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280
L3
局
KYOKUMEN situation
KEKKYOKU finally
YŪBINKYOKU post office
Late graph (Shuowen): . Usually taken as
‘corpse or person slumped or bent or lying’
(NJK graph: e.g. see 256), with variant of 683
281
L4
銀
GINKŌ bank
GINGA Milky Way
GINKA silver coin
282
L4
区
KYOKU
office, section, circumstances
7 strokes
GIN, shirogane
silver
14 strokes
KU
ward, section
4 strokes
KUBETSU distinguishing
CHIKU district
kitaKU Kita Ward
OBI ; bronze ; traditional . Mizukami
takes OBI form as ‘armpit’ with 405 ‘goods’,
283
L3
苦
8
KU, nigai,
kurushii/shimu
painful, bitter
strokes
KUSHIN pains, trouble
KUTSŪ pain, agony
nigami bitterness
284
具
GU, sonaeru
equip(ment), means
L3
8 strokes
GUai condition
YŌGU appliance
DŌGU tool
OBI is taken as i] ‘three-legged
vessel, cauldron’, or ii] 10 ‘shellfish’ as
(modern meaning ‘phrase’) as phonetic with
associated sense i] ‘bent; hunchback’ (Katō,
Yamada) or ii] ‘divide’ (Ogawa). Interpretation
i] then treats meanings of the type ‘room’,
‘apartment of a court-lady’, ‘office’ as loan usage;
ii] regards as extended use. Tōdō includes in
word-family meaning ‘bend’, ‘made intricate’.
KJ1970:279-80; YK1976:137; OT1968:295;
TA1965:307-10.
Mnemonic: ODD PHRASE USED ABOUT
CIRCUMSTANCES OF OFFICE CORPSE
Seal . A late graph (Shuowen). Has 16
‘metal’ and (NJK, originally showed an eye
on top of twisted legs, to mean ‘stop, look back
angrily, oppose’) as phonetic with the associated
sense ‘white’. Distinguish from 628
‘good’. KJ1970:291-2; OT1968:1041; YK1976:141.
Mnemonic: STOP AND STARE AT SILVERY METAL
here treated as ‘many enclosed items’, giving
‘confined armpit space for hiding things’. The
bronze form has ‘armpit’ with several items lined
up, interpreted as ‘small place under armpit’
(Katō), to which Mizukami adds ‘to hide things’.
‘Small’ and ‘divide up’ are extended meanings.
MS1995:v1:162-3; KJ1970:296; YK1976:141-2.
Mnemonic: MOSTLY ENCLOSED ‘SECTION X’
IS A WARD
A late graph (Shuowen) . It comprises
53 ‘plant/grass’, and 121 (‘old’) as a phonetic
with an associated sense ‘tighten’ (Katō,
Yamada) or ‘feel strong stimulation’ (Ogawa);
the meaning extended to ‘bitter, unpleasant’,
etc. KJ1970:393; YK1976:142-3; OT1968:847.
Mnemonic: OLD PLANTS TASTE BITTER,
EVEN PAINFUL
an abbreviation for , with two hands as
both semantic and phonetic, to give ‘offer,
provide’. ‘Wherewithal/equipment’ and ‘means’
are extended meanings. MS1995:v1:104-5;
OT1968:98; YK1976:143. We suggest taking the
modern simplified upper element as 76 ‘eye’,
and the lower element as a table.
Mnemonic: KEEP AN EYE ON THAT TABLE –
IT’S USEFUL EQUIPMENT
114 The 200 Third Grade Characters