名(メイ)人(ジン) - a master, an expert, a person whose name is well-known for his/her skill. meijin
名
夕 + 口 = 名 Do you think the girl in the picture would reveal her name? :) 名 indicates that you speak up in darkness to let others know where/who you are.
夕 + ト = 外 In ancient times, people tried to tell fortunes by looking at the moon phases. When the moon wanes, you see "the outside" of the darkened part.
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 likeA. Imagine you try to hold the passing time by putting a lid on it, for now.
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.