The Brain Dump

I have decided that Monday will be Doodle Day--that special day when I share with you the thirty-five Chinese characters I will be learning this week. I have fallen horribly behind on my doodle studies, so I'm hoping this added obligation to do it will keep me a little more on task. Yeah . . . we'll see how far that gets me.

Anywho. Though I have fallen behind on studying, I've still studied more than I have told you about. So, at least for this week, I'll have two Doodle Days, until I catch up to where I am in my doodle book. It won't take long . . .

So here we are:

Monday

矢 - shi4 (arrow; to vow)
矮 - ai3 (be short [not tall])
忙 - mang2 (be busy)
心 - xin1 (heart)
您 - nin2 (deferential "you")
元 - yuan2 (first; "dollar;" Japanese yen)
[chuo4] - chuo4 (to halt) . . . it's the left side of the next character.

Tuesday

远 - yuan3 (be far away; family name)
云 - yun2 (to say; a cloud; family name)
运 - yun4 (to transport; fate, luck)
[fu4] - fu4 (mound) . . . left side of the next character
院 - yuan4 (public building; courtyard)
园 - yuan2 (park, garden) . . . tired of the yuans yet?
不 - bu4 (a negative prefix for verbs and adverbs)

Wednesday

太 - tai4 (extremely)
高 - gao1 (be tall; to tower; family name)
搞 - gao3 (to do, make; to manage, to get; to purge)
又 - you4 (again)
月 - yue4 (month; moon)
可 - ke3 (can, may; to suit; certainly)
啊 - a1 (a sentence-final particle--for questions, exclamations, commands, warnings, reminders, emphatic pauses, enumerations, direct address, impatient statements, and any-fucking-thing else the Chinese want. . . .

Thursday

聿 - [no pronunciation] (OK . . . technically, I'm only studying the radical here, which is this character without the bottom line . . . it's called "the top of 聿" and has no other definition . . . I do not know what 聿 means . . . I do not know why I need to know this . . .)
书 - shu1 (book; letter; document; to write)
节 - jie2 (technically, this is just the bottom part of this character . . . the "seal ring" radical)
报 - bao4 (to announce, report; newspaper; to requite)
毛 - mao2 (hair, fur, feathers; wool; mildew; semi-finished; gross [not net]; a measure for dimes; family name) . . . a measure for dimes? . . . sigh . . .
笔 - bi3 (brush, writing instrument)
玩 - wan2 (to play, to amuse oneself)

Friday

钅 - jin1 (gold, metals; family name)
山 - shan1 (mountain
钢 - gang1 (steel); also gang4 (to sharpen, whet)
八 - ba1 (eight)
铅 - qian1 (lead [the metal])
米 - mi3 (rice)
目 - mu4 (eye)

Ahhh . . . so that's all of them. I'll update again, probably Friday, with this week's other list. Fun and informative (I still can't read signs)!