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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
Word:
- 手袋 teBUKURO
- English: gloves
- Spanish: guantes
Sentence:
- 彼女は車の中に手袋を置き忘れた
- kanojo ha kuruma no naka ni tebukuro wo okiwasureta
- She left her GLOVES in the car
- Se le olvidaron los GUANTES dentro del coche
Mnemonics:
- Upper part means to change 代 and lower part means clothes 衣. Most Kanji that contain the clothes part 衣, refer to some kind of clothes. Imagine a person that has a collection of gloves with thousands of colors. Every day he changes color of his gloves!!