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926
L3
泉
SEN, izumi
spring, source
9 strokes
ONSENhot springs
SENSUIfountain
GENSENsource
OBI ; seal . Originally, a pictograph
depicting water coming out of a cave or from
between rocks; in other words, ‘a spring’.
YK1976:318; MS1995:v2:742-3; KJ1970:631;
QX2000:175. Suggest taking upper part as
69 ‘white’ and lower as 42 ‘water’.
Mnemonic: SPRING PRODUCES WHITE WATER
927
L4
洗
SEN, arau
wash
9 strokes
SENREIbaptism
SENTAKU(the) washing
tearaitoilet, washroom
Seal . Has 42 ‘water’, and 51 (‘tip’,
‘point’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘barefoot’, giving ‘pour water on bare feet’;
Yamada regards ‘wash’ as a loan usage, but it
seems more appropriate to take it as a generalized
sense based on a more specific original
meaning. YK1976:317; MS1995:v2:748-50;
KJ1970:627-8.
Mnemonic: WASH TIP IN WATER
928
L1
染
9
SEN, someru/maru,
shimiru
dye, soak
strokes
SENSHOKUdyeing
somemonodyed goods
shimikomusoak into
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Views vary.
One takes as 42 ‘water, liquid’, and 朵 (CO,
vegetation or blossoms hanging on tree) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘dangle in salty
medium’, giving ‘soak (meat) in salty solution’; in
929
善
ZEN, yoi
good, virtuous
L3
12 strokes
ZEN’Igood faith
SHINZENfriendship
ZENGOSAKUremedy
Bronze . Bronze and Shuowen seal forms have
誩 487 ‘argue’, and 426 (‘sheep’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘good, splendid’, giving
this analysis, ‘dye (fabrics)’ is seen as extended
sense through using a similar process, hanging
cloth in a dye solution (Katō, Yamada). Tōdō
analyzes as ‘water’ with 杂 , as variant form
of , a CO denoting square container with a
round inside, used to hold dye solution. Ogawa
takes as 73 ‘tree’, with CO ‘oozing liquid’ >
‘dye from vegetation’. YK1976:317; OT1968:575;
TA1965:840-41; KJ1970:628-9. Suggest take
elements as 42 ‘water’, 73 ‘tree’, and 13
‘nine’.
Mnemonic: SOAK NINE TREES IN WATER TO
GET DYE
‘a good argument/dialog’. Sometimes in seal
written with 22 ‘mouth; speak’ instead of 誩 ,
then in the clerical script became standard.
Later, the meaning of was generalized
to ‘good’ by dropping ‘argument/dialog’.
YK1976:322; MS1995:v2:1212-3; KJ1970:634-5;
SK1984:157-8. Suggest take as ‘sheep’ 426,
‘one’ 1, ‘small’ 38, and ‘mouth’ 22 .
Mnemonic: VIRTUOUS SHEEP HAS ONE
SMALL BUT GOOD MOUTH
286 The 181 Sixth Grade Characters