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830
映
EI, utsuru/su, haeru
reflect, shine
L4
9 strokes
EIGAKANcinema
HAN’EIreflection
yūbaesunset glow
Seal ; Six Dynasties (ca.222-589AD) period
or later. Has 66 ‘sun’, and 254 (‘center’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘shine brightly’,
giving ‘sun shines and emits light’; by extension,
‘reflect’. YK1976:65-6; KJ1970:77; OT1968:464;
SS1984:43.
Mnemonic: CENTER OF SUN SHINES BRIGHTLY
831
延
EN, nobiru/beru/basu
extend, postpone
L3
8 strokes
ENCHŌextension
ENKIpostponement
nobinobidelay
Bronze has not ; seal: . Views differ.
From seal form on has ‘road, go’ (orig variant
of , itself abbrev of 131, meaning ‘go’, but
treated as separate from in Shuowen onwards),
and ‘stop’ 143 here in the alternative meaning
‘move’, plus . Overall meaning taken by
Katō and Yamada is ‘advance along a road’ (but
see Ogawa below); then combines with
(meaning unclear) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘distant, long’, giving overall sense ‘walk a
long way’; later just ‘long’. Regarding , Ogawa
believes at an early stage there was confusion
over distinction between what were originally
two similar-shaped graphs, i.e. what is now
(orig foot facing downwards, meaning ‘come
down; go’), and what is now ‘stop’; he takes
the modern element as ‘foot; go’ – not ‘stop’ –
and so takes as meaning ‘advance’, with as
phonetic with associated sense ’extend’, giving
‘become extended’. Mizukami takes as ‘try advancing
along road but stop en route’, i.e. he takes
as ‘stop’, not as ‘foot/go’; he sees meaning of
as ‘advance a long distance’, later ‘long/extend’.
YK1976:69-70; KJ1970:105; OT1968:334,536,229;
MS1995:v1:458-9. Suggest taking as drag mark.
Mnemonic: DRAG FEET IN EXTENDED
MOVEMENT – NEED TO POSTPONE
832
沿
EN, sou
go alongside
L1
8 strokes
ENGANcoast
ENDŌroadside
kawazoiriverside
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water’, and / 㕣 (‘hole/cave from which water
gushes’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘go
alongside/follow’, thus ‘go alongside the current’.
YK1976:70; MS1995:v1:204-5; KJ1970:105-
6; OT1968:564. We suggest taking as ‘eight’
70 ‘openings’ 22.
Mnemonic: GO ALONGSIDE THE WATER,
THROUGH EIGHT OPENINGS
833
我
GA, ware, waga-
I, me, self, my
L1
7 strokes
JIGAself
wagamamaselfishness
warewarewe, us
OBI ; seal . Views fall into two main
groups. View i] sees as pictograph of rough
halberd 545 (Ogawa). View ii] sees it as halberd
with decorative tassles element attached, the
latter serving as phonetic with associated sense
‘kill’; overall sense in this analysis is thus ‘kill
with halberd’. Both views are listed by Mizukami,
who treats view i] as appropriate for OBI
forms, and view ii] for bronze (and presumably
seal and block script). ‘I, my’ is a loan usage.
YK1976:85; OT1968:394; MS1995:v1:534-5;
KJ1970:138.
Mnemonic: I HAVE DECORATED MY HALBERD
MYSELF
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