480531170
788 破 HA, yaburu/reru Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 47 ‘stone, break, tear L3 rock’, and 396 (‘skin, leather’) as phonetic 10 strokes with associated sense ‘small, detailed’, to give ‘rock is broken into small pieces’; the sense was HASANbankruptcy later generalized to ‘break’, and extended to HASONdamage ‘tear’. YK1976:408; KJ1970:794; OT1968:710. yabureme(a) tear Mnemonic: TEAR THE SKIN OFF A ROCK!? MUST MEAN BREAK IT 789 L3 犯 5 HAN, okasu crime, violate, commit, assault strokes HANNINcriminal HAN’Icriminal intent HANZAIcrime Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ) 19 ‘dog’, and (variant of 41, person kneeling or crouching) as phonetic with associated sense either ‘harm, injure’, to give ‘dog harms person’ (Katō, Yamada), or ‘protrude, jut out’, giving ‘dog (breaks out and) attacks person’ (Ogawa). YK1976:416; KJ1970:789; OT1968:639-40. Mnemonic: DOG COMMITS CRIME OF ASSAULTING SLUMPED PERSON 790 L3 判 HAN, BAN judge, decide, seal 7 strokes HANDANjudgment HANJIjudge HANkopersonal seal Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 198 ‘knife/cut’, and 214 (‘half’) as semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘divide in two’, to give ‘divide in two physically with knife/cleaver’. 791 L3 版 HAN print, board 8 strokes SHUPPANpublishing HANGAwoodcut print HANKENcopyright Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 980 ‘strip’ (orig thin pieces of wood), and 393 (‘oppose’, ‘measure’), as phonetic with associated sense ‘flat, thin’, thus ‘flat/thin board’. In early times Later, extended to‘divide’ in general, and further senses such as ‘dissect’ and ‘decide, judge’. The meaning‘seal’ (Japanese only) seems to relate to early practice of dividing important documents with seals (similar to signatures in the West) such as contracts in two, one half for each party. YK1976:417; KJ1970:785; OT1968:113. Mnemonic: CUT IN HALF – A JUDGMENT WITH SOLOMON’S SEAL this graph denoted wooden strips/tablets as writing material, paper being very expensive. Technological development in China in first millennium AD saw used to refer to wooden blocks engraved with text and/or illustrations in woodblock printing, and widely in printing terms. See also 395 ‘board’. YK1976:418; KJ1970:787; OT1968:633. Mnemonic: OPPOSED THIN BOARDS CAN BE USED TO PRINT The 185 Fifth Grade Characters 249
792 L3 比 HI, kuraberu compare, ratio 4 strokes HIREIproportion HIKAKUcomparison kurabemonopeerless no nai OBI ; seal . Two people in line. Original meaning ‘lined up’ was extended based on comparing two similar entities. Originally, early Chinese words for ‘lined up’ and ‘follow’ were both represented in written form by one person next to another, and as Mizukami points out, OBI for these two words were written sometimes facing right, sometimes left; later the convention became established to write facing right for this graph , and ‘follow’ (block script [the original way of writing – see 902]) facing left. YK1976:420; MS1995:v1:720-22,42-3; KJ1970:796. Mnemonic: COMPARE TWO PERSONS SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER 793 肥 HI, koeru/yasu fatten, enrich L1 8 strokes HIRYŌfertilizer HIMANcorpulence koetsuchirich soil Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has / 209 ‘flesh, meat’, and a right-hand element which in the seal form corresponds to ‘kneeling person’ (determinative 26) though Katō and Yamada take here as ‘hunchback’. In this graph 162 serves as phonetic with associated sense ‘one thing added on top of