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L3
余
YO, amari/ru/su
excess, ample, I/me
7 strokes
YOBUNexcess, surplus
YOKEIsuperfluous
GOJŪamarififty plus
Type i] OBI ; seal . Orig pictograph of
crossbeam held up by pillar, as roof support,
then by extension ‘summer house’ (umbrellashaped
building as per graph); by association
‘relaxation, ease; abundant’. Later borrowed
821
L3
預
13
YO, azukaru/keru
deposit,
look after
strokes
YOKINdeposit
azukariNINtrustee
azukariSHŌreceipt
822
容
YŌ, ireru
contain, looks
L3
10 strokes
BIYŌINbeauty salon
NAIYŌcontents
KEIYŌSHIadjective
Bronze ; seal . Has 30 ‘roof, building’,
and 126 (originally, ‘public space’) in bronze
or 135 (‘valley’) in seal as phonetic with associated
sense interpreted differently. One view
takes as ‘margin, scope, width, latitude’, giving
‘house which is spacious’, and by extension
firstly as a way of writing a word for ‘I/me’ in
early Chinese, and secondly to write another
word meaning ‘plentiful food’ (see Type ii).
Type ii] Used as abbreviation for 餘 (seal: ).
Has 163 ‘food/eat’, with as phonetic with
associated sense ‘plentiful food’; meaning later
generalized to ‘be in excess’. YK1976:480-81;
OT1968:56; MS1995:v1:58-8; KJ1970:881-2. We
suggest taking as roof, as ‘dry’ 840, with
two raindrops.
Mnemonic: ‘DRY’ ROOF LETS IN A FEW
DROPS ON ME IN EXCESSIVE RAIN!
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 103
‘head’ (considered here to denote ‘facial expression’),
and 425 (‘weaving shuttle’, now means
‘already’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘at
ease, relaxed’, to give ‘relaxed facial expression’
and by extension ‘enjoy’. ‘Deposit’ and ‘look
after’ are loan usages. YK1976:481; KJ1970:378;
OT1968:1103.
Mnemonic: ALREADY LOOKING AFTER A
DEPOSITED HEAD!
acquiescent actions such as ‘easily accept or assent
to’ (Yamada, Katō), a view echoed by Mizukami,
who also gives an alternative associated
sense ‘put something inside something else’,
with a similar resultant meaning ‘put something
inside something else’. Ogawa takes or as
having the associated sense ‘collect’, to give ‘collect
and cover’, and by extension ‘put in’. ‘Shape,
looks, appearance’ are regarded as loan usages.
YK1976:483-4; KJ1970:887; MS1995:v1:376-7;
OT1968:279.
Mnemonic: VALLEY CONTAINS BUILDING
823
略
RYAKU
abbreviate, outline
L3
11 strokes
RYAKUGOabbreviation
RYAKUSETSUsummary
RYAKUZUsketch
258 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 63 ‘ricefield’,
and 462 (‘each, every’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘divide, demarcate’, to
give ‘divide fields, boundaries between fields’;
Ogawa attributes the more general sense
‘measure land’. ‘Approximately’, ‘outline’, and
‘abbreviation’ are loan usages. YK1976:494-5;
KJ1970:194; OT1968:673.
Mnemonic: EACH FIELD HAS ABBREVIATED
OUTLINE