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So, not sure if it’s my lack of kanji knowledge or just my frame of mind, but I just cannot work out the solution to the following puzzle. What kanji goes in the box?
・凶・
性□夢
・徳・(Ignore the interpuncts, they’re just there for spacing.)
Care to explain how the puzzle works? Or is that what we’re supposed to figure out? :P
Well, that’s exactly how the puzzle is described. I have an idea as to how it’s supposed to work, but if it’s my frame of mind that’s hiding the solution from me, I’d rather avoid leading you into the same place, though. =)
a friend in Japan thinks the missing kanji is 悪 which makes 4 words, each word with 2 kanjis (and not 2 words with 3 kanjis each as i had thought).
凶悪
悪徳
性悪
悪夢Yeah, that’s how I thought it was supposed to work. Guess I just fail at kanji combinations. =P
Thanks, though. =)
Ahhhhhhh, that makes sense. There’s no way I would have got that though because I don’t know any of those words :S I was thinking it had something to do with the radicals. You don’t have any others, do you?
I haven’t got any more on me, I’m afraid. That said, I’m not sure if you’ve seen it before, I’ve always liked this one:
What’s going on here?
Ohhhhhh, I see what’s going on. Took me a while to get it :P I was thinking too much like the first one. The middle square is actually supposed to be the radical, right? So you get 知, 足 and so on.
・ 今 ・
朝 ■ 記
・ 陰 ・There you go, made one myself. Much easier words this time ;)
Yep, you’re correct. The shape of the basin is the same as an old Japanese coin, and if you read the kanji clockwise from the top, it says 吾唯足知 (= われ ただ たる を しる) which is “I am content with what I am/have”.
And yeah, I can see the answer to your puzzle. Not literally, though, considering the time of day. =P
These coin puzzles are brilliant!
Last one was too easy; maybe this one will be *ever so slightly* harder ;) When you have such a small vocab in comparison to natives, it’s not that easy to make good ones…
・ 運 ・
自 ■ 物
・ 詞 ・(I’ve no idea how these are displaying for you – it’s not that simple getting it all to line up neatly, and while it looks ok to me, maybe your screens are different)
Also, didn’t realise the kanji in your last one had that significance. It makes sense that they would have some kind of meaning, but I obviously didn’t know enough 四字熟語 to see it.
Yeah, but it’s so convenient that each character has a 口 in a different place. Makes me suspect there’s some sort of sneaky linguistics going on. Ooo, or time travel. =P
I’ve got the answer to your latest. It certainly is much easier when you know the words. =)
And yeah, yours is displaying fine to me, if a little more spaced out than mine was.
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