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談
DAN
conversation, talk
L3
15 strokes
SŌDAN’YAKU adviser
KAIDAN conference
DANWA conversation
363 Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words, language’, and 1050 ‘leaping flames’
as phonetic with associated sense ‘peaceful’, to
give original meaning ‘say things in a peaceful
way’, and possibly having a sense of warmth.
KJ1970:97-8; YK1976:354; OT1968:935.
Mnemonic: NOT A FLAMING ROW, BUT
WARM WORDS IN CONVERSATION
364
L4
着
CHAKU, tsuku, kiru
arrive, wear
12 strokes
TŌCHAKU arrival
kimono clothing
FUCHAKU adhesion
Rather awkward. This late graph, not listed in
the Shuowen, is included in the Ganlu zishu
(Character Dictionary for Seeking an Official
Stipend, compiled in 8 th century AD China by
Yan Yuansun) as a popular or vulgar variant
of (see 949), which is itself a variant of
1853 ‘chopsticks’ (q.v.). consists of 58
‘bamboo’, with 314 (‘person’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘put between’. Qiu notes
that in the Han dynasty clerical script (see
Introduction) there was alternation between
‘bamboo’ and / 53 ‘plant, vegetation’ as
a determinative. Despite a long history of use
in China, the status of was less solid than
in the sense that in character dictionaries it
continued to be treated by scholars typically as
a vulgar form until it was officially accepted as
a separate graph in modern times. In Japanese,
meaning range is ‘wear, arrive, adhere’.
QX2000:323-4; SS1984:592; YK1976:359. We
suggest taking the upper part as slight variant
of 426 ‘sheep’, and lower as 76 ‘eye/see’.
Mnemonic: I SEE SHEEP ARRIVING, WEARING
THEIR FLEECE
365
注
CHŪ, sosogu
pour, note
L4
8 strokes
CHŪMOKU attention
CHŪSHA injection
CHŪSHAKU notes (text)
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water’, and 315 (now ‘main/master’ but
originally a stemmed lamp) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘continue’, to give meaning
366
柱
CHŪ, hashira
column, pillar
L3
9 strokes
CHŪSEKI pillar
DENCHŪ telegraph pole
tsurara* icicle
‘continuation of water droplets’ (Katō, Ogawa).
An alternative analysis is given by Tōdō, who
includes in his word-family ‘stand firmly/
upright’ on the basis that water pouring down
can be seen as a vertical column. The early
meaning of is stemmed lamp, and this may
reinforce ‘column’. KJ1970:506-7; YK1976:362;
OT1968:567; TA1965:281-4.
Mnemonic: MASTER POURS WATER IN A COL-
UMN, AND TAKES NOTES
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 73 ‘tree,
wood’, and 315 (‘main’, originally a stemmed
lamp) as phonetic with associated sense ‘stand
firmly’; in Tōdō’s word-family ‘stand firmly/upright’.
YK1976:362-3; OT1968:499; TA1965:281-4.
Mnemonic: MASTER WOODEN PILLAR
134 The 200 Third Grade Characters