[an encampment]

12 囗 くにがまえ encampment; lot; 国困図

boundary
13 土 つちへん
[a mound of soil] soil; dirt;
地場堂
ground
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14 士 し
2) [a footprint] walking (読)
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15 すいにょう
foot] retreat; backward (後)夏変
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Writing on Videos 16 夕 ゆう
dusk; night 夕外多
[a standing person]
1 人ｲ にんべん person; an act that one 作住使 [a person facing front]
does 17 大 だい
person; large 天(英)夫
[a cover; plug] to gather
2 ひとやね
things in one place 今全会 [a woman’s sitting with a
にんにょ 18 女 おんな pliant posture] woman; 好婦(要)
[person’s hands and legs] female; feminine
3 儿 う・ひとあ
person 元先兄
し [a child with wiggling
19 子孑 こ
hands] child; offspring 字学孫
4 冫 にすい [cracks in ice] icy cold 冷冬(寒)
20 宀 うかんむり [a house] house 家客宿
[sword; knife] to cut or
5 刀 かたな
divide 分切初 [a hand and a finger of
21 寸 すん another hand] hand; a 対(村付)
[sword; knife] to cut or little
6 りっとう divide (used only on the 別利制 a) a house
right side) 22 尸 しかばね b) a person sitting 屋居届
c) a dead body
[plough; spade] power;
7 力 ちから
strength 力動助 [carpenter’s tool] craft;
23 工 コウ
engineering; craftsman 工左(攻)
[a person facing [a person crouching] self;
8 匕 さじ
backward] person; ladle 北(化背) 1. 24 己 キ・おのれ
person; to get up 己(記港)
a) [ladle] personal; own [a house with one side
b) [plough] field work (私)公(始治 2. 25 广 まだれ open] shop; a courtyard 店度庭
9 厶 ム
c) substitute for a complex 広払) house
shape [a stake] formality;
[a hand] an act that one 3. 26 しきがまえ formula 式(試代)
10 又 また・よう
does using a hand 取友受
[a bow] bow; stretching
1) [a mouth] speaking; 引強張
eating
4. 27 弓 ゆみへん

11 口 くちへん 2) [goods] 右名品向 ぎょうにん [left half of a crossroad]