another’, to give ‘fleshy’; by extension, ‘become fat/enriched’. It is in Tōdō’s word-family ‘fat, thick’. YK1976:422; KJ1970:798; TA1965:730-32. We suggest taking the right-hand element as ‘bending body’ 162. Mnemonic: FLESHY BENDING BODY HAS BEEN FATTENED 794 非 HI not, un-, fault L3 8 strokes HININ‘non-person’ (hist.) HIGŌRITEKIirrational HIKŌmisdemeanor 795 備 BI, sonaeru/waru equip, prepare L3 12 strokes SETSUBIfacilities JUNBIpreparation sonaetsukefixtures/fittings Bronze ; seal . Has 41 ‘person’, and CO (‘quiver [with arrows]’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘put to one side temporarily’, to give Bronze ; seal . Depicts outstretched wings of a bird in flight, but as Katō suggests, probably just the wings themselves (an approximate parallel to this would be 108 ‘cow’, where just the head is depicted to represent the whole animal). Outstretched wings were then used to convey the meaning ‘mutually opposed’, and by extension negative senses such as ‘not’, ‘fault’. YK1976:422-3; MS1995:v2:1430-31; KJ1970:797. Mnemonic: WINGS UNFOLD – SURELY NOT A FAULT!? ‘person who tries to keep something intact (for future use)’. Subsequently generalized to ‘keep intact’. The basic meaning relates to ‘preparation’. YK1976:425; MS1995:v1:78-9; KJ1970:805. We suggest taking the graph as 41 ‘person’, 53 ‘grass’, 235 ‘use’, and as a variant roof of big building (see 127). Mnemonic: PERSON EQUIPS BUILDING WITH ROOF USING PREPARED GRASS 250 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters
- Page 200 and 201: found in the clerical script. Mizuk
- Page 202 and 203: 614 牧 BOKU, maki OBI ; seal . Has
- Page 204 and 205: 621 L3 約 9 YAKU promise, approx.,
- Page 206 and 207: 628 L3 良 RYŌ, yoi good 7 stro
- Page 208 and 209: 636 L3 歴 REKI history, path 14 st
- Page 210 and 211: THE 185 FIFTH GRADE CHARACTERS 641
- Page 212 and 213: 647 L3 易 8 EKI, I, yasui, yasa
- Page 214 and 215: 654 L1 恩 ON favor, kindness 10 st
- Page 216 and 217: 660 L1 賀 GA congratulations 12 st
- Page 218 and 219: 667 L1 668 L3 幹 KAN, miki trun
- Page 220 and 221: 674 L1 義 GI righteousness 13 s
- Page 222 and 223: 682 L3 禁 KIN forbid, ban 13 st
- Page 224 and 225: 690 L3 検 KEN investigate 12 strok
- Page 226 and 227: sense, i.e. ‘test by comparison
- Page 228 and 229: (original Peking Palace woodblock e
- Page 230 and 231: 713 L3 罪 ZAI, tsumi crime, sin 13
- Page 232 and 233: 720 L3 師 SHI teacher, model, a
- Page 234 and 235: 726 L4 質 SHITSU, SHICHI, CHI q
- Page 236 and 237: 733 L3 準 JUN level, conform, quas
- Page 238 and 239: 741 L3 情 11 JŌ, SEI, nasake feel
- Page 240 and 241: 749 製 SEI Seal ; late graph (Shuo
- Page 242 and 243: 757 L1 銭 SEN, zeni sen, coin, mon
- Page 244 and 245: 764 L3 則 SOKU, nori, nottoru rule
- Page 246 and 247: 772 L3 団 DANgodumpling FUTONfu
- Page 248 and 249: 780 L1 統 TŌ, suberu supervise, l
- Page 252 and 253: 796 L1 俵 HYŌ, tawara sack, ba
- Page 254 and 255: of two vessels (one upright and the
- Page 256 and 257: 810 L3 報 HŌ, mukuiru report,
- Page 258 and 259: 816 L3 夢 MU, yume dream 13 stroke
- Page 260 and 261: 824 L3 留 10 RYŪ, RU, tomaru/meru
- Page 262 and 263: 830 映 EI, utsuru/su, haeru reflec
- Page 264 and 265: 838 L3 割 KATSU, wari, waru div
- Page 266 and 267: 847 L1 貴 KI, tattoi/bu, tōtoi
- Page 268 and 269: 854 L1 筋 KINNIKUmuscle sujimi
- Page 270 and 271: 862 L3 権 15 KEN, GON right, au
- Page 272 and 273: 869 L1 后 6 KŌ, GO, kisaki empres
- Page 274 and 275: 877 L3 骨 KOTSU, hone bone, frame
- Page 276 and 277: 885 L1 蚕 SAN, kaiko silkworm 1
