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865
L1
厳
17
GEN, GON, kibishii,
ogosoka
severe, solemn
strokes
GENKAKUstrictness
GENPIstrictly secret
SŌGONsolemnity
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Views diverge.
Yamada takes it as originally , with
‘cliff’, and 1152 (‘daring’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘hole, cave’, giving ‘cave in
mountainside’; in this view, the top element
吅 (CO, ‘call out loudly’) in is treated as
an additional phonetic, also with associated
sense ‘hole, cave’. Mizukami also takes 吅 in
the same way, but regards in its entirety
as meaning ‘cliff’. Katō broadly agrees, and
sets out a number of variant forms for .
Modern meanings are borrowed. YK1976:165;
MS1995:v1:248-50; KJ1970:206-7. Suggest taking
as ornate building.
Mnemonic: BUILDING SEEMS DARINGLY
ORNATE, YET SEVERELY SOLEMN!
866
L1
己
KO, KI, onore
I, me, self, you
3 strokes
JIKOself
CHIKIfriend
RIKOselfishness
OBI ; seal . The widely-held (and most convincing)
view takes as originally a pictograph
867
呼
KO, yobu
call, breathe
L3
8 strokes
KOKYŪbreathing
TENKOroll call
yobimonodrawcard
Seal . Has 22 ‘mouth’, and (NJK,
originally ‘floating aquatic plant’ or ‘breath
exhaled’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘go,
868
誤
GO, ayamaru
mistake, mis-
L3
14 strokes
GOKAImisunderstanding
GOHANmistrial
GOYAKUmistranslation
for the twisted end of a length of thread, meaning
‘end of long thread’; borrowed to write
the word for ‘oneself’. Also, the original way of
writing what was later written 472 ‘chronicle,
start’. The sense ‘you’ for is an uncommon
and pejorative usage found in Japanese
only. YK1976:165; KJ1970:941-2; OT1968:312;
MS1995:v1:430-31.
Mnemonic: I MYSELF FOLLOW THE THREAD
leave’ (Ogawa says ‘breathe out’), giving ‘that
which leaves the mouth’, and so ‘breathe out’
and by extension ‘call out, call’. Mizukami also
notes ‘big’ as a possible associated sense for
, giving ‘big voice which leaves the mouth’.
YK1976:166-7; OT1968:175; MS1995:v1:18-19,
224-5; KJ1970:258-9. We suggest taking as a
variant of 34 ‘hand’.
Mnemonic: HAND BY MOUTH MIGHT HELP
CALLING, BUT NOT BREATHING!
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words; speak’, and 1311 (originally
‘words; speak’, with element for person with
head bent forward, conveying ‘contrary words’,
now meaning ‘give’) as semantic and phonetic,
giving ‘exaggerated/ contrary words’ and by
extension ‘mistaken, mistake’. YK1976:171;
KJ1970:394-5; OT1968:930.
Mnemonic: MISTAKEN WORDS GIVEN
270 The 181 Sixth Grade Characters