KANJI of the year (Continuation)

Hello!!
Today,I write about year's KANJI 1998's to 2000's!!

1998「毒」
It means poison,lurid,toxic...
Wow! horrible year!!
Actually,there was big incident.., One woman mixed arsenic (poison) into a pot of curry when the town summer festival in Wakayama prefecture. Some people were killed by eating curry with rice.
And,we talked about dioxin a lot...

1999「末」
It means end,last,sunset...
Because,you know 1999 was the end of century.
And,there were some bad news about critical accident,police scandals and so on...
We thought that it could be the end of the world.
And,we hoped that things widen toward the end!!!!　

2000「金」
It means gold,money...
We were glad that Japan got 5 gold medals at Sydney Olympics.
And,new 500 yen coin and 2,000 yen bank-note coming.
Ummm...it was better year than 1999!!!!

I hope you enjoy about KANJI.
Have a nice day!!
See you soon!!!