去 and friends

去leave/gone:  When they bury your personal self under the earth, it's time to leave.
法 method/principle:  Water leaves through the principle/method of evaporation.
蓋 lid:  The greens 艹 will soon be gone from the dish if you don't get a lid.
却 retreat/instead:  when we retreated, we had to leave 去 the seal卩 of our house.  Bummer.
脚 lower part/legs:  the legs are the body parts 肉 that retreat 却.

去法 蓋却脚

貴: precious kanji

貴 precious:  The NGU (not general use) character at the top, or Henshall's suggestion of taking it as 中 and 一, are too much for me, so... it's a stop sign.  Stop and see my precious shell.
遺 bequeath/leave behind:  When I move on from this life I will leave behind all my precious goods.
遣, send/use/do:  You're chasing 追 someone and stop to do this:  use the phone to send a message.

貴遺遣

亥 and friends

亥 is the sign of the pig in the Chinese zodiac.  I suppose it looks a little like the radical for pig 豕.
刻 chop: use knife on pig to make chops
劾 denounce: use your power over a swine to denounce him
核 core/kernel:  when roasting a pig, put the spit through its core
該 the above-stated:  We were just talking about said pig.

刻劾核該

ライオンと魔女、第二話: 難しい漢字

I'm even more annoyed at Kindle now.  Its highlighting mechanism won't function near the bottom of the page, and I spend much pain trying to highlight something I want defined.  Argh argh argh.

Still, let's go with some stuff from the previous post and actually learn it this time.

空襲, air raid:  that second kanji's pretty complex.  Does it have family, so to speak?  Technically, yes, it has 龍, which is a jinmeiyou (used-for-proper-names) kanji meaning "imperial dragon."  But I avoid bothering with jinmeiyou kanji.  So what does Henshall say about it?  Nothing.  It's not listed.

Kanji Portraits?  Nothing.  龍 shows up, but not with explanation of its parts (that I can find).

Wiktionary?  It's 龍 + 衣 (duh); the dragon part is a snake with whiskered mouth and eyes.

So I'll adapt KanjiDamage's words:  The dragon 龍 is 立 stand + 月 moon or flesh + a curvy dragon with face at top, curvy neck, several legs, and a tail.  The dragon's flesh, when it stands, looks like that curvy thing.

襲:  a dragon with a big fleshy dragon-head 立 will attack your clothes.

Whew.

Next monstrosity:

疎開, evacuation. 疎 is alienation and 開is open.  Like open enrollment, open alienation/distancing means everybody gets to distance himself/herself from home: evacuation.

KanjiMap doesn't help; nobody shares that ⺪radical.  Nor can KanjiPortraits.  Or Henshall. KanjiDamage lists it as マ (Mama) + 止 (stop) + 束 (bundle of sticks).  I'll say:  yo mama stops with her bundle after a long distance.

If it keeps going like this, will I ever get done?  But it won't.  I've found tons of clusters.  This time I found 2 standalones.  It means I'm getting closer to done with my 2000 kanji, I think, that the 2 I didn't know on the first few pages of ライオンと魔女 were such freaks.

Although 玄 mysterious + 関 gateway forming 玄関 front door is pretty freaky too.

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