RJT 12 寸・ 村・守る・寺 ・詩・時・持つ・待つ

This is another hand. It has a dot next to it, for measuring the pulse. It means "to measure."　Click on it below.

• 寸

• 工

• 手

すん

measurement

Now adding a tree　木　 to a measure　寸, so that you can build a village. This means village

Pronounnced むら　or　そん

Match the following

• 村祭り

• そんゆう owned by the village

• 村外れ

• そんりつ

  established by the village

• 村有

• むらびと

  villagers

• 村立

• むらはずれ

  on the outskirts of town

• 村人

• むらまつり

  village festival

Match the following bunch o' names

• 下村

• なかむら

• 本村

• たむら

• 中村

• もとむら

• 田村

• きむら

• 木村

• しもむら

By putting a roof over the measurement, we get ”protect."　まもる or しゅ

”I'll protect you!"
（Hint：あげますis actually上げます (to give upwards), but nobody writes the kanji because it would make the sentence seem "to heavy."）

• ま

• 守って（まもって）

• す

• あ

• げ

Let's put some ground　土 on top of the measure　寸. The temple normally did those measuring things. This means "temple" and is pronounced　てら or じ

Let's put the sun 日　next to the temple　寺. Temples were in charge of "measuring" where the sun was in the sky. So this means either time or "o'clock" and is pronounced とき or じ

Match the following

• 四時

  よじ

• two o'clock

• 二時

  にじ

• one o'clock

• じかん

  時間

• watch or clock

• 一時

  いちじ

• four o'clock

• とけい

  時計

• time