Kanji 17

QuestionAnswer
arrive

There is no better place to arrive than on one's private soil.

roof

You arrive at a shack that has a flag serving as its roof.

gentleman

Out of every ten men, only one is a gentleman.

sell

You see a gentleman with his legs covered. He is selling something.

read

You sell words to make others read.

component
twenty-one

Twenty plus one equals twenty-one.

scatter

Twenty-one moons strike the sky and scatter light across the night.

component
water
wash

You use water to wash away your previous sins, and make space for new ones.

peak; receive

You walk to the peak of a street and receive a page.

to be
horse

You set a small bird on fire, and it turns into a horse.

go swiftly

To be like a horse is to go swiftly.

run
sea

Every water ends up in the sea.

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