場s to go

昜 is 表外漢字, and I find it more useful to base everything on either 場 (place) or 湯 (hot water/hot spring). so:

場, place:                  an earthen spot where the sun shines over, oh, maybe a bank
                                 with trailing weeds, IDK.
陽, daytime/male     Sun shining in daytime over the hills at that special spot.
/yang principle:        I'm guessing that identifies it with the yang principle which
                                 symbolizes male.
湯, hot water/spring:  This spot is all about the water:  it's a hot spring.
腸, intestines:          People come to the hot spring to cure their ailments.  Some
                                of which may be gut-related.
揚, elevate:             And Christ reaches out his hand and says to the sick person,
                                you're healed -- get up!

場陽湯腸揚

育てる your children well

育てる（そだてる）means raise (children), train, foster.  This was a tough one to make mnemonic for.  I think of it as a hanger dangling a piece of 肉.  Maybe we're raising tiger babies.

徹, penetrate/pierce:  You'd better have a stick in hand 攵. or the baby tigers waiting
                                     at the crossroads 彳will have some piercing insights into... you.

撤, remove:                The safest thing is to use your 手 to remove the 肉 from that
                                     hook, still keeping stick in hand 攵.

育徹撤

旦 and what comes later

旦, early morning.      Yep, that's the sun coming over the horizon.
但, however/but:          A person sees the sunrise and says,
                                      "But...but...I was SLEEPING!"
胆, courage/nerve/gall bladder:  The part of human nature that sticks up for things
担 shouldering/carry:  Put your hand to something, pick it UP and carry it
揚, elevate:                 Take someone by the hand who's waiting at the 湯 hot spring
                                      water.  "Do you want to be well?  Get up and walk!"*
宣, proclaim:              Under that same roof we saw at the podium, proclaim what's in range of your topic
恒, constancy:           The feeling of staying in between, not going out of range.

亘range/span:            Sun shining between two borders.
垣 hedge:                   Separate earthy areas between hedges.
壇, podium:               See the samurai getting ready to speak at a podium (well, it
                                     looks like one to me.  I think that thing in the middle is a TV.)

*I don't think this one belongs here, but rather with the 昜 family, but I got confused and put it in this set instead.  No wonder I'm having a rough time remembering it.  I'll move this later if I remember.


旦但胆担揚宣恒亘垣 壇

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