploaded by tanakawho.

Turn around, spin

• okretati - (imperfective) to turn around once
  
• okrenuti - (perfective) to turn around once
  
• vrtiti - (imperfective) to spin, to turn around and around
  
• zavrtiti - (perfective) to spin, to turn around and around
  

回る 　- (vi.) to turn around, to spin
mawaru

回す - (vt.) to turn (something) around, to spin
mawasu

回想 - reminiscences, recollection, flashback
kaisou

三回 - three times
sankai

回

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Radical: 口
Stroke Count: 6
音： カイ：エ
訓： まわ
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店

Carpet store
Originally uploaded by janraposa.


Edo Era corner store
Originally uploaded by chi-jin

Shop

• trgovina, prodavnica
  

店（みせ） - shop, store
mise

店（テン）員（イン） - salesperson, store clerk, shop assistant
ten'in

• trgovac (m.) , prodavač（m.) , prodavačica (f.)
  

店（テン）長（チョウ） - a store manager
tenchou

店（テン）主（シュ） - a shopkeeper, a shop owner
tenshu

• vlasnik trgovine (m.), vlasnica trgovine (f.)
  

店

广 (house, roof) + 占 =　店

店 indicates a house, built at a certain place as a result of fortune-telling, that runs a business.

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Radical: 广
Stroke Count: 8
音： テン
訓： みせ・たな
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占

_MG_8217
Originally uploaded by ahmat.

Fortune-telling, to rule

• proricanje - fortune telling
• vladati - to rule
  

占（うらな）う - to tell fortunes
uranau

• proricati
  

占（し）める - to occupy
shimeru

• zauzumati, zauzeti
  

占（セン）領（リョウ） - to occupy
senryou

• zauzimati, zauzeti
  

占（セン）星（セイ）術（ジュツ） - astrology
senseijutsu

• astrologija
  

占

ト　+　口 ＝　占

ト represents a burnt marking on tortoise/turtle shells or animal bones, which was performed to tell fortunes in ancient times.

(cf. 店）

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Radical: ト
Stroke Count: 5
音： セン
訓： うらな・し
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今

Moroccan Lamb Tagine
Originally uploaded by Sunshine Hanan


Take off the lid
Originally uploaded by houze

Now

今（いま） - now
ima

今日（きょう）- today, this day
kyou

今（コン）日（ニチ） - nowadays, these days, today
kon'nichi

今

今 represents Ａ (a lid) and － (an object) , and it indicates to quickly put a lid on an object like Ａ . Imagine you try to hold the passing time by putting a lid on it, for now.

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Radical: 人
Stroke Count: 4
音： コン・キン
訓： いま
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町

Rice Field Mirror
Originally uploaded by timtak.

Town

町 - town
machi



田 + 丁 = 町

町 originally represented a T-shaped path between rice fields (田), but it came to mean streets in a town, and then the town itself as well.

- watashi no itoko wa hokkaidou asahikawa-shi no kamui-chou ni sunde imasu.
- 私のいとこは北海道旭川市の神居町に住んでいます。
- My cousin lives at Kamui-chou (the section called Kamui-chou) in Asahikawa, Hokkaido.

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Radical: 田
Stroke Count: 7
音： チョウ
訓： まち
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丁

nails
Originally uploaded by Tomhee.

丁 has various meanings; for example, it is used when counting particular things such as tofu or towns/municipalities.

丁（チョウ）
chou

• 丁 represents a nail driven into a board, and it often indicates a T shape or a right angle. (See 町)

- o-tofu yon-chou kudasai.
- お豆腐四丁ください。
- Please give me four cakes of tofu. (= I'll take ... )

- Suzuki-san wa san-choume ni sunde imasu.
- 鈴木さんは三丁目に住んでいます。
- Mr. Suzuki lives in the 3rd section [of a town/city].

一丁（いっちょう） icchou
二丁（にちょう） ni-chou
三丁（さんちょう） san-chou
四丁（よんちょう） yon-chou
五丁（ごちょう） go-chou ...

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Radical: 一
Stroke Count: 7
音： チョウ・テイ
訓： ひのと
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