Why do I post these tiny groups? Because they haven't made it into Kanji Portraits, and I need to learn them, so here they are. (And I've gone through more of the big groups, like those based on
屯: barracks, police station, camp. Maybe it looks like the front of a roofed, symmetric building, with a path coming in from the right?
純: genuine, innocence, purity. When you've done your basic training, you go in dressed in innocence, and come out with a genuine uniform.
鈍: blunt, dull, slow, foolish. The metal (sword) you use in basic training is apt to get blunted by your inexpert practice.
再: This is described in Henshall as 一 plus a basket, but I'll think of that line at the top as a handle. Anyway, it's a basket. The meaning is again, twice, second time: if you want to keep your stuff for a second time to use again, put it in your basket.
構: pretend, build, posture. Build your baskets out of wood and you'll have a posture problem (because they'll be massive!).
溝: ditch, sewer, drain. Put water in baskets and it'll drain fer sure.
講: lecture. A lecture is baskets upon baskets of words.
購: buy, subscription. You'll need baskets of money to buy this subscription.
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