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733
L3
準
JUN
level, conform, quasi-
13 strokes
JUNBIpreparation
SUIJUNstandard, level
JUNKESSHŌsemifinal
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 ‘water’,
and (CO, ‘hawk’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘pull a rope straight’, giving ‘level
734
L1
序
JO, tsuide
beginning, order
7 strokes
JOBUNpreface
JORETSUorder, sequence
JOSŪordinal number
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 127
‘building, roof’, and 425 (originally ‘weav-
735
招
SHŌ, maneku
invite, summon
L3
8 strokes
SHŌTAIinvitation
SHŌSHŪconvocation
temanekubeckon
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 34 ‘hand’,
and 1486 (originally bending to face upwards
and calling out, now means ‘summon’)
736
L3
承
8
SHŌ, uketamawaru
receive, hear, know, be
informed
strokes
SHŌCHIconsent
SHŌNINrecognition
KEISHŌSHAsuccessor
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). It comprises
34 ‘hand’, and (NJK, helping someone up, ‘lift
up, help’) as semantic and phonetic, meaning
‘raise up’, to give ‘lift up with the hands’, or
‘receive with hands held up’. Use of this graph
seems to have related to ‘raise up’ and also
‘receive’ in a physical sense in early Chinese,
and it came to be used in Japanese from quite
an early stage with the latter meaning to
surface of water’; later, meaning was generalised
to ‘level’. Extended meanings ‘conform’ and
‘quasi-’ are based on keeping to or being close
to a level or standard. (with 401 ‘ice’ not
‘water’) is a variant form but now with separate
status (see 1475). KJ1970:529; TA1965:682;
YK1976:263. Suggest taking as 35 ‘ten’
and 324 ‘bird’.
Mnemonic: TEN BIRDS ON WATER, ALL AT
SAME LEVEL
ing shuttle’, modern meaning ‘prior, already’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘external
wall’, to give ‘(external) house walls’. ‘Beginning’
may perhaps be a derived sense (what is there
first, before roof and internal walls added);
‘order’, though, is regarded as a loan usage.
KJ1970:552; YK1976:267; OT1968:327.
Mnemonic: BUILDING ALREADY BEGINNING
TO SHOW ORDER
as phonetic with associated sense taken as ‘call
(out to someone)’ (Katō, Yamada, Ogawa). Alternatively,
taken as ‘bend’, a meaning listed by
Tōdō, based on 198 ‘knife’ as phonetic in ,
where it signifies ‘bend, bent’, based on curved
shape of knife, to signify calling someone over
with hand movement, i.e. ‘beckon’. KJ1970:608;
YK1976:269; OT1968:407; TA1965:245-6.
Mnemonic: INVITE BY SUMMONING WITH
HAND
represent a verb which, to give it its modern
form, is uketamawaru ‘receive (from a superior)’,
often to denote a verbal reference such as
orders, and also historically as a polite verbal
suffix. This background of use for probably
goes some way towards accounting for its
additional senses in modern Japanese such as
‘hear’ and ‘know’. KJ1970:547-8; OT1968:403,19;
YK1976:269; AS2007:185. Suggest taking the
graph as a whole, involving 27 ‘child’ and
42 ‘water’, with the extra cross-strokes taken as
bristles.
Mnemonic: BE INFORMED ABOUT A BRISTLY
WATER-BABY
Or: KNOW THAT WHEN BABY IS IN WATER, IT
CAN GET BRISTLY
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