The effects of using Remembering the Kanji a lot.

[snarp]

I can sometimes determine what was on my mind at the time I got to a kanji in Remembering the Kanji by the weird associations that spring up when I look at them.

cadet - 曹 - Regis Hastur
holy - 聖 - "The Holy Things at Hali"
challenge - 挑 - when they send Carolin Orain's finger at the end of Hawkmistress!
person - 人 - Deathle Thompson
excel - 秀 - Excel. Like, from Excel Saga.
style - 式 - Ishida from Bleach
core - 奥 - Jenova from Final Fantasy VII
beat - 撃 - the stick from Now and Then, Here and There
slow - 遅 - when there are sheep on the train tracks while Bradley's trying to get to the capital in that one chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist
join - 併 - Kuruku turning the little girl's family into creepy puppets and fitting them together like a puzzle in Unico and the Island of Magic
greatness - 傑 - Rin taunting someone from high up in Please Save My Earth
arrive - 到 - when Azer shows up and tries to kidnap Amira in Otoyomegatari
valley - 谷 - the Valley of the Wind from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
the radical Heisig calls "gully" - where Princess Mononoke takes place. Because Mononoke is kind of a cut-down version of Nausicaa, and "gully" is kind of a cut-down version of "valley."
attire - 装 - the 'umble ratskin from Echo Bazaar. (For this one, the kanji seems to have picked up the 'umble ratskin a while after I learned it - I think it had to do with the Ninja Turtles before I started playing Echo Bazaar?)
fabricate - 築 - the middle two radicals represent Anita Blake! She is in a tree, with bamboo?
daring - 敢 - Denice from The Tales of the Continuing Time. I don't know why, okay? I don't think it's the best adjective for her.
junior - 徒 - Dash from The Incredibles
inspection - 視 - the anal-retentive guy from that one episode of Pete and Pete that ends with a barbecued-ribs-eating showdown
exhaust - 尽 - the story where the bard goes to the north pole in Song for the Basilisk; also, Articuno's cavern in Pokemon. Though maybe it is more precise to say that I associate that section of Song for the Basilisk with Articuno. I have no idea how that came about.

Comments

[branchandroot]

*grins* I can totally see how things Darkover would get associated, actually.

[torachan]

LOL Anita Blake in a tree with bamboo is the best. XD

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

All I can contribute here is that I have always been able to remember the kanji for ukeru (受ける） because, when seen with exactly the right kind of dirty mind, it does kind of resemble a certain thing.

[snarp]

Yeah, my mnemonic for ukeru is also pretty filthy. Maybe everybody's is!

[nijibug]

This wins enough that I must stow it away in my memories ♥

Especially the fma sheep - it put a smile on my face this morning :DD

And Ishida + style. I heart that boy disproportionate amounts.

And and Nausicaa.

And Song for the Basilisk + Pokemon? XD I'unno, but it works ♥

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, whatever works, right? Associating items with things that are meaningful to you is one of the best ways to remember them. I learned 谷 the same way, for the record.