The characters
Every ideograph of the corpus, by family of meaning: the sign, its readings, its origin, and every thought that carries it.
Nature 81
- 花flower
- 月moon, month
- 水water
- 山mountain
- 石stone
- 雨rain
- 雪snow
- 風wind
- 馬horse
- 天sky, heaven
- 河river
- 海sea
- 蛙frog
- 実fruit, reality
- 光light
- 泥mud
- 種seed, kind
- 草grass
- 葉leaf
- 雲cloud
- 鳥bird
- 岩rock, crag
- 嶺ridge, peak
- 枯withered, dead
- 柳willow
- 池pond
- 牛cow, ox
- 猫cat
- 猿monkey, ape
- 竜dragon
- 虫insect, bug
- 蛇snake
- 蠅fly
- 雀sparrow
- 魚fish
- 鷹hawk
- 亀turtle
- 兎hare, rabbit
- 叢thicket, clump
- 咲to bloom
- 土earth, soil
- 峰peak, summit
- 嵐storm
- 川river
- 晴clear sky, fine
- 木tree, wood
- 朶drooping branch, cluster
- 枝branch
- 梅plum tree, plum
- 梢treetop, twig tip
- 楊willow, poplar
- 浦inlet, shore
- 淵abyss, deep pool
- 瀬shallows, rapids
- 火fire
- 烏crow, raven
- 煙smoke
- 犬dog
- 稲rice plant
- 穂ear, spike
- 竹bamboo
- 菊chrysanthemum
- 菖sweet flag
- 菜vegetable
- 蒲cattail, rush
- 蓼knotweed
- 虎tiger
- 蜂bee, wasp
- 蝉cicada
- 蝶butterfly
- 蝸snail
- 蟻ant
- 谷valley
- 野field, plain
- 雷thunder
- 霧fog, mist
- 露dew
- 鯛sea bream
- 鰌loach
- 鳶black kite
- 鶏chicken
Time 25
Places 38
- 上above, top
- 下below, bottom
- 道way, road
- 所place
- 中middle, inside
- 地ground, earth
- 家house, family
- 屋house, roof
- 田rice field
- 路road, path
- 里village, league
- 間interval, gap
- 前front, before
- 城castle, rampart
- 東east
- 穴hole, cave
- 隣neighbor, adjacent
- 井well
- 国country
- 垣low wall, fence
- 堀moat, ditch
- 堤dike, embankment
- 場place, spot
- 塞to block, fortress
- 外outside
- 庵hermitage, hut
- 村village
- 横side, horizontal
- 橋bridge
- 表surface, outside
- 西west
- 跡trace, track
- 軒eaves
- 郷hometown, countryside
- 都capital, metropolis
- 門gate
- 隈nook, recess
- 階floor, stairs
The body 26
People 18
Mind and speech 49
- 心heart
- 知know
- 言word, speech
- 苦bitter, painful
- 名name
- 好to like, good
- 忘to forget
- 思to think
- 情feeling, emotion
- 意intention, meaning
- 泣weep, cry
- 夢dream
- 学to study, learning
- 念thought, mindfulness
- 悔to regret, repent
- 慮consideration, thought
- 憂grief, worry
- 文writing, pattern, old coin
- 楽music, pleasure
- 気spirit, breath
- 画picture, stroke
- 笑laugh, smile
- 習learn, practice
- 読read
- 問to ask
- 嘘lie
- 噂rumor
- 声voice
- 志will, intention
- 恥shame
- 愚foolish
- 愛love
- 慣habit, to get used
- 教to teach
- 智wisdom
- 書to write, writing
- 案plan, proposal
- 欲desire, want
- 理reason, principle
- 疑doubt
- 癖habit, quirk
- 稽consider, examine
- 芸art, craft
- 証proof, attest
- 誠sincerity
- 論argue, theory
- 賛approve, praise
- 音sound
- 魂soul
Actions 137
- 見see
- 入to enter
- 立stand
- 行go, walk
- 勝to win
- 歩walk, step
- 渡cross over
- 負carry, lose
- 通pass through
- 出to go out
- 得to obtain, gain
- 来to come
- 起rise, get up
- 転turn, roll
- 過pass by, exceed
- 釣angling, hanging
- 分to divide, part
- 取to take
- 失to lose
- 引to pull, draw
- 待to wait
- 成to become, accomplish
- 打to hit, strike
- 折to fold, break
- 持to hold
- 旅journey, travel
- 流flow, current
- 聞hear
- 落fall
- 食eat, food
- 付to hand over, attach
- 会meeting, gathering
- 儲store, profit
- 吹to blow
- 回to turn, times
- 垂to hang down
- 屈to bend, yield
- 当to hit, fit
- 止to stop
- 残remain, leftover
- 漏leak
- 砕smash, crush
- 磨polish, grind
- 移move, shift
- 積accumulate, pile
- 蒔sow, plant
- 計measure, reckon
- 貫pierce, string
- 買buy
- 越cross over, exceed
- 込go into, include
- 追chase, pursue
- 送send
- 逃flee, escape
- 降descend, fall
- 隠hide, conceal
- 飛fly
- 乗to ride, mount
- 交to cross, exchange
- 仕to serve
- 住to dwell
- 佐to assist
- 作to make
- 修to cultivate, mend
- 倒to fall, topple
- 借to borrow
- 備to prepare, equip
- 働to work
- 兼to combine
- 切to cut
