時

Time

Meaning: Time

The sun and graves. They are both good ways to make a measurement of time.

Think about the sun going around the earth over and over again. That measures days going by. Think about graves. They have dates on them, and show generations of people. Both of these things have to do with one thing, and that is time and its passing.

Reading: じ

When we need to remember the reading for じ, we use the word “Jesus.” – One thing people think about when they think about time is the ability to do time travel. Now imagine Jesus (じ) being able to perform time travel magic. He performs an incantation, and goes back to the dinosaur ages, where he wrestles down a T-rex. Then, he goes to WWII era and punches Hitler in the mouth.

Imagine him going to all kinds of different times (since the word “time” is important to our mnemonic) and also make sure you’re specifically imagining Jesus doing all these things. Put these two together and you’ll remember the reading in no time.

Vocabulary

a 時（とき）＝　Time

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a 一時（いちじ）＝　One o’clock

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a 二時半（にじはん）＝　Two Thirty

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a 何時（なんじ）＝　What Time

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a 同時（どうじ）＝　Same Time

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a 時々（ときどき）＝　Sometimes

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