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682
L3
禁
KIN
forbid, ban
13 strokes
KINSHIprohibition
KIN’EN‘No Smoking’
GENKINstrictly prohibited
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 723 ‘altar,
deity’, and 79 ‘forest’. Views differ on role of
. Taken either as phonetic with associated
683
句
KU
phrase, clause
L1
5 strokes
JIKUphraseology
KUgiripunctuation
MONKUcomplaint
OBI form ; bronze seal . All forms depict
things intertwined (Shirakawa). comprises
22 ‘speak, words; mouth’, with a second
element interpreted as 丩 as phonetic with as-
sense ‘keep back, restrain’, giving ‘the gods
restrain’ (Katō, Yamada), and by extension
‘forbid’, or as semantic, giving ‘sacred area surrounded
by forest’ (Tōdō, Shirakawa, Ogawa),
again giving ‘forbid’ by extension. KJ1970:294;
YK1976:140-41; TA1965:815-23; SS1984:211;
OT1968:724.
Mnemonic: ALTAR IS BANNED IN FORBIDDEN
FOREST
sociated sense ‘stop, rest’ (Mizukami, Katō), or
as (Yamada; same associated sense), to give
‘breaks in language’, and by extension meanings
such as ‘clause, phrase’, i.e. a sequence of
language between breaks.MS1995:v1:206-7;
KJ1970:279; YK1976:142; SS1984:169-70. Suggest
taking as ‘encircling/wrapping’ (see e.g.
681).
Mnemonic: MOUTH WRAPS ITSELF AROUND
PHRASE
684
L3
群
13
GUN, mure/reru,
muragaru
group, flock
strokes
GUNSHŪcrowd
GYOGUNschool of fish
GUNKYOgregariousness
Bronze ; seal . Has 426 ‘sheep’, and
285 (‘lord’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘numerous, accumulate’, to give ‘sheep gather
together’; meaning later generalized to ‘gather
together; group’. is the form which gained
popularity in block script during the first millennium
AD; before that, the two elements were
arranged differently, as . MS1995:v2:1042-3;
KJ1970:343; YK1976:145.
Mnemonic: LORD OF THE SHEEP FLOCK
685
L3
経
KEI, KYŌ, heru, tatsu
pass, sutra, longitude
11 strokes
KEIZAIeconomy
KYŌMONsutras
KEIKApassage, progress
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has 29
‘thread’, and (originally showing vertical
threads on a loom) as semantic and phonetic,
meaning ‘straight’, to give ‘vertical threads
on loom’; by extension, also abstract senses
such as ‘connecting thread (figurative)’, ‘pass,
elapse’, ‘longitude’. ‘Thread’ led to extended
meaning ‘line of reasoning’ (Katō). ‘Law, model’
is additional meaning, as is ‘way, path’, the
latter leading by extension to ‘classic text’ and
‘sutra’. MS1995:v2:1014-5,v1:424-7; KJ1970:346;
YK1976:149. Suggest taking as ‘hand’ 2003
and as ‘ground’ 64.
Mnemonic: GUIDING HAND PASSES THREADS
TO GROUND
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