曇

Cloudy sky...
Originally uploaded by hoshizora

Cloudy, gloomy

曇（くも）る - to become cloudy
kumoru

曇（くも）り - being cloudy
kumori



日 + 雲 = 曇
It gets cloudy when the clouds hide the sun.

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Radical: 雨
Stroke Count: 16
音：ドン
訓：くも
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雷

Thunderstorm I
Originally uploaded by MontyPython

Thunder

雷（かみなり） - thunder
kaminari

雷（ライ）雨（ウ） - thunderstorm
raiu


The kanji 雷 originally looked like .
The (+) marks indicate rolling thunders under 雨 (rain).
cf. 雨 、電

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Radical: 雨
Stroke Count: 13
音：ライ
訓：かみなり
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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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傘

More brollys
Originally uploaded by Mobile Hamish.

Umbrella

• kišobran
  

傘（かさ） - umbrella
kasa

傘

-Svi hodaju pod kišobranima.
-min'na kasa wo sashite aruite imasu.
-みんな傘をさして歩いています。
-They [all] are walking under umbrellas.

(Photo loc.: Kyoto, Japan)

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Radical: 人
Stroke Count: 12
音： サン
訓： かさ
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撮

New camera+fingers
Originally uploaded by marie scaff.

To Take a Photograph/Movie

撮（と）る - take a picture/movie
toru

• uslikati (picture)
• snimiti (movie)

撮（サツ）影（エイ） - shooting a film
satsuei

撮

See 手、最、取

「撮 = 手 + 最」
最 represents a lid and acquisition. One removes a lid and takes a little of something underneath, with one's finger tips. It came to mean "to take a little of something with one's fingertips".

e.g.
See "to take a picture" at our Picture Dictionary.

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Radical: 才（てへん）
Stroke Count: 15
音： サツ
訓： と、つま
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刃

IMG_1801.JPG
Originally uploaded by renfield.

Blade

• oštrica (plural: oštrice)
  

刃（は、やいば）
ha, yaiba

刃

Compare 刃 with 刀. The blade is emphasized in 刃.

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Radical: 刀
Stroke Count: 3
音： ジン・ニン
訓： は・やいば
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扉

Southleigh Church, Devon
Originally uploaded by focalplane.

A Set of Doors

• vrata (plural: vrata)
  

扉（とびら）
tobira

扉

戸　＋ 　非　＝　扉

扉 originally meant a set of doors. A door itself is 戸.
However, 扉 can be any kind of door(s) in a broad sense nowadays.

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Radical : 戸
Stroke Count: 12
音：ヒ
訓：とびら
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爪

Originally uploaded by Luma Kimura.

Nail

• nokat (pl. nokti)

爪（つめ） - nail(s)
tsume

爪（ソウ）牙（ガ） - nails and fangs (something harmful)
souga

• kandže (claws)

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Radical : 爪
Stroke Count: 4
音：ソウ
訓：つめ
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炎

Flame VI
Originally uploaded by Kent Holloway

Flame

• plamen

炎（ほのお）
honoo

炎（エン）天（テン）　- hot weather, the scorching sun
enten

炎

- "Harry Potter i plameni pehar"
- "harii pottaa to honoo no goburetto"
- 「ハリー・ポッターと炎のゴブレット」
- "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

See 火

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Radical: 火
Stroke Count: 8
音：エン
訓：ほのお
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