喜: time to rejoice

喜, rejoice:  As in a previous post:  ten bean cola makes the mouth rejoice.
樹, timber:  We can measure 寸 trees 木 for timber and rejoice in our profits.
膨, swelling:  The bean symbol 豆 is (per Henshall) related to a cookpot:  the square's the pot, it's got a stand, that kind of thing.  Let the at the top be the lid and handle.  What happens to your flesh ⺼ if you put yo' hairy 彡self on that cookpot?  Ouch!  Now it's going to swell up.
鼓, drum:  Safer to put a stick in your hand 支 and bang on that cookpot as a drum.  Maybe rejoicing 喜 in our timber 樹profits rather than nursing a swollen 膨 hand.

喜樹膨鼓

曲: music and pleasure

曲, music/pleasure:   Looks sort of like sheet music on a music stand
豊, rich/abundant:     It also looks like an extension of 田 field, so maybe it's a big, rich, abundant field of beans.
艶, glossy/colorful:  The leaves of the beans are glossy and colorful.
農, farming:              The bottom symbol 辰 is clam, and a clam shell looks
                                    like/could be used as the blade of a hoe.  Hoe your field:
                                    that's farming.  (There's two great discussions of  at Kanji
                                    Portraits, parts one and two; I used them instead of making my
                                    own.)
濃, dark/thick/concentrated:  Run water through your farm and you'll get dark,
                                    thick, concentrated runoff.


曲豊艶農濃

豆: mame mia

豆, まめ bean:  I think of it as ground, vines climbing up a trellis, then a bean, then the top of the trellis.
頭, あたま head:  That's using the old bean.  (The 頁, though it means leaf or page, is derived from a symbol for head.)
短, みじか（い）short:  The distance an arrow flies to cross a bean's width is pretty short.
喜, rejoice:  Ten bean cola makes the mouth rejoice.  (Supposedly Coca-Cola's name in Chinese means "makes the mouth rejoice.")  I put the descendants of 壴 into their own set, which I may post here soon.
登, のぼ（る）climb:  Two climbed the beanstalk, then lay on their backs to watch the clouds go by.
澄, settle/clear:  Those climbers saw clear skies -- no clouds -- so settled in to wait.
闘, fight:  Unfortunately, it's the beanstalk from Jack's story, so attached to it is the castle gate.  They'll have to fight a giant.

There are two more kanji, 艶 and 豊, but I'll put them in later post related to 曲.

豆頭短喜澄闘

殳: pushing through

殳:  a lance.  Wha--?  Well, the bottom is a hand, and the top is a lance after you've smushed it into a wall so it's all curved.  Best I can do here.

Now, for the descendants.
殳, lance/pike:      First, there was a pike(man).
穀, grain/cereal:    Like many adventurers, he started on a farm.  He poked grains into the earth with his lance, to get a crop of rice.
殻, husk/nutshell: Didn't work, so he poked in the earth with his lance and found nut shells.
般, carrier*:          He tried getting a job on a carrier ship, but...

没, drown:            He fell into the water and nearly drowned.

役, role/military service:  Finally, seeking his fortune, he came to a crossroads.  They drafted him for the role of military service.
殴, assault:           The pikemen made an assault on the city ward.
撃, shoot at/aggression: The army used their hands to shoot lances in their attack.  (車 here is used as army.)
疫, epidemic:        There was an epidemic, so he used his lance (to enforce quarantine?)
殿, mansion:         Finally the pikeman came to a mansion.
段, stair:               He made his way up a staircase.
鍛, forge:              He found a forge at the top.  There at the forge was his opposite number, with a fresh-forged lance.
投, throw:             They threw their lances.
股, thigh/crotch:   Like the Fisher-King in Arthurian legend, he got a wound to his thigh or crotch, from a lance.
設, establish:        Ultimately, to establish anything, he found you need words not weapons.

This doesn't fit, so I'll put it by its lonesome:
殺, kill:                On the cross, or poetically a tree, they killed Christ; the soldier stuck a lance in his side.

* There are more with 般 in them, but the list is getting long and I put these with 舟 (ship) anyway.


殳穀殻般没役殴撃疫殿段鍛投股設殺

斥: axe it, reject it, repel it

斥:  reject.  It looks like the axe radical 斤, but with a strikethrough.  So:  I really reject this thing.  So I axe it and then strike it out.

訴:  accusation.  Words that thoroughly reject.

斥訴

余: it's all just too much

余 means remainder or too much.  Maybe it's a broom sweeping out a shed, and there's way too much dirt remaining.  It helps my story here if I focus on it being too much dirt, so:

除:  remove.  Remove the hills of dirt from that shed.  (掃除機, sweep-remove-machine, is a vacuum cleaner).
斜: diagonal, slant.  Put too much dirt in the dipper and it'll slant diagonally.
途  route, road.  Move the dirt you swept up down the road.
徐: gradually.  Don't want to get caught dumping, so I gradually let dirt spill as I travel the intersection.
叙: confer/describe.  I'll put my hand on the dirt before conferring it on... you.
塗: paint.  Liquid black dirty stuff that looks like earth.  (The earth radical at the bottom is also in ink 墨).

余除斜途徐叙塗

The clear brightness of 奐

奐 is a 表外漢字, hyougai (rarely used) kanji.  But it's got two commonly used descendants.

奐（かん）：clear/bright.  Looks like a lamp on a table, with the bulb clear/bright enough to see the wiring.
喚 （かん）：yell.  Which is what you'll do if you stick your hand on that hot bulb.
換 （かん）：interchange/convert/replace.  That's what your hand can do to a light bulb.

喚換