31 May 2010

奇 - strange - extraño

Word:
  • 奇跡 KIseki
  • English: miracle
  • Spanish: milagro
Sentence:
  • 彼が飛行機事故で助かったのは奇跡だ
  • kare ga hikōki jiko de tasukatta no ha kiseki da
  • It's a miracle he wasn't killed in the plane crash
  • Es un milagro que se salvara en el accidente de avion
Mnemonics:
  • The upper Kanji means big 大 and it looks like a man opening his arms. The lower part
    indicates possibility 可
  • I found it easy to imagine that the Kanji represents a man about to jump to the track of a train that is passing a tunel in order to commit suicide. Isn't it strange that in Japan there are so many suicides?!
  • All these Kanji that have it as radical are pronnounced KI as well: 寄騎碕倚剞掎欹

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