Kanji Lesson 2

白（ハク, ビャク, しろ.い）

White

By basekamp2010 (Flickr)
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Consist of sun (日)  with a dot on top. White is the color of the sun beam when it's "on top"  of our head (noon), as opposed to its color during sunset/sunrise.

• 白い (しろい) White (color)
• 白人（はくじん） White people (Caucasian)

太（タイ, タ, ふと.い, ふと.る）
Fat 

Consist of big (大) and a dot in the middle. Picture of a fat (big) person with his navel (the dot) "peeking out" of his shirt.

• 太い (ふとい) Fat

 犬（ケン, いぬ）

Dog

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CC BY 2.0

Consist of big (大) and a dot in the head area (upper right) that represent a nose. Dogs are animal with a "big nose". As we all know, one of the reason why canines have been very helpful to humans is because of their strong olfactory sense, and since we've had the word "bigmouth" for someone who talks around too much, now we have "bignose" for something that sniffs around too much, in a good sense :p 

• 子犬（こいぬ） Puppy

口 (コウ、ク、くち)

Mouth, Gate/door

Picture of a gate or a wide open mouth.

• 入口 (いりぐち)  Entrance

目（モク, め）

Eye

Picture of an eye that is rotated 90 degree into a vertical shape.

• 目的 (もくてき) Purpose、Objective
• 一目 (ひとめ) a glance/glimpse
• 人目 (ひとめ) Public notice

耳（ジ, みみ）

Ear

Picture of a right ear. The two lines in the middle represent the concha (a hollow part next to the ear canal)

• 耳目 (じもく) Eye and ear, One's attention

月（ゲツ, ガツ, つき）
Moon, month

Picture of a crescent moon.. with an eye in the middle v^-^

• 月曜日 (げつようび) Monday
• 一月 (いちがつ) January

夕（セキ、ゆう）
Evening

Picture of a moon (月) that's barely visible in the horizon

• 夕べ（ゆうべ）　Evening, Last night
• 夕がた (ゆうがた)  Evening/dusk
• 夕食 (ゆうしょく)  Dinner