Here’s simple illustrations for all the 38 level 11 kanji mnemonics, I hope they help some of you visualize the stories and remember them!
Unlike some previous drawings, I tried to stick to the WaniKani mnemonics without changing anything.
老 好 争 伝
低 位 初 洋
波 指 注 共
別 育 拾 利
労 努 命 放
功 意 味 令 岸
級 追 成 昔
便 秒 競 戦 良
仲 働 特 神
If I post level 12 too, I’ll probably just use my pencil sketches, without redrawing them in Photoshop) 
Woah! These are amazing!!!
Thanks! 
I like making lots of simple drawings laid out kinda like stickers, I’m drawing all the Smash bros characters like that, and I did this collection of water-related japanese words:
These are too good! My favorites are the sheep buddy for finger, and the kouichi mum and baby. Hopefully I won’t forget any of these for my upcoming burn reviews 
I’m recruiting you for this topic https://community.wanikani.com/t/anthropmorphising-wanikani/37984 !
Thanks ^^ Good luck on your burns!
Hmm, I don’t know what a human WaniKani or Crabigator should look like… Cool idea though, I hope someone else draws it :o
Epic!!! 
終わる、END
The thread 糸 of winter 夂 breaks in 2 ニ when the year ENDS.
This thread is great, let’s keep it alive!
夂
(And yeah, this is one of the WaniKani radical names I find a bit annoying. Why call 夂 “winter” when you know perfectly well that 冬 is winter? It used to be “kiss”, which was not terribly memorable…)
Thanks, I didn’t know how to write it using my 
I actually thought it’s just an unofficial radical and you can’t write it… but it seems it’s the official ‘winter radical’
I just copied and pasted that. I can’t seem to write it with my IME at all.
haha then it’s not just me. I just didn’t want to go through the effort of finding it and then copying and pasting it 
I’ve corrected it though 
Wow I found this thread at 11. This is so helpful! How do we get this to all the level 11s out there.
I’ve only ever tried to draw a mnemonic once. And the the meaning wasn’t even right, so it’s kind of an anti-mnemonic. (Oh and I just realized there is already a zombie radical, unsurprisingly I guess)
Haha I remember 足 as mouth 口 stopper 止. Picture somebody pushing their foot inside your mouth to make you stop talking 
It’s Kangxi radical no. 34, which officially means “to go”. But in Japanese its official name is ふゆがしら or literally “winter head”.
Haha, nice! I don’t think the meaning is that wrong, looks like the zombie is walking its legs off 
Nice Thanks for reviving the thread, keep the drawings coming if you’ve got more!
Thanks! I don’t have more right now but might make more. I drew this one because it’s so simple to draw (just a line + scissors!)
Good point! I didn’t think of it like that. I was actually correct all this time. History will show this.
(full disclosure: I originally posted that picture in it’s own topic as my first Wanikani topic. #kurorekishi)
Mouth Stoppers should be an 80s cartoon with a loose ripoff of The Real Ghostbusters intro. Think of the crappy toy sales. Or rather, the amazing sales of crappy toys.
