音：ザ
訓：はなれてすわる（ソーシャルディスタンス）
It’s 座 but the people have to social distance…
Other winners:
音：ワ
訓：はなれてはなす（ソーシャルディスタンス）
It’s 話 but we still have to social distance…
音：タイ （コロコロ）
訓：ふとる（ころなぶとり）
Getting fat (太) because of the coronavirus (コロ)…
音：カイ
訓：うぇぶかいぎ（うぇぶかいぎズーム）
We’re meeting (会) but it’s on Zoom…
I pulled the corona themed winners, but there’s lots of more general, interesting ones there! Check it out and share your favorite! Or what new kanji would you create?
Results are at this site: https://sousaku-kanji.com/. More details are there too, but I didn’t read too much in depth (because it’s all in Japanese lol).
These always amuse me. It’s amazing what sort of meaning you can get across with subtle modifications of existing kanji. It’s like… the typographical equivalent of communicating in third-tier memes.
There’s one in the second division that’s from a girl in London.
P.S. There’s a typo in the explanation for the first one:
P.P.S. I just realised that I learned the kanji for はなれて only yesterday (離), so thanks to your post, I’m now a step ahead for learning upcoming vocab readings
Ah, it took me far too long to get that one (mostly because I think I somehow managed to miss all the fuss about the Loss meme the first time it came around…).