3) [an opening] 5. 28 彳 べん to go; to conduct (行)待従
4) town walls; area
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 りっしんべ [a heart] heart; mind; [a person with his mouth
6. 29 ん
emotion 忙 性 22. 45 欠 あくび open] to lack (air); inhale 欠次歌
[an open hand] hand; [a footprint] to stop; a
7. 30 てへん an act that one does with 持授打 46 止 とめへん step; walking 止正歩
a hand
かばねへ [bones] remains; a dead
[running water] water;
8. 31 さんずい liquid 注活決 23. 47 歹 ん・がつへ body 死残例
ん
くさかんむ [new plants growing] [nursing woman] mother;
9. 32
(艸) り grass; plant 花若草 24. 48 毋 はは maternal 母毎海
しんにょう [a foot going beyond a [two people side by side]
10. 33 しんにゅう
crossroad] to go forward; 通運週 25. 49 比 ひ to compare; people 比(皆階)
movement
[clan’s lade for a feast]
[an area and a person]
11. 34
おおざと
village; an area where 部都郵
26. 50 氏 し surname 氏(婚紙)
(邑 ) （Right）
people live
[fire] fire; burning
27. 51 火 ひ 火談畑
こざとへん [mountains; dirt piled; a
12. 35 (Left)
ladder] a ladder; stairs; 院降際 [fire] fire; burning (used
(阜 ) boundary れっか・れ
[heart] heart; mind;
28. 52
んが
at the bottom.) 点熱然
13. 36 心 こころ emotion 思忘急
[an ox with horns] cow;
[halbert] battle; 29. 53 牛 うし animal in general 牛物特
14. 37 戈 ほこづくり threatening; to cut 戦成(感) (1) [king’s axe] king
ぼくづく [a hand holding a stick] to 30. 54 王玉 たま・おう (2) [a string of jewels] 王理現(国)
jewel; ball
15. 38 攵攴 り・ぼくに act; work in general 政教(枚)
ゅう [an altar table] religious
31. 55 ネ しめすへん matter 社礼祝
[an axe about to cut] to
16. 39 斤 おのづくり cut drastically; hand axe 新近所 [rice paddies]
a) rice paddies 田男由油申
(1) [plough] direction; 32. 56 田 たへん
b) to originate from 神
ほうへん・ square c) to say
17. 40 方 かたへん (2) [clan’s flag with a 方(放)旅族
upper right)] clan; tribe [a person on a sick bed]
33. 57 やまいだれ illness; physical fatigue 病痛疲
[the sun] the sun; day;
18. 41 日 ひ bright light 時昔春 [two feet] a quick foot
[a moon] moon; boat
34. 58 癶 はつがしら
work or move 発登
19. 42 月 つき (明)朝期 [an eye] eye; seeing
35. 59 目 めへん 目相眠
[a piece of meat] animal
20. 43 月肉 にくづき flesh; a piece of meat; 肉育有 [an arrow] arrow; swift; to
body part 36. 60 矢 やへん fight 知医短
[a standing tree]
校末楽 [an altar table] religious
21. 44 木 きへん tree; wood; wooden
示祭宗
37. 61 示 しめす matter (used at the
bottom)
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 [rice plant with crop] to [rice wine cask] fermented
38. 62 禾 のぎへん harvest; rice crop 秋科税 79 酉 とり liquid; alcohol beverage 配酒
あなかんむ [an opening/dwelling in a [mineral in a mine] metal;
39. 63 穴 り cave] empty; hole; house 空究窓 80 金 かねへん mineral 金銀鉄
[a man standing on the [two closed doors] gate;
40. 64 立 たつ ground] standing; person 立(位泣) 81 門 もんがまえ hiding a thing from plain 問関開
sight
たけかんむ [two bamboo stalks]
41. 65 竹 り bamboo product; writing 答節第 [a bird] bird; an ability to
82 隹 ふるとり take off; phonetic use 集(進)難
[millet; rice grains in all
42. 66 米 こめへん directions] rice; grain 米料(番) [raindrops from the sky]
83
雨 あめ rain; atmospheric 雨雪電
[skein of threds; string of phenomenon
いと・いと silk cacoons] hread;
43. 67 糸 へん 結経(係) [food in a bowl with a
continuity 84 しょくへん cover] food; eating 飲飯館
[two wings] wing; learning
44. 68 羽羽 はね
(to fly); fast as flying 習翌(曜) [to say with something in
85 音 おと a mouth] something 音(意暗)
[sheep viewed from front] unclear; sound
69 羊 ひつじへん sheep; desirable 羊美洋 [an official with a formal
86 頁 おおがい hat] head; something at 題願顔
みみ 7 みみ [an ear] ear; hearing; the top
45. 70 耳 へん listning 聞(最)
[a horse] horse; vehicle
[an arrow reaching the
87 馬 うま 駅験駐
46. 71 至 いたる ground] to reach an end; (屋)室 (Tsu-like (substitute for complex shapes)
end 88
shape) (学覚栄)営単(戦)厳
[collar] clothes
72 衣 ころも 表(遠園) さかさしょ (top part of kanji 尚)
89
[a person with big eyes
う 当(堂常)党(賞)
73 見 みる looking] seeing; looking at 見覚親 (fragment of kanji)
90 No name
[a tattooing needle and a (前)並(普首道)兼
74 言 ごんべん mouth] word; language; 言話説語
speaking
[a tall bowl] bean; (used
75 豆 まめ phonetically) 豆(頭)豊
(1)[cowry] monetary value
76 貝 かい (2) a pot/vessel for 買質(員側)
religeous offering
[a man and a footprint]
77 走 そうにょう use of legs; to go 走起越
somewhere
[a vehicle/cart viewered
78 車 くるま from above] wheel; car; 軍転庫
vehicle
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