Kanji for "Circle", "round", "yen"
円 = en/ maru•i
ほぼ一間年- hoboichimanen - about (roughly) 10,000 yen - ほぼいちまねん
千円札- senensatsu - a 1,000 yen bill - せんえんさつ
五百円- gohyakuen - five hundred yen - ごひゃくえん
円顔- marugao - a round face - まるがお
円い- marui - round/ circular/ spherical - まるい
円- en - yen - えん
(Note: This is the kanji for "yen" you might be used to pronouncing it with a Y but this is not the Japanese pronounciation. In Japanese it is said "en"
Wikipage note: The spelling and pronunciation "yen" is standard in English. This is because when Japan was first encountered by Europeans around the 16th (The Dutch had some influence here by the way) century, Japanese /e/(え) and /we/ (ゑ) both had been pronounced [je] and Portuguese missionaries had spelled them "ye". Some time thereafter, by the middle of the 18th century, /e/ and /we/ came to be pronounced [e] as in modern Japanese, although some regions retain the [je] pronunciation. Walter Henry Medhurst, who had neither been to Japan nor met any Japanese, having consulted mainly a Japanese-Dutch dictionary, spelled some "e"s as "ye" in his An English and Japanese, and Japanese and English Vocabulary (1830). In the early Meiji era, James Curtis Hepburn, following Medhurst, spelled all "e"s as "ye" in his A Japanese and English dictionary (1867). That was the first full-scale Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary, which had a strong influence on Westerners in Japan and probably prompted the spelling "yen". Hepburn revised most of "ye"s to "e" in the 3rd edition (1886) in order to mirror the contemporary pronunciation, except "yen". This was probably already fixed and has remained so ever since.)
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Kanji for "turn toward", "face", "look toward", "head (go) toward"
向 = kou/ mu•ku/ mu•keru/ mu•ka/ mu•kou
方向- houkou - a direction/ a way/ a course - ほうこう
傾向- keikou - a tendency (to/toward) / a trend/ an inclination - けいこう
子供向け- kodomomuke - (a book) for children/ children's (museum) - こどもむけ
向く- muku - to turn one's head (toward)/ to look (to) - むく
振り向く- furimuku - to turn one's face (to) - ふりむく
向かい- mukai - (on) the opposite/ (on) the other side - むかい
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Kanji for "turn around", "revolve", "rotate", "time"
回 - kai/ e/ mara•ru/ mawa•su
回す- mawasu - to turn/ to rotate/ to spin/ to pass/ to circulate - まわす
回る- mawaru - to turn/ to go round/ to spin/ to patrol/ to tour - まわる
時計回りに- tokeimawarini - clockwise - とけいまわりに
次回- jikai - next time/ next occasion - じかい
今回- konkai - lately/ this time - こんかい
目が回る- megamawaru - to be (feel) dizzy - めがまわる
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Kanji for "next", "following", "subsequent", "secondary", "sub-", "vice-"
次 = ji/ shi / tsugi/ tsu•gu
次第- shidai - order/ the state of things/ circumstances - しだい
次第に- shidaini - gradually/ by degrees/ little by little - しだいに
次ぐ- tsugu - to rank (come, be) next to/ to come after - つぐ
次の- tsugino - next/ following/ coming/ second - つぎの
目次- mokuji - a table of contents - もくじ
次々に- tsugitsugini - one after another - つぎつぎに
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Kanji for "fearful", "fear", "be afraid of"
怖 = fu / kowa•i
恐怖心- kyoufushin - fearfulness - きょうふしん
高所恐怖症- koushokyoufushou - acrophobia/ fear of heights - こうしょきょうふしょう
怖がる- kowagaru - to be afraid (scared) of/ to dread/ to be in fear - こわがる
恐怖- kyoufu - (a) fear/ terror/ (a) fright/ (a) dread/ (a) panic - きょうふ
怖い顔をする- kowaikao (w)o suru - to make a scary face/ to look fierce - こわいかお を する
怖い- kowai - frightening/ terrifying/ horrifying/ fearful/ scary -こわい
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Kanji for "forgot"
忘 = bou/ wasu•reru
忘れる- wasureru - to forget/ to slip one's mind/ to be forgetful - わすれる
忘年会- bounenkai - (hold) a year-end party / forget-the-year party - ぼうねんかい
忘れ去る- wasuresaru - to forget completely - わすれさる
忘れっぽい- wasureppoi - to be forgetful/ have a poor memory - わすれっぽい
忘却- boukyaku - forgetfulness/ oblivion - ぼうきゃく
忘れ物- wasuremono - a thing left behind/ a lost article -わすれもの
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Kanji for "north"
北 = kita/ hoku
北- kita - north - きた
駅の北側- eki no kitagawa - the north side of the station - えき の きたがわ
北口- kitaguchi - north entrance - きたぐち
南北- nanboku - north and south (literally south and north) - なんぼく
北アメリカ- kita amerika - North America - きたあめりか
北海道- hokkaidou - Hokkaido (Japan's northernmost Island) - ほっかいどう (Literally "North sea/ocean way")
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Kanji for "south"
南 = nan/ na/ minami
南- minami - south - みなみ
南米- nanbei - South America - なんべい
東南アジア- tounanajia - Southeast Asia - とうなんあじあ
南極- nankyoku - the South Pole - なんきょく
南側- minamigawa - south side - みなみがわ
南口- minamiguchi - south entrance - みなみぐち
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Kanji for "east", "eastern"
東 = tou/ higashi
東- higashi - east - ひがし
関東- kantou - Kanto region (Tokyo and surrounding area) - かんとう
中東- cyuutou - the Middle East - ちゅうとう
東海岸- higashikaigan - the east coast - ひがしかいがん
東口- higashiguchi - east entrance - ひがしゅぐち
東日本- higashinihon - Eastern Japan - ひがしにほん
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Kanji for "west", "western"
西 = nishi/ sei/ sai
西- nishi - west/ the west - にし
西海岸- nishikaigan - the west coast - にしかいがん
西口- nishiguchi - west entrance - にしぐち
関西- kansai - Kansai (south-western region of Japan) - かんさい
東西- touzai - east and west/ the East and the West - とうざい
西日本- nishinihon - Western Japan - にしにほん
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