- Page 278 and 279: 893 L1 射 SHA, iru shoot 10 stroke
- Page 280 and 281: 900 L1 就 12 SHŪ, JU, tsuku take
- Page 282 and 283: 907 L3 処 SHO deal with, place
- Page 284 and 285: 914 L3 城 JŌ, shiro castle 9 stro
- Page 286 and 287: 922 L1 聖 SEISHObible SEIJIN sa
- Page 288 and 289: 930 L1 奏 9 SŌ, kanaderu play ins
- Page 290 and 291: 938 存 SON, ZON senses ‘not move
- Page 292 and 293: 946 値 CHI, atai, ne price, value
- Page 294 and 295: 953 L3 賃 CHIN wages, fee 13 st
- Page 296 and 297: 961 L3 乳 NYŪ, chichi, chi bre
- Page 298 and 299: 968 L1 肺 HAI lung(s) 9 strokes
788<br />
破<br />
HA, yaburu/reru<br />
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 47 ‘stone,<br />
break, tear<br />
L3<br />
rock’, and 396 (‘skin, leather’) as phonetic<br />
10 strokes<br />
with associated sense ‘small, detailed’, to give<br />
‘rock is broken into small pieces’; the sense was<br />
HASANbankruptcy<br />
later generalized to ‘break’, and extended to<br />
HASONdamage<br />
‘tear’. YK1976:408; KJ1970:794; OT1968:710.<br />
yabureme(a) tear<br />
Mnemonic: TEAR THE SKIN OFF A ROCK!?<br />
MUST MEAN BREAK IT<br />
789<br />
L3<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
犯<br />
5<br />
HAN, okasu<br />
crime, violate,<br />
commit, assault<br />
strokes<br />
HANNINcriminal<br />
HAN’Icriminal intent<br />
HANZAIcrime<br />
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ) 19<br />
‘dog’, and (variant of 41, person kneeling<br />
or crouching) as phonetic with associated sense<br />
either ‘harm, injure’, to give ‘dog harms person’<br />
(Katō, Yamada), or ‘protrude, jut out’, giving<br />
‘dog (breaks out and) attacks person’ (Ogawa).<br />
YK1976:416; KJ1970:789; OT1968:639-40.<br />
Mnemonic: DOG COMMITS CRIME OF<br />
ASSAULTING SLUMPED PERSON<br />
790<br />
L3<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
判<br />
HAN, BAN<br />
judge, decide, seal<br />
7 strokes<br />
HANDANjudgment<br />
HANJIjudge<br />
HANkopersonal seal<br />
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 198<br />
‘knife/cut’, and 214 (‘half’) as semantic<br />
and phonetic, meaning ‘divide in two’, to give<br />
‘divide in two physically with knife/cleaver’.<br />
791<br />
L3<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
版<br />
HAN<br />
print, board<br />
8 strokes<br />
SHUPPANpublishing<br />
HANGAwoodcut print<br />
HANKENcopyright<br />
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 980 ‘strip’<br />
(orig thin pieces of wood), and 393 (‘oppose’,<br />
‘measure’), as phonetic with associated sense<br />
‘flat, thin’, thus ‘flat/thin board’. In early times<br />
Later, extended to‘divide’ in general, and further<br />
senses such as ‘dissect’ and ‘decide, judge’.<br />
The meaning‘seal’ (Japanese only) seems to<br />
relate to early practice of dividing important<br />
documents with seals (similar to signatures<br />
in the West) such as contracts in two, one<br />
half for each party. YK1976:417; KJ1970:785;<br />
OT1968:113.<br />
Mnemonic: CUT IN HALF – A JUDGMENT<br />
WITH SOLOMON’S SEAL<br />
this graph denoted wooden strips/tablets as<br />
writing material, paper being very expensive.<br />
Technological development in China in first<br />
millennium AD saw used to refer to wooden<br />
blocks engraved with text and/or illustrations<br />
in woodblock printing, and widely in printing<br />
terms. See also 395 ‘board’. YK1976:418;<br />
KJ1970:787; OT1968:633.<br />
Mnemonic: OPPOSED THIN BOARDS CAN BE<br />
USED TO PRINT<br />
The 185 Fifth Grade Characters 249