That was the title of a series of inoffensive cartoon-like amusements,
each based on one selected kanji. As I recall, the actual meaning was
generally ignored, but a clever and whimsical comment or definition, based
only on the appearance, was given along with the kanji character. They
were enjoyable. In spirit, they were akin to that of Mangajin (which I do
miss! So unfortunate that it didn't survive as a periodical in the
ordinory sense.).

I saw them now and then while in the U.S. Navy, Pacific Fleet, 1955-1958,
and they brightened my days. Unfortunately, I have utterly forgotten about
them, and long ago forgot where they appeared, but it was probably an
English-language periodical published in Japan.

The memory was triggered by the image for 13 April at <www.engrish.com>,
which is often "PG-rated" (or worse), but often quite funny. What caught
my eye was the character* U+99C5 [駅], that has what looks like a stylized
"R" for its right half, U+5C3A [尺] standalone.
*Was a pleasant surprise to find it; I used the Han radical-stroke index
in the Unicode 3.0 book.

Btw, if anyone uses Opera 8.5x for e-mail, its composer has a peachy-keen
feature: type the "U+" code point hex number for any Unicode character,
key in an Alt-X, and if you have the required font, that character will be
placed in-line into your text. I used that for this message.

Google had no hits, which rather surprised me.

Best regards, and happy daffodils! (They have been out, locally, for
several days.)

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
dilaffodias ?