- 判to judge, decide
- 助to help
- 労labor, toil
- 及to reach
- 叩to knock, tap
- 合to join, fit
- 呉to give; Wu
- 呼to call
- 商trade, commerce
- 啼to cry, sing
- 嘗to taste
- 寝to sleep
- 尋to seek, fathom
- 尽to exhaust
- 履footwear, to tread
- 崩to crumble
- 巻scroll, to roll
- 廻to go around
- 従to follow
- 徹to pierce through
- 応to respond, comply
- 戦war, battle
- 押to push, press
- 振to shake, wave
- 捕to catch, capture
- 捲to roll up
- 撓to bend, yield
- 改to reform, revise
- 敗defeat, failure
- 施to carry out, bestow
- 浮float
- 消extinguish, vanish
- 減decrease
- 焼burn
- 琢polish, carve
- 産give birth, produce
- 用use
- 登climb, ascend
- 盛flourish, heap
- 眠sleep
- 破break
- 磋polish, grind
- 穿pierce, bore
- 結tie, bind
- 絶sever, cease
- 継succeed, continue
- 続continue
- 綯twist, plait
- 締tighten, fasten
- 耕plow, till
- 腐rot, decay
- 臥lie down
- 臨overlook, attend
- 覆cover, overturn
- 載load, carry
- 返return, give back
- 造make, build
- 連link, connect
- 進advance, proceed
- 遇meet, encounter
- 遊play, wander
- 運carry, fortune
- 達reach, attain
- 錬refine, temper
- 鍛forge, temper
- 飢hunger, famine
- 養nourish, rear
Qualities 108
- 生life, birth
- 事matter, affair
- 大big, great
- 如like, as
- 高high, tall
- 不not, negation
- 小small
- 損loss, damage
- 明bright, clear
- 深deep
- 直straight, direct
- 何what, which
- 元origin, beginning
- 和harmony, peace
- 急urgent, sudden
- 白white
- 色color
- 若young, if
- 遠far, distant
- 力strength
- 功merit, achievement
- 古old, ancient
- 同same, identical
- 善good, virtuous
- 富wealth
- 故old, cause
- 暗dark
- 正correct, right
- 武military, martial
- 死death, dying
- 浅shallow
- 為do, act
- 無without, nothing
- 熱heat
- 短short
- 福fortune, blessing
- 窮extremity, want
- 自self
- 貴precious, noble
- 赤red
- 近near, close
- 重heavy
- 長long, chief
- 陰shade, north slope
- 乏lack, scarcity
- 也to be, also
- 他other
- 以by means of
- 位rank, position
- 健sturdy, healthy
- 公public
- 別to separate, distinct
- 利profit, advantage
- 則rule, principle
- 剛hard, firm
- 勇courage
- 単single, simple
- 可possible, approved
- 吉good luck, auspicious
- 味taste, flavor
- 団group, round
- 固hard, firm
- 変to change, strange
- 妙exquisite, subtle
- 安peaceful, cheap
- 害harm, damage
- 寒cold
- 専sole, exclusive
- 己self
- 広wide, vast
- 徳virtue
- 悪bad, evil
- 拠base, grounds
- 新new
- 易easy, to change
- 是right, this
- 最most, utmost
- 有to have, exist
- 朱vermilion, scarlet
- 泰peace, calm
- 温warm, mild
- 災disaster
- 点point, dot
- 然so, thus
- 独alone
- 狭narrow
- 猶still, hesitate
- 秘secret
- 紺navy blue
- 縁edge, bond
- 罔net, deceive
- 美beautiful, beauty
- 義righteousness, duty
- 老old, old age
- 胡foreign, barbarian
- 能ability, can
- 良good, fine
- 荒wild, desolate
- 蒼deep blue, pale
- 貧poor
- 質substance, quality
- 軽light, slight
- 適suit, fit
- 閑quiet, leisure
- 闇darkness
- 青blue-green
- 類kind, category
- 香fragrance, aroma
Objects 57
- 物thing
- 棒stick, rod
- 船ship
- 薬medicine, drug
- 器vessel, utensil
- 宝treasure
- 本root, origin
- 機loom, mechanism
- 瓶bottle, jar
- 紙paper
- 衣clothing, garment
- 銭coin, money
- 鏡mirror
- 餅rice cake
- 兜helmet
- 刀sword, knife
- 台stand, platform
- 噌clamor
- 塩salt
- 塵dust
- 帯belt, sash
- 机desk, table
- 材timber, material
- 杖staff, cane
- 杭stake, post
- 杵pestle, pounder
- 板board, plank
- 柄handle, grip
- 桶bucket, tub
- 棚shelf, rack
- 棹pole, oar
- 灯lamp, light
- 玉jewel, jade
- 甲shell, first
- 畳mat, pile up
- 盆basin, tray
- 盾shield
- 矛halberd, pike
- 矢arrow
- 粉powder, flour
- 緒cord, beginning
- 縄rope
- 舟boat
- 苫straw matting
- 茶tea
- 荷load, baggage
- 蓑straw raincoat
- 薪firewood
- 袴hakama, trousers
- 装dress, equip
- 襷tasuki cord
- 輪wheel, ring
- 金metal, gold
- 鉄iron
- 錆rust
- 鎹clamp, cramp iron
- 鐘bell