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702
L3
興
KŌ, KYŌ, okosu/ru
rise, raise, interest
16 strokes
KYŌMIinterest
FUKKŌrevival
KŌFUNexcitement
OBI ; seal . One analysis takes as 204
‘same’ – taken here as ‘together’ – with four
hands holding something up (modern equivalent:
NJK [see also 482]), to give ‘lift up
together’ (Katō, Yamada). In Qiu’s assessment,
703
L3
講
KŌ
lecture
17 strokes
KŌGIlecture
KŌENspeech, address
KŌSHIlecturer
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words; speak; talk’, and (CO, originally, a
two-tiered bamboo basket) as phonetic with
704
混
KON, majiru/zeru, komu
mix, confusion
L3
11 strokes
KONKETSUmixed blood
KONRANconfusion
mazemonomixture
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 ‘water’,
and 1357 (NJK, originally ‘crawling insect’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘water spirals up
705
L3
査
SA
investigate
9 strokes
KENSAinspection
SHINSAinvestigation
SAMONinquiry
A late graph, no seal form, but already in use in
Han times. Consists of 73 ‘wood, tree’, with
1135 (now meaning ‘furthermore’, but originally,
a grave/cairn with earth piled up in a mound,
however, the OBI forms lack the element
22 ‘mouth’, leading him to interpret the center
element as probably originally being a carrying
rack (with the hands element), this later being
modified to Yamada regards ‘interest, excitement’
as loan usage. KJ1970:271; YK1976:135;
QX2000:189; OT1968:835. We suggest taking
the lower part as table ands upper part as
hands and ‘same’ (, 204).
Mnemonic: SAME HANDS RAISED AT
TABLE – HOW INTERESTING
associated sense ‘reconciliation, harmony’, to
give ‘reconcile/harmonize words’, and by extension
‘clarify [misunderstood] meaning’, ‘resolve
dispute’. KJ1970:404; YK1976:186; SS1984:315.
As with 701 (‘build’, ‘to mind’), we suggest
taking as 1575 ‘well(s)’ and 706 ‘again’.
Mnemonic: THE LECTURE WAS A TALK ABOUT
WELLS AGAIN
from the ground’ (Katō, Yamada), echoed by Gu,
who says ‘water flows abundantly’. Spiralling indicated
‘eddy’, then ‘mix’ and ‘confusion’. (Mizukami
notes alternative possible analysis of as
‘many people gather in the sunlight’, but Katō
disagrees.) KJ1970:413-4, MS1995:v1:612-3;
YK1976:192; GY2008:1319. We suggest taking
as ‘sun’ 66 and as ‘compare’ 792.
Mnemonic: COMPARE SUN AND WATER – A
CONFUSING MIX
or offering meat piled up on chopping board)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘diagonal’, to
give ‘wood cut diagonally’, according to Katō
and Yamada, who treat the sense ‘examine,
investigate’ as a loan usage, as does Ogawa
(though he takes the associated sense of as
‘put together’, and the overall original meaning
of as ‘a raft’). The meaning ‘examine, investigate’
for is noted in the late 17th century
Zhengzitong, and that work employs the form
, but the early 18th century Kangxi zidian
226 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters