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396<br />

L3<br />

皮<br />

HI, kawa<br />

skin, leather<br />

5 strokes<br />

HIFUskin<br />

HINIKUsarcasm<br />

kinokawabark<br />

Bronze ; seal . Bronze form has 2003<br />

‘(right) hand’, and (later / ) as phonetic<br />

with associated sense ‘remove’, to give original<br />

meaning ‘remove [animal hide] with the hand’.<br />

The modern meaning range ‘[animal] hide,<br />

leather, fur, skin’ reflects a restricted semantic<br />

shift. YK1976:421; MS1995:v2:900; OT1968:689.<br />

As a mnemonic we suggest taking the modern<br />

graph as (393 ‘opposed’) with one extra<br />

stroke.<br />

Mnemonic: SKINS WITH AN OPPOSED EXTRA<br />

STROKE<br />

397<br />

悲<br />

HI, kanashii/shimu<br />

sad<br />

L3<br />

12 strokes<br />

HIGEKItragedy<br />

HIMEIshriek, wail<br />

kanashimisorrow<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 164<br />

‘heart, mind’, and 794 (originally bird wings,<br />

meaning ‘oppose’, and by extension ‘deny;<br />

wrong’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘sad,<br />

misery, grief’. The overall meaning ‘sad, misery’<br />

can be understood as ‘opposing/conflicted feelings’.<br />

YK1976:424; KJ1970:797; SS1984:713.<br />

Mnemonic: MY HEART HAS WINGS – YET I AM<br />

SAD!<br />

398<br />

美<br />

BI, utsukushii<br />

OBI ; seal . Has 426 ‘sheep’ (often<br />

beautiful, fine<br />

), and 56 ‘big’, to give meaning ‘big/fat<br />

L3<br />

9 strokes<br />

sheep’. By extension from this positive association,<br />

‘good to eat/drink’, and ‘beautiful’.<br />

BIJINbeautiful woman<br />

MS1995:v2:1040-41; KJ1970:801; YK1976:424.<br />

BIJUTSUfine arts<br />

See 1657 for further comment on standards of<br />

BIGAKUaesthetics<br />

beauty in early Japan.<br />

Mnemonic: A BEAUTIFUL FAT SHEEP<br />

399<br />

L3<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

鼻<br />

BI, hana<br />

nose<br />

14 strokes<br />

BIONnasal sound<br />

hanasakitip of nose<br />

hanagusuribribe<br />

Originally found in OBI in simpler graph<br />

150 (‘nose’, ‘self’). Seal form for is . Has ,<br />

originally a pictograph of the nose, and 畀 (CO,<br />

originally ‘arrow with big head’) as phonetic<br />

with associated sense in dispute: ‘stick out’<br />

(Yamada, Ogawa), or ‘two things are together’<br />

(Mizukami, Tōdō), or ‘naturally draw in and<br />

expel air’ (Mizukami). MS1995:v2:1522-3;<br />

YK1976:425; OT1968:1171. Suggest as ‘nose’,<br />

as 63 ‘field’, and lower part as two ‘tens’<br />

35.<br />

Mnemonic: OWN NOSE FOLLOWS TRAIL<br />

THROUGH TWENTY FIELDS<br />

142 The 200 Third Grade Characters